Floor cleaning article having strips with differential bond pattern
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorNicola John POLICICCHIO
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Abstract
A cleaning article. The cleaning article has a laminate construction. The cleaning article comprises a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at plural bonds. The gather strip element has plural layers superimposed upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bonds. Different layers are differentially bonded, to provide a construction which allows the strips to advantageously present a dynamically changing area to the target surface during cleaning, under normal usage conditions. By changing the surface area, more liquids, and associated debris, can be cleaned from the target surface.
Claims20
A cleaning article for cleaning a target surface, said cleaning article comprising:
- an impermeable sheet;
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- a hydrophilic gather strip element joined to said sheet at an elongate common bond, said gather strip element comprising a first layer proximate to said sheet and at least one outward layer superimposed on said first layer and disposed outwardly thereof, a plurality of said first layer and said at least one outward layers having strips, wherein each said layer of said plurality of layers is joined to said sheet by said elongate common bond, at least one said layer of said plurality of layers being joined to said sheet by a secondary bond not coincident with and spaced apart from said common bond and at least one said layer of said plurality of layers not being joined to said sheet by said secondary bond, said cleaning article being free of tow fibers and/or free of attachment sleeves.
An elongate cleaning article for cleaning a target surface, said cleaning article having two opposed longitudinal edges defining a width therebetween and two opposed transverse edges defining a length therebetween, said cleaning article comprising:
- a nonwoven sheet, said nonwoven sheet having an inwardly oriented face and an outwardly oriented face opposed thereto;
- an absorbent core joined to said inwardly oriented face of said nonwoven sheet;
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- a hydrophilic gather strip element joined to at least one of said core and said nonwoven sheet at two outboard elongate bonds, each said outboard elongate bond being disposed transversely outboard of and not overlying said core, said gather strip element comprising at least two superimposed layers, each said layer having strips extending outwardly from said outboard elongate bonds, said strips having an aspect ratio defined by a ratio of the length of a said strip to the width of that said strip, said aspect ratio being at least 1.
An elongate cleaning article for cleaning a target surface, said cleaning article having two opposed longitudinal edges defining a width therebetween and two opposed transverse edges defining a length therebetween, said cleaning article comprising:
- a nonwoven sheet, said nonwoven sheet having an inwardly oriented face and an outwardly oriented face opposed thereto;
- a hydrophilic cellulosic gather strip element comprising at least four superimposed layers, at least two of said layers being proximate said sheet and joined thereto by a first bond, at least two of said layers being distal to said sheet and being joined to said proximate layers by a second bond spaced apart from said first bond, said distal layers not joined to said sheet, at least one of said proximate layers and at least one of said distal layers comprising strips extending outwardly from said first bond and said second bond, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.