Cleaning article having multi-layer gather strip element
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 includes a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at an elongate bond. The gather strip element has plural layers folded upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bond. The folded layers 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:
- a nonwoven sheet;
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- a hydrophilic gather strip element joined to said nonwoven sheet at an elongate bond, said gather strip element comprising plural superimposed layers folded upon one another, a plurality of said layers having strips extending outwardly from said bond.
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;
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- a hydrophilic cellulosic gather strip element joined to said nonwoven sheet at an elongate bond, said gather strip element comprising plural superimposed layers folded upon one another, a plurality of said layers having strips extending outwardly from said bond.
An elongate cleaning article for cleaning a target surface, 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 sheet;
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- a cellulosic gather strip element joined to at least one of said core and said nonwoven sheet at an elongate bond, said gather strip element comprising at least two superimposed layers folded upon one another in at least a c-fold, each said layer having strips extending outwardly from said bond.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.