Abrasive article
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsMyhanh T. Truong, Jing Zhang
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Abstract
Provided is a cleaning article (100) that includes a filler (108) and a netting (104) wrapped around the filler. The netting (104) includes interwoven threads defining a plurality of openings, and has first and second opposed major surfaces. An abrasive composite (210) is disposed on the first major surface, where the abrasive composite includes grit particles dispersed in an organic binder. The provided cleaning article displays significantly improved scouring performance over conventional non-scratch scour pads while avoiding damage to the substrate to be cleaned.
Claims20
A cleaning article comprising:
- a filler;
- and
- a netting wrapped around the filler, the netting comprising interwoven threads defining a plurality of openings, and having first and second opposed major surfaces;
- and
- an abrasive composite disposed on the first major surface, the abrasive composite comprising grit particles dispersed in an organic binder.
A method of making a cleaning article, the method comprising:
- providing a netting comprising interwoven threads defining a plurality of openings and having an exposed major surface;
- coating the exposed major surface with an abrasive composite slurry comprised of grit particles dispersed in an organic binder precursor;
- curing the organic binder precursor to obtain a cured abrasive composite;
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- wrapping and securing the netting around the filler to obtain the cleaning article whose outer surface comprises the cured abrasive composite.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.