Absorbent material for sanitary products
AssigneesDaicel Corporation, Fuji Sanitary Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Usami, Toshiaki Uebayashi, Koji Sato, Tomoko Goda
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Abstract
An absorbent material comprising cellulose acetate fibers has a good capacity to absorb water and a slow speed of water absorption, so that it can be successfully used to make sanitary products such as disposable diapers and sanitary napkins. The sanitary products prepared with the absorbent material provide improved comfortableness and leakproof properties.
Claims11
In a sanitary product having a multilayered structure comprising a covering layer suitable for contact with the human body, a liquid excretion-leakproof layer and an absorbent layer interposed between the covering layer and the liquid excretion-leakproof layer, the improvement comprising employing as the absorbent layer, a layer of cellulose acetate fibers or a mixture of cellulose acetate fibers and cellulose fibers, the cellulose acetate fibers having an irregular cross-section and having a filament denier of less than 8 deniers.
In a sanitary product having a multilayered structure comprising a covering layer suitable for contact with the human body, a liquid excretion-leakproof layer and an absorbent layer interposed between the covering layer and the liquid excretion-leakproof layer, the improvement wherein the absorbent layer is a plurality of layers, at least one of which consists of cellulose acetate fibers, the cellulose acetate fibers having an irregular cross-section and having a filament denier of less than 8 deniers.
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