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US 5,843,064 AGranted
Non woven material and hygienic absorbent article comprising such material
AssigneePeaudouce
InventorJean Pierre Koczab
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Abstract
Multilayer nonwoven material which has a high rate of drying out, improved rate of entry of, or break-through time by, body fluids and good diffusion of the body fluids in the plane of the layers. The multilayer nonwoven material comprises at least two superposed layers (1, 2) of natural or synthetic textile fibers, joined together, the fibers of the successive layers having a denier decreasing progressively, in a given direction, from one successive layer to the other. Application as surface webs for absorbent articles of hygiene.
Claims12
An absorbent article of hygiene comprising:
- an outer layer which is impervious to body fluids,
- an absorbent pad which is permeable to body fluids and bonded to the outer layer, and
- a surface web which is permeable to body fluids and bonded to the outer layer,
- wherein the surface web comprises a multilayer nonwoven material having at least two superposed layers of natural or synthetic textile fibers, joined together, in which all of the fibers of each of the layers have a denier which is less than a denier of all of the fibers of the next layer in a given direction, such that the layer having the fibers of lowest denier being situated directly on the upper or internal surface of the absorbent pad and the layer having fibers of highest denier being situated closest to a wearer of the absorbent article.
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