Process for making an absorbent composite web
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLiberatore A. Trombetta, Dennis A. Darby
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process of making a multi-layered absorbent composite web. The web comprises at least a primary material and a secondary material. The primary material comprises apertures wherein fibers from the secondary material are inserted for fluid capture and transport. The secondary material may form a layer on the primary material once the apertures of the primary material are filled. That is, the secondary material may form a layer of material placed adjacent to the bottom surface of the primary material.
Claims11
A process for forming a fluid handling absorbent composite web for use in the absorbent core of an absorbent article, said process comprising the steps of:
- a) laying a pre-formed primary material onto a forming apparatus, said pre-formed primary material having a substantially flattened top surface, a substantially flattened bottom surface and a plurality of apertures extending from said substantially flattened top surface to said substantially flattened bottom surface of said primary material, said apertures having a pair of mutually opposed openings, each said opening being substantially planar with the top surface of the pre-formed primary material and the bottom surface of the pre-formed primary material;
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- b) filling said apertures of said pre-formed primary material with a plurality of second fibers, such that said apertures are substantially, completely filled with said second fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.