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AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGeorge Vincent Wegele, Steven Lee Barnholtz
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A wipe product comprises a substrate and functional additive, preferably a high internal phase inverse emulsion, disposed in a discontinuous pattern on the substrate such that the pattern provides areas coated with the emulsion and areas free of the emulsion. When the product is wound into a roll, any two adjacent layers in the roll have their areas coated with the functional additive offset relative to each other. This improves water-retaining characteristics and roll compressibility characteristics of the product. Preferably, the functional additive of one layer is supported by the areas free of the functional additive of the adjacent layer. During the use, upon the application of pressure to the wipe, the emulsion locally expresses water useful for cleaning. The discontinuous pattern of the emulsion provides regions of the substrate which are wetted during use and regions which may remain dry. The wetted regions transfer water to the surface to be cleaned. The dry regions then remove the water from the surface for more efficacious cleaning.
A plurality of consumer-disposable sheets consecutively superimposed in a face-to-face relationship, each sheet comprising a substrate coated with a functional additive disposed in a discontinuous pattern comprising stripes on the substrate such that the substrate has first regions coated with the additive and second regions free from the additive, the sheets being superimposed such that the first regions of one sheet are offset relative to the first regions of another sheet superimposed therewith.
A process for making a roll comprising a plurality of sheets, the process comprising the steps of:
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