Dispensable oil absorbing skin wipes
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorJayshree Seth
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Abstract
There is provided a package of multiple oil absorbing wipes suitable for wiping a users skin or hair. The wipes are arranged in an overlying arrangement and comprise an oil absorbing porous film-like substrate of a thermoplastic material having a transparency of less than 65 percent. The porous substrate changes transparency by at least 10 percentage points when loaded with oil. The porous substrate has an embossing pattern over from 1 to 50 percent of at least a portion of the of the wipe material surface area, which area is in contact with an adjacent wipe in the package.
Claims34
A package of multiple oil absorbing wipes suitable for wiping a users skin or hair, the wipes being arranged in an overlying arrangement and the wipes comprising an oil absorbing porous film-like substrate of a thermoplastic material having a transparency of less than 65 which porous substrate changes transparency when loaded with oil, said porous substrate having an embossing pattern having a higher transparency than the nonembossed portions of the wipe, over from 1 to 50 percent of at least a portion of the of the wipe material surface area which area is in contact with an adjacent wipe in the package wherein the oil absorbing wipe comprises a porous stretched film or a consolidated meltblown web of thermoplastic fibers.
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