Absorbent sanitary article for absorbing body fluid
AssigneeBio-Gate AG
InventorsThorsten Bechert, Peter Steinrucke
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Abstract
Disclosed is an absorbent sanitary article for absorbing body fluids which comprises a matrix containing metallic silver, wherein the silver is present bound to a fiber 24 exclusively on the surface thereof.
Claims20
An absorbent sanitary article for absorbing body fluids which comprises a fibrous matrix containing metallic silver and a fiber having an outer surface, characterized in that the silver is chemically or physically attached exclusively to the fiber surface, the sanitary article end-product during use is free of liquid matrix or dispersing media for the silver, and the silver is immobilized relative to the fiber surface so that the silver cannot be flushed away from the fiber during use of the sanitary article, the metallic silver is attached directly to the fiber surface and fixed against movement relative to the fiber surface, and the sanitary article is free of liquid matrix or dispersing media securing or attaching silver particles to the fiber surface during use of the sanitary article.
An absorbent sanitary article comprising a fibrous matrix including fibrous elements, metallic silver particles, and at least one fiber having an outer surface, the silver particles being in direct contact with and being bound exclusively to the outer surface to fix the silver particles against movement relative to the outer surface, the sanitary article end- product during use is substantially free of liquid matrix or dispersing media, and the silver particles cannot be flushed away from the fiber surface during use of the sanitary article.
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