01.02.17
Leigh E. Wood, Woodbury, MN; Lori-Ann S. Prioleau, St. Paul, MN; Kerstin Ehlers, Langenfeld, Germany; and Bernard Vincent, Rueil Malmaison, France.
Filed: 12/1/11
Issued: 11/22/16
An assembled intermediate consisting of a thermoplastic nonwoven web prepared from a hydrophobic polymer proximate an absorbent material; wherein the nonwoven web consists of a plurality of bonded staple fibers having an average diameter of 20 to 500 microns and the nonwoven web has a thickness of at least 3 mm ranging up to about 20 mm that defines lateral edges, a density ranging from 0.01 to 0.06 g/cm3, and a work of compression no greater than 20 kJ/m3; wherein the nonwoven web is free of hydrophilic fibers and superabsorbent polymer such that the nonwoven web exhibits a vertical wicking of saline solution of no greater than 5 mm; and the absorbent material is in contact with at least one lateral edge.
Filed: 12/1/11
Issued: 11/22/16
An assembled intermediate consisting of a thermoplastic nonwoven web prepared from a hydrophobic polymer proximate an absorbent material; wherein the nonwoven web consists of a plurality of bonded staple fibers having an average diameter of 20 to 500 microns and the nonwoven web has a thickness of at least 3 mm ranging up to about 20 mm that defines lateral edges, a density ranging from 0.01 to 0.06 g/cm3, and a work of compression no greater than 20 kJ/m3; wherein the nonwoven web is free of hydrophilic fibers and superabsorbent polymer such that the nonwoven web exhibits a vertical wicking of saline solution of no greater than 5 mm; and the absorbent material is in contact with at least one lateral edge.
