Kimberly-clark Corporation

Kenneth J Currie

Philip J Mogel

Peter Maddern

Nonwoven material comprising a web of spunbonded polymer filaments in combination with at least one other spunbond or meltblown nonwoven layer with the combination impregnated with a stabilizing agent and the spunbond layer having been hot calendered to improve surface abrasion resistance. Preferred embodiments using a coating bath also including a surfactant and smooth calendering.

Non-woven fabric comprising at least one spunbonded layer

An absorbent, abrasive composite nonwoven web (42) may include at least four layers with two of the layers being formed by meltblowing (10, 54) and two of the layers being supporting carrier layers (14, 58). One of the meltblown layers is an abrasive surface layer (10) formed from a coarse, shot-laden meltblown layer (10) while another meltblown layer is disposed in the interior of the composite web (42) and is adapted to provide absorbency characteristics to composite. The carrier layers (14,58) may be formed from spunbonded webs. The abrasive surface layer (10) and its supporting carrier layer (14) are joined together by hot pin aperturing.

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Holywell, United Kingdom

Kenneth J Currie