Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Nancy Jane Zimmerman

John Joseph Sayovitz

Lawrence James Romano, Iii

Alison Cecile Bates

David Lewis Myers

Kiran K Reddy

Reginald Smith

Leon Eugene Chambers, Jr

Nina Frazier

Danial Owen Fischer

Susan Kathleen Walser

Joel Muniz De Los Santos

Daniel Owen Fischer

Joel Muniz Los Santos

The present invention provides a nonwoven web prepared from multicomponent fibers which are partially split. The partially split multicomponent fibers have at least one component of the multicomponent fiber separated from the remaining components of the multicomponent fiber along a first section of the longitudinal length of the multicomponent fibers. Along a second section of the longitudinal length of the multicomponent fibers the components of the multicomponent fibers remain together as a unitary fiber structure. In addition, part of the second section of the multicomponent fibers is bonded to part of a second section of an adjacent multicomponent fiber.

Nonwoven web and filter media containing partially split multicomponent fibers

Repeating pattern for a bonded fabric with background

Repeating pattern for a bonded fabric

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Alpharetta, GA, United States of America

Nancy Jane Zimmerman