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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Kaiyuan Yang, Cumming, GA (US);
Carl Gerard Rippl, Appleton, WI (US);
Gregory Daniel Samek, Roswell, GA (US);
Joel Brostin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Joseph Kenneth Baker, Cumming, GA (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.