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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2014
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Paul Thomas Weisman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Andrea Peri, Kronberg, DE;
Kenneth Michael Hamall, West Chester, OH (US);
Aniruddha Chatterjee, Kelkheim, DE;
Jörg Endres, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Mattias Schmidt, Idstein, DE;
Sandra Sautter, Hessen, DE;
Gene Xiaoqing Huang, Mason, OH (US);
Darrell Ian Brown, Mason, OH (US);
Ward William Ostendorf, West Chester, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An absorbent article comprises a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, an absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet, and a distribution material comprising a wet-laid, three-dimensional fibrous substrate comprising at least 80% pulp fibers by weight of the wet-laid, three-dimensional fibrous substrate. The wet-laid, three-dimensional fibrous substrate comprises a continuous network region and a plurality of discrete zones that are dispersed throughout the continuous network region. The continuous network region comprises a first average density and the plurality of discrete zones comprise a second average density. The discrete zones are dispersed throughout the continuous network region. The first average density and the second average density are different.