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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1996
Richard Norris Dodge, II, Appleton, WI (US);
Clifford Jackson Ellis, Woodstock, GA (US);
Connie Lynn Hetzler, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Sylvia Bandy Little, Marietta, GA (US);
Tamara Lee Mace, Doraville, GA (US);
Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Roswell, GA (US);
Hoa La Wilhelm, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
There is provided a surge material for personal care products which is a wettable web of fibers of 30 microns in diameter or less where the web has a permeability between about 250 and 1500 Darcys, a capillary tension between about 1.5 and 5 cm, and which maintains that permeability and capillary tension over the life of the web. Its preferred that the web have a density between about 0.02 g/cc to about 0.07 g/cc.