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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Bryan David Haynes, Cumming, GA (US);
Laura Elizabeth Keck, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Charles Allen Smith, Duluth, GA (US);
Ty Jackson Stokes, Suwanee, GA (US);
David Craige Strack, Canton, GA (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
There is provided a wiper comprising a first web of fibers of at most 50 microns in diameter wherein said web has been bonded using a point unbonded pattern having a bond area between about 25 and 50 percent. The wiper can be made from thermoplastic polymer nonwoven fibers made by the meltblowing, spunbonding, carding and bonding, or airlaying processes. The wiper may be a laminate of various thermoplastic layers joined with the point unbonded pattern and may be a coform web of thermoplastic polymer and pulp or other material.