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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Stanley Michael Gryskiewicz, Woodstock, GA (US);
David Martin Jackson, Roswell, GA (US);
Jason Douglas Hadley, Atlanta, GA (US);
Jerome Joseph Schwalen, Marietta, GA (US);
Frank Paul Abuto, Duluth, GA (US);
Kuo-Shu Edward Chang, Roswell, GA (US);
Susan Carol Paul, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Richard John Schmidt, Roswell, GA (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
Bonded fluff structures and a method for producing such bonded fluff structures in which a pulp sheet having a material suitable for producing fluff and a heat activatable fiber material is fiberized to produce a mixture of fluff and heat activatable fibers. The mixture is contacted with a hot air stream, heating the heat activatable fibers to an activation temperature. The resulting heated mixture is then deposited onto a forming structure, forming a bonded fluff/fiber composite matrix structure.