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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1999
Margaret Gwyn Latimer, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Gregory Marc Lefkowitz, Atlanta, GA (US);
David Michael Matela, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Jeffrey Michael Willis, Atlanta, GA (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
There is provided a fluid management material for personal care products which distributes artificial menses according to the gush/distribution test taught herein such that it has a distribution ratio of at least about 0.06. Its preferred that the fluid management material be part of an absorbent materials system having a first fibrous layer, a middle layer adjacent the first layer having hydrophilic oriented surface fibers, and a second fibrous layer adjacent the middle layer. In a personal care product configuration the oriented surface fibers result in a distribution ratio of at least 0.06 where the distribution ratio is a ratio of average of the mass of two end zones of a product divided by the mass of the center zone.