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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2000
Thomas William VanDenBogart, Slinger, WI (US);
Amy Michele Achter, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Bruce Wilfuhr Achter, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Barbara Jean Burns, Appleton, WI (US);
Michael Allen Daley, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Peter Robert Elliker, Appleton, WI (US);
David Martin Jackson, Roswell, GA (US);
Nancy Donaldson Kollin, Roswell, GA (US);
Gregory Marc Lefkowitz, Atlanta, GA (US);
Sylvia Bandy Little, Marietta, GA (US);
Tamara Lee Mace, Doraville, GA (US);
David Michael Matela, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Cynthia Marie Phillips, Neenah, WI (US);
David Charles Potts, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Neenah, WI (US);
Michael William Veith, Oshkosh, WI (US);
Kevin Wilson Wood, Neenah, WI (US);
Dmitry Yavich, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
There is provided an intake/retention/transfer material for personal care products like feminine hygiene products, which is a heterogeneous composite containing between 5 and 25 weight percent of a superabsorbent or gelling material and having a density less than 0.17 g/cc. A more particular embodiment contains less than 20 weight percent and a still more particular embodiment contains 15 weight percent or less of a superabsorbent or gelling material. Also provided are absorbent articles which contain the class of intake/transfer materials mentioned above along with additional absorbent layers such that the absorption of a menses simulant provides fluid partitioning of less than 72% of fluid in the intake/transfer/retention composite. Additionally said composite should have retention capacity values greater than 2.7 g/g.