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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2000
Michael Allen Daley, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Bruce Wilfuhr Achter, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Charles Wilson Colman, Marietta, GA (US);
Joseph DiPalma, Neenah, WI (US);
David Martin Jackson, Roswell, GA (US);
Nancy Donaldson Kollin, Roswell, GA (US);
Margaret Gwyn Latimer, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Gregory Marc Lefkowitz, Atlanta, GA (US);
Sylvia Bandy Little, Marietta, GA (US);
David Michael Matela, Alpharetta, GA (US);
David Charles Potts, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Neenah, WI (US);
Kristin Ann Goerg-Wood, Sherwood, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
There is provided an absorbent system that not only takes in fluid, but then transfers that fluid further beneath the first composite. This is achieved in this invention through paired permeability, capillarity, and void volume of the first and second composites. The invention is an absorbent system composed of at least two absorbent composites that have complementary structural/surface energy characteristics. Such an absorbent system has a first absorbent Composite A which has a first permeability, a first capillarity, and a first void volume and at least one second absorbent Composite B which has a second capillarity and a second porosity multiplied by second thickness. The first absorbent Composite A is in liquid communication or contact with at least one second absorbent Composite B, such that the first absorbent Composite A, and the second absorbent Composite B have a fluid partitioning amount in Composite A, a third triple intake time (IT3) and a rewet value.