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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2001
Charles Wilson Colman, Marietta, GA (US);
Rodney Lawrence Abba, Oshkosh, WI (US);
Jaime Braverman, Altanta, GA (US);
John Thomas Cooper, Clinton, TN (US);
Maureen Myrl Falls, Neenah, WI (US);
Tiffany Marshalle Lee Hunter, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
Steven Rashad Inabinet, Knoxville, TN (US);
David Martin Jackson, Roswell, GA (US);
Nancy Donaldson Kollin, Roswell, GA (US);
Yen-Ling Lai, Duluth, GA (US);
Sylvia Bandy Little, Marietta, GA (US);
Robert John Makolin, Neenah, WI (US);
David Joseph Nickel, Neenah, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A personal care product that has a liquid impermeable backsheet, a liquid permeable topsheet, and an absorbent composite located between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent composite has an upper layer made of synthetic fiber with at most 20 weight percent pulp and the upper layer has a density between about 0.03 and 0.15 g/cc and a basis weight between about 20 to 75 gsm. The composite has a lower layer having from 80 to 95 weight percent pulp, at most 20 weight percent binder, and has a density greater than the upper layer and between 0.06 and 0.20 g/cc, and a basis weight between 120 and 200 gsm.