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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Peter Armstrong-ostle, Euskircken, DE;
Harald Hundorf, Euskircken, DE;
Brigit Wirtz, Euskircken, DE;
Torsten Frings, Euskircken, DE;
Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Schwalbach, DE;
Maike Thomann, Schwalbach, DE;
Peter Armstrong-Ostle, Euskircken, DE;
Harald Hundorf, Euskircken, DE;
Brigit Wirtz, Euskircken, DE;
Torsten Frings, Euskircken, DE;
Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Schwalbach, DE;
Maike Thomann, Schwalbach, DE;
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An absorbent core comprising a substrate layer and an absorbent layer, the absorbent layer comprising an absorbent material and a thermoplastic adhesive material; the absorbent core has longitudinal and transverse dimensions and consists of nine transverse segments in its longitudinal dimension and six longitudinal segments in its transverse dimension; in each of the transverse segments and longitudinal segments, the absorbent layer has average basis weights of absorbent material of thermoplastic adhesive material; the basis weights of the absorbent layer in at least one of the transverse segments are lower than the basis weights of the absorbent layer in at least one other of the transverse segments; and the basis weights of the absorbent layer in at least one of the longitudinal segments are lower than the basis weights of the absorbent layer in at least one other of the longitudinal segments.