Sanitary hygiene products having odor-preventing properties

US4583980A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Werner Schneider · Erbach, DE
• Scarlet Sustmann · Viersen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 1985
• Grant date: Apr 22, 1986
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L15/46
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

This invention is directed to sanitary hygiene products. More particularly, this invention is directed to sanitary hygiene products for the absorption of secretions containing urine and/or blood which contains in an absorption layer an odor-preventing amount of one or more esters of citric acid and/or acetylcitric acid with aliphatic alcohols with from 1 to 6 carbon atoms or alicyclic alcohols with from 4 to 6 carbon atoms, as an odor-preventing substance.