Multilayer cover system and method for producing same

US6168849A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jaime Braverman · Atlanta, US
• Michael Allen Daley · Alpharetta, US
• Arthur E. Garavaglia · Alpharetta, US
• Rebecca Griffin · Woodstock, US
• Tamara Lee Mace · Marietta, US
• David W. Primm · Cumming, US
• Eugenio Varona · Marietta, US
• Ali Yahiaoui · Roswell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 2, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 14, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T442/662
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A multilayer material suitable for use as a cover or topsheet for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, sanitary pads, adult incontinence garments, training pants and the like having a top layer and a bottom, where the top layer forms a plurality of apertures and contacts the bottom layer in land areas disposed between the apertures. The bottom layer has a permeability substantially equivalent to, or higher than, the top layer.