Water dispersible pantiliner

US6384297B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Charles W. Colman · Roswell, US
• Frank Steven Glaug · Appleton, US
• Yung Hsiang Huang · Appleton, US
• David M. Jackson · Roswell, US
• John E. Kerins · Neenah, US
• Jennifer Cappel Larson · Oshkosh, US
• Mary Jo Meyer · Neenah, US
• Pavneet S. Mumick · Montgomery, US
• Brian Keith Nortman · Appleton, US
• William S. Pomplun · Neenah, US
• Fu-Jya Tsai · Alpharetta, US
• Susan Marie Weyenberg · Appleton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 1999
• Grant date: May 7, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F13/47
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a water dispersible pantiliner which has a triggerably dispersible body side facing liner, a garment side facing baffle, and, optionally, a triggerably dispersible absorbent core disposed between the liner and baffle. The garment baffle may be biodegradable. In one embodiment, the invention has a peel strip overlaying a garment attachment adhesive layer which adhesively attaches the peel strip to the clothing of a wearer on one side and to one side of a baffle on the other. The baffle is in turn attached on a second side to a body facing side with a construction adhesive. The body facing side may be made from multiple layers such as a body side liner and absorbent layer.