Nonwoven webs with visually distinct bond sites and method of making

US9663881B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• James Terry Knapmeyer · Cincinnati, US
• Dark Saevecke · Wiesbaden, DE
• Han Xu · Cincinnati, US
• Amy Eichstadt Waun · West Chester, US
• J. Michael Bills · Mason, US
• Mike P. Purdon · Hebron, US
• Olaf Erik Alexander Isele · Sharonville, US
• Joerg Endres · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 2014
• Grant date: May 30, 2017
• Expiry date: Jul 2, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/2481
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention refers to a nonwoven web with multicomponent fibers having at least a first and a second component which differ from each other in color. The nonwoven web is pattern bonded to obtain bonded areas have a different color versus the unbonded areas.