Creped nonwoven materials and liner field of the invention

• Main Author: VARONA, EUGENIO GO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.11.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; BRAIDING; BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE; COTTON-WOOL; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS,NON-WOVEN FABRICS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HABERDASHERY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; JEWELLERY; KNITTING; LACE-MAKING; MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARYMATERIAL; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; NON-WOVEN FABRICS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; TRIMMINGS; WADDING

A creped nonwoven web having permanent crepe includes regions of interfilament bonding which are permanently bent our-of -plane, alternating with regions of no interfilament bonding. The non-bonded regions include a multiplicity of filament loops which terminate at both ends in the creped interfilament-bonded regions. The creped nonwoven web is useful as the female component of a hook-and loop fastener, and can also be used in diaper outercovers, liners, transfer and surge layers, wipers, and other fluid handing products. The web may also be creped using a hydrophilic adhesive, and as a fluid transfer liner in absorbent structure such as diapers, which hydrophilic surface facing the absorbent core.