Nonwoven Material and a Method for Producing Nonwoven Material

a nonwoven material and nonwoven technology, applied in the field of nonwoven materials, can solve the problems of reduced softness of the surface, less visible image, and impaired strength characteristics of the material, and achieve good absorption characteristics

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-10-23
SCA HYGIENE PROD AB
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[0006]The object of the present invention is to make available a strong nonwoven material that possesses good absorption characteristics and wiping characteristics, and in addition has clear images in the form of decorative surface structures or decorations.

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The use of thermal embossing means that a number of fibres are caused to melt and are damaged, which reduces the softness of the surface, and this in turn impairs the strength characteristics of the material.
The embossed image will also be situated beneath the base level of the nonwoven material, which leads to the image being less readily visible.

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[0076]There now follow a number of examples of nonwoven materials produced in accordance with the present invention. A substrate web is produced in the conventional way. The substrate web is then hydroentangled, wherein it is transferred to the carrier device in the form of a plate that is cylindrical in shape. The substrate web is hydroentangled with jets of water.

[0077]A number of different plates are used in production. Data for the background patterns of these plates are shown in Table 1. The area of individual holes in the background pattern has been measured. Here the area has been measured for the largest holes. The different holes can form part of an image, for example a flower. One example of a part of an image is illustrated below for a principal pattern in FIG. 5. If the background pattern contains a group of protuberances with different areas, which together constitute part of an image, for example a flower, these protuberances together constitute part of an image of a f...

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Abstract

A nonwoven material for use as an absorbent wiping material produced by hydroentangling of a substrate web including at least one layer of fibres selected from amongst synthetic fibres, regenerated fibres and natural fibres, wherein the nonwoven material has a base level h0 with protuberances on one side, the protuberances forming at least a first and a second surface structure respectively in the form of first and second from the base level h0. The first protuberances have a height h1 from the base level h0 and the second protuberances have a height h2 from the base level h0, where h2 is higher than h1, and each of the second protuberances occupies an area of the surface of the base level at least 4 times greater than each of the first protuberances. A method for producing the nonwoven material is also disclosed.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to nonwoven material for use as an absorbent wiping material and a method for producing nonwoven material.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Absorbent nonwoven material is often used as a wiping material. It can be used to wipe up spillages and leakages in industrial, catering, office, hospital and domestic environments. There is often a desire to provide such materials with an image or decoration, for example a logotype. One common method of making images or decorations on nonwoven materials is to emboss images, the fibres are compressed by an embossing stamp. The use of thermal embossing means that a number of fibres are caused to melt and are damaged, which reduces the softness of the surface, and this in turn impairs the strength characteristics of the material. The embossed image will also be situated beneath the base level of the nonwoven material, which leads to the image being less readily visible.[0003]Images or decorations in nonwoven ma...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): D04H13/00D04H1/492D04H1/495D04H1/498D04H1/732D04H3/11D04H3/16D04H5/03
CPCD04H1/492D04H1/495D04H1/498D04H1/732D04H3/11D04H3/16D04H5/03A61F13/15577A61F2013/15983Y10T442/608
Inventor STRANDQVIST, MIKAELAHONIEMI, HANNUBURMAN, DANIEL
Owner SCA HYGIENE PROD AB
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