Resilient plastic web exhibiting reduced skin contact area and e

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1995-03-29

1996-05-07

Jones, Mary Beth

Surgery

Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material

Absorbent pad for external or internal application and...

604358, 604366, 6043851, 428137, A61F 1315, A61F 1320

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055141056

ABSTRACT:
A resilient three-dimensional plastic web exhibiting reduced skin contact area and a fiber-like appearance and tactile impression. The web has a multiplicity of apertures therein, each being defined by a multiplicity of intersecting fiber-like elements interconnected to one another in the plane of a first surface of the web. Each of the fiber-like elements exhibits a substantially uniform generally upwardly concave-shaped cross-section along its length. The cross-section comprises a pair of convergent substantially linear portions which intersect one another at an end to form a vertex in the plane of the first surface of the web. This vertex reduces the skin contact area of the web providing a more comfortable feel for the user when the web is employed as a wearer contacting topsheet on an absorbent article. Furthermore, the web provides a substantially non-glossy visible surface as there is almost no substantially planar portion in its uppermost surface to reflect incident light to the viewer's eye. The pattern of intersecting vertices in the first surface of the web substantially eliminates pooling of fluid on the first surface of the web, since there is almost no substantially planar portion on which fluid may pool. This further contributes to the web's clean and dry appearance in use as well as more rapid fluid transport into the underlying absorbent element.

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