Three dimensional structures useful as cleaning sheets

Details Three dimensional structures useful as cleaning sheets Three dimensional structures useful as cleaning sheets

2005-08-30

2005-08-30

Ruddock, Ula (Department: 1771)

Stock material or miscellaneous articles

Structurally defined web or sheet

Continuous and nonuniform or irregular surface on layer or...

C428S156000, C428S172000, C442S035000, C442S096000, C442S152000, C442S153000, C442S159000, C442S168000, C442S170000, C442S171000, C442S408000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06936330

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are cleaning sheets having substantial macroscopic three-dimensionality. Optionally, the macroscopically three-dimensional cleaning sheets can comprise a contractable material (e.g., a scrim material), which when heated and then cooled contracts so as to provide a macroscopic, three-dimensional structure. Macroscopic three-dimensionality is described in terms of “average peak-to-peak distance” and “surface topography index”, as well in terms of “average height differential”. Also disclosed are cleaning implements comprising a handle and the described cleaning sheets. Processes for the sheets, benefits of the processes, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

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