摘要 |
A tri-dimensional non-woven fabric particularly wellsuited for use as a skin-contacting cover layer of a sanitary absorbent product such as a sanitary napkin, a diaper, a urinary pad, an adult brief, a wound dressing, or a nursing pad, among others. The non-woven fabric is characterized by a pattern of elongated and alternating high and low fiber density areas. Such structure has the ability of directing a discharge of body exudate to disperse over the surface of the non-woven fabric in a preferential direction. The non-woven fabric also has the ability of dynamically inducing body exudate to migrate through the low fiber density areas when the fibrous network is subjected to repeated bending or twisting movements. The invention also extends to a method for manufacturing the aforesaid non-woven fabric and to a sanitary article utilizing same. The invention further extends to a sanitary absorbent article utilizing a novel skin-contacting cover layer capable to establish and maintain an intimate liquid-communicative relationship with an absorbent core of the sanitary absorbent article without any adhesive.
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