Tri-dimensional non-woven fabric for use as a skin-contacting cover layer of a sanitary absorbent article, a method for manufacturing the non-woven fabric and a sanitary article utilizing same

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A tri-dimensional non-woven fabric particularly well- suited 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 …