Nonwoven web with improved barrier properties
First Claim
1. A nonwoven web of fine fibers formed from polymer streams and with an average fiber size from 1 to 3 microns and pore sizes distributed predominantly in the range from 7 to 12 microns with the peak of the pore size distribution less than 10 microns formed from reactor granules of a modified propylene polymer polymerized with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst which polymer has a molecular weight distribution between 2.8 and 3.5 Mw/Mn and a modified polymer melt flow rate greater than 3000 gma/10 min at 230°
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Abstract
There is disclosed a nonwoven web for use as a barrier layer in an SMS fabric laminate. The web is formed at commercially acceptable polymer melt throughputs (greater than 3 PIH) by using a reactor granule polyolefin, preferably polypropylene, that has been modified by the addition of peroxide in amounts ranging from up to 3000 ppm to reduce the molecular weight distribution from an initial molecular weight distribution of from 4.0 to 4.5 Mw/Mn to a range of from 2.2 to 3.5 Mw/Mn. Also the addition of peroxide increases the melt flow rate (lowers viscosity) to a range between 800 up to 5000 gms/10 min at 230° C. The resulting web has an average fiber size of from 1 to 3 microns and pore sizes distributed predominantly in the range from 7 to 12 microns, with a lesser amount of pores from 12 to 25 microns, with virtually no pores greater than 25 microns, and with the peak of the pore size distribution less than 10 microns.
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- 1. A nonwoven web of fine fibers formed from polymer streams and with an average fiber size from 1 to 3 microns and pore sizes distributed predominantly in the range from 7 to 12 microns with the peak of the pore size distribution less than 10 microns formed from reactor granules of a modified propylene polymer polymerized with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst which polymer has a molecular weight distribution between 2.8 and 3.5 Mw/Mn and a modified polymer melt flow rate greater than 3000 gma/10 min at 230°
- 5. A nonwoven web formed from polymer streams and having an average fiber size from 1 to 3 microns and pore sizes distributed predominantly in the range from 7 to 12 microns with a peak of the pore size distribution less than 10 microns formed from reactor granules of a modified propylene polymer polymerized with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst which polymer has a molecular weight distribution between 2.2 and 2.8 Mw/Mn and a modified polymer melt flow rate greater than 300 gms/10 min at 230°
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