Dispersible wet wipes constructed with a plurality of layers having different densities and methods of manufacturing

• US 8,603,297 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2012
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Inventors: Zwick, Kenneth John, Zhang, Jun, Johnson, Kroy Donald, Vogel, Nathan John, Gusky, Robert Irving, Powling, David James Sealy
• Primary Examiner(s): Halpern, Mark
• Application Number:
  US13/568,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 162/158, 428/156, 428/340, 428/271, 442/361
• US Class Current: 162/158
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/042 Water soluble or water disintegrable containers or substrates containing cleaning compositions or additives for cleaning compositions
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/046 Salts
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 7/10 Salts
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/49 entanglement by fluid jet in combination with another consolidation means
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/587 characterised by the bonding agents used
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 21/20 Wet strength agents
• CPC Class Codes: D21H 27/30 Multi-ply for surface covering D21H27/18; making on paper-making machines D21F9/00, D21F11/00

Abstract

A dispersible wet wipe constructed of at two layers is disclosed. A triggerable binder composition binds said web substrate together. The wet wipe also includes a wetting composition including at least 0.3 percent of an insolubilizing agent.

Claims

1. A dispersible wet wipe comprising:

a wipe substrate having at least a first outer layer comprising a tissue web containing cellulose fibers, and a second outer layer comprising a nonwoven web;

a triggerable binder composition; and

a wetting composition containing between about 0.4 and about 3.5 percent of an insolubilizing agent.

2. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein said triggerable binder composition is present at an add-on rate of between about 1 and about 8 percent based on the total weight of the wipe substrate.

3. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein the tissue web comprises an uncreped through-air dried tissue web.

4. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein the wet wipe has an in-use machine direction tensile strength of greater than 300 grams per linear inch.

5. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein the basis weight of the first outer layer is between about20 and about 80 grams per square meter, and wherein the basis weight of the second layer is between about 10 and about 60 grams per square meter.

6. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein the wet wipe has a caliper of greater than 0.6 mm.

7. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein the wet wipe has a plate stiffness of less than 0.75 N*mm.

8. The dispersible wet wipe of claim 1 wherein the wet wipe has a geometric mean tensile strength of at least 300 grams per linear inch.

9. A method of forming a dispersible substrate comprising:

forming a first layer, the first layer comprising a tissue web containing cellulose fibers;

forming a second layer, the second layer comprising a nonwoven web; and

applying a triggerable binder composition to at least one side of the dispersible substrate, the triggerable binder composition containing between about 0.4 and about 3.5 percent of an insolubilizing agent.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said triggerable binder composition is present at an add-on rate of between about 1 and about 8 percent based on the total weight of the wipe substrate.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein applying the triggerable binder composition to at least one side of the dispersible substrate further comprises applying the triggerable binder composition to the second layer at an add-on rate of between about 1 and about 4 percent based on the total weight of the wipe substrate and applying the triggerable binder composition to the first layer at an add-on rate of between about 0.5 and about 3 percent based on the total weight of the wipe substrate.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the basis weight of the first layer is between about 20 and about 80 grams per square meter.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the first layer comprises an uncreped through-air dried tissue web.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein the second layer comprises an airlaid nonwoven web.