Patent classifications
A61F2013/51035
Biodegradable sanitary articles with higher biobased content
The present invention is directed to sanitary articles such as disposable diapers, adult incontinent pads, feminine hygiene products, and sanitary napkins comprised of biodegradable polymers with higher biobased content. The sanitary articles include a topsheet, an absorbent core, and a backsheet. The topsheet is comprised of biodegradable polyester polyol polymer foam which may be configured to wick liquid away from a wearer's body and may be impregnated with superabsorbent polymer. The absorbent core may be comprised of superabsorbent polymer including a cross-linked and/or partially neutralized polyacrylic acid polymer, cross-linked polyacrylic acids or cross-linked starch-acrylic acid graft polymers. The backsheet may be comprised of poly-lactone polymers having generally hydrophobic characteristics. In preferred embodiments, the polymeric materials comprising the topsheet, absorbent core, and backsheet are formed from raw materials with high biobased content.
BIODEGRADABLE SANITARY ARTICLES WITH HIGHER BIOBASED CONTENT
The present invention is directed to sanitary articles such as disposable diapers, adult incontinent pads, feminine hygiene products, and sanitary napkins comprised of biodegradable polymers with higher biobased content. The sanitary articles include a topsheet, an absorbent core, and a backsheet. The topsheet is comprised of biodegradable polyester polyol polymer foam which may be configured to wick liquid away from a wearer's body and may be impregnated with superabsorbent polymer. The absorbent core may be comprised of superabsorbent polymer including a cross-linked and/or partially neutralized polyacrylic acid polymer, cross-linked polyacrylic acids or cross-linked starch-acrylic acid graft polymers. The backsheet may be comprised of poly-lactone polymers having generally hydrophobic characteristics. In preferred embodiments, the polymeric materials comprising the topsheet, absorbent core, and backsheet are formed from raw materials with high biobased content.
SANITARY ABSORBING CONSTRUCTION
A sanitary absorbing construction to be used by children and infants to hold and restrain liquid and solid dejections, which article is conventionally called napkin, of a single-use or disposable kind, made by combining different raw synthetic or natural materials, comprising apple waste materials, being industrially transformed into composite sub-layers which are assembled together to form articles having different shapes depending on technical or aesthetical requirements, and being biodegradable either before or after their use, when released into the environment, and being compostable or able to be transformed to into organic amending materials, when properly collected and separated or mixed with other organic domestic waste materials and then let into the compost cycle, per se or together with organic waste materials either from foodstuff or not.