EP0436619A1 - Objets hygieniques jetables - Google Patents

Objets hygieniques jetables

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Publication number
EP0436619A1
EP0436619A1 EP19890911077 EP89911077A EP0436619A1 EP 0436619 A1 EP0436619 A1 EP 0436619A1 EP 19890911077 EP19890911077 EP 19890911077 EP 89911077 A EP89911077 A EP 89911077A EP 0436619 A1 EP0436619 A1 EP 0436619A1
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Prior art keywords
alkali
article
disposable
liner
sanitary article
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Arthur Roger Shipley
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DISPOSABLES AND DIAPER DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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DISPOSABLES AND DIAPER DEVELOPMENTS Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L15/00—Chemical aspects of, or use of materials for, bandages, dressings or absorbent pads
    • A61L15/16—Bandages, dressings or absorbent pads for physiological fluids such as urine or blood, e.g. sanitary towels, tampons
    • A61L15/42—Use of materials characterised by their function or physical properties
    • A61L15/62—Compostable, hydrosoluble or hydrodegradable materials
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/15203—Properties of the article, e.g. stiffness or absorbency
    • A61F13/15211—Properties of the article, e.g. stiffness or absorbency soluble or disintegratable in liquid
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L15/00—Chemical aspects of, or use of materials for, bandages, dressings or absorbent pads
    • A61L15/16—Bandages, dressings or absorbent pads for physiological fluids such as urine or blood, e.g. sanitary towels, tampons
    • A61L15/22—Bandages, dressings or absorbent pads for physiological fluids such as urine or blood, e.g. sanitary towels, tampons containing macromolecular materials
    • A61L15/24—Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds; Derivatives thereof
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/15203—Properties of the article, e.g. stiffness or absorbency
    • A61F13/15211—Properties of the article, e.g. stiffness or absorbency soluble or disintegratable in liquid
    • A61F2013/15227—Properties of the article, e.g. stiffness or absorbency soluble or disintegratable in liquid by its solubility in particular Ph solution
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/45—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators characterised by the shape
    • A61F13/49—Absorbent articles specially adapted to be worn around the waist, e.g. diapers
    • A61F2013/49068—Absorbent articles specially adapted to be worn around the waist, e.g. diapers characterized by the shape of the outline
    • A61F2013/49076—Absorbent articles specially adapted to be worn around the waist, e.g. diapers characterized by the shape of the outline as "I"-shaped

Definitions

  • This invention relates to disposable articles and is especially but not exclusively concerned with disposable sanitary articles.
  • Sanitary articles include, inter alia, diapers, sanitary towels or similar, liners for childrens ' potties, bedpans and bedsheets and any other article provided to receive bodily excretion.
  • the present invention provides a disposable article formed of a film or non-woven material which is inherently, or treated to be, alkali dissolvable or degradable.
  • the disposable article may be formed of, or treated with, acrylic copolymer resin or polyacrylic esters.
  • the treatment may be by way of coacting or integration with the disposable article during manufacture of same, for example extrusion or moulding or any other process known to those skilledAn the art of material treatment.
  • a sanitary article including or consisting of a disposable sheet or layer constituted by a film or non- woven material which is inherently, or treated to be alkali dissolvable or degradable.
  • the soiled sheet or layer may be suitable for disposable in refuse bag or sites where is disintegrates.
  • the sheet or layer and any associated body waste matter may be disposed of into a toilet bowl where it disintegrates and can be flushed away with the body waste matter.
  • Examples of other disposable articles within the scope of the present invention are packaging materials, and disposable articles of clothing especially those of a next- to-body nature.
  • the sanitary article may be a disposable diaper comprising a detachable, inner, next-to- body liner, preferably of non-woven material, having an alkaline-disintegratable nature.
  • the sanitary article may be a liner for a child's potty or for a bedpan and formed of an alkali sensitive film or an alkali-disintegratable non-woven material shaped to conform with the inner configuration of the potty or bedpan.
  • the liner may be in the form of an open-topped bag to receive and contain excreted body waste matter.
  • Such liners may, as aforesaid, be disposed of into a toilet bowl for disintegration and flushing away with associated body waste matter.
  • the water in the toilet bowl does not have a sufficiently high alkali pH value then this is corrected by adding to the water a suitable alkali pH adjuster.
  • the alkali pH adjuster may, inter alia, be in the form of a toilet block, a tablet, a pellet, a capsule or a liquid solution.
  • alkali pH adjusters are, inter alia, alkali salts such, for example, as sodium carbonate, or caustic cleaners such, for example, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, or domestic bleach type formulations such, for example, as sodium hypochlorite, or detergents with alkali additive such, for example, as triethanola ine or ammonia.
  • the alkali pH adjuster may comprise a pH colour indicator whereby a visible indication will be given that the water in the toilet bowl has a sufficiently high pH alkali value for liner disintegration to occur.
  • a method of disposing of a sanitary article, or liner therefor, in a non-health risk manner comprising the steps of forming the sanitary article, or liner therefor, of an alkali-sensitive film or an alkali- disintegratable non-woven material, and disposing of the sanitary article, or liner therefor, into a toilet bowl containing water either of a sufficiently high alkali pH value, or treated with an alkali pH adjuster to provide a sufficiently high alkali pH value, to cause disintegration of the soiled sanitary article, or liner therefor.
  • a sufficiently high pH value is 7.5 and above and a preferred but not limitative pH value is within the range of 7.5 to 10.00.
  • Examples of other disposable articles within the scope of the present invention are packaging materials, and disposable articles of clothing especially those of a next- to-body nature.
  • the diaper 10 illustrated comprises an outer impervious layer 11 which is anatomically shaped, an intermediate liquid-absorbent layer or layers 12, a non- woven pervious cover layer 13, and an inner next-to-body pervious non-woven layer 14 which is detachable, being lightly tack-bonded to the layer 13. Securing tabs or tapes 15 are secured to both the outer impervious layer 11 and the cover layer 13 at one end of the diaper 10.
  • the inner layer 14 has a width not less than that of the crotch region of the diaper, is equal to the length of the diaper, and is preferably also anatomically shaped.
  • the layers 11 to 14 can be laminated together during an in-line manufacturing process or alternatively layers 13 and 14 can be tack-bonded in an off-line process.
  • the inner detachable layer 14 is, as aforesaid, formed of a suitable alkali-disintegratable non-woven material and is adapted for disintegration disposal in alkali-enhanced water in a toilet bowl.
  • the disposable article may be formed by coating or co-extruding the alkali soluble polymer onto a water soluble film such, for example, as polyvinyl alcohol or poly(ethylene) oxide.
  • the present .invention provides for the quick and safe (in terms of health and pollution) disintegration of disposable articles made from, or incorporating, alkali-dissolvable film or non-woven material in an alkali environment.

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Animal Behavior & Ethology (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Veterinary Medicine (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Epidemiology (AREA)
  • Public Health (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Hematology (AREA)
  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • Biomedical Technology (AREA)
  • Heart & Thoracic Surgery (AREA)
  • Vascular Medicine (AREA)
  • Absorbent Articles And Supports Therefor (AREA)
  • Orthopedics, Nursing, And Contraception (AREA)

Abstract

Objet jetable, fabriqué à partir d'une couche sensible à l'alcali ou d'un matériau non-tissé se désintégrant dans l'alcali, conçu pour se dissoudre dans un milieu alcalin, qui peut être un liquide, ayant un indice pH alcalin suffisamment élevé par exemple 7,5 ou plus. La doublure intérieure d'une couche jetable à même la peau est par exemple un de ces objets. On peut jeter la doublure contenant les déchets évacués par le corps dans une cuvette de toilettes où la doublure se désintègre, de sorte qu'on peut faire disparaître le tout en tirant la chasse d'eau. Si nécessaire, on peut augmenter la teneur de l'eau en pH alcalin en ajoutant dans la cuvette des toilettes un ajusteur de pH. Grâce à de tels objets jetables, on élimine les dangers pour la santé et les risques de pollution.
EP19890911077 1988-09-28 1989-09-27 Objets hygieniques jetables Withdrawn EP0436619A1 (fr)

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GB8822736 1988-09-28
GB888822736A GB8822736D0 (en) 1988-09-28 1988-09-28 Disposable diapers

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EP0436619A1 true EP0436619A1 (fr) 1991-07-17

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JP (1) JPH04502712A (fr)
AU (1) AU4342089A (fr)
GB (1) GB8822736D0 (fr)
WO (1) WO1990003156A1 (fr)

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