Patent ID: 6410464
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: B32B,C09J,D04H,Y10T

Abstract:
A medical article comprising a laminate composite that is porous and finger-tearable in the machine direction and the cross direction, comprising:(a) a nonwoven fiber web layer; (b) a scrim layer adjacent to the nonwoven web layer comprising spaced-apart filaments oriented substantially in the machine direction that are substantially perpendicular to spaced-apart filaments oriented substantially in the cross direction; wherein the scrim has in the range of about 5-30 filaments/2.5-cm in the machine direction and in the range of about 5-30 filaments/2.5-cm in the cross direction; and (c) a binder material coated through both the nonwoven fiber web layer and the scrim layer.