Patent ID: 8668808

Claim:
A flushable moist wipe or hygiene tissue having a basis weight between 40 and 100 g/m 2 and comprising a layer of hydraulically entangled nonwoven material impregnated with a wetting composition, said layer of nonwoven material containing at least 70%, by fibre weight, pulp fibres and at least 5%, by fibre length, manmade fibres, natural fibres, or combinations thereof with a length of at least 6 mm and up to 15 mm and said moist wipe or hygiene tissue has a length in the machine direction and a width in the cross-machine direction, wherein said layer of nonwoven material has a wet strength in machine direction which is at least 5 times and up to 10 times higher than the wet strength in cross-machine direction, wherein the wet strength in cross-machine direction is between 50 and 200 N/m and wherein the length of the moist wipe or hygiene tissue exceeds the width with at least 25%, said moist wipe contains not more than 0.1% by weight, as calculated on the dry weight, of a wet strength agent.