Patent ID: 7601415

Claim:
An absorbent article with a body facing side, the absorbent article comprising: a topsheet on the body facing side; a backsheet opposite the body facing side; an absorbent core between the backsheet and the topsheet; and a composite intermediate layer between the absorbent core and the topsheet, said composite intermediate layer comprising: a first nonwoven web of fibers; and an underlayer between the first nonwoven web and the absorbent core, said underlayer having small scale openings with a hydraulic radius; the first nonwoven web of fibers comprising a plurality of three dimensional conical large scale apertures extending through both the nonwoven web and the underlayer, said large scale apertures having a hydraulic radius that is substantially greater than the hydraulic radius of the small scale openings of the underlayer, and said large scale apertures not extending through the topsheet.