WOUND CARE PRODUCT MADE FROM BULKED FILAMENT TOW
A wound care product is a nonwoven fabric made of filaments bulked from a tow and fixed into a 3-dimensional structure.
1 . An article of manufacture comprising
a wound dressing being a nonwoven fabric being made of thermoplastic filaments bulked from a tow and said filaments being fixed into a 3-dimensional structure.
2 . The article of claim 1 wherein said nonwoven fabric having a basis weight in the range of 50-300 g/m 2 .
3 . The article of claim 1 wherein said nonwoven fabric having a thickness in the range of 2 mm-5 cm.
4 . The article of claim 1 wherein said thermoplastic filaments being cellulose acetate.
5 . The article of claim 1 further comprising a binder fixing said filaments in said 3-dimensional structure.
6 . The article of claim 1 further comprising point bonds fixing said filaments in said 3-dimensional structure.
7 . The article of claim 6 wherein said point bonds being selected from the group of thermal bonds,
ultrasonic bonds, pressure bonds, and combinations thereof.
8 . The article of claim 1 wherein said fabric not including any superabsorbent particles incorporated therein.
9 . A method of dressing a wound comprising the step of:
providing a wound dressing being a nonwoven fabric made of thermoplastic filaments bulked from a tow and said filaments being fixed into a 3-dimensional structure.
10 . The method of claim 9 wherein said nonwoven fabric having a thickness in the range of 2 mm-5 cm.
11 . The method of claim 9 wherein said thermoplastic filaments being cellulose acetate.
12 . A post operative wound dressing comprising:
a nonwoven fabric being made of thermoplastic filaments bulked from a tow and said filaments being fixed into a 3-dimensional structure, and having a basis weight in the range of 50-300 g/m 2 .
13 . The dressing of claim 12 wherein said nonwoven fabric having a thickness in the range of 2 mm-5 cm.
14 . The dressing of claim 12 wherein said thermoplastic filaments being cellulose acetate.