Cleaning article with decorative particles

Abstract

The present invention is a cleaning article including a substrate, a base coating on at least a surface of the substrate, and a surface coating disposed on the base coating. The surface coating includes water, a binder, a cross-linker, a thickener, and decorative particles. The decorative particles constitute between about 30 to about 300 grams per square meter wet basis weight of the cleaning article. At least about 50% of the decorative particles remains on the cleaning article after use.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A cleaning article comprising:
 a substrate; and   a base coating on at least a surface of the substrate; and   a surface coating disposed on the base coating, the surface coating comprising:
 water; 
 a binder; 
 a cross-linker; 
 a thickener; and 
 decorative particles, 
   wherein the decorative particles constitute between about 30 to about 300 grams per square meter wet basis weight of the cleaning article,   and wherein at least about 50% of the decorative particles remains on the cleaning article after use.   
     
     
         2 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the binder is selected from the group consisting of: polyurethane, polyester, acrylic, styrene butadiene, melamine formaldehyde resin, and combinations thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the surface coating comprises between about 5 and about 25% by weight water. 
     
     
         4 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the surface coating comprises between about 25 and about 70% by weight binder. 
     
     
         5 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the surface coating comprises between about 1 and about 20% by weight crosslinker. 
     
     
         6 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the surface coating comprises between about 2 and about 30% by weight decorative particles. 
     
     
         7 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the surface coating comprises between about 0.5 and about 3% by weight thickener. 
     
     
         8 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the decorative particles comprise between about 1 and about 30 wt % of the cleaning article. 
     
     
         9 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the binder constitutes between about 30 and about 300 grams per square meter wet basis weight of the cleaning article. 
     
     
         10 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises fibers. 
     
     
         11 . The cleaning article of  claim 10 , wherein a ratio of fiber size to decorative particle size is between about 0.1 to about 2. 
     
     
         12 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , wherein the decorative particles are between about 30 to about 500 microns each in size. 
     
     
         13 . The cleaning article of  claim 10 , wherein the fibers have a length of between about 20 and about 150 millimeters. 
     
     
         14 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , where a thickness of the cleaning article is between about 2 and about 50 millimeters. 
     
     
         15 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , where the cleaning article has a basis weight of between about 50 and about 1500 grams/meter 2 . 
     
     
         16 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , where the substrate comprises a nonwoven web, foam, paper, fabric or combination thereof. 
     
     
         17 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , where the decorative particles comprise glitter, melamine minerals, natural minerals or combination thereof. 
     
     
         18 . The cleaning article of  claim 1 , further comprising abrasive particles.