Multiple use article for conditioning fabrics in a clothes dryer

Claim 1

A multiple-use fabric conditioner article for conditioning clothes in a washer or dryer comprising a substrate, a fabric conditioner coated on both surfaces of said substrate, said fabric softener having a softening point in the range of 100° F. to 170° F., and being selected from the group consisting of: cationic quaternary ammonium salts and imidazolinium salts; nonionic compounds, such as tertiary phosphine oxides, tertiary amine oxides, ethoxylated alcohols and alkyl phenols, and ethoxylated amines; anionic soaps, sulfates and sulfonates, including fatty acid soaps, ethoxylated alcohol sulfates, sodium alkyl sulfates, alkyl sulfonates, sodium alkylbenzenesulfonates, and sodium or potassium alkyl glyceryl ether sulfonates; amphoteric tertiary ammonium compounds; Zwitterionic quaternary ammonium compounds; and compatible mixtures of one or more compounds of these classes; said substrate being a water-laid or air-laid non-woven material comprising both natural and synthetic fibers, and having a greater concentration of an adhesive binder at one surface, said fabric conditioner-coated substrate being initially folded and secured loosely by an adhesive seam adjacent to the free ends thereof to expose only the adhesive-bonded surface carrying fabric conditioner, the adhesive seam adjacent the ends being rupturable, whereby the fabric conditioner article can unfold and thereby also expose the second surface of the article to transfer additional fabric conditioner during additional tumbling of said fabric conditioner article with additional clothes to be conditioned.