Hip-to-side silhouettes for boxer brief type disposable absorbent articles and arrays
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGary Dean LaVON, Bret Darren Seitz, Masaharu Nishikawa, Sarah M. Wade, Franz-Josef Hermes
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Abstract
An absorbent article may have a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from 0.5 to about 1.8 and a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length. An array of absorbent articles may have an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8.
Claims17
An absorbent article having a central chassis, the central chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core, the absorbent article comprising:
- a front waist region and a front waist edge;
- a back waist region and a back waist edge;
- a front belt disposed in the front waist region;
- a back belt disposed in the back waist region;
- wherein each of the front and back belts comprise at least one elastic element;
- wherein the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
- wherein the article has a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8;
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- wherein the article has a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length and wherein the Relaxed Product Side Length is less than 150% of the Relaxed Product Length;
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- wherein the article has a side seam length that is greater than about 70% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article and wherein the side seam length is less than about 100% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article.
An array of packages comprising two or more different sizes of absorbent articles, the array comprising:
- a first package comprising a first absorbent article having a first size;
- a second package comprising a second absorbent article having a second size;
- wherein the first absorbent article comprises:
- a front waist region and a front waist edge;
- a back waist region and a back waist edge;
- a front belt disposed in the front waist region;
- a back belt disposed in the back waist region;
- wherein the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
- wherein each of the front and back belts comprise at least one elastic element;
- wherein the second absorbent article comprises:
- a front waist region and a front waist edge;
- a back waist region and a back waist edge;
- a front belt disposed in the front waist region;
- a back belt disposed in the back waist region;
- wherein the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
- wherein each of the first and second absorbent articles has a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8;
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- wherein each one of the first and second absorbent articles has a Relaxed Product Length of less than or equal to 320 mm and greater than about 200 mm;
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- wherein each of the first and second absorbent articles has a side seam length that is greater than about 70% and less than about 100% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article.
An absorbent article having a central chassis, the central chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core, the absorbent article comprising:
- a front waist region and a front waist edge;
- a back waist region and a back waist edge;
- a front belt disposed in the front waist region;
- a back belt disposed in the back waist region;
- wherein each of the front belt and back belt comprise a first belt layer and a second belt layer and an elastic layer between the first belt layer and the second belt layer;
- wherein each of the first belt layer and the second belt layer of each of the front belt and back belt have a distal edge disposed in the waist region and a proximal edge disposed in the crotch region;
- wherein the front and back belt are discrete and separate from each other;
- wherein the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
- wherein the article has a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length and wherein the Relaxed Product Side Length is less than 150% of the Relaxed Product Length;
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- wherein the article has a side seam length that is greater than about 70% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article and wherein the side seam length is less than about 100% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.