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US 2002/0165511 A1Published application
Disposable absorbent article having fecal management member
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsTim Bast, Jorg Muller
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Abstract
The present invention is a disposable absorbent article having a liquid pervious topsheet, a backsheet joined to the topsheet, and a fecal management member positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The fecal management member includes a backing and a sheet of fibers. The sheet of fibers have anchor portions in the backing at spaced bonding locations and have arcuate portions of the sheet projecting from the backing between bonding locations.
Claims19
A disposable absorbent article comprising
- a liquid pervious topsheet;
- a backsheet joined to said topsheet;
- and
- a fecal management member positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet, said fecal management member having a pattern of arcuate portions, wherein the fecal management member has a resiliency of at least 50% after 30 seconds under an applied load of 100 g/cm2.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.