Length-to-hip and waist-to-side silhouettes of adult disposable absorbent articles and arrays
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsBret Darren SEITZ, Gary Dean LaVON
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Abstract
An absorbent article or an array of absorbent articles of the present disclosure may have particular Product Length-to-Hip Silhouette(s) and Product Waist-to-Side Silhoutte(s).
Claims30
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 the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
- wherein the front belt comprises a first film;
- wherein the back belt comprises a second film;
- a plurality of elastic strands disposed along a portion of the leg openings;
- wherein the article comprises a Product Length-to-hip Silhouette less than about 0.94;
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- wherein the article comprises at least one of the following:
- (a) Relaxed Product Waist Width less than about 304 mm;
- (b) Relaxed Product Side Length less than about 202 mm;
- (c) Relaxed Product Length less than about 316 mm;
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- (d) Relaxed Product Hip Width less than about 373 mm.
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 the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
- wherein the front belt comprises a first film;
- wherein the back belt comprises a second film;
- a plurality of elastic strands disposed along a portion of the leg openings;
- wherein the article comprises a Product Length-to-hip Silhouette less than about 0.92;
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- wherein the article comprises at least one of the following:
- (a) Relaxed Product Waist Width less than about 304 mm;
- (b) Relaxed Product Side Length less than about 202 mm;
- (c) Relaxed Product Length less than about 352 mm;
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- (d) Relaxed Product Hip Width less than about 384 mm.
An array of packages comprising three or fewer 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 the front belt comprises a first film;
- wherein the back belt comprises a second film;
- a plurality of elastic strands disposed along a portion of the leg openings;
- 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 the front belt comprises a first film;
- wherein the back belt comprises a second film;
- wherein the array comprises an Array Average Product Length-to-hip Silhouette from about 0.68 to about 0.96;
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- wherein at least one of the articles of the array comprises at least one of the following:
- (a) Relaxed Product Waist Width less than about 304 mm;
- (b) Relaxed Product Side Length less than about 202 mm;
- (c) Relaxed Product Length from about 258 mm to about 352 mm;
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- (d) Relaxed Product Hip Width from about 302 mm to about 384 mm.
An array of packages comprising three or fewer different sizes of absorbent articles, wherein each of the absorbent articles of the array have a Product Length-to-Hip Silhouette from about 0.69 to about 0.92.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.