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US 2021/0369506 A1Published application
Absorbent member for a body cleft adapted product and product with such absorbent member
OwnerJohn BLEVINSinventor
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Abstract
This invention is an absorbent article and more particularly to an improved absorbent device that is worn in body clefts, in particular interlabially by female wearers for catamenial purposes, incontinence protection, or both and in the anal crease for light faecal incontinence or in the context of haemorrhoids, or underarm sweat-pads.
Claims10
An absorbent article for being worn in a human body cleft
- said article or its absorbent member satisfying at least one of the following conditions when tested according to the Folded Drip Off Capacity test as described herein:
- for the article:
- a high pressure drip off capacity under 3.92 kPa (also expressed as 40 g/cm2 load) of at least 2 ml;
- low pressure drip off capacity under 0.981 kPa (also expressed as 10 g/cm2) of at least 4 ml;
- high pressure edge wetting of no more than 0.1 g at a test fluid load of 80% of high pressure drip off capacity under 3.92 kPa;
- a low pressure edge wetting of no more than 0.1 g at a test fluid load of 80% of low pressure drip off capacity under 0.981 kPa,
- for the absorbent member
- a high pressure core drip off capacity factor under 3.92 kPa (also expressed as 40 g/cm2 load) of at least 2 ml/g of core material;
- a low pressure core drip off capacity factor under 0.981 kPa (also expressed as 10 g/cm2 load) of at least 4 ml per gram of core material.
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An absorbent article for being worn in a human body cleft,
- said article consisting of compounds that are at least 90 weight-%, biodegradable,
- said article having
- an in-use configuration, wherein said article
- comprises
- a fold line adapted to be positioned parallel to a sagittal plane of a wearer, thereby defining the longitudinal direction of the article, and
- a first and a second side portion extending away from said fold-line in the width direction of the article
- wherein each of said side portions
- comprises
- a first surface adapted
- to be in direct contact with the skin of a wearer, and
- to receive bodily exudates emitted from a wearer,
- and being formed by a topsheet material;
- a second surface opposite of said first surface,
- said second surface being spaced apart from said first surface by the thickness of said side portion, and
- said second surface being formed from a backsheet raw material exhibiting a backsheet raw material strength;
- and an absorbent core positioned between said first and said second surface;
- and said article being adapted to maintain an in-use configuration throughout the design usage periods,
- and further being adapted in its post-use configuration
- to allow flushability and
- to allow biodegradability of the compounds of the article.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.