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US 3,943,930 AGranted
Disposable diaper
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorCharles H. Schaar
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AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorCharles H. Schaar
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A disposable diaper comprising, an absorbent pad assembly having a pair of waistline portions, a crotch region intermediate the waistline portions, a fluid impervious backing sheet, a fluid pervious cover sheet, and an absorbent pad intermediate the backing and cover sheets. The pad assembly may have a plurality of longitudinally extending folds defining a pleated configuration of the pad assembly having a longitudinally extending central panel, and a pair of outermost panels overlying the central panel. The pad assembly also has a lateral fold of the pleated pad assembly in the crotch region. The diaper has means for securing a sufficient portion of the outermost panels together in the lateral fold to maintain the pad assembly in its laterally folded configuration, in order that the diaper assumes a contoured configuration responsive to longitudinal expansion of the central panel.
A disposable diaper, comprising:
The diaper of claim wherein said lateral fold means comprises a lateral tuck in the pad assembly.
A disposable diaper comprising, an absorbent pad assembly having a pair of side edges, a pair of waistline portions, a crotch portion intermediate the waistline portions, a fluid impervious backing sheet, a fluid pervious cover sheet, and a pair of absorbent pads intermediate the backing and cover sheets, said pads being separated in the crotch region of the diaper defining a laterally extending area of reduced thickness.
A disposable diaper comprising, an absorbent pad assembly having front and back waistline portions, a fluid impervious backing sheet, a crotch region intermediate the waistline portions, and securing means for retaining spaced areas of said backing sheet in a close relationship to define pocket means of said backing sheet in the crotch region depending from the pad assembly in the crotch region to receive body exudate from an infant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.