Disposable panty
AssigneeInnovec, Inc.
InventorAlicia W. Kemper
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Abstract
Disposable panty made of a flat thin sheet material having a soft fibrous material inside and a moisture impervious plastic film outside, the integral panty blank having a triangular front portion, a triangular rear portion and a narrow crotch strip and tape members. The tape members may extend laterally from the front and rear portions to form a waist encircling member in several embodiments and can extend only from the rear portions and can be connectable to the front portion by a releasable adhesive tab or the like. Each of the front and rear portions preferably includes an adjusting or expanding part to selectively expand the areas of the front or back portions and the length of the waist encircling member.
Claims26
A disposable and foldable thin panty comprising a flat very thin sheet having an inside and outside surface and a moisture and germ impervious outside surface, a very thin soft material on said inside surface, said outside surface maintaining its moisture and germ impervious qualities even during folding thereof, said sheet being continuous and being shaped to include a narrow crotch strip as a central portion joined at one end to a generally triangular rear portion and at the other end to a generally triangular front portion, said front portion being smaller in area than said rear portion, laterally extending elements attached to said sheet adapted to form a waist band when said panty is placed temporarily over the lower torso of a body, said crotch strip having no openings through said outside surface to inhibit moisture or germ transmission onto garments being tried by a user said very thin sheet and said very thin soft material being coplanar throughout without any absorbent pad along said crotch strip so that they form a thin panty unuseable as a diaper, said very thin and soft material being located adjacent a lower torso of a body of a user with said very thin sheet facing outwardly of a body of a user and said laterally extending elements all being snugly adjacent a lower torso of a body and unobtrusively beneath garments being tried by a user whereby a user can determine the exact fit of such garments while such garments are protected from moisture or germ transmission from a user and vice versa.
A disposable and foldable thin panty of a thin flat sheet material of an inner, very thin and soft fibrous material joined to an outer moisture and germ impervious very thin plastic film, said plastic film maintaining its moisture and germ impervious qualities even during folding thereof, said panty including a front expandable portion and a rear expandable portion joined to a central narrow crotch strip, each of said front and rear portions having a waist edge portion lateral to and distant from said crotch strip and two leg edge portions joining the respective ends of said waist edge portions to said crotch strip, said very thin and soft fibrous material and said very thin plastic film being flat and forming said thin panty without any absorbent pad along said crotch strip whereby said thin panty is unuseable as a diaper, fastening means including a pair of elongated members having free end portions and extending laterally from respective ends of said rear waist edge portion and adapted to form a waist band portion, said fastening means further including a pair of spaced slots through said front waist edge portion to receive therethrough respective said free end portions, said fastening means further including selective means between said front portion and said elongated members to temporarily attach said elongated members to said front portion, said crotch strip having no openings therethrough to inhibit moisture or germ transmission onto garments being tried by a user after placing said panty temporarily over a lower torso of a body, means in each of said front and rear portions to selectively expand the area of said portions and the circumferential length of said waist band portion, said very thin and soft fibrous material being located adjacent a lower torso of a body of a user with said very thin plastic film facing outwardly of a body of a user and said fastening means including said selective means all being snugly adjacent a lower torso of a body and unobtrusively beneath garments being tried by a user whereby a user can determine the exact fit of such garments while such garments are protected from moisture or germ transmission from a user and vice versa.
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