US 5,055,103 A · Disposable garments

Abstract

Here is disclosed an arrangement of elastic means surrounding respective leg-openings of garments such as disposable diaper, wherein the elastic means surrounding each of the leg-openings comprises a plurality of first elastic members and a plurality of second elastic members; the first elastic members are positioned substantially along a front half of the leg-opening while the second elastic members are positioned substantially along a rear half of the leg-opening; the first and second elastic members have their tensile stress gradually decreasing from their longitudinally inner ends toward their longitudinally outer ends; and the first and second elastic members have their inter-member spacings gradually enlarged from their longitudinally inner ends toward their longitudinally outer ends.

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Dependent claims

Disposable garments having a topsheet, a backsheet and elastic means provided along leg-openings defined at opposite sides of a crotch area connecting front and rear sections of the top- and backsheets, characterized by that:

the elastic means surrounding each of the leg-openings comprises first and second elastic members;
the first elastic member is positioned substantially along a front half of both leg-openings and traversing the approximate middle of the crotch area while the second elastic member is positioned substantially along a rear half of both leg-openings and traversing the approximate middle of the crotch area so that the first and second elastic members intersect each other the middle area of the crotch area of each leg-opening;
and
the first and second elastic members have their tensile stress gradually decreasing from locations adjacent the middle of each leg opening toward locations adjacent end of each leg opening.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Disposable garments

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Abstract

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