Absorbent article having a close to the body liner
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorBarbara Oakley Sauer
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Abstract
An absorbent article includes a close fitting bodyside liner having an opening therein. The opening defines a front end edge, a rear end edge, and a pair of laterally opposed side edges. The article also includes a pair of elastic members which extend longitudinally beyond at least one of the end edges of the opening in a laterally divergent direction. The elastic members may also extend at least partially along the side edges of the opening. The elastic members are configured to maintain the edges of the opening in contact with the wearer's buttocks and align the opening with the wearer's anal opening in use. The article may further include a liquid management material located on the bodyside liner in the front waist section to absorb or contain liquid exudates.
Claims30
A disposable absorbent article which includes an absorbent superposed on a bodyside liner and at least one pair of laterally opposed ear portions which extend laterally beyond a narrowest portion of said absorbent article, said bodyside liner having an opening therein which defines a front end edge, a rear end edge, and a pair of laterally opposed side edges which diverge laterally outward in a rear waist section of said article, wherein said article comprises a pair of elastic members which extend at least partially along said side edges of said opening and which extend longitudinally beyond at least one of said end edges of said opening in a laterally divergent direction into said opposed ear portions of said absorbent article to maintain said edges of said opening in contact with a wearer's buttocks in use.
A disposable absorbent article having a front waist section, a rear waist section, an intermediate section which interconnects said front and rear waist sections, and a pair of laterally opposed side margins wherein each of said waist sections defines a pair of laterally opposed ear portions which extend laterally beyond a narrowest portion of said absorbent article, said article comprising:
- a) an outer cover;
- b) a bodyside liner which is connected in superposed relation to said outer cover and which defines an opening therein for receiving fecal exudates wherein said opening defines a front end edge, a rear end edge and a pair of laterally opposed side edges;
- c) an absorbent body which is located between said bodyside liner and said outer cover;
- d) a first pair of discrete elastic members located along said opposed side margins of said article to provide elasticized leg bands;
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- e) a second pair of discrete elastic members located laterally inward from said first pair of discrete elastic members and at least partially along said side edges of said opening wherein said second pair of elastic members extend longitudinally beyond said front end edge of said opening in a laterally divergent direction into said opposed ear portions of said front waist section of said absorbent article to maintain said edges of said opening in contact with a wearer's buttocks in use.
A disposable absorbent article having a front waist section, a rear waist section, an intermediate section which interconnects said front and rear waist sections, and a pair of laterally opposed side margins wherein each of said waist sections defines a pair of laterally opposed ear portions which extend laterally beyond a narrowest portion of said absorbent article, said article comprising:
- a) an outer cover;
- b) a bodyside liner which is connected in superposed relation to said outer cover and which defines an opening therein for receiving fecal exudates wherein said opening defines a front end edge, a rear end edge and a pair of laterally opposed side edges;
- c) an absorbent body which is located between said bodyside liner and said outer cover;
- d) a first pair of discrete elastic members located along said opposed side margins of said article to provide elasticized leg bands;
- e) a second pair of discrete elastic members located laterally inward from said first pair of discrete elastic members and at least partially along said side edges of said opening, wherein said elastic members extend longitudinally beyond at least one of said end edges of said opening in a laterally divergent direction into said opposed ear portions of said absorbent article to maintain said edges of said opening in contact with a wearers buttocks in use;
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- f) a liquid management layer located on said bodyside liner in said front waist section of said absorbent article which is configured to contain and distribute liquid exudates.
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