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US 6,426,444 B2Granted
Article having a lotioned topsheet
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsDonald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
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Abstract
An article containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition provides a skin benefit and/or reduces the adherence of BM to the skin of the wearer, thereby improving the ease of BM clean up. The lotion composition applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion.
Claims20
A disposable article comprising:
- A) a liquid impervious backsheet;
- B) a liquid pervious, hydrophilic topsheet joined to said backsheet, said topsheet having an inner surface oriented toward an interior of said article and an outer surface oriented toward the skin of a wearer when said article is being worn, wherein at least a portion of said topsheet outer surface comprises an effective amount of a lotion coating to reduce adherence of bowel movements to the skin of the wearer and wherein the lotion coating is semi-solid or solid at 20° C. and is partially transferable to the wearer's skin;
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- C) an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;
- wherein the lotion is applied to the liquid pervious topsheet in the form of a plurality of stripes that are separated by a plurality of stripes having no lotion.
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A disposable article comprising:
- A) a liquid impervious backsheet;
- B) a liquid pervious, hydrophilic topsheet joined to said backsheet, said topsheet having an inner surface oriented toward an interior of said article and an outer surface oriented toward the skin of a wearer when said article is being worn, wherein at least a portion of said topsheet outer surface comprises an effective amount of a lotion coating to reduce adherence of bowel movements to the skin of the wearer and wherein the lotion coating is semi-solid or solid at 20° C. and is partially transferable to the wearer's skin, said lotion coating comprising:
- (i) from about 10 to about 95% of a substantially water free emollient having a plastic or fluid consistency at 20° C. and comprising a member selected from the group consisting of petroleum-based emollients, fatty acid ester emollients, alkyl ethoxylate emollients, and mixtures thereof;
- (ii) from about 5 to about 90% of one or more agents capable of immobilizing said emollient on said outer surface of the topsheet, said one or more immobilizing agents having a melting point of at least about 35° C.;
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- C) an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;
- wherein the lotion is applied to the liquid pervious topsheet in the form of a plurality of stripes that are separated by a plurality of stripes having no lotion.
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A disposable article comprising:
- A) a liquid impervious backsheet;
- B) a liquid pervious, hydrophilic topsheet joined to said backsheet, said topsheet having an inner surface oriented toward an interior of said article and an outer surface oriented toward the skin of a wearer when said article is being worn, wherein at least a portion of said topsheet outer surface comprises an effective amount of a lotion coating to reduce adherence of bowel movements to the skin of the wearer and wherein the lotion coating is semi-solid or solid at 20° C. and is partially transferable to the wearer's skin, said lotion coating comprising:
- (i) from about 10 to about 95% of a substantially water free emollient having a plastic or fluid consistency at 20° C.,
- (ii) from about 5 to about 90% of one or more agents capable of immobilizing said emollient on said outer surface of the topsheet, said one or more immobilizing agents having a melting point of at least about 35° C.;
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- C) an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;
- wherein the lotion is applied to the liquid pervious topsheet in the form of a plurality of stripes that are separated by a plurality of stripes having no lotion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.