Absorbent garment with asymmetrical leg elastic tension
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsRobert Lee Popp, Robert Eugene Vogt, Joseph D. Coenen, Shawn A. Quereshi, Toan Thanh Le Minh
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Abstract
A pant-like absorbent garment adapted to the non-symmetrical nature and leakage demands of the anatomy of the human body has asymmetrical pressure around the leg openings with respect to the wearer's anterior and posterior sides. Elastic members are bonded about the leg openings with either higher tension on the posterior side and lower tension on the anterior side or higher tension on the anterior side and lower tension on the posterior side, depending on the intended wearer's level of activity. The resulting garments have optimized comfort, fit and containment about the leg openings.
Claims20
An absorbent garment, comprising:
- a waste containment section comprising an anterior side and a posterior side and defining first and second leg openings, a waist opening, and a crotch area between the anterior side and the posterior side;
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- a plurality of elastic members bonded to the absorbent garment about each of the leg openings, each of the elastic members extending continuously and substantially the same distance from the anterior side to the posterior side and none of the elastic members overlapping any other elastic member;
- wherein tension in each of the bonded elastic members is asymmetrical about the leg openings with respect to the anterior and posterior sides.
An absorbent garment, comprising:
- a waste containment section comprising an anterior side and a posterior side and defining first and second leg openings, a waist opening, and a crotch area between the anterior side and the posterior side;
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- a plurality of elastic members bonded to the absorbent garment about each of the leg openings, each of the elastic members extending continuously and substantially the same distance from the anterior side to the posterior side and none of the elastic members overlapping any other elastic member;
- wherein tension in each of the bonded elastic members is greater on the anterior side of the leg openings than on the posterior side of the leg openings.
An absorbent garment, comprising:
- a waste containment section comprising an anterior side and a posterior side and defining first and second leg openings, a waist opening, and a crotch area between the anterior side and the posterior side;
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- a plurality of elastic members bonded to the absorbent garment about each of the leg openings, each of the elastic members extending continuously and substantially the same distance from the anterior side to the posterior side and none of the elastic members overlapping any other elastic member;
- wherein a tension profile in at least one of the elastic members is asymmetrical about at least one of the leg openings with respect to the anterior and posterior sides and varies relative to a tension profile in an adjacent one of the elastic members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.