Disposable absorbent article having barrier means, and method of its manufacture
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorChristoph Johann Schmitz
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Abstract
A disposable absorbent article, and a method of manufacture of the disposable absorbent article, which better contains fecal material within the article, and which prevents leakage of fecal material out of the article, and/or prevents movement of fecal material from the anal region to the genital region is described herein. The absorbent article utilizes barrier cuffs, an absorbent core, and a topsheet with at least one cut in the intermediate region of the absorbent article such that part of the intermediate region of the topsheet is lifted out of the plane of the rest of the topsheet by the barrier cuffs. The lifted portion forms a transverse barrier and a pocket between the topsheet and the absorbent core.
Claims9
A disposable absorbent article having a front waist region, a rear waist region and an intermediate region between the front and rear waist regions;
- the absorbent article comprising a front waist edge, a rear waist edge and two longitudinal edges;
- the absorbent article comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet;
- the absorbent article further comprising at least two barrier cuffs disposed adjacent to the longitudinal edges of the disposable absorbent article, respectively, each barrier cuff having a proximal edge, a distal edge, an inboard surface and an outboard surface, a spacing means associated with each barrier cuff distal edge so that the distal edge is spaced away from a top surface of the topsheet;
- wherein the topsheet comprises a cut in the intermediate region, the cut extending from a first cut end to a second cut end between the barrier cuffs;
- and wherein the topsheet adjacent to each of the cut ends is attached to the inboard surface of adjacent barrier cuff between the proximal edge and the distal edge, so that part of the topsheet in the intermediate region is directly lifted out of a plane containing the rest of the topsheet by means of the barrier cuffs to form a transverse barrier and a pocket between the topsheet and the absorbent core.
A method of manufacturing a disposable absorbent article having a front waist region, a rear waist region and an intermediate region between the front and rear waist regions;
- the absorbent article comprising a front waist edge, a rear waist edge, and two longitudinal edges;
- the absorbent article comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet;
- the absorbent article further comprising at least two barrier cuffs disposed adjacent to the longitudinal edges of the disposable absorbent article, respectively, each barrier cuff having a proximal edge, a distal edge, and an inboard surface and an outboard surface;
- spacing means associated with each barrier cuff distal edge so that the distal edge is spaced away from a top surface of the topsheet;
- wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- cutting the topsheet in the intermediate region between the barrier cuffs;
- and
- attaching the topsheet adjacent to each of the cut ends to the inboard surface of the adjacent barrier cuff between the proximal edge and the distal edge, so that a part of the intermediate region of the topsheet is lifted out of a plane containing the rest of the topsheet by means of the barrier cuffs to form a transverse barrier and a pocket between the topsheet and the absorbent core.
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