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US 8,608,720 B2Granted
Absorbent article having an umbilical notch cut
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGregory John Erickson, Jason Robert Eddy, John Ferrer, Donald Carroll Roe
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Abstract
A disposable absorbent article having a front end edge and a back end edge, wherein the front end edge is formed by a non-linear cut with an umbilical notch, and wherein the front end edge and the back end edge are complementary in shape.
Claims24
A disposable wearable absorbent article comprising:
- a liquid permeable topsheet;
- a liquid impermeable backsheet;
- an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet;
- a longitudinal centerline;
- a front end edge configured to fit a navel of a wearer of the absorbent article, wherein the front end edge is formed by a non-linear cut, and the front end edge includes an umbilical notch disposed in a laterally central portion of the front end edge;
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- a back end edge formed by a non-linear cut, wherein the back end edge includes a protruding section disposed in a laterally central portion of the back end edge;
- wherein the front end edge and the back end edge are complementary in shape.
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A method of making disposable wearable absorbent articles comprising:
- providing a continuous web of liquid impermeable backsheet material;
- and
- cutting across the continuous web of backsheet material with non-linear cuts to form backsheets for individual disposable wearable absorbent articles, wherein each of the non-linear cuts forms a front end edge configured to fit a navel of a wearer, the front end edge includes an umbilical notch disposed in a laterally central portion of the front end edge, each of the non-linear cuts also forms a back end edge, the back end edge includes a protruding section disposed in a laterally central portion of the back end edge, and the front end edge is complementary in shape with the back end edge.
A method of making disposable wearable absorbent articles comprising:
- providing a continuous web of liquid impermeable backsheet material;
- and
- cutting the continuous web of backsheet material with non-linear cuts to form backsheets for individual disposable wearable absorbent articles, wherein each of the non-linear cuts forms a front end edge configured to fit a navel of a wearer, the front end edge includes an umbilical notch disposed in a laterally central portion of the front end edge, and the cutting produces no scrap pieces of the backsheet material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.