Pant
AssigneeSCA Hygiene Products AB
InventorsLucas Bäck, Joshua Carney, Kent Vartiainen, Kresten Karlsen
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Abstract
A pant—includes front part, a back part and a crotch part, a waist portion and a pair of leg openings. The pant further includes a suspending member formed of elastic material and comprising zones of different elasticity. A first elastic zone having a relatively higher elongation is provided in a longitudinally extending central region of the crotch part, and a pair of second elastic zones having a relatively lower elongation extend along both sides of the first elastic zone at or close to the leg openings in the crotch part. The first and second elastic zones extend to the front part with the second elastic zones extending along both sides of the first zone.
Claims20
A pant comprising:
- a front part,
- a back part,
- a crotch part positioned between said front and back parts,
- a waist portion formed at upper end edges of said front part and said back part,
- a pair of leg openings,
- a suspending member formed of elastic material and arranged in said front part, said crotch part and said back part,
- said pant having a longitudinal and a transverse direction,
- said suspending member comprises zones of different elasticity, wherein a first elastic zone is provided in a longitudinally extending central region of the crotch part, and a pair of second elastic zones extend along both sides of said first elastic zone at or close to said leg openings in the crotch part,
- wherein said second elastic zones have a lower elongation as measured in the longitudinal direction of the pant in comparison with said first elastic zone,
- said first and second elastic zones are arranged also in the front part, with said pair of second elastic zones extending along both sides of said first zone also in said front part, a third elastic zone having a lower elongation as measured in the longitudinal direction of the pant in comparison with said first elastic zone, extends longitudinally along a central region of the back part,
- wherein said first, second and third elastic zones extend to contact the waist upper end edges of the front and back parts respectively,
- wherein a minimum width in the crotch part of the first elastic zone is at least 40 mm and the width of each of the second elastic zones in said crotch part is between 3 and 30 mm, and
- wherein said third elastic zone has a width that increases towards the upper waist end edge of the back part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.