US 9,907,709 B2Granted

Length-to-waist silhouettes of adult disposable absorbent articles and arrays

AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company

InventorsBret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jill Trygier, Vanessa Melendez

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Abstract

In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise two or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And the Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a third absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 1.1 to about 0.3. In another embodiment, a disposable absorbent article may have a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette from 1.0 to about 0.3.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An absorbent article having a central chassis, the central chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core, the absorbent article comprising:

a front waist region and a front waist edge;
a back waist region and a back waist edge;
a front belt disposed in the front waist region;
a back belt disposed in the back waist region;
wherein an end edge of the front belt extends longitudinally beyond a front end edge of the central chassis in the front waist region, and wherein an end edge of the back belt extends longitudinally beyond a back end edge of the central chassis in the back waist region, and wherein the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings;
the front belt comprising a first film;
the back belt comprising a second film;
a plurality of elastic strands disposed along a portion of the leg openings;
wherein the article has a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette from 1.0 to about 0.3;
and
wherein the central chassis comprises longitudinally extending, laterally opposed elastic gathering members, and wherein the elastic gathering members contract the crotch region longitudinally.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/805,601Filed 22 Jul 2015 · continuation
Priority: 8 May 2014
Published: US 2015/0320612 A112 Nov 2015
Granted: 6 Mar 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

A61F 13/49
Characterised by the shape: specially adapted to be worn around the waist, e.g. diapers or nappies
A61F 13/49011
With elastic means: the elastic means is located at the waist region
A61F 13/49017
With elastic means: the elastic means being located at the crotch region
A61F 13/496
Specially adapted to be worn around the waist, e.g. diapers or nappies: in the form of pants or briefs

Family

Application61/990,341Us provisional application · filed 8 May 2014
Application14/699,011Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Apr 2015
US 2015/0320620 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Nov 2015
US 2015/0320612 A1Published application
US 9,907,709 B2This patent

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