| US 7,569,039 B2 | ||
| Disposable pull-on garment | ||
| Toshiyuki Matsuda, Akashi (Japan); Kenji Fujimoto, Higashinada-ku (Japan); and Hiroshi Nakahata, Higashinada-ku (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio (US) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 10, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/985,402. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/523262, filed on Nov. 19, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0107764 A1, May 19, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61F 13/496 (2006.01); A61F 13/64 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 604—385.29 [604/385.3; 604/392; 604/396] | 9 Claims |
| 1. A disposable pull-on garment comprising:
an absorbent main body comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet and an absorbent core disposed
therebetween, and having longitudinal side edges, transverse end edges, a front waist panel, a back waist panel and a crotch
panel between the front waist panel and the back waist panel; and
a ring-like elastic belt joined to the backsheet in the front waist panel and the back waist panel of the absorbent main body
to form one waist opening and two leg openings, the ring-like elastic belt not extending into the crotch panel of the absorbent
main body,
wherein the ring-like elastic belt comprises a front belt and a back belt each having laterally opposing side panels, a central
panel between the side panels, a transverse waist border, and a longitudinally opposing transverse abdomen border, the waist
border being disposed longitudinally beyond the respective end edge of the absorbent main body,
each of the front belt and the back belt comprises a belt layer and a belt elastic material joined to the belt layer, the
belt elastic material comprising a transverse waist elastic material disposed adjacent to the waist border and a transverse
side elastic material disposed only in each of the side panels adjacent to the abdomen border laterally outboard of the respective
waist panel of the absorbent main body and not overlapping the respective waist panel, the respective waist panel not being
overlapped by any transverse elastic material between the side elastic material disposed in the side panels, the waist elastic
material of the back belt comprising a transverse waist border elastic material disposed between the waist border of the back
belt and the transverse end edge of the absorbent main body adjacent to the back belt, and
the belt elastic material is provided with the belt layer such that a leg opening angle formed by the transverse abdomen border
and each of the longitudinal side edges of the absorbent main body is greater when the disposable pull-on garment is in a
contracted configuration than when the disposable pull-on garment is in an uncontracted configuration.
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