Convatec Limited

Clare Holden

Kevin Evans

Alice Young

Mani Gopal

An ostomy pouch includes a sheet of woven comfort material. The sheet of woven comfort material has an outside surface and an opposite inside surface. The outside surface of the sheet of woven comfort material forms at least part of the outside surface of the pouch, and at least part of the inside surface of the sheet of woven comfort material is coated with a web of hot-melt adhesive. A method of forming a sheet of comfort material for an ostomy pouch involves coating one side of a sheet of woven comfort material with a web of hot-melt adhesive to provide an inside surface comprising the coating. The web comprises a mass with a plurality of voids therein.

Ostomy pouch

An ostomy appliance comprising an inner wall and an outer wall that define a cavity for containing a stomal output, the ostomy appliance having an upper section, a lower section and a waisted section that is located between the upper section and the lower section. The upper section has a maximum width (A) that is greater than a maximum width (B) of the lower section and the waisted section has a minimum width (C) that is less than the maximum width (B) of the lower section. The waisted section has a left-hand edge that is smoothly rounded and a right-hand edge that is smoothly rounded, and both the left-hand edge and the right-hand edge smoothly blend, respectively, into left-hand edges and right-hand edges of the upper section and the lower section.

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Flintshire, United Kingdom

Clare Holden