Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Kimberly-clark Corporation

David Peter Kielpikowski

Duane Girard Uitenbroek

Georgia Lynn Zehner

Robert Eugene Vogt

Timothy James Blenke

John Philip Vukos

Dan D Endres

Deborah Lynn Proxmire

Mary A Bruemmer

Steven H Levine

Disclosed is an absorbent garment including a pair of outer containment flaps and a pair of inner containment flaps, said outer and inner containment flaps being formed from a first integral sheet of containment flap material having a length, said inner containment flaps having a length less than the length of said first sheet of containment flap material. Also described is a method of producing the absorbent garments.

Absorbent garment comprising dual containment flaps

Disclosed is a containment flap for use on an absorbent article. The containment flap has a proximal edge which is joined to the absorbent article and an opposite distal edge. The containment flap includes a barrier layer which is stitched with at least one elastomeric thread adjacent the distal edge of the containment flap. Also disclosed is an absorbent article including such a containment flap and a method of making such an absorbent article.

Elasticized containment flaps

Method of making an absorbent garment comprising dual containment flaps

A conformable absorbent article has a topsheet that is designed to substantially fully contact the body of the wearer to provide improved performance in managing and containing body wastes. Management and containment of body wastes are improved by several structural elements that can be utilized individually or collectively. Some of these elements are a waste-containment pocket formed between the topsheet and backsheet, an opening in the topsheet for receiving body wastes therethrough, a pair of containment flaps and a pair of side flaps, and an expandable backsheet to retain body wastes therein.

Conformable absorbent article

A method for making a breathable elastomeric laminar fabric, the material produced thereby and a disposable absorbent garment incorporating the material as either an outer cover or gathers at the leg and waist openings. The method comprises the steps of sandwiching a liquid impermeable elastomeric film or nonwoven carrier sheet between a pair of nonwoven facing sheets while the carrier sheet is in at least a partially stretched condition and bonding the facing sheets together through the carrier sheet at spaced apart sites, simultaneously forming breathable apertures while laminating the carrier and facing sheets together at the spaced apart sites. Creped facing sheets may also be used and bonded together while the film is in a partially stretched or unstretched condition.

Method of making a breathable elastic fabric composite and personal

An anatomically form-fitting, generally self-adjusting disposable absorbent garment comprises a breathable elastomeric nonwoven laminar outer cover, resiliently stretchable preferably in a cross-body direction from about 20% to about 200%, including a pair of leg openings, front and rear waist sections together defining a waist opening, a crotch section situated between the leg openings and front and rear panels separated by the crotch section. An absorbent insert structure, substantially superposable on the front and rear panels and the crotch section, includes a liquid impermeable barrier and a liquid permeable bodyside liner, with an absorbent composite disposed therebetween. Longitudinally opposed ends of the absorbent insert are attached to the waist sections, integrating the insert into the outer cover while allowing substantially unrestricted functional stretchability thereof. A pair of supplemental leg elastic members are applied to the outer cover in an operatively tensioned state relative thereto and extend around outermost portions of the leg openings. Either of the leg and waist elastics comprise breathable elastomeric nonwoven laminar fabric strips which are resiliently stretchable preferably from about 20% to about 300%, providing cushioned, cloth-like gathering of the garment about the body of a wearer.

Disposable garment having elastic outer cover and integrated absorbent

An anatomically form-fitting, generally self-adjusting disposable absorbent garment comprises an elastomeric nonwoven outer cover, including a pair of leg openings, front and rear waist sections fastenable with one another defining a waist opening, a crotch section situated between the leg openings and opposed front and rear panels separated by the crotch section. An absorbent insert structure is superposable on the outer cover and has opposed longitudinal ends thereof attached to the waist sections in selected waist attachment zones. An elastic integration member has upper and lower borders respectively attached to an associated one of the longitudinal ends and an associated waist section, allowing the upper border of the elastic member to stretch independently with the outer cover in the cross-body direction while the lower border of the member remains fixed with the insert. The elastic integration member may also be attached to the waist section in a tensioned condition to further gather the waist opening about a wearer. Either snaps, autogenous bonds or combinations thereof could be used to attach the elastic member to the waist or to the insert.

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

David Peter Kielpikowski