The Procter Gamble Company

Vining Industries, Inc.

Sunbeam Products, Inc.

Meadwestvaco Corporation

Masco Corporation of Indiana

The Mead Corporation

Broan-Nutone LLC

Rubbermaid, Inc.

Hill-Rom Services, Inc.

Acco Brands Corporation

Diana W Juratovac

Tina Marie Glahn

Gary Dean LaVon

Sarah Marie Wade

Kaoru Ishihara

Ronald Joseph Zink, Ii

Rachael Eden Walther

Masaharu Nishikawa

Anna Elizabeth Macura

Amanda Margaret Bicking

Jeffrey T DeBord

Augusto A Picozza

David William Schuller

Marc L Moor

Richard Christopher Hagee

Jay F Perkins

Richard R Sinur

Paul E Hsu

Thomas J Ward

Ryan Robert Berger

Gregg M Davis

Brian R Wellnitz

Rainer Bernhard Teufel

Ryan R Berger

Edward P Busam

Charles W Craft, Jr

Vanessa Marie Melendez

Richard Lee Lane

Fred Naval Desai

Margaret Henderson Hasse

Keith E Brightbill

Darrell Ian Brown

Sean D Montag

Seth A Fritz

Kenneth L Kramer

Nicola John Policicchio

Gregory W Branson

Richard M Girardot

Ann Cecilia Tapp

Nicholas Paul Goyette

Nancy Perkins

Elisabeth Sung-Eun Choi

Rainer B Teufel

Sarah Anne Saville

Adam Miller Ruggles

Ronald Joseph Zink

Farihah Ibrahim

Stephen P Casteel

Dennis D Belden, Jr

Steven L Paletti

Mary R Holt

Thornton K Lothrop

Hui Yang

Mary M Hoagland

Paul R Burger

Sara Jon Shipley

Sun-Jan Alan Huang

Ranier Bernhard Teufel

Richard L Lane

John W Koenig

William L Jacques, Ii

Peter A Koloski

Brent L Burchfield

Jonathan Aaron Lu

Gary D LaVON

John E Sagel

Amy Elizabeth Glosh

Doug S Rubel

Paul A Burger

Rachel Eden Walther

David Calvert Rucker

Kristin R Romak

Robert Mark LeBlanc

Gary Dean Lavon

The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a core disposed at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article comprises a belt portion extending from the chassis. The belt portion comprises a first substrate, a second substrate joined to the first substrate, and a plurality of elongate elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion comprises a texture zone having a texture ratio of greater than about 5.

Absorbent articles having a belt portion with a texture zone having a texture ratio

Absorbent articles that include elastics in multiple layers are disclosed herein.

Absorbent articles with elastics in multiple layers

An absorbent article comprises first and second substrates and one or more elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the substrates. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate and/or to portions of the elastic elements. The absorbent article comprises an adhesive having a first and second pattern of elements disposed on first substrate, and first and second texture zones. The first texture zone comprises a first portion of the substrates, a first portion of the elastic elements, and the first pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a background pattern in the first portion of the substrates. The second texture zone comprises a second portion of the substrates, a second portion of the one or more elastic elements, and the second pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a macro pattern in the second portion of the substrates.

Absorbent articles having texture zones forming background patterns and macro patterns

Paper sheet

Rolled paper product

An absorbent article comprises a chassis having a belt portion extending therefrom. The belt portion comprises a side edge, a waist opening edge, a leg opening edge, first and second substrates engaged with each other, and elastic elements disposed intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion also comprises a first texture zone comprising a first portion of the substrates and the elastic strands and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the waist opening edge and a second texture zone comprising a second portion of the substrates and the elastic elements and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the leg opening edge. The first texture zone extends at least partially along a first lateral extent of the belt portion and the second texture zone extends at least partially along a second lateral extent of the belt portion.

Absorbent articles having textured zones

An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a crotch region, wherein the first waist region and second waist region are joined with each other such that a pair of side seams are formed and the absorbent article has two leg openings and a waist opening. At least one of the first waist region or the second waist region include a first graphic zone, a second graphic zone, and a third graphic zone, wherein the first graphic zone, the second graphic zone, and the third graphic zone are disposed at a side seam of the absorbent article.

Absorbent article having multiple graphic zones

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Columbus, OH, United States of America

Diana W Juratovac