Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Gay Lynn Wolf

Brooke Ann Robaidek

Marcille Faye Ruman

Angela Ann Johnston

Stacy Elaine Evenson

Connie May McMorrow

Kevin Leon LaBerge

Stephen Carl Baumgartner

Patsy Ann Benedict

Leila Joy Roberson

Katherine Carol Shaw

Nicole Minotti

Paula Katherine De Bruin

Kevin Michael Jauquet

A method for providing a containment system includes providing a permanently closed containment pant and providing a discrete absorbent insert. The containment pant includes an elastically extensible chassis and a sling positioned within the chassis that includes a fluid-impervious pouch. The pouch has a first end section maximum width of at least 145 mm, a central section maximum width of less than 115 mm, and a second end section maximum width of at least 145 mm. The containment pant is substantially devoid of an integrated absorbent core. The absorbent insert includes an absorbent core with a first end section maximum width of at least 120 mm, a central section maximum width of less than 100 mm, and a second end section maximum width of at least 120 mm. The absorbent insert is devoid of a fluid-impervious layer.

Containment system

A method of making a folded absorbent article includes the steps of: providing an absorbent structure; providing a liquid-impermeable back sheet having a body-facing surface and a substrate-facing surface; joining the absorbent structure in facing relation to the body-facing surface of the back sheet to define an absorbent article; applying adhesive to the substrate-facing surface of the back sheet to define a first adhesive zone and a second adhesive zone; treating portions of the substrate-facing surface of the back sheet to define a first treated zone and a second treated zone; folding the absorbent article to align the first adhesive zone in facing relation with the first treated zone; and folding the absorbent article to align the second adhesive zone in facing relation with the second treated zone.

Folded absorbent article

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Gay Lynn Wolf