The Procter Gamble Company

The Procter & Gamble Plaza

Keith Richard Willhaus

Jeromy Thomas Raycheck

Jason Edward Naylor

Nicholas Alexander Taylor

Uwe Schneider

Urmish Popatlal Dalal

Kumardipti Chatterjee

Jeffry Rosiak

Michael Brian Quade

Sally Lin Kilbacak

The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles including elastic laminates, and more particularly, to methods and apparatuses for making absorbent articles having elastic laminates in front and/or back waist regions with frangible pathways.

Absorbent articles and methods and apparatuses for making absorbent articles with frangible pathways

The present disclosure relates to diaper pants having a first belt and a second belt with one or more frangible pathways. A frangible pathway may extend between inner edge and outer edges of a belt. A grip region comprising an accessibility opening may be positioned between the inner and outer edges of the belt. The frangible pathway may comprise a first tear zone and a second tear zone extending from the accessibility opening to a distal terminus and to a proximal terminus. Such frangible pathway configurations provide a feature that allows a belt of a diaper pant to be relatively easily torn along the frangible pathway. Once torn along the frangible pathway, the diaper pant may be removed from a wearer and rolled up for disposal. A fastener component may be connected with another portion of the diaper pant to help maintain the diaper pant in a disposal configuration.

Absorbent articles with frangible pathways and disposal features

Diaper

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.

Method and apparatus for bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier

Diaper having colored back ears

Diaper having colored back ears and colored fasteners

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Keith Richard Willhaus