The Procter Gamble Company

Monica R Tournoux

Vanessa Marie Melendez

Sion Agami

Jennifer Laura Spriggs

Corinne A Rowley

Koichi Morimoto

Kaoru Ishihara

John Andrew Strasemeier

Xuechun Wang

Uwe Schneider

Rachael Eden Walther

Bret Darren Seitz

Joseph Allen Eckstein

Amanda Margaret Bicking

Barry Robert Feist

Ling Tong

Jessica Owen Stephens

Marie Brigid O'Reilly

Sara Jon Shipley

Elizabeth Jo Bruns

Jennifer Rodic

Ruizhi Pei

Shiqiao Li

Gary Dean LaVon

Tina Marie Glahn

Gary D LaVON

Gary Dean Lavon

Corinne Ashley Rowley

A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.

Pant-type wearable article

Disclosed is a wearable article comprising front and back elastic belt regions and a crotch region between the front and back elastic belt regions; the front and back elastic belt regions each comprising a laminate, an elastic bonding continuously bonding an elastic member in the direction of stretch, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the elastic member to at least one of the inner and outer sheets, the vertical bonding having a transverse dimension VGand spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG, wherein the outer sheet comprises a repeating pattern of apertures, the repeating pattern of apertures spaced apart from each other with a longitudinal pitch DF, and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch DF, wherein VGis greater than DF, and wherein the repeating pattern of apertures have a Longitudinal Orientation.

The present disclosure relates to stranded elastomeric laminates (including bi-laminates and tri-laminates) comprising beamed elastics and may have inventive Dtex-to-Nonwoven-Basis-Weight-Ratios, Dtex-to-Spacing-Ratios, and/or Void-Area-to-Strand-Area-Ratios. The stranded laminates of the present disclosure may be used for disposable absorbent article components (including pant belts) and may comprise inventive bonding arrangements that yield inventive textures and texture arrangements. When the inventive stranded elastomeric laminates are used for pant belts, the pants may have inventive Application-Forces, Sustained-Fit-Load-Forces, and Sustained-Fit-Unload-Forces. Further, when absorbent articles are packaged under compression at inventive In-Bag-Stack-Heights, the stranded elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure maintain their inventive properties and characteristics, including their inventive textures.

Beamed elastomeric laminate structure, fit, and texture

Absorbent article with a pattern

Absorbent article top sheet with a pattern

Growing community of inventors

Columbus, OH, United States of America

Monica R Tournoux