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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce W Lavash, West Chester, OH (US);
Thomas Henrich, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Carl L Bergman, Loveland, OH (US);
Raymond J Dirk, Cleves, OH (US);
Thomas W Osborn, III, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffrey V Bamber, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Kaoru Niihara, Ashiya, JP;
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156227 ; 156196 ; 6043851 ;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for making an absorbent article, such as a sanitary napkin, having flaps and zones of differential extensibility for relieving the stresses that develop in the flaps when the flaps are folded down along the edges of crotch of the wearer's undergarments.