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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1998
Kambiz Damaghi, Kings Point, NY (US);
Mordechai Turi, Mill Hall, PA (US);
Michael Kauschke, Yonkers, NY (US);
First Quality Enterprises, Inc., McElhattan, PA (US);
Abstract
An absorbent article is provided which comprises an absorbent body having a front waist portion, a back waist portion, a crotch portion, a pair of spaced apart leg openings, and a fastening region intermediate the crotch portion and the front waist portion. An elasticized band member is attached to the back waist portion and has a left hand band portion and a right hand band portion, both extending angularly from the area of the back waist portion toward the fastening region. The ends of each of the band portions are adapted to be engaged to one another and to the fastening region, and they may be tensioned to securely fasten the absorbent article to the body of the wearer.