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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2002
Gary Dean Lavon, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Theodora Beck, Colerain Township, OH (US);
Gerald Alfred Young, Miller Township, Dearborn County, IN (US);
Stephen Lebeuf Hardie, Symmes Township, OH (US);
Thomas Henrich, Montgomery, OH (US);
Edward John Milbrada, West Chester, OH (US);
Gary Dean LaVon, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Theodora Beck, Colerain Township, OH (US);
Gerald Alfred Young, Miller Township, Dearborn County, IN (US);
Stephen Lebeuf Hardie, Symmes Township, OH (US);
Thomas Henrich, Montgomery, OH (US);
Edward John Milbrada, West Chester, OH (US);
The Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A disposable absorbent article adapted to be worn about a lower torso of a human body and having a chassis, a non-removable absorbent core component disposed in a crotch region of the chassis, and a replaceable absorbent core component disposed in capillary liquid communication with the non-removable absorbent core component and having longitudinally disposed regions of liquid permeability and liquid impermeability on the same surface. The replaceable absorbent core component may be removed and a like component may be substituted without the removal of the absorbent article from the wearer. The replaceable absorbent core component may be disposed inside an openable chassis pocket, with access for its removal and replacement provided by an aperture in a backsheet, an openable end of an external pocket, or an openable end of an internal pocket formed at an area of a waist end edge where the backsheet and a topsheet may be separated.