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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 14, 2013
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ronald Joseph Zink, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Sarah Marie Wade, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Tina Marie Glahn, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Rachael Eden Walther, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Darrell Ian Brown, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gary Dean LaVon, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nicholas Paul Goyette, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Kaoru Ishihara, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Amanda Margaret Bicking, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Diana Woehnl Juratovac, Columbus, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An absorbent article comprises a chassis having a belt portion extending therefrom. The belt portion comprises a side edge, a waist opening edge, a leg opening edge, first and second substrates engaged with each other, and elastic elements disposed intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion also comprises a first texture zone comprising a first portion of the substrates and the elastic strands and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the waist opening edge and a second texture zone comprising a second portion of the substrates and the elastic elements and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the leg opening edge. The first texture zone extends at least partially along a first lateral extent of the belt portion and the second texture zone extends at least partially along a second lateral extent of the belt portion.