Absorbent article with waist gasketing element and leg cuffs

US10524962B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Jeromy Thomas Raycheck · South Lebanon, US
• Abhishek Prakash Surushe · Schwalbach am Taunus, DE
• Zachary Aaron Freije · Milford, US
• Cornelia Beate Martynus · Nidderau, DE
• Donald Carroll Roe · Sharonville, US
• Andrew James Sauer · Cincinnati, US
• Christopher Erin Kiger · Pinecrest Estates, US
• Sara Lyn Giovanni · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 2016
• Grant date: Jan 7, 2020
• Expiry date: May 18, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2013/49092
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.