Disposable diaper
US4319572A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 24, 1980 |
| Grant date | Mar 16, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 24, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61F2013/5326
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The invention relates to a disposable diaper, comprising a layer of a liquid-permeable, preferably non-woven material, intended to be placed in contact with the body of the user, and of a second layer of a liquid-impermeable material, between which layers an absorbent body is arranged, these two layers extending laterally outside the edges of the absorbent body. The special features of the diaper according to the invention are that the two layers beginning at the crotch portion extend laterally outside those side edges with a continuously increasing distance from the same towards the rear end of the diaper, thereby providing flaps with a gradually increasing width on both sides of the absorbent body, that at least one pretensioned elastic thread or the like is arranged in an essentially V-shaped pattern with the point of the pattern placed in the middle of the front end of the diaper and, that the portions of the thread running from the point extend from the middle of the front end of the diaper to the end of the crotch portion and continue along the edges of the flaps to the rear end of the diaper so that the flaps, when the diaper is in use will be in tight contact with the botto…
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