Method of making absorbent article having flaps and zones of differential extensibility

US5354400A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Bruce William Lavash · Sharonville, US
• Thomas Henrich · Cincinnati, US
• Carl L. Bergman · Loveland, US
• Raymond John Dirk · Cleves, US
• Thomas Ward Osborn, III · Cincinnati, US
• Jeffrey Vincent Bamber · Cincinnati, US
• Kaoru Niihara · Ashiya, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 5, 1993
• Grant date: Oct 11, 1994
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/1051
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method is disclosed for making an absorbent article, such as a sanitary napkin, having flaps and zones of differential extensibility for relieving the stresses that develop in the flaps when the flaps are folded down along the edges of crotch of the wearer's undergarments.