Adhesive backed sanitary napkin

• US 4,337,772 A
• Filed: 03/06/1981
• Issued: 07/06/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
• Inventors: Roeder, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): ROSENBAUM, C FRED
• Application Number:
  US06/241,252
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• Field of Search: 128/284, 128/286, 128/287, 128/290 R
• US Class Current: 604/387
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/5611 using fastening strips, e.g. adhesive, on the undergarment-facing side

Abstract

A sanitary napkin is provided in which the pressure sensitive adhesive means utilized for attachment of the napkin are separated from each other by a pattern of nonpressure sensitive adhesive which may be similar to the pattern of the pressure sensitive adhesive positioned on the garment facing side of a sanitary napkin but is from two to ten times greater in thickness.

Claims

1. A sanitary napkin with a body facing surface and a garment facing surface comprising in combination an absorbent batt, a fluid impermeable baffle positioned between the batt and the garment of the wearer and adhesive attachment means on the garmentfacing side said attachment means including a plurality of discrete portions of pressure sensitive adhesive terminating before the ends of the garment facing surface at least partially separated by discrete portions of nonpressure sensitive adhesive having a thickness two to ten times that of the pressure sensitive adhesive.

2. The napkin according to claim 1 wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive pattern corresponds to the configuration of the longitudinal sides of the napkin.

3. The napkin according to claim 1 wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive portion is present in longitudinal strips separated by longitudinal strips of nonpressure sensitive adhesive.

4. The napkin according to claim 1 wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive pattern comprises three longitudinal strips.

5. The sanitary napkin of claims 1, 2, 3 or 4 wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive is spaced inward from the longitudinal edges of the pad and a portion of the nonpressure sensitive adhesive pattern is positioned between the longitudinal edges and the outermost portion of the pressure sensitive adhesive pattern.