Disposable underpants, such as infant's training pants and the like

• US 4,641,381 A
• Filed: 01/10/1985
• Issued: 02/10/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Incorporated (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
• Inventors: Van Gompel, Paul T., Damico, Joyce A., Heran, William M., Fleischer, Glen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Olds, J. L.
• Application Number:
  US06/690,351
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 2/400, 2/401, 2/402, 2/403, 2/221, 604/385.2, 604/392, 604/378, 604/391, 604/358, 604/396
• US Class Current: 2/400
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/49009 with elastic means
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/49011 the elastic means is located at the waist region
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/49017 the elastic means being located at the crotch region
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/4518 formed from two separated panels

Abstract

A disposable underpant (10, 10'"'"') comprising a front panel (11) and rear panel (12) joined together along side seams (13) to provide a three-dimensional garment having a pair of elasticized leg openings (14) and an elasticized waist opening (15), and including a bodyside liner (16), outer cover (17) and absorbent batt (18) therebetween, in which the outer cover (17) has an inner layer (30) of plastic material and an outer layer (31) of nonwoven fibrous material.

Claims

1. In a three-dimensional disposable underpant including a liquid pervious inner bodyside liner having opposed marginal side edges, a liquid impervious outer cover having opposed marginal side edges and being generally superimposed over said liquid pervious inner bodyside liner, an absorbent batt disposed between said liquid pervious inner bodyside liner and said liquid impervious outer cover, said liquid pervious inner bodyside liner and said liquid impervious outer cover having respective portions of their marginal side edges joined together to form a pair of side seams, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings, and elastic means extending about said openings for providing elasticity thereto, the improvement comprising:

said liquid impervious outer cover comprising an inner layer of liquid impervious plastic material adjacent said absorbent batt and an outer layer of nonwoven fibrous material substantially superimposed over and contiguous with said inner layer.

2. The underpant of claim 1 wherein said side seams join respective inturned contacting side edge portions of said bodyside liner and said outer cover, each said side seam comprising adjacent thereto a bond portion in the range of about 1/16 inch to about 1/8 inch wide joining said inturned side edge portions, and a flap portion in the range of about 1/8 inch to about 3/8 inch wide between said bond portion and remote free ends of said inturned said side edge portions, whereby said inturned side edge portions are free of one another and provide a soft cushion between said bond portion and a body portion of a wearer.

3. The underpant of claim 1 wherein said side seams join overlapping side edge portions of said bodyside liner and said outer cover.

4. The underpant of claim 1 wherein said side seams are manually tearable apart.

5. A three-dimensional disposable underpant for wearing about a portion of the body, comprising:

a disposable liquid pervious inner bodyside liner having opposed marginal side edges,

a disposable liquid impervious outer cover having opposed marginal side edges and being generally superimposed over said liquid pervious inner bodyside liner,

an absorbent batt disposed between said liquid pervious inner bodyside liner and said liquid impervious outer cover,

said liquid pervious inner bodyside liner and said liquid impervious outer cover having respective portions of their marginal side edges joined together to form a pair of side seams, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings, and

elastic means extending about said openings for providing elasticity thereto,

said liquid impervious outer cover including an inner layer of liquid impervious plastic material adjacent said absorbent batt and an outer layer of nonwoven fibrous material substantially superimposed over and contiguous with said inner layer.

6. The underpant of claim 5 wherein said side seams join respective inturned contacting side edge portions of said bodyside liner and said outer cover, each said side seam comprising adjacent thereto a bond portion in the range of about 1/16 inch to about 1/8 inch wide joining said inturned side edge portions, and a flap portion in the range of about 1/8 inch to about 3/8 inch wide between said bond portion and remote free ends of said inturned side edge portions, whereby said inturned side edge portions are free of one another and provide a soft cushion between said bond portion and a body portion of the wearer.

7. The underpant of claim 5 wherein said side seams join overlapping side edge portions of said bodyside liner and said outer cover.

8. The underpant of claim 5 wherein said side seams are manually tearable apart.