Disposable waste containment garment
First Claim
1. A disposable waste containment garment having a rear waistband region, a front waistband region, and a crotch region, said garment comprising:
- a liquid permeable topsheet;
a liquid impervious backsheet;
an absorbent core disposed intermediate said topsheet and said backsheet;
two inwardly facing, longitudinally extending, liquid impermeable side-edge-leakage guard gutters having proximal and distal edges, said gutters being disposed adjacent the longitudinal side edges of the garment;
means for longitudinally elasticizing said gutters adjacent said distal edges, the garment being sized and configured with respect to the user to enable said distal edges to contact torso areas of the user throughout the lengths of said distal edges and to substantially preclude said distal edges from encircling the thighs of the user;
means for securing the garment on the user so that laterally directed tension is applied to portions of said proximal edges of said gutters which extend between the ends of the garment and the upper thigh elevation of the user; and
means for substantially obviating inversion of said gutters during application and use of the garment.
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Abstract
A disposable waste containment garment which is particularly useful and leakage resistant for bedridden incontinent adults. The garment has side-edge-leakage-guard gutters having closed ends, and longitudinally elasticized distal edges. The gutters and the other garment elements are configured and disposed to substantially obviate inversion or unfolding of the gutters during application and use of the garment. The garment is sized and configured so that, when secured on a user, the elasticized distal edges of the gutters will normally extend along the groin regions of the user, and diverge upwardly across abdominal, hip and lower back areas of the user rather than encircling the thighs of the user. The absorbent core of the garment is preferably sufficiently resilient to cause it to stand away from some lower abdominal and hip regions of the user. This, in conjunction with the gutters being sufficiently flexible and elasticized, causes adjacent portions of the gutters to be biased open. These open portions of the gutters are, in fact, reservoirs which substantially obviate leakage by containing free liquid during urination events when fluid is received in the garment faster than it can be absorbed in the absorbent core of the garment, or whenever free liquid is squeezed out of a portion of the garment as when the weight of a bedridden user is shifted. The ends of the gutters in the waistband regions of the garment may be sealed liquid tight, or be secured closed with edge portions of the absorbent core and/or topsheet disposed therein, or a combination of such sealing and securing.
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19 Claims
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1. A disposable waste containment garment having a rear waistband region, a front waistband region, and a crotch region, said garment comprising:
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a liquid permeable topsheet; a liquid impervious backsheet; an absorbent core disposed intermediate said topsheet and said backsheet; two inwardly facing, longitudinally extending, liquid impermeable side-edge-leakage guard gutters having proximal and distal edges, said gutters being disposed adjacent the longitudinal side edges of the garment; means for longitudinally elasticizing said gutters adjacent said distal edges, the garment being sized and configured with respect to the user to enable said distal edges to contact torso areas of the user throughout the lengths of said distal edges and to substantially preclude said distal edges from encircling the thighs of the user; means for securing the garment on the user so that laterally directed tension is applied to portions of said proximal edges of said gutters which extend between the ends of the garment and the upper thigh elevation of the user; and means for substantially obviating inversion of said gutters during application and use of the garment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19)
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18. A disposable waste containment garment having a rear waistband region, a front waistband region, and a crotch region, said garment comprising:
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a body member having a generally rectangular plan form, a width less than 1/2 the girth of a user of the garment, and comprising a liquid permeable, rectangular-shaped topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet having a rectangular-shape, and an absorbent pad disposed intermediate said topsheet and said backsheet, said backsheet having a width sufficiently greater than the width of said topsheet to provide longitudinally extending side-gutter-forming edge portions outboard from the longitudinal edges of said topsheet, said backsheet being U-folded about the longitudinal side edges of said body member so that said edge portions overlie longitudinal side edge regions of said topsheet, said edge portions and said side edge regions being secured together in a face-to-face relation only in the waistband regions of the garment and in the attachment zone that is disposed adjacent each longitudinal edge of the garment intermediate said waistband regions, and means for elasticizing said edge portions adjacent their distal edges; four stub belts, a stub belt secured to and extending laterally outwardly from each corner of said body member; and means for securing said belts together in pairs to secure the garment on a user.
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Specification
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Current AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
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Original AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
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InventorsBuell, Kenneth B.
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Primary Examiner(s)YASKO JR, JOHN D
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Application NumberUS06/851,864Time in Patent Office572 DaysField of Search604/385.1, 604/385.2, 604/387, 604/389, 604/397US Class Current604/385.26CPC Class CodesA61F 13/49009 with elastic meansA61F 13/537 characterised by a layer fa...A61F 2013/49076 as "I"-shapedA61F 2013/53721 with capillary meansA61F 5/4401 with absorbent pads diapers...
