Adult incontinent absorbent article

• US 4,731,070 A
• Filed: 07/08/1986
• Issued: 03/15/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: McNeil-PPC Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Personal Products Co. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Koci, Shirley A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US06/883,204
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 604/385.1, 604/389, 604/390, 604/391, 604/386, 604/387
• US Class Current: 604/385.201
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/64 Straps, belts, ties or endless bands A61F13/5605, A61F13/5622, A61F13/66 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/4401 with absorbent pads diapers A61F13/49

Abstract

An absorbent article particularly suitable for use by male and female adult incontinents. The absorbent article includes a urine receptacle pocket offset to one end of the product and formed by folding the product and adhering together portions of a moisture impervious sheet that are folded over side marginal edges of an absorbent batt.

Claims

1. An absorbent article comprising:

an absorbent batt having opposite major faces;

a moisture impervious sheet covering one major face of said batt, said moisture impervious sheet being wider than said batt and including flap portions folded over opposite side marginal edges of said batt and providing inwardly extending, spaced, moisture impervious sheet portions disposed against the other major face of said absorbent batt;

a moisture pervious liner covering the other major face of said absorbent batt and at least the inwardly extending portions of said moisture impervious sheet;

said absorbent article being folded so as to dispose inner edge sections of said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions in facing relationship with respect to one another;

said inner edge sections of said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions being covered by overlying portions of said moisture pervious liner, and means acting through said overlying portions of said moisture pervious liner for securing said inner edge sections of said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions to one another, said securing means being offset toward one end of said absorbent article to thereby define a urine receptable pocket at the opposite end of said absorbent article.

2. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 1 in which said batt and said moisture impervious sheet are rectangularly shaped, and wherein said batt is disposed centrally with respect to said moisture impervious sheet, whereby the inwardly extending portions of said moisture impervious sheet are rectangularly shaped and equal in size.

3. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 2 wherein the length dimensions of said moisture impervious sheet and said batt are the same.

4. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 3 in which at least the crotch portion of said absorbent article is folded inwardly about spaced, parallel first fold lines and outwardly about spaced, parallel second fold lines inwardly of said first fold lines;

and wherein said inwardly extending portions of said moisture impervious sheet extend inwardly of said second fold lines.

5. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 4 wherein said securing means is provided by a bead of adhesive.

6. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 5 in which said moisture pervious liner is longer than said moisture impervious sheet to define end portions of said liner outwardly of the ends of said moisture impervious sheet.

7. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 6 in which said moisture pervious liner is more than twice the width of said batt, and wherein said liner is wrapped around said batt to define an overlapping seam extending longitudinally of said absorbent article.

8. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 7 wherein said overlapping seam is provided in the side of said article opposite from said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions.

9. An absorbent article comprising:

an absorbent batt having opposite major faces;

a moisture impervious sheet covering one major face of said batt, said moisture impervious sheet being wider than said batt and including flap portions folded over opposite side marginal edges of said batt and providing inwardly extending, spaced, moisture impervious sheet portions disposed against the other major face of said absorbent batt;

a moisture pervious liner covering the other major face of said absorbent batt and at least the inwardly extending portions of said moisture impervious sheet;

at least the crotch portion of said absorbent article being folded inwardly about spaced, parallel first fold lines and outwardly about spaced, parallel second fold lines inwardly of said first fold lines, said inwardly extending portions of said moisture impervious sheet extending inwardly of said second fold lines so as to dispose inner edge sections of said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions in facing relationship with respect to one another;

said inner edge sections of said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions being covered by overlying portions of said moisture pervious liner, and means acting through said overlying portions of said moisture pervious liner for securing said inner edge sections of said inwardly extending moisture impervious sheet portions to one another, said securing means being offset toward one end of said absorbent article to thereby define a urine receptable pocket at the opposite end of said absorbent article.

10. An absorbent article as set forth in claim 9 wherein said moisture pervious liner completely envelops said absorbent batt and said moisture impervious sheet.