US 7,320,684 B2 | ||
Disposable absorbent article having deployable belt strips | ||
Gary Dean LaVon, Liberty Township, Ohio (US); Kenneth Michael Hamall, West Chester, Ohio (US); Theodora Beck, Colerain Township, Ohio (US); Michael Patrick Hayden, Mason, Ohio (US); and Susan Joy Ludwig, West Chester, Ohio (US) | ||
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio (US) | ||
Filed on Sep. 21, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/232,193. | ||
Prior Publication US 2007/0066954 A1, Mar. 22, 2007 | ||
Int. Cl. A61F 13/15 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 604—392 [604/396] | 20 Claims |
1. A disposable diaper having longitudinally opposing front and back waist regions having waist edges, laterally opposing
side edges connecting the waist edges, a crotch region between the waist regions, and comprising:
an absorbent assembly having an interior surface;
two laterally opposing longitudinally extending barrier cuff strips attached to the interior surface, each barrier cuff strip
having a longitudinally extending cuff elastic member attached adjacent to its proximal edge; and
at least one belt strip having a fixed end portion, an opposing free end portion, a first edge, and a second edge, the first
edge and the second edge connecting the end portions, the belt strip being attached in the fixed end portion to one of the
waist regions and additionally being attached along at least a portion of one of the first edge and the second edge,
the belt strip being deployed by being detached except at its fixed end portion and folded laterally outward at a diagonal
fold line having opposing end points such that the first edge extends laterally outward from one end point and the second
edge extends laterally outward from the opposing end point.
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