PREFASTENED DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLES HAVING A STRETCH PANEL

• Main Authors: POZNIAK, JENNIFER, ELIZABETH, JANSSEN, TIM, JOSEPH, TRAVIS, GARY, LEE, ELSBERG, LAURA, LINDA, SHAFER, BRUCE, REED, MCNICHOLS, PATRICK, SEAN, ANGIELSKI, BRIAN, WALTER, STOPHER, JAMES, BENNINGTON, DE VALK, JUNE, MARIE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 06.11.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

A prefastened, refastenable, disposable absorbent article includes an absorbent chassis, at least one stretch panel, and a pair a primary fasteners. The absorbent chassis defines a pair of longitudinally opposed end edges and a pair of laterally opposed side edges. The stretch panel is located in one of the waist regions and defines a waist edge, a pair of laterally opposed outboard edges which are located laterally beyond the side edges of the absorbent chassis, and an inward edge which is located longitudinally inward from the waist edge. The pair of primary fasteners are located on the laterally opposed outboard edges of the stretch panel and are releasably prefastened to an opposite waist region of the absorbent chassis to releasably engage a front waist region to a rear waist region to provide the prefastened disposable absorbent article.