PANT-SHAPED ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED FIT

• Main Authors: SOFIA HERMANSSON, CATARINA LINNER, KATARINA ERIKSSON, CECILE SANDIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.09.2009
• 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 PANT SHAPED GARMENT IN THE FORM OF A PANT DIAPER (1) OR AN UNDERPANT COMPRISING AN OUTER PANTY (2) HAVING A REAR PORTION (4) INTENDED TO BE ARRANGED OVER THE BUTTOCKS OF A USER DURING USE, A FRONT PORTION (3) INTENDED TO BE ARRANGED OVER THE BELLY OF A USER DURING USE, A CROTCH PORTION (5) INTENDED TO BE ARRANGED IN THE CROTCH OF THE USER DURING USE. FURTEHR, THE GARMENT HAS A WAIST OPENING (14) WITH A WAIST EDGE (13) AND TWO LEG OPENINGS (16) EACH BEING BORDERED BY A LEG EDGE (15) HAVING A FRONT PART LOCATED GENERALLY ON THE FRONT PROTION (3) AND A REAR PART LOCATED GENERALLY ON THE REAR PORTION (4) AND ON THE CROTCH PORTION (5). THE REAR PORTION (4) AND THE FRONT PORTION (3) ARE MUTUALLY CONNECTED IN TWO SIDE JOINS (12) WHICH RUN FROM THE WAIST OPENING (14) TO EACH LEG OPENING (16). AN ELONGATED ELASTIC ELEMENT (18) IS ARRANGED WITH PRE-STRETCHING ALONG THE REAR PART OF THE LEG EDGE (15) OF EACH LEG OPENING (16). THE FRONT PORTION (3) CONSISTS OF AN ELASTICALLY EXTENSIBLE MATERIAL AND THAT THE ELONGATED ELASTIC ELEMENT (18) CONSTRICTS THE REAR PART OF THE LEG EDGE (15) AND THEREBY STRETCHES THE ELASTIC MATERIAL ALONG THE FRONT PART OF THE LEG EDGE (15) WHEREBY THE SIDE JOINS (12) EXHIBIT A CURVATURE IN A DIRECTION TOWARDS THE REAR PORTION (4) AND THAT THE AMOUNT OF CURVATURE INCREASES IN A DIRECTION FROM THE WAIST OPENING (14) TOWARDS THE LEG OPENING (16).