Patent ID: 7393346
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A personal care incontinence product for a wearer, the personal care product having a body side and an outside, comprising: a unitary unseamed liquid-impermeable contoured shell comprising an absorbent foam applied over an entire circumference of the body side with a latex liquid barrier layer; the liquid-impermeable shell having an untensioned humanoid or modified humanoid molding form in substantial conformance with a human body shape to surround at least a portion of the wearer and form a seal against the wearer wherein the seal is constructed and arranged to maintain a pressure of gas contained within the garment above atmospheric pressure, over a period of at least about 5 seconds at pressure decay conditions; the liquid-impermeable shell having an elastic torso margin and elastic appendage margins at openings thereof which are devoid of gathering and shirring.