Patent ID: 6114597
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
Absorbent product intended during use to be placed in a crotch region of a user in order to collect and absorb discharged body fluids, which product has a principally elongated shape with a longitudinal centre-line and a transverse centre line and comprises an upper part comprising absorbent material and intended during use of the product to be facing towards the user, and a lower part comprising absorbent material and intended during use of the product to be facing away from the user, said lower part having means for fastening inside a pair of underpants, wherein the two parts are mutually connected by a connection which enables the transfer of fluid between the two parts at the connection and the two parts have each a front part intended during use of the product to be facing forwardly and a rear part intended during use to be facing rearwardly the upper part and the lower part being mutually joined only at an acquisition zone of the product, which is the region of the product which is intended to first be wetted by bodily fluid, whereby the upper part outside the acquisition zone is free from connections to the lower part, thereby permitting both the front part and the rear part of the upper part to separate from the lower part.