Patent ID: 6786893
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An elastic absorbent article for use as a sanitary towel, a panty liner or an incontinence pad, intended to be placed in a crotch region of an undergarment, which article has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, comprising:liquid-permeable inner layer; a liquid-impermeable outer layer; and an absorbent body enclosed between the said inner and outer layers; fastening means for holding the article in the undergarment; wherein the inner layer and the outer layer are elastic and the intermediate absorbent body is non-elastic, the inner layer and the outer layer extending beyond the absorbent body in the lateral and longitudinal directions and are mutually joined there along edge sections of the inner layer and the outer layer, the absorbent body being connected to the inside of the liquid-impermeable layer by means of a central bonding agent coating of essentially the same extent as a bonding agent coating on the outside of the outer layer, the central bonding agent coating constituting the sole anchorage of the absorbent body in the outer layer, said bonding agent coating on the outside of the outer layer being fastened to the inside of the crotch section of an undergarment in a region of the undergarment which is not affected by movements of the user, the central bonding agent coating during use is intended to be located right opposite genitalia of a user and the location of the central bonding agent coating being visibly marked with a marking on the liquid-permeable inner layer.