Patent ID: 7578811
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An absorbent article, comprising an absorption body enclosed between an inner liquid-permeable surface layer and an outer liquidtight surface layer and also a front portion, a rear portion and a crotch portion which lies between the front and rear portions and includes and is delimited by the leg openings of the article, the front and rear portions each have a first edge defining a waist edge of the absorbent article and two side edges that each extend between the waist edge and a leg opening, the absorbent article further comprising fasteners for openably and reclosably fastening mutually opposite side parts of the front portion and the rear portion to one another, which fasteners comprise interacting pairs of fastening elements, which extend along the side edges of the front and rear portions, wherein one of the elements of each of the pairs of fastening elements is a tapering element, wherein the tapering element has a tapering edge that is not adjacent to the particular side edge of the front or rear portion that the tapering element is closest to, wherein the tapering edge tapers continuously from a first edge of the tapering element closest to the first edge of the front portion or rear portion towards a second edge of the tapering element closest to the leg opening, such that the tapering element is widest in the transverse direction at the first edge thereof that is closest to the waist edge and is narrowest in the transverse direction towards the leg opening, wherein the one fastening element of each pair with tapering is a separate fastening material applied to the absorbent article, wherein the fastening elements are components which are adapted to actively engage in attachment to another fastening element.