Patent ID: 8715263
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An incontinence article in the form of pants for receiving body excretions, the article comprising: a front belly portion; a rear back portion; side seam areas generated by a manufacturer and connecting together said belly portion and said back portion on both sides of the article to form a belly and back band which is continuous in a transverse or peripheral hip direction, thereby defining a hip opening which is closed in said peripheral hip direction; a crotch portion extending in a longitudinal direction between said belly portion, at a transverse edge thereof facing a crotch, and said back portion, at a transverse edge thereof facing the crotch, wherein said crotch portion is permanently attached to said belly portion and said back portion, said crotch portion, said belly portion and said back portion thereby defining leg openings of the incontinence article; first elastification elements disposed in said belly portion and said back portion, said first elastification elements extending at a separation from and parallel to each other in said peripheral hip direction to thereby extensively elasticise said belly portion and said back portion; second elastification elements disposed in an area of said belly portion and said back portion on a crotch side facing said leg openings; a liquid-impermeable backsheet material disposed in said crotch portion, said backsheet material having an inner side and a surface density of 10 to 40 g/m a cover sheet material on a basis of a non-woven material, said cover sheet material having an inner side and a surface density of 5 to 20 g/m an absorbent body disposed in said crotch portion between said backsheet material and said cover sheet material, said absorbent body having a width, longitudinal edges, bordering longitudinal edge areas and transverse edges; a projection, said projection formed by said cover sheet material or by said cover sheet material and said backsheet material, said projection extending past respective said longitudinal edges of said absorbent body in a transverse direction, wherein said crotch portion has a width of at least 200 mm in said transverse direction and said projection has a total size at both sides of said longitudinal edges of said absorbent body of at least 25% with respect to a maximum width of said crotch portion, wherein said crotch portion overlaps at least 12% of a surface of said belly portion in a front overlapping area, and at least 20% of a surface of said back portion in a rear overlapping area; and a reinforcing means disposed on said inner side of said cover sheet material in said projection at said front and/or said rear overlapping area in areas bridging a respective said longitudinal edge of said absorbent body to cover said longitudinal edge area, said reinforcing means being disposed in at least each bordering subregion of said projection, wherein, as viewed in said transverse direction, said reinforcing means in said subregion is smaller than said projection, said reinforcing means comprising or consisting essentially of a reinforcing coating having a surface density of 1 to 30 g/m