Patent ID: 7172585

Claim:
Absorbent product of pants-like shape, comprising: an absorbent element having a length and a width for at least covering the genitals of a wearer during use of the absorbent pants product, and a liquidtight outer layer for enclosing the absorbent element on at least a side thereof which faces away from the wearer during use of the absorbent pants product, an elastic waist portion, said elastic waist portion including an elastic first piece which is essentially rectangular in an extended state for partly surrounding a trunk of the wearer and thereby forming a rear portion and side portions of the absorbent pants product, and a second piece forming a front portion and a crotch portion of the absorbent pants product, wherein said second piece is elongate with two opposite end edges and two opposite longitudinal edges, a width of the second piece being, at least in the crotch portion, smaller than a length of the first piece, wherein the second piece is arranged with its longitudinal direction at right angles in relation to the longitudinal direction of the first piece and is connected by a first end portion to one longitudinal edge portion of the first piece, centrally thereon, wherein one end portion of the first piece is connected to a first side edge portion of the second piece, and another end portion of the first piece is connected in a corresponding manner to a second side edge portion of the second piece, wherein the absorbent element is in its entirety arranged on the second piece, wherein the length of the second piece is greater than a width of the first piece, and a projecting portion of the second piece formed by the length difference is in its entirety located below that side edge of the first piece which is the lower one during use of the product, and thereby forms the crotch portion, and wherein the absorbent element is arranged so as to extend with its lower end portion only a little way over the crotch portion and over less than half the extent of said projecting portion.