Patent ID: 7168139

Claim:
An absorbent garment comprising a breathable body engaging portion, the garment having an inner face and a breathable outer face where the outer face has a fibrous surface over at least a portion of the outer face and attached to a portion of the garment is a breathable hook patch engagable with the outer face fibrous surface comprising a breathable hook fastener having a porous continuous film backing having a upper surface and a lower surface with a multiplicity of individual spaced hook elements, each of which hook elements project from the upper surface of the porous continuous film backing where each hook element has a stem portion which stem portions are each individually and directly attached at one end to the porous continuous film backing such that the porous film extends between all the stem portions individually and directly attached to the porous film backing, providing a hook fastener which is breathable in the areas between all the stem portions individually and directly attached to the porous film backing, and wherein the hook fastener porous continuous film backing has a thickness of from 25 to 200 μm.