Patent ID: 8353891

Claim:
An absorbent incontinence article comprising: a main part having a front area, a rear area and a crotch area disposed between said front area and said rear area in a longitudinal direction of the article, said crotch area structured, disposed and dimensioned to seat between legs of a user, said main part also having an absorption body; mutually separate, rectangular side portions, each rectangular side portion permanently joined to a chassis component of said main part in a region of overlap between said rectangular side portion and said chassis component, thereby fastening said rectangular side portions to said rear area and/or to said front area on both sides thereof to extend in a transverse direction across lateral longitudinal edges of said main part for connecting said front area and said rear area to each other when the article is applied; and reinforcing means cooperating with said main part and said side portions at said region of overlap, wherein said reinforcing means are attached, throughout an entire area thereof, to said main part and said side portions, said reinforcing means being narrower, in said transverse direction, than a respective said side portion and disposed at least in an area bridging said longitudinal edge of said main part, thereby crossing, in said transverse direction, both a lateral longitudinal edge area of said main part as well as a part of said side portion, wherein said reinforcing means substantially extends as far as a transverse edge of said side portion facing said crotch area or extends beyond said transverse edge, said reinforcing means also extending in an outwardly transverse direction from said region of overlap and past said lateral longitudinal edges of said main part.