Patent ID: 8864733

Claim:
An absorbent incontinence article, the article comprising: a main part having a front region, a rear region and a crotch region disposed, as seen in a longitudinal direction, between said front region and said rear region for positioning between legs of a user, said main part also having an absorbent body; rear material portions attached to said rear region; front material portions attached to said front region, said rear and front material portions extending in a transverse direction beyond lateral longitudinal peripheries of said main part, wherein said rear and front material portions connect said front region and said rear region to one another in a use state of the article, said rear and front material portions having an inside, which, in the use state, faces a body of the user and an outside, which in the use state, faces away from the body; and closure elements disposed at said rear material portions on an outer peripheral region thereof, each of said closure elements having a closure element tab with a free finger lift, said closure element tab being inseparably joined with a first end thereof to said outer peripheral region of said rear material portion and extending, in an unfolded state, in the transverse direction beyond said outer peripheral region of said rear material portion, said closure element tab being folded back onto said inside of said rear material portion prior to use of the article, wherein said closure element tab has a region which is releasable adhered to said inside of said rear material portion using adhesive and/or a mechanical closure means such as hooks, said free finger lift being an end section of said closure element tab which is not joined to said inside of said rear material portion, thereby facilitating simplified gripping thereof by the user, wherein, prior to initial use of the article, said rear material portions are folded onto themselves in zigzag form and are subsequently folded in a transverse, inward direction onto a side of said rear region of said main part which faces the body, thereby creating a folded arrangement along folding lines running parallel to said longitudinal direction, said folding lines subdividing said rear material portions into sub-portions, wherein, in a folded arrangement of the article, a lowermost folded sub-portion of said material portions comprises said outer peripheral region, an inside of said outer peripheral region being oriented towards said side of said rear region of said main part which faces the body, wherein a respective rear material portion is folded such that an outer side edge of said lowermost folded sub-portion of said rear material portion projects in said transverse direction by an extent D relative to sub-portions folded above the same.