US 11,679,039 B2
Absorbent article having waist gasketing element
Kumardipti Chatterjee, Indian Hill, OH (US); and Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, South Lebanon, OH (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/166,068.
Application 17/166,068 is a division of application No. 15/600,028, filed on May 19, 2017, granted, now 10,980,679.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/339,109, filed on May 20, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0154057 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/494 (2006.01); A61F 13/53 (2006.01); A61F 13/514 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/4902 (2013.01) [A61F 13/15 (2013.01); A61F 13/49 (2013.01); A61F 13/49019 (2013.01); A61F 13/49473 (2013.01); A61F 13/53 (2013.01); A61F 2013/51409 (2013.01); A61F 2013/51452 (2013.01); A61F 2013/530598 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of forming front and back waist gasketing elements on an absorbent article comprising the steps of:
providing a web of chassis material;
providing a plurality of waist gasketing elements, each waist gasketing element having a first transverse edge and a second transverse edge; and wherein each waist gasketing element further comprises a top layer and a bottom layer;
bonding the top and bottom layers of the waist gasketing elements in closure bond regions;
joining the waist gasketing elements to the web of chassis material to form a strip of final articles;
dividing the strip of final articles between the first and second transverse edges of the waist gasketing elements such that a cut separates two final articles, the two final articles comprising a leading article and a trailing article, wherein each cut:
is disposed at least partially within a closure bond region;
forms a back waist edge of the leading article and a front waist edge of the trailing article; and
forms an outboard lateral edge of a back waist gasketing element on the leading article and an outboard lateral edge of a front waist gasketing element on the trailing article.