US 11,752,044 B2
Absorbent article with leg cuffs
Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Schwalbach am Taunus (DE); Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, South Lebanon, OH (US); Cornelia Beate Martynus, Nidderau-Ostheim (DE); Andrew James Sauer, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Aaron Duane Seitz, Batavia Township, OH (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/9,836.
Application 17/009,836 is a continuation of application No. 15/074,066, filed on Mar. 18, 2016, granted, now 10,792,198.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/134,623, filed on Mar. 18, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0397624 A1, Dec. 24, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/494 (2006.01); A61F 13/537 (2006.01); A61F 13/532 (2006.01); A61F 13/495 (2006.01); A61F 13/551 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/49007 (2013.01) [A61F 13/49001 (2013.01); A61F 13/495 (2013.01); A61F 13/4942 (2013.01); A61F 13/532 (2013.01); A61F 13/5376 (2013.01); A61F 13/55105 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49092 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disposable absorbent article for wearing about the lower torso of a wearer, the disposable absorbent article comprising: a first waist region, a second waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions; a first waist edge and a second waist edge; and a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge; wherein the disposable absorbent article comprises a chassis comprising:
1.) A topsheet;
2.) A backsheet; and
3.) an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet;
wherein the disposable absorbent article further comprises a leg gasketing system;
wherein the leg gasketing system comprises a web of material forming an inner cuff and an outer cuff;
wherein the inner cuff comprises an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff comprises an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge, such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge;
wherein at least a portion of the web of material between the outer cuff folded edge and the outer cuff material edge is attached to the chassis in the first waist region, the second waist region and the crotch region; and the web of material between the inner cuff folded edge and the inner cuff material edge is unattached to the web of material between the outer cuff folded edge and the outer cuff material edge in at least a portion of the second waist region, forming a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the leg gasketing system pocket.