US 11,833,020 B2
Array of wearable articles
Koichi Morimoto, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/876,967.
Application 17/876,967 is a continuation of application No. 15/632,436, filed on Jun. 26, 2017, granted, now 11,432,975.
Application 15/632,436 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2014/094888, filed on Dec. 25, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0362075 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 13/64 (2006.01); A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/496 (2006.01); A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/551 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/64 (2013.01) [A61F 13/15593 (2013.01); A61F 13/496 (2013.01); A61F 13/49011 (2013.01); A61F 13/55105 (2013.01); A61F 13/49 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An array of wearable articles, each article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, comprising a main body and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt wherein at least the front belt or the back belt is an elastic member,
the center of the front belt is joined to a front waist panel of the main body, the center of the back belt is joined to a back waist panel of the main body, the front and back belt each having a left side panel and a right side panel where the main body does not overlap, and the transverse edges of the front belt and the back belt are joined by a seam to form a waist opening and two leg openings,
the elastic member formed by at least one elastic body running in the transverse direction sandwiched between an inner sheet and an outer sheet; each front belt and back belt having transversely continuous proximal and distal edges, the proximal edge being located closer than the distal edge relative to the longitudinal center of the article,
the elastic member comprising an elastic member width defined by a width of the inner and outer sheets in the transverse direction in the uncontracted condition, and the elastic member further comprising a non-elastic region; wherein
a first elastic member of a first article comprises a first non-elastic region;
a second elastic member of a second article comprises a second non-elastic region; wherein
the elastic member width of the first and second elastic members are the same; and
the first non-elastic region is larger than the second non-elastic region;
wherein the first and second are size variations wherein a first article size is larger than a second article size.