Abstract: An absorbent article (10) such as a sanitary napkin includes an elongate absorbent core (12) delimited by an upper surface (14) and a lower surface (16). A pair of opposed longitudinal edge portions (18, 20) terminates in longitudinal edges (22, 24) and a pair of opposed transverse edges (26, 28). The core has a first end portion (30), a second end portion (32) and a central portion (34) located between the end portions. A liquid permeable topsheet (36) extends over the upper surface (14), and a liquid barrier backsheet (42) covers the lower surface (16) of the absorbent core (12). Leakage barriers (68, 70), each barrier covering a longitudinal edge portion (18, 20) in a respective longitudinal edge portion (18, 20), forms liquid-retaining pockets along each longitudinal edge portion.

Abstract: An absorbent article includes an elongate absorbent core having an upper surface and a lower surface, a pair of opposed longitudinal edge portions terminating in longitudinal edges and a pair of opposed transverse edges, the core having a first end portion, a second end portion and a central portion located between the end portions; a liquid permeable topsheet extending over the upper surface; a liquid barrier backsheet covering the lower surface of the absorbent core; barrier strips, each of the barrier strips covering a respective longitudinal edge portion and forming a liquid-retaining pocket along a respective longitudinal edge portion; and a longitudinal elastic member arranged along each of the barrier strips that are placed along each longitudinal edge portion of the absorbent core, the elastic members extending in at least the central portion of the absorbent core; the elastic members each include a plurality of spacers arranged at a distance from each other along a length of the elastic members to cr

Abstract: The invention relates to an absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin, an incontinence guard, or a panty-liner, which article has a generally elongated shape with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and exhibits two side edges (9, 10), two end portions (6, 7), and a crotch portion (8) located between the end portions (6, 7), which article further exhibits a liquid-pervious cover layer (2), intended to be facing the user during use, and a liquid-impervious cover layer (3), intended to be facing away from the user during use. The article comprises at least within the crotch portion (8) a stiffening element (15) of a material with a very high intrinsic stiffness, whereby the article in the crotch portion (8) has an extension in the transverse direction which during use of the article is between 40 mm and 15 mm and preferably is between 20 mm and 35 mm.

Abstract: In the continuous manufacture of absorbent articles (17) in the form of sanitary napkins, panty liners or incontinence protectors for women, the invention provides a method of providing said articles with protective layers (25, 26, 27). According to the invention, a web (5) of protective layer material whose width corresponds at least to the greatest width of the article (17) in the machine direction (M) is provided with a sequence of pairs of cuts (8, 9) which are so spaced apart that when the web (5) of protective layer material is placed on a web (1, 3, 4) of article blanks the two cuts (8, 9) in each pair of cuts in the sequence of pairs of cuts will lie linearly between the points of connection of the flap (23, 24) with the longitudinal edges of each article.

Abstract: Absorbent article such as a diaper and an incontinence guard comprising a liquid permeable topsheet (2), a liquid impermeable backsheet (3) and an absorbent body (4) enclosed therebetween, said article having a front portion (5), a rear portion (6) and a crotch portion (7), therebetween, whereby the front and rear portion exhibits side flaps (8, 9), which are intended to attach the article to a pantlike shape around the waist of the user. The article has at least one pre-stressed elastic means (11a) and at least attached to the back sheet, that said first elastic means (11a) is brought in an essentially V-shaped pattern having the peak of the pattern located to a first point (13) being essentially located on a imagined longitudinal centre line (12) in said crotch portion (7) and that the V-shaped elastic means (11a) diverge in the direction from said longitudinal centre line (12) toward the front portion (5).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an absorbent article (1) in the form of a sanitary napkin, a panty liner or an incontinence protector for women comprising an absorbent body (2) which is sandwiched between a liquid-permeable outer sheet (3) and a liquid-impermeable outer sheet (4), said article having a front part (5), which is intended to face forwards when the article is worn, and a rear part, wherein the absorbent body has a length of 140-260 mm and tapers rearwardly from a section of greatest width situated in the front part of the article to the end of the rear part of said article. According to the invention, the absorbent body (2) has a widest width of 60-80 mm in its front part, and a smallest width of 5-20 mm in its rear end, and includes a layer (13) of dry-formed cellulose fibres having a density of at least 250 g/dm3 and extending over essentially the whole surface of the absorbent body, out to the front and side edges of said body.

Abstract: The invention relates to an absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin, an incontinence guard or a panty-liner, which article has a generally elongated shape with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and exhibits two long sides, two short sides, two end portions and a central portion, located between the end portions, and exhibiting a transversely extending cross-sectional line from which the width of the article increases in a direction towards a short side of the article, whereby the end portion located at the short side exhibits a maximum width which is larger than the width of the central portion, whereby the article changes inclination at the cross-sectional line, whereby the inclination is defined by an angle between the long side of the article and a longitudinal line parallel to the longitudinal direction of the article, which article exhibits a width of the central portion which has an upper limit of 60 mm, and an angle of 30-90°, and the article has a stiffness, at least in the f

Abstract: A sanitary napkin includes an absorbent body enclosed between an outer, liquid-impermeable casing sheet and an inner liquid-permeable casing sheet that lies proximal to the wearer's body when the napkin is in use; two side-bodies disposed laterally outside the side-edges of the absorbent body on both sides thereof, at least in the central part of the napkin, the side-bodies being separate from the absorbent body and joined to at least the outer casing sheet; and a pre-stretched elastic extending transversely between the two side-bodies which is disposed exterior to the outer casing sheet and distal to the wearer's body when the napkin is in use. The pre-stretched elastic extends laterally outside the absorbent body on both sides thereof and is attached at portions thereof to at least one of the outer casing sheet and the side-bodies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an absorbent article (1) in the form of a sanitary napkin, a panty liner or an incontinence protector for women.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an absorbent article(1; 1′) in the form of a sanitary napkin, a panty liner or an incontinence protector for women, comprising an absorbent body (2; 2′) that is enclosed between a liquid-permeable outer sheet (3; 3′) and a liquid-impermeable outer sheet (4; 4′), wherein said article has a front part (5) which is intended to face forwards when the article is worn, and a rear part, and wherein the absorbent body tapers rearwardly to the end of the rear diaper part from a section of greatest width situated in said front part.

Abstract: An absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin, a panty liner or an incontinence pad, which is intended to be substantially accommodated within a user's panties and comprising an upper absorbent part (2) and a lower absorbent part (3), whereby the upper absorbent part (2) forms a raised portion (26) projecting from the lower absorbent part (3) and has a lesser extension in the transverse direction of the article than the lower absorbent part (3). A porous liquid acquisition layer (28) is arranged between the two absorbent parts (2,3) and has a density which is less than the density in both the upper absorbent part (2) and the lower absorbent part (3).