Disposable hygienic article with removable belt

Details Disposable hygienic article with removable belt Disposable hygienic article with removable belt

1985-09-25

1986-10-14

Yasko, John D.

Surgery

Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material

Absorbent pad for external or internal application and...

604394, A61F 1316

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046170227

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BRIEF SUMMARY
The object of the invention is to provide a disposable hygienic article for absorbing liquids for babies and adults and more particularly it has as its aim to offer new means and an arrangement for maintaining said article against the user by means of a removable belt.
In general, such an article consists essentially of an absorbent pad consisting of a laminated structure comprising an absorbent cloth made of cellulose foam in which, if necessary, are incorporated powders absorbing several times their weight of liquid, covered on the face intended to be in contact with the skin of the user by a sheet permeable to liquids, at least in its central part, and on the opposite face, by a polyethylene film, the two sheets being partially or completely bonded to one another along their edges. In addition, means of attachment are provided in the truck areas in a manner such as to maintain the articles against the user.
The areas of the article that are intended, when in position, to be in contact with the abdomen and the back of the user are called "truck areas".
Among the many means of attachment offered (safety pins, buttons and button holes, hooks and eyes) adhesives and in particular pressure-sensitive adhesives are those that are most commonly used.
Adhesive attachment systems have the disadvantage, however, of not being "repositionable" once they have been placed in position, unless attachment means of complex structure are used, consisting of several superimposed layers as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,951,149. The means of attachment are, on the one hand, very costly and, on the other, very difficult to produce on an industrial scale because of the various grades of adhesives which are required to be applied successively to various substrates.
In this application, the means of attachment are of the "buckle-grips" type, better known under the tradename of "Velcro" .RTM..
Many documents have already described disposable articles whose means of attachment consist of "Velcro" .RTM. bands.
GB Pat. No. 1 428 572 describes a garment for babies, on the internal face of which is placed an absorbent pad, of which the edges of an external trunk area, folded over onto the other trunk area surrounding the baby's stomach, are maintained in position by means of "Velcro" .RTM. bands, placed on the two trunk areas. A similar device is also described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,081,772 and 3,141,461 (FIG. 11).
U.S. Pat. No. 4,402,690 describes a device in which the edges of said internal trunk area are provided with a "Velcro" .RTM. attachment means, while the edges of the other external trunk area are provided with complementary attachment means.
These articles, all of the multiple use type, described in these patents have the disadvantage of requiring the use of four "Velcro" .RTM. elements of large size, two on the internal face, two on the external face. Such an arrangement, applied to single-use articles such as those which are the object of this invention would bear very heavily on the cost. For these elements are costly but it would nevertheless not be possible to limit their size too much, and in addition, the face of being obliged to removed the elements on the two faces complicates the production installations which would include a double element-positioning station, one for each side of the moving belt.
The same criticism could be made of the article described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,359,980. This article is provided with two "Velcro" .RTM. bands, on the edges of the internal face of one trunk area and a complementary "Velcro" band over practically the whole of the width of the external face of the other trunk area.
In order to overcome these major disadvantages, it has been proposed to join the edges of the rear trunk areas of a nappy to those of the front areas located on the abdomen of the user, by means of two removable half-belts, fixed to one another by two complementary "Velcro" .RTM. elements and to their respective edges by grip clips. This article is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,158,906. In addition to the danger and

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