Disposable Pant-Type Article Having Contoured Leg Edges and a Method for Producing the Disposable Pant-Type Article

Lucas Bäck, Gothenburg, Sweden; Fanny Stenholm, Gothenburg, Sweden; and Helena Wallin, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Assigned to Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Filed: 6/9/21
Issued: 9/15/26

A disposable pant-type article, the article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, with a longitudinal centre line extending in the longitudinal direction, the article comprising: a front body panel being elastically stretchable in the transverse direction, the front body panel having a front waist edge, a front crotch edge opposite the front waist edge and a first and a second longitudinal side edge; a rear body panel being elastically stretchable in the transverse direction, the rear body panel having a rear waist edge, a rear crotch edge opposite the rear waist edge and a first and a second longitudinal side edge; a crotch region being located between the front panel crotch edge and the rear panel crotch edge, the crotch region being contiguous with the front body panel along the front panel crotch edge and being contiguous with the rear body panel along the rear panel crotch edge; wherein the first longitudinal side edge of the front body panel is joined to the first longitudinal side edge of the rear body panel in a first side seam and the second longitudinal side edge of the front body panel is joined to the second longitudinal side edge of the rear body panel in a second side seam, the article having a waist opening and a first and a second leg opening, the first leg opening being bordered by a first leg edge and the second leg opening being bordered by a second leg edge, each of the first and the second leg edges being constituted by a front leg edge section a crotch leg edge section and a rear leg edge section; the front body panel comprises a front panel web being elastically stretchable in the transverse direction, the front leg edge section of each of the first and the second leg edge being arranged in the elastically stretchable front panel web; the rear body panel comprising a rear panel web being elastically stretchable in the transverse direction, the rear leg edge section of each of the first and the second leg edge being arranged in the elastically stretchable rear panel web; the crotch region comprising a crotch region web, the crotch leg edge section of each of the first and the second leg edge being arranged in the crotch region web from the front crotch edge to the rear crotch edge; wherein each front leg edge section having an inner point being located on the front leg edge section at a greater distance from the corresponding side seam than from the longitudinally extending centre line, an outer point constituting an endpoint of the front leg edge section being located at the corresponding side seam, a distance between the inner point of the front leg edge section and the front waist edge being the smallest distance between the front leg edge section and the front waist edge and being smaller than a distance between the outer point of the front leg edge section and the front waist edge; and each crotch leg edge section having an intermediate point located between the front crotch edge and the rear crotch edge which intermediate point is closer to the longitudinal centre line than a front endpoint of the crotch leg edge section where the leg edge intersects with the front crotch edge.