Walter V. Klemp, Houston, TX. Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.
Filed: 3/9/06
Issued: 10/6/15

A disposable absorbent garment, comprising: a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core disposed between said topsheet and said backsheet; said topsheet, said backsheet, and said absorbent core being assembled together to form a layered assembly including a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region disposed between said front waist region and said back waist region, said layered assembly having a longitudinal plane that extends substantially centrally through said front waist, back waist and crotch regions; wherein at least said back waist region further comprises first and second elasticized ears extending in substantially opposite lateral directions with respect to said longitudinal plane; wherein at least one of said back waist region, front waist region, first elasticized ear, and second elasticized ear comprises a layered section comprising an outer material layer having an inside surface and an outside surface, said outside surface comprising a decorative or instructional print; an elastic member extendible between a contracted configuration and an extended configuration, said inside surface of said outer material layer being secured to a corresponding surface of said elastic member when said elastic member is disposed in an extended configuration and said outside surface is disposed in a substantially planar configuration; wherein said display is observable thereon such that said outer material layer is subsequently contractible then extendible with said elastic member and such that said outside surface is returnable to said substantially planar configuration without permanent elongation of said outer material layer; and wherein said print on said outside surface is unobscured and observable when said outside surface is disposed in said substantially planar configuration and said print is substantially less observable and less unobscured when said elastic member is disposed in said contracted configuration.