TNSN01055A1 - Sanitary napkin - Google Patents

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. ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION, THE ARTICLE (1) INCLUDES OUTWARDLY PROJECTING, FLEXIBLE FLAPS (6,7) WHICH EXTEND BEYOND RESPECTIVE SIDES OF THE ABSORBENT BODY (2) ALONG A TAPERING PART OF SAID BODY AND HAVE OUTER LONGITUDINAL EDGES (13,14) WHICH IN THE UNFOLDED STATE OF THE FLAPS ARE INCLINED RELATIVE TO THE LONGITUDINAL SYMMETRY AXIS (A-A) OF THE ARTICLE AT AN ANGLE SUCH THAT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE OUTER SIDES OF THE FLAPS AND THE LONGITUDINAL SYMMETRY AXIS OF THE ARTICLE DECREASES IN A DIRECTION TOWARDS THE REAR END OF THE ARTICLE, AND IN THAT THE OUTER LONGITUDINAL EDGES (13, 14) OF THE FLAPS IN THE UNFOLDED STATE OF SAID FLAPS ARE EACH INCLINED TO THE LONGITUDINAL SYMMETRY AXIS (A-A) OF THE ARTICLE AT A FIRST ANGLE (ALPHA) WHICH IS LARGER THAN THE ANGLE (BETA) AT WHICH A FIRST IMAGINARY LINE (B-B, B'-B') IS INCLINED TO SAID LONGITUDINAL SYMMETRY AXIS, SAID FIRST IMAGINARY LINE PASSING THROUGH THE OUTER LIMITATION POINT OF THE ABORBENT BODY IN ITS WIDEST PART AND THE OUTER TRANSVERSAL LIMITATION POINT OF THE REAR END OF THE ABSORBENT BODY ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE LONGITUDINAL SYMMETRY AXIS (A-A) AS THE EDGE IN QUESTION, ALTHOUGH BEING SMALLER THAN THREE TIMES THIS ANGLE OF INCLINATION.