WO1991000720A1 - Resilient material and disposable, absorbent article comprising such a material - Google Patents

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WO1991000720A1
WO1991000720A1 PCT/SE1990/000475 SE9000475W WO9100720A1 WO 1991000720 A1 WO1991000720 A1 WO 1991000720A1 SE 9000475 W SE9000475 W SE 9000475W WO 9100720 A1 WO9100720 A1 WO 9100720A1
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Urban Widlund
Roy Hansson
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Mölnlycke AB
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Priority to DE9090910965T priority Critical patent/DE69001357T2/de
Priority to AT90910965T priority patent/ATE88079T1/de
Priority to US07/781,141 priority patent/US5486273A/en
Publication of WO1991000720A1 publication Critical patent/WO1991000720A1/en
Priority to NO920013A priority patent/NO178392C/no
Priority to FI920028A priority patent/FI100297B/sv
Priority to US08/936,528 priority patent/US5938651A/en

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  • the present invention relates to a method of imparting varying degrees of elasticity or springiness to dif ⁇ ferent areas of thin resilient material, preferably the casing or enveloping material of absorbent, disposable articles, such as disposable diapers and incontinence guards.
  • the invention also relates to a material manu- factured in accordance with this method, and an absor ⁇ bent, disposable article in which such a material is used as casing material.
  • the present invention relates primarily to a method by which different areas on parts of a sheet of resilient material can be readily given varying degrees of elas- ticity such as to enable the material to be adapted optimally to the functional requirements of the casing material which embraces the absorbent body of a dis ⁇ posable, absorbent article of the aforesaid kind.
  • the inventive method can, of course, also be applied in other instances where a resilient material is required to exhibit varying degress of elasticity in different areas thereof.
  • This object is achieved in accordance with the inven- tion by removing material from those parts or areas of the resilient material which are to be given a lower degree of elasticity than remaining areas or parts of said material, while leaving attached material parts in those areas from which material has been removed.
  • the method enables selective patterns of removed material areas to be readily achieved.
  • the method also enables the casing material of disposable articles of the afor ⁇ esaid kind to be readily produced and with good preci ⁇ sion with a desired elastic pattern with varying de- grees of elasticity in different areas of the pattern.
  • the invention also relates to material manufactured in accordance with the method, and to a disposable, absor ⁇ bent article whose casing material comprises such resilient material.
  • the resilient material consists of a so-called memory material which is heated after the manufacture of the remainder of the article has been completed.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a diaper which includes casing material manufactured in accordance with the inventive method
  • Figures 3-4 illustrate schematically an exemplifying embodiment of apparatus for removing material from a material web.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a diaper and shows the side of the diaper which is intended to lie closest to the wearer in use.
  • the diaper is constructed in a conventional manner from an inner and an outer casing material 1 and 2 respectively, and a T-shaped absorbent pad 3 located therebetween.
  • the inner casing material 1 includes a pattern of through-passing and blind holes 4 and 5 respectively, which have been formed in the casing material 1 in a manner and with the aid of means hereinafter described.
  • the through-passing holes 4 are disposed on that part of the casing material 1 which extends over the absor ⁇ bent pad 3, whereas the blind holes 5 are disposed on those parts of the casing material 1 which form side flaps externally of the absorbent pad.
  • the casing mate ⁇ rial 1 also includes imperforate parts 6, 7, 8, i.e. parts from which no material has been removed.
  • the back and front ends of the outer casing material 2 include imperforrate parts 9 and 10 respectively from which no material has been removed and which, in the Figure l embodiment, are indicated by mutually inter ⁇ secting lines, and an intermediate part 11 in which blind holes have been formed.
  • the resilient materials forming the casing material of a disposable diaper and provided with the aforedes- cribed pattern preferably consist of mutually the same or mutually different thermoplastic materials of the "mem ⁇ ory type". Subsequent to being heated, such material will contract to its original size while remaining elastically stretchable from its contracted state to an extended or stretched state.
  • a suitable material in this respect is, for instance, Exaflex, which is marketed by the company Exxon.
  • FIGs 2-4 illustrate schematically a machine unit 14 which functions to form holes in material and for thin- ning material in a controlled fashion, i.e. a so-called perforating unit, which may be a converted, commerc ⁇ ially available machine uni . originally intended for perforating sheets of postage stamps or sheets of labels.
  • the perforating unit 14 includes a tool cylinder 15 and a milling cylinder 16 which coacts with the tool cylin ⁇ der 15.
  • a material web A which is to be perforated or in which holes are to be formed, is passed between the two cylinders 15 and 16.
  • the tool cylinder 15 is pro ⁇ vided with outwardly projecting knife-elements 17 which function to remove material from the web A, as shown in Figure 4.
  • the perforating unit also includes means (not shown) which enable the distance between the rotational axes of the tool cylinder 15 and the milling cylinder 16 to be accurately adjusted, so that in the working position the knife-elements 17 can be located at a distance from the peripheral surface of the milling cylinder and therewith thin the material web A solely by removing material therefrom.
  • the knives will form through- passing holes in the web A.
  • the tool cylinder can be provided with knife-elements of mutually different height, so as to produce through-passing holes and blind holes at the same time.
  • the perforating unit 14 also includes grinding equip- ment 18 for sharpening the knife-elements 17, means for advancing the web A through the unit 14, and means for driving the tool cylinder and milling cylinder respec ⁇ tively.
  • the knife-elements 17 are configured to produce cir ⁇ cular through-passing and blind holes in the pattern illustrated in Figure 1.
  • the knife-elements may, of course, be given another configuration, for instance a rectangular configuration. If it is desired to produce coherent areas from which of web material has been removed larger than those that can be produced by means of a single pair of tool and milling cylinders, the perforating unit can be provided with several such pairs and said pairs arranged to produce mutually over ⁇ lapping patterns of removed web-parts.
  • the perforating units may conven ⁇ iently be provided with means which enable the resil ⁇ ient material to be fed through a respective perfora ⁇ ting unit in a pre-tensioned, i.e. stretched, state.
  • the inner casing material 1, and therewith the aforedescribed material web A may consist of a two-ply material comprising a laminate of resilient material and non-woven material.
  • the casing materials are advantageously fed through a conventional diaper manufacturing line in a stretched state, i.e. prior to the final heating stage in which said materials strive to return to their original di ⁇ mensions.
  • the final heating of the respective casing materials is thus effected subsequent to having joined together those parts of the inner and outer casing materials which lie externally of the absorbent pad, said material parts preferably being glued together.
  • the diaper illustrated in Figure 1 has not yet been subjected to said final heating stage.
  • the casing materials 1 and 2 will strive to return to their origi ⁇ nal size.
  • this reduction in size of the casing materials is counteracted by the relatively rigid ab ⁇ sorbent pad 3, this counteraction being of a greater or lesser degree due to varying degrees of elasticity in different parts of the casing materials.
  • the elastic force in the parts 7 and 8 of the inner casing material are sufficiently great to deform the absorbent body and therewith generate a basin-like shape within the region of the part 7 and a gutter-like shape in the region of the part 8.
  • the elastic forces in the parts 9 and 10 of the outer cas ⁇ ing material are sufficiently great to compress the absorbent pad slightly in its transverse direction.
  • the elastic forces in remaining parts lying inwardly of the absorbent body are too small for the casing materials to be able to shrink in size against the influence exerted by the rigidity of the absorbent pad.
  • the endeavors of the memory material to return to its original size ensures that no folds are formed in the casing materials in conjunction with the deformation of the absorbent pad caused by the material parts 7-10.
  • the absorbent pad also influences the reduction in size of external casing parts located nearest said pad, these parts being joined together in a conventional fashion, by preventing contraction of said parts, par ⁇ ticularly in their longitudinal direction.
  • the outer casing parts are able to contract without hinder from the absorbent pad.
  • an all-in-one diaper incorporating waist and leg elastic of the same quality as the elastic pants normally used to hold diapers against the body of the wearer, and comprising casing material which resilient ⁇ ly urges the absorbent pad against the body of said wearer.
  • the configuration of the casing material of the diaper illustrated in Figure l will also cause the absorbent pad to adopt a basin-like shape in the region of the wetting point and a gutter ⁇ like shape in the crotch region of the diaper when worn, these configurations being beneficial with res ⁇ pect to the absorption capacity and leakage reliability of the diaper.

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DE9090910965T DE69001357T2 (de) 1989-07-06 1990-07-03 Elastisches material und dieses material enthaltender saugfaehiger wegwerfartikel.
AT90910965T ATE88079T1 (de) 1989-07-06 1990-07-03 Elastisches material und dieses material enthaltender saugfaehiger wegwerfartikel.
US07/781,141 US5486273A (en) 1989-07-06 1990-07-03 Resilient material and disposable, absorbent article comprising such a material
NO920013A NO178392C (no) 1989-07-06 1992-01-02 Engangs absorberende artikkel, samt fremgangsmåte for å frembringe varierende grad av elastisitet til forskjellige områder av et tynt elastisk materiale
FI920028A FI100297B (sv) 1989-07-06 1992-01-03 Elastiskt material och detta material innehållande absorberande engång sartikel
US08/936,528 US5938651A (en) 1989-07-06 1997-09-24 Resilient material and disposable, absorbent article comprising such a material

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SE8902457-4 1989-07-06
SE8902457A SE464109B (sv) 1989-07-06 1989-07-06 Elastiskt material och absorberande engaangsartikel framstaelld daerav

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