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Article Closure Tape For An Absorbent. (Patent Review).


Article Closure Tape For An Absorbent absorbent /ab·sor·bent/ (-sor´bent)
1. able to take in, or suck up and incorporate.

2. a tissue structure involved in absorption.

3. a substance that absorbs or promotes absorption.
: No. 6,461,715; Werner Guenther and Lloyd Eynon, assignors to 3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul St. Paul

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, MN. Filed 7/9/98. Issued 10 /8/02.

Patented is a closure tape for an absorbent article, such as a disposable diaper, for fastening the article to the body. The closure tape is attached to the outside surface of the diaper through one of its end portions and comprises a backing with a first and second side. The first side features a continuous or discontinuous discontinuous /dis·con·tin·u·ous/ (dis?kon-tin´u-us)
1. interrupted; intermittent; marked by breaks.

2. discrete; separate.

3. lacking logical order or coherence.
 adhesive layer, a fastening means and a stretchable elastic sheet attached to the adhesive layer. The hacking See hack and hacker.  is non-elastic and/or is non-extensible and the support sheet comprises the backing. The continuous or discontinuous adhesive layer exhibits one or more incisions in the elastic sheet, with one of the incisions extending in the machine direction over the full width of the backing. The end portion is separated from its closest incision incision /in·ci·sion/ (in-sizh´un)
1. a cut or a wound made by cutting with a sharp instrument.incis´ional

2. the act of cutting.


in·ci·sion
n.
1.
 to prevent the incisions from opening when attaching the end portion to the diaper's outside surface and bending the remaining part of the closure tape to contact the inside surface of the diaper.
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2003
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Mechanical Closure Tape: No. 7,291,371; Anne Verhaert, assignor to Avery Dennison Corporation, Pasadena, CA.

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