Absorbent Insert

Helena Corneliusson, Gothenburg, Sweden; Mattias Johansson, Gothenburg, Sweden; Ulla Danielsson, Gothenburg, Sweden; Peter Axborn, Gothenburg, Sweden; and Karoline Lenhult, Lidköping, Sweden.

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

Filed: 5/10/21
Issued: 4/28/26

A disposable absorbent insert for a reusable outer shell, the insert having an extension in the longitudinal direction and the transversal direction, longitudinal and transversal side edges and having a front portion, a back portion and a crotch portion located between the front and the back portions, and comprising an absorbent core having longitudinal and transversal side edges and being sandwiched between a liquid-permeable and user-facing topsheet and a liquid-impermeable and garment-facing backsheet and wherein the absorbent core comprises an absorbent component enclosed by a core cover comprising an upper and a lower side, the insert comprising a first longitudinal extending standing gather along a first longitudinal side edge of the insert and a second longitudinal extending standing gather along a second longitudinal side edge of the insert, wherein a strip of loop material is attached to a garment-facing side of the backsheet near the transversal side edge of the front portion and back portion respectively of the insert, wherein the strip of loop material has the same free transversal side edge as the absorbent insert; and wherein the topsheet extends transversely outside the first longitudinal extending standing gather to form a first side leakage flap and the topsheet extends transversely outside the second longitudinal extending standing gather to form a second side leakage flap, and the first and second side leakage flaps lack elastics.