A belted disposable article includes a chassis including a first covering layer having a first surface intended to face towards the user, the article further comprising a pair of belt portions. The first belt portion has a free end which carries a fastener adapted to be attached to an exterior surface of the other of the belt portions. The first and second belt portions being folded over the first surface to form a folded belt configuration prior to use of said article, whereby the first belt portion is arranged on top of the second belt portion. In addition, a belt-opening trigger zone is disposed on the first belt portion and arranged adjacent the free end of the first belt portion.

Absorbent articles with front and rear opening features are disclosed. An article may comprise an absorbent insert comprising an outer cover, a liner, and a core between the outer cover and liner, a first waist panel coupled to the insert and having a first waist panel bottom edge, a first waist panel top edge, a first waist panel outer surface, and a first waist panel inner surface, and a second waist panel coupled to the insert. The first waist panel may be coupled to the second waist panel along side edges of the article, and the first waist panel may further comprise a weakened region comprising weakened portions extending at least partially between the first waist panel bottom edge and the first waist panel top edge. The weakened region may have a weakened region percentage of between about 45% and about 90%.

A diaper with removable wipe pouch. The diaper includes a flexible base having a front panel and a rear panel. The flexible base is movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration, wherein the front panel is secured to the rear panel when in the closed configuration, such that an upper opening is defined. The flexible base further includes arcuate lateral edges defining a pair of leg openings when the flexible base is in the closed configuration. A pouch is removably secured to the rear panel, wherein at least one cleaning wipe is disposed within an interior volume thereof. The pouch is secured to the rear panel via a continuous perforated seam disposed about a perimeter of the pouch.

Absorbent articles with front and rear opening features are disclosed. An article may comprise an insert comprising an outer cover, a liner, and a core between the outer cover and liner, a first waist panel coupled to the insert throughout a first attachment region, and a second waist panel coupled to the insert throughout a second attachment region, the second panel being coupled to the first panel proximate a first side edge of the article and the second side edge of the article and further comprising a weakened region. The second attachment may comprise a low-strength attachment zone and a high-strength attachment zone, the high-strength attachment zone disposed proximate the attachment region bottom edge. The low-strength attachment zone may further have a first peel strength and the high-strength attachment zone may have a second peel strength, the second peel strength greater than the first.

A disposable wearing article that is easy to tear along the side seals with transverse ripping hardly occurring upon taking off the article. The disposable wearing article has side seals, each of which has a first line of first melt bonded areas and non-melt-bonded areas alternately arranged in the front-back direction, each of the first melt-bonded areas having a shape elongated in the front-back direction, the first line being positioned on the innermost side in the width direction of the side seal, and a second line of second melt-bonded areas arranged at intervals in the front-back direction, each of the second melt-bonded areas having a shape elongated in the front-back direction, the second line being positioned adjacent outward in the width direction of the first line with a non-melt-bonded zone intervening therebetween, the non-melt-bonded zone extending continuously in the front-back direction.

Absorbent articles with front and rear opening features are disclosed. An article may comprise an absorbent insert comprising an outer cover, a liner, and an absorbent core between the outer cover and the liner, a first waist panel coupled to the insert and comprising a weakened region and first waist band portion and first chassis portion, the first waist band portion and first chassis portion comprising elastic elements, and a second waist panel. The first waist panel may be bonded to the second along side edges of the article. One of the elastic elements of the first waistband portion may be spaced laterally from a second one forming a waistband non-elasticized region laterally between the first one of the elastic elements and the second one of the elastic elements, and the weakened region may extend at least partially through the waistband non-elasticized region.

Absorbent articles with front and rear opening features are disclosed. An article may comprise an insert comprising an outer cover, a liner, and a core between the outer cover and liner, a first waist panel coupled to the insert throughout a first attachment region, and a second waist panel coupled to the insert throughout a second attachment region, the second panel being coupled to the first panel proximate a first side edge of the article and the second side edge of the article and further comprising a weakened region. The second attachment may comprise a low-strength attachment zone and a high-strength attachment zone, the high-strength attachment zone disposed proximate the attachment region bottom edge. The low-strength attachment zone may further have a first peel strength and the high-strength attachment zone may have a second peel strength, the second peel strength greater than the first.

Absorbent articles with front and rear opening features are disclosed. An article may comprise an insert comprising an outer cover, a liner, and a core between the outer cover and liner, a first waist panel coupled to the insert throughout a first attachment region, and a second waist panel coupled to the insert throughout a second attachment region, the second panel being coupled to the first panel proximate a first side edge of the article and the second side edge of the article and further comprising a weakened region. The second attachment may comprise a low-strength attachment zone and a high-strength attachment zone, the high-strength attachment zone disposed proximate the attachment region bottom edge. The low-strength attachment zone may further have a first peel strength and the high-strength attachment zone may have a second peel strength, the second peel strength greater than the first.

A personal hygiene device for nighttime diapering of an adult male includes a shell that has a top, which is open. The shell is shaped substantially complementarily to a lower trunk of an adult male and is water-impermeable. A pair of openings is positioned in the shell to insert legs of a user to position the shell over the lower trunk of the user. A first pad is coupled to an interior surface of the shell. The first pad is configured to absorb urine that flows from a penis of the user. A panel is positioned over a bottom section of the first pad. The panel has a bottom edge and opposing side edges that are coupled to the shell to define a sleeve. The sleeve is configured to insert the penis of the user to position the penis adjacent to the first pad.

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article includes feeding a first web of material in a machine direction, feeding a second web of material in the machine direction, the second web being spaced from the first web by a gap, attaching an absorbent assembly to the first web and the second web such that the absorbent assembly spans the gap between the first and second webs, forming a partial cut line through the second web, folding the first web into face-to-face relationship with the second web after forming the partial cut line, and cutting the first and second webs after folding the first web into face-to-face relationship with the second web to separate the absorbent article from the first and second webs. The partial cut line defines at least one finger tab on the absorbent article.