DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE HAVING BARRIER MEANS, AND METHOD OF ITS MANUFACTURE

摘要

The present invention provides a disposable absorbent article (20), and a method of manufacture of the disposable absorbent article (20), which better contains fecal material within the article (20), and which prevents leakage of fecal material out of the article (20), and/or prevents movement of fecal material from the anal region to the genital region. The absorbent article (20) comprises a barrier cuff (62) adjacent to the longitudinal edges (50) of the absorbent article (20), each barrier cuff (62) having a proximal edge (64) and a distal edge (66); and spacing means (76) associated with each barrier cuff distal edge (66) so that the distal edge (66) is spaced away from the top surface (25) of the topsheet (24). The object of the present invention is achieved by means of a topsheet (24) comprising at least one cut (90) in the intermediate region of the absorbent article (20), each cut (90) extending from a first cut end (91) to a second cut end (92) between barrier cuffs (62), wherein the topsheet (24) adjacent to each of the cut ends (91, 92) is attached to the barrier cuff (62) between the proximal edge (64) and the distal edge (66), so that a part of the intermediate region of the topsheet (24) is lifted out of the plane of the rest of the topsheet (24) by means of the barrier cuffs (62) to form a transverse barrier and a pocket (94) between the topsheet (24) and the absorbent core (28).