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Outer Cover for an Absorbent Article

U.S. Patent No. 8,974,432 B2

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By: Tara Olivo

Associate Editor at Nonwovens Industry, Rodman Media

Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester, OH; and Elaine Mary Wiggins, Fairfield Township, OH. Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.
Filed: 7/22/11
Issued: 3/10/15
A diaper with an outer cover, a front waistband and a rear waistband opposite the front waistband; a landing zone adjacent to the front waistband, wherein the landing zone extends perpendicularly across a longitudinal center line of the outer cover; a fastener configured to permanently or releasably join to the landing zone to form a waist opening; a first connector disposed on the rear portion of the outer cover; a second connector disposed on the front portion of the outer cover, wherein the first connector and the second connector are adapted to releasably join an absorbent insert to the outer cover, and wherein the first connector is different from the second connector to indicate a proper orientation of the absorbent insert; a first, wearer-facing layer having a wearer-facing surface; and a second, garment-facing layer; wherein the outer cover has an absorbent capacity between 5 and 100 g and the wearer-facing surface of the first, wearer-facing layer has a DAT contact angle at 0.5 second of less than about 75 degrees, wherein the first, wearer-facing layer and the second, garment-facing layer are both made of Modal and Spandex. 

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