Appeal No. 1999-2630
Application 08/341,464
only other claims pending in the application, stand withdrawn
from consideration pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.142(b).
THE INVENTION
Independent claim 6, and claim 9 which depends therefrom,
pertain to a diaper having adhesive fastener tapes with lift
tabs defined by printed adhesive-inhibiting masks. Claim 6
reads as follows:
6. In a diaper having adhesive fastener tapes, each
fastener tape having a width and being cut from fastener tape
stock having a length, said cut being such that the width
direction of the fastener tape corresponds to the length
direction of the stock, each fastener tape having substrate
means for providing a substrate, said substrate means having an
inner and an outer end and being fastened at its inner end to
one part of the diaper, each tape having a pressure-sensitive
adhesive face at least at the outer end of said substrate
means, said adhesive face being carried on release means for
providing a release face, said release means in turn being
carried on said one part of the diaper, said substrate means
being adapted to have its outer end peeled from and thereby
deployed from said one part of the diaper for fastening to
another part of the diaper to thereby establish a user joint
and fasten the diaper, said user joint being openable by
peeling said outer end from said another part of the diaper,
being refastenable by reapplying said outer end to said another
part of the diaper to reestablish said user joint, and being
reopenable following said refastening, said adhesive face being
liftably peelable from said release face of said release means
to effect said deployment, the outer end of said substrate
means having an easy-start peelback lift tab for initiating
said peeling of said outer end, the improvement comprising
providing said easy-start peelback lift tab in the form of a
printed adhesive-inhibiting liftable masking means for
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