Panty with sanitary napkin holder

Claim 1

In combination, a panty and the like having a front, rear and opposite sides cooperating to define at least a lower torso garment having a waist opening and edges bounding right and left leg openings, elastic secured along said waist and leg openings to urge said edges of the latter into gripping contact with the user's legs to contribute to an optimum sealed confinement for a sanitary napkin during wearing service of said panty, and a sanitary napkin compartment formed of plies of fluid-tight material disposed in facing, superposed relation to each other in the crotch area of said panty, said compartment being oriented to extend between the front and rear of said panty and in substantial spanning relation between said elasticized leg openings, said compartment being further adapted to receive as a sanitary napkin a fluid absorbent material that is exposed to the interior of said panty through an opening defined in one of said plies in the interior of said panty, said opening extending for a substantial portion of the length of said compartment and for a width of said compartment sufficient to receive fluids discharged from the body of the user without side leakage from said compartment, and elastic secured along said compartment opening oriented substantially parallel to the elastic of said leg openings to retain the sides of said compartment opening about the absorbent material in said compartment without adverse effect on said seal of said elasticized leg openings, said panty supporting said compartment in position on the user such that the opening is restrained from movement relative to the body so that the compartment opening will remain in position to enable the absorbent material to receive the discharged body fluids.