Patent ID: 9475250
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: A61F,B31F

Claim Text:
1. A method for folding incontinence pads having a substantially rectangular shape, elongate and having a first end portion, central portion, and second end portion according to a longitudinal axis, and comprising a central absorbent pad, a back sheet, a top sheet, and a perimetric edge comprising perimetric edges of the back sheet and the top sheet, the method comprising, in the following order, steps of: folding elasticized segments of the perimetric edge located on sides of the incontinence pads opposed across the longitudinal axis down inwards onto the top sheet in the central portion; retaining the elasticized folded segments on the top sheet in the central portion; and folding each incontinence pad at a first and a second fold line both transversal to the longitudinal axis, the folding step comprising a first sub-step of folding the first end portion of the incontinence pad about the first fold line onto the top sheet in the central portion of the incontinence pad, and a second sub-step of folding the second end portion of the incontinence pad about the second fold line onto the first end portion, wherein the distance between the first and second fold lines measured along the longitudinal axis of the incontinence pad is greater than or equal to the longitudinal dimension of the first end portion, and wherein the elasticized folded segments are located between the first and second fold lines, and, wherein, before being folded, the elasticized segments extend away from the central absorbent pad in the transverse direction no further than an extent in the transverse direction of non-elasticized segments of the perimetric edge along the same side of the central absorbent pad.