Patent ID: 9468562
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for producing sanitary articles wearable as pants, said articles having a main body including a liquid-impermeable backsheet, a topsheet having a liquid-permeable central sheet and two lateral containment sheets and an absorbing core interposed between the backsheet and the topsheet, said sanitary articles being adapted to be imparted a crotch configuration with end portions arranged at the front and at the back of the wearer, and being provided with at least one pair of side panels to connect said end portions around the wearer's waist, said side panels having a proximal edge for fixing to said main body and a distal edge carrying a closure system to close the sanitary article around the wearer's waistline, the method comprising: providing a web of a laminar material for said side panels, cutting said web of a laminar material to produce a segmented chain of said side panels, connecting the proximal edge of said side panels to a respective lateral containment sheet, after the connecting step, inverting and spacing the two lateral containment sheets, after the inverting and spacing step, aligning the two lateral containment sheets by mutually aligning cross-wise pairs of side panels, and after the aligning step, connecting said liquid-impermeable backsheet with the two lateral containment sheets.