Patent ID: 9693909
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A method for making personal hygiene absorbent articles, the method comprising the steps of: forming a continuous supply of absorbent cores oriented in a cross-machine direction; simultaneously picking up two or more absorbent cores from the continuous supply of absorbent cores; turning two or more of the absorbent cores from the cross-machine direction into a machine direction orientation; dividing the supply of reoriented absorbent cores into at least two absorbent article sub-lines by spacing apart the absorbent cores relative to one another with space in the cross-machine direction between the sub-lines, wherein the at least two absorbent article sub-lines are parallel to said machine direction; and assembling the absorbent cores on each of the multiple sub-lines in a machine direction with further article elements to substantially simultaneously define multiple absorbent articles, wherein the cores are turned in the machine direction and spaced apart simultaneously.