Patent ID: 6562167
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: A41H,A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of making garments with fastening components, comprising:transporting a continuous product assemblage in a machine direction, the product assemblage defining opposite first and second major surfaces; positioning first fastening components on the first major surface, the first fastening components disposed on opposite sides of a machine center line, the first fastening components disposed at selected first cross machine direction locations; positioning second fastening components on the second major surface, the second fastening components being refastenably engageable with the first fastening components, the second fastening components disposed on opposite sides of the machine center line, the second fastening components disposed at selected second cross machine direction locations; subsequent to positioning the first and second fastening components, processing the product assemblage through a pair of bonding devices, the bonding devices disposed on opposite sides of the machine center line, each bonding device defining an operative bonding width, the bonding devices disposed at selected cross machine direction locations such that the operative bonding widths overlap at least part of the first cross machine direction locations and at least part of the second cross machine direction locations; activating each bonding device such that each bonding device bonds both a first fastening component to the product assemblage and a second fastening component to the product assemblage; and cutting the product assemblage at spaced locations to form a plurality of discrete garments with fastening components.