Patent ID: 6702917
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: A61F,B26D,B26F,B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for making absorbent pads having a longitudinally asymmetric shape between a back portion and front portion thereof, said method comprising:delivering a supply of an absorbent web material in a machine-direction flow; cutting the absorbent web material in a cross-direction to form a repeating nested pattern of generally identically shaped and oppositely longitudinally oriented absorbent pads, the pads disposed longitudinally in the cross-direction of the absorbent web; and wherein the absorbent pads are longitudinally asymmetric and nested such that the back portion of one pad is oriented towards the front portions of immediately adjacent pads and adjacent nested pads share defining cut lines such that wastage of the absorbent web material between the nested pads is minimized.