Patent ID: 6039555
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid-permeable topsheet for body exudates absorbent article comprises:a pair of mutually engageable embossing elements for an embossing treatment of a continuous composite sheet web composed of a liquid-permeable nonwoven fibrous sheet of thermoplastic synthetic resin and a plurality of filaments of thermoplastic synthetic resin extending in one direction parallel to one another and continuously bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fibrous sheet;the embossing elements including a first roll and a second roll;the first roll being provided on a circumferential surface thereof with cones arranged in a plurality of lines, extending in an axial direction thereof as well as in a circumferential direction thereof;the second roll being provided on a circumferential surface thereof with crests of an inverted V-shaped cross-section and troughs of a V-shaped cross-section arranged in a plurality of lines in an axial direction thereof so that the crests and troughs are alternatively arranged in a circumferential direction thereof; andwherein a line of the cones of the first roll arranged in the axial direction thereof is received by the corresponding trough of the second roll while the crest of the second roll is received between two lines of cones which are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction thereof.