Patent ID: 6461344
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing an absorbent article in the form of a pants diaper or a sanitary panty, said method comprising the steps of:providing a web of a plurality of mutually joined flat blanks, each of said plurality of blanks including an elongated absorbent body enclosed between two casing sheets which at mutually opposing front and rear end parts of the absorbent body have side parts that extend laterally beyond said body on both sides thereof, the side parts having end edges; separating the mutually joined blanks from each other by cutting individual blanks from the web of mutually joined blanks; providing a releasable and refastenable fastener having two elements, the two elements of the releasable and refastenable fastener being joined to each other; mounting one of the two elements which include mutually complementary members of the releasable and refastenable fastener on the outside of the side parts of one of the front and rear end parts of each of said individual blanks; folding each of the individual blanks so that the end edges of said parts of each said blank lie edge-to-edge; mounting a second of the two elements on the outside of the side parts of the opposing other of the front and rear end parts so as to releasably and refastenably connect the opposing side parts thereby forming a pants diaper or a sanitary panty having a completed circumferential waist and defined leg openings; and thereafter conveying the pants diaper or sanitary pants to a packaging station.