Patent ID: 8048249
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: A61F,B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A process for making a fastening element for absorbent sanitary products having opposed end parts which can be selectively connected to define a waist line, the fastening element including two parts that are substantially symmetrical with respect to an intermediate plane, each of the two parts including a base branch portion, a distal branch portion and an intermediate branch portion, the distal branch portion integrally connected to the base branch portion according to a general book-like configuration via the intermediate branch portion, and each of the two parts able to connect together mutually facing sides of the opposed end parts of a respective absorbent sanitary product, the process comprising: providing a strip-like body; shaping the strip-like body according to a first general C-shape, with the ends of the first general C-shape constituting the distal branch portions of the two substantially symmetrical parts of the fastening element and a central part of the first general C-shape defining, at least in part, the base branch portions of the two substantially symmetrical parts of the fastening element; and subjecting the strip-like body shaped according to the first general C-shape toward the ends thereof, to a further operation of bending in the form of a second and a third C-shape, each having a concavity opposite to a concavity of the first general C-shape, so as to form, in each of the two parts of the fastening element, the intermediate branch portion that extends so as to connect the base branch portion and the distal branch portion and to bestow on the fastening element an overall omega shape.