Patent ID: 9011626
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of manufacturing a disposable diaper including a main body having an exterior sheet, the exterior sheet including a back nonwoven fabric arranged at a clothing side and a liquid-impermeable back film laminated with the back nonwoven fabric, a liquid-permeable top sheet, and an absorber provided between the top sheet and the exterior sheet, said method comprising: stretching a predetermined region of a continuous body of the exterior sheet; disposing the absorber on the stretched continuous body of the exterior sheet; disposing a continuous body of the liquid-permeable top sheet on the continuous body of the exterior sheet on which the absorber is disposed to form a continuous body of the main body; and cutting the continuous body of the main body to obtain individual disposable diapers, wherein the stretching includes: passing the continuous body of the exterior sheet in a conveyance direction and in a state in which the continuous body of the exterior sheet is sandwiched between two rolls, wherein each of said two rolls, on a surface thereof, includes joining first string-shaped elastic bodies to the continuous body of the exterior sheet at a first end region including an end of the continuous body of the exterior sheet in the widthwise direction along the conveyance direction, and joining second string-shaped elastic bodies to the continuous body of the exterior sheet at a second end region including the other end of the continuous body of the exterior sheet in the widthwise direction, along the conveyance direction of the continuous body of the exterior sheet; and conveying the continuous body of the exterior sheet in a state in which