Patent ID: 6827804
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
A process of continuously making pants-type diapers, said method comprising the steps of:feeding a web in a machine direction; cutting said web along a cutting line having a wave form longitudinally extending in said machine direction, thereby dividing said web in a cross direction transverse to said machine direction into a first web half and a second web half; moving said first web half away from said second web half by a predetermined distance in said cross direction without shifting said first web half and said second web half relative to each other in said machine direction; after said moving, placing a plurality of body fluid absorbent pad members on said first web half and said second web half to bridge between said first web half and said second web half; joining said pad members to said first web half and said second web half; folding said pad members along a folding line extending in the machine direction, thereby placing said first and second web halves one upon another; bonding said first web half to said and second web half, that have been placed one upon another, in bonding regions between adjacent said pad members; and cutting said web in said cross direction in said bonding regions to obtain individual diapers.