Patent ID: 6210388
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
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;providing a releasable and refastenable fastener having two elements;mounting one of the two elements which include mutually complementary members of the releasable and refastenable fastener on the inside of the side parts of one of the front and rear end parts of each said blank;mounting a second of the two elements on the inside of the side parts of the opposing other of the front and rear end parts so as to enable connection of the opposing side parts;folding said web of mutually joined blanks about a traverse axis so that the end edges of said side parts of each said blank lie edge-to-edge,joining together the front and rear side parts which oppose one another in a final stage of folding of said web with said releasable and refastenable having two elements, said joining step including fastening the two elements of the releasable and refastenable fastener to one another and thereby connecting the opposing side parts and thereby forming a completed circumferential waist and defined leg openings in each said blank, thus forming a web of mutually joined, fastened, folded blanks, andthereafter separating the mutually joined blanks from each other by cutting individual ones of said absorbent article from the web of mutually joined, fastened, folded blanks.