Patent ID: 6723034
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A manufacturing process by a machine for making prefastened and refastenable pants, comprising:providing a plurality of discrete articles, each article having first and second waist regions, a crotch region interconnecting the waist regions, first fastening components disposed in the first waist region and separated from one another by an initial distance, and second fastening components disposed in the second waist region and adapted to refastenably engage the first fastening components; transporting the plurality of discrete articles in a machine direction via a transport system; transversely displacing the first fastening components so that the first fastening components are separated from one another by a post displacement distance not equal to the initial distance; and engaging the first and second fastening components subsequent to transversely displacing the first fastening components and at a downstream machine direction location to form a plurality of prefastened and refastenable pants.