Patent ID: 8580056
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method of making a wearing article having a chassis and a fastener assembly, said chassis having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a side facing a wearer's skin and a side facing a wearer's garment, a first waist region corresponding to one of front and rear waist regions, a second waist region corresponding to the other of said front and rear waist regions and a crotch region extending between said first and second waist regions and said fastener assembly including first fastening regions provided along a pair of first lateral zones of said first waist region opposed to each other in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction and second fastening regions provided along a pair of second lateral zones of said second waist region opposed to each other in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction wherein said first fastening regions are detachably engaged with said second fastening regions and wherein said first fastening regions include hook elements and said second fastening regions include loop elements, wherein each of said second fastening regions includes inner and outer side edges extending in said longitudinal direction and upper and lower ends extending in said transverse direction, wherein a process of making said wearing article includes a machine direction (MD) and a cross direction (CD) orthogonal to said machine direction and, in a course of continuously making said chassis, said transverse direction of said chassis is aligned in said machine direction, said method of making the wearing article comprising the steps of: forming said fastener assembly, feeding a web assembly forming said chassis in said machine direction, and bonding said fastener assembly to said web assembly, said step of forming said fastener assembly further comprising the steps of: bringing said hook elements of said first fastening regions into engagement with said loop elements of said second fastening regions and at the same time temporarily joining said first fastening regions to said second fastening regions by parts of said sticking zones that extend outward beyond the hook elements to form said fastener assembly.