Patent ID: 8568381

Claim:
Method of producing a tampon from an absorbent strip joined to a withdrawal string, comprising the following steps: a) cutting an absorbent strip with a width and a length which corresponds to an edge length of the absorbent strip and approximately the length of the finished tampon between an insertion end and a rear end; b) placing a withdrawal string in a loop around the absorbent strip more or less at the center of the width in the direction of the length before folding the absorbent strip; (c) knotting the withdrawal string at a rear free end; (d) folding the absorbent strip, preserving the same length, in a zig-zag shape to form several layers by pressing together jaws of a press which can be moved towards one another, forming folds in the absorbent strip on each side of the loop; and (e) pressing the absorbent strip via the jaws in a single or multiple-stage pressing operation to an approximately cylindrical shape.