Patent ID: 7455665

Claim:
A hygiene article, comprising: a fluid-pervious top sheet; a fluid-impervious back sheet; an absorbent core located between the top and back sheets; fastening elements for releasably closing the hygiene article when applied to a user; the hygiene article having a first longitudinal direction and a second transverse direction and further having an inside and an outside; the fastening elements each carrying securing means coacting with a contact zone of the hygiene article, each fastening element having a first zone non-detachably connected to the outside of the hygiene article and a second zone located spaced apart in the transverse direction from the first zone on which the securing means is provided; the fastening element folded in a Z-shape comprising the first zone with fold lines running in the longitudinal direction; and the second zone containing the securing means lying outside the folded, Z-shape, wherein the folded Z-shape is secured to itself by one of entwining, crushing, and working fibers from the layers folded on each other in a Z-shape into the layer disposed thereunder when longitudinal sections are severed from a continuous web in the transverse direction.