Patent ID: 8646506

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacturing bodily exudates absorbent structures having a machine direction and a cross direction, comprising: a first conveying means serving to convey a first continuous sheet; a feeding means serving to feed the first continuous sheet with absorbent discrete materials; a second conveying means serving to convey a second continuous sheet to be laminated on the first continuous sheet having been fed with the absorbent discrete materials; and a sealing means serving to bond the first continuous sheet and the second continuous sheet to each other, wherein: the first conveying means comprises: an outer surface on which the first continuous sheet is placed; an inner surface opposite to the outer surface; a plurality of depressions formed on the outer surface and arranged intermittently in the machine direction; a non-depressed peripheral surface segment at least defined between each pair of adjacent the depressions; and at least one through-hole formed in each depression so as to extend through from the outer surface to the inner surface; the feeding means is adapted to feed absorbent discrete materials to regions of the first continuous sheet corresponding to each depression intermittently the machine direction; a suction means is installed on the side of the inner surface of the first conveying means adapted to provide a suction effect directed from the side of the outer surface to the side of the inner surface; and the sealing means is adapted to join the first continuous sheet and the second continuous sheet at least at a part of the non-depressed surface segment.