Patent ID: 8474114

Claim:
Method for a shaping step completing a process for producing a tampon ( 1 ) which is produced of an absorbent material, wherein at least one groove ( 12 , 13 ) is embossed onto the peripheral surface by radially compressing at least one region of the tampon ( 1 ) extending along a peripheral surface of the tampon ( 1 ), the groove plane substantially extending normal to the longitudinal extension of the tampon, wherein a peripheral surface of the tampon ( 1 ) is sectional spanned by at least one first press mold ( 2 ) with pressing sections ( 5 , 6 ) that are moveable in opposite directions, concavely embodied each and in their course less curved than the peripheral surface of the tampon, with said pressing sections being arranged such a way that a pressing of the tampon ( 1 ) by means of the pressing sections ( 5 , 6 ) results in a convex surface shape of a pressed region of the tampon ( 1 ), and wherein said peripheral surface is compressed by means of a movement of the pressing sections ( 5 , 6 ) towards each other, whereby a compressed region after removal of the pressing sections essentially provides a contour corresponding to the course of the contour of the pressing sections ( 5 , 6 ).