Patent ID: 7871400

Claim:
A method for manufacturing sanitary articles wearable as pants, said articles having a main body that can assume a general U-shaped configuration, with end parts arranged on the front and on the back of the body of the user, with at least one side panel for connecting said end parts on each side of the user, said at least one side panel having a proximal edge to be fixed on said main body and a distal edge carrying a connection formation for closing the article around the waistline of the user, the method comprising: providing two webs of film material, said webs comprising two parallel strips with each strip of said strips comprising a longitudinal axis; subjecting each of said strips to segmentation by symmetrically cutting each of said strips with cuts that are roughly oblique with respect to said longitudinal axis, so as to obtain, two chains of side panels wherein: a) each panel of said panels of a chain of the chains, having a proximal edge facing the other chain of the chains has in front of each panel and facing each panel a proximal edge of a panel in the other chain; and b) each panel of said panels of a chain of the chains having a distal edge facing the other chain of the chains, and bearing a connection formation, has in front of each panel and facing each panel the distal edge, bearing a connection formation, of a panel in the other chain; applying each connection formation in a staggered position on the opposite edge of each strip relative to each other connection formation with a spacing pitch equal to the average length of said panels in the direction of said longitudinal axis; and subjecting in each of said chains, said panel with a distal edge facing the other chain to an operation of rotation chosen between a rotation through 180° in the general plane of the panel and overturning of the panel; and applying said panels on the main body of said sanitary articles such that said proximal edge of each of said panels is connected to said main body of each of said sanitary articles.