Patent ID: 8469937

Claim:
A method of manufacturing absorbent articles having an absorbent core enclosed between casing sheets and having continuous elastic elements located in a front part, a rear part, or both front and rear parts of the article, comprising the steps of laying a row of absorbent cores on a first web of casing material running in a machine direction with the longitudinal direction of the cores being extended in the machine direction, applying a second web of casing material onto the web containing the row of absorbent cores, applying the elastic elements to one of said webs before it contacts said row of absorbent cores, thereby forming a row of connected absorbent article blanks, and thereafter cutting individual absorbent articles out of the row of article blanks, wherein the absorbent cores are laid onto the first web front part to front part and rear part to rear part, and at least one of the continuous elastic elements are applied over two subsequent absorbent cores with a length in the longitudinal direction corresponding to twice the length of a respective continuous elastic element in the front and/or rear part of the article, wherein two of the elastic elements are applied to one of said webs in positions corresponding to opposite lateral sides of the front part of each absorbent core, and the lateral sides being substantially parallel to each other.