Patent ID: 6863945

Claim:
A continuous length of absorbent material for uninterrupted sequential infeed to a processing machine, comprising: a first portion of absorbent material having a trailing end; a second portion of absorbent material having a leading end adjacent to and aligned with the trailing end of the first portion of absorbent material thereby defining an aligned junction of the first and second portions having a length extending generally transverse of the first and second portions; the first portion of absorbent material and the second portion of absorbent material each having a length sufficient to form a plurality of absorbent articles; a piece of splicing material attached to both of said trailing end of said first portion and to said leading end of said second portion of absorbent material such that the splicing material extends continuously over a majority of the length of the aligned junction, said splicing material including fibers having polyolefin content and having a fluid permeability at least about 25% as great as a fluid permeability of said first portion of absorbent material and at least about 25% as great as said second portion of absorbent material.