Patent ID: 7189301

Claim:
A process of attaching, in front and rear regions of a disposable garment which comprises an outer sheet and a liquid-absorbent inner panel attached to said outer sheet, indicator elements which are visually recognizable from an exterior of said garment, said process comprising the steps of: feeding a plurality of liquid-absorbent cores each having front and rear end zones and an intermediate zone and running in a machine direction onto an inner surface of one of a continuous first outer layer web and a continuous inner layer web running in the machine direction and destined to be said outer sheet, while feeding a plurality of indication sheets each extending in said machine direction and having said indicator elements in front and rear halves thereof, respectively, at regular intervals in said machine direction onto an outer surface of said first outer layer web; placing said intermediate zone of each said core between each pair of said indication sheets adjacent to each other in said machine direction so that the rear half of a front one of said indication sheets adjacent to each other in said machine direction is placed upon said front end zone of said core, and the front half of a rear one of said indication sheets adjacent to each other in said machine direction is placed upon said rear end zone of said core; joining each said indication sheet to said first outer layer web, joining each said core to at least one of said inner layer web and said first outer layer web, and joining inner surfaces of said inner layer web and said first outer layer web which are overlaid on each other; cutting said indication sheets together with said inner and first outer layer webs in a cross direction between each pair of said cores adjacent to each other in said machine direction, so that each said indication sheet is divided into said front and rear halves, to obtain a plurality of said inner panels arranged in said machine direction; and placing said inner panels at regular intervals on an inner surface of a continuous outer web running in said machine direction after said inner panels are turned approximately by 90° to the cross direction, and joining said outer surface of said first outer layer web to the inner surface of said outer web.