Patent ID: 7838722

Claim:
A method for indirectly applying absorbent gelling material granules onto a carrier layer for use in an absorbent article, particularly a diaper, which article comprises said carrier layer together with further layers, said method comprises the following steps: absorbent gelling material granules are taken up by a transfer device from a bulk storage of absorbent gelling material granules, said transfer device having a surface with recesses, said recesses having an absorbent gelling material surface and an opposed inside, wherein the number, size and position of said recesses determine the amount and pattern of absorbent gelling material granules taken up by said transfer device, said transfer device being moveable from a loading position adjacent to the bulk storage to a meeting position at which the carrier layer is adjacent to the transfer device means being provided for retaining said absorbent gelling material granules inside said recesses during movement of said transfer device to said meeting position, and means being provided for expelling said absorbent gelling material granules onto said carrier layer at said meeting position; wherein a first glue is applied onto said carrier layer upstream of said meeting position before absorbent gelling material granules are deposited onto said carrier layer from said transfer device in said meeting position and wherein a second glue is applied onto said absorbent gelling material granules after said absorbent gelling materal granules have been deposited onto said carrier layer; wherein at least one of said first and second glues is a micro-fiber glue.