Patent ID: 7922850

Claim:
A process for making absorbent sanitary products, each sanitary product having opposed end parts which can be selectively connected so as to define a waist line of the sanitary products, the process comprising: forming a chain of semi-finished pieces of the sanitary products, in which adjacent semi-finished pieces in the chain are connected to one another at the end parts so as to form at least one connection region between successive pairs of semi-finished pieces in the chain; applying a fastening element having a strip-like body in the at least one connection region of each successive pair of semi-finished pieces, the strip-like body of the fastening element having a base branch portion, opposing distal branch portions and intermediate branch portions, the opposing distal branch portions integrally connected to the base branch according to a general book-like configuration via the intermediate branch portions; and segmenting the chain of semi-finished pieces of sanitary products and the fastening elements in the connection regions.