Patent ID: 8590134

Claim:
A method of manufacturing absorbent articles including: a front waistline member, a rear waistline member, and a crotch member connecting the front waistline member and the rear waistline member, said method comprising: continuously transporting an elongated flap continuum in a moving direction of a flap line, the flap continuum having a center line extending along the moving direction of the flap line; placing latch members on both sides of a vicinal region of the center line; forming a potential cut line that halves the flap continuum along the center line; forming flaps on the flap line by cutting the flap continuum in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the flap line; transporting a front waistline member continuum or a rear waistline member continuum along a moving direction of a main body line; and rotating the flaps that have been cut from the flap continuum by 90 degrees, and then placing the flaps, on the main body line, on the front waistline member continuum or on the rear waistline member continuum, so that the center line is orthogonal to the moving direction of the main body line, wherein the moving direction of the flap line and the moving direction of the main body line face a same direction.