Patent ID: 7431791

Claim:
A method of manufacturing personal care absorbent articles from a stream of workpieces connected to each other along a web sausage having an indefinite length, a respective one of the personal care articles having a front portion including a front edge, a rear portion, and a crotch portion, the crotch portion disposed between the front portion and the rear portion, the method comprising: (a) defining one of the workpieces in the web sausage, the respective workpiece having a respective one of the front portions, a respective one of the rear portions, and a respective one of the crotch portions; (b) defining a fastening area in the front portion for connecting a fastener material thereon; (c) forming first and second fault lines in the workpiece on opposing sides of the fastening area, the first and second fault lines being oriented in directions extending between the front portion and the rear portion when a blank of the workpiece is laid out flat, wherein each each of the first and second fault lines are formed as a line of uniform perforations with short and uniform uncut web portions between the respective perforations, and longer uncut web portions relative to the short uncut web portions, the longer uncut web portions disposed at opposing ends of the respective line of perforations; (d) applying the fastener material over the first and second fault lines, the applied fastener material extending across the first and second fault lines and being releasable secured to the fastening area, and non-releasable secured to the front portion outwardly of the first and second fault lines on the same workpiece; and (e) separating the workpiece with the applied fastener material thereon from the web sausage to create a personal care article.