Patent ID: 7531233

Claim:
Starting material for the production of fastener tabs ( 31 ) intended for fastening together side portions of front and rear parts of absorbent articles that include a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part, said starting material having a longitudinal direction (L) and a cross-direction (T), characterised in that the starting material has at least two elastic zones ( 14 , 15 ) which extend in the longitudinal direction (L) of said material and which are mutually separated in the cross-direction (T) by an intermediate non-elastic zone ( 16 ); and in that elastic material ( 1 ) extends from the elastic zones ( 14 , 15 ) only partway into said non-elastic zone ( 16 ); in that the elastic zones ( 14 , 15 ) include a sheet of elastic material ( 1 ) which is mounted in a stretched state in said cross-direction (T) between two sheets of material ( 9 , 10 ) and fastened thereto in said stretched state; in that said two sheets of material ( 9 , 10 ) extend over each elastic zone ( 14 , 15 ) and said nonelastic zone ( 16 ), a part of said non-elastic zone being without elastic material by said elastic material having been divided after stretching; and in that said non-elastic zone ( 16 ) and said part of said non-elastic zone extend continuously over the whole longitudinal extent of said starting material.