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AssigneeSCA Hygiene Products AB
InventorsAnna Heden, Robert Kling, Urban Nilsson, Jose-Maria Mansisidor
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A method of producing basic starting material for the manufacture of fastener tabs (31) intended for joining the side portions of the front and rear parts of an absorbent article that includes a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part, so as to give the article a pants-like configuration According to the invention the method comprises the steps of stretching a first sheet (1) of elastic material in a first direction (T); applying a second and a third sheet of material (9, 10) onto respective opposite sides of the first sheet; fastening the three material sheets together in at least two mutually separated zones (14, 15) that extend parallel with each other in one direction (M) perpendicular to said first direction; dividing the first sheet (1) in each region between two zones (14, 15) along a line that lies between said zones, wherewith the first sheet in each region (16) between two zones (14, 15) contracts to a non-stretched state, and thereafter fastening the sheets together in each region (16) between two zones (14, 15). The invention also relates to an arrangement for carrying out the method, to starting material for producing fastener tabs, and to such a tab.
A method of producing basic starting material for the manufacture of fastener tabs (31) intended for joining the side portions of the front and rear parts of an absorbent article that includes a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part, so as to give the article a pants-like configuration, characterised by the steps of
An arrangement for continuously producing basic starting material for the manufacture of fastener tabs (31) intended for fastening the side portions of front and rear parts of absorbent articles that include a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part, so as to give the article a pants-like configuration, characterized in that the arrangement includes means for advancing a first web comprised of elastic material through the arrangement in a feed direction (M);
Starting material for the production of fastener tabs (31) intended for fastening together the side portions of front and rear parts of absorbent articles that include a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part so as to give the article a pants-like configuration, 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 (1) of said material and which are mutually separated in the cross-direction (T) by an intermediate non-elastic zone (16);
A fastener tab (31) intended to be fastened to one side portion of an absorbent article that includes a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part, so as to join together coacting side portions of the front and rear parts of said article and therewith give said article a pants-like configuration, said fastener tabs having a user end and a manufacturer end, characterised in that the fastener tab (31) includes a layer of elastic material (1) which is mounted on and fastened in a stretched state to two layers (9, 10) of essentially unstretchable material;
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