Presentation of fastening components for making prefastened and refastenable pants

A process for making prefastened and refastenable pants, comprising:

• providing a plurality of discrete articles, each article having first and second waist regions, a crotch region interconnecting the waist regions, opposite first and second major surfaces, opposite side panels in each of the waist regions, first fastening components disposed on the first surface of the side panels in the first waist region and separated from one another by an initial distance, and second fastening components disposed on the second surface of the side panels in the second waist region and adapted to refastenably engage the first fastening components;
• modifying the side panels in the second waist region to invert the second fastening components, the second fastening components after modification being spaced apart by a post inversion distance;
• transversely displacing the first fastening components so that the first fastening components are separated from one another by a post displacement distance not equal to the initial distance and substantially equal to the post inversion distance;
• and
• engaging the first and second fastening components subsequent to transversely displacing the first fastening components and inverting the second fastening components.

A process for making prefastened and refastenable pants, comprising:

• providing a plurality of discrete articles, each article having first and second waist regions of the same width, a crotch region interconnecting the waist regions, opposite first and second major surfaces, opposite side panels in each of the waist regions, first fastening components disposed on the first surface of the side panels in the first waist region and separated from one another by an initial distance, and second fastening components disposed on the second surface of the side panels in the second waist region and separated from one another by substantially the same initial distance, the first and second fastening components adapted to refastenably engage one another;
• modifying the side panels in the second waist region to invert the second fastening components, the second fastening components after modification being spaced apart by a post inversion distance less than the initial distance;
• transversely displacing the first fastening components so that the first fastening components are separated from one another by a post displacement distance less than the initial distance and substantially equal to the post inversion distance;
• engaging the first and second fastening components subsequent to transversely displacing the first fastening components and inverting the second fastening components to form a plurality of prefastened and refastenable pants;
• and
• packaging the plurality of prefastened and refastenable pants in a sealed package.