Absorbant Sanitary Article and a Method for Producing the Same

A method for producing absorbent sanitary articles, comprising:

• providing a continuous elastic laminate elastically stretchable in a transverse direction, comprising two non-elastic outer layers and at least one elastic film sandwiched between the two non-elastic outer layers,
• providing an array of chassis each having a longitudinal axis, two side edges, rear and front transverse edges, rear and front waist sections, and a crotch section intermediate between the rear and front waist sections, each chassis including a topsheet having an outer surface which in use is adapted to be in contact with a user’s skin, a backsheet, and an absorbent core set between the topsheet and the backsheet,
• transversely cutting said continuous elastic laminate to form individual transverse elastic elements each including in a unitary component:
• an elastic gasketing portion,
• two elastic side panels extending on opposite sides of the elastic gasketing portion, and
• two non-elastic portions each extending between a respective elastic side panel and the elastic gasketing portion,
• applying said individual transverse elastic elements on the outer surface of the topsheet of a respective chassis in at least one of said rear and front waist sections, such that the elastic gasketing portion of each transverse elastic element extends between the two side edges of the respective chassis and the two elastic side panels extend transversally outwardly beyond respective side edges of the respective chassis, and
• attaching each transverse elastic element to a respective chassis along a C-shaped attachment profile including two opposite longitudinal portions adjacent to respective side edges of the respective chassis and a transverse outer portion adjacent to one of said rear and front transverse edges, wherein a central inner region of the elastic gasketing portion is detached from the outer surface of the topsheet to form a pocket open toward said crotch section.