Disposable garments and method for attachment of elastic members around leg-holes thereof

A method for attachment of elastic members to a disposable garment around respective leg-hole, said method comprising steps of:

• continuously feeding continuous web used as material of a top- or backsheet;
• feeding first and second threadlike continuous elastic members in their stretched condition, each comprising a plurality of elastic elements toward said opposite sides of said continuous web extending longitudinally thereof, respectively;
• intermittently applying said first and said second threadlike continuous elastic members supported by groups of parallelly spaced guides provided on first and second traverse means, respectively, along their lengths with adhesive supplied from adhesive supply means held by said first and second traverse means adjacent respective forward ends thereof so as to follow the respective forward ends;
• reciprocating said first and second traverse means transversely of said continuous web being moving so that said parallelly spaced guides of said first and second traverse means apply said first and second threadlike continuous elastic members with adhesive thereon to said continuous web in first and second concavely curved portions with respect to respective side edges of said continuous web, spacings of said elastic elements constituting said first and second threadlike continuous elastic members are widened at longitudinally middle portions with respect to longitudinally opposite ends of said first and second concavely curved portions and said first and second threadlike continuous elastic members are bonded to said continuous web with said elastic elements being arranged in parallel to one another;
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• laminating remainder members as essential components of the garment onto said continuous web and then cutting said continuous web transversely together with said first and second threadlike continuous elastic members in respective zones where said first and second threadlike continuous elastic members are not bonded to said continuous web, causing portions of said first and second threadlike continuous elastic members being not bonded to said continuous web to contract under their own stretch stresses.