Method for construction of mechanical fastening tapes

A continuous process for manufacturing a fastening tape for use on a disposable absorbent garment, said process comprising:

• providing a continuous length of an interlocking material having a width and traveling in a first direction;
• continuously attaching said interlocking material to a continuous length of a first substrate traveling in said first direction to form a continuous composite;
• continuously slitting said continuous composite along said first direction to form two continuous slit composites, each slit composite comprising said interlocking material and said first substrate;
• laterally spacing said slit composites from one another;
• continuously attaching said slit composites to a second substrate traveling in said first direction, to form a tape assembly containing two tape assembly sections in which said second substrate is attached to one of said slit composites, and a central section in which said second substrate is not attached to a slit composite, between said two tape assembly sections;
• cutting said second substrate central section substantially along said first direction, between said slit composites, and at a location adjacent to that at which said composites were slit, to form finger tabs;
• and
• continuously cutting said composite and said second substrate along a second direction, said second direction being substantially perpendicular to said first direction;
• to continuously form fastening tapes suited for attachment to an absorbent garment.