Cross-machine-direction nested absorbent pads with minimal waste geometries

A method for making absorbent pads having a longitudinally asymmetric shape between a back portion and front portion thereof, said method comprising:

• delivering a supply of an absorbent web material having generally parallel sides in a machine-direction flow;
• cutting the absorbent web material in a cross-direction dimension of the web material to define a repeating pattern of nested pairs of absorbent pads disposed longitudinally in the cross-direction;
• the cross-direction cuts being made such that a back portion of one pad is oriented towards the front portion of the immediately adjacent pads and each pad shares common cut lines with immediately adjacent pads;
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• wherein the pads are defined with a front portion that is wider in the machine-direction than the crotch portion and the pads are symmetrical along a longitudinal center axis thereof.