Absorbent article and method of manufacturing absorbent article
AssigneeUnicharm Corporation
InventorsNahomi Suzuki, Koichi Yamaki
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Abstract
An absorbent article that includes a water-disintegratable top sheet, a water-disintegratable back sheet, and a water-disintegratable absorber interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet. Adhesive coating regions of an adhesive are formed in the back sheet, and the coating regions of the adhesive are provided to continuously extend from one face of the back sheet to the other face of the back sheet.
Claims3
An absorbent article comprising a water-disintegratable top sheet, a water-disintegratable back sheet composed of nonwoven fabric, and a water-disintegratable absorber interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, wherein
- adhesive coating regions are formed in the back sheet, and
- the adhesive coating regions are provided to continuously extend from one face of the back sheet to the other face of the back sheet, wherein
- the adhesive coating regions are formed intermittently in planar directions of the back sheet with intervals between adjacent ones of the adhesive coating regions that are longer than a maximum length of fibers in the back sheet, and
- the adhesive coating regions are formed to continuously extend from a face of the back sheet on an absorber side, to a face of the back sheet on a surface side to be in contact with underwear with areas of the adhesive coating regions at the face of the back sheet on the absorber side being larger than areas of the adhesive coating regions at the face of the back sheet on the surface side to be in contact with underwear.
A method of manufacturing an absorbent article including a water-disintegratable top sheet, a water-disintegratable back sheet, and a water-disintegratable absorber interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, the method comprising:
- a coating step of applying a first adhesive and a second adhesive to predetermined regions in a continuously-fed lengthy continuum of the back sheets, the first adhesive being applied by a first roller from an absorber side of the back sheet, the second adhesive being applied by a second roller from a surface side of the back sheet to be in contact with underwear;
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- a bonding and cutting step of bonding a continuously-fed lengthy continuum of the top sheets, a continuously-fed lengthy continuum of the absorbents, and the continuum of the back sheets together, and then cutting the continua in a predetermined length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.