LEG AND FLAP ELASTIC COMPOSITE FOR AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME

• Main Authors: JAMES RICHARD SCHERMERHORN, MICHAEL DONALD SPERL, DARIN ALLEN ENGELHART, KENNETH JAMES QUELLA, MICHAEL LEE LOHOFF, LUIS ALBERTO TENORIO, ANITA MARIE-NANETTE GILGENBACH, DAVID KYLE STANKEWICZ, DANIEL MARK DUHM, JEFFREY ALAN DEBROUX
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 15.07.2013
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

A method of manufacturing a leg and flap elastics composite for use in an absorbent article includes joining a leg elastic member to a web moving in a machine direction. A flap elastic member is joined to the web and spaced from the leg elastic member. The web is fed to a chopper assembly wherein portions of the leg and flap elastic members are rendered less elastic at spaced-apart intervals to define deadened portions of the leg and flap elastic members. Un método para fabricar un compuesto de elásticos de pierna y aleta para usarse en artículos absorbentes e incluye el unir el miembro elástico de pierna a un tejido en movimiento en una dirección de la máquina. Un miembro elástico de aleta es unido al tejido y esta espaciado del miembro elástico de pierna. El tejido es alimentado a un conjunto cortador en donde partes de los miembros elásticos de pierna y aleta se hacen menos elásticos a intervalos separados y espaciados para definir partes inactivadas de los miembros elásticos de pierna y aleta.