Patent · US Expired

Process for manufacturing disposable diapers and diaper briefs, and disposable diapers and diaper briefs obtained by application of this process

US4801345A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 1, 1984
Grant dateJan 31, 1989
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Expiry dateMay 1, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB05C11/1034
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Adhesive is intermittently coated onto an elastic strip 4 which then passes over a grooved pulley 9 mounted on a slide or carriage 10 able to move intermittently on a slideway 11. A continuous flexible sheet consisting of a moisture-impermeable heat-sealable material is unreeled over the periphery of a rotary drum 3. The point of contact between the elastic strip 4, and the travelling impermeable sheet 2 is moved periodically in a direction transverse to the direction of travel of the sheet 2. This results in laying, along a curved path 4a of, a stretched elastic adhered to sheet 2. It is thus possible to make diaper units comprising crotch elastics edging the curvilinear profile of the leg openings or cut-outs.

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