Unicharm Corporation

Hironori Nomura

Tohru Sasaki

Taiji Shimakawa

Hiroki Yamamoto

Takamitsu Igaue

Hirofumi Ohnishi

Yoshinori Matsura

Junji Shinohara

Hiroyuki Tanji

Hiroshi Ujimoto

Shigetoyo Kobayashi

Hiromi Manabe

Toshinori Yamamoto

Migaku Suzuki

Akihide Ninomiya

Mitsuzo Ochi

Takeshi Kudo

Toshifumi Ohtsubo

Katsuhide Kuramoto

Tsutomu Shiroto

Shimakawa Taiji

Sadanori Matsura

Disclosed is a sealing apparatus wherein, as a drum () and a rotary base () are rotated together, a follower () of a rocking support member () rockably provided on the outer periphery of the rotary base () is guided along a cam groove () of a cam member () to drive the rocking support member () to rock. When the rotary drum () reaches a predetermined rotational position, an anvil () supported by the rocking support member () is urged onto a horn (), and then, when it reaches another rotational position, the anvil () is moved away from the horn (). Since the anvil () is driven by the rocking motion of the rocking support member (), entire operation becomes quite simple, and a continuous soft work can be certainly clamped between the horn () and the anvil ().

Sealing apparatus and manufacturing process of soft article having sealed portion

Here is disclosed a method for manufacturing individual disposable underpants provided around a waist line and a pair of leg-holes with elastic members from two continuous webs and a plurality of continuous elastic members, characterized by that the webs are applied on predetermined locations with adhesive so that the elastic members can be reliably held on the webs although the elastic members must be forcibly curved when the elastic members are bonded between the webs with use of adhesive.

Method of manufacturing disposable underpants by applying annular adhesive zones to the backsheet and top sheet for retaining elastic for leg holes

Disposable training pants comprising a stretchable moisture holding sheet which is bonded at its longitudinally opposite ends to the top surface of a topsheet on front and rear bodies as the moisture holding sheet is stretched in longitudinally opposite directions with respect to a crotch zone across said front and rear bodies.

Disposable training pants

Diapers, incontinence pants or baby training pants with two leg openings that each have an upper end portion, a lower end portion, a mid-portion, a crotch portion between the mid-portions, a plurality of elastic members surrounding each leg opening, the plurality of elastic members also extending across the crotch portion in spaced apart lines that are substantially parallel to each other over a substantial portion of the crotch area.

Disposable garments

Here are disclosed disposable garments such as diaper and training pants and a method for attachment of threadlike continuous elastic members (each comprising a plurality of threadlike elastic elements) around leg-holes thereof so that the elastic members are progressively widened from their longitudinally opposite ends toward their longitudinally middle portions, respectively. The threadlike continuous elastic members 4A, 4B thus attached to the article around th respective leg-holes each comprises rubber threads 4a, 4b, 4c. The traverse, arrangement support these rubber threads in parallel to one another and forcibly guide them in sine curves with respect to the continuous web 7 so that the portions 4A.sub.1, 4B.sub.1 of the elastic members 4A, 4B to be bonded to the continuous web are bonded thereto. Then, the non-bonded portions 4A2, 4B2 of the elastic members are cut together with the web 7 along boundaries of the individual articles and thereupon contract under their own stretch stresses.

Disposable garments and method for attachment of elastic members around

Here are disclosed disposable garments such as diaper and training pants and a method for attachment of threadlike continuous elastic members (each comprising a plurality of threadlike elastic elements) around leg-holes thereof so that the elastic members are progressively widened from their longitudinally opposite ends toward their longitudinally middle portions, respectively. The threadlike continuous elastic members 4A, 4B thus attached to the article around the respective leg-holes each comprises rubber threads 4a,4b, 4c. The traverse arrangement support these rubber threads in parallel to one another and forcibly guide them in sine curves with respect to the continuous web 7 so that the portions 4A.sub.1, 4B.sub.1 of the elastic members 4A, 4B to be bonded to the continuous web are bonded thereto. Then, the non-bonded portions 4A2, 4B2 of the elastic members are cut together with the web 7 along boundaries of the individual articles and thereupon contract under their own stretch stresses.

Diapers, incontinence pants or baby training pants with two leg openings that each have an upper end portion and a lower end portion, a crotch portion between the lower end portions, a plurality of elastic members surrounding each leg opening, the plurality of elastic members adjacent the upper end portion of each leg opening exerting less tension or being spaced further apart than the plurality of elastic members adjacent the lower end of each leg opening.

Diaper pants

Here is disclosed a method for efficiently attaching elastic members around leg-holes of a garment such as a disposable diaper or the like without any futile use of material. Elastic members 04A, 04B are fed and bonded onto a web so that the respective elastic members described curves like sine curves with summits and troughs of these curves defining together respective annular elastic areas 16 and thereby a base web is formed. Then the base web is severed into strips 17' bearing thereon the individual annular elastic areas and these strips 17' are intermittently bonded to a web 07 to form a composite web 19. A separate web is bonded onto a top surface of the composite web 19 to form a composite web 20. Finally, the composite web 20 is severed along center lines of the respective annular elastic areas 16 into individual garments.

Method for attachment of elastic members around leg-holes of disposable

Here is disclosed an arrangement of elastic surrounding respective leg-openings of garments such as disposable diaper, wherein the elastic surrounding each of the leg-openings comprises a plurality of first elastic members and a plurality of second elastic members; the first elastic members are positioned substantially along a front half of the leg-opening while the second elastic members are positioned substantially along a rear half of the leg-opening; the first and second elastic members have their tensile stress gradually decreasing from their longitudinally inner ends toward their longitudinally outer ends; and the first and second elastic members have their inter-member spacings gradually enlarged from their longitudinally inner ends toward their longitudinally outer ends (FIG. 2).

Disposable garments of pants type having a waist-opening with a first elastic member, a pair of leg-openings with second elastic members and a pair of cuff members with third elastic members which are inwardly spaced from said second elastic members, respectively and thereby said leg-openings are provided with double elastically stretchable seal structures.

Disposable garments of pants type

Disposable garments such as an open-type diaper, diaper in the form of underpants or briefs or so-called infant training underpants comprising an elastic, water-permeable topsheet, an elastic water-permeable backsheet and leg- and waist-elastic members laid along both sides of a crotch zone and respective ends of front and rear zones, characterized by that an elastic barrier sheet is sandwiched between said topsheet and backsheet and intermittently bonded to at least one of the topsheet and backsheet.

A disposable wearing article of pants type having a front body and a rear body comprising respectively at least a liquid-permeable topsheet and a liquid-impermeable backsheet, and elastic members along a waist-hole and respective leg-holes. The front and rear bodies are attached together along their laterally opposite side edges. The longitudinally opposite ends of the respective elastic members are located on the opposite side edges of the front and rear bodies, and the opposite side edges of the front and rear bodies are intermittently attached together so as to avoid the elastic members.

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Iyomishima, Japan

Hironori Nomura