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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2021
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Robert E. Andrews, Falmouth, ME (US);
Christopher A. Schwartz, Howards Grove, WI (US);
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Abstract
Absorbent garments are made by applying a refastenable material to a continuous panel web, folding the panel web, cutting the folded panel web into discrete folded panels, and aligning the folded panels with perforations in a continuous elasticized waist web. Discrete folded patches are coupled to the elastic web via the refastenable material and the perforation cuts are broken to form a continuous waistband. Absorbent cores are coupled between the continuous waistband and a second continuous waistband, which are cut to form the absorbent garments. The manufacturing apparatus includes a perforation cutter that forms perforation cuts in a continuous waist web comprising elastic elements positioned between facing web layers, a panel applicator that cuts a folded panel web into discrete panels and attaches the discrete panels to the waist web about the perforation cut. A breakage system separates the waist web at the perforation cuts and unfolds the discrete panels.