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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
David Arthur Fell, Neenah, WI (US);
David Jerome Arteman, Appleton, WI (US);
Jerry Alan Johnston, Appleton, WI (US);
Phillip Eugene Keck, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Lynn Kirkpatrick LeMahieu, Hortonville, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A method of making an absorbent article includes the steps of providing a continuous carrier web having opposite side edges and disposing a continuous absorbent web on the continuous carrier web between the side edges Continuous strands of an internal barrier material are disposed on the continuous carrier web with one of the strands being located between the absorbent web and each of the side edges. The continuous carrier web, absorbent web and strands of internal barrier material forming a continuous in-process composite structure which is transversely cut to form a plurality of individual, in-process composite structures. Each individual, in-process composite structure includes an absorbent structure and a pair of internal barrier structures disposed on a carrier sheet. The method also includes disposing the individual, in-process composite structures on a continuous moisture barrier web, and providing a pair of continuous covers. The continuous covers are elasticized over at least part of their length and are positioning over the internal barrier structures. The continuous covers are bonded to the moisture barrier and the moisture barrier web and the covers are cut between the individual, in-process composite structures.