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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2001
Daniel M. Guralski, Reedsville, WI (US);
Donald J. Sanders, Larsen, WI (US);
David H. Swanton, Hortonville, WI (US);
Paul T. Van Gompel, Hortonville, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A method for fabricating a refastenable absorbent garment includes moving a continuous body panel web in a machine direction and successively fixedly securing a plurality of discrete fastener pieces, spaced along the machine direction, to the body panel web. Each of the fastener pieces comprises a first and second end also spaced along the machine direction. The method further includes successively cutting said body panel web and each of the fastener pieces along a cross direction between the first and second ends of each of the fastener pieces and thereby forming a plurality of discrete body panels each comprising opposite side edges and a plurality of pairs of fastener members fixedly secured to one of the plurality of body panels and a next successive body panel.