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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2015
Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Luis Alberto Tenorio, Menasha, WI (US);
Jeffrey Alan DeBroux, Appleton, WI (US);
David Kyle Stankewicz, Appleton, WI (US);
Darin Allen Engelhart, Appleton, WI (US);
James Richard Schermerhorn, Neenah, WI (US);
Michael Donald Sperl, Waupaca, WI (US);
Daniel Mark Duhm, Greenville, WI (US);
Michael Lee Lohoff, Oshkosh, WI (US);
Anita Marie-Nanette Gilgenbach, Sandy Springs, GA (US);
Kenneth James Quella, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a liner/composite web for use in an absorbent article includes joining a leg elastic member to a web moving in a machine direction and joining a flap elastic member to the web. The flap elastic member is spaced from the leg elastic member. The web is folded to form a leg and flap elastics composite including an outer side edge. The web is joined to a substrate to form the liner/composite web. The liner/composite web is joined to a web of material such that the outer side edge of the leg and flap elastics composite is coterminous with one of a pair of laterally opposing side edges of the web of material.