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ARTICLES HAVING AN ACQUISITION LAYER WITH STRETCH OPENINGS AND PROCESSES TO MAKE THEM

  • US 20190328588A1
  • Filed: 04/18/2019
  • Published: 10/31/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A process for continuously making absorbent articles on a converting line, the process comprising the steps of:

  • providing a continuous stream of an acquisition material in a machine direction;

    intermittently weakening the acquisition material in the machine direction to define openable areas;

    stretching the acquisition material to open the openable areas thereby forming stretch openings in the acquisition material;

    cutting the acquisition material to form discrete acquisition layers; and

    attaching the discrete acquisition layers to other components of the absorbent articles to make absorbent articles, each acquisition layer comprising at least one of the stretch openings.

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