Waist belt for absorbent articles

• US 6,241,716 B1
• Filed: 07/28/1998
• Issued: 06/05/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB (Industrivärden AB)
• Original Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB (Industrivärden AB)
• Inventors: Rönnberg, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Dawson, Glenn K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shanoski, Paul
• Application Number:
  US09/117,354
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 604/385.1, 604/387, 604/389, 604/391, 604/392
• US Class Current: 604/391
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/64 Straps, belts, ties or endless bands A61F13/5605, A61F13/5622, A61F13/66 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/66 Garments, holders or supports not integral with absorbent pads

Abstract

A waist belt for supporting disposable-type absorbent articles (7), such as incontinence guards or diapers which comprise a front part, a rear part and an intermediate crotch part, wherein the belt can be fastened to the rear part of the article and when fastened to the rear part of the article comprises two front portions (3, 4) which project out laterally from mutually opposing side edges of the rear part of the article and which can be fastened together through the medium of mechanical fastener elements (12, 14) to form a waist band and which taper towards their respective ends over at least a substantial part of their lengths. Each of the front portions includes first fastener elements (12, 13) which are disposed on the outside of the belt, i.e. that side which faces outwardly in relation to the wearer'"'"'s body in use, and which extend at least over essentially the whole of the tapering portions of the front portions (10, 11) along the longitudinal symmetry lines thereof. A second fastener element (14) is provided on the inside of one of the front portions at the end part thereof and can be fastened to the first fastener element on the other front portion along a plurality of mutually spaced points along the longitudinal symmetry line of the other front portion.

Claims

1. A method of producing tapering front portions for a waist belt from a moving web of material, which comprises:

placing elongated first fastener elements on and fastening said elements to the web in a mutually sequential row and at a given distance apart with longitudinal axis of said elements extending perpendicularly to the direction of web travel;

cutting the web in accordance with a cutting pattern which includes;

a) mutually opposing rows of short-side cuts along each alternate short side of the first fastener elements, said rows being displaced relative to one another in the direction of web travel such that the short-side cuts relating to mutually adjacent first fastener elements are located along mutually opposing short sides;

b) transverse cuts which extend perpendicularly to the direction of web travel and from the center of each short-side cut in a direction away from the fastener elements; and

c) connecting cuts which connect ends of said mutually opposing short-side cuts;

fastening second fastener elements intended for coaction with the first fastener elements to the web material in a row on the side opposite to the first fastener elements and centrally opposite end parts of the first fastener elements that face towards one of the rows of short-side cuts either before or after attaching the first fastener elements.