US 11,877,915 B2
Method of and apparatus for stabilizing tucking-in side seams of absorbent hygiene pants
Georg Pfeifer, Schwäbisch Hall (DE)
Assigned to OPTIMA nonwovens GmbH, Schwäbisch Hall (DE)
Appl. No. 17/614,675
Filed by OPTIMA nonwovens GmbH, Schwäbisch Hall (DE)
PCT Filed May 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/064499
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/239723, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19176956 (EP), filed on May 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0226165 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/496 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/15747 (2013.01) [A61F 13/4963 (2013.01); A61F 2013/15861 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of tucking a pair of opposing side seams into a body portion of a hygiene pant,
wherein the side seams are pushed between a front region and a back region of the body portion a distance toward one another,
wherein the tucked side seams are fixedly attached or fixedly connected in at least one connection region to each other and/or to the body portion, so that the side seams tucked into the body portion are fixed in this position,
wherein prior to tucking in the side seams between the front region and the back region of the body portion and fixedly attaching or fixedly connecting the tucked side seams in the at least one connection region to each other and/or to the body portion, for packaging the hygiene pant, a pre-folded hygiene pant with projecting side seams is opened by moving the front region and the back region at least in an area of a waist opening apart.