US 12,433,799 B2
Method of making elasticized waistband for use in an absorbent garment
Robert E. Andrews, Falmouth, ME (US); and Christopher A. Schwartz, Howards Grove, WI (US)
Assigned to Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US)
Appl. No. 17/794,602
Filed by Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/070077
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/155396, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/966,112, filed on Jan. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0143833 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/496 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/15756 (2013.01) [A61F 13/15723 (2013.01); A61F 13/15747 (2013.01); A61F 13/15764 (2013.01); A61F 13/15804 (2013.01); A61F 13/49012 (2013.01); A61F 13/49015 (2013.01); A61F 13/496 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacturing a refastenable absorbent garment (117) comprising:
applying a refastenable material (74) to a continuous panel web (48);
folding the continuous panel web (48) to form a folded continuous panel web (48);
cutting the folded continuous panel web (48) into a plurality of discrete folded panels (86);
aligning the plurality of discrete folded panels (86) with a series of perforations in a continuous elasticized waist web (18);
coupling the plurality of discrete folded panels (86) to the continuous elasticized waist web (18) via the refastenable material (74);
breaking the series of perforation cuts to form a first continuous waistband (111); thereby unfolding the folded panels (86);
coupling a plurality of absorbent cores (114) between the first continuous waistband (111) and a second continuous waistband (112) by attaching the absorbent cores (114) to the unfolded panels (86); and
cutting the first and second continuous waistbands (111,112) to form at least one refastenable absorbent garment (117).