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Methods and Apparatus for Making Absorbent Articles Having a Pocket and Absorbent Articles 

U.S. Patent No. 12,414,879

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By: Tara Olivo

Associate Editor at Nonwovens Industry, Rodman Media

Gabriele Sablone, Pescara, Italy; and Fabio Passarella, Pianella, Italy.
Assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A., Pescara, Italy.

Filed: 5/28/24
Issued: 9/16/25

A method for producing an absorbent article having a pocket, the method comprising: producing a patch, the patch comprising at least one nonwoven layer and a plurality of elastic strands bonded to the at least nonwoven layer, wherein producing the patch comprises: providing at least one continuous sheet of nonwoven material in a machine direction (MD); providing a plurality of elastic strands in the MD and positioning the plurality of elastic strands on the at least one continuous sheet of nonwoven material; bonding the plurality of elastic strands to the at least one continuous sheet of nonwoven material to form a continuous sheet of patch material; and cutting the continuous sheet of patch material at regular intervals in a cross-direction (CD) to produce a plurality of patches, and adhering the patch to an absorbent article to form a pocket, wherein adhering the patch to the absorbent article comprises: applying glue to a continuous sheet of patch material by moving the continuous sheet of patch material in the MD across a glue applicator, wherein the glue applicator is configured to apply glue continuously across a first portion of the continuous sheet of patch material and to apply glue intermittently across a second portion of the continuous sheet of patch material, cutting the continuous sheet of patch material to produce a plurality of patches, and pressing a patch from the plurality of patches against the absorbent article.

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