PROCESS FOR ATTACHING ELASTIC ELEMENTS AROUND THE LEG OPENINGS OF DISPOSABLE CLOTHING

摘要

The invention indicates a process for efficiently attaching elastic elements around the leg openings of a garment, for example a disposable diaper, in which superfluous expenditure of material is avoided. …Elastic elements 04A, 04B are fed to a web and bonded to the latter in such a way that the elastic elements each describe sinusoidal curves, the peaks and troughs of these curves conjointly forming in each case annular elastic zones 16 by which means a basic web is produced. The basic web is then severed in strips 17' which carry the individual annular elastic zones, and these strips 17' are stuck at intervals onto a web 07, by which means a composite web 19 is produced. A separate web is stuck onto the surface of the composite web 19 in order thus to produce a composite web 20. Finally, the composite web 20 is separated into individual pieces of garment along the centre lines of the annular elastic zones 16 in each case. ……