Disposable clothing, and procedure for applying elastic elements around its leg openings

摘要

The application describes disposable clothing, such as, for example, diapers or baby-training pants, and a procedure for applying continuous, thread-like elastic elements (4A), (4B) (which in each case comprise several thread-like elastic individual elements (4a), (4b), (4c)) around leg openings (2) thereof, so that the elastic individual elements are arranged with the spacing between them increasing gradually in each case from their opposite ends (4A2), (4B2) in the longitudinal direction to the middle areas (4A1), (4B1) in the longitudinal direction. The continuous, thread-like elastic elements (4A), (4B) arranged in this way on the article around its respective leg openings in each case comprise rubber threads (4a), (4b), (4c). The cross-pieces (21, 22) hold these rubber threads parallel to one another and force them in sinusoids relative to the continuous web (7) so that the sections (4A1), (4B1) of the elastic elements (4A), (4B) to be connected to the continuous web are indeed connected to it. The unconnected sections (4A2), (4B2) of the elastic elements are then cut together with the web (7) along the limits of the individual articles, whereupon they contract as a result of their intrinsic extensional stress.