James William Busch, Maineville, OH; Michael Dale Trennepohl, Cincinnati, OH; and Steven Joseph Waas, Mason, OH.
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

Filed: 4/11/19
Issued: 2/14/23

A method of making an absorbent article comprising the steps of: obtaining a carrier web and transporting the carrier web in a machine direction; obtaining first absorbent core web and a second absorbent core web; cutting the first absorbent core web in a nesting configuration thereby forming a plurality of discrete first absorbent cores each having a first front cut edge and a first rear cut edge, the first front and rear cut edges having matching, non-linear cut profiles; cutting the second absorbent core web in a nesting configuration thereby forming a plurality of discrete second absorbent cores each having a second front cut edge and a second rear cut edge, the second front and rear cut edges having matching, non-linear cut profiles; joining a discrete second absorbent core to a discrete first absorbent core and to the carrier web, thereby forming a laminate structure web, wherein the first front cut edge of the discrete first absorbent core is spaced from the second front cut edge of the discrete second absorbent core in the machine direction; wherein the discrete second absorbent core and the discrete first absorbent core are joined in an offset manner along a lengthwise direction of the absorbent article, whereby the second front cut edge extends distally beyond the first front cut edge along the lengthwise direction, and the first rear cut edge extends distally beyond the second rear cut edge along the lengthwise direction; joining a backsheet web to the laminate structure web thereby forming an absorbent article web; and cutting the absorbent article web into a plurality of discrete absorbent articles.