Christopher Nelson, Hiram, GA.
Assigned to Medline Industries, Inc., Northfield, IL.

Filed: 10/17/16
Issued: 3/10/20

A method for manufacturing an absorbent article, comprising the steps of: providing a length of liquid impervious backsheet material; removing sections of the backsheet material to form an aperture through the backsheet material; positioning an absorbent material adjacent to an inside surface of the backsheet material extending at least partially across the backsheet aperture; attaching a permeable separation layer that extends across the backsheet aperture, wherein the absorbent material is adjacent to an inside surface of the separation layer; providing a section of liquid impervious cover material sized to extend over the backsheet aperture, wherein the cover material is adjacent an outside surface of the separation layer; and releasably adhering the cover section to the backsheet to cover the backsheet aperture.

A method for manufacturing an absorbent article, comprising the steps of: providing a length of backsheet material; removing sections of the backsheet material to form an aperture through the backsheet material; providing a section of liquid impervious cover material sized to extend over the backsheet aperture; releasably adhering the cover section to the backsheet to cover the backsheet aperture; providing a length of base layer material; applying perforated cuts to central portions of the base layer; applying a fold to an edge of the cover material in order to create a finger lift fold; and adhering the cover material to an outer surface of the base layer.

A method for manufacturing an absorbent article, comprising the steps of: unrolling a length of backsheet from a roll of material; removing a section of the backsheet to form an aperture through the backsheet; unrolling a web of permeable material from a roll of material; applying a first window frame shaped adhesive pattern to the permeable material; cutting a section of the permeable material that includes the window frame shaped adhesive pattern; placing the section of the permeable material on the backsheet such that the section of permeable material covers the aperture formed through the backsheet; unrolling a base layer from a roll of material; creating a perforated cut through the base layer; unrolling a web of outer layer from a roll of material; adhering the outer layer to an outer surface of the base layer; applying a second window frame shaped adhesive pattern to the base layer; cutting a section of the base layer; and placing the section of base layer on an outer surface of the backsheet.