English to French Tech/Engineering Engineering (general) PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SANITARY ARTICLES THAT CAN BE WORN AS A PAIR OF PANTS

The application of said formations 5 is made according to criteria in themselves known, which do not require any further detailed description herein. In the case where a (non-limiting) example of formations 5 in the form of adhesive formations is considered, said formations can be applied on the opposite sides of the web 320 that advances along an axis X320 via two stations of application 1002 (for example, of the "cut & slip" type), which receive web material Tl, T2 constituting the formations 5 from supply reels (not visible in the drawings), apply adhesive thereon, and segment the aforesaid web material to form the individual formations, which are then applied aligned to one another (or staggered) with a desired application pitch on opposite sides of the web 320. Said application pitch is chosen, for instance, according to the fact that in an article 1 of quite considerable dimensions, on the distal edge 7 of the side panels 3, there can be applied not just one but a number of closing formations 5 (for example, two in number in the example illustrated herein).

The reference 500 designates an application station 500 (for example, of the cut-&-slip type), which, in addition to the web 300, receives also the two webs Wl and W2, the formation of which has been previously described with reference to Figure 3 and to the sequence of Figures 5 and 6.

In various embodiments, the lengths of web Wl and W2 are applied not contiguous to one another, but leaving, instead, between two successive lengths (and this explains why in various embodiments the station 500 is a station of a cut-&-slip type, such as to enable relative sliding of the lengths of web Wl and W2 with respect to the web 300 that advances along the axis X300) a free stretch 304, which, as will be appreciated more fully in what follows, enables production of the panels 4. Of course, in various embodiments in which the panels 4 are not envisaged, the application of the lengths of web Wl and W2 on the web 300 can be made in positions that are even strictly contiguous.