A method for manufacturing an absorbent article, the method including: while a lower bandlike member is transported in a transport direction, a process in which a cutting position is determined and an adhesion area is formed on each side of the cutting position of the lower bandlike member in the transport direction; a process in which leg elastic members are placed so that a part of each of the leg elastic members overlaps the adhesion area, the leg elastic members being stretched in a direction having a component parallel to the transport direction; a process in which an upper bandlike member is stacked on and adheres to the lower bandlike member and the leg elastic member on the adhesion area; a process in which the lower bandlike member and the upper bandlike member are folded on the center in the intersecting direction; a process in which a welded section on which the lower bandlike member and the upper bandlike member are to be welded to each other is formed on each side of the cutting position in the transport direction; a process in which and the lower bandlike member, the upper bandlike member and the leg elastic members are cut together on the cutting position, a lower exterior member and an upper exterior member which are shaped in the form of underpants are cut and separated, the leg elastic members which are stretched contract towards the adhesion area from positions at which the leg elastic members are cut, the contraction being performed while the leg elastic members shifting relative to the lower exterior member and the upper exterior member.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, there are provided a flowing water channel device, comprising, a tubular conduit made of fluid impervious material and at least one slit extending along a longitudinal axis of the tubular conduit, a first and a second marginal edge of the tubular conduit are opposing to one another, and at least one fluid permeable sheet material layer passing via the at least one slit and having a first marginal portion spread within the tubular conduit along the longitudinal axis and a second marginal portion spread outside of the tubular conduit along the longitudinal axis.

Disclosed are bioprinters for rapidly fabricating biological tubes comprising extruding a bio-ink filament onto a rotating mandrel. Also disclosed are methods of rapidly fabricating biological tubes comprising extruding a bio-ink filament onto a rotating mandrel, maturing the deposited bio-ink filament, and removing the biological tube from the mandrel. Also disclosed are methods of fabricating a multilayered biological tube. Also disclosed are engineered biological tubes prepared using the disclosed methods.

This invention generally relates to polyethylene or ethylene/?-olefin copolymer based co-extruded, multi-layer films or sheetsrigid or flexiblefor thermoforming into shaped containers such as packaging containers. Inter alia, the rigid films have improved barrier properties, toughness, and snapability. Particularly, the films of the present invention comprise one or more stacks of polypropylene layers. In one embodiment, the polypropylene layers in the stack are provided such that any two adjacent layers have different microstructures that provide a interface or interphase between the two layers with likely different microstructures and/or crystallinity. The overall polypropylene stack structure assists in disrupting the transport of oxygen, thereby providing a laminate or structure, for example a rigid film or sheet, with enhanced oxygen-barrier properties. The invention also relates a process for preparing shaped articles such as containers from such films, and to such shaped articles-rigid or flexible-both filled and unfilled.

The present invention relates to a method for fabricating absorbent article having multiple layers, and deformed zones of targeted performance, and colored regions, the method comprising the steps of forming discrete features on at least one layer, printing colored regions on at least one layer, integrating multiple layers to form an absorbent assembly, and cutting the absorbent assembly into individual absorbent articles, wherein the steps are carried out continuously.

Polymeric layers (50) comprising an array of blind openings (56) extending into the first major surface (52, 10111, 11211), but not through the second major surfaces (54, 10112, 11212). The blind openings each have a series of areas through the openings from the first major surface towards the second major surfaces ranging from minimum to maximum areas, where for at least a majority of the blind openings the minimum area is not at the first major surface. At least a portion of the first major surface comprises a first material and extends up to, but not into the second major surface. At least a portion of the second major surface comprises a second, different material. Methods for making the polymeric layers are also disclosed. Polymeric layers are useful, for example, as components in personal care garments such as diapers and feminine hygiene products. They can also be useful for filtering (including liquid filtering) and acoustic applications.

A litter and litter making method producing cat litter from a carbohydrate starch-containing cereal grain, e.g., corn, based admixture extruded from a single screw or twin screw extruder forming pellets having a clumping agent formed during extrusion composed at least in part of carbohydrate polymer binder. Each pellet is extruded under conditions that cause formation of carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent at least some of which is water soluble. One preferred method of extruding cat litter causes starch dextrinization to occur such that at least some of the carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent in each pellet is formed of dextrin. Each pellet can be coated such as with a smectite that preferably is bentonite. During use, pellet extrusion formed clumping agent in a pellet wetted with urine dissolves and flows in between and along adjacent pellets causing them to clump together without the presence of any clumping agent additive.

Provided is a method of producing a foamed article molded integrally with a surface cover in which a plurality of stock solutions of a foam resin are injected into a bag-shaped surface cover (11), and a core body (12) made of a foam resin is molded integrally with the surface cover (11). A discharge port of a nozzle (20) through which the plurality of stock solutions are injected into the surface cover (11) is covered with a mesh body (14), and the plurality of stock solutions are injected into the surface cover (11) through the mesh body (14).

A method of making an absorbent insert for absorbing fluid in a root canal. Forming a body in a pre-compressed state prior to use, having a matrix of absorbent material. The matrix of absorbent material swells upon absorbing fluid after the body in the pre-compressed state has been inserted into the root canal. In the forming process, a sheet of absorbent material is compressed to form a compressed sheet, which is cut and shaped to form an insert. Cutting and shaping is by using complementary split mold halves which together define a cavity corresponding to the body of the insert and stamping the compressed sheet with the split mold halves to form the body of the insert.

A hydroformed expanded spun bonded nonwoven has a first substantially planar surface on one side thereof and a second surface on an opposite side thereof. The second surface includes a plurality of protuberances in a pattern. The hydroformed expanded spun bonded nonwoven web has an average loft of at least about 1.3 times greater than an original average loft of an original unexpanded spun bonded nonwoven web from which the hydroformed expanded spun bonded nonwoven web was created and an air permeability of at least about 1.2 times greater than an original air permeability of the original unexpanded spun bonded nonwoven web. The hydroformed expanded spun bonded nonwoven web includes bicomponent fibers combining a polymer with PLA in a ratio of polymer/PLA within a range of about 20/80 to 80/20.