Method for cutting and placing nose wires in a facemask manufacturing process

A method for cutting and placing individual nose wires in a facemask production line, comprising:

• supplying a continuous wire from a supply source to a cutting station in the facemask production line;
• at the cutting station, engaging the continuous wire with a set of driven feed rollers and advancing the continuous wire at a first speed to a cutting roller, wherein the continuous wire is cut into individual nose wires by the cutting roller;
• engaging the individual nose wires from the cutting roller with a set of delivery rollers to deposit the individual nose wires onto a running carrier web;
• and
• wherein the delivery rollers are independently driven relative to the feed rollers and cutting roller such that the individual nose wires from the cutting roller are initially accelerated and transported away from the cutting roller at a second speed that is greater than the first speed and then decelerated and moved onto the carrier web at a third speed that is less than the first speed.