# US 10,307,301 B2 · Feminine hygiene products and apparatus and methods for making disposable products

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- Number: US 10,307,301 B2
- Document ID: US10307301B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/331,342
- Filed: 2016-10-21
- Published: 2017-04-27
- Granted: 2019-06-04
- Earliest claimed: 2015-10-23
- Assignees: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
- Applicants: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
- Inventors: Jon Allen Pelland
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10307301B2

## CPC

- A61F 13/15756: {Applying tabs, strips, tapes, loops; Knotting the ends of pads}
- A61F 13/15699: {Forming webs by bringing together several webs, e.g. by laminating or folding several webs, with or without additional treatment of the webs}
- A61F 13/15804: {Plant, e.g. involving several steps}
- A61F 13/5514: {each item packaged single}
- A61F 13/5616: {using flaps, e.g. adhesive, for attachment to the undergarment (leakage prevention means encirculing the crotch portion A61F13/476)}
- B29C 65/08: using ultrasonic vibrations {(non-plastics element to plastics elements B29C65/645)}
- B29C 65/48: using adhesives {, i.e. using supplementary joining material; solvent bonding}
- B29C 69/001: {a shaping technique combined with cutting, e.g. in parts or slices combined with rearranging and joining the cut parts (for reinforced material B29C70/545; B29C49/4278, B29C51/268 take precedence)}
- B29K 2995/0068: Permeability to liquids; Adsorption
- B29L 2031/4878: {Diapers, napkins}
- A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C)
- B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00)
- B29K: INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS OR TO MATERIALS FOR {MOULDS, } REINFORCEMENTS, FILLERS OR PREFORMED PARTS, e.g. INSERTS
- B29L: INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES

## Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing the number of articles processed over a distance traveled in the machine direction of an assembly line. In particular, the orientation of the long dimension of the article is provided transverse to the machine direction, thus process rug the articles side-by-side instead of end-to-end.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of producing a disposable product, the method comprising:
providing a topsheet web of material in a machine direction;
coupling a first and a second wing component to said topsheet web on a first side of said topsheet web of material;
coupling a first base release paper to said first wing component;
coupling a second base release paper to said second wing component;
coupling said second base release paper to said first base release paper;
providing a backsheet web of material in said machine direction;
providing an absorbent core having a length dimension and a width dimension, said length dimension greater than said width dimension, between said topsheet and backsheet webs, said length dimension of said core extending in a cross-machine direction, and coupling said topsheet and backsheet webs about said absorbent core.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, wherein said absorbent core is positioned underlying said first and said second wing components.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, the method further comprising severing said first and second wing components to create a first discrete disposable product.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, the method further comprising releasably coupling a backsheet release paper to an underside of said backsheet web.

### Claim 5

A method of producing disposable products, the method comprising:
coupling a plurality of wings to a top side of a topsheet web, said topsheet web traveling in a machine direction;
releasably coupling a first release paper to a first edge portion of each of said wings;
releasably coupling a second release paper to said first release paper and to a second portion of an adjacent wing;
providing a series of spaced cores having a length dimension, and a width dimension less than said length dimension, said length dimension oriented transversely to said machine direction;
sandwiching said cores between an underside of said topsheet and a top side of a backsheet traveling in said machine direction;
bonding said topsheet and said backsheet;
severing said topsheet and said backsheet between spaced cores to produce an absorbent article.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

A method according to claim 5, the method further comprising bonding said cores to at least one of said topsheet and backsheet.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

A method according to claim 5, the method further comprising severing said topsheet and said backsheet at a midpoint of said wings, between adjacent spaced cores to produce an absorbent article.