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US 11,590,032 B2Granted
Method for application of nested zero waste ear to traveling web
AssigneeCurt G. Joa, Inc.
InventorsRobert E. Andrews, Jeffrey W. Fritz, John A. McCabe, Noel Horneck, Anthony A. Nelson, Daniel Van Dyke
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of providing a disposable product with zero waste ear formation and attaching the ears to a running chassis web.
Claims20
A method of creating a disposable product, the method comprising:
- coupling tapes to a first edge and a second edge of a first panel web;
- folding the tapes over the first and second edges of the first panel web;
- bonding the first panel web to a second web at a first portion of the second web and a second portion of the second web to form a combination web;
- slitting the combination web in a machine direction into first and second combination webs;
- slitting the first and second combination webs in a cross-machine direction into first and second discrete combination web portions;
- intermittently coupling the first discrete combination web portion to a top edge of a side panel web;
- intermittently coupling the second discrete combination web portion to a bottom edge of the side panel web;
- and
- folding the first and the second discrete combination web portions over the top and bottom edges of the side panel web.
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A method of creating a disposable product, the method comprising:
- coupling a first plurality of tapes to a first edge of a first panel web;
- folding the first plurality of tapes over the first edge;
- coupling a second plurality of tapes to a second edge of the first panel web;
- folding the second plurality of tapes over the second edge;
- slitting the first panel web in a machine direction into first and second extension panel webs;
- bonding the first extension panel web to a second web at a first portion of the second web and bonding the second extension panel web to the second web at a second portion of the second web to form a combination web;
- slitting the combination web in the machine direction into first and second combination webs;
- slitting the first and second combination webs in a cross-machine direction into first and second discrete combination web portions;
- coupling the first discrete combination web portions to a top edge of a side panel web;
- folding the first discrete combination web portions over the top edge of the side panel web;
- coupling the second discrete combination web portions to a bottom edge of the side panel web;
- and
- folding the second discrete combination web portions over the bottom edge of the side panel web.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.