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US 2025/0073090 A1Published application
System and method for making elastic panels
AssigneeFirst Quality Baby Products, LLC
InventorPierluigi Cappellini
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Abstract
A system for manufacturing elastic strand nonwoven panels including an unwind module, a lamination module and a folding module. Elastic strand material is fed from cores disposed on the unwind module through rollers towards the lamination module, where the elastic strand material is attached to a nonwoven web to form an elastic strand nonwoven web. At the folding module, the elastic strand nonwoven web is folded over itself by operation of plates underneath which the elastic strand nonwoven web is fed under tension.
Claims4
A vision system comprising:
- a camera configured to capture images of a plurality of elastic strands being fed through a nonwoven panel manufacturing environment;
- a light source configured to illuminate the plurality of elastic strands;
- a monitor operatively connected to the camera;
- and
- one or more computers operatively connected to the camera and comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable memories operatively connected to the one or more processors and having stored thereon machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
- detecting one or more broken elastic strands within the plurality of elastic strands being fed through the nonwoven panel manufacturing environment as the plurality of elastic strands are illuminated by the light source and imaged by the camera;
- and
- generating an alert regarding the one or more broken elastic strands.
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