Method for forming a transdermal drug device

A method for forming a transdermal drug delivery device from a multilayer web having layers of a backing material, a drug-containing pressure sensitive adhesive and a release liner comprising:

• feeding the multilayer web toward a cutting roller in proximity to an anvil roller through a nip roller caused to rotate by engagement between the web, the anvil roller and the nip roller such that the web travels along the surface of the anvil roller at a same linear speed as the speed of rotation of the nip roller and the cutting roller, all three rollers being mounted for rotation about their axes which are coplanar;
• counter-rotating the cutting roller and anvil roller and thereby causing the nip roller to rotate to feed the web to said cutting roller in cooperation with the anvil roller;
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• conducting at least one of cutting a region completely through the multilayer web and of scoring or cutting the release liner along a line coplanar with the axes of the cutting roller and the anvil roller by using at least one cutting edge of predetermined shape.