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US 6,309,487 B1Granted
Disposable garments and method and apparatus for making
OwnerRobert M. Herrin, John M. Tharpeinventors
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Disposable garments of the training pants variety include a cuff which is rolled inwardly from the plane of each leg opening. The rolled cuff feature is obtained during production by stretching a unitary elastic sheet across the machine web in a direction lateral to the direction of manufacture, and then cutting leg openings through the elastic sheet and an adjacent outer web. The machinery for manufacturing the garments includes various features which facilitate the manufacture of this garment, including a reciprocating cutting knife and an associated accumulating conveyor for providing a reciprocal motion into the reciprocal knife. The manufacturing apparatus also includes features for maintaining core pads in the desired alignment, and various other features.
A method of sealing a multi-ply diaper web comprising the steps of:
A method of sealing a multi-ply diaper web comprising the steps of:
Apparatus for ultrasonic sealing of disposable diapers comprising a frame, conveyor means on said frame for advancing elongated diaper component webs along a linear path, a horn assembly including a horn orbitally mounted on said frame on one side of said path, an anvil assembly orbitally mounted on the other side of said path and aligned with said horn assembly so as to clamp said webs together for sealing the same, linkage means connecting each assembly to said frame so as to maintain each assembly in the same orientation throughout the orbit, one of said assemblies including resilient means to enable said one assembly to yield resiliently upon contact with the other of said assemblies while still clamping said webs and traveling therewith in said orientation during sealing.
Apparatus for ultrasonic sealing of disposable diapers comprising a frame, conveyor means on said frame for advancing elongated diaper component webs along a linear path, a horn assembly including a horn orbitally mounted on said frame on one side of said path, an anvil assembly orbitally mounted on the other side of said path and aligned with said horn assembly so as to clamp said webs together for sealing the same linkage means connecting each assembly to said frame so as to maintain each assembly in the same orientation throughout the orbit, one of said assemblies including resilient means to enable said one assembly to yield resiliently upon contact with the other of said assemblies, said linkage means including a four bar linkage arranged in a parallelogram for each assembly and including two plates extending perpendicular to said linear path and two arms pivotally connected at spaced apart points to each of said plates.
Apparatus for ultrasonic sea ling of disposable diapers comprising a frame, conveyor means on said frame for advancing elongated diaper component webs along a linear path, a horn assembly including a horn mounted on said frame for movement in a circular orbit on one side of said path, an anvil assembly mounted on said frame the other side of said path for movement in a circular orbit and aligned with said horn assembly so as to clamp said webs together for sealing the same, linkage means connecting each assembly to said frame so as to maintain each assembly in the same orientation throughout the orbit, one of said assemblies including resilient means to enable said one assembly to yield resiliently upon contact with the other of said assemblies to deform the circular orbit of said one assembly during clamping of said web and to provide area contact between said horn and anvil assemblies and without relative movement between said webs and said assemblies.
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