Methods and apparatus for application of nested zero waste ear to traveling web

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8172977
APP PUB NO 20100258240A1
SERIAL NO

12798520

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The present invention provides a process wherein a rotary knife or die, with one or more cutting edges, turns against and in coordination with a corresponding cylinder to create preferably trapezoidal ears. Ear material is slit into two lanes, one for a left side of a diaper and the other for a right side of a diaper. Fastening tapes are applied to both the right and the left ear webs. The ear material is then die cut with a nested pattern on a synchronized vacuum anvil. The resulting discrete ear pieces however, due to the trapezoidal pattern of the ears, alternate between a correct orientation and an incorrect (reversed) orientation. The reversed ear is required to be rotated 180° into the correct orientation such that the ears and associated tape present a left ear and a right ear on the diaper.

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CURT G JOA INC100 CROCKER AVE SHEBOYGAN FALLS WI 53085

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Andrews, Robert E Sheboygan, US 73 1121
Fritz, Jeff Plymouth, US 3 59
McCabe, John Sheboygan Falls, US 9 95

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