Running Length Web Patents (Class 156/164)
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Patent number: 8763669Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite sheet includes joining a first elastic strip member to a sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the first elastic strip member to a continuous body of the sheet; and joining a second elastic strip member to the sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the second elastic strip member to the continuous body. The first elastic strip member supplied toward a first spindle portion side roller is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of the first spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of a first oscillating end side roller. The second elastic strip member supplied toward the second spindle portion side roller of a second oscillating arm is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of a second spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of the second oscillating end side roller of the second oscillating arm.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Taishi Nakamura, Shinichi Ishikawa, Jun Okuda
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Patent number: 8758547Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing body adhering absorbent articles orientated in the cross-machine direction, body adhering absorbent article having reduced or eliminated curl. The articles are manufactured with reduced curl by selectively reducing or eliminating the shell elastic tension in regions where components of the body adhering absorbent article are to be attached to form the composite absorbent article web. In certain aspects the body adhering absorbent articles are manufactured by supplying an elastic web of shell material having a longitudinal and transverse direction, that is stretchable only in the transverse direction, attaching at least one component to form a composite web material, and cutting the composite web material to form a body adhering absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Robert Lee Popp, Jay David Gottleib, Joseph Daniel Coenen, Gary Alan Turchan
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Patent number: 8741083Abstract: A method for producing an elastically stretchable laminate having at least three layers, the method including the steps of: a) producing a first laminate having a first non-elastic fibrous nonwoven web and an elastic film; b) activating the first laminate by incremental stretching in at least one activation direction to render the first laminate elastically stretchable; c) stretching the activated first laminate to 10-200% in the activation direction; and d) laminating the stretched first laminate to a second non-elastic nonwoven web. An elastically stretchable laminate produced in accordance with the method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Margareta Wennerbäck, Jan Wästlund-Karlsson, Elisabeth Lakso
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Publication number: 20140130956Abstract: A method of forming an elastic laminate including at least one elastic film and least two nonwoven webs laminated to each of the sides of the elastic film. The elastic film is fed in a machine direction towards a bonding station. The elastic film is stretched in the machine direction at a stretch ratio from 1.5 to 8 times of its original length, thereby forming a stretched film and the stretched film and said at least two nonwoven webs are laminated in the bonding station. The elastic film is stretched in at least two stretching steps before laminating it with the at least two nonwoven webs, wherein between 5 and 25% of the total stretching occurs in the last stretching step before lamination in the bonding station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS ABInventors: Per Floberg, Mats Kinderdal, Inge Gabrielii
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Patent number: 8702887Abstract: Apparatus for applying ribbon in a nonlinear pattern to a web includes a guide assembly having a roller adapted to guide the ribbon onto the web as the web is moving in a first direction. A reciprocating device is provided to move at least the roller of the guide assembly back and forth along an axis of motion. The axis of motion is other than parallel to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Greg Malchow, Paul Weber, Jesse Sorenson, Caleb Ihrig
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Patent number: 8652290Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for bonding together two or more layers of oriented polymer material or secondary material to form a rigid member. Two or more layers of material are initially restrained along an orientation axis to prevent contraction and loss of orientation. Then, the contact surfaces of each layer of material are heated to a temperature above the melting point for each respective material. Next, the heated contact surfaces are merged together, and pressure is applied to the merged contact surfaces to combine the layers. Once combined, the layers are cooled, and a rigid unitary member is formed.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Inventors: David G. Haverty, Thomas B. Peeler
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Publication number: 20140041786Abstract: A method of making extensible web laminates comprising a multilayer film and at least one web layer and the use of such extensible web laminates in personal care articles. The method generally includes activating the multilayer film in a first direction by stretching at least a portion of the multilayer film past the elastic deformation limit of the skin layers and recovering the skin layers with the elastomeric core layer to produce a multilayer film that is elastic in the first direction. The activated multilayer film is subsequently stretched beyond the deformation limit of the skin layers in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. At least one web layer is applied to the multilayer film while in the stretched state. The multilayer film is then recovered to produce an extensible web laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Mary Beth Henke, Rebecca A. Shipman, Gerald S. Deeb, Kent R. Schoenherr, Todd L. Nelson, William H. Sikorski, JR., Vathsala Rajagopal, Thomas P. Hanschen, Mark A. Peltier
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Patent number: 8647553Abstract: In a process of producing a stretch sheet, a strip-shaped laminate sheet 10A having an elastically stretchable elastic layer 1 and substantially inelastic, inelastic fiber layers 2 and 3 partially joined to each other at bonds 4 or a strip-shaped fibrous sheet containing an elastic component and a substantially inelastic component and having embossed regions formed by embossing in parts is stretched in directions starting from the bonds 4 or the embossed regions to obtain a stretch sheet 10. The stretch sheet has raised ridges and recessed grooves extending in the direction perpendicular to the stretch direction, and the bonds 4 or the embossed regions are present in the ridges.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Kobayashi, Koji Kanazawa, Akihiko Gunji, Tetsuya Masuki
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Patent number: 8636136Abstract: An apparatus for conveying a plurality of parts to a substrate in a configuration which is offset from the centerline of the supply feed of discrete parts is disclosed as well as the related process. Such an apparatus and process are suitable for use in the production of products where one or more components of the product must be spatially shifted from their incoming location relative to the movement of the assembly line to a second position which is offset from its incoming location and orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Adam N. Schoultz
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Patent number: 8623168Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite sheet includes joining a first elastic strip member to a sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the first elastic strip member to a continuous body of the sheet; and joining a second elastic strip member to the sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the second elastic strip member to the continuous body. The first elastic strip member supplied toward a first spindle portion side roller is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of the first spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of a first oscillating end side roller. The second elastic strip member supplied toward the second spindle portion side roller of a second oscillating arm is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of a second spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of the second oscillating end side roller of the second oscillating arm.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Taishi Nakamura, Shinichi Ishikawa, Jun Okuda
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Publication number: 20140000795Abstract: A method for making a layered elastic substrate includes advancing a first substrate layer and a second substrate layer in a machine direction. An elastic material is advanced in the machine direction in a stretched state. The elastic material may be bonded to the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer in a stretched state to form a layered elastic substrate. The layered elastic substrate may advance through a first metering device at speed, V1, and through a second metering device at speed, V2, subsequent to advancing through the first metering device, wherein V1 is greater than V2. As a result, the elastic material, and thus the layered elastic substrate, may be stretched to a first elongation at the first metering device and relaxed to a second elongation at the second device. The layered elastic substrate is cut and bonded to a continuous length of web material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Raymond Scott Hamilton, Mark Mason Hargett, Tina Brown
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Patent number: 8591682Abstract: A manufacturing method for a composite sheet associated with an absorbent article includes: conveying a continuous body of a sheet continuously in a conveying direction; and bonding a continuous body of an elastic member with the continuous body of the sheet while a position on the continuous body of the sheet at which the continuous body of the elastic member bonds with the continuous body of the sheet is changing continuously in the intersecting direction by transporting the continuous body of the elastic member towards the continuous body of the sheet with a guiding member. The guiding member moves back and forth in an intersecting direction that intersects the conveying direction, and the continuous body of the sheet travels in the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Noritomo Kameda, Shinichi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8585848Abstract: Methods of creating reversible and irreversible wrinkle structures are provided. A shape memory polymer is heated to a transition temperature and cooled while applying a first force. A rigid film layer is secured to the shape memory polymer to form a bilayer. The original shape of the shape memory polymer is recovered to create a first set of wrinkles in the rigid film layer. The bilayer is heated to the transition temperature and a second tensile force is applied to create a second set of wrinkles in the rigid film layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Tao Xie, Junjun Li, Maria T. Dekimpe
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Patent number: 8529722Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device that prevents a liquid crystal panel from warping into a shape concave to the viewer side. The method including a bonding step including providing sheet-shaped optical members each including a polarizing plate and an adhesive layer or a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and bonding the sheet-shaped optical members to both surfaces of a rectangular liquid crystal cell with the adhesive layer or a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The bonding step includes continuously pressing the optical member from its end to bond the optical member from its end to bond the optical member to the liquid crystal cell, while applying a tension to the optical member and stacking the liquid crystal cell and the optical member.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Seiji Umemoto, Seiji Kondo
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Patent number: 8523834Abstract: Process for making a variable stretch composite comprising the steps of providing a first extensible fibrous substrate, printing a first elastomeric composition to a first elasticized region of the substrate, printing a second elastomeric composition to a second elasticized region of the substrate, and incrementally stretching at least a portion of the composite perform to form a variable stretch composite.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Fred Naval Desai, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Mark William Hamersky, Steven Daryl Smith
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Publication number: 20130199707Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for manufacturing absorbent articles, and in particular, to methods for making elastomeric laminates that may be used as components of absorbent articles. And the methods and apparatuses according to the present disclosure may be configured to automatically rethread elastic materials that may break during the assembly process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventor: Uwe Schneider
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Publication number: 20130186706Abstract: A moldable acoustic facing comprises cellulosic fibers and synthetic fibers entangled together. The acoustic facing has a basis weight of from about 1.5 to about 5.0 ounces per square yard (osy), a thickness of less than about 0.050?, a mean pore size of between about 8 microns and about 40 microns, and an elongation at break of at least twenty percent. The acoustic facing includes less than about five percent synthetic microfiber and has an acoustic resistance of at least about 250 Rayls.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Precision Fabrics Group, Inc.Inventor: Precision Fabrics Group, Inc.
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Patent number: 8491741Abstract: A method of forming an elastomeric laminate having targeted elastic properties for use in personal care articles is disclosed. In particular embodiments, the method comprises providing first and second nonwoven webs; providing a core layer of elastomeric material under tension; sandwiching the core layer between the first and second nonwoven webs; bonding the core layer to at least one of the first and second nonwoven webs; providing an elastomeric film ribbon web under tension; sandwiching the elastomeric film ribbon web between the first and second nonwoven webs; and fusing the elastomeric film ribbon web to the first and second nonwoven webs. In particular embodiments, the core layer of elastomeric material is an elastomeric film web core layer. In particular embodiments, the elastomeric film ribbon web, the core layer, or both is/are bonded to the first and second nonwoven webs solely by fusing, without the use of adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Paul D. Beuther, Brian K. Rhodes
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Patent number: 8486210Abstract: An apparatus for producing an elastomeric nonwoven laminate including a plurality of elastomeric strands joined to a nonwoven web in a controlled distribution is provided. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a plurality of elastomeric strands onto a cooled surface of a rotating drum, which transports the strands in parallel alignment to a nip formed between two rollers rotating about parallel axis. The drum transfers the plurality of strands to the nip in a controlled distribution where it is bonded with the nonwoven. The apparatus also includes elements which automate the apparatus for creating the elastomeric nonwoven laminate.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Uwe Schneider, Randall Allen Myers, Christoph Johann Schmitz, Martin Geoffrey Scaife
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Publication number: 20130149925Abstract: An elastic netting like product is carried between two or more outer layers of material, such as nonwoven or non-stretch material, which are bonded together at the open areas of the netting like structure. The resulting laminate allows for the outer layers of the laminate to be directly bonded to each other without the stretch engine material being introduced into the bond. A directionally oriented pleated laminate carrying an elastomeric layer in between two material layers is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Curt G. Joa, Inc.Inventors: PERRY HANDZIAK, DANIEL A. PETERSON
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Patent number: 8460495Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to allow for creation of a configured laminate of a non-woven material, to which a character strip is applied, the character strip exposed by either heat severing and removal of overlying materials, or intermittent application of overlying materials to leave the desired portions of the character strip exposed. A simultaneously formed core insert is applied to a preformed chassis web.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.Inventor: John A. McCabe
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Publication number: 20130126071Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to allow for short length adhesive application in the machine direction. These short length adhesive applications can be used in creation of pocket style rear waistband feces containment features onto running webs for use in diaper manufacturing. Different configurations of adhesive and patch applications can be employed to create the pockets.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: Curt G. Joa, Inc.Inventor: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
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Patent number: 8435365Abstract: A method is described for providing a substrate foil (L0) with at least a laminating foil (L1) of material. The method comprises the steps of providing the substrate foil (L0) and the laminating foil (L1). And subsequently applying weakend portions (100) in the laminating foil (L1). The weakened portions extend in a direction transverse (Dtr) to a longitudinal direction of the laminating foil, and are spaced at intervals along the longitudinal direction. The weakened portions have a width (w) substantially smaller than the length (?) of said intervals, providing a tension to the laminating foil (L1) in the longitudinal direction (Dlong). Thereby the laminating foil (L1) is stretched in the weakened portions, attaching the stretched laminating foil (L1) to the substrate foil (L0).Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventor: Ike Gerke De Vries
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Patent number: 8419874Abstract: A method of making a diaper includes: forming the continuous sheet at a distance in a width direction from an imaginary center line M bisecting the width dimension of the continuous sheet with let-through openings for passage of feces at a regular pitch, bonding absorbent panels, each having an absorbent core to the middle section of a sheet piece having an area larger than the area of the absorbent core; coating the surface of the continuous sheet opposite to the surface to which the absorbent panels have been bonded with hot melt adhesive HM; and cutting the assembly of the continuous sheet and the absorbent panels along the imaginary vertical line V defined between each pair of the adjacent absorbent panels at the regular pitch to obtain the diapers.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Otsubo
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Patent number: 8383877Abstract: An absorbent composite includes a water-insoluble fibrous matrix, a superabsorbent polymer composition that has an initial absorbent capacity of at least about 5 grams of saline per gram of superabsorbent polymer composition; and a first triggering mechanism having a first release time of between about 5 and 60 minutes, where the superabsorbent polymer composition has a second absorbent capacity that is at least about 25 % greater than the first absorbent capacity as measured by the mCRC Test.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Arvinder P. Singh Kainth, Richard N. Dodge, II, David L. Zenker
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Patent number: 8372230Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making an article having a tunable adhesive, said method comprising applying strain to mechanically deform a substrate in at least one direction; applying a rigid coating layer on the substrate; and releasing the strain to form an article having a rippled surface. Ripple characteristics can be altered by mechanical strain in real time which further changes the adhesion properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: The Trustees Of The University Of PennsylvaniaInventors: Shu Yang, Pei-chun Lin
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Patent number: 8337651Abstract: A textile web from which elastically stretchable diaper closures can be stamped is made by first passing a pair of nonwoven textile webs longitudinally through a first laminating station at a predetermined first speed and inserting a plurality of longitudinally extending and transversely spaced strips of an elastic polymer between the webs at the first laminating station. This laminates the webs and strips together into an intermediate laminate having longitudinally extending zones where the webs are directly laminated to each other alternating with longitudinally extending stretch zones where the elastic strips are laminated between the webs. This intermediate laminate then passes through a second lamination station downstream of the first lamination station at a predetermined second speed smaller than the first predetermined speed. In the second lamination station respective inelastic strips are adhered to opposite faces of the intermediate laminate in the zones between the stretch zones.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nordenia Deutschland Gronau GmbHInventor: Marcus Schoenbeck
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Patent number: 8323435Abstract: A mechanical fastening system for products, for example, an absorbent article such as infant training pants, in which the mechanical fastening system is a hook-and-loop type fastening system on the garment in which the loop material is a nonwoven material laminate which has been post bonded after the laminate has been constructed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Debra H. Durrance, Robert L. Popp, Marcille F. Ruman, Alexander J. Neeb
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Patent number: 8302650Abstract: The present invention refers to a device (1) for gluing the final edge (4a) of a log of band-shaped material (4), comprising a rolling plane (2) for feeding a log (3) that has at least a through opening (7) for the application of a glue (8) on the log (3) itself. The device comprises a blade (9) provided for the application of the glue (8) on the log (3). The application blade (9) is mobile between a first position, in which it is spaced from the opening (7), and a second position, in which it is disposed close to the through opening (7). The device (1) comprises a pressure container (10) for housing the glue (8) to be fed to the blade (9). The container (10) has a slot (12) facing towards, and close to an application edge (9a) of the blade (9) when the latter is in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Gambini International S.A.Inventor: Giovanni Gambini
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Patent number: 8287677Abstract: A composite that contains an elastic film laminated to a meltblown facing is provided. During lamination, apertures and discrete bond sites may be concurrently formed in the elastic film. The discrete bond sites may be located proximate (adjacent or near to) a perimeter defined by corresponding apertures formed by displacement of the film. The location of the bond sites adjacent to or near the apertures may enhance the durability of the meltblown facing by strengthening the area surrounding the apertures. Furthermore, the content of the elastic film and the temperature/pressure of lamination may be selected to that the film possesses a sufficient tack for adhering to the facing at regions other than those fused together by the bonding elements of the patterned roll. Such secondary bonding further stabilizes the meltblown facing and renders it suitable for printing. Further, the film is under tension in the machine direction during lamination.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Matthew B. Lake, James R. Fitts, Jr.
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Patent number: 8287676Abstract: A seal agent D and liquid crystal C are clamped to a lower substrate 6, a pair of the lower substrate 7 and an upper substrate 7 are laminated with the seal agent D and the liquid crystal C interposed therebetween, and at least one of the pair of substrates is a roll-shaped long flexible resin film. When the substrates are laminated, the lower substrate 6 on one hand is aligned to the upper substrate 7 on the other hand in every arbitrary length. With this arrangement, productivity can be improved as well as a positional dislocation due to accumulation of positioning errors can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignees: JSR Corporation, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsuo Nozaki
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Patent number: 8287987Abstract: A ballistic-resistant panel in which the entire panel or a strike-face portion thereof is formed of a plurality of sheets of high modulus high molecular weight polyethylene tape. The sheets of high modulus polyethylene tape can be in the form of cross-plied laminated layers of tape strips or a woven fabric of tape strips. The strips of UHMWPE tape include a width of at least one inch and a modulus of greater than 1400 grams per denier. The ballistic-resistant panel may include a backing layer of conventional high modulus fibers embedded in resin. A wide variety of adhesives were found acceptable for bonding the cross-plied layers of high modulus polyethylene tape together for forming the ballistic-resistant panels of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: BAE Systems Tensylon H.P.M., Inc.Inventors: Fielder Stanton Lyons, Kenneth C. Harding, Lisa Owen, Joseph Mitchell, Gene C. Weedon, Jeffrey A. Mears, Peter Anthony Russell
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Publication number: 20120222798Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a stretchable composite sheet, the first continuous sheet is stretched while being transported from a first nip area to a second nip area. The first continuous sheet is either a sheet in which stretchability has already been developed or a sheet in which stretchability has yet to be developed. An opening is formed in the first continuous sheet intermittently in the transport direction, while transporting the first continuous sheet from the second nip area to a third nip area after the stretching operation. A second continuous sheet having a lower stretchability than the first continuous sheet is overlapped and adhered to the first continuous sheet in the third nip area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Taishi Nakamura, Shinichi Ishikawa, Akihisa Shiomi, Jun Okuda
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Patent number: 8258368Abstract: A reusable and absorptive mat for the absorption, dispersion and retention of a liquid is disclosed. The absorptive mat comprises a plurality of non-woven layers, of carded and randomly laid viscose rayon fibres having a cross-section of substantially rigid multi-limbed configuration. The layers are stitchbonded in an as laid state, thereby substantially limiting entanglement and breaking of individual fibres. The stitchbonding is performed with a thread under limited tension so as to maintain uniformity of the absorptive mat. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing a reusable and washable article for the absorption, dispersion and retention of a liquid comprising providing a plurality of viscose rayon fibres, carding the plurality of fibres, randomly laying the carded fibres into a continuous random web structure and stitchbonding the continuous random web structure in an as laid state.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Inventor: Suzanne Gillies
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Patent number: 8257527Abstract: A laminated stretchable sheet and a method for producing the same of the present invention include: a step of shrinking the continuous sheets W1 and W2 in a width direction Y along folding lines WL extending in the flow direction of continuous sheets W1 and W2 thereby forming slack portions W1b and W2b that can be stretched; a step of placing an elastic member F that can be stretched in the width direction Y on the continuous sheets W1 and W2 while the elastic member F is aligned with the slack portions W1b and W2b; a step of attaching at least opposite end portions of the elastic member F in the width direction Y to the continuous sheets W1 and W2, during the placement, thereby forming a composite sheet; a step of stretching the slack portions W1b and W2b and the elastic member F in the width direction Y; and a step of attaching together the continuous sheets W1 and W2 and the elastic member F intermittently in an intermediate portion between the opposite end portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Zuiko CorporationInventor: Masaki Nakakado
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Publication number: 20120164401Abstract: A fabric having a base layer of a textile made from yarns of a biodegradable polymer, and a visible layer having a biodegradable film that is placed on the base layer as a separate layer, the yarns of the textile being multifilament yarns with a strength of more than 40 cN/tex measured according to DIN EN ISO 2062.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: POLYESTER HIGH PERFORMANCE GMBHInventors: Christian Vieth, Reinhold Kossendey, Axel Konopik
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Patent number: 8206810Abstract: A non-fibrous, high tenacity, highly oriented UHMWPE tape or sheet of high molecular weight having a substantially large aspect ratio, a high tenacity, and a substantially higher tensile modulus. The UHMWPE tape includes an average molecular weight of 2,000,000 or greater, a width of ½-inch or greater, a thickness of between 0.0008 and 0.004 inch, and a modulus of between 1600 and 2500 grams per denier.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Bae Systems Tensylon H. P. M., Inc.Inventors: Kenneth C. Harding, Joseph Evan Mitchell, Wesley B. Petrea
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Publication number: 20120152440Abstract: Apparatus for applying ribbon in a nonlinear pattern to a web includes a guide assembly having a roller adapted to guide the ribbon onto the web as the web is moving in a first direction. A reciprocating device is provided to move at least the roller of the guide assembly back and forth along an axis of motion. The axis of motion is other than parallel to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Greg Malchow, Paul Weber, Jesse Sorenson, Caleb Ihrig
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Patent number: 8182624Abstract: An elastic netting like product is carried between two outer layers of material, such as nonwoven or non-stretch material, which are bonded together at the open areas of the netting like structure. The resulting laminate allows for the outer layers of the laminate to be directly bonded to each other without the stretch engine material being introduced into the bond.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.Inventor: Perry T. Handziak
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Patent number: 8182732Abstract: Here is disclosed a composite sheet comprising substantially non-stretchable nonwoven fabric sheets and a plurality of elastic members extending in a transverse direction and spaced one from another in a longitudinal direction by a given spacing wherein the elastic members are secured in a stretched state to the nonwoven fabric sheets. The composite sheet has a plurality of gathers formed by slightly undulated surface of the nonwoven fabric sheets and the elastic members and these gathers are substantially continuous in the longitudinal direction and arranged at substantially regular intervals in the transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Kazuo Ukegawa, Masato Isono, Hiroaki Kamio, Toru Oba
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Publication number: 20120118485Abstract: A manufacturing method for a composite sheet associated with an absorbent article includes: conveying a continuous body of a sheet continuously in a conveying direction; and bonding a continuous body of an elastic member with the continuous body of the sheet while a position on the continuous body of the sheet at which the continuous body of the elastic member bonds with the continuous body of the sheet is changing continuously in the intersecting direction by transporting the continuous body of the elastic member towards the continuous body of the sheet with a guiding member. The guiding member moves back and forth in an intersecting direction that intersects the conveying direction, and the continuous body of the sheet travels in the conveying direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Noritomo Kameda, Shinichi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8171972Abstract: Disclosed are examples of a strip guide for laterally shifting a longitudinally moving strip material as it enters a joining mechanism that urges the strip material into contact with a moving sheet material, the strip guide comprising a surface over which the strip material passes longitudinally, the surface defining a U-shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joseph Allen Eckstein, Terry Howard Thomas
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Patent number: 8168034Abstract: A manufacturing method of an absorbent article according to the present invention includes the steps of: splitting an elastic member bundle having line-splitting strength within the predetermined range into multiple first elastic members by feeding the elastic member bundle in an MD via a line splitter, the line-splitting strength measured by a predetermined measuring method; applying an adhesive at least on a predetermined curved line on a web continuously conveyed; and placing the multiple elastic members thus split on the web while swinging the elastic members in a CD. The elastic member bundle is formed by splitting a single original elastic member with a slit into the multiple elastic members, and bundling and pressurizing the multiple elastic members.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Otsubo
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Patent number: 8168022Abstract: Process for producing a laminate being built of at least two monolayers of polymeric tapes, the polymeric tapes having a tensile strength of at least 200 MPa, said process comprises the steps of -forming a first monolayer of polymeric tapes by pre-tensioning the polymeric tapes and subsequently positioning the polymeric tapes under tension in a unidirectional, parallel manner, -forming at least a second monolayer over the first monolayer in the same manner the first monolayer is formed, thereby -stacking the at least two monolayers of polymeric tapes in such a way that the direction of the polymeric tapes is the same in every monolayer and that the polymeric tapes of each monolayer are offset to the tapes of the adjoining monolayer above or below that monolayer -consolidating the thus stacked monolayers of polymeric tapes to obtain a laminate.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Novameer B.V.Inventors: Jan Adolph Dam Backer, Bart Clemens Kranz
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Patent number: 8147636Abstract: The present invention provides a method includes the steps of: conveying in a conveyance direction MD a second web in which components forming one part of an absorbent article are sequentially arranged; swinging an elastic member in a cross direction CD at a predetermined cycle by using a swing guide mechanism for guiding the elastic member; and pressing, between one pair of press rollers, the second web on which the elastic member is arranged. The swing guide mechanism has a motor with a rotational shaft, an arm member for guiding the elastic member to a predetermined position on the second web in the cross direction, and a speed reducer provided between the rotational shaft and a base of the arm member to make a rotational speed of the arm member slower than a rotational speed of the rotational shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8133339Abstract: A method of bonding material in a process system for producing a bonded product includes the steps of loading a plurality of rolls of elastomeric material in an unwind system; programming a controller with an unwind speed and a rewind speed, the controller in communication with the unwind system and a rewinder disposed downstream from the unwind system for respective communication of the unwind and rewind speeds to the unwind system and the rewinder; unwinding a quantity of material from the plurality of rolls of elastomeric material into a pressure bonder disposed upstream of the rewinder, the pressure bonder and the rewinder operating faster than the unwind system operating at the unwind speed to generate a speed differential, wherein the speed differential imparts a stretch state to the quantity of material; and bonding the stretched quantity of material with the pressure bonder.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Lars N. Nordang
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Patent number: 8128771Abstract: A method of producing a clothing article including the steps of (a) joining first continuous webs 120a and 120b having stretchability in the longitudinal direction thereof both in a longitudinally stretched state along an edge portion thereof to a longitudinally substantially inextensible second continuous web 120c to make a continuous composite sheet 120, (b) joining the composite sheet 120 obtained in step (a) on its side to a member 130 of the clothing article to make a web assembly 110, and (c) cutting the web assembly 110 obtained in step (b) to length.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Masanori Endo, Kenji Ando, Shinnosuke Morita, Takuo Yanashima
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Patent number: 8114235Abstract: A method of continuously making a disposable pants-type diaper includes feeding first and second webs in a machine direction and bonding the first and second webs together to obtain first composite web. From the first composite web, a substantially circular section defined between each pair of the adjacent chassis in the middle region as viewed in the cross direction is clipped out to obtain a second composite web. The second composite web is folded in two and halves of the second web facing each other are locally bonded together by bonding agent to obtain a third composite web. The third composite web is provided on both sides of a cutting line extending in the cross direction with seal regions to obtain a fourth composite web and finally the fourth composite web is cut along the cutting line to obtain the individual pants-type diapers.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Otsubo
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Patent number: 8114234Abstract: An apparatus for producing an elastomeric nonwoven laminate including a plurality of elastomeric strands joined to a nonwoven web in a controlled distribution is provided. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a plurality of elastomeric strands onto a cooled surface of a rotating drum, which transports the strands in parallel alignment to a nip formed between two rollers rotating about parallel axis. The drum transfers the plurality of strands to the nip in a controlled distribution where it is bonded with the nonwoven. The apparatus also includes elements which automate the apparatus for creating the elastomeric nonwoven laminate.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Uwe Schneider, Randall Allen Myers, Christoph Johann Schmitz, Martin Geoffrey Scaife
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Patent number: 8114236Abstract: Disclosed is a method of continuously making a disposable pants-type diaper having a body waste receiving pocket. A first web is continuously fed in a machine direction and a second web is continuously fed onto the first web and is folded back onto itself in a cross direction and locally bonded together along opposite edges thereof to obtain a third web. The third web is superposed on the first web and then the first web and the third web are bonded to each other to obtain a first composite web. From between the adjacent chassis in a second composite web defined by the first and third webs, substantially semicircular web pieces are clipped out to obtain third composite web on both sides of a cutting line to obtain a fourth composite web which is cut along the cutting line to obtain the individual pants-type diapers.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Otsubo