Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
493343000 | Including assembling or disassembling of distinct members | 30 |
20090018005 | Display easel, device and method - A display easel is provided having a base or first panel which includes a horizontal supporting tab and a vertical restraining tab spaced in vertical relation to the supporting tab. The horizontal supporting tab has a first hinge that enables movement of the supporting tab relative to the panel body, preferably to about 90 degrees, into a position for supporting the first panel. The vertical restraining tab has a second hinge which enables movement of the vertical restraining tab relative to the panel body, preferably between about 120 degrees and 160 degrees, to permit abutment of the vertical restraining tab to the horizontal supporting tab and to restrain movement of the horizontal supporting tab. By restraining movement of the horizontal supporting tab, the display easel is maintained in an upright position. A method of forming a display easel is also provided which enables the display easel to be rapidly and economically manufactured in large quantities, such as through the use of web press equipment. | 01-15-2009 |
20120083399 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A HIP PANEL FOR A DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method for manufacturing a hip panel for a disposable absorbent article includes feeding a web to a cutting apparatus. The web is cut at a first location with the cutting apparatus to form a curved lower edge of the hip panel. The web is cut at a second location with the cutting apparatus to form a curved upper edge of the hip panel. The curved lower edge and the curved upper edge are substantially identical with respect to each other. | 04-05-2012 |
20120178604 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WELDING AND SEPARATING PACKAGING MATERIALS FOR A PACKAGE - The invention relates to a device for welding and separating a packaging material ( | 07-12-2012 |
20120190523 | MACHINE FOR MAKING ABSORBENT ITEMS - A machine for making absorbent items comprises a conveyor ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120208688 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing an absorbent article includes forming a pair of side flap-folded sections by folding a continuous sheet such that end sections in a width direction of the continuous sheet are folded inwardly in the width direction, while the continuous sheet is being transported in a continuous direction of the continuous sheet, producing a flap segment by segmenting the continuous sheet at a predetermined pitch in the continuous direction, joining the flap segment to a continuous body of absorbent main bodies in an overlapped manner, while the continuous body of absorbent main bodies is being transported in a transport direction corresponding to a continuous direction of the continuous body, and dividing the flap segment into a section having the pair of first side flaps and a section having the pair of second side flaps by segmenting the continuous body of absorbent main bodies. | 08-16-2012 |
20130184137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING DISPOSABLE WORN ARTICLE - A method for manufacturing a disposable worn article, including: severing a continuous web W along a cut-off line L | 07-18-2013 |
20140249010 | MACHINE FOR MAKING ABSORBENT SANITARY ARTICLES - A machine for making absorbent sanitary articles includes a feed conveyor on which a continuous web of material for making the articles is advanced along a feed line in a first direction. A forming and application unit forms and applies by which at least one pair of accessory elements for each article and includes a device for feeding a continuous succession of accessory elements and a conveying unit. The conveying unit includes a conveyor roller for the continuous succession of accessory elements, and a separating device defined by a first and a second spacer roller which are substantially tangent to the conveyor roller at a first and a second pickup station, respectively. The first and the second spacer roller have retaining and alternate movement devices including respective pickup pads which are slidable along a second direction and which are driven by a respective linear electric motor. | 09-04-2014 |
20140274641 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING A CARD WITH EDGE INDICATORS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems used to manufacture cards that comprise indicators on the edge of the card stock to help identify the cards. The dies comprise projections formed as ridges, grooves, dimples, burrs, protrusions, or other like projections. The projections on the dies are used to stamp out card stock having the desired indicators. The indicators on the card stock may be projections on the edge of the card stock in the form of ridges, grooves, dimples, burrs, protrusions, or other like projections that provide at least a portion of the edge of the card stock with a textured surface. | 09-18-2014 |
20150119219 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE HAVING FULLY ENCIRCLING BODYSIDE AND GARMENT-SIDE WAISTBAND - A method for manufacturing absorbent articles comprises delivering a continuous web assembly including a backsheet material, a liquid permeable bodyside liner material, and an absorbent structure interposed between the backsheet material and the bodyside liner material, the web assembly having a body-facing side and a garment-facing side; attaching a discrete segment of first waist elastic material to the body-facing side of the web assembly; attaching a discrete segment of second waist elastic material to the garment-facing side of the web assembly such that the web assembly is interposed between the discrete segments of first and second waist elastic materials; and cutting the web assembly to form a plurality of absorbent articles. | 04-30-2015 |
493344000 | Comprising bringing two members together | 21 |
20110045957 | Ventilation Board, Ventilation Box, Ventilation System, Insulating Board and Method for Manufacturing Ventilation Board and Box - The present invention relates to a ventilation board, an insulating board, a ventilation system, and articles and architectural applications comprising said ventilation board and a method of manufacturing the ventilation board. The said ventilation board comprises a layer ( | 02-24-2011 |
20120065043 | Method of Making Disposable Absorbent Diaper Pants - Aspects of the methods according to the present disclosure relate to the fabrication of diaper pants wherein discrete chassis are advanced in a machine direction such that the longitudinal axis is parallel with the machine direction. Discrete lengths of elastic belt materials are then connected with the first waist region of a first advancing chassis and the second waist region of a second advancing chassis. The lengths of elastic belt materials are cut along the cross-direction between the discrete chassis forming a first elastic belt and a second elastic belt; the chassis are subsequently folded; and the first and second elastic belts disposed on the chassis are bonded together to create a discrete diaper pant. This apparatus and process configuration forms a continuous web of articles formed by intermittently spaced chassis and intermittently spaced elastic belts bridging the gap between the intermittently spaced chassis. | 03-15-2012 |
20130231233 | PROCESS FOR MAKING ABSORBENT COMPONENT - A process for making an absorbent component comprises the steps of providing individual sheets of fibrous material, conveying the individual sheets of fibrous material to a cutting edge of a cutting mechanism, feeding the individual sheets of fibrous material through an oscillating clamping gap formed between a clamping mechanism and the cutting mechanism, grinding the individual sheets of fibrous material to form fibrous shreds, and laying the fibrous shreds on a forming belt to form the absorbent component. | 09-05-2013 |
20130331250 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRIMMING MATERIAL FROM A WEB - Unattached elastic portions of an elasticised web are grasped and raised above a support surface for feeding the elasticised web. The raised portions are brought into contact with a knife blade that is positioned to protrude through the thickness of the raised elastic layer into free space so as to remain spaced from the support surface that is moving beneath the blade in a direction normal to the support surface. The raised elastic layer is held raised during trimming with the knife blade by an elevation element over which the elastic layer runs. A grasping device holds the unattached portion being cut in a taut state in the cross machine direction. The elastic layer thus spans across the elevation element and the grasping device. The knife blade extends through the thickness of the elastic layer along the spanned part of the elastic layer into free space. | 12-12-2013 |
20140221185 | DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Absorbent article production equipment that includes: a forming mechanism for forming the absorbent articles; a conveyance mechanism for conveying the absorbent articles formed by the forming mechanism; and a counting mechanism for counting the absorbent articles supplied from the conveyance mechanism. The counting mechanism comprises: multiple guide members for holding the absorbent articles; a movement member for moving the guide members in a horizontal direction; and a support member disposed below the guide members in the vertical direction. The guide members protrude from the outer circumferential surface of the movement member in the horizontal direction. Opposing surfaces of the guide members that face each other are vertical surfaces which hold an absorbent article therebetween. The conveyance mechanism places the absorbent articles from above the guide members in the vertical direction between the guide members and parallel to the opposing surfaces. | 08-07-2014 |
20150018188 | FOIL PROCESSING DEVICE - A foil processing device comprises at least two supply units for supplying at least two foils for processing, a processing unit for processing the at least two foils to each other and a transport unit for transporting the foils from the supply unit to the processing unit. At least one of the foils is segmented comprising mechanically weak zones separating subsequent foil segments for enabling real-time correction of a relative position between the foils. The transport unit includes at least two support members for supporting at least two subsequent segments of the segmented foil. | 01-15-2015 |
20150024919 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING DISPOSABLE WORN ARTICLE - A method includes: a severing step of successively producing a plurality of panels from a continuous web; an interval-increasing step of increasing an interval in width direction between a pair of panels, adjacent to each other in flow direction; a receiving step of receiving the panels by first and second rollers at first and second receiving positions, which are separated from each other in flow direction, wherein the first and second rollers for receiving the panels are placed so that axial lines of the first and second rollers are placed offset from each other in flow direction of the panels; and a placement step for placing the panels, from the rollers at first and second hand-over positions which are separated from each other in flow direction, onto opposite side portions of a body portion at the same position in the longitudinal direction of the body portion. | 01-22-2015 |
20150119220 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR MAKING INTERMEDIATE COMPONENT OF SINGLE USE CAPSULES FOR BEVERAGES - A method for making an intermediate component ( | 04-30-2015 |
20160100991 | PANT-TYPE DIAPER AND CORRESPONDING MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND APPARATUS - A prefastened, refastenable pant and methods and apparatus for preparing the same are provided. The pant comprises a chassis having a leading and trailing edge, and first and second lateral edges, wherein the chassis is folded-over along a transverse fold line orthogonal to the first and second lateral edges of the chassis. A pair of first side panels may be attached to the chassis proximal one of the leading and trailing edge of the chassis, each comprising a first fastening component. A pair of second side panels may be attached to the chassis proximal another of the leading and trailing edge of the chassis, each comprising a second fastening component. Each of the pair of first side panels is detachably secured to the chassis and the first fastening components and second fastening components are refastenably engaged between the first and second lateral edges of the chassis. | 04-14-2016 |
493345000 | Indeterminate length member | 7 |
20130172166 | PROCESS FOR MAKING ABSORBENT ARTICLES - A continuous process for making an absorbent article in a converting line comprises the step of providing a nonwoven web, an apertured formed film, a backsheet material, and an absorbent core material. The process further comprises the steps of slitting the non woven web along its length to form a first sub-web and a second sub-web of approximately equal width; superposing the first sub-web, the apertured formed film, the second sub-web, the absorbent core material and the backsheet material in that order or reverse order; and forming the absorbent article by attaching and cutting the superposed first sub-web, the apertured formed film, the second sub-web, the absorbent core material and the backsheet material. | 07-04-2013 |
20160166442 | Method and Apparatus for Attaching Components to Absorbent Articles | 06-16-2016 |
20160250079 | COMPOSITE SHEET MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND COMPOSITE SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD | 09-01-2016 |
493346000 | Plural indeterminate length members | 4 |
20120302417 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing an underpants-type absorbent article having an outer body provided with a mutually separate front piece, back piece and connecting sheet, and wherein the front piece and the back piece are mutually joined at side areas and are mutually connected by the connecting sheet extending in the front-to-rear direction at the crotch area, and an inner body containing an absorptive body and which is overlapped and anchored to the connecting sheet on the inside of the outer body, comprises, in turn, transporting a continuous body of the front piece in the form of a front piece web and a continuous body of the back piece in the form of a back piece web in a machine direction while maintaining a spacing area in a cross-machine direction, forming a continuous body of the outer body in the form of an outer body web by attaching the connecting sheet to the front piece web and the back piece web at intervals in the machine direction so as to straddle the spacing area, cutting the outer body web in order to form edges that define leg holes, and attaching the inner body to the outer body web. | 11-29-2012 |
20140274642 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT REFASTENABLE ARTICLES COMPRISING FOLDED FASTENING TAB MEMBERS - A method for making a refastenable article may comprise the steps of: (1) conveying a first belt web comprising a first nonwoven layer and a first pre-strained elastic element along a machine direction; (2) conveying a second belt web comprising a second nonwoven layer and a second pre-strained elastic element along a machine direction; (3) conveying a continuous fastening web comprising a first fastening tab member along the machine direction; (4) folding the first fastening tab member; (5) cutting the fastening web into discrete webs; (6) rotating the discrete fastening web; (7) directly or refastenably joining the discrete fastening web to one of the belt webs; (8) joining the first and second belt webs to a chassis comprising a core; (9) folding the article over a lateral axis, such that the first and second belt webs generally overlap; (10) refastenably joining the first and second belt webs; and (11) cutting through the discrete fastening web to form multiple refastenable absorbent articles. | 09-18-2014 |
20160158401 | SANITARY ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A sanitary article includes an absorbent pad including an upper sheet layer, a lower sheet layer, and a pulp-and-SAP powder layer combination. The powder layer combination is constituted by alternate layers of pulverized pulp and superabsorbent polymer (SAP) powder. A method for making the sanitary article is also disclosed. | 06-09-2016 |
20160175161 | Apparatuses and Methods for Making Absorbent Articles with Low Intensity Inner Belt Edge and Leg Opening Edge Regions | 06-23-2016 |
493350000 | And securing by interfitting | 5 |
20090082187 | DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE AND METHOD - A dunnage conversion machine ( | 03-26-2009 |
20110263403 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE FOR MEN - Absorbent article for men intended for single use and having longitudinal side edges, a rear end edge and a front end edge and comprising an inner liquid-permeable surface layer, an outer liquid-impermeable surface layer and an absorbent body arranged therebetween. The absorbent body tapers from a front end portion towards a rear end portion. During use, the article is intended to be arranged over the genitals of the wearer and to extend forwards with its wider end portion in the direction of the abdomen area of the wearer and to extend backwards with its narrower end portion a little way below the penis of the wearer. The article comprises an elastic element attached to the liquid-permeable surface layer along at least parts of the longitudinal side edges of the article. The elastic element is attached to the liquid-permeable surface layer along longitudinal edges lying opposite one another of the elastic element. A cut is arranged between the attachments in the form of a slit or cutout. The cut extends through a front edge of the elastic element in the direction of a rear edge, the elastic element being provided by means of the cut with inner edges arranged above the liquid-permeable surface layer. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such an article. | 10-27-2011 |
20130203578 | Apparatus and Method for Producing a Thatch Roofing Material for Building Construction - To produce a thatch roofing material from waste plastic bottles, an apparatus includes a device for cutting the bottles into one or more strips. The device may include a decontouring unit that removes contours from the bottles and a heated clamp that fuses the strips together lengthwise to create a plastic tape. A bottle may be formed into rectangular stock by removing the top and bottom and longitudinally cutting the middle part. The rectangular stock may be cut into the cut strips, such as with a wire cutter. The plastic tape may be used to create folded thatch components by cutting, from the plastic tape, one or more slats and one or more thatch roofing material strips, and folding and attaching the thatching roofing material strips to the slats. Serrated ties may be cut from the plastic tape and used to fasten the folded thatch components to a building structure. | 08-08-2013 |
493351000 | Work penetrating member | 2 |
20130190156 | FASTENING TOOL - A fastening tool can be held by a single hand and can obviate the necessity of application of strong force when fastening sheets of paper together. The fastening tool has a construction in which a placing table configured to move only in a vertical direction is provided at an inner upper portion of a base member, a paper holding member configured to move in a vertical direction is disposed above the placing table, a handle member is mounted on the base member so as to rotate relative thereto about a position lying near a rear end thereof, and a portion of the handle member which lies inside and further rearwards than a central portion of the handle member is formed into a pressing portion, whereby an upper surface of a rear portion of the paper holding member is pressed down directly by the pressing portion. | 07-25-2013 |
20140235418 | Partitioned Game Card Holder Using Monocoque Construction - The invention provides an improved game playing card holder made from monocoque construction providing a plurality of card compartments using raised fins through linear slits in the frame. The fins protrude vertically from the card holding surface provides a separation boundary between card types as required by individual game requirements. The rear support of the card compartment is a common wall providing a uniform presentation of the decks to the dealer. The supporting top surface is raised at an approximate 20 degree angle from the base, with the front card edge of each deck protruding beyond the front support of the card base, allowing ease of access to the cards to create improved card handling and dealing characteristics of the holder. The metallic structure allows application of electrostatic powder coat finishes providing long durability with enhanced appearance. | 08-21-2014 |