Curt G. Joa, Inc.

Adam D DeNoble

Gottfried Jason Hohm

Robert E Andrews

Jeffrey Wayne Fritz

Dennis J Faucher

Jeffrey Dale Brown

Alan J Rabe

Christopher J Nelson

Darren Horness

Sean P Follen

Ryan M Ferguson

Christopher A Schwartz

Tyler W Pagel

Brian G Jankuski

Chris Lee Nelson

Brian R Krueger

Apparatus and methods are provided to minimize waste and improve quality and production in web processing operations. The apparatus and methods provide defect detection in deposition of acquisition material, which on current machines frequently flips and is difficult to detect when it has flipped causing manufacturers to scrap thousands of products. Using the present invention, defects are able to be detected by discerning a difference in the appearance from side to side with a vision camera, and an acquisition inverter can flip the material to a correct orientation.

Apparatus and method for web twist defect correction

Apparatus and methods are provided to minimize waste and improve quality and production in web processing operations. The apparatus and methods provide defect detection both before and after application of component patches to a traveling web to create a product. Web defect detection may be provided by way of at least one visual inspection station located upstream from the patch applicator. Patch defect detection may be accomplished by way of a visual inspection station located proximate the patch applicator. If defects are detected in either the traveling web or the component patch prior to patch application, patch application may be prevented until both a satisfactory web and patch are provided. If defects are detected after patch application, the resulting product may be culled. Furthermore, the apparatus may be provided with diagnostic software to warn against extant or imminent machine complications.

Apparatus and method for minimizing waste and improving quality and production in web processing operations by automatic cuff defect correction

The present invention provides machinery used to create products (for instance disposable products). The machinery is operated at high speed, with the machine occupying a small footprint. Materials can be fed into the manufacturing process vertically (from above or below), using assembly stations to feed completed components into the system at appropriate stations. Additionally, restocking of raw components can be accomplished by robotic means of transferring the raw material from staging areas into infeeding or splicing stations, without the need for human operators.

Methods and apparatus for forming disposable products at high speeds with small machine footprint

Apparatus and method for minimizing waste and improving quality and production in web processing operations

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DePere, WI, United States of America

Adam D DeNoble