3M Innovative Properties Company

Bradley S McKay

Peter Joseph Fritz

Stanley L Conwell

Paul J Richtman

Richard Louis Fry

Michael Sean Bates

James W Malaske

Darla A Elgin

Bruce W Livermore

Douglas E Devaney

An apparatus for making a surface treating article, and in one embodment for making a plurality of surface treating articles. The apparatus includes an attaching means for attaching a fastener to a surface treating web and a cutting means for cutting the web around the fastener to provide a surface treating article. In one embodiment, a sensor, such as a machine vision system, senses a position of the fastener on the web, with this sensed position being used to direct operation of the cutting means.

Apparatus for making a surface treating article

A surface treating article including a surface treating member and a fastener including a fiducial. The present invention also provides a preferred method of making a surface treating article that includes to a method of sensing the location of a fasteners on a surface treating web and thereafter cutting the surface treating web around the fastener to provide a surface treating article.

Method of making a surface treating article and such a surface treating article

Method of making a surface treating article

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New Ulm, MN, United States of America

Bradley S McKay