Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

David Michael Clemens

Debra Hartley Durrance

Scott Gerald Chapple

Robert Lee Popp

Marcille Faye Ruman

Charles Robert Tomsovic

Richard John Schmidt

Michael Lee Lohoff

Kent Allan Franklin

Jason Gene Csida

Jesse Paul Sorenson

Heather Schenck Mortell

Kurt Garrett Krupka

David James Van Eperen

Larry Dean Primeau

Rodney Steele Gardinier

David Michael Lehner

Steven L Schnasse

Steven James Langolf

Joseph Donald Schmidt

Scott John Andrew Swanson

A method of tucking a pair of refastenable side seams into a body portion of a pant-like garment in which the fold locations can be controlled and the likelihood of creases occurring in the fastening components is reduced or eliminated. The garment is positioned either on one vacuum conveyor or between an upper vacuum conveyor and a lower vacuum conveyor. Vacuum zones from the conveyors hold the garment in place. While the garment is held by the vacuum zones, the refastenable side seams are pushed between the front and back regions toward one another with the fastening components being placed in a flat configuration.

Method of tucking refastenable side seams

A process for making prefastened and refastenable garments includes providing a plurality of discrete articles with mating fastening components disposed in the waist regions. First fastening components are separated from one another by an initial transverse distance. The waist region containing the first fastening components is modified to transversely displace these fastening components to a post displacement distance that is not equal to the initial distance. The process allows for convenient alignment of the fastening components to form refastenable seams.

Presentation of fastening components for making prefastened and refastenable pants

A method and apparatus for unwinding a web material that defines a plurality of integral lanes with separators disposed between the lanes. At least one lane of the web material can be torn along a separator without using a cutting or slitting device while maintaining one or more other lanes on the roll.

Method and apparatus for unwinding web materials

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Menasha, WI, United States of America

David Michael Clemens