The Procter Gamble Company

Don Randell Greer

Joseph Allen Eckstein

Blanca Arizti

Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko

Kevin Michael Smith

Paul Anthony Kawka

Gemma Baquer Molas

Simone Seeboth

David Richard Tucker

Terry Howard Thomas

David James Dahlinger

Disclosed are examples of a system for regulating the longitudinal strain in a longitudinal member being conveyed in a machine direction. The system may include a downstream mechanism that draws the longitudinal member in a machine direction, first and second control points upstream of the downstream mechanism, and a strain control mechanism disposed between the first and second control points. The strain control mechanism may include a strain motor with a drive shaft to which a travel path extension arm is coupled, and a travel path extension guide mounted on the travel path extension arm and in contact with the longitudinal member. The system may be configured and arranged such that rotation of the drive shaft effects rotation of the travel path extension arm and of the guide, thereby altering the distance of a travel path segment of the longitudinal member between the first and second control points.

System and method for high-speed continuous application of a strip material to a moving sheet-like substrate material

A disposable absorbent article is claimed that comprised a backsheet and an absorbent core and a core coversheet or topsheet, that in use faces the wearer, and one or more cuffs (), comprising one or more longitudinally extending elastic laminate portion(s) (), formed by at least an elastic material () attached to a supporting sheet () of said cuff (), said laminate portion(s) () comprising in at least relaxed and partially contracted state a body-facing surface with a multitude of wrinkles, and whereby said elastic laminate portion () has an absolute contracted length Land a fully stretched absolute length L,

Absorbent articles with comfortable elasticated laminates

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Lockland, OH, United States of America

Don Randell Greer