Curt G. Joa, Inc.

Depre, LLC

Other

Curt G. Joe, Inc.

Joa, Curt G., Inc.

Robert E Andrews

Jeffrey Wayne Fritz

John A McCabe

Gottfried Jason Hohm

Jason Hohm

Jeff W Fritz

Adam D DeNoble

Sean P Follen

Dennis J Faucher

Christopher A Schwartz

Chris Lee Nelson

Christopher J Nelson

David Edward Schuette

Justin Marshall Lafferty

Noel Horneck

Tyler W Pagel

Alan J Rabe

Brian G Jankuski

Ethan Edward Valentine

Darren Horness

Ryan M Ferguson

Scott A Roehrborn

Sam Griffin

Jeffrey Dale Brown

Anthony A Nelson

Mark Edward Justice

William Todd Klempnauer

Christopher Joseph Schulze

Samuel E Darcy

Todd Max Cupp

Daniel Van Dyke

Jeffrey Alan Middlesworth

Peter Jenquin

Brian R Krueger

Sudeep Ingole

Donald Roy Dodelin

Debra Heus Bowe

Song V Sayaovong

Thomas Muhs

Hubert P Van De Pas

James H Rhines

Mark E Justice

Robert Herberg

Peter Strains

Brian G Januski

Adam D De Noble

Christopher J Schwartz

Adam D Denoble

John Mccabe

Pete Strains

Chris J Nelson

Samuel Griffin

Darren R Horness

John A Mccabe

Donald R Dodelin

Peter J Jenquin

Brian Jankuski

Jeffrey W Fritz

Chris Nelson

Lafferty Justin M

Absorbent garments are made by applying a refastenable material to a continuous panel web, folding the panel web, cutting the folded panel web into discrete folded panels, and aligning the folded panels with perforations in a continuous elasticized waist web. Discrete folded patches are coupled to the elastic web via the refastenable material and the perforation cuts are broken to form a continuous waistband. Absorbent cores are coupled between the continuous waistband and a second continuous waistband, which are cut to form the absorbent garments. The manufacturing apparatus includes a perforation cutter that forms perforation cuts in a continuous waist web comprising elastic elements positioned between facing web layers, a panel applicator that cuts a folded panel web into discrete panels and attaches the discrete panels to the waist web about the perforation cut. A breakage system separates the waist web at the perforation cuts and unfolds the discrete panels.

Method of making elasticized waistband for use in an absorbent garment

Medical gown

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

A web unwinding and splicing system includes a turret unwind having a turret arm with rotatable shafts at opposing ends thereof to unwind a running web of an expiring web material roll and unwind a waiting web of a new web material roll. A web splicing unit operable with the turret unwind includes a web deflection device that bumps the running web onto the waiting web to splice the running web with the waiting web and a cutting device that selectively severs the running web, thereby creating a leading portion of the running web that is spliced to the waiting web and a trailing portion of the running web that remains separate from the waiting web. A vacuum system is positioned proximate the running web to suction in the trailing portion of the running web left on the expiring web material roll.

Disposable product assembly systems and methods

An apparatus and method for manufacturing an elastic composite structure for an absorbent sanitary product includes a bonding unit configured to bond a first web layer to a second web layer via a bond pattern that includes at least one bond line having at least one pair of adjacent bonds. The bonding unit secures an elastic thread within a passage defined by the at least one pair of adjacent bonds. The passage has a cross-sectional area smaller than a cross-sectional area of the elastic thread in a non-tensioned state.

Apparatus and method of manufacturing an elastic composite structure for an absorbent sanitary product

An apparatus for manufacturing an elastic composite structure for an absorbent sanitary product includes an anvil with weld pattern comprising at least one anchoring region and at least one deactivating region. The anchoring region includes anchoring welds that form anchoring bonds that fuse facing web layers and anchor elastic thread(s) in position relative to the facing web layers. The deactivating region includes a break bar constructed to sever the thread(s). A method of manufacturing the elastic composite structure includes positioning a tensioned elastic thread between web layers, fusing the web layers to form an anchored zone that includes anchoring bonds that fuse the web layers and anchor the tensioned elastic thread therebetween, and cutting the thread to form a deactivated zone between adjacent portions of the anchored zone that is free of tensioned threads. The method further includes fusing the web layers within the deactivated zone.

The present invention provides a method of providing a disposable product with zero waste ear formation and attaching the ears to a running chassis web.

Method for application of nested zero waste ear to traveling web

A machine for producing disposable products anticipates when a current run of a product size is coming to an end, and therefore begins loading of material rolls intended for the next product size or code that will be run. An integrated production facility layout automatically orders and stocks raw material based on production plans, and commands a production machine to produce specific products of differing configurations, and automatically loads appropriately sized raw materials into the process.

The present invention provides a method of providing a disposable product with a contoured leg opening. In this method at least one chip is removed from at least one ear of a disposable product. The chip may be removed from an ear prior to attaching the ear to the chassis web. Alternatively, the chip may be removed from the ear after the ear is attached to the chassis web.

Methods and apparatus for application of nested zero waste ear to traveling web

A variable interference anvil and knife combination is provided to selectively sever elastics in a laminate and preferably not sever the nonwoven portions of the laminate. The distance between the anvil and the knife can be programmatically altered to provide for smaller or larger gaps as processing speeds are changed.

Methods and apparatus for elastic deactivation in a laminate

Methods and apparatus for transporting either an entire web or discrete components of disposable products such as diaper components down the machine using mechanical forces to grip the nonwoven web and transfer it from one belt or roll to another without or reducing added vacuum. There is a carrier nonwoven web that goes down the length of the machine and other substrates are added on top of this layer, and the machine provides sufficient gripping to allow transport of diaper components through the fabrication process. Securing and releasing forces are supplied so that the components can be retained at some points and released at others.

Apparatus and methods for transporting webs of material

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Sheboygan, WI, United States of America

Robert E Andrews