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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2015
O&m Halyard, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Nathan Craig Harris, Canton, GA (US);
Joseph P. Weber, Suwanee, GA (US);
Ajay Y. Houde, Johns Creek, GA (US);
David Lamar Harrington, Cumming, GA (US);
Mark Thomas Pamperin, Cumming, GA (US);
O&M Halyard, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for placing nose wires in a facemask production line. A supply of individual pre-cut nose wires are supplied to a dispenser in the production line. With the dispenser, the nose wires are metered at a defined spacing and orientation onto a running carrier web that is conveyed past the dispenser. The carrier web and nose wires deposited thereon are conveyed to a folding station wherein a binder web is folded over an edge of the carrier web such that the nose wires are encapsulated between the binder web and the carrier web.