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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2014
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
John A. McCabe, Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Gottfried Jason Hohm, Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Anthony A. Nelson, New Holstein, WI (US);
Zachary J. Giffey, Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods are provided for folding discrete items such as diapers at high speeds. Discrete items are conveyed in a machine direction toward a pair of vacuum drums rotating in the machine direction and first carrying a top side of a leading edge of the discrete item away from the conveyor, and then carrying a bottom side of the leading edge with a second rotational vacuum drum back towards the conveyor. The diaper fold is created at a contact point with a folding finger which travels rotationally and straight in a fixed orientation about a pair of belts, into and out of contact with the diaper.