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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2017
O&m Halyard, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Joseph P. Weber, Suwanee, GA (US);
Mark T. Pamperin, Cumming, GA (US);
Anthony S. Spencer, Woodstock, GA (US);
Eric C. Steindorf, Roswell, GA (US);
David L. Harrington, Cumming, GA (US);
O&M Halyard, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Abstract
An automated system and method for the manufacture of facemasks from a web of a textile product in a production line is provided. The web is conveyed in the production line along a machine direction. A first tie is attached at a tie attaching station to the web of the textile product, such that the first tie extends from the web in a cross-machine direction perpendicular to the machine direction. The web and first tie are cut at a cutting station in the cross-machine direction across a width of the web in the cross-machine direction to form a facemask separate from the web.