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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2019
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Robert Earl Andrews, Sheboygan, WI (US);
David Edward Schuette, Kiel, WI (US);
Jeffrey Wayne Fritz, Plymouth, WI (US);
Justin Marshall Lafferty, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Abstract
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.