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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1994
Russell P Bridges, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James R Golan, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ronald H Helton, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Stephen J Lange, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael J Madill, Wyoming, OH (US);
Michael G Nease, Fairfield, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for combining a tensioned garter with a substrate while holding the garter in a predetermined shape. A mandrel has a perimeter of the desired garter shape. An elastic garter is stretched and placed onto the mandrel such that an upper portion of the garter extends above a top surface of the mandrel while a lower portion of the garter clings to a side wall of the mandrel. The upper portion of the garter has sufficient elastic tension to cause it to fold over onto the top surface of the mandrel to form a garter flange. A substrate is then engaged with the garter flange and a sealing means seals the flange to the substrate, using the top surface of the mandrel as an anvil.