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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1996
James A Keighley, Wyoming, OH (US);
Donald L Gerber, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael G Nease, Fairfield, OH (US);
Mark D Midkiff, Fairfield, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for manufacturing side panels for use with disposable articles including the following steps: providing a web of material in a machine direction, the web having activation zones and designated final cut regions; activating the activation zones; making a series of intermediate cuts in the web, each of the intermediate cuts extending across at least a portion of one of the activation zones; making a folded web by folding the web along an axis that is generally parallel to said machine direction; and cutting the folded web in the designated final cut regions to provide individual extensible side panels.