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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1999
Manfred Ruhrig, Weinheim, DE;
Gordon Klassen, Duarte, CA (US);
Meto International GmbH, Hirschhorn, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a device for joining a first web material to a second web material, in which the first web material is divided into individual sections of a predetermined length while the second web material is continuous. According to the present invention the method and device permitting sections of a first web material to be applied without waste to a second web material. With regard to the method, the first web material is applied to a substrate, by separating every two successive sections of the first web material (,) from each other so that they are spaced by a predetermined relative distance, and by applying the sections to the second web material at the noted relative distance.