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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2000
Jerome L. Kistner, Cleves, OH (US);
Gerard C. Fournier, Oakdale, LA (US);
Brian J. Reilly, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Todd J. Statt, Kings Mill, OH (US);
Paul G. Tiettmeyer, Harrison, OH (US);
Curtis H. Van Valkenburgh, Milford, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for aligning a continuous web of material with an entry point of a machine that utilizes the web as a source material. The web may include pre-processed materials that may be thicker than conventional webs and/or have uneven thickness, and/or are susceptible to excessive compression forces and/or tensions which may be found in ordinary straight-wound rolls. Such pre-processed materials may be wound in traverse-wound rolls or festooned into a container forming a web source structure which is wider than the web width. The web is pulled from such web source structure by the machine through a series of guides which include surfaces having various properties and shapes to create tensions in the web and to align the web with the entry point of the machine.