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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Michael Barth Venturino, Appleton, WI (US);
David Willis Heyn, Neenah, WI (US);
Leon Robert Flesburg, Neenah, WI (US);
Mark Charles Jacobs, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus ( ) for making an absorbent article can include a delivering of a first contoured web-strip ( ) from a first production supply ( ) of contoured web-strip material, with the first contoured web-strip ( ) presenting a primary production sequence of side edge contours during its delivery. At least a second contoured web-strip ( ) can be delivered from a second production supply ( ) of the contoured web-strip material, with the second contoured web-strip ( ) also presenting the primary production sequence of side edge contours during its delivery. In a particular aspect, the first and second contoured web-strips ( and ) have been produced from a web ( ) of absorbent material which has been divided to provided at least two web-strips ( ) having a substantially nested configuration. In another aspect, the first web-strip ( ) provides a first orientation which presents a first sequence of side edge contours; and the second web-strip ( ) provides a longitudinally-reversed orientation which presents a different, substantially reversed sequence of side edge contours. In an additional aspect, the web-strips ( ) have been separately stored to provide the first and second production supplies ( ) of contoured web-strip material.