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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2006
Richard George Coe, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Claudio Antonio Matos, Belleville, CA;
Kazuya Ogawa, Akashi, JP;
Michael Joseph Page, Springfield Township, OH (US);
Richard William Hamm, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Richard George Coe, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Claudio Antonio Matos, Belleville, CA;
Kazuya Ogawa, Akashi, JP;
Michael Joseph Page, Springfield Township, OH (US);
Richard William Hamm, Cincinnati, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A folding system is provided for folding at least one wing extending from a central chassis of each of a plurality of absorbent articles formed from a continuous moving web moving in a longitudinal direction. The folding system has a wing-folding conveyor and at least one elongated, folding plow, which has an entrance end, an exit end and an inner edge that define a twist axis. The folding plow has a contoured surface having a configuration defined by a twist angle that increases along the twist axis from zero degrees near the entrance end to 180 degrees near the exit end. The wing-folding conveyor moves the central chassis along the inner edge of the folding plow and the wing slides against the contoured surface from the entrance end to the exit end, such that the wing folds around the central chassis near the inner edge.