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Patent No.:

US 9622917 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017

Filed:

May. 31, 2013

Apparatus for manufacturing absorbent articles and method for manufacturing absorbent articles

Applicant:

Unicharm Corporation, Shikokuchuo-shi, Ehime, JP;

Inventors:

Kenji Takeuchi, Kanonji, JP;

Taizo Horiwaki, Kanonji, JP;

Assignee:

UNICHARM CORPORATION, Ehime, JP;

Attorney:

Hauptman Ham, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Linda L Gray

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 13/15 (2006.01); B32B 37/20 (2006.01); B32B 38/04 (2006.01); A61F 13/49 (2006.01); B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B32B 37/18 (2006.01); B32B 38/00 (2006.01); B32B 37/02 (2006.01); B32B 37/14 (2006.01); B32B 37/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 13/15601 (2013.01); A61F 13/15609 (2013.01); A61F 13/49017 (2013.01); B32B 37/0046 (2013.01); B32B 37/18 (2013.01); B32B 38/0004 (2013.01); B32B 38/0012 (2013.01); A61F 13/15699 (2013.01); A61F 13/15723 (2013.01); A61F 13/15764 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49038 (2013.01); B32B 37/02 (2013.01); B32B 37/144 (2013.01); B32B 37/16 (2013.01); B32B 2555/02 (2013.01); Y10T 156/1026 (2015.01); Y10T 156/1062 (2015.01); Y10T 156/125 (2015.01); Y10T 156/1322 (2015.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for manufacturing absorbent articles includes: a swinging mechanism that feeds an elastic member while swinging the elastic member along a cross direction crossing a conveyance direction of a sheet-shaped continuum constituting an absorbent article, and that disposes a part of the elastic member on the continuum; a guiding member that conveys the elastic member; a cutting mechanism that cuts the elastic member; a joining mechanism that conveys the elastic member and the continuum that are supplied from the guiding mechanism to be taken along an outer periphery of the joining mechanism; and a sheet supply mechanism that supplies a sheet member onto an end portion in the cross direction of the continuum. A tangential direction of a deviation point at which the continuum is spaced from the guiding mechanism and a tangential direction of an arrival point at which the continuum reaches the joining mechanism are coincident with each other.

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