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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2014
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Eric Shawn Goudy, Liberty Township, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An apparatus having: a conveyor having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction and a pair of edges spaced apart from one another in the cross-machine direction; a striker having a first position and a second position, wherein the striker in the first position is located at a predetermined location above the conveyor and laterally within the pair of edges, wherein in the striker in the second position is remote from the predetermined location; a driver operatively engaged with the striker to move the striker from the first position to the second position; and a vacuum port proximal to the striker when the striker is in the first position.