Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for isolating a broken elastic strand
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Application No.: US15644932Application Date: 2017-07-10
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Publication No.: US10556770B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Ricky Reynaldo Yanez, Jr. , Nicholas Paul Goyette , Tina Brown , Gregory Hugh Dean
- Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
- Applicant Address: US OH Cincinnati
- Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
- Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Cincinnati
- Agent Charles R. Matson
- Main IPC: B65H54/00
- IPC: B65H54/00 ; A61F13/49 ; A61F13/15

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to manufacturing elastomeric laminates that may include a first substrate, a second substrate, and an elastic material located between the first substrate and second substrate. Methods and apparatuses may be configured to automatically isolate elastic strands that may break during the assembly process. As discussed in more detail below, the apparatuses may include a snare member extending adjacent to and across a travel path of elastic materials in a converting process. Thus, during the manufacture process, stretched elastics strands may advance past the snare member without contacting the outer circumferential surface of the snare member before being joined with a substrate. In the event that an elastic strand breaks, an upstream end portion of the elastic strand may retract back toward the snare member, wherein the upstream end portion wraps partially or completely around the outer circumferential surface of the snare member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170305708A1 Apparatus and Method for Isolating a Broken Elastic Strand Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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