Patent ID: 9706800
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A41D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method for making face masks, comprising: advancing continuously a longitudinal sheet stock that includes a plurality of mask sheets displaced from each other in a longitudinal direction and connected by a plurality of predetermined cutting lines, each of the mask sheets having two opposite lateral regions, a leading marginal region that has two opposite attachment areas disposed respectively at the lateral regions, and a trailing marginal region that has two opposite attachment areas disposed respectively at the lateral regions, and that is connected to the leading marginal region of a next one of the mask sheets through a corresponding one of the predetermined cutting lines; providing a plurality of strips each of which has two attachment ends and each of which is folded in a lengthwise direction; superposing each of the folded strips on a corresponding one of the leading and trailing marginal regions; bonding the two attachment ends of each of the folded strips respectively to the two opposite attachment areas of the corresponding one of the leading and trailing marginal regions; and cutting the sheet stock along the predetermined cutting lines.