Patent ID: 6325882
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: C11D,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of sequentially producing personal-sized soap bars each of which has a supporting medium integral therewith for enabling hanging individual bars for air drying after each use, said method comprising the steps of:conveying a web of water-resistant sheet material of the supporting medium at a predetermined speed in a predetermined direction along a predetermined path;extruding a pair of extended lengths of semi-solid soap material each of which pair is slightly in excess of a half-thickness and total width of final soap bars to be produced;conveying said pair of extended lengths alongside opposite sides of said web of sheet material parallel to said predetermined path;severing both of said pairs of lengths of extruded semi-solid soap material into intermediate discrete lengths corresponding generally to the final soap bar length;feeding said intermediate discrete lengths into contact with said web and conveying said sheet material and discrete lengths together into a bar molding press;molding said sheet material and the discrete lengths of soap material into integral, individual final soap bars;at a time after said severed lengths are conveyed into said molding press, cutting said soap bars and sheet material to finished final soap bar lengths; andforming a hole through each final length soap bar whereby to enable its being suspended from a hook received within said hole.