Patent ID: 6743324
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing shaped components from web materials, the method comprising the steps of:providing a first web of material in a machine direction, the first web having longitudinal edge portions; making at least a first shaping cut to sever the first web into at least a first shaped strip and a second shaped strip, the first shaping cut having a pattern extending in the machine direction and alternately extending in a cross machine direction to alternate distal points located between the longitudinal edge portions of the first web, the first shaped strip and the second shaped strip having alternating nested projecting portions defined by the first shaping cut; separating the first shaped strip and the second shaped strip; providing a second web of material in the machine direction; joining at least the first shaped strip to the second web; repositioning the second web in the cross machine direction such that the first shaped strip is in a predetermined position relative to the second shaped strip; joining at least the second shaped strip to the second web; and making at least one separating cut to separate the shaped components, the separating cut having a pattern defining edges of the shaped components, each of the shaped components comprising at least a portion of one of the projecting portions of one of the shaped strips, wherein each of the first shaped strip and the second shaped strip moves in a direction parrallel to a centerline of the first web without movement in the cross machine direction until being joined to the second web.