Patent ID: 8399053

Claim:
A method of dispensing multiple adhesive filaments onto a substrate, comprising: moving the substrate along a machine direction; discharging each one of the multiple adhesive filaments from a respective liquid outlet communicating with first and second liquid slots formed in respective, adjacent stacked adhesive shim plates, each of the first and second liquid slots in the adjacent stacked adhesive shim plates communicating with the other and forming a portion of an overall cross sectional shape of each outlet so that the overall cross sectional shape of each discharged filament is formed by the cross sectional shape of each respective outlet; discharging pressurized air streams from multiple first and second pairs of air slots contained in respective first and second air shim plates secured on opposite sides of the adjacent stacked adhesive shim plates with respective ones of the first and second pairs being located on opposite sides of an associated liquid slot; directing the respective air streams from each first pair of air slots in a converging manner toward one another and positioned in a plane generally parallel to the discharging filaments; directing the respective air streams from each second pair of air slots in a converging manner toward one another and positioned in a plane generally parallel to the discharging filaments; and depositing the discharged filaments on the substrate generally along the machine direction.