Patent ID: 7303518

Claim:
A system for manufacturing material suitable for feeding to a bag making machine, comprising: a sealer that joins incremental portions of a web of bag making material to incremental portions of a fastener tape while said incremental portions of said web and said fastener tape are continuously moving through said sealer during a dwell time and a remainder of each work cycle; an accumulator disposed upstream of said sealer, said accumulator being activatable for accumulating and then de-accumulating a respective portion of said fastener tape during each work cycle; a clamp disposed upstream of said accumulator, said clamp being activatable for clamping a respective section of said fastener tape that is resident in a clamping zone at the start of and during said dwell time of each work cycle; and a slider insertion device disposed upstream of said clamp, said slider being activatable for inserting a slider on a respective section of said fastener tape that is resident in a slider insertion zone during said dwell time of each work cycle.