Patent ID: 8007623

Claim:
A method for intermittently applying segments of a first web of material onto a second web of material comprising: providing a first continuous web of material, the first web being of a stretchable material; providing a rotatable anvil having a peripheral surface and a cutting roll positioned to cut segments from the first web against said anvil, said anvil being supplied interiorly with a reduced air pressure and being provided with openings through said peripheral surface, said anvil being sized and configured to continuously rotate at a first velocity; feeding said first web toward said anvil at an infeed velocity; and varying said infeed velocity between a first infeed velocity and a second infeed velocity while said web is being fed toward said anvil; intermittently cutting a succession of segments against said peripheral surface of said anvil while said infeed velocity is at said first infeed velocity and conveying each of said segments successively on said rotating peripheral surface, using said reduced air pressure to hold said segments against said peripheral surface, and then varying said infeed velocity to said second infeed velocity; providing a second continuous web of material traveling, in close proximity, but displaced from said anvil; intermittently applying the successive segments to the second web.