Registration system for phasing simultaneously advancing webs of material having variable pitch lengths

US6743314B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Douglass Scott Henry · Kobe, JP
• Toshiyuki Matsuda · Yokohama, JP
• Charles P. Miller · McHenry, US
• Alton Henry Stephens · Sharonville, US
• Paul Kevin King, II · Cincinnati, US
• Michael S. Kolodesh · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2004
• Expiry date: May 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F13/15772
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed is a registration system and a method useful for controlling and correcting the phase and position of simultaneously advancing webs having pre-printed objects spaced at a pitch length characterized by small but significant pitch variation to a target web. Also disclosed are consumer products, such as disposable absorbent articles including the preprinted objects which were previously included in the webs phased before combining with a target web by utilizing the instant registration system. The pre-printed objects may include pre-printed, pre-bonded, pre-applied, pre-cut, or pre-glued objects or elements of disposable absorbent articles or registration marks produced on a separate independent process not control-linked to the instant registration method. The registration marks may be visible or normally invisible to the human eye.