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Method and apparatus for making a wrapped absorbent core

  • US 7,285,178 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2004
  • Issued: 10/23/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for making an absorbent structure comprised of an absorbent core having a first face, a second face opposite said first face, and laterally opposite side edges, and a wrapsheet having opposite first and second faces, the wrapsheet being wrapped about said first face of the absorbent core, said lateral side edges of the absorbent core and at least a portion of said second face of the absorbent core, said method comprising:

  • arranging the absorbent core and wrapsheet in an unwrapped configuration with the first face of the absorbent core facing the first face of the wrapsheet and the absorbent core disposed laterally between laterally opposite side margins of the wrapsheet such that the side margins of the wrapsheet extend laterally outward beyond the side edges of the absorbent core; and

    directing a gas flow over the first and second faces of the wrapsheet at the lateral side margins thereof in a direction which moves the lateral side margins of the wrapsheet from the unwrapped configuration around the side edges of the absorbent core and over at least a portion of the second face of the absorbent core to define a wrapped configuration of the wrapsheet.

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