Terry V Thomas

US Patent:

6955733, Oct 18, 2005

Filed:

Dec 20, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/324368

Inventors:

Charles Phillip Miller - Cincinnati OH, US
Michael S. Kolodesh - Loveland OH, US
Douglass Scott Henry - West Chester OH, US
Michael Joseph Lamping - Cincinnati OH, US
Jon Kevin McLaughlin - Lebanon OH, US
Terry Howard Thomas - Mason OH, US

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B32B031/00

US Classification:

156 64, 156229, 156324, 700125

Abstract:

A new machine control method and system for registering pro-produced webs into a converting line producing disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, pants, feminine hygiene articles or a component thereof. The pre-produced web can include a multiplicity of pre-produced objects spaced on the web at a pitch interval in the web direction. The pre-produced web being manipulated in order for the pre-produced object of the web to be registered in relation to a target position constant. The present invention includes three embodiments, where the first embodiment is expressed as a generic claim. The first embodiment includes a closed-loop feedback registration system; the second and third embodiments, in addition, include an open-loop feedforward phasing system. In addition, the third embodiment uses a machine vision system to recognize any element of a complex pre-produced object (e. g. , colorful graphics).