WO2008090449A2 - Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material - Google Patents

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WO2008090449A2
WO2008090449A2 PCT/IB2008/000148 IB2008000148W WO2008090449A2 WO 2008090449 A2 WO2008090449 A2 WO 2008090449A2 IB 2008000148 W IB2008000148 W IB 2008000148W WO 2008090449 A2 WO2008090449 A2 WO 2008090449A2
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Matteo Piantoni
Luca Aiolfi
Alberto Perego
Robert Perneborn
Marcus Lehto
Anders Norder
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Priority to DK08709724.2T priority patent/DK2111201T3/en
Priority to AT08709724T priority patent/ATE538767T1/en
Priority to US12/524,527 priority patent/US8097298B2/en
Priority to MX2009007813A priority patent/MX2009007813A/en
Priority to JP2009546831A priority patent/JP5444002B2/en
Priority to CN2008800059417A priority patent/CN101631524B/en
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/15577—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing
    • A61F13/15756—Applying tabs, strips, tapes, loops; Knotting the ends of pads
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/15577—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing
    • A61F13/15764—Transferring, feeding or handling devices; Drives
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/56—Supporting or fastening means
    • A61F13/62—Mechanical fastening means ; Fabric strip fastener elements, e.g. hook and loop
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1002—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with permanent bending or reshaping or surface deformation of self sustaining lamina
    • Y10T156/1007—Running or continuous length work
    • Y10T156/1016—Transverse corrugating
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T156/1028—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with permanent bending or reshaping or surface deformation of self sustaining lamina by bending, drawing or stretch forming sheet to assume shape of configured lamina while in contact therewith
    • Y10T156/1031—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with permanent bending or reshaping or surface deformation of self sustaining lamina by bending, drawing or stretch forming sheet to assume shape of configured lamina while in contact therewith with preshaping of lamina

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  • the present invention relates to a method for producing diaper component parts from strip material.
  • diapers are made from a continuous strip of flat unfinished diaper blanks; finish component parts, normally of elastic material, are applied to the strip; and the strip is cut crosswise into a succession of flat finished diapers.
  • one of the finish component parts comprises lateral panels, which have a portion of adhesive or Velcro-type material, and are applied to the sides of each diaper blank to connect the ends of the diaper, when worn, into an annular belt.
  • the lateral panels - to which the following description refers purely by way of example - are normally formed from a continuous strip of elastic material which is fed along a path, extending through a number of work stations, by conveying means normally defined by conveyor rollers, about which the strip is partly wound.
  • conveying means normally defined by conveyor rollers, about which the strip is partly wound.
  • the above method has several drawbacks, on account of the irregular shape of the path, the pull exerted on the strip by the conveyor rollers, and the stress to which the strip is subjected at the work stations, resulting in increasing and decreasing tension of the strip as it travels along the path, and, given the elasticity of the strip material, in inevitable uncontrolled slippage of the material.
  • the work stations are synchronized with one another and the strip must be maintained in a predetermined position, as it travels along the path, to ensure it is positioned correctly on entering each work station, provision is made, along the path, for position sensors, and compensating stations connected to the sensors to correct any variation in the tension of the material and so prevent the strip from deviating from the correct position.
  • the sensors and compensating stations obviously complicate the machine mechanically, thus impairing reliability and greatly increasing the cost and overall size of the machine.
  • Number 1 in the attached drawing indicates as a whole a diaper manufacturing machine comprising a unit 2 for producing component parts 3 from elastic strip material.
  • elastic is intended to mean both strip material that is visibly stretchable, i.e. to the naked eye, and strip material that is not visibly stretchable but nevertheless has a certain degree of intrinsic elasticity.
  • component parts 3 are defined by elastic panels, which have respective bands 4 of adhesive material, glue or Velcro, and are located, in the finished diaper, on either side of a rear longitudinal end (in the drawing) and/or front longitudinal end (not shown) of the diaper to connect the ends of the diaper, when worn, into an elastic annular belt.
  • the elastic strip material from which component parts 3 are formed is fed to unit 2 in the form of two continuous parallel strips 5 (detail A) , and is fed by conveying means 6 along a straight path P extending through a number of work stations to obtain a respective line 7 of aligned component parts 3 from each strip 5.
  • unit 2 comprises an application station 9 for applying bands 4 to strips 5, and which in turn comprises two counter-rotating rollers located on opposite sides of path P, with their respective axes crosswise to path P, and which between them define a channel for the passage of strips 5.
  • One of the two rollers is a suction roller and deposits the pregummed bands 4 successively, with a given spacing, along one edge of each strip 5, so that bands 4 project transversely outwards from each strip 5, on the opposite side to the other strip 5 (as shown in detail C) .
  • Bands 4 are formed from two strips 10 of adhesive or Velcro-type material (detail B) which are fed, parallel to each other and by a feed line 11, through a gumming station 12, and a cutting station 13 where a knife, cooperating with the suction roller at application station 9, cuts the two strips 10 crosswise to form respective successions of individual bands 4 on the suction roller.
  • a folding station 14, for folding bands 4 is located downstream from application station 9 in the travelling direction of strips 5 along path P, and comprises two fixed helical folding devices located on opposite sides of the whole defined by the two strips 5, and which, as strips 5 travel past, intercept bands 4 to fold each band 4 into a U onto a top surface of relative strip 5.
  • the downfolded position of bands 4 is stabilized at a follow-up pressing station 15 comprising a pressure roller positioned across path P to press bands 4 on relative strips 5 as strips 5 travel under the roller (detail D) .
  • strips 5 are fed through a cutting device and cut into substantially trapezoidal shapes to form respective continuous strips 8 of component parts 3, each having a respective band 4 located in the centre of the respective minor base (detail E) .
  • Strips 5 are fed between application station 9 and forming station 16 by a belt conveyor 17, which forms part of conveying means 6 and comprises an endless belt
  • Belt conveyor 17 also comprises a suction chamber
  • Conveying means 6 comprise a further belt conveyor 20 similar to belt conveyor 17 and extending from the output of forming station 16 to a cutting station 21 where continuous strips 8 of component parts 3 are cut crosswise into lines 7 of separate component parts 3 (detail F) .
  • belt conveyor 20 comprises a belt 22 permeable to air and wound partly about a number of pulleys defining, on belt 22, a straight work branch coincident with the relative portion of path P and travelling at the same linear speed v as the work branch of conveyor 17.
  • a suction chamber 23 connected to a suction circuit (not shown) , communicates with the bottom surface of the work branch of belt 22 to grip continuous strips 8 of component parts 3 onto belt 22 as strips 8 travel from forming station 16 to cutting station 21.
  • Machine 1 comprises a transfer device 24 for transferring the component parts 3 in lines 7 in pairs onto a strip 25 defined by a continuous succession of flat diaper blanks 26, so as to apply the component parts 3 in each pair to either side of one end of a respective blank 26 (detail G) .
  • Transfer device 24 comprises a number of arms with respective suction gripping heads 27, which travel along a circular path to pick respective pairs of side by side component parts 3 off a suction drum 28 interposed between cutting station 21 and transfer device 24 to feed lines 7 of component parts 3 continuously to transfer device 24.
  • transfer device 24 in the example shown is an accelerating device, in which each gripping head
  • speed vl may be faster than or the same as speed v2.
  • gripping heads 27 therefore decelerate cyclically to release component parts 3, and, in the latter case, travel from drum 28 to strip 25, and vice versa, at constant speed.
  • unit 2 therefore needs no position sensors or compensation stations to detect and correct any variation in tension and prevent uncontrolled slippage of the elastic material.
  • machine 1 is more compact, simpler in design, and therefore more reliable and cheaper.

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Abstract

A method for producing diaper component parts (3) from strip material (5, 8), wherein the strip material (5, 8) is fed continuously, by means of conveying means (6), along a straight path (P) extending through a number of work stations (9, 16, 21) synchronized with one another; and wherein, along the path (P), the strip material (5, 8) is secured to the conveying means (6) so that all points of the strip material (5, 8) travel at the same speed.

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METHOD FOR PRODUCING DIAPER COMPONENT PARTS FROM STRIP MATERIAL
TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a method for producing diaper component parts from strip material. BACKGROUND ART
In the diaper industry, diapers are made from a continuous strip of flat unfinished diaper blanks; finish component parts, normally of elastic material, are applied to the strip; and the strip is cut crosswise into a succession of flat finished diapers.
More specifically, one of the finish component parts comprises lateral panels, which have a portion of adhesive or Velcro-type material, and are applied to the sides of each diaper blank to connect the ends of the diaper, when worn, into an annular belt.
The lateral panels - to which the following description refers purely by way of example - are normally formed from a continuous strip of elastic material which is fed along a path, extending through a number of work stations, by conveying means normally defined by conveyor rollers, about which the strip is partly wound. Though effective and widely used on diaper manufacturing machines, the above method has several drawbacks, on account of the irregular shape of the path, the pull exerted on the strip by the conveyor rollers, and the stress to which the strip is subjected at the work stations, resulting in increasing and decreasing tension of the strip as it travels along the path, and, given the elasticity of the strip material, in inevitable uncontrolled slippage of the material.
Because the work stations are synchronized with one another and the strip must be maintained in a predetermined position, as it travels along the path, to ensure it is positioned correctly on entering each work station, provision is made, along the path, for position sensors, and compensating stations connected to the sensors to correct any variation in the tension of the material and so prevent the strip from deviating from the correct position. The sensors and compensating stations obviously complicate the machine mechanically, thus impairing reliability and greatly increasing the cost and overall size of the machine.
Though to a lesser degree, the above problem is also encountered when using strip material that is not exactly elastic and visibly stretchable, but nevertheless has a certain degree of intrinsic elasticity.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing diaper component parts from strip material, which is cheap and easy to implement, and provides for eliminating the aforementioned drawbacks. According to the present invention, there is provided a method for producing diaper component parts from strip material, as claimed in Claim 1 and, preferably, in any one of the following Claims depending directly or indirectly on Claim 1.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
A non-limiting embodiment of the present invention will be described by way of example with reference to the attached drawing, which shows a schematic side view of a diaper manufacturing machine implementing the method according to the present invention.
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Number 1 in the attached drawing indicates as a whole a diaper manufacturing machine comprising a unit 2 for producing component parts 3 from elastic strip material. The term "elastic" is intended to mean both strip material that is visibly stretchable, i.e. to the naked eye, and strip material that is not visibly stretchable but nevertheless has a certain degree of intrinsic elasticity.
In the example shown, component parts 3 are defined by elastic panels, which have respective bands 4 of adhesive material, glue or Velcro, and are located, in the finished diaper, on either side of a rear longitudinal end (in the drawing) and/or front longitudinal end (not shown) of the diaper to connect the ends of the diaper, when worn, into an elastic annular belt. As shown in the drawing, the elastic strip material from which component parts 3 are formed is fed to unit 2 in the form of two continuous parallel strips 5 (detail A) , and is fed by conveying means 6 along a straight path P extending through a number of work stations to obtain a respective line 7 of aligned component parts 3 from each strip 5.
More specifically, at its input, unit 2 comprises an application station 9 for applying bands 4 to strips 5, and which in turn comprises two counter-rotating rollers located on opposite sides of path P, with their respective axes crosswise to path P, and which between them define a channel for the passage of strips 5. One of the two rollers is a suction roller and deposits the pregummed bands 4 successively, with a given spacing, along one edge of each strip 5, so that bands 4 project transversely outwards from each strip 5, on the opposite side to the other strip 5 (as shown in detail C) .
Bands 4 are formed from two strips 10 of adhesive or Velcro-type material (detail B) which are fed, parallel to each other and by a feed line 11, through a gumming station 12, and a cutting station 13 where a knife, cooperating with the suction roller at application station 9, cuts the two strips 10 crosswise to form respective successions of individual bands 4 on the suction roller.
A folding station 14, for folding bands 4, is located downstream from application station 9 in the travelling direction of strips 5 along path P, and comprises two fixed helical folding devices located on opposite sides of the whole defined by the two strips 5, and which, as strips 5 travel past, intercept bands 4 to fold each band 4 into a U onto a top surface of relative strip 5.
The downfolded position of bands 4 is stabilized at a follow-up pressing station 15 comprising a pressure roller positioned across path P to press bands 4 on relative strips 5 as strips 5 travel under the roller (detail D) .
At a forming station 16, downstream from pressing station 15 along path P, strips 5 are fed through a cutting device and cut into substantially trapezoidal shapes to form respective continuous strips 8 of component parts 3, each having a respective band 4 located in the centre of the respective minor base (detail E) .
Strips 5 are fed between application station 9 and forming station 16 by a belt conveyor 17, which forms part of conveying means 6 and comprises an endless belt
18 permeable to air and wound partly about a number of pulleys defining, on the belt, a straight work branch travelling at a linear speed v and coincident with the relative portion of path P between application station 9 and forming station 16.
Belt conveyor 17 also comprises a suction chamber
19 connected to a suction circuit (not shown) and extending beneath the work branch to grip strips 5 by suction onto the work branch from the output of application station 9 and through folding station 14 and pressing station 15 to the input of forming station 16. Conveying means 6 comprise a further belt conveyor 20 similar to belt conveyor 17 and extending from the output of forming station 16 to a cutting station 21 where continuous strips 8 of component parts 3 are cut crosswise into lines 7 of separate component parts 3 (detail F) .
Like belt conveyor 17, belt conveyor 20 comprises a belt 22 permeable to air and wound partly about a number of pulleys defining, on belt 22, a straight work branch coincident with the relative portion of path P and travelling at the same linear speed v as the work branch of conveyor 17.
Inside belt conveyor 20, a suction chamber 23, connected to a suction circuit (not shown) , communicates with the bottom surface of the work branch of belt 22 to grip continuous strips 8 of component parts 3 onto belt 22 as strips 8 travel from forming station 16 to cutting station 21.
Belt conveyors 17 and 20 are synchronized with the work stations so that strips 5 and strips 8 - which, being gripped by suction to belt conveyors 17 and 20, also travel at linear speed v - are fed through respective forming and cutting stations 16 and 21 in time with operation of the work stations. At the output of unit 2, machine 1 comprises a transfer device 24 for transferring the component parts 3 in lines 7 in pairs onto a strip 25 defined by a continuous succession of flat diaper blanks 26, so as to apply the component parts 3 in each pair to either side of one end of a respective blank 26 (detail G) .
Transfer device 24 comprises a number of arms with respective suction gripping heads 27, which travel along a circular path to pick respective pairs of side by side component parts 3 off a suction drum 28 interposed between cutting station 21 and transfer device 24 to feed lines 7 of component parts 3 continuously to transfer device 24.
Since component parts 3 are normally fed to transfer device 24 at a speed vl, and strip 25 of blanks
26 travels at a speed v2 different from and normally faster than vl , transfer device 24 in the example shown is an accelerating device, in which each gripping head
27 varies its speed cyclically along the circular path to pick up component parts 3 at speed vl, and release component parts 3 onto strip 25 at speed v2.
In other embodiments not shown, speed vl may be faster than or the same as speed v2. In the former case, gripping heads 27 therefore decelerate cyclically to release component parts 3, and, in the latter case, travel from drum 28 to strip 25, and vice versa, at constant speed.
Operation of machine 1 will be clear from the above description, with no further explanation required.
To conclude, however, it is important to stress the advantages of the method according to the present invention. By employing a straight path P and suction belt conveyors 17 and 20, all the points along each strip 5 and each strip 8 are subjected to the same tension along path P, so the elastic material undergoes no stretching or slackening between one work station and another, by virtue of being gripped by suction to the work branches of belts 18 and 22, so that each point of the elastic material travels at the same linear speed v as belts 18 and 22.
Using the method according to the present invention, unit 2 therefore needs no position sensors or compensation stations to detect and correct any variation in tension and prevent uncontrolled slippage of the elastic material. As a result, machine 1 is more compact, simpler in design, and therefore more reliable and cheaper.

Claims

1) A method for producing diaper component parts (3) from strip material (5, 8), the method comprising feeding the strip material (5, 8) continuously, by means of conveying means (6), along a path (P) extending through a number of work stations (9, 16, 21) synchronized with one another; and being characterized in that, along the path (P), the strip material (5, 8) is secured to the conveying means (6) so that all points of the strip material (5, 8) travel at the same speed.
2) A method as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the path (P) is straight.
3) A method as claimed in Claim 1 or 2 , wherein the strip material (5, 8) is secured by suction to the conveying means (6) .
4) A method as claimed in any one of the foregoing Claims, wherein the conveying means (6) are belt conveying means (17, 20) ; the strip material (5, 8) being secured to the conveying means (6) so that all points of the strip material (5, 8) travel at the same linear speed as the belt conveying means (17, 20) .
5) A method as claimed in Claim 4, wherein the belt conveying means (17, 20) are synchronized with the work stations (9, 16, 21) .
6) A method as claimed in any one of the foregoing Claims, wherein the strip material (5, 8) is fed through an application station (9) to receive portions (4) of adhesive material, which are spaced along the strip material (5, 8) with a given spacing; a forming station (16) where the strip material (5, 8) is cut into the shape of said component parts (3); and a cutting station (21) which cuts the strip material (5, 8) into separate component parts (3) .
7) A method as claimed in Claim 6, wherein the strip material (5, 8) is fed between the application station (9) and the forming station (16) by a first suction belt conveyor (17) , and between the forming station (16) and the cutting station (21) by a second suction belt conveyor (20) .
8) A method as claimed in any one of the foregoing Claims, wherein the strip material (5, 8) is fed onto said path (P) in the form of two continuous side by side strips (5) .
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ES08709724T ES2378115T3 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Procedure to produce diaper components from strip material
CA002676630A CA2676630A1 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material
EP08709724A EP2111201B1 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material
DK08709724.2T DK2111201T3 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Process for making diaper components from strip-shaped material
AT08709724T ATE538767T1 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 METHOD FOR PRODUCING DIAPER COMPONENTS FROM STRIP MATERIAL
US12/524,527 US8097298B2 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material
MX2009007813A MX2009007813A (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material.
JP2009546831A JP5444002B2 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for manufacturing diaper components from strip material
CN2008800059417A CN101631524B (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material
PL08709724T PL2111201T3 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Method for producing diaper component parts from strip material
BRPI0806426-1A BRPI0806426A2 (en) 2007-01-24 2008-01-23 Production method of diaper component parts and tape material

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