US 11,958,706 B2
Non-uniform tail sealing and methods thereof
Bret A. Sims, Liberty Township, OH (US); Dan T. Anderson, Cincinnati, OH (US); Brent M. Borovskis, Cincinnati, OH (US); Victoria Grace Strain, Symmes Township, OH (US); and Gustav Andre Mellin, Amberley Village, OH (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/126,249.
Application 17/126,249 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/004,671, filed on Aug. 27, 2020, granted, now 11,685,625.
Application 17/004,671 is a continuation of application No. 14/968,936, filed on Dec. 15, 2015, granted, now 10,773,915, issued on Sep. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/091,694, filed on Dec. 15, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0101767 A1, Apr. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 19/29 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 19/29 (2013.01) [B65H 2301/41442 (2013.01); B65H 2301/414446 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A consumer width sized roll, comprising:
a wound web material having a tail end edge, a machine direction, and a cross direction;
a first outer edge and a second outer edge along the machine direction;
a plurality of discrete application sites comprising bonding material disposed along the tail end edge and spaced from the tail end edge at no greater than an MD length, “j,” than 5 mm, the plurality of application sites having an average MD length, “a,” from 10 mm to 50 mm, an average CD width, “A,” from 10 mm to 25 mm and being spaced along the cross direction an average CD width, “J,” from 10 to 25 mm;
wherein a first application site of the plurality of applications sites comprising bonding material is disposed adjacent to the first outer edge and is spaced a CD width, “R,” of from 0 mm to 50 mm from the first outer edge; and
wherein the first application site is equally divided into first and second sections via a dividing line running along the MD, wherein the first section is adjacent to the first outer edge and wherein the first section has a different basis weight than the second section.