Method And Apparatus For Creating A Pulsed Stream Of Particles

Abstract

A method of producing absorbent articles, comprising: suspending particles in a gas carrier to form suspended particles; creating a series of pulses from the suspended particles, wherein each pulse in the series of pulses is created by: accumulating at least some of the suspended particles in a pulsing chamber to form accumulated particles on a rotary separator, and releasing at least some of the accumulated particles by rotating the rotary separator to create each pulse; and suctioning each pulse from the series of pulses onto a forming surface for the absorbent articles.

1 . A method of producing absorbent articles, the method comprising:
 suspending particles in a gas carrier to form suspended particles;   creating a series of pulses from the suspended particles, wherein each pulse in the series of pulses is created by:
 accumulating at least some of the suspended particles in a pulsing chamber to form accumulated particles on a rotary separator, and 
 releasing at least some of the accumulated particles by rotating the rotary separator to create each pulse; and 
   suctioning each pulse from the series of pulses onto a forming surface for the absorbent articles.   
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the creating includes:
 accelerating at least some of the accumulated particles with the rotary separator to form accelerated particles; and   releasing at least some of the accelerated particles by rotating the rotating separator.