US Patent 7780156 Web handling process and equipment

The present invention relates to a method and equipment for the handling of web materials (200), such as essentially continuous webs of plastic films, textiles, non-wovens, or paper, or the like, or of parts or pieces of such webs. In particular execution, it relates to modifying the movement of such web materials (200), so as to allow other process steps to be performed on or with these web materials more easily. Particular aspects relate to the creation of a cross-directional fold in the web material and the combining of web materials (200) with other materials.