Device for forming and applying at least one pair of accessory elements on a continuous band of absorbent material and machine for making absorbent sanitary articles comprising the device

    公开(公告)号:US10470940B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US15504929

    申请日:2015-08-04

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    Abstract: A device for forming and applying accessory elements to a continuous band of absorbent material, includes a unit for feeding a continuous strip to a conveyor roller, a unit for cutting the strip in a continuous and alternating succession of first and second pieces, a first and a second roller rotating about respective axes parallel to the first direction, each including a movement device acting along a circumferential direction around the respective axis and configured for imparting to each unit a respective motion between positions for picking up and releasing the pieces. A unit for applying a pair of pieces to the band is equipped with a separating unit equipped with a spacer device for moving first and/or second carriages along a separating direction between close and far axial positions, wherein the spacer device includes a plurality of linear actuators each associated with a respective first carriage.

    Process and machine for forming an absorbent sanitary article

    公开(公告)号:US10441477B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-15

    申请号:US15112939

    申请日:2015-02-16

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    Abstract: A process for forming an absorbent sanitary article of the type including a pad having a direction of main extension, including a step of at least one absorbent core of the absorbent article by layering a corresponding composite web, a step of preparing a succession of hollows in the composite web obtained by removing for each hollow a corresponding portion of the composite web and a step of applying the portions removed on the composite web.

    Forming pocket and method for making a forming pocket

    公开(公告)号:US10603222B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-31

    申请号:US15523815

    申请日:2015-11-03

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    Abstract: A forming pocket suitable for forming conglomerates from particulate material to be used as an absorbent padding for hygienic products, includes an external forming substrate for receiving particulate material, the substrate having openings and a shape conjugated to a form of the absorbent padding to be made. The forming pocket includes a grid supporting structure, which has openings and is coupleable with the substrate to support the substrate during suction of particulate material through the substrate. The supporting structure has an external surface configured to contact the substrate and has a shape conjugated to the shape of the substrate. A method of making the forming pocket includes obtaining from at least one first metal sheet first and second sets of elements having a plurality of cuts, and wedging the elements of the first set with the elements of the second set via the cuts to make the grid supporting structure.

    Method for making absorbent sanitary articles

    公开(公告)号:US10470941B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US15518153

    申请日:2015-10-22

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    Abstract: A method for making sanitary articles, includes: feeding along a longitudinal direction of movement a first web of material defining a main body of the article; feeding a pair of longitudinal strips; dividing each strip into a succession of trapezoidal pieces adjacent each other and each having a long base and a short base so the pieces of each strip can be divided alternately into first pieces having a first orientation and second pieces having a second orientation opposite to the first orientation; spacing the pieces of each strip from each other; rotating the first or second pieces of each strip by 180° in plane to give the pieces of the first strip the first orientation and the pieces of the second strip the second orientation; applying each piece on a first face so the long base protrudes laterally from the edge of the first web.

    UNIT FOR FEEDING A COMPONENT OF A HYGIENE ABSORBENT ARTICLE PROVIDED WITH A LINEAR ELECTRIC MOTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20190060134A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-28

    申请号:US16084274

    申请日:2017-03-17

    Applicant: GDM S.P.A.

    Abstract: A feeding unit for feeding a component of a hygiene absorbent article; the feeding unit has: at least one sucking-holding head, which is designed to receive and hold the component; a conveyor to cyclically move the holding head along an annular application path; an input station in which the holding head receives a corresponding component which is connected—without gaps—to a continuous web; a cutting station provided with a cutting device, which cuts the continuous web crosswise; and an output station in which the holding head releases the component; the conveyor has: an annular guide; a slide which supports the holding head and is coupled to the guide so as to freely slide along the guide itself; and a linear electric motor, which has a stator, which is arranged in a fixed position along the guide and a mobile slider which is electro-magnetically coupled to the stator so as to receive, from the stator, a driving force and is rigidly connected to the slide.

    Unit for Feeding Lateral Flaps of a Hygiene Absorbent Article and Method for the Format Change of the Feeding Unit

    公开(公告)号:US20190060133A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-28

    申请号:US16074908

    申请日:2017-02-09

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    Abstract: The unit for feeding lateral flaps of a hygiene absorbent article having: an input conveyor of a first continuous strip; a cutting assembly provided with a receiving drum, of the first suction-pick up heads that hold the lateral flaps and which are mounted to as to be radially movable on the receiving drum, and at least one blade which cyclically cuts the first strip crosswise; a spacer assembly having a pair of spacer drums provided with second suction-pick up heads that receive the lateral flaps of the receiving drum; and an actuator system, which cyclically moves each first suction-pick up head radially between a radial pick-up position and a radial release position, in the area of an output station.

    A Maker Machine to Manufacture Hygiene Absorbent Articles

    公开(公告)号:US20180104112A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-19

    申请号:US15564754

    申请日:2016-04-08

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    Abstract: Maker machine to manufacture hygiene absorbent articles and having: a feeding line which feeds a continuous strip of impermeable material, which is intended to define a succession of sheets of impermeable material; and at least one operating unit which feeds a corresponding component of the hygiene absorbent articles to the sheets of impermeable material carried by the feeding line by way of an application device; the application device has at least one sucking pick-up head and a conveyor provided with an annular guide which is arranged in fixed position along an application path, a slide which supports the sucking pick-up head and is coupled to the guide so as to freely slide along the guide, and a linear electric motor, which has a stator that is arranged in a fixed position along the guide and a mobile slider which is electro-magnetically coupled to the stator so as to receive, from the stator a driving force and is rigidly connected to the slide.

    Apparatus and method for forming an absorbent pad

    公开(公告)号:US11957550B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US16491999

    申请日:2018-03-19

    Applicant: GDM S.p.A.

    CPC classification number: A61F13/15658 A61F13/15699 A61F13/5323

    Abstract: A method for forming an absorbent pad including a first layer, a second layer and an absorbent material interposed between the first and the second layer and arranged according to a spreading pattern M1 having at least one channel which is free of absorbent material, includes a step of feeding a first web, intended to form the first layer of the pad; a step of feeding a second web, intended to form the second layer of the pad; a step of spreading the absorbent material on the first web according to the spreading pattern M1; a step of spreading an adhesive on the first web according to a gluing pattern; a step of welding the first web and the second web according to a welding pattern M3 including at least one welding zone at the channel on the pad.

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