公开(公告)号：US10478348B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-19

申请号：US16084274

申请日：2017-03-17

Applicant: GDM S.P.A.

Inventor： Matteo Piantoni ,  Valerio Soli ,  Marco Rosani ,  Federico Tordini ,  Massimo Pallavera

IPC: A61F13/15 ,  B65G47/84

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.