Abstract:
A method for producing absorbent structures, including forming an array of absorbent pads having cellulose fluff, forming an array of fluff-free absorbent inserts, and inserting the fluff-free absorbent inserts into respective through-openings of absorbent pads.
Abstract:
An absorbent sanitary article including a chassis and at least one transverse elastic element including in a unitary component an elastic gasketing portion extending between two side edges of the chassis and two elastic side panels extending transversally outwardly beyond respective side edges of the chassis.
Abstract:
A carrier unit for a transfer system having a transfer path includes a first carrier and a second carrier, the first and the second carriers being engageable to the transfer path and configured for negotiating the transfer path, wherein the first carrier is coupled to a first gripper configured for cooperating with a second gripper coupled to the second carrier to define a socket for holding one or more products, the socket having a socket geometry determined by a relative position of the first gripper with respect to the second gripper. Each carrier unit includes an angle control device configured to maintain the socket geometry upon negotiation of the transfer path by the carrier unit.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for transferring articles from a pick-up area to a delivery area, wherein there is provided a guide element having a guide surface which moves along a closed path at a base speed, and wherein there are provided a plurality of transfer elements, each of which is provided with a gripping surface for holding an article and is movable with respect to the guide surface with a relative speed, so that, with respect to a stationary reference system, each of the transfer elements moves along the closed path with a compound speed given by an algebraic sum of the base speed and the respective relative speed.
Abstract:
A method for producing sanitary articles wearable in the manner of pants, provided with at least one pair of side panels suitable for connecting the end parts of the article around the user's waist, and with a topsheet produced by assembling together a central web, permeable to body fluids and a first and a second side material. The production method comprises the steps of partially overlapping the first end regions of the side panels, leaving the second end regions uncovered, and then joining in a provisional manner, the parts of the overlapping side panels in order to produce a temporary laminate on which it is possible to identify a first surface and a second surface.
Abstract:
An absorbent structure includes an absorbent pad having cellulose fluff mixed with superabsorbent granular material, and at least one fluff-free absorbent insert inserted in at least one through-opening of the absorbent pad, in which between the fluff-free absorbent insert and a central section of the through-opening two longitudinal channels located on opposite sides of the fluff-free absorbent insert are formed.
Abstract:
A method for producing absorbent sanitary articles including a gasketing element fixed to a chassis, wherein side edges of the gasketing element are fixed to side portions of the chassis while the gasketing element is not stretched in the transverse direction and while the side portions of the chassis are approached to each other.
Abstract:
A gripper, an apparatus, and a method for assembling kits of sanitary products in an automated fashion are disclosed. The sanitary products are pre-loaded into containers including a plurality of independent housings for the sanitary products, each of the housings being configured to allow loading of a sanitary product therein and withdrawal of the sanitary product therefrom independently of the other housings, and the kit is assembled in batches on the gripper, and released by the latter into a package.
Abstract:
A stretching unit for transversely stretching elastic films, including first and second stretching devices each having respective gripping zones and respective release zones, and wherein the release zones of the first and second stretching devices are aligned to each other along a common transverse release line.
Abstract:
An absorbent sanitary article includes a fluff absorbent core having at least one through aperture, a fluff-free absorbent core, and an acquisition and diffusion layer set between the fluff absorbent core and the fluff-free absorbent core and overlapping the at least one through aperture.