10.04.23
Gabriele Sablone, San Giovanni Teatino, Italy.
Assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A., San Giovanni Teatino, Italy.
Filed: 12/2/22
Issued: 8/22/23
An apparatus for producing hygienic absorbent articles provided with refastenable side seams from a chain of articles being formed having a first elastic sheet and a second elastic sheet, wherein said apparatus comprises: a supply unit of said first elastic sheet and said second elastic sheet; a device for maintaining said first elastic sheet and said second elastic sheet in an extended condition and superimposed on each other; an application unit configured to fix at least one connecting element on a surface portion of said first elastic sheet, wherein said surface portion faces towards an outside of an assembly constituted by said first elastic sheet and said second elastic sheet superimposed; a processing station comprising: a first cutting device configured to cut said first elastic sheet so as to obtain two end portions each provided with a respective connecting element of said at least one connecting element; a folding device configured to fold said end portions towards an inside of the assembly so that said respective connecting elements face towards said second elastic sheet, so as to connect said end portions to said second elastic sheet by means of said respective connecting elements; a second cutting device configured to cut said second elastic sheet so as to separate one of said articles from said chain of articles being formed, wherein said at least one connecting element makes said refastenable side seam.
Assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A., San Giovanni Teatino, Italy.
Filed: 12/2/22
Issued: 8/22/23
An apparatus for producing hygienic absorbent articles provided with refastenable side seams from a chain of articles being formed having a first elastic sheet and a second elastic sheet, wherein said apparatus comprises: a supply unit of said first elastic sheet and said second elastic sheet; a device for maintaining said first elastic sheet and said second elastic sheet in an extended condition and superimposed on each other; an application unit configured to fix at least one connecting element on a surface portion of said first elastic sheet, wherein said surface portion faces towards an outside of an assembly constituted by said first elastic sheet and said second elastic sheet superimposed; a processing station comprising: a first cutting device configured to cut said first elastic sheet so as to obtain two end portions each provided with a respective connecting element of said at least one connecting element; a folding device configured to fold said end portions towards an inside of the assembly so that said respective connecting elements face towards said second elastic sheet, so as to connect said end portions to said second elastic sheet by means of said respective connecting elements; a second cutting device configured to cut said second elastic sheet so as to separate one of said articles from said chain of articles being formed, wherein said at least one connecting element makes said refastenable side seam.
