Method and apparatus for folding and opening-up wipes

Apparatus is provided for manufacturing a wipe in a three dimensional form out of an essentially flat piece of material. The apparatus produces a blank (12) of essentially flat planar form with a pleat folded on each side. The folded blanks are fed by a conveyor belt (21) to an opening station (22)....

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Hauptverfasser:	Philip Russell Fawcus, Dave Reed, Emanuel Nannizzi, Gianluca Giometti, Julian Brandon-Jones, Oday Abbosh
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	COFFEE MILLS CONVEYING DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES FURNITURE HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT HUMAN NECESSITIES MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNERANALOGOUS TO PAPER MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN AMANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSESB31B OR B31C MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD ORMATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER PACKING PERFORMING OPERATIONS SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR SPICE MILLS STORING SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL TOILET ACCESSORIES TRANSPORTING WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUSTO PAPER
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Zusammenfassung:	Apparatus is provided for manufacturing a wipe in a three dimensional form out of an essentially flat piece of material. The apparatus produces a blank (12) of essentially flat planar form with a pleat folded on each side. The folded blanks are fed by a conveyor belt (21) to an opening station (22). The opening station comprises a pair of movable pinch rollers (34, 35) which selectively grab individual blanks from the conveyor belt and feed them via belts (32, 33) to a pair of counter-rotating drums (30, 31). The blanks are ejected from the drums, which partially opens them up in the process. The partially open blanks are fed onto a shaped former (37), where the final process of forming the wipe into its chosen three dimensional form is completed.