EP0955260A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour fabriquer un paquet d'articles enchevêtrés et produit respectif - Google Patents

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EP0955260A1
EP0955260A1 EP98830267A EP98830267A EP0955260A1 EP 0955260 A1 EP0955260 A1 EP 0955260A1 EP 98830267 A EP98830267 A EP 98830267A EP 98830267 A EP98830267 A EP 98830267A EP 0955260 A1 EP0955260 A1 EP 0955260A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
    • B65H45/02—Folding limp material without application of pressure to define or form crease lines
    • B65H45/06—Folding webs
    • B65H45/10—Folding webs transversely
    • B65H45/101—Folding webs transversely in combination with laying, i.e. forming a zig-zag pile
    • B65H45/1015—Folding webs provided with predefined fold lines; Refolding prefolded webs, e.g. fanfolded continuous forms
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
    • B65H45/12—Folding articles or webs with application of pressure to define or form crease lines
    • B65H45/24—Interfolding sheets, e.g. cigarette or toilet papers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
    • B65H45/12—Folding articles or webs with application of pressure to define or form crease lines
    • B65H45/28—Folding in combination with cutting
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
    • A47K10/42—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked
    • A47K2010/428—Details of the folds or interfolds of the sheets

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  • the present invention relates in general to the realization of packs of interfolded (or interleaved) laminar articles.
  • a classical example of such an article is constituted by the so-called "paper” handkerchiefs (though these usually consist of cellulose wadding or so-called nonwoven fabric, according to whether the handkerchiefs in question are dry or prehumidified, often also referred to by such current terms as "wet wipes” or “facial tissues”) arranged in appropriate packages (boxes or wrappers).
  • the interleaved arrangement of the individual articles is intended to ensure that the removal of one handkerchief from the package will automatically predispose the next handkerchief for being pulled out of the pack.
  • a first solution is based on the idea of causing two strips or webs of sheeted material to move forward in positions facing each other.
  • the two strips are subjected to an operation of folding (and cutting, to separate the individual handkerchiefs) in interfacing positions such that the loops of the shapes - which usually consist of either V or Z-folding - conferred upon the handkerchiefs obtained from either the one or the other of the two strips will be at least partially interlaced.
  • the result of this operation is the formation of a kind of chain of interfolded handkerchiefs of virtually indefinite length.
  • the individual packs are then formed by introducing some solution of continuity into this chain. Examples of this type of solution are provided, among others, by US-A-4 494 741 and US-A-4 691 908.
  • Another solution which could be said to be based on an "in line” operating principle, sets out to form - by means of respective cutting operations performed simultaneously on a given starting bobbin, for example - a series of strips (or webs) such that the number of these strips is equal to the number of interleaved articles to be comprised in the pack it is proposed to realize.
  • the aforesaid strips are shaped in accordance with the conformation desired for achieving the interfolding and are made to converge towards a station where they are interfolded.
  • the process yields a composite strip or web comprising the originally separate strips in interfolded form.
  • the composite web obtained in this manner is then segmentated by cutting it at predetermined distances, with each of the resulting segments constituting a pack or stack of interfolded laminar articles.
  • an apparatus operating in accordance with the "in line” principle" could possibly be converted for the realization of packs containing a smaller number of articles. But it is not possible to modify the system for the realization of packs containing a larger number of interfolded articles. In any case, even the reduction of the number of interfolded articles calls for a rather complex reconfiguration intervention (disactivation of the mechanisms feeding and dragging the webs in excess of the desired number, etc.), so that even this intervention could hardly be justified in cases where the functioning of the equipment has to be modified only for a relatively short period of time, say for the fabrication of only a small lot of such products.
  • the present invention sets out to provide an alternative solution capable of combining the positive features of both the previously described solutions, namely the simplicity and efficiency of the "in line” solution and the flexibility of the solution based on the formation of a chain of interfolded products of indefinite length.
  • the reference number 1 in Figure 1 indicates the whole of an apparatus used for realizing packs of interfolded laminar articles.
  • the products in question could be handkerchiefs (either dry or prehumidified, where the latter constitute a preferential field of application of the invention).
  • the apparatus 1 consists of a certain number processing stations or units arranged in cascade in the direction of flow that, commencing from a starting material constituted by a reel or bobbin S of laminar material (cellulose wadding, for example, or a so-called nonwoven fabric, possibly prehumidified), leads to the formation of packs P of individual articles interleaved with each other.
  • a starting material constituted by a reel or bobbin S of laminar material (cellulose wadding, for example, or a so-called nonwoven fabric, possibly prehumidified)
  • the first station or unit of the apparatus is to all intents and purposes identical with the similar station in a system for the realization of interfolded articles working in accordance with the "in line” solution described in some detail in the introductive part of the present description.
  • the station in question comprises a device 2 for supporting the reel S and unwinding it in a controlled manner towards a longitudinal cutting device 3 where the laminar material of the reel S becomes subdivided in a known manner into n strips or webs R1, R2, ..., Rn that are fed forward to a shaping / interfolding device 4.
  • the number n of webs obtained by cutting the reel S will generally be on the small side (in a typical case, for example, the value of n could be 10), and is usually much smaller than the number of webs that will normally be present in an "in line" interfolding apparatus of the traditional type, where the number n de facto identifies the number (generally rather high, and at times even of the order of hundreds or more) of articles comprising the interfolding pack.
  • the webs R1, ... R, R10 move forward to a shaping and interfolding unit 4 (a so-called "folder" and of a known structure), where the strips R1, ..., R10 are combined into a composite interfolded strip or web CW having the profile schematically illustrated by Figure 4 as its transverse section.
  • a shaping and interfolding unit 4 a so-called "folder” and of a known structure
  • the aforesaid two end webs R1 and R10 are folded in such a manner as to present a respective branch (usually the branch external to the interfolded composite web CW) that project laterally beyond the section profile of the said composite strip or web.
  • the composite web CW - which in the example here illustrated comprises ten individual interfolded webs - is passed on to a cutting unit 5 intended to segmentate the composite web CW into individual parts, each constituting a stack of individual articles interleaved with each other.
  • the cutting unit - always in the embodiment here illustrated - receives the composite web CW from above (on the left-hand side in Figure 2, where it can be seen that the general structure of the unit 5 is symmetrical, thus rendering the unit capable of receiving composite webs arriving from either side) at a point where two motor-operated belt conveyors indicated by the reference number 6 receive and drag the said web.
  • the composite web CW thus moves forward between the two facing branches of the conveyors 6 to a cutting device 7, the characteristics of which will be described somewhat further on.
  • the web encounters a sectioning unit 7a (which likewise will be described in detail further on) having the function of separating tracts of the composite web CW intended to form stacks of interleaved articles that are to be comprised in different packs.
  • the reference number 8 indicates a folding device that - in the embodiment here illustrated - consists of two symmetrical and otherwise identical units.
  • the web CW is received at the input end of the folding device between the two facing branches of two other motor-operated conveyor belts 9 forming part of a deviation (deflection) unit 10 of a known type.
  • the deflection unit routes the web CW alternatively to one or the other of the said symmetrical units 12 .
  • Each of the units in question consists in practice of a zig-zag folding device, again of a known type, capable of folding the web CW into the desired zig-zag or accordion pattern and then depositing it in the form of a compact pack P inside a reception conveyor 13 that extracts it from the unit 5.
  • the two conveyors 13 (and. more generally, the two units 12 ) are intended to operate in an alternating sequence.
  • This choice made with the intention of optimizing the exploitation of the operating capacity of the unit 5 is nevertheless not in any way imperative and, in any case, not of itself relevant for the purposes of the invention.
  • the cutting operation performed in the cutting device 7 is implemented in such a manner as to completely affect the body of the composite web CW, but to affect only partly the projecting branches W1 and W10 of the two webs R1 and R10 situated in the two terminal positions of the interfolding pattern.
  • This result can be obtained, for example, by configuring the cutting device 7 in the form of two counter-rotating elements 14, 15 , each of which carries a cutting edge 141, 151 and a counterpart element (counter-knife or anvil) 142, 152 in diametrically opposite positions.
  • the cutting device 7 can also be realized in a manner altogether different from the one here illustrated without in any way changing the desired final result: for example, by using several knives in cascade and/or knives in linear rather than rotary motion, etc.
  • the composite web CW is made to move forward between two counter-rotating elements 14, 15 that are operated in such a manner as to subject the web CW alternatively to the action of the cutting edge 141 (or 151) of one of the elements (14, or 15) and sustained on the opposite side by the counter-knife 152 (or 142) of the other of the elements (15, or 14) .
  • the two elements 14, 15 are operated in counterphase with respect to each other.
  • the cutting edges 141 and 151 are each provided with a kind of notch or solution of continuity 141a , 151a intended to ensure that the region of the margin W1 or W10 affected on each occasion by the action of the cutting edge 141 or 151 will, as it were, be "spared" being cut in the area corresponding to the said notch.
  • the stacks B making up the chain that leaves the cutting device 7 are interconnected by bridgelet formations M arranged alternately on one or the other side (margin) of the composite web CW.
  • the said folding operation ensures that the individual stacks B become superimposed on each other, thus ultimately giving rise to a pack of interfolded articles of the type shown in Figure 6, which in general comprises a number m of stacks B.
  • the number m may be freely chosen in accordance with specific user needs. In actual practice, the choice of the number m corresponds to the choice of the instant at which the sectioning unit 7a is to come into action.
  • This device may be constituted by any kind of element situated either upstream or downstream of the device 7 , and therefore also immediately upstream of the folding units 12 , capable of intervening at the desired instant - by means of an appropriate command - in such a manner as to subject the corresponding section of the web CW to some stress - a longitudinal traction for example - and thus to cut or tear one of the bridgelets M of the chain created by the cutting device 7.
  • the sectioning unit 7a comprises one or two pairs of rolls arranged in cascade that, at the desired instant, i.e. when the bridgelet M to be severed (identified by means of a normal counting operation implemented in a known manner - for example, by means of an optical sensor not shown on the drawings) has just passed beyond the (first) pair of rolls, will close onto the composite web, thus slowing it down upstream of the bridgelet (and accelerating it downstream thereof whenever a second pair of rolls is present for this purpose).
  • each pack P of interfolded articles can be freely extracted from the respective conveyor 13 and sent to a packaging unit (boxing or wrapping machine, etc.).
  • the pack P obtained in this manner is made up of individual articles associated with each other in accordance with a general interleaving scheme of one type or another.
  • the interfolding scheme is to all intents and purposes the traditional one known to the state of the art.
  • the linking on the internal side of the respective stack corresponds to an interfolding of the traditional type, while on the external side of the respective stack B the linking with the homologous article of the adjacent stack B (the article in question is described as homologous in the sense that it, too, is situated on the external side of the corresponding stack B) is implemented by means of one of the bridgelets M: the result obtained in this manner is however exactly what is desired, namely to make sure that even for the articles situated on the margins of the respective stack B, the removal from the pack P of one article will imply the dragging forward of the next article, which will thus in its turn become predisposed for being pulled out of the pack.
  • the solution in accordance with the present invention makes it possible to realize packs P (and therefore packages B) that in general contain m x n interfolded articles.
  • the whole with the possibility of freely choosing the number m, which can be varied without any difficulty (in actual practice this is simply a matter of intervening on the control organ of the cutting or tearing device that segmentates the chain of stacks B in such a manner as to cause it to act at different moments according to the actual value of m it is desired to obtain), and with the consequent possibility of selecting a particular value of m also for the realization of small lots of articles.

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ES98830267T ES2190579T3 (es) 1998-05-04 1998-05-04 Procedimiento y dispositivo para producir paquetes de articulos laminares plegados interpuestos y producto respectivo.
DE1998610895 DE69810895T2 (de) 1998-05-04 1998-05-04 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung eines Pakets von ineinandergefaltenen Artikeln und entsprechende Produkte

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EP1118568A3 (fr) * 2000-01-21 2003-01-08 Paper Converting Machine Company Pile formée des groupes connectés de feuilles enchevêtrées
EP1136412A1 (fr) * 2000-03-07 2001-09-26 Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. Une pile d'articles laminaires enchevêtrés, son emballage et son procédé de production
US6644500B2 (en) 2000-03-07 2003-11-11 Fameccanica.Data Spa Block of interleaved laminar products, a package therefor and a process for realizing same
EP1193205A2 (fr) * 2000-09-29 2002-04-03 Imeco einwegprodukte gmbh + co. Une réserve de lingettes ainsi que dispositif pour faire la réserve
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JP2014055046A (ja) * 2012-09-12 2014-03-27 Kokuyo S&T Co Ltd 連続用紙の製造方法、連続用紙の製造装置及び連続用紙。

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