EP3749788B1 - Industrial plant for milling leathers - Google Patents

Industrial plant for milling leathers Download PDF

Info

Publication number
EP3749788B1
EP3749788B1 EP19707472.7A EP19707472A EP3749788B1 EP 3749788 B1 EP3749788 B1 EP 3749788B1 EP 19707472 A EP19707472 A EP 19707472A EP 3749788 B1 EP3749788 B1 EP 3749788B1
Authority
EP
European Patent Office
Prior art keywords
hollow body
conveyor belt
leathers
plant
previous
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Active
Application number
EP19707472.7A
Other languages
German (de)
English (en)
French (fr)
Other versions
EP3749788A1 (en
Inventor
Antonio Galiotto
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Erretre SpA
Original Assignee
Erretre SpA
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Erretre SpA filed Critical Erretre SpA
Publication of EP3749788A1 publication Critical patent/EP3749788A1/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of EP3749788B1 publication Critical patent/EP3749788B1/en
Active legal-status Critical Current
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Links

Images

Classifications

    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C14—SKINS; HIDES; PELTS; LEATHER
    • C14B—MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES
    • C14B1/00—Manufacture of leather; Machines or devices therefor
    • C14B1/44—Mechanical treatment of leather surfaces
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C14—SKINS; HIDES; PELTS; LEATHER
    • C14B—MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES
    • C14B17/00—Details of apparatus or machines for manufacturing or treating skins, hides, leather, or furs
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C14—SKINS; HIDES; PELTS; LEATHER
    • C14B—MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES
    • C14B3/00—Milling leather
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C14—SKINS; HIDES; PELTS; LEATHER
    • C14C—CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF HIDES, SKINS OR LEATHER, e.g. TANNING, IMPREGNATING, FINISHING; APPARATUS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS FOR TANNING
    • C14C15/00—Apparatus for chemical treatment or washing of hides, skins, or leather

Definitions

  • the present invention concerns an industrial plant for milling tannery leathers, or similar flexible and special laminar surfaces (imitation leather, ennobled leather and so on).
  • milling refers to the treatment of leathers in a watertight machine, known as “drum”, which is performed both to prepare the leather itself for tanning, dyeing o greasing and to subject them to the actual tanning, dyeing or greasing processes.
  • the milling is a mechanical process which is carried out on any type of special fabric - in general, animal leathers - in order to give the product the appearance of aging or wrinkling, to make it softer and to eliminate any folds present and, therefore, to prepare it for the subsequent stages of processing.
  • the material is, indeed, subjected to mechanical action due to its rolling inside the hollow cylindrical (often perforated) basket or barrel that constitutes the main part of the machine (or drum) and which operates by rotating around a generally horizontal transverse axis.
  • the product is cooled by circulation of cold air inside the cylindrical barrel which constitutes the main component of the drum.
  • an industrial plant for milling leathers - to be submitted for example to a simple fulling operation (word, the latter, commonly used in the tannery sector to indicate that processing - dry or through chemical products allowing to get special fashion effects on the leather - of the leather which provides for its softening by means of mechanical shaking inside the cylindrical barrel of the drum, under controlled temperature and humidity conditions)
  • a fulling drum which, in turn, includes a hollow, usually cylindrical, body, made for instance of wood, stainless steel or polypropylene and suitable to be rotated around a symmetry axis by motorization means and inside which the leathers to be treated are received.
  • the hollow body arranged horizontally is supported by a hollow shaft, placed on supporting members (such as typically ball or roller bearings) which allow it to rotate under the action impressed by the motorization means; the cavity in the shaft allows to introduce into the cylindrical body the water and the substances necessary for the tanning and the escape of the gases that are formed during the process.
  • supporting members such as typically ball or roller bearings
  • the hollow shaft is provided, at one of its ends, with a toothed crown which, by means of a pinion, is moved by the motorization means which cause the rotation of the cylindrical hollow body.
  • the inner surface of the hollow body is provided with protruding ribs (pegs, nervations, rounded blades) which increase the movement of the leathers when the cylindrical hollow body of the drum rotates around the symmetry axis.
  • protruding ribs pegs, nervations, rounded blades
  • the hollow (preferably cylindrical, as said) body of the drum presents a through opening for the introduction and extraction of the material, at which a water-tight revolving shutter (or door) is installed.
  • the through opening is opened manually, after stopping the drum rotation, while in the highly automated drums, normally called “automatic discharge” ones, the movement of the revolving shutter to open the through opening is impressed by automatic actuation devices (such as pneumatic actuators, electric motors or of other type), without the intervention of the operator and without stopping the drum rotation: in this way the leathers come out of the hollow body of the drum while it is rotating around the symmetry axis.
  • automatic actuation devices such as pneumatic actuators, electric motors or of other type
  • a central processing and control unit available to the user who schedules its operation, controls operation of the aforesaid automatic actuation devices and, in return, the movement of the shutter.
  • Suitable actuation means therefore, selectively and automatically place the shaped shutter between a first position, in which it completely and perfectly hermetically closes the through opening, and a second position in which the shaped shutter at least partly opens the through opening in order to allow the load in the inner volume of the hollow body of the leathers to be treated and/or the discharge from the inner volume of the hollow body of the leathers treated.
  • the shutter is opened in pre-set or steadily adjustable middle positions.
  • a typical industrial plant for milling tannery leathers of the type with automatic discharge of the prior art also includes a motorized conveyor belt (or tape), facing and underlying the hollow body of the drum: this conveyor belt receives the leathers just treated in the hollow body, from which they come by fall - automatic or favoured by the hand action of one or two operators -, when the shaped shutter takes the second position, and conveys the leathers treated far away from the hollow body.
  • This plant design has been consolidated for years in the leather tanning sector, allowing a more or less efficient management of the leathers discharge phase from the hollow body of the drum where they have just been subjected to a milling cycle.
  • Such a management of the discharge of the leathers from the drum - especially while it is kept in rotation - is in any case widely improvable and to perfect, in consideration of the fact that, at present, the leathers falling on the motorized conveyor belt are not efficiently and promptly processed by the belt itself, in the sense that they are not so quickly conveyed to the end of the conveyor belt which is placed frontally to the hollow body of the rotatable drum and is accessible by the operators: in practice, this end of the conveyor belt is opposed to that one below the hollow body and closer to the through opening of the hollow body from which the leathers come out while it rotates around the horizontal symmetry axis.
  • an auxiliary slide is mounted, placed above the conveyor belt and side-by-side to the hollow body of the drum and whose function is to ease the rapid, guided and gentle passage of the leathers from the hollow body to the conveyor belt.
  • the auxiliary slide is arranged next to the hollow body along an oblique direction defining with the direction defined by the conveyor belt below it an angle of not less than 90°, at the structural discontinuity zone between the auxiliary slide and the conveyor belt.
  • This general situation causes a relevant disadvantage consisting in that, currently, some (if not many) of the leathers, already exiting from the hollow body of the rotating drum, progressively and however minimally pile up on the conveyor belt at such a structural discontinuity zone between the auxiliary slide and the conveyor belt (especially if it defines an angle of about 90°), with the concrete risk that their accumulation on the conveyor belt increases until it comes into contact and rub against the outer wall of the hollow body, with all the notable disadvantages and dangers that this entails (damage to part of the leathers with consequent their derating, involuntary collection of the leathers from the conveyor belt by the rotatable drum, leaking of the leathers from the conveyor belt and their accidental impact or inclusion in the geared motor-belts towing system of the drum, under stress functioning of the rotatable drum and consequent dangers for the operator).
  • primary purpose of the invention is to provide an industrial plant (or group of equipment) for milling tannery leathers that avoids or at least considerably reduces with respect to the prior art the risk of accumulation of leathers on the conveyor belt underlying the hollow body of the drum from which they come out while it is rotating.
  • main purpose of the invention is to devise an industrial plant for milling tannery leathers allowing a conveyance towards the collection station of the leathers, coming out from a rotating drum inside which they've just been treated, more effective and faster than what is offered by equivalent plants of known type.
  • the industrial plant for milling tannery leathers of the invention avoids and in any case certainly limits considerably with respect to the plants of the current state of the art the risk that the leathers falling from the hollow body of the rotatable drum dangerously accumulate or pile up on the underlying conveyor belt.
  • the industrial plant for milling tannery leathers of the present invention eases the conveyance towards the collection station (where the operator or operators are placed) of the leathers falling from the hollow body of the rotatable drum of the automatic discharge type.
  • the industrial plant for milling tannery leathers of the current invention limits risks of damage (and of degrading if not of destination to waste) of the leathers, by avoiding their contact with the outer wall of the drum hollow body.
  • the risks for the operator and for the machinery - in particular the rotatable drum and the geared motor-belts towing system associated therewith - are drastically limited by the industrial plant of the current invention, compared to what negatively happens in the known technique.
  • the industrial plant for milling tannery leathers shortens the time of discharging the leathers from the rotatable drum to the conveyor belt with respect to the current state of the art, since, thanks to the avoidance - through the curved profile of the conveyor belt - the accumulation of the leathers in a certain zone of the conveyor belt itself, it is still possible to foresee, with respect to the similar existing plants, less stoppages of the rotation of the hollow body of the drum and less cycles of movement of the shaped shutter for open and close the through opening of such a hollow body.
  • the innovative technical concept underlying the invention can also be extended to industrial plants for milling tannery leathers yet existing and/or operative in the tanning field, by replacing the existing conveyor belts and even the auxiliary slide with the conveyor belt having an at least partly curved profile with concavity facing towards the outer wall of the hollow body of the rotatable drum.
  • the industrial plant (or group of equipment or machinery) for milling tannery leathers of the invention is illustrated in an example manner in a first embodiment thereof in figure 1 , where it is globally numbered with 1.
  • the industrial plant 1 for milling leathers comprises:
  • the conveyor belt 8 in transversal section made in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt 8, the conveyor belt 8 itself presents a curved profile 8' having concavity facing towards the hollow body 4 (in this case, this concavity affects almost the entire longitudinal development of the conveyor belt 8), at least in the linear portion L of the conveyor belt 8 onto which the just treated leathers fall from the hollow body 4 of the rotatable drum 3 through said through opening 5.
  • the linear portion L of the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 is underlying the hollow body 4 and faces the through opening 5 when the latter takes the spatial position which allows the leaking of the leathers from the inner volume 7 of the hollow body 4.
  • the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 which has the concavity facing towards the outer wall 4a of the hollow body 4 substantially coincides with the entire longitudinal development of the conveyor belt 8, net of what will be seen shortly.
  • the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt (or tape) 8 departs from a first end 8a arranged substantially near a point in the space A at the height of which the treated leathers project outwardly from the through opening 5 (shaped shutter 6 in the aforementioned second position) or start coming out from the hollow body 4 through the through opening 5 itself.
  • the first end 8a of the conveyor belt 8 is located just beyond the height of the horizontal hollow shaft (not shown for the sake of simplicity) which supports the hollow body 4 and, in essence, little beyond the symmetry axis X of the latter.
  • the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 faithfully follows the profile 4' of the hollow body 4 from which it is separated by a prefixed distance D which preferably, remains constant along substantially the entire longitudinal development of the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 (which, as said, almost coincides with the entire longitudinal development of the conveyor belt 8) remains constant along substantially the whole longitudinal development.
  • a prefixed distance D - which creates a gap between the hollow body 4 of the rotatable drum 3 and the conveyor belt 8 - presents a value between 30 cm and 150 cm and, preferably, is equal to 40 cm or 50 cm.
  • the curvature radius of the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 depends on the curvature radius of the hollow body 4, in the case - as that one described herein purely by preferred way - in which it is cylindrical.
  • both the upper surface 8c and the lower surface 8d of the conveyor belt 8 present, in this case, preferably but not exclusively, the same profile, so that the upper surface 8c is concave and the lower surface 8d is convex.
  • the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 extends for a length equal to at least the maximum width dimension T of the hollow body 4, as well illustrated in figure 1 .
  • such a maximum width dimension T corresponds to a diameter since, as said, the hollow body 4 is, in a preferred but not exclusive way, cylindrical.
  • the conveyor belt 8 preferably surrounds almost half the perimeter (perimeter which in this case is constituted by a circumference) of the hollow body 4, ensuring effective sliding and conveying towards the collection station of the leathers when they fall on it.
  • the conveyor belt 8 presents:
  • the conveyor belt 8 comprises a horizontal end section of collection 9 at the second end 8b to which the treated leathers are conveyed in order to make them available to an operator P ready to pick them up and allocate them for the partial storage.
  • the conveyor belt 8 has a transverse development, orthogonal to the longitudinal development, at least partly greater than the maximum width dimension of the through opening 5 of the hollow body 4: generally, such a transversal development of the conveyor belt 8 normally has a value equal to the maximum width dimension T of the hollow body 4 and in any case never less than the maximum width dimension of the through opening 5 which, generally, coincides with a length since the through opening 5 itself has, preferably, a rectangular profile with base parallel to the symmetry axis X of the hollow body 4.
  • the construction composition of the conveyor belt 8 is of the type per se known in the field, providing a continuous and very regular support plane, movable around end rollers and made of plastic material, such as PVC, polyurethane or silicone polymers.
  • the conveyor belt 8 is also, for the most part, interposed between the support framework 2 and the hollow body 4 of the rotatable drum 3, in order to reduce the impact of its overall dimensions as much as possible.
  • actuation means comprise any of the linear actuation systems selected from the group consisting of pneumatic actuators, hydraulic actuators, electric motors and/or similar and are operatively connected with a central processing and control unit (not illustrated) available to the operator P which, by activating the actuation means, determines the automatic passage of the shaped shutter 6 from the first position to the second position and vice versa.
  • FIG. 2 shows a possible embodiment of the invention where the industrial plant for milling tannery leathers, now globally indicated with 50, differs from that one yet described, indicated with 1 and shown in figure 1 , for including also guide means, in the form in this case of an auxiliary slide 58 coupled with the support framework 51 and arranged above a first end 57a of the conveyor belt (or tape) 57 forming its structural continuation, since the auxiliary slide 58 is provided with a first face 58a, facing towards the hollow body 53 of the rotating drum 52, at least partly concave. More specifically and preferably, a lower portion 58b of the auxiliary slide 58 surmounts or overlaps the conveyor belt 57 at the first end 57a closest to the point of fall of the leathers on the conveyor belt 57.
  • the leathers progressively exit from the through opening 5 of the hollow body 4 of the rotatable drum 3 at each rotation of the hollow body 4 around the symmetry axis X: they fall on the underlying linear portion L of the curved profile 8' of the conveyor belt 8 and are by this conveyed to the horizontal end section of collection 9 where the operator P picks them up and orders them according to the processing requirements downstream the industrial plant for milling leathers 1 of the invention.
  • the curved profile could have concavity facing towards the hollow body of the rotatable drum only in the linear portion of the conveyor belt on which the leathers in exit of the hollow body fall, or in a length of the conveyor belt greater than such a linear portion but lower than the whole longitudinal development of the conveyor belt itself.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Manufacturing & Machinery (AREA)
  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • General Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Treatment And Processing Of Natural Fur Or Leather (AREA)
EP19707472.7A 2018-02-05 2019-01-30 Industrial plant for milling leathers Active EP3749788B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
IT201800002404A IT201800002404A1 (it) 2018-02-05 2018-02-05 Impianto industriale per la bottalatura di pelli
PCT/IB2019/050733 WO2019150268A1 (en) 2018-02-05 2019-01-30 Industrial plant for milling leathers

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP3749788A1 EP3749788A1 (en) 2020-12-16
EP3749788B1 true EP3749788B1 (en) 2021-11-17

Family

ID=62089941

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
EP19707472.7A Active EP3749788B1 (en) 2018-02-05 2019-01-30 Industrial plant for milling leathers

Country Status (5)

Country Link
EP (1) EP3749788B1 (zh)
CN (1) CN111971399B (zh)
BR (1) BR112020015843A2 (zh)
IT (1) IT201800002404A1 (zh)
WO (1) WO2019150268A1 (zh)

Families Citing this family (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
IT201900016685A1 (it) * 2019-09-19 2021-03-19 Erretre Spa Metodo di esecuzione di un ciclo di bottalatura di pelli
CN115651993B (zh) * 2022-11-05 2023-08-15 江西兆丰皮业有限公司 一种牛头层防水磨砂皮革生产装置及方法

Family Cites Families (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2282530A (en) * 1942-05-12 Apparatus fob cleaning and sorting
ES436896A1 (es) * 1975-04-17 1975-07-16 Cots Perfeccionamientos en bombos para el tratamiento de pieles.
CN2773088Y (zh) * 2005-03-01 2006-04-19 辛集巨龙皮革机械有限公司 不锈钢全自动摔软转鼓
CN204111770U (zh) * 2014-07-23 2015-01-21 南通思瑞机器制造有限公司 一种新型皮革处理用散皮机构
CN106435052A (zh) * 2016-12-20 2017-02-22 新昌县金裕装饰有限公司 一种环保且便于出料的皮革鞣制转笼

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
CN111971399B (zh) 2022-03-18
BR112020015843A2 (pt) 2020-12-08
IT201800002404A1 (it) 2019-08-05
EP3749788A1 (en) 2020-12-16
WO2019150268A1 (en) 2019-08-08
CN111971399A (zh) 2020-11-20

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
EP3749788B1 (en) Industrial plant for milling leathers
EP3448583B1 (en) Treatment plant for treating longitudinal bars
EP2799798A2 (en) Container drying device
KR102667839B1 (ko) 전처리된 가요성 시트 제품을 건조하기 위한 플랜트
EP3320118B1 (en) Spray booth for leathers treatment
US219963A (en) Improvement in apparatus for damping woven fabrics
EP2904121B1 (en) Industrial plant for drying and/or conditioning flexible laminar surfaces
JP2016165229A (ja) 食品用粉付け装置
US7704124B2 (en) Roller shaft for a vegetable peeler
US4574495A (en) Method and drying plant for drying a material in batch operation
WO2018069806A1 (en) Apparatus for finishing men's socks and the like
NO141026B (no) Hurtigreagerende gyrokompassinnretning
NL1017528C2 (nl) Inrichting voor het behandelen van landbouwproducten, in het bijzonder aardappelen.
EP3169960B1 (en) Drying machine for pasty and/or granular substances
WO2024201195A1 (en) Industrial drum for the treatment of leathers
US2293663A (en) Process and apparatus for hat making
EP3043651A1 (en) Method and apparatus for cleaning the surface of food products
EP3442376B1 (en) Support frame of leathers to be dried and/or conditioned
US81886A (en) Improvement in machine por sizing and polishing beaid
GB2602388A (en) Drying apparatus
DE3119985C2 (de) Trocknungsvorrichtung
EP2189543B1 (en) Equipment for drying flexible laminar surfaces
US59469A (en) Improved machine for handling hides
DE1962014U (de) Appretur- und waschmaschine.
DE4418880A1 (de) Muldentrockner und Verfahren zum Behandeln, insbesondere Trocknen von Schüttgütern, so hergestelltes Produkt sowie Anwendung der Vorrichtung und des Verfahrens

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: UNKNOWN

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION HAS BEEN MADE

PUAI Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phase

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009012

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: REQUEST FOR EXAMINATION WAS MADE

17P Request for examination filed

Effective date: 20200902

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: A1

Designated state(s): AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

AX Request for extension of the european patent

Extension state: BA ME

DAV Request for validation of the european patent (deleted)
DAX Request for extension of the european patent (deleted)
GRAP Despatch of communication of intention to grant a patent

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOSNIGR1

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: GRANT OF PATENT IS INTENDED

INTG Intention to grant announced

Effective date: 20210721

GRAS Grant fee paid

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOSNIGR3

GRAA (expected) grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009210

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: THE PATENT HAS BEEN GRANTED

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: B1

Designated state(s): AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: GB

Ref legal event code: FG4D

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: DE

Ref legal event code: R096

Ref document number: 602019009381

Country of ref document: DE

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: IE

Ref legal event code: FG4D

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: AT

Ref legal event code: REF

Ref document number: 1448096

Country of ref document: AT

Kind code of ref document: T

Effective date: 20211215

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: LT

Ref legal event code: MG9D

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: NL

Ref legal event code: MP

Effective date: 20211117

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: RS

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: LT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: FI

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: BG

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20220217

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: IS

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20220317

Ref country code: SE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: PT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20220317

Ref country code: PL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: NO

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20220217

Ref country code: NL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: LV

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: HR

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: GR

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20220218

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: SM

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: SK

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: RO

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: ES

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: EE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: DK

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: CZ

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: DE

Ref legal event code: R097

Ref document number: 602019009381

Country of ref document: DE

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: MC

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: CH

Ref legal event code: PL

PLBE No opposition filed within time limit

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009261

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: NO OPPOSITION FILED WITHIN TIME LIMIT

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: BE

Ref legal event code: MM

Effective date: 20220131

26N No opposition filed

Effective date: 20220818

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: LU

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220130

Ref country code: AL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: SI

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: BE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220131

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: LI

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220131

Ref country code: CH

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220131

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: IE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220130

P01 Opt-out of the competence of the unified patent court (upc) registered

Effective date: 20230525

GBPC Gb: european patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

Effective date: 20230130

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: GB

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20230130

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: AT

Ref legal event code: UEP

Ref document number: 1448096

Country of ref document: AT

Kind code of ref document: T

Effective date: 20211117

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: AT

Payment date: 20240125

Year of fee payment: 6

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: MK

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

Ref country code: CY

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Payment date: 20240124

Year of fee payment: 6

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: HU

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT; INVALID AB INITIO

Effective date: 20190130

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: TR

Payment date: 20240129

Year of fee payment: 6

Ref country code: IT

Payment date: 20240129

Year of fee payment: 6

Ref country code: FR

Payment date: 20240123

Year of fee payment: 6

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: MT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211117