GB1393006A - Method of and apparatus for looping a withdrawal tape about an absorbent fleece - Google Patents

Abstract

1393006 Attaching withdrawal loops to tampons DR CARL HAHN GmbH 22 March 1972 [25 March 1971[ 13436/72 Heading A5R [Also in Division B8] A withdrawal tape 40, Fig 2, folded to double thickness so as to form a bight in the tape, is looped about an absorbent fleece 36, such as a tampon, disposed in a stationary guide 25 for guiding the tape about the fleece, by apparatus in which an end of the tape is held by a clamping and cutting device 13, 14, 14a and a tape puller 12 moves the bight through an orbit about guide 25 to form a double thickness tape loop thereabout, a portion of the double tape between the guide and the clamping and cutting device being passed through the bight and drawn so as to tighten the loop about the guide, said tape portion being deflected by a deflector 30 on a pivoted lever 29 to intersect a part of said orbit before the tape puller 12 and the tape bight have reached said part of the orbit, and said portion being entrained by a hook 45, Fig 4, on the puller 12 and the tape bight being thereafter pushed off a guide on the puller by an ejector (47), Figs 5 to 10 (not shown), thereon so that said tape portion passes through the bight as the latter is moved by the puller 12 through said part of the orbit, a pusher 23, Figs 2, 3 pushing the tape loop around guide 25 onto the fleece emerging therefrom. The puller 12 is mounted on a double chain 11, Fig 2, about a sprocket 9 rotated via gears 1, 6, 7, 8, an intermediate shaft 102 operating pusher 23 via cam 19, follower 20 and rod 22 and oscillating lever 29 via eccentric pins 26a, 28a and coupling 27. The hook 45 and ejector 47 are operated against spring bias by stationary cams 35, 35a respectively, Fig 2. The tape is held under tension by deflector 30 and a clamp 31a when the clamping and cutting device severs the tape loop from a tape supply and a second clamp 31b on lever 29 acts to pull the loop tight about guide 25. The guide 25 comprises a mouthpiece which is of smaller cross-section than the nominal cross-section of the fleece whereby the latter is slightly resiliently compressed or the tape loop is pushed thereon. The clamping and cutting device comprises a rotary sleeve 13 carrying jaws 14, 14a rotatable with sleeve 13 and longitudinally movable therein by means of a fixed cam 17 so that the tape can be gripped between a front end of sleeve 13 and one or the other of the jaws in such a manner that, for example, jaw 14 grips the tape for even numbered loops in a sequence and jaw 14a is operative for even numbered loops. The device also includes two alternatingly operating cutters each comprising a cutter blade 34 or 34a on one jaw 14 or 14a and a counter cutter blade on the other jaw, the cutting action being effected by the cam 17.