Abstract: In an apparatus for the shaping and compacting of absorbent pads for absorbing body fluid, which are intended for articles of hygiene and which consist of a plurality of part layers and, if appropriate, are treated with a superabsorbent agent, to form at least one absorbent-pad layer. A rotary band has arranged on it over the entire length of the rotary band, at distances from one another, trough-shaped insertion molds into which shaping insets can be inserted. Along the rotary band production devices are arranged, in twos respectively along the linear outward path and return path, and in the opposite direction to the rotary band there is a driving band which can be pressed against this, and furthermore there is arranged a thermal compacting device which has calender and/or embossing rollers following in the conveying direction and which consists of a heating cylinder with a pressure band arranged on it.

Abstract: For the construction of an insulating wound body 8 for electrical insulation purposes, in an installation 50 for the formation of a stack 24, sheets 21 and/or precut sheets blanks 21' are prepared from a web of material. The sheet stack 24 precedes the winding apparatus 10 and the winding material is supplied in a manner such that the width of the sheets corresponding to the winding width coincides with the length of the sheet segment, and the length of the sheets corresponds to the width of the web. The winding material is taken by a perforated conveyor 9 revolving around rolls (in the running direction of the winding apparatus 10), and the insulating sheets 21 and/or sheet blanks 21' are entrained by the segment of the conveyor belt between a lower roll 1 and the preceding reversing roll 3 and wound with edge to edge contact, without gaps, onto a conductor or inner tube 5 freely supported between the stationary lower roll 1 and upwardly mobile upper roll 2, without tensile stresses.