Abstract: A laminating machine of the type which laminates documents between sheets of plastic or a document to a substrate comprising a housing together with a first set of rolls within the housing adapted to guide the material to be laminated between upper and lower heating platens and a second set of rolls within the housing arranged to receive the material from the platens. The first set of rolls, the platens and the second set of rolls define a passage through the housing. End supports for the rolls are provided in the housing defines. The rolls are rotatably supported between the end supports. A drive motor is connected to one of the rolls at one of the end supports, and gearing means are positioned on the rolls at the other of the end supports for transmitting rotation of the driven roll to the other rolls. The upper rolls of each pair are journaled in bearing arms which are pivoted to the end supports to permit acceptance of thick substrates.

Abstract: A hot press roller has an outer pipe, an inner pipe inserted in the outer pipe, an annular separator disposed in a first end of the outer pipe, a separation ring disposed in a second end of the outer pipe, a round center hole formed on the annular separator, a circular center hole formed on the separation ring, a first end of the inner pipe passing through the round center hole, a second end of the inner pipe passing through the circular center hole, a water outlet tube connected to the first end of the inner pipe, and a water inlet tube connected to the second end of the inner pipe. A first safety valve is disposed on the annular separator. A second safety valve is disposed on the separation ring. A cooling agent filling tube is disposed on the separation ring.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining a first web (8) consisting of plastic material to a second web (9) consisting of absorbent material, wherein the arrangement includes a cooling-roll (1), a counter-roll (2), and means for feeding the first and the second webs through the nip defined between the cooling-roll and the counter-roll, the webs being pressed together in the nip, and wherein the plastic material in the first web (8) is in a plastic state when entering the nip. A pattern of molds (5) having air-permeable bottoms is arranged over at least a part of the mantle surface of the cooling-roll (1) and a vacuum box (7) is arranged inwardly of the cooling-roll mantle in the region of abutment of the first web (8) with the cooling roll, with cooling devices (3, 4) for cooling the cooling-roll mantle from outside the roll.

Abstract: A device is provided to join the lower end of a strip of paper coming from a nearly-empty reel to the upper end of another strip of paper coming from a full reel. The joining device comprises a rotating striking arm equipped with a hammer on one of its ends and with a cam on the other end. When the join between two strips is to be made, a jack actuates a castor which butts against the cam, thus bringing a striking surface of the hammer closer to the strips to compress and join the strips. The device further comprises a front and a rear cutting fixture permitting the remaining ends of the strips of paper to be cut on either side of the join. Air bearings are provided to guide one or both strips.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining a bottom foil to a cover foil comprising a heating roller and a sealing roller that cooperates with the heating roller. In the inlet region of the heating roller, there is a preheater for the cover foil. To enable especially good handling of the cover foil, an additional preheater, embodied as a heating wedge, for the cover foil is disposed in the immediate vicinity of the heating roller. Instead of the preheater, the sealing roller may also be embodied as heatable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device of regulating a running position of unsealing tape for packing film, in which in the normal operation unsealing tape runs on a linear normal running position disposed between projecting portions and by being guided by the projecting portions and while being in contact therewith, if the unsealing tape runs on the outside of an annular groove by being shifted to either side in the width direction, as a result of a relative movement of the annular groove in the direction reverse to the rotational direction of the regulating roller with the rotation of the regulating roller, the unsealing tape gradually enters the annular groove by being guided by corner portions and on the side of openings produced by separating portions and while being in an abrasive contact therewith, thereafter, the unsealing tape is drawn to the normal running position by being guided by approaching portions and while being in contact therewith and finally the unsealing tape is returned to the normal

Abstract: Apparatus for forming honeycomb structure from a plurality of substrate layers. The layers are bonded together by spaced, parallel, solid node strips of thermoplastic material pressed and heated above the softening temperature to bond to the substrate surfaces and form a block. Several alternative apparatuses are disclosed.

Abstract: An image transfer apparatus preventing transfer misregistration is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a driving roller, a following roller, and a carry including a guide plate and a cover film, wherein an image receiving sheet and a photosensitive material, which are overlapped with each other, are sandwiched by the guide plate and the cover film and then nipped between the driving roller and the following roller in the carry so as to be pressed and conveyed, and a pair of beam members extending along a conveying direction of the carry are disposed at the sides of the guide plate with the cover film being placed therebetween and the upper end portions of the beam members are projected from the upper surface of the cover film laid on top of the photosensitive material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for affixing a fastener to the garment side of an absorbent article having a profiled shape, especially an absorbent article that is thicker in the center than at the ends. The method involves placing a fastener with its pressure sensitive adhesive surface adjacent the garment side of the absorbent article, and applying pressure to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive surface to the garment side of the absorbent article while the absorbent article and the fastener are between a compressible component and an anvil surface. The apparatus comprises a compressible component comprising a surface with a plurality of compressible, resilient elements projecting therefrom in a direction toward an anvil surface.

Abstract: A pouch laminator used for coating both sides of a small-sized sheet such as a photograph or identification card with a vinyl film is disclosed. Two folding guide plates are hinged to front and rear sides of the laminator body, respectively. A pair of bearing units are placed inside the laminator body for bearing the heating and molding rollers. A tension member detachably mounted to the top of each bearing unit for elastically holding the heating and molding rollers. A power supply unit having an elastic piece is placed aside each bearing unit. The elastic piece is brought into contact with a terminal provided on an associated end of each heating roller. A flat or embossing roller may be used as the molding roller. The embossing roller has a knurled rolling surface, thus embossing both sides of a coated sheet.

Abstract: A cloth fusing press for joining a piece of adhesive interlining fabric to a rear face of a piece of cloth provided with a conveyor conveying a piece of work which consists of piled cloth and adhesive interlining fabric, a heater heating the work being conveyed by the conveyor, and a pressure device pressing the heated work. A table for feeding work which feeds the work to the conveyor when the table is adjacent to the conveyor and freely reciprocates for a predetermined stroke in the direction toward or away from the conveyor is arranged near the inlet of the conveyor.

Abstract: A method for embossing a sheet of creped paper composed of at least one ply, whereby the sheet is engaged between two metallic cylinders fitted with protrusions and driven in rotation in a conventional manner and mesh with each other while having a play e1 between the tops of the protrusions of one cylinder and the opposite surface of the other cylinder, and a play e2 between the slopes of two adjacent protrusions wherein e1 and e2 are determined in the direction transverse to the direction of paper advance in such a manner that the ratio of e1/e2 is between 0.8 and 1.

Abstract: A thin film membrane formed to a predetermined shape is produced by bending the membrane to create a loop and softening the membrane that makes up the loop with either thermal energy or a swelling solvent. The softened loop is then drawn between plates or about a mandrel to form a membrane with a predetermined fold radius. The fold region produced by the method of the instant invention does not require an adhesive sealant to prevent unfiltered liquid from diffusing through the membrane. The method is especially well suited for preparing membranes for use in the production of spiral wound filters.

Abstract: A temperature measurement and control apparatus (7) and a packaging film loading apparatus (9) for use in a packaging machine (5). The packaging machine includes a pair of counter-rotating sealing and crimping head assemblies (22, 23), each of which includes a plurality of sealing and crimping heads (32, 36), respectively, which are rotated past a first infrared sensor assembly (57) or a second infrared sensor assembly (61), respectively, for measuring the temperature thereof. Each sealing and crimping head includes a generally arcuate sensing arc (80) mounted at the first end (77) thereof, the sensing arcs being rotated past either an upper infrared sensor (59) or a lower infrared sensor (63).

Abstract: This invention pertains to apparatus and methods for processing workpieces on a moving continuous web using ultrasonic energy. The ultrasonic system includes one or more sets, each set containing first and second ultrasonic application devices, corresponding to an ultrasonic horn and a corresponding anvil. A first element of the set is mounted on a rotating work drum which carries the web of workpieces while the workpieces are being processed with ultrasonic energy. The second element of the set is mounted for rotation with the work drum. As the work drum rotates, the second element rotates with the drum. With each rotation of the work drum, the second element extends over the work drum and the first element, ultrasonic energy is applied to the workpiece, and the second element withdraws from over the work drum and the first element.

Abstract: An apparatus for laminating a plurality of components to one another in an assembly includes a table having an upper surface for successively stacking a plurality of components in registered, aligned, superimposed relation to one another to enable the components to be joined to one another. The upper surface of the table has a plurality of apertures formed therein. A source of vacuum is selectively connectible to the plurality of apertures formed in the upper surface of the table for holding at least one component in place when positioned thereon for lamination, two spaced apart, parallel, linear guide rails are connected to the table. An elongated roller has opposite ends connected to the rails for sliding, guided movement along the rails as the roller rollingly engages the upper surface of the table. A drive mechanisms is connected to the roller for reciprocating the roller along a path defined by the rails.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for bonding at least two continuously moving substrate webs together is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rotatable bonding roll which is located adjacent the substrate webs and configured to rotate about a bonding axis. A rotatable anvil roll has an anvil surface and is configured to rotate about an anvil axis to press the substrate webs against an outer peripheral bonding surface of the bonding roll thereby bonding the substrate webs together. The anvil roll is pivotally connected to a pivotal support mechanism which is configured to maintain the anvil surface in a substantially parallel relationship with the bonding surface. The pivotal support mechanism is configured to allow the anvil roll to pivot such that the anvil roll maintains a substantially constant force on the bonding surface of the bonding roll across the width of the anvil roll.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for bonding at least two continuously moving substrate webs together is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rotatable bonding roll which is located adjacent the substrate webs and configured to rotate about a bonding axis. A rotatable anvil roll has an anvil surface and is configured to rotate about an anvil axis to press the substrate webs against an outer peripheral bonding surface of the bonding roll thereby bonding the substrate webs together. The anvil roll is pivotally connected to a pivotal support mechanism which is configured to maintain the anvil surface in a substantially parallel relationship with the bonding surface. The pivotal support mechanism is configured to allow the anvil roll to pivot such that the anvil roll maintains a substantially constant force on the bonding surface of the bonding roll across the width of the anvil roll.

Abstract: Flowpacker with unilaterally supported cross sealing shafts, on which one or more cross seal tools are disposed, distributed over the radial periphery. For rapid resetting and simple maintenance, the cross seal tools are disposed on a casing part, which casing part is pushed onto the cross seal shaft, and is retained thereon. The casing part is, for example, held clamped on all sides on the cross seal shaft.

Abstract: Vertical sealer apparatus in a pouch form, fill and seal machine capable of reducing undesirable vertical seal growth along a web of heat-sealable material. The apparatus includes a drum cast of aluminum and having a plurality of elongated slots directed along either side of a plurality of radially extending heated land areas which contact the web to form transverse seals. The apparatus further includes a fan to blow air through the elongated slots in the drum and along either side of the land areas to cool the web during intermittent operation of the vertical sealer apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for affixing a fastener to the garment side of an absorbent article having a profiled shape, especially an absorbent article that is thicker in the center than at the ends. The-method involves placing a fastener with its pressure sensitive adhesive surface adjacent the garment side of the absorbent article, and applying pressure to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive surface to the garment side of the absorbent article while the absorbent article and the fastener are between a compressible component and an anvil surface. The apparatus comprises a compressible component comprising a surface with a plurality of compressible, resilient elements projecting therefrom in a direction toward an anvil surface.

Abstract: An embossed paper laminate having two laminae. The laminae are embossed so that each embossed site of one lamina is adhesively joined to the nonembossed region of the other lamina. The laminate is made by two close tolerance pattern rolls juxtaposed to form a nip. Each pattern roll has radially extending protuberances which contact the periphery of the other pattern roll intermediate its protuberances. The laminae are fed through the nip in face-to-face relationship and are embossed and adhesively joined to the other lamina by the radially extending protuberances.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the continual application of cut pieces of a strip to a continuous material web. The apparatus includes a station drum provided with a plurality of sealing devices. The strip pieces are transported to the sealing devices by transport rollers, which cut the strip into pieces. The continuous material web passes the sealing devices and the strip pieces are sealed to the material web. The material web is kept in register by means of a register maintenance device.

Abstract: The ply-bonding device for paper converting machines comprises a support 1,5 to which a movable unit 15 is pivoted. The movable unit is provided with a pressure wheel 19 which cooperates with a counter-roller 2, and a pressure means 31 which forces said wheel 19 against the counter-roller 2. The wheel 19 is resiliently supported on movable unit 15 and, during operation the position of the unit is defined by an abutment 37 on the support 1,5. (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A gluing palette for use with apparatus for gluing labels to objects, such as bottles or the like. The palette is intended to coact with a rotary gluing roller so as to be coated with glue and then to transfer glue to a label transported by the palette from a label magazine to a transfer device. The transfer device is intended to take the glue-coated label from the palette and press the label against the object concerned. The palette includes a core (18) and a carrier which is fitted to the core and can be readily detached therefrom. The carrier has the form of an elastic, pliable apron element (21) which will mould itself to the configuration of the core (18) and which is provided with at least one outwardly projecting part (23) made of an elastic material. This outwardly projecting part has a shape which corresponds essentially to the shape of the label to be coated with glue.

Abstract: An apparatus for bonding a tear tape (10) to a web of material is disclosed. In the packaging art, tear tapes (10) are attached to webs of film in order to create a tear-open aid in packs made of film or with the aid of the film. The tear tape (10) is bonded to the web of material (11) by the application of heat and pressure while the web of material (11) is conveyed with the tear tape (10) over a deflecting roller or sealing roller (12). The sealing roller (12) forms a heating ring (17) which is heated for the transfer of heat and pressure to the web of material (11), but which is thermally insulated from the remaining part of the sealing roller. The sealing roller (12) is formed from several parts. In particular, it is formed from two part rollers (15, 16) and the heating ring (17) which is located between these part rollers with gaps (38, 39).

Abstract: A device for bonding a thermoplastic tape to a substrate to form a fully consolidated composite. This device has an endless chain associated with a frame so as to rotate in a plane that is perpendicular to a long dimension of the tape, the chain having pivotally connected chain links with each of the links carrying a flexible foot member that extends outwardly from the chain. A selected number of the foot members contact the tape, after the heating thereof, to cause the heated tape to bond to the substrate. The foot members are each a thin band of metal oriented transversely to the chain, with a flexibility and width and length to contact the tape so as to cause the tape to conform to the substrate to achieve consolidation of the tape and the substrate. A biased leaf-type spring within the frame bears against an inner surface of the chain to provide the compliant pressure necessary to bond the tape to the substrate.

Abstract: A laminator to laminate a film on a support, sheet-shaped in particular. A fixed roller operates together with an upper pressure roller and a lower pressure roller, which can be placed selectively on the fixed roller by means of a shifting device. In this manner, the laminator has a supply of two different film materials for selective application onto the support as needed.

Abstract: A device for applying a strip of sealant from a roll to a surface comprises a shaft and a roller. The shaft has an end which is configured to be grasped by a user for pushing the device along a surface such as a roof panel, and the roller is rotatably supported on the other end of the shaft. The roll of sealant is supported on the shaft so as to enable the unwinding of the strip from the roll in response to a pulling force exerted on the free end of the strip. To use the device, the free end of the strip is first trained over the roller onto the surface with the strip between the roller and the surface. Thereafter, as the device is urged along the surface, the strip is unwound from the roll and pressed into engagement with the roof panel beneath the roller.

Abstract: A press roll apparatus temporarily or finally bonds two glass sheets with an adhesive intermediate film sandwiched therebetween to manufacture a laminated glass. The press roll apparatus has a plurality of drive roll units each having a pair of upper and lower presser rolls operatively coupled to a drive source and rotatable thereby for pressing the glass sheets therebetween, and a plurality of free roll units each having a pair of upper and lower presser rolls freely rotatable for pressing the glass sheets therebetween. The drive roll units and the free roll units are housed in a frame and vertically positionally adjustably supported by the frame, the frame having a pair of horizontal shafts projecting outwardly. The frame is supported on a support frame by the horizontal shafts for angular movement about the horizontal shafts, the support frame having a pair of horizontally spaced vertical support columns.

Abstract: High loft durable nonwoven material comprising facing and base components and corresponding process for preparation thereof and process for obtaining by(a) forming and compiling a facing component comprising one or more facing web(s) of staple fiber and/or fibrillated film;(b) lightly bonding the formed and compiled facing webs, utilizing a low density bonding pattern having a small bonding area relative to the corresponding surface area of said facing component;(c) laying a web comprising staple fiber and/or fibrillated film onto the lightly bonded facing component under conditions favoring arrangement in general cross or transverse direction relative to machine direction of the facing component; and(d) bonding said cross or transversely laid web to form a base component to said facing component, utilizing a substantially greater bonding density then employed for said facing component, to obtain the desired nonwoven material.

Abstract: A process of and an apparatus for sealing a thermoplastic resin sheet to a mount such as an aluminum sheet uses seal members such as seal rollers or seal plates each having notches thereon, the notches on the first seal roller being intersecting to the notches on the second seal member, whereby the mount can be sealed to the sheet in a crosshatched pattern.

Abstract: A laminator with two rollers forming a roller nip, one of the rollers being subjected to pressure produced by a force-generating device, with a movable supporting element applying pressure perpendicular to a plane passing through the roller nip and evenly distributed over the length of the roller, the other roller being supported over its length by bearing elements attached to an adjustably flexible bracket.

Abstract: A device (5) wherein, for splicing the facing edges (4a,4b) of a sheet (4) of unvulcanized rubber using a powered grip fixture (6) with a pressure member (11) and a counterpressure plate (36) for gripping the sheet (4) to a given pressure and imparting a given thrust on the edges (4a, 4b) of sheet (4) for bringing them together, the grip fixture (6) is moved back and forth along a route parallel to the edges (4a, 4b) of sheet (4) and defined by a guide (85) designed to move to and from an operating position wherein the counterpressure plate (36) and the edges (4a, 4b) of sheet (4) are substantially coplanar, and wherein lifting member (41, 64)(41, 65) cooperate with sheet (4) for lifting the respective edges (4a, 4b) onto the counterpressure plate (36) and into engagement with grip fixture (6 ).

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous production of composite laminate bodies including panels and cylindrical pipes comprises a frame, a laminating mold, a sheet supply roller, a movable pressure roller, at least two preheating rollers and a heating device, wherein the pressure roller, preheating roller and heating device are mounted on the frame, the laminating mold is movable and is adjacent to the frame to form a laminating gap, and the heating device is provided near the laminating gap, so that the sheet travels from the sheet supply roller to the preheating rollers and then to the laminating gap where the sealing material on the sheet surface is heat melted just before being pressed against the laminating mold.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for splicing ply stock comprises structure (40) for splicing two strips of ply stock (24) in end to end relation whereby the edges (26,30) along opposed ends (36,38) of the strips are abutted against each other and the top and bottom surfaces (42,44 & 46,48) of the strips are stitched to each other across the junction (45) between the abutted edges. The structure includes first and second powered splicing units (50,52) disposed above the top surfaces (42,44) and below the bottom surfaces (46,48), respectively, of the stock strips for simultaneous movement across the edges extending the width of the top and bottom surfaces, respectively, whereby the opposed ends of the strips of stock are pressed into the splicing gears (54,56).

Abstract: Applicator device for a laying machine with mobile head, for laying a composite material tape on a surface of application, said device comprising a rotary application roller carried by a mount fixed to said mobile head which applies said roller against said application surface and which advances said roller transversely to its axis of rotation so that while rolling it applies said tape on said application surface.According to the invention, this device is characterized in thatsaid rotary application roller comprises a resiliently flexible shaft deformable under flexion and a cylinder of resiliently compressible material fast with said shaft,each end of said shaft is connected to said mount by an end bearing, andat least one intermediate bearing is provided between said end bearings for connecting said shaft to said mount.

Abstract: An apparatus for the assembly by pressing of a laminated glass plate includes at least one assembly extending transversely of the pressing rollers (3) mounted at the end of rods (8) of at least one group of jacks (9) and in which the jacks (9) of the group are arranged in alternating manner in at least two subgroups (10, 11) in at least two different planes.

Abstract: A device for the assembly of a laminated glazing (8) by pressing includes at least one set of pressing rollers (3, 5) mounted on a flexible beam (9, 25) whose curvature can be modified and adjusted to a desired profile.

Abstract: A highly efficient manufacture of magnetic cards can be achieved by the arrangement of the present invention in simple and compact structure. The manufacturing apparatus including laminating and cutting devices can automatize every step required for manufacture, e.g., supply, transfer and positioning of material or discharge of a finished card. In other words, the manufacturing arrangement performs the total process automatically from pre-treatment to post-treatment with high efficiency.

Abstract: A device for the assembly of a laminated glazing by pressing includes at last one unit of pressing rollers (3, 5) extending crosswise, and controlled by at least one unit of cylinders (19, 30). The pressing rollers are mounted at least in part in pairs (3a, 3b, 5a, 5b) on the rod of the same cylinder by a joint system (17, 28) making possible a relative movement of one roller in relation to the other in the direction of pressing.

Abstract: The device according to the invention includes at least one assembly of pressing rollers divided into at least two subassemblies of pressing rollers. Each subassembly of pressing rollers is mounted on a beam portion the position of which can be changed and adjusted in relation to the position of the other beam portions.

Abstract: Coverings are applied to a surface by means of a member capable of temporarily holding the covering and urging it against the surface with adhesive interposed between the covering and the surface. The covering may be held by the member by means of suction and be urged against the surface by air pressure. The member may be mounted on a first articulated arm whose movement can be controlled by an operator who may be situated on a working platform mounted on a second articulated arm. The covering may be an acoustic tile for application to the surface of a submarine hull.

Abstract: A relieved plastic floor tile rolling press having an automatic alignment device comprising a surface roller from which a surface substratum with plane patterns printed thereon is unwound, a pressing roller on which recessed carves shaped the same as the plane patterns are formed to form relieved patterns on the plastic tile, and a sensing device to detect the lateral deviation and also detect the longitudinal location of the surface substratum. The sensing device also comprises a sensor to detect the rotational location of the pressing roller. The information detected by the sensing device is then sent to microprocessors to adjust the lateral location of the surface substratum and eliminate the difference between the longitudinal location of the surface substratum and the rotational location of the pressing roller.

Abstract: The method for forming surface-engraved panels clad with a sheet of thermodeformable material, particularly PVC, comprises a preliminary stage of engraving the surface of a chipboard substrate to obtain cavities therein in accordance with a predetermined design, and a subsequent stage in which an adhesive is spread over said surface followed by a sheet of thermodeformable material which covers said cavities, and is characterized in that the panel (6) prepared in this manner is passed through at least one pair of rollers (7,8), of which the roller (8) in contact with said surface is formed of elastically yieldable material which causes the sheet of thermodeformable material, previously heated until soft, to penetrate into said cavities.

Abstract: A device for the drive of driving rollers of a calendar for the pressing of laminated glazings 49 has at least one series of pressing rollers 1, 2 mounted on a mobile frame 3, at least one of these pressing rollers being driven by a driving motor 9 to which it is connected by a transmission system. Stationary and nondeformable drive shaft 11 is mounted on a mobile frame 3 and connected to driving motor 9 by a chain 10 or belt and to each driven roller 6 by the transmission system including a bevel gear 14 and a deformable, jointed unit 16 extending in an essentially vertical direction. The calendar equipped with this device can be used for the assembly of glazings of complex shapes.

Abstract: A compact roller system including a housing for a plurality of disks, each independently supported within a support member having sides which partially envelop the external peripheries of the disk. The disks do not separate or dislodge from their corresponding support members, yet the disks are capable of rotating within their corresponding support members. Each disk/support member shifts radially within the housing to accommodate the varying contours of a workpiece surface. The disks, in combination with their corresponding support members, apply an adjustable, evenly distributed compaction force to the workpiece surface through internal pressurization of the housing with a compressed gas.

Abstract: A machine for continuously stamping at least one advancing product strip has a stamping wheel, the rotatable wheel having at least one heated stamping die positioned about its outer circumference, and has a rotatable shaft for driving the stamping wheel and pairs of rotatable synchronizing rollers affixed on rotatable shafts upstream and downstream of the stamping wheel in the line of the advancing strip for positioning the advancing strip for stamping and for delivering the advancing stamped strip for cutting. The stamping wheel driving shaft and the shafts of the synchronizing rollers are connected to a motor for being driven in synchronism so the stamping wheel and rollers have a peripheral speed equal to the linear speed of advance of the product strip.

Abstract: A laminating system includes a pair of heated laminating rollers (14, 110) for drawing laminating film (12, 114) from supply rolls and preheat members (30, 118) between the supply rolls and the laminating rollers. The preheat rollers are heated internally by a recirculating fluid system or by an electrical mechanism (212-220), while the laminating rollers are heated by a fluid system (70-82) or a separate electrical system. The system also includes pull rollers (18) for drawing the laminated articles from the laminating rollers and a blower system (20, 232) for cooling the articles.

Abstract: The absorbent laminated sheet is composed of at least two plies (1.9), embossed, constituted essentially of cellulose fibers, bonded together at least partially by means of protruding elements relative to the surface of said plies and pointing inward to the sheet; it is characterized in that the protruding elements (101) are positioned essentially according to lines or combinations of lines reproducing spaced motifs (100), which recur indefinitely.Application as domestic or sanitary paper.