Abstract: Apparatus is provided for manufacturing a wipe in a three-dimensional form out of an essentially flat piece of material. The apparatus produces a blank of essentially flat planar form with a pleat folded on each side. The folded blanks are fed by a conveyor belt to an opening station. The opening station comprises a pair of movable pinch rollers which selectively grab individual blanks from the conveyor belt and feed them via belts to a pair of counter-rotating drums. The blanks are ejected from the drums, which partially opens them up in the process. The partially open blanks are fed onto a shaped former, where the final process of forming the wipe into its chosen three-dimensional form is completed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 17, 2023
Assignee:
Better All Around Limited
Inventors:
Oday Abbosh, Philip Russell Fawcus, Julian Brandon-Jones, Emanuel Nannizzi, Gianluca Giometti, Dave Reed