Abstract: Method of grouping a plurality of objects to be handled includes positioning the objects on a support surface and wrapping the objects and support surface with a tape of non-creped paper material. The tape having an extensibility of at least 6% in the longitudinal direction and 6% in the transverse direction and is maintained before or during the winding of the tape in a state of tension which causes it to extend to a lesser extent than its maximum extensibility.

Abstract: Process for continuously producing ribbons of corrugated fibrous material, includes: starting from a continuous ribbon of fibrous material having transversal extensibility of not less than 8%, advancing the ribbon between a pair of forming rollers presenting ribs alternating with grooves, and having a center distance such that the ribs of one roller are partially housed within the grooves of the other roller and define between them a corrugated interspace having a thickness greater than the thickness of said ribbon and a width substantially equal to the width of the flat ribbon, which at the exit presents a longitudinal undulation obtained by transversal stretching thereof, passing the longitudinally corrugated ribbon thus obtained between a pair of stabilizing rollers with complementary ribs and grooves interpenetrating such as to present a distance between them less than the thickness of the ribbon thereby subjecting the ribbon to a stabilization compression of the obtained corrugations.

Abstract: A process for making a continuous web of a longitudinally corrugated fibrous material includes passing the web between a rigid cylinder having circumferential grooves that are flanked and shaped to define a substantially corrugated profile on substantially on the entire thickness of the web, and a presser which has an external layer made of an elastically compressible material and which is maintained adherent to the rigid cylinder so as to cause the continuous web to penetrate into the grooves and thus obtain the corrugations, At the same time, the continuous web is subjected to a reduction of the speed of the surface in contact with the presser with respect to the speed of the surface in contact with the rigid cylinder so as to have a longitudinally corrugated pattern on both surfaces and transverse ripples at least at the corrugated surface that was in contact with the rigid cylinder.

Abstract: A method of producing a web of extensible fibrous material includes passing a web of fibrous material between a cylinder of rigid material having, on the side surface, a plurality of incisions running circumferentially, and a web having an outer layer of elastically compressible material kept locally pressed, at a pressing area, against the side surface of the cylinder, the cylinder and the web being configured and arranged so that the web adheres to the cylinder over a portion located downstream of the pressing area, the web has a portion downstream of the pressing area with a concavity substantially opposite to that of a portion of the web upstream of the pressing area, and the peripheral speeds of the cylinder and the web in the pressing area are substantially equal.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm, a width of 0.01-2.00 mm, and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1, wherein v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against the metal roll with a pressure of 1-200 kg per centimeter; and a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt having a longitudinal elongation of no more than 5%, dimensional stability along its entire length, a thickness of 1-10 cm, and a hardness 24-70° Shore A.

Abstract: A procedure is presented for making a continuous tape of at least one metallic material of malleable/ductile metallic materials. The process includes passing a continuous strip of the metallic material between a rigid cylinder and a presser in elastically compressible material, held adherent to the rigid cylinder and at the same time subjecting the continuous tape, in at least a portion of its passage between the rigid roller and the presser and a reduction in the speed of its surface in contact with the presser with respect to the speed of its surface in contact with the rigid cylinder the surfaces of the outgoing tape being always parallel to each other and the final width of the tape corresponding to the initial width.

Abstract: A process for making a continuous web of a longitudinally corrugated fibrous material includes passing the web between a rigid cylinder having circumferential grooves that are flanked and shaped to define a substantially corrugated profile on substantially on the entire thickness of the web, and a presser which has an external layer made of an elastically compressible material and which is maintained adherent to the rigid cylinder so as to cause the continuous web to penetrate into the grooves and thus obtain the corrugations, At the same time, the continuous web is subjected to a reduction of the speed of the surface in contact with the presser with respect to the speed of the surface in contact with the rigid cylinder so as to have a longitudinally corrugated pattern on both surfaces and transverse ripples at least at the corrugated surface that was in contact with the rigid cylinder.

Abstract: A method of producing a web of extensible fibrous material includes passing a web of fibrous material between a cylinder of rigid material having, on the side surface, a plurality of incisions running circumferentially, and a web having an outer layer of elastically compressible material kept locally pressed, at a pressing area, against the side surface of the cylinder, the cylinder and the web being configured and arranged so that the web adheres to the cylinder over a portion located downstream of the pressing area, the web has a portion downstream of the pressing area with a concavity substantially opposite to that of a portion of the web upstream of the pressing area, and the peripheral speeds of the cylinder and the web in the pressing area are substantially equal.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm, a width of 0.01-2.00 mm, and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1, wherein v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against the metal roll with a pressure of 1-200 kg per centimeter; and a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt having a longitudinal elongation of no more than 5%, dimensional stability along its entire length, a thickness of 1-10 cm, and a hardness 24-70° Shore A.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm, a width of 0.01-2.00 mm, and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1, wherein v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against the metal roll with a pressure of 1-200 kg per centimeter; and a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt having a longitudinal elongation of no more than 5%, dimensional stability along its entire length, a thickness of 1-10 cm, and a hardness 24-70° Shore.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm, a width of 0.01-2.00 mm, and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1, wherein v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against the metal roll with a pressure of 1-200 kg per centimeter; and a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt having a longitudinal elongation of no more than 5%, dimensional stability along its entire length, a thickness of 1-10 cm, and a hardness 24-70° Shore.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm, a width of 0.01-2.00 mm, and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1, wherein v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against the metal roll with a pressure of 1-200 kg per centimeter; and a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt having a longitudinal elongation of no more than 5%, dimensional stability along its entire length, a thickness of 1-10 cm, and a hardness 24-70° Shore A.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm, a width of 0.01-2.00 mm, and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1, wherein v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against the metal roll with a pressure of 1-200 kg per centimeter; and a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt having a longitudinal elongation of no more than 5%, dimensional stability along its entire length, a thickness of 1-10 cm, and a hardness 24-70° Shore A.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a web of fibrous material, characterised by comprising: includes a roll having incisions with a depth of 0.01-2.00 mm a width of 0.01-2.00 mm and a pitch 0.01-10.00 mm, and rotated at a peripheral velocity v1 equal to the velocity of an upstream apparatus unit; a belt stretched between transmission rollers that advances at a velocity v2 less than v1 where v1/v2 lies between 1.05 and 1.40; a presser roller rotating at a peripheral velocity v2, associated with a presser system acting to press the belt against said the metal roll with a pressure between 1 kg and 200 kg per centimeter; a system that feeds a sheet of pliable fibrous material between the belt and the roll, the belt elongating longitudinally no more than 5% dimensional stability along its entire length, and thickness between 1 cm and 10 cm, and hardness between 24° Shore and 70° Shore.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for realizing a re-closable container made of extensible paper, which comprises at least partly inserting a closing element (5) made of paper material (extensible paper) provided with a base wall (6) and a lateral wall (7), internally of a housing compartment (4) of the container. The lateral wall (7) of the closing element (5) is inserted and located at a portion of lateral wall of the container (1). A sealing layer (204) is coupled to the container in a position underlying the closing element (5). Also comprised is a contemporary deforming step of the lateral wall (7), the sealing layer (204) and the portion of wall of the container (1), such as to realize coupling/decoupling surfaces between the closing element (5) and the container (1).

Abstract: A multifunction apparatus for processing webs of fibrous and/or pliable material includes a tubular sleeve of an elastic material, a pair of discs supporting the tubular sleeve, a fixed shaft on which the discs are mounted such that their axis is inclinable to the axis of the sleeve, the end portions of the shaft extending beyond said discs, and a system moving the disc/sleeve system relative to the shaft.

Abstract: A method for modifying the physical and/or chemical characteristics of a web of paper material includes the steps of causing a web of paper material, having a dry content between 1% and 90%, to adhere to an endless conveyor belt of elastic material, subjecting the conveyor belt and the web to at least one localized dimensional variation, and introducing at least one additive between the fibers of the web while adhering to the belt before or during the localized dimensional variation.

Abstract: A multilayer papery material container includes at least one first sheet of a three-dimensional structure and at least one second sheet fixed to the first sheet and defining empty spaces therewith, wherein at least the second sheet is made of a papery material having a degree of extensibility of not less than 5% in all directions, and wherein the container includes a lateral wall provided with a relief motif.

Abstract: A process for realizing a container from a foldable sheet comprises stages of at least partially inserting a closure element made of paper material (extensible paper) provided with a base wall and a lateral wall internally of a housing chamber of the container. The lateral wall of the closure element is inserted and located at a portion of the wall of the container. Also comprised is a stage of contemporary deformation of the lateral wall of the closure element and the portion of wall of the container in order to realize corresponding grooves on the parts, destined to define coupling and decoupling surfaces by rotation between the closure element and the container. The use of extensible paper advantageously enables easy realization of the coupling grooves by rotation.

Abstract: A multifunction apparatus for processing webs of fibrous and/or pliable material includes a tubular sleeve of an elastic material, a pair of discs supporting the tubular sleeve, a fixed shaft on which the discs are mounted such that their axis is inclinable to the axis of the sleeve, the end portions of the shaft extending beyond said discs, and a system moving the disc/sleeve system relative to the shaft.