Better All Round Limited

Better All Around Limited

Philip Russell Fawcus

Oday Abbosh

Emanuel Nannizzi

Gianluca Giometti

Julian Brandon-Jones

Dave Reed

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.

Method and apparatus for folding and opening-up wipes

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.

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Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Philip Russell Fawcus