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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2017
Gdm S.p.a., Bologna, IT;
Matteo Piantoni, Albino, IT;
Valerio Soli, Bologna, IT;
Marco Rosani, Vailate, IT;
Federico Tordini, Pedrengo, IT;
Massimo Pallavera, Soresina, IT;
GDM S.p.A., Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A feeding unit for feeding a component of a hygiene absorbent article; the feeding unit has: at least one sucking-holding head, which is designed to receive and hold the component; a conveyor to cyclically move the holding head along an annular application path; an input station in which the holding head receives a corresponding component which is connected—without gaps—to a continuous web; a cutting station provided with a cutting device, which cuts the continuous web crosswise; and an output station in which the holding head releases the component; the conveyor has: an annular guide; a slide which supports the holding head and is coupled to the guide so as to freely slide along the guide itself; and a linear electric motor, which has a stator, which is arranged in a fixed position along the guide and a mobile slider which is electro-magnetically coupled to the stator so as to receive, from the stator, a driving force and is rigidly connected to the slide.