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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Better All Round Limited, London, GB;
Oday Abbosh, London, GB;
Philip Russell Fawcus, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Julian Brandon-Jones, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Emanuel Nannizzi, Lucca, IT;
Gianluca Giometti, Lucca, IT;
Dave Reed, Suffolk, GB;
BETTER ALL ROUND LIMITED, London, GB;
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.