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US 2013/0231233 A1Published application
Process for making absorbent component
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsNorbert Stelzer, Olaf Schwarz, Ingo Mahlmann
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Abstract
A process for making an absorbent component comprises the steps of providing individual sheets of fibrous material, conveying the individual sheets of fibrous material to a cutting edge of a cutting mechanism, feeding the individual sheets of fibrous material through an oscillating clamping gap formed between a clamping mechanism and the cutting mechanism, grinding the individual sheets of fibrous material to form fibrous shreds, and laying the fibrous shreds on a forming belt to form the absorbent component.
Claims15
A process for making an absorbent component comprising the steps of:
- providing individual sheets of fibrous material;
- conveying the individual sheets of fibrous material to a cutting edge of a cutting mechanism, wherein at least one movable striking mechanism for grinding the fibrous material cooperates with the cutting mechanism and wherein a movable clamping mechanism is arranged at the cutting mechanism, to clamp the individual sheets of fibrous material in an oscillating manner;
- feeding the individual sheets of fibrous material through an oscillating clamping gap formed between the clamping mechanism and the cutting mechanism, wherein the clamping mechanism is moved in a back and forth clamping movement relative to the cutting mechanism;
- grinding the individual sheets of fibrous material to form fibrous shreds;
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- laying the fibrous shreds on a forming belt to form the absorbent component.
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