Embossing device for at least two-layered planar products such as toilet paper, tissues, or similar
AssigneeMetsa Tissue Oyj
InventorJürgen Schütz
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Abstract
The aim of the invention is to create an embossing device for at least two-layered planar products such as toilet paper, tissues, or similar, which makes it possible to easily make high-quality planar products that are provided with decorative patterns. The aim is achieved by an embossing device for at least two-layered planar products such as toilet paper, tissues, and similar. Also, the embossing device has at least one first and at least one second couple of rollers, each of which is composed of an embossing roller and a squeezer.
Claims10
An embossing device (10) for at least two-layer planar products (40) such as toilet paper, facial tissue or the like, the embossing device comprising:
- at least one first and at least one second roller couple (12, 14), each formed from an embossing roller (16, 20) and a squeezer (18, 22), wherein embossing roller (16) of first couple (12) has a plurality of embossing points (38) uniformly distributed over an entire embossing surface in a number of roughly 20 to roughly 70 per cm2, for producing a two-dimensional micro-embossing on at least one layer web (24), and wherein embossing roller (20) of second couple (14) has an embossing surface with a decorative pattern made from a plurality of first areas (26) having a plurality of embossing points (38) extending across any given first area (26) in a number of roughly 45 to roughly 70 per cm2 to produce a two-dimensional micro-embossing on at least one additional layer web (30) and second areas (28) that have no embossing points extending across any given second area (28), said second areas (28) being formed into one or more shapes so as to form their own decorative pattern on said embossing surface and being bounded by and located within at least one first area (26), and having no embossing points between said at least one bounded first area (26), wherein second areas (28) constitute not more than 40% of the entire embossing surface and are not interconnected,
- with at least one gluing station (32), which is arranged adjacent to embossing roller (20) of second couple (14) and downstream of the corresponding squeezer (22), and by means of which glue (34) is applied to elevations on the at least one additional layer web (30) produced by the embossing points (38) of embossing roller (20),
- wherein embossing rollers (16, 20) are arranged relative to one another forming a nip (17) to bring the embossed layer webs (24, 30) together and
- wherein a joining roller (36) is arranged downstream adjacent to embossing roller (20) of second couple (14) to form a layer connection of layer webs (24, 30).
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