Described herein is a method for making fibrous water-soluble unit doses utilizing a repeating nested pattern.

Described herein is a method for making fibrous water-soluble unit doses utilizing a repeating nested pattern.

A cutting device includes a ribbon conveying table configured to convey a textile ribbon having a metallized thread or filament quasi-endlessly woven/non-woven in the fabric of the ribbon; at least two cutting assemblies spaced apart from one another along the conveying direction of the textile ribbon, the at least two cutting assemblies being configured to simultaneously perform a cutting action for severing a non-woven-in section of the metallized thread or filament from the fabric of the ribbon and at least two sliding spacers spaced apart from one another along the conveying direction of the textile ribbon, the at least two sliding spacers each being connected to a respective one of the at least two cutting assemblies, contacting the surface of the ribbon and being configured to slidingly move between the metallized thread or filament and the fabric of the ribbon at the edges of the non-woven-in sections to facilitate the cutting action of the at least two cutting assemblies.

A cutting device includes a ribbon conveying table configured to convey a textile ribbon having a metallized thread or filament quasi-endlessly woven/non-woven in the fabric of the ribbon; at least two cutting assemblies spaced apart from one another along the conveying direction of the textile ribbon, the at least two cutting assemblies being configured to simultaneously perform a cutting action for severing a non-woven-in section of the metallized thread or filament from the fabric of the ribbon and at least two sliding spacers spaced apart from one another along the conveying direction of the textile ribbon, the at least two sliding spacers each being connected to a respective one of the at least two cutting assemblies, contacting the surface of the ribbon and being configured to slidingly move between the metallized thread or filament and the fabric of the ribbon at the edges of the non-woven-in sections to facilitate the cutting action of the at least two cutting assemblies.

A fiber structure manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation portion that accumulates a material containing a resin and a fiber in air to generate a fiber web; a transport portion that transports the generated fiber web in a transport direction; and a heating and pressurizing portion that pressurizes the transported fiber web with a heated lower flat plate and an upper flat plate to melt the resin, in which a liquid absorbent having a first region where pressurization by the heating and pressurizing portion is performed the predetermined number of times and a second region where the pressurization is performed more than a predetermined number of times is formed by alternately repeating transport at a predetermined pitch shorter than a length of the flat plate in the transport direction by the transport portion and the pressurization.

A fiber structure manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation portion that accumulates a material containing a resin and a fiber in air to generate a fiber web; a transport portion that transports the generated fiber web in a transport direction; and a heating and pressurizing portion that pressurizes the transported fiber web with a heated lower flat plate and an upper flat plate to melt the resin, in which a liquid absorbent having a first region where pressurization by the heating and pressurizing portion is performed the predetermined number of times and a second region where the pressurization is performed more than a predetermined number of times is formed by alternately repeating transport at a predetermined pitch shorter than a length of the flat plate in the transport direction by the transport portion and the pressurization.

A composite fabric sheet loading and unloading machine and its method of operation is described for loading and unloading a composite fabric sheet into a computer controlled stitching and laser cutting machine. The composite fabric sheet is restrained on a rectangular contour support frame of a transport platform which is displaceably and guidingly transported into the stitching and laser cutting machine where programmed pattern fabric pieces are formed in the restrained fabric sheet. The transport platform is then unloaded and transferred back to its original position where the pattern pieces and trimmings are separated and a new composite sheet is positioned and restrained on the flat top surface to repeat the operation. A transport platform is provided on opposed sides of the computer controlled stitching and die cutting machine wherein after the unloading of the transport platform another transport platform is loaded into the stitching and laser cutting machine from the opposed side.

A composite fabric sheet loading and unloading machine and its method of operation is described for loading and unloading a composite fabric sheet into a computer controlled stitching and laser cutting machine. The composite fabric sheet is restrained on a rectangular contour support frame of a transport platform which is displaceably and guidingly transported into the stitching and laser cutting machine where programmed pattern fabric pieces are formed in the restrained fabric sheet. The transport platform is then unloaded and transferred back to its original position where the pattern pieces and trimmings are separated and a new composite sheet is positioned and restrained on the flat top surface to repeat the operation. A transport platform is provided on opposed sides of the computer controlled stitching and die cutting machine wherein after the unloading of the transport platform another transport platform is loaded into the stitching and laser cutting machine from the opposed side.

The present invention relates to a porous support (20) intended to be removably positioned on a top side (11b) of a perforated plate (11) of a table (10) of a vacuum hold down device (1), the perforated plate having a bottom side (11a) connected to a vacuum system (13) for producing reduced pressure on the bottom side, wherein the porous support includes a perforated tray (21) provided on one side (21a) with outer reliefs (23) and on the other side (21b) with a blade penetrable porous structure (22) fixed thereon. The invention further relates to a vacuum hold down device (1) including such a support. The invention also relates to a process for replacing a first porous support by a second porous support in such a device.

The present invention relates to a porous support (20) intended to be removably positioned on a top side (11b) of a perforated plate (11) of a table (10) of a vacuum hold down device (1), the perforated plate having a bottom side (11a) connected to a vacuum system (13) for producing reduced pressure on the bottom side, wherein the porous support includes a perforated tray (21) provided on one side (21a) with outer reliefs (23) and on the other side (21b) with a blade penetrable porous structure (22) fixed thereon. The invention further relates to a vacuum hold down device (1) including such a support. The invention also relates to a process for replacing a first porous support by a second porous support in such a device.