IP Library Granted Patent US 8,545,678
Granted Patent B2
US 8,545,678 · App. 13/198,083 · Granted Oct 1, 2013

Apparatus for manufacturing a hygiene paper product

Inventors: Jurgen Sauter (Mannheim, DE); Wolfram Schinkoreit (Unterabtsteinach, DE); Dirk Mauler (Ilvesheim, DE)
Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products GmbH
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Patent No.
US 8,545,678
App. No.
13/198,083
Granted
Oct 1, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Method of manufacturing a hygiene paper product in form of a continuous paper web (W)of sheets partly separated by perforation lines ( 9 ) and wound to a log of predetermined longitudinal length, providing a continuous paper web (W), moving the continuous paper web in a direction of its longitudinal extension, providing at least one embossed pattern on the continuous paper web, providing in the area of an embossing station at least one mark ( 6, 7 ) onto the continuous paper web, which mark ( 6, 7 ) is in register to the embossed pattern, sensing the mark and controlling perforating means for registering the perforation lines ( 9 ) with the embossed pattern thereby imparting perforation lines to the continuous paper web in predetermined longitudinal distances, winding up the resulting web to logs, and cutting the log into rolls.

Claims (9)

1. An apparatus for manufacturing a hygiene paper product, comprising:

a feeding member for feeding a continuous paper web;

a moving member for moving the continuous paper web in a direction along a longitudinal extension of the continuous paper web;

at least one embossing station including at least one applicator or printing member for applying at least one detectable mark to the continuous paper web, the applicator or printing member being provided radially at an end of an embossing roll on at least one end region thereof;

at least one sensor to detect the at least one mark;

a perforating member to impart perforation lines to the continuous paper web;

a control member to control a registration of an embossing pattern with perforation lines in a moving direction of the continuous paper web;

a winding member to wind up the resulting web into logs; and

a cutter to cut the logs into a plurality of rolls.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 18, 2019
From: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS GMBH
To: ESSITY OPERATIONS MANNHEIM GMBH
Reel/Frame 048359/0109 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2011
From: SAUTER, JURGEN; SCHINKOREIT, WOLFRAM; MAULER, DIRK
To: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS GMBH
Reel/Frame 026701/0238 →
Continuity (2)
Division 11909529
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