WO1998058612A1 - Method and means for forming locally compressed regions on absorbent products - Google Patents
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- WO1998058612A1 WO1998058612A1 PCT/SE1998/001096 SE9801096W WO9858612A1 WO 1998058612 A1 WO1998058612 A1 WO 1998058612A1 SE 9801096 W SE9801096 W SE 9801096W WO 9858612 A1 WO9858612 A1 WO 9858612A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
- A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
- A61F13/45—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators characterised by the shape
- A61F13/47—Sanitary towels, incontinence pads or napkins
- A61F13/475—Sanitary towels, incontinence pads or napkins characterised by edge leakage prevention means
- A61F13/4751—Sanitary towels, incontinence pads or napkins characterised by edge leakage prevention means the means preventing fluid flow in a transversal direction
- A61F13/4756—Sanitary towels, incontinence pads or napkins characterised by edge leakage prevention means the means preventing fluid flow in a transversal direction the means consisting of grooves, e.g. channels, depressions or embossments, resulting in a heterogeneous surface level
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
- A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
- A61F13/15577—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing
- A61F13/15707—Mechanical treatment, e.g. notching, twisting, compressing, shaping
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
- Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
- Y10T156/1002—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with permanent bending or reshaping or surface deformation of self sustaining lamina
- Y10T156/1007—Running or continuous length work
- Y10T156/1023—Surface deformation only [e.g., embossing]
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- the present invention relates to a method and a device for forming locally compressed regions on absorbent products.
- Absorbent products in particular female hygiene products, e.g. panty liners, sanitary napkins, etc. and diapers and incontinence protection products, are usually provided with fold lines which help control the shape that the product takes up during use.
- fold lines can be produced by selectively compressing some or all of the material comprised in the absorbent product in order to form lines of locally compressed material.
- These lines of compressed material can, for example in a panty liner, be placed in the longitudinal direction and given an anatomically adapted shape. During use the panty liner is easily deformed into a bowl-like shape which more closely conforms to the anatomy of the user and thereby is more comfortable to wear and provides greater security against leakage.
- Local compressions can also act as trenches which prevent or reduces the spread of fluid laterally, thereby reducing leakage.
- the compressed material in the compression lines has an increased capillary action which helps distribute the fluid better in the longitudinal direction.
- Compression lines can be formed on the finished product or can be formed only on a constituent part, e.g. an absorbent body, before it is incorporated into a product.
- EP-A 0 678 608 describes a method for manufacturing an absorbent fibre layer for use in such products, in which a surface of said layer is provided with a pattern of compressed regions.
- the compressed regions are formed by moistening the lower surface of the fibre layer and compressing it by hot-calendering.
- the moistening is performed by a water nozzle or a steam box which supplies moisture to substantially the whole of the web.
- Raising the moisture content of the material in this way can lead to negative consequences: the material can become sticky and fasten in moulds and onto transfer rollers leading to increased down-time while the machineiy is cleaned. This increased stickiness can lead to the material clumping together which means that the risk that hard spots can occur in the product also increases.
- some of the added moisture can be absorbed by superabsorbent particles or liquids (i.e. products able to absorb many times their own weight of liquid) in the material which naturally reduces their ability to absorb body fluids later.
- a further object of the present invention is provide absorbent products with permanent compression lines.
- the objects of the present invention are achieved by locally moistening the material in which compression lines are to be formed only in the regions intended to form compression lines.
- this is achieved by providing the compression means which forms the compression lines with openings through which moisture can be provided only to the material intended to be compressed during the compression operation.
- Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a panty liner with fold-lines
- Figure 5 shows schematically a side view of a third embodiment of a roller arrangement for performing the method in accordance with the invention.
- Figure 1 shows a panty-liner 1 which comprises an absorbent body 3 mounted on a liquid-impermeable bottom layer 5. There are fold lines 7', 7", formed of locally compressed absorbent body material 9, present in the absorbent body 3.
- the absorbent body material 9 can be any suitable absorbent material such as natural or artificial fibres with or without superabsorbents.
- the absorbent body is normally cut out of a web of absorbent material.
- FIG. 2 shows schematically a roller 11 for forming locally compressed fold lines T , 7".
- Roller 11 has a substantially cylindrical body 13 which during use rotates around its longitudinal axis.
- roller 11 is hollow and is provided with means 15 for supplying it with a moistening fluid 17 from a fluid reservoir 16.
- Roller 11 is equipped with projecting press means 19 which extend out from the cylindrical surface 21 of the roller 1 1.
- press means 19 is shown as a pair of curved projecting bodies 23', 23" with faces 25', 25" which lie in a curved plane substantially parallel with the plane of the surface 21 of the roller, and curved sides 27.
- Faces 25', 25" are provided with moisture emitting holes 29.
- Holes 29 are provided with valve means 30 which control the flow of moisture through holes 29.
- the amount of fluid supplied is regulated to give a moisture content of between 10% and 30%, most preferably between 15% and 20%.
- fluid emitting holes 29 in sufficient amounts to moisturise the web material being compressed in the local compressions 7.
- the holes 29 can be provided with valve means 30 which allow moisture to be emitted during the compression operation, which, for example in the embodiment shown in figure 3, means that fluid is only allowed to be emitted when the faces 25', 25" are facing vertically downwards.
- This material locally compressed between the faces 25', 25" of the press means 19 and counter-roller 33 then forms the fold lines.
- Roller 11 preferably rotates with a peripheral speed which is the same as the linear speed of web 31 which thereby prevents the press means 19 tearing or stretching the web 31.
- roller 11 and counter roller 33 are heated by any suitable roller heating means 34, shown schematically as a flame 34, so that the material of the web 31 is more easily compressed and the rollers 11, 33 could be followed by cooling means, shown schematically as a fan 35, which cools down the material of the web 31 before it can spring back into its original shape.
- suitable roller heating means 34 shown schematically as a flame 34
- cooling means shown schematically as a fan 35
- the fluid 17 is heated by any suitable heating means 37, shown schematically as a flame 37, as well as, or instead of, the roller and/or counter-roller.
- roller 11' is synchronised so that the depressions made in the surface of the web by projecting press means 19 on roller 11 are made deeper by the projecting press means 19' on roller 11'.
- the projecting press means 19' are superimposed on the local compressions made by projecting press means 19.
- fluid is emitted through fluid emitting holes 29 in sufficient amounts to moisturise the web material being compressed in the local compressions 7.
- the locally compressed web material is able to absorb the fluid during the time it is being transported between rollers 11 and 11' before it is further compressed by projecting press means 19' on roller 11'. This leads to better defined local compressions.
- roller 11 ' is also provided with fluid emitting means by means of which extra fluid can be provided to the local compressions if necessary.
- FIG. 5 shows schematically a side view of a third embodiment of a roller arrangement for performing the method in accordance with the invention.
- a web of material is fed over a rotating compression roller 11'" which projects out of the plane of the web material.
- the circumferential velocity of the roller 11'" is substantially the same as the web materials rate of movement so that the web material in contact with the roller 11'" does not slip on the roller.
- Guide rollers 41 on either side of the roller 11 '" guide the web material so that it substantially covers half of the cylindrical surface of the roller 11'".
- each part of the web material 31 is in contact with the roller 11 '" for the time it takes the roller to complete one half of a revolution.
- the roller is provided with projecting means 19'".
- the web material is under tension and the portions of the web material which are in contact with the projecting means 19'" are compressed against the projecting means by the tension in the web and form local compressions 7.
- fluid is emitted through fluid emitting holes 29 in the projecting means 19'" in sufficient amounts to moisturise the web material being compressed in the local compressions 7.
- the locally compressed web material is able to absorb the fluid during the time it takes rollers 11 '" to rotate through one half of a revolution. This leads to better defined local compressions.
- the counter-surface or counter-roller is provided with cavities (not shown) corresponding to the press means of the roller in order to allow embossing of the web material.
- the counter-surface or the counter-roller is provided with projections corresponding to the press means of the roller in order to allow double-sided compressing of the web material.
- both the roller and the counter- surface or counter-roller are provided with moisture emitting means.
- the press means have been illustrated by example which are intended to leave local compressions/fold lines of uniform depth and a curved shape it is naturally possible to adapt the shape of the press means such that local compressions of any desired shape and/or depth profile can be achieved in any type of product and compressible material.
- the faces of the press means could vary in height with respect to the surface of the roller such that the local compressions become shallower towards their ends, or vice versa.
- Local compressions can also be formed as straight lines.
- the embodiments shown in the figures show the local compressions arranged as mirror-image pairs they can be arranged in any possible orientation and number.
- a panty liner could comprise two or more pairs of mirror-image local compressions arranged in parallel.
- Local compressions can be arranged symmetrically, asymmetrically, as mirror-image pairs or singularly as required.
- the holes for emitting fluid can be any suitable shape and number and the valve means can be any sort of valve e.g. rotary, ball, reed, etc. which can be operated, automatically or manually, by any suitable means e.g. gravity operated, cam- actuated, electrically controlled, magnetically controlled.
- the valve means are preferably metered so that the quantity of fluid emitted is only just sufficient to moisten the material which is intended to be compressed.
- the moisture can be supplied as a fluid (e.g. plain water or water with an additive such as Kymene 617 (TM)) or vapour (e.g. steam) and the valves can be situated in any suitable position e.g. adjacent to the emitting holes or between the holes and a fluid reservoir.
- the invention has been illustrated by examples in which the moisture emitting holes are provided on the face of the press means, but it is also conceivable that the press means could be provided with moisture emitting holes on the sides of the press means.
- the moisture does not have to be emitted by holes in the roller(s) but can be provided using any suitable technique, for example, techniques known from the printing and/or glue application industries.
- the invention has been illustrated by examples showing how local compression can be formed in webs of material passing under a roller before the material has been cut out, the invention is also applicable to manufacturing methods in which individual cut-out or otherwise formed products are stamped, rolled or otherwise local compressed with the local addition of moisture in the areas being locally compressed.
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DE69817362T DE69817362T2 (en) | 1997-06-25 | 1998-06-08 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR LOCAL COMPACTION OF ABSORBENT ARTICLES |
JP50426099A JP4213225B2 (en) | 1997-06-25 | 1998-06-08 | Method and means for forming a locally compressed region in an absorbent product |
AU79459/98A AU7945998A (en) | 1997-06-25 | 1998-06-08 | Method and means for forming locally compressed regions on absorbent products |
US09/446,260 US6463850B1 (en) | 1997-06-25 | 1998-06-08 | Method and means for forming locally compressed regions on absorbent products |
EP98929966A EP0998249B1 (en) | 1997-06-25 | 1998-06-08 | Method and means for forming locally compressed regions on absorbent products |
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