Article of manufacture making system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11866852-B2
Application number	US-202117541674-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 3, 2021
Priority date	Jun 3, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2024
Grant date	Jan 9, 2024

Abstract

An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system including one or more dry solid additive inlets, one or more dry solid additive outlets and one or more prime movers.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An article of manufacture making system that makes an article of manufacture, wherein the article of manufacture comprises a plurality of dry solid additives, the article of manufacture making system comprising a dry solid additive delivery system comprising one or more dry solid additive inlets and one or more dry solid additive outlets, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive inlets is intimately associated with at least one dry solid additive source comprising a discretizer comprising a screen that supplies dry solid additives to the at least one dry solid additive inlet, wherein the dry solid additives are conveyed through the dry solid additive delivery system from at least one of the dry solid additive inlets to at least one of the dry solid additive outlets from which the dry solid additives are formed into an article of manufacture, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive outlets is intimately associated with the article of manufacture, wherein the article of manufacture making system further comprises one or more prime movers that exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1, and wherein the dry solid additive delivery system contains from 0 to about 1000 cross flow members between at least one of the dry solid additive sources and at least one of the dry solid additive outlets;
wherein at least one of the prime movers is an eductor.

2. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 1 wherein the dry solid additive delivery system comprises a plurality of dry solid additive inlets.

3. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the dry solid additive outlets exhibits a cross machine direction (CD) dimension greater than at least one of the dry solid additive inlet's CD dimension.

4. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the prime movers comprises an outlet that exhibits a cross machine (CD) dimension that is greater than the CD dimension of at least one of the dry solid additive inlets.

5. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 1 wherein the article of manufacture is formed by collecting the dry solid additives from at least one of the dry solid additive outlets onto a collection device.

6. An article of manufacture making system that makes an article of manufacture, wherein the article of manufacture comprises a plurality of dry solid additives, the article of manufacture making system comprising a dry solid additive delivery system comprising one or more dry solid additive inlets and one or more dry solid additive intermediate outlets wherein the dry solid additives are conveyed through the dry solid additive delivery system from at least one of the dry solid additive inlets to at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets, wherein the dry solid additives are supplied to the one or more dry solid additive inlets by one or more dry solid additive sources comprising a discretizer comprising a screen, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive sources is intimately associated with at least one of the dry solid additive inlets, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive inlets, at least one of the dry solid additive sources, and at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets exhibits a cross machine direction (CD) dimension that is greater than the CD dimension of at least one of the dry solid additive inlets and at least one of the dry solid additive sources, wherein the dry solid additive delivery system further comprises one or more prime movers wherein at least one of the prime movers exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1;
wherein at least one of the prime movers is an eductor.

7. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 6 wherein the dry solid additive delivery system comprises a plurality of dry solid additive inlets.

8. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 6 wherein the dry solid additive delivery system further comprises one or more dry solid additive outlets from which the dry solid additives are formed into an article of manufacture.

9. An article of manufacture making system that makes an article of manufacture, wherein the article of manufacture comprises a plurality of dry solid additives, the article of manufacture making system comprising a dry solid additive delivery system comprising one or more dry solid additive inlets and one or more dry solid additive intermediate outlets wherein the dry solid additives are conveyed through the dry solid additive delivery system from at least one of the dry solid additive inlets to at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets, wherein the dry solid additives are supplied to the one or more dry solid additive inlets by one or more dry solid additive sources comprising a discretizer comprising a screen, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive sources is intimately associated with at least one of the dry solid additive inlets, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive inlets, at least one of the dry solid additive sources, and at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1, and wherein the number of dry solid additive intermediate outlets is greater than the number of dry solid additive sources, wherein the dry solid additive delivery system further comprises one or more prime movers wherein at least one of the prime movers exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1.

10. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 9 wherein the dry solid additive delivery system comprises a plurality of dry solid additive inlets.

11. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 9 wherein the dry solid additive delivery system further comprises one or more dry solid additive outlets from which the dry solid additives are formed into an article of manufacture.

12. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 11 wherein at least one of the dry solid additive outlets is intimately associated with the article of manufacture.

13. The article of manufacture making system according to claim 11 wherein the dry solid additive delivery system comprises from 0 to about 1000 cross flow members between at least one of the dry solid additive inlets and one of the dry solid additive outlets.

Assignees

• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Young Christopher Michael
• Barnholtz Steven Lee
• Wang Fei

Classifications

• D01G13/00 Primary

  Mixing, e.g. blending, fibres; Mixing non-fibrous materials with fibres · CPC title

• D04H1/732

  by fluid current, e.g. air-lay · CPC title

• D21H27/002 Primary

  Tissue paper; Absorbent paper (D21H21/22, D21H27/02, D21H27/20 take precedence; toilet paper A47K10/00; absorbent pads for physiological fluids A61L15/16; making on paper-making machines D21F11/00) · CPC title