US Patent Issued to GDM on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for feeding a production line of absorbent sanitary articles with a layer of a virgin multilayer tape" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,502, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GDM S.P.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for feeding a production line of absorbent sanitary articles with a layer of a virgin multilayer tape" was invented by Alessandro Zavalloni (Bologna, Italy), Federico Toscani (Bologna, Italy) and Eros Rossi (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for feeding a production line of absorbent sanitary articles with a layer of a virgin multilayer tape including providing a head free end of the virgin multilayer tape partially unwound from a respective virgin spool; providing a tail free end of a multilayer tape in use; applying a fir...