Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – Automatic and/or material-triggered control
Patent
1996-10-08
1999-04-13
Stemmer, Daniel
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
Automatic and/or material-triggered control
83 16, 156 88, 156251, 156366, 156515, B26D 710, B32B 3118
Patent
active
058939636
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides apparatus for producing preselected lengths of rope from a supply of thermoplastic rope, and includes a rope feed system for advancing rope longitudinally along a rope path and a guillotine assembly coupled to the feed system. The guillotine assembly has a thermally conductive blade support mounted for reciprocal movement orthogonally with respect to the rope path, and a thermally conductive blade removably attached to the blade support. The blade is in good thermal contact with the blade support and movable with the blade support between a first position clear of the rope path and a second position in which the blade crosses the rope path. An electrical heating element is attached to the blade support to heat the support and thereby heat the blade to a temperature sufficient to fuse the rope locally. A blade actuator is coupled to the chassis and to the blade support for reciprocating the blade support and a control system is coupled to the rope feed system and to the guillotine assembly to actuate the rope feed assembly and the guillotine assembly. As a result, the blade engages the rope and applies heat so that the blade passes through the rope as the rope is softened and the sides of the blade fuse the rope ends to thereby fuse and sever the rope. The cycle is repeated in accordance with a counter in the control system and the lengths of the severed ropes are preselected in the control system.
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