Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With bending – folding – winding – or wrapping means
Patent
1991-08-27
1993-08-31
Simmons, David A.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With bending, folding, winding, or wrapping means
156212, 1564771, 156481, B32B 3100, B30B 700
Patent
active
052405478
ABSTRACT:
In an apparatus for automatically wrapping a cover material about a steering wheel of a vehicle, a support arrangement is provided for supporting the steering wheel covered with the cover material, in a first plane extending perpendicularly to an axis of the steering wheel. A clamp arrangement clamps an annular strip body of the cover material to an outer peripheral section of the steering wheel supported by the support arrangement. A wiper arrangement urges one of a pair of side skirts extending respectively from side edges of the annular strip body, against an inner peripheral section of the steering wheel. In a method, the steering wheel is covered with the cover material such that free edges of the side skirts can be abutted against each other at the inner peripheral section of the steering wheel. One of the pair of side skirts is adhered to the steering wheel while the one side skirt of the cover material is wrapped about the steering wheel from the free edge of the one side skirt to a location adjacent to the recesses. An urging tool having an urging surface following a concave surface of each of the recesses in the steering wheel is used to urge each of non-adhering portions of the other side skirt of the cover material against a corresponding one of the recesses along an urging direction, thereby adhering the non-adhering portion to the recess.
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Engel, Jr. James J.
Midori Anzen Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Simmons David A.
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