Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Film or tape cartridge
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-27
2005-09-27
Hong, John C. (Department: 3726)
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Film or tape cartridge
C029S469000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06948237
ABSTRACT:
A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a film cartridge operable at high speed.A film cartridge comprised of a rounded ribbon plate and a cap clinched to the end of the rounded ribbon plate is produced using an apparatus including plural assembly chucks, an index unit for holding the assembly chucks at equi-angular intervals about a rotation axis and a driving unit for intermittently rotating the index unit. The method includes a step of introducing a rounded ribbon plate into an assembly chuck, a step of introducing a cap to a side end of the cylindrically rounded ribbon plate, in conjunction with the ribbon plate introducing step, when the assembly chuck holding the rounded ribbon plate is halted at a different halt position, and a step of clinching the cap to the ribbon plate, in conjunction with the ribbon plate introducing step, when the assembly chuck holding the ribbon plate having the cap inserted therein is halted at a further different halt position.
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Hase Akihiko
Ishii Masahiro
Suzuki Chiaki
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