Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With cutting – punching – piercing – severing – or tearing
Patent
1991-04-17
1994-03-15
Ryan, Patrick J.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With cutting, punching, piercing, severing, or tearing
156510, 156517, 156518, 226 92, 226181, 269 21, 269289R, 83451, 83452, B32B 3100
Patent
active
052942821
ABSTRACT:
A gripper assembly grips a double layered end portion of a tape with a tacky side of the tape facing downwardly and a backing side of the tape facing upwardly. A tape feed assembly feeds the tape, with the tacky side down, from a tape storage reel to the gripper assembly at the speed at which the gripper assembly moves along a tape support to tend to minimize tension in the portion of the tape disposed between the tape feed assembly and the gripper assembly. When the desired length of tape has been fed, the tacky side of the tape is moved into engagement with the upper side of the tape support. Suction is applied to the tacky side of the tape to hold the tape in position on the tape support. While the tape is disposed on the tape support, opposite ends of the tape are cut. A tape transfer manifold applies suction to the upwardly facing backing side of the cut tape to grip the tape. Air pressure is applied against the tacky downwardly facing side of the tape to positively release the tape from the tape support. The tape transfer manifold is then moved to a use location where an article receives the tape.
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Rock Reinhold
Schuessler Josef
Dixon Merrick
Herd Manufacturing, Inc.
Ryan Patrick J.
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