Method for fitting sealing profiles, by way of an adhesive layer, on vehicle bodies or the parts thereof

A method for applying sealing profiles to a vehicle body or a part of the vehicle body by way of an adhesive-bonding layer using an application apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:

• drawing a sealing profile from a roll in an unwinding unit of the application apparatus on which the sealing profile is wound, wherein the sealing profile wound on the roll is not checked for defects and/or discontinuities and the defects and/or the discontinuities of the sealing profile are not marked before the sealing profile is wound on the roll, where the defects are portions of the sealing profile that are unsuitable for processing and the discontinuities are profile ends that are joined to one another;
• passing the sealing profile that has been drawn from the unwinding unit through a buffer of the application apparatus, the buffer compensating for fluctuations between an inflow speed and an outflow speed of the sealing profile;
• inspecting the sealing profile and directly detecting the defects and/or the discontinuities using an optical inspection system configured to directly detect the defects and/or the discontinuities as the sealing profile passes through the buffer;
• rolling the sealing profile, by way of the adhesive-bonding layer, on the vehicle body or the part of the vehicle body, along an application line provided for application purposes, by an application roller of an application head;
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• before the step of rolling, severing and separating out portions of the sealing profile with the defects and/or the discontinuities detected by the optical inspection system from the sealing profile.