Multi-layer composite alignment device
AssigneeKohlam, LLC
InventorsHerbert B. Kohler, Stefan Wick
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Abstract
Disclosed is an alignment device capable of making high-speed adjustments to successive top sheets relative to underlying backings as they are conveyed toward an application station for lamination, in order to ensure that each successive top sheet is properly aligned prior to being laminated to its backing. In desirable embodiments, the alignment device can achieve successive angular corrections at a rate of at least 13,000 top sheets per hour.
Claims17
An alignment device for aligning a top sheet relative to a corresponding backing, the alignment device comprising:
- a roller assembly having one or more rollers aligned along a roller axis and adapted to be driven by a motor, said roller assembly being both translatable and pivotable within predefined limits in a plane comprising said roller axis;
- a translatable first frame;
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- a second frame fixed in translation relative to the first frame and being independently pivotable with respect thereto,
- said roller assembly being attached to the second frame, and
- said second frame being nested within a central opening of the first frame such that said first frame and said second frame are substantially coplanar.
An alignment device for aligning a top sheet relative to a corresponding backing, the alignment device comprising:
- a roller assembly having one or more rollers aligned along a roller axis and adapted to be driven by a motor, said roller assembly being both translatable and pivotable within predefined limits in a plane comprising said roller axis;
- a translatable first frame;
- a second frame fixed in translation relative to the first frame and being independently pivotable with respect thereto, said roller assembly being attached to the second frame;
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- a third frame wherein the first frame is supported by the third frame and is translatable relative thereto, wherein the first, second and third frames are nested such that said first frame is disposed within a central opening of the third frame, and the second frame is disposed within a central opening of the first frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.