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US 12,384,641 B1Granted
Automatic sleeving splicer comprising moving upper and/or lower tape heads
OwnerElisa M. Duncaninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for automatic splicing of rolls of sleeve material used in various packaging applications. The disclosed system will automatically splice the leading end of a new roll onto the trailing end of the old roll in an overlapped configuration. The apparatus performs an automatic cut and splice operation resulting in a splice of the two film rolls with tape applied to both sides of the splice joint where the new roll overlaps the cut end of the prior roll.
Claims15
A tubular film splicing apparatus defined by:
- an upper tape head comprising a front face that includes a first attachment element;
- a lower tape head comprising a front face that includes a second attachment element;
- an opening positioned between the upper and lower tape heads;
- a cutting element;
- wherein the upper tape head and the lower tape head each move between a first orientation in which the front face extends in a first direction, and a second orientation in which the front face is positioned to face the other tape head, wherein the upper tape head and the lower tape head move;
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- a shuttle configured to move between a first set of upper and lower tape heads and a secondary set of upper and lower tape heads.
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A tubular film splicing apparatus defined by:
- an upper tape head comprising a front face that includes a first attachment element;
- a lower tape head comprising a front face that includes a second attachment element;
- an opening positioned between the upper and lower tape heads;
- a cutting element configured to cut a trailing edge of a film that passes through the opening positioned between the upper and lower tape heads;
- a gap between the cutting element and the upper and lower tape heads;
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- a shuttle configured to move between a first set of upper and lower tape heads and a secondary set of upper and lower tape heads.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.