Weight material cutting, dispensing and applying systems

A feed and cutting unit for selectively cutting and dispensing individual weight material segments from a common strip of weight material, comprising:

• a feed assembly that includes a drive roller operatively connected to a motor and a follower roller that cooperates with the drive roller to frictionally engage first and second surfaces of a strip of weight material to selectively move the strip of weight material to a cutter member;
• wherein the strip of weight material comprises individual segments of weight material disposed on a common backing material by adhesive and separated by a gap;
• wherein the cutter member is operatively connected to the controller, wherein the controller actuates the cutter member to separate a predetermined amount of segmented weight material from the strip of weight material by cutting at least a portion of the backing material in a gap between adjacent segments of weight material during the cutting operation;
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• a weight apply member including first and second arc members directly connected to a center rail extending between the first and second arc members, wherein the first and second arc members have at least one magnetic element disposed within an end face of each of the first and second arc members.

A feed and cutting unit for selectively cutting and dispensing individual weight material segments from a common strip of weight material, comprising:

• a feed assembly that includes a drive roller operatively connected to a motor and a follower roller that cooperates with the drive roller to frictionally engage first and second surfaces of a strip of weight material to selectively move the strip of weight material to a cutter member;
• wherein the strip of weight material comprises individual segments of weight material disposed on a common backing material by adhesive and separated by a gap;
• wherein the cutter member is operatively connected to the controller, wherein the controller actuates the cutter member to separate a predetermined amount of segmented weight material from the strip of weight material by cutting at least a portion of the backing material in a gap between adjacent segments of weight material during the cutting operation;
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• a weight apply member including first and second arc members directly connected to a center rail extending between the first and second arc members, wherein the first and second arc members include electro/magnetic members in end faces of the first and second arc members, and when power is supplied to the electro/magnetic members, the segments of weight material are retained to the weight apply member;
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• a force sensor connected to the weight apply member, wherein the force sensor is used to verify that a constant press force is maintained by the weight apply member during a weight apply operation.