Cutting device
AssigneeRelco U.K. Limited
InventorsDavid Gill, Mark Gill
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Abstract
A cutting device (10) for cutting a material (12) and providing a cut portion of the material (12). The device comprises a heating assembly comprising an electrical induction arrangement (32) for heating the cut portion of the material by induction heating.
Claims31
A cutting device comprising a cutting arrangement for cutting a material and providing the cut portion of the material, and a heating assembly comprising an electrical induction arrangement for heating the cut portion of the material by induction heating.
A method of transferring a portion of material to an article, the material comprising a thermosensitive adhesive, and the method comprising providing a cutting member for cutting said portion from the material, providing a heating assembly comprising an electrical induction arrangement for heating said cut portion, effecting relative movement between the cutting member and the article to bring cutting member and the article together, actuating the heating assembly to activate the thermo-sensitive adhesive by induction heating to transfer the web portion to the article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.