US 2007/0175589 A1Published application

Transfer devices

AssigneeXyron, Inc.

InventorsHeath CASALDI, Cory Worth, Adam Becker

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Abstract

Transfer devices are disclosed. At least one transfer device includes a housing, a supply roll rotatably mounted to the housing, a take-up roll rotatably mounted to the housing, and an application head. The supply roll has a wound supply of liner wound thereon, and the liner has an adhesive carrying surface with an adhesive provided thereon. The take-up roll has at least an end portion of the liner connected thereto such that rotation of the take-up roll in a take-up direction winds portions of the liner unwound from the supply roll onto the take-up roll. The application head includes a plurality of rollers that are rotatable about substantially parallel axes spaced apart from one another, and a closed-loop belt that is trained about the plurality of rollers to provide a transfer surface facing outwardly of the device. The rotation of the rollers enables the belt to travel around the rollers.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method for loading a cartridge into a transfer device,

the cartridge comprising:
a body with a longitudinal axis;
a supply roll rotatably mounted to the body on the longitudinal axis,
the supply roll comprising a wound length of liner having an adhesive carrying surface with an adhesive provided thereon;
and
a take-up roll rotatably mounted to the body on the longitudinal axis in spaced relation to the supply roll, the take-up roll having at least an end portion of the liner connected thereto such that rotation of the take-up roll in a take-up direction winds portions of the liner unwound from the supply roll onto the take-up roll;
the transfer device comprising:
a housing defining a cartridge receiving space;
an extension member slidably connected to the housing for rectilinear movement relative to the housing along an extension axis;
and
a cartridge support slidably connected to the extension member for rectilinear movement relative to the extension member along the extension axis, the cartridge support being constructed to mount the cartridge thereon,
the cartridge support, the extension member, and the housing being constructed and arranged to enable the cartridge support and the extension member to be moved between (a) an extended position wherein the extension member extends outwardly from the housing along the extension axis and the cartridge support extends outwardly from the extension member along the extension axis to enable the cartridge to be mounted to the cartridge support, and (b) a retracted position, wherein the extension member and the cartridge support are moved inwardly into the cartridge receiving space so that, when the cartridge is mounted to the cartridge support, the cartridge is moved into an operative position in the cartridge receiving space;
the method comprising:
sliding the cartridge support and the extension member outwardly of the housing to the extended position;
mounting the cartridge to the cartridge support in the extended position;
and
sliding the cartridge support and the extension member inwardly into the cartridge receiving space of the housing to the retracted position to move the cartridge into the operative position in the cartridge receiving space.

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A cartridge for mounting to different types of transfer devices, the cartridge comprising:

a supply roll having a supply of liner wound thereon, the liner being provided with an adhesive thereon;
a take-up roll having at least an end of the liner connected thereto such that rotation of the take-up roll winds the liner thereon;
a cartridge body connecting the supply roll and the take-up roll;
and
an applicator head having (a) a definite length transfer surface configured to engage the liner opposite the adhesive and apply a definite length of adhesive from the liner to a target substrate and (b) an indefinite length transfer surface configured to engage the liner opposite the adhesive and apply an indefinite length of adhesive from the liner to a target substrate;
the applicator head being movable to a definite length transfer position having the liner trained over the definite length transfer surface and enabling the cartridge to be removably mounted in an operative position to a definite length adhesive transfer device for transferring adhesive to the target substrate, the definite length adhesive transfer device comprising a frame configured to receive the cartridge, and an advancer constructed to affect rotation of the take-up and supply rolls to advance the liner so as to position a definite length portion thereof adjacent the definite length transfer surface, thus enabling the definite length transfer surface to press the definite length portion of the liner against the target substrate and transfer the definite length of adhesive thereto;
the applicator head being movable to an indefinite length transfer position having the liner trained over the indefinite length transfer surface and enabling the cartridge to be removably mounted in an operative position to an indefinite length adhesive transfer device for transferring adhesive to the target substrate, the indefinite length adhesive transfer device comprising a frame configured to receive the cartridge so that the indefinite length transfer surface can engage the liner against the target substrate and transfer an indefinite length of adhesive thereto by moving the indefinite length transfer device along the target substrate to apply a length of adhesive as desired.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/735,039Filed 13 Apr 2007
Priority: 23 Jan 2003
Published: 2 Aug 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B65H 37/007
Hand-held apparatus: applicators for applying coatings, e.g. correction, colour or adhesive coatings
Y10T 29/49826
Method of mechanical manufacture: assembling or joining
Y10T 29/49945
Assembling or joining: by driven force fit
Y10T 156/1348
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with cutting, punching, piercing, severing or tearing: work traversing type

Family

Application60/441,732Us provisional application · filed 23 Jan 2003
Application10/761,221Division · filed 22 Jan 2004
Application11/735,039Division · filed 13 Apr 2007
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