Device For Picking Up, Displacing And Placing Bands Or Strips Of Flexible Material

Assembly for producing a strip from a band of flexible material, particularly unvulcanised rubber, more particularly unvulcanised rubber provided with reinforcement cords, comprising:

• a cutting device for along a cutting line cutting off a strip from an end of the band;
• a supply device for in a supply direction supplying the band to the cutting device;
• a discharge device for in a discharge direction discharging the strip cut off by the cutting device;
• a pick-up and placement unit for picking up the band at its end from the supply device, subsequently passing the end of the band past the cutting device, and bringing the strip cut off from the end of the band by the cutting device on the discharge unit, or bringing the end of the band on the discharge unit, wherein the placement unit comprises a conveyor belt having a longitudinal axis parallel to the supply direction and displaceable parallel to its longitudinal axis and having an end that, when the assembly is operative, is at a first side of the cutting device prior to cutting and at the other side after cutting.

Device for picking up, displacing and placing a strip or band of flexible material, particularly unvulcanised rubber, more particularly unvulcanised rubber provided with reinforcement cords, with a leading end of the band or strip from a starting position to an end position, comprising:

• a frame;
• a conveyor belt which runs over at least a first roller having a first axis of rotation and a second roller having a second axis of rotation, and
• a retaining unit provided with retaining means for retaining the strip or band on the conveyor belt,
• wherein the frame is provided with the first roller, the retaining unit is displaceably mounted on the frame and is provided with the second roller, the device is furthermore provided with tensioning means for keeping the conveyor belt tensioned during the displacement of the retaining unit.