Auto lamination cassette apparatus and process
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsGARY PFITZNER, DONALD ANDERSON
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided for preparing a cassette spool. The apparatus includes: a supply reel for supplying and unrolling tape material on original backing paper; at least one cutting member for cutting unrolled tape material while on original backing paper; at least one removing member for removing uncut unrolled tape material from original backing paper; an identification member for identifying on unrolled original backing paper a start of unrolled cut tape material; and a cassette spool for rolling up unrolled cut tape material on original backing paper. In further embodiments, methods are provided for preparing a cassette spool with cut tape material on original backing paper.
Claims22
A method of preparing a cassette spool comprising:
- unrolling a tape material on an original backing paper from a supply reel;
- cutting a portion of the unrolled tape material while the unrolled tape material is still on said original backing paper;
- removing an uncut portion of the unrolled tape material from said original backing paper;
- identifying on the original unrolled backing paper a start of the portion of cut unrolled tape material;
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- rolling the cut portion of unrolled tape material still on said original backing paper onto said cassette spool.
An apparatus for preparing a cassette spool comprising:
- a supply reel for supplying and unrolling tape material on original backing paper;
- at least one cutting member for cutting unrolled tape material while on original backing paper;
- at least one removing member for removing uncut unrolled tape material from original backing paper;
- an identification member for identifying on unrolled original backing paper a start of unrolled cut tape material;
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- a cassette spool for rolling up unrolled cut tape material on original backing paper.
A cassette spool wound with cut tape material on original backing paper, wherein said cassette spool was prepared by unrolling said tape material, before it was cut, on said original backing paper from a supply reel, by cutting a portion of the unrolled tape material while still on said original backing paper, by removing an uncut portion of the unrolled tape material from said original backing paper, by identifying on the unrolled original backing paper a start of the portion of cut unrolled tape material, and by rolling the cut portion of unrolled tape material still on said original backing paper onto said cassette spool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.