Method of Assembly of Articles and Intermediate Created Thereby
AssigneeAvery Dennison Corporation
InventorIan J. FORSTER
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Abstract
Articles on flexible webs with different pitches are assembled together by displacing portions between articles of one web out of plane to move the articles on that web to the same pitch as the other web, aligning the two webs to register corresponding articles on the two webs, and assembling the corresponding articles together. The assembly may be used for example in the making of RFID tags, labels and inlays.
Claims20
An assembly method, comprising:
- selecting a first flexible planar substrate with a plurality of first articles disposed in a linear array thereon with a first spacing between adjacent first articles;
- selecting a second planar substrate with a plurality of second articles disposed in a linear array thereon with a second spacing between adjacent second articles that is shorter than the first spacing;
- displacing portions of the first substrate between adjacent first elements out of the plane of the first substrate to thereby draw adjacent first elements closer to one another;
- aligning the first and second substrates so that each first article is disposed in succession adjacent a corresponding second article in succession;
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- assembling each first article to the corresponding second article.
An assembly method comprising bending a web between first components out of plane until the first components match the pitch of second components on another web and attaching the first components to corresponding second components.
An intermediate assembly, comprising;
- a first web having a plurality of first elements spaced apart a first distance;
- a second web having a plurality of second elements distinct from the first element and spaced apart from one another a second distance different than the first distance, the second web displaced from a machine direction to a second direction substantially perpendicular to the machine direction;
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- the first web is disposed over the second web such that the first elements are juxtaposed over the second elements in a one to one relationship.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.