Method of Assembly of Articles and Intermediate Created Thereby
AssigneeAvery Dennison Corporation
InventorIan James FORSTER
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Abstract
An assembly method for first and second articles is disclosed. A first substrate with a plurality of first articles and a second substrate with a plurality of second articles are selected. The articles on the flexible substrate webs with different pitches are assembled together by displacing portions between the first articles of one web out of plane to move the first articles on that web to the same shorter pitch as the second articles on the other web, aligning the two webs to register corresponding first and second 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.
Claims17
An assembly method comprising the steps of;
- bending a first web between first components out of plane so that the first components are brought physically closer to each other until the first components match the pitch of second components on a second web;
- and,
- attaching the first components to corresponding second components.
A manufacturing method for roll materials, the method comprising:
- selecting a first web having a plurality of first elements having a first linear array having a first spacing;
- selecting a second web having a plurality of second elements having a second linear array having a second spacing;
- wherein the second spacing is different than the first spacing;
- displacing the first web in a transverse direction to sufficiently align the spacing of the first elements to the spacing of the second elements;
- attaching the first element to the second element through at least one of:
- registration, adhesive, heat, pressure, soldering, or welding;
- and
- severing the first or second web to produce a finished or intermediate roll.
The method of 7, wherein the first elements are RFID inlays and the second elements are materials for apparel hang tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.