Tape winding apparatus

A method for producing a roll of tape wound on a wind-up core comprising:

• a setting step of setting a tape and a wind-up core to a tape winding apparatus which comprises:
• a rotating device configured to rotate the wind-up core to wind the tape into a tape roll;
• a push roller configure to contact with and roll on an outer periphery of the tape roll at a tape feeding position where the tape firstly contacts with the tape roll and is fed onto the tape roll;
• a feeding direction control guide arranged at a non-contact position relative to the tape roll and upstream from the push roller as viewed in a running direction of the tape and configured to control a tape-feeding direction of the tape that is fed onto the tape roll, the feeding direction control guide having a cylindrical guide surface for guiding the tape;
• and a movement device comprising a swing arm supporting the push roller and configured to be swingable about a central axis of the cylindrical guide surface of the feeding direction control guide, and configured to move at least one of the swing arm and the feeding direction control guide, relative to the wind-up core, such that the tape-feeding direction conforms with a tangential direction of the tape roll at the tape feeding position,
• a rotating step of rotating the wind-up core while guiding the tape by the push roller and the feeding direction control guide along the tangential direction;
• and
• a moving step of moving the movement device in accordance with a change in diameter of the tape roll, such that regardless of the diameter of the tape roll, the tape-feeding direction determined by positions of the push roller and the feeding direction control guide conforms with the tangential direction.