Weight material cutting, dispensing and applying systems

A feed and cutting unit for selectively cutting and dispensing individual weight material segments from a common strip of weight material, comprising:

• a feed assembly that includes a drive roller operatively connected to a motor and a follower roller that cooperates with the drive roller to frictionally engage first and second surfaces of a strip of weight material to selectively move the strip of weight material to a cutter member;
• wherein the strip of weight material comprises individual segments of weight material disposed on a common backing material by adhesive and separated by a gap;
• at least one sensor operatively connected to a controller, wherein the at least one sensor measures a predetermined amount of segmented weight material on the strip of weight material as the feed assembly moves the strip of weight material past the sensor;
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• wherein the cutter member is operatively connected to the controller, wherein the controller actuates the cutter member to separate the predetermined amount of segmented weight material from the strip of weight material by cutting at least a portion of the backing material in the gap disposed between adjacent segments of weight material during the cutting operation.