Material Strip Processing System
AssigneesTyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
InventorsAn (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Abstract
A material strip collection mechanism coiling fed material strip on a reel includes a vertically positioned reel bracket rotatable about a vertical axis between a first configuration and a second configuration. The mechanism further includes a first arm holding the reel and a second arm each rotatable to drive the reel and coil the material strip on the reel. With the reel bracket in the first configuration, the first arm is in a material strip collection position to allow the material strip to be coiled on each empty reel held by the first arm to form a full reel, while the second arm is in a standby position to allow the full reel held by the second arm to be replaced with a new empty reel.
Claims20
A material strip processing system, comprising:
- a material strip collection mechanism coiling a material strip on a reel, including:
- a vertically positioned reel bracket rotatable about a vertical axis between a first configuration and a second configuration, and having:
- a first arm holding the reel and rotatable to drive the reel and coil the material strip on the reel;
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- a second arm opposite to the first arm, the second arm holding the reel and rotatable to drive the reel and coil the material strip on the reel,
- with the reel bracket in the first configuration, the first arm is in a material strip collection position to allow the material strip to be coiled on each empty reel held by the first arm to form a full reel, while the second arm is in a standby position to allow the full reel held by the second arm to be replaced with a new empty reel;
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- with the reel bracket in the second configuration, the second arm is in the material strip collection position to allow the material strip to be coiled on each empty reel held by the second arm to form a new full reel, while the first arm is in the standby position to allow the full reel held by the first arm to be replaced with a new empty reel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.