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AssigneeFellowes, Inc.
InventorsTai Hoon MATLIN, Jim LOSSER, Shawn APPLEGATE, Peter MALETICH
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Disclosed herein is an improved laminator for processing and laminating sheets of material. The disclosed laminator includes anti-jamming or anti-wrap components to prevent sheets of material from wrapping around rollers in the machine. The anti-wrap components may include wires positioned in self-healing grooves in the rollers of the machine. The machine may also include a heat core to provide heating to a plurality of sets of rollers. The laminator may also include a user interface to provide an operator with status information and emote to encourage the operator to interact with the machine in an efficient manner. The laminator may also include sensors, controller, and display to recognize a cleaning sheet and inform an operator of the status of the cleaning cycle.
A laminator, the laminator including rollers for moving material, the rollers including a first roller and a second roller, each roller having circumferential channels, a first anti-wrap component positioned in a channel of the first roller and a second anti-wrap component positioned in the second channel, the first and second channel each being self-healing.
A laminator including a first feed roller and a second feed roller, a first heating roller and a second heating roller, a first heat shroud and a second heat shroud, a plurality of anti-wrap wires, each of the first feed roller, second feed roller, first heating roller and second heating roller including a plurality of circumferential channels, the channels self-healing partially about the anti-wrap wire positioned within a channel.
A laminator including a pair of input rollers, a pair of heating rollers and a pair of exit rollers, the input rollers and heating rollers positioned within a heating core positioned between a pair of heat shrouds, the heating rollers each including a plurality of channels perpendicular to an axis of rotation of each roller, a plurality of anti-wrap components to prevent material from wrapping around a roller, the anti-wrap components positioned within the channels of the heating rollers, the channels of the heating rollers not aligning with one another.
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