Method for producing a product comprising weft webs of large width continued in the warp direction

A method for producing a product comprising weft webs of a large width continued side-by-side in the warp direction, which comprises:

• horizontally circulating two heated belts in parallel having a hot-melt type adhesive in a tacky state on the outer peripheral surfaces thereof and spaced by the length of one of cut webs for wefts, said horizontally circulating belts having upper and lower side routes;
• adhering right and left selvedge materials which constitute the right and left selvedges of final product onto the respective sides of the lower surfaces of the belts on the lower side circulating route thereof, and running said selvedge materials together with the belts;
• successively loading cut webs for wefts obtained by cutting a web of a large width to a given length which corresponds to the distance between the two belts, one-by-one and at a given gap onto the surface of a conveyer horizontally circulating below the belts and in a direction perpendicular thereto;
• at each time when the front and rear ends of each one of the cut webs for wefts come to the position just overlapped with the corresponding right and left selvedge materials running crosswise above the cut weft webs,
• causing the two belts having the selvedge materials adhered thereon to suddenly drop over the whole of the length corresponding to the width of the cut webs for wefts, on the lower side route of the belts down onto the surface of one of the cut webs for wefts loaded on the conveyer,
• thereby to adhere the front and rear ends of the cut web for wefts onto the corresponding lower surfaces of the selvedge materials having said adhesive thereon,
• and thereafter causing the belts having both the selvedge materials and the cut web for wefts adhered thereonto to suddently rise,
• whereby the cut web for wefts is stripped from the conveyer, pulled up and transferred by the belts in the warp direction;
• repeating the above-mentioned dropping and rising of the belts whenever the belts with both the selvedge materials and the cut webs adhered thereon advance by the distance corresponding to the width of the cut weft webs at a speed so controlled that the cut weft webs are picked up one-by-one in a row without leaving any gaps between each other;
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• thereafter stripping the selvedge materials and the cut webs for wefts adhered onto the lower surfaces thereof from the surfaces of the belts,
• to thereby give a novel product of cut webs for wefts continued in the warp direction by selvedges adhered onto both the margins of the cut webs for wefts.