Feeding apparatus for a film in a hot press stamping machine
AssigneeMessrs. Leonhard Kurz
InventorWilfried Spatle
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Abstract
In a laminating machine comprising an applicator roller at a substantially fixed location and a support movable relatively to said roller for an article which is to be laminated with a decorating film that is peeled off a composite web composed of said decorating film on a backing sheet, a feeding device for taking said web to said applicator roller, said feeding device comprising a supply reel for said web, means for axially displacing said supply reel substantially parallel to said applicator roller and a rotatable jockey roller for tensioning said web and disposed between said supply reel and applicator roller, said jockey roller being mounted for substantially vertical displacement as well as pivotal motion about a vertical axis and axial displacement in unison with said supply reel.
Claims11
A feeding apparatus for application of foil in a hot press stamping machine having a hot press stamping roller at a substantially fixed location and carrier means adapted to support an article to be decorated with said foil and which is displaceable with respect to said stamping roller, comprising a supply reel for feeding said foil mounted on a backing sheet, at least one direction changing roller between said supply reel and said stamping roller and over which said foil is passed, a take up reel for receiving and collecting the backing sheet after passing the stamping roller, said supply reel being axially displaceable substantially parallel to said stamping roller, and between said supply reel and stamping roller before application to a face of said article to be decorated, sand foil is led over a jockey roller which is moveable with said supply reel, is displaceable substantially parallel to itself to tension said foil, and is rotatably mounted about an axis extending transversely to its rotary axis in the direction of displacement.
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