Device for feeding metal-foil sections to a laminating station

An apparatus for feeding sections of metal foil to a stacking station for subsequent lamination with respective base boards, said apparatus comprising:

• a frame juxtaposed to said stacking station;
• a source of metal foil on said frame;
• first holding means on said frame downstream of said source relative to a path of foil transport for clamping at a first position a metal web drawn from said source;
• second holding means on said frame downstream of said first holding means for clamping said web at a second position, thereby fixing a portion of said web between said positions;
• slicing means on said frame between said first holding means and said second holding means for transversely cutting said web along a line extending perpendicularly to said path;
• extracting means shiftably mounted on said frame for gripping a leading end of said web substantially in the region of said slicing means and pulling said web along said path from said source and past said first and said second holding means and said slicing means to move a leading section of said web into a predetermined position at said stacking station;
• a substantially horizontal upwardly facing support surface on said frame extending downstream of said source to said first holding means and having a breadth substantially equal to the width of said web, said first holding means including a first vertically reciprocatable clamping bar disposed above said surface and extending in a direction perpendicular to said path, said second holding means including a second and a third vertically reciprocatable clamping bar spaced apart from said first clamping bar along said path and straddling same, said slicing means including a vertically reciprocatable blade, said extracting means being positioned to reach between said second and third bars.