Apparatus for separating and applying of sections of strips on areas of a material web lying at a distance one behind the other

An apparatus for separation of elastically extended strip sections from a first moving material web for the subsequent application of the strip sections to discrete areas lying at a predetermined distance one behind the other of a likewise moving second material web in the case of which each strip section just separated away from a subsequent strip section for such a length of time until the predetermined distance between them has been reached, wherein it is then moved over a distance corresponding at least to a length of the strip at a constant speed and at the same time it is completely transferred to the second material web, wherein a plurality of conveying elements rotate on an axle with a rotating receiving surface and one of said conveying elements lying on an equal circular circumference is capable of being put against two material webs one lying behind the other, the conveying elements have a predetermined distance in relation to one another and vary per rotation of their angular speed in such a way that in a first fixedly predetermined position in which the first material web is put onto the receiving surfaces of the conveying elements, so that two conveying elements lie one behind the other at a minimal distance, from which the conveying element which is the forward one in a direction of movement departs while increasing the distance, at an angular speed greater as compared to the adjacent, following conveying element, and after reaching a distance in which the strip sections carried along are to be applied to the second material web, transfer the strip sections in a second, fixedly predetermined position to the second material web, the apparatus comprising:

• a driving disc which rotates on the axle of the conveying element;
• a first lever which is mounted rotatable in an axle on a graduated circle of said driving disc parallel to the axle of the conveying elements;
• a radially inner end of said first lever is guidable on a predetermined curved path;
• a second lever articulated at a radially outer end of said first lever;
• said second levers being articulately connected with said conveying element;
• the points of articulation for said second levers lie at the same place on each conveying element;
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• said curved path being designed such that said second levers counting from their pertinent point of articulation on said conveying element change their angle in relation to the graduated circle on which these points of articulation lie in order to achieve variable speeds of said conveying elements during one rotation.