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US 5,296,076 AGranted
Apparatus for applying tape and method therefor
AssigneeMitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
InventorYoshikazu Morita
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method for applying a tape on a belt-like member which is being fed continuously are disclosed in which a new tape loaded as a spare is delivered when the tape is depleted so as to continue the operation of applying the tape, so that the tape can be continuously stuck on the belt-like member by using several tapes while eliminating the necessity of stopping the operation of applying the tape onto the belt-like member.
Claims32
An apparatus for applying tape to a belt-like member supplied continuously comprising:
- (A) a first accommodating means for accommodating a first double-coated, two-sided tape having a separation sheet on a first side thereof;
- (B) a first applicator means for applying the second side of the first two-sided tape accommodated by said first accommodating means to a belt-like member;
- (C) a first feeding means for feeding the first two-sided tape from said first accommodating means to said first applicator means;
- (D) a first sheet removing means for removing the separation sheet from the first side of the first two-sided tape;
- (E) a second accommodating means for accommodating a second double-coated, two-sided tape having a separation sheet on a first side thereof;
- (F) a second applicator means for applying the second side of the second two-sided tape accommodated in said second accommodating means to a belt-like member;
- (G) a second feeding means for feeding the second two-sided tape accommodated in said second accommodating means to said second applicator means;
- (H) a second sheet removing means for removing the separation sheet from the first side of the second two-sided tape, each of said first and second sheet removing means including:
- (i) a separation guide roller for guiding the separation sheet separated from said double-coated, two-sided tape away from the double-coated, two-sided tape;
- (ii) a pair of feeding rollers which selectively substantially contact each other in a first position to engage and feed the separation sheet therebetween and move away from each other to a second position to stop feeding the separation sheet;
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- (iii) a chute for discharging the separation sheet from said pair of feeding rollers;
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- (H) a switching means for activating said second applicator means, said second feeding and said second sheet removing means to apply the second double-coated tape to the belt like member when the supply of the first double-coated tape applied to the belt-like member by said first applicator means is depleted, said switching means including an actuator which actuates said feeding rollers of said first sheet removing means to move from the first position to the second position and said feeding rollers of said second sheet removing means to move from said second position to said first position when the double-coated tape applied to the belt-like member by said first applicator means is depleted.
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An apparatus for applying tape to a belt-like member supplied continuously comprising:
- (A) a first accommodating means for accommodating a first tape;
- (B) a first applicator means for applying the first tape accommodated by said first accommodating means to a belt-like member;
- (C) a first feeding means for feeding the first tape from said first accommodating means to said first applicator means;
- (D) a second accommodating means for accommodating a second tape;
- (E) a second applicator means for applying the second tape accommodated in said second accommodating means to a belt-like member;
- (F) a second feeding means for feeding the second tape accommodated in said second accommodating means to said second applicator means;
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- (G) a switching means for activating said second applicator means and said second feeding means to apply said second tape on said belt-like member when said first tape accommodated in said first accommodating means has been depleted, wherein each of said first and second applicator means has a pair of application rollers which selectively substantially contact each other in a first position to convey the belt-like member and the tape through a space therebetween and apply the tape to the belt-like member by forcibly causing the tape and belt-like member to contact each other and move away from each other to a second position to stop said conveying and applying operation and said switching means includes an actuator which causes said first application rollers of said first applicator means to move to said second position and said second application rollers of said second applicator means to move to said first position when said double-coated tape is depleted.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.