Laminator peel-off bar
AssigneeFargo Electronics, Inc.
InventorsBradley A. Paulson, Brent D. Lien, Ted M. Hoffman
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Abstract
A reverse image printer that has a backing web carrying a laminate layer upon which a reverse image is printed. The laminate layer is laminated onto a card. The backing web carrying the transfer layer is separated from the laminate layer after the laminate layer and card have been laminated together using a peel-off assembly that guides the backing web at a selected desired separation angle relative to the plane of movement of the card and the laminate layer after lamination. The peel-off assembly uses two guide members to maintain the desired separation angle regardless of changes in diameter of a take-up roller used for the backing web.
Claims7
A peel-off assembly for separating a laminate material layer from a backing web after passing through a lamination station where the laminate material is caused to be laminated onto a substrate moving along a support plane of movement, said peel-off assembly includes a first guide fixedly positioned to guide a backing web carrying laminate material subsequent to lamination of the laminate material to a substrate, a second guide fixedly position between the first guide and a take-up for the backing web and positioned so that the backing web is forced to separate from the laminate material laminated to the substrate at a fixed separation angle relative to the support plane of movement of between 80° and 100° as the backing web moves from the first guide to the second guide.
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