Feed mechanism for laminating machine
AssigneeVivid Laminating Technogies Limited
InventorSebastien De La Hamayde
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Abstract
Means (17, 22, 23, 24, 25) is provided for intermittently lifting a stack (13) of paper so that the topmost sheet is captured by the suction of a traction device (15) and carried forward by the endless belt of the latter to the input end (21) of a laminating machine. Before the trailing end of the captured sheet has left the traction device (15) the lifting means again lifts the stack (13) so that the next sheet is captured in an overlapping relation to the first.
Claims12
A feed mechanism for supplying similar sheets to be laminated from a stack thereof in succession but in an overlapping relationship to a laminating machine, the feed mechanism comprising a table for supporting a stack of individual sheets to be laminated, all of the same dimensions and an endless-belt traction device equipped with suction above the table, height-adjustment means for maintaining the traction device at a predetermined spacing above the stack as the stack diminishes and means for elevating the stack from the table to bring the topmost sheet to be captured and displaced by the traction device, the elevating means being actuated to lift the stack before the trailing end of a sheet being moved by the traction device has left the same so that the sheets are fed to the laminating machine in an overlapping relation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.