Button mounting apparatus and button mounting method
AssigneeYKK Corporation
InventorHiroaki Kanazawa
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Abstract
A button mounting device includes: a button mounting unit that comprises a first die holding the button main body and a second die holding the button mounting tool; an intermediate material formation unit that forms an intermediate material, which is to be interposed between the button main body and the cloth or between the button mounting tool and the cloth, by cutting a strip-shaped sheet material; and an intermediate material transfer unit that transfers the intermediate material formed by the intermediate material formation unit to the button mounting unit to supply the first die or the second die.
Claims10
A button mounting apparatus for mounting a button main body to a cloth with a button mounting member, the button mounting apparatus comprising:
- a button mounting unit that includes a first die configured to hold the button main body and a second die configured to hold the button mounting member;
- an intermediate material formation unit that forms an intermediate material from a strip-like sheet material, the intermediate material being interposed between the button main body and the cloth or between the button mounting member and the cloth;
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- an intermediate material transport unit that transports the intermediate material formed by the intermediate material formation unit to the button mounting unit to supply the intermediate material to the first die or the second die.
A button mounting method comprising the steps of:
- A) holding a button main body on a first die and holding a button mounting member on a second die;
- B) forming an intermediate material by cutting it out from a strip-like sheet material in an intermediate material formation unit;
- C) automatically transporting and delivering the intermediate material from the intermediate material formation unit to the first die or the second die;
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- D) mounting the button main body onto a cloth with the button mounting member while interposing the intermediate material between the button main body and the cloth or between the button mounting member and the cloth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.