Patent ID: 9409737
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B65H

Claim Text:
1. A clip-strip feed splicer, the splicer including: a first clip-roll, having a continuous first clip-strip, received on a first spool and a second clip-roll, having a continuous second clip-strip received on a second spool, with the first spool and the second spool mounted to a lever, and the lever having a first lobe and a second lobe, the first spool mounted to the first lobe and the second spool mounted to the second lobe of the lever, and the lever rotatably mounted to a lever pivot on a lever arm, with the first spool and the second spool alternate-able from a feed position to a pre-stage position on the lever arm; the first clip strip and the second clip strip including a multiple of interlock-able clips, the multiple of interlock-able clips removably interlock-able together in series, with each interlockable clip of the first clip strip and the second clip strip having a first interlock element and a second interlock element, the first interlock element interlockable to the second interlockable element of a neighboring interlockable clip; and the first clip-strip of the first spool initially in the feed position and the first clip-strip feed-able past a clamp mechanism, the second clip-roll initially queued-up in the pre-stage position, the clamp mechanism including a first block clamp-able against a second block, with the second interlock element trailing from the first clip-roll and the first interlock element leading from the second clip-roll positioned on the first block, and with the first block clamp-able with the second block to interlock the second interlock element of the first clip-roll to the first interlock element of the second clip-roll.