Patent ID: 6475325
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for applying tape segments to a traveling web, comprisingproviding a rotatable anvil having a peripheral surface and a cutting roll positioned to cut segments from a first web of tape material, against said anvil, said anvil being supplied, interiorly with a reduced air pressure, and being provided with openings through said peripheral surface, continuously feeding said web toward said anvil at a first velocity while continuously rotating said anvil at a peripheral velocity at least equal to said first velocity, cutting a succession of tab segments against said peripheral surface of said anvil and conveying each of said segments successively on said rotating peripheral surface, using said reduced air pressure to hold said segments against said peripheral surface, providing a second continuous web of material traveling, in close proximity, but displaced from said anvil, at a second velocity which is substantially greater than said first velocity, intermittently displacing said second traveling web toward said anvil into contact each successive tab segment while maintaining the velocity of said second web at substantially greater than said first velocity whereby said segments become adhered to said second traveling web.