Patent ID: 6673185
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
A process for splicing and feeding festooned material, comprising:a. providing a first multi-lane block of side-by-side stacks of the material, each stack having a leading end and a tail end; b. providing at least a second multi-lane block of side-by-side stacks of the material in proximity to the first block, each stack in the second block having a leading end and a tail end; c. splicing the tail end of the first stack of the first block to the leading end of the first stack of the second block; d. splicing the tail end of the first stack of the second block to the leading end of the second stack of the first block; e. repeating the alternating splicing sequence of steps (c) and (d) for subsequent stacks until all of the stacks of the first block and the second block have been alternately spliced such that tail ends of the stacks in the first block are spliced with the lead ends of the stacks in the second block, and the tail ends of the stacks in the second block are spliced with the lead ends of the stacks in the first block; and f. providing the leading end of the first stack of the first block as the initial end for a manufacturing process.