Patent ID: 6712311
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: B29C,B29L,E06B,Y10T

Abstract:
A system for handling a plurality of continuous strips of flexible material and delivering said strips along paths of travel in parallel partially overlapped relationship to a receiving location, said receiving location defining a first reference line perpendicular to said strips as they are delivered to said receiving location, said system including a frame defining a second reference line that if it were in a horizontal plane with said first reference line would form an acute angle with said first reference line, at least one multi-layer roll of a plurality of said strips with the strips in each layer being disposed in coplanar relationship with each other and positioned along said second reference line, said second reference line having a first end and a second end with the first end being closer to said first reference line than said second end, a first plurality of strip guide members, each strip guide member having a length dimension correlated with the width of each of said strips, the length dimension of said strip guide members being disposed parallel to each other and to said second reference line but disposed relative to each other along a third reference line that if it were in a vertical plane with said second reference line would form an acute angle with said second reference line, the referenced angles between said first and second reference lines and said second and third reference lines being the same, and wherein said third reference line has a first end and a second end with the first end of said second and third reference lines being closer togther than said second ends, and a second plurality of strip guide members having a length dimension correlated with the width of each of said strips, the length dimension of said second plurality of strip guide members being disposed parallel to said first reference line but being disposed relative to each other along a fourth reference line parallel to said second reference line, said second plurality of strip guide members being in partially overlapped relationship with each other so as to partially overlap said strips of material as they pass thereacross, whereby said strips are delivered to said receiving location in overlapped relationship.