Patent ID: 6649010
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
A process for applying tape segments to a traveling web, comprisingproviding a rotatable anvil having a peripheral surface, said anvil being supplied, interiorly with a reduced air pressure, and being provided with openings through said peripheral surface, continuously supplying a succession of tab segments on said peripheral surface of said anvil at a first velocity while continuously rotating said anvil at a peripheral velocity at least equal to said first velocity while using said reduced air pressure to hold said segments against said peripheral surface, each of said segments being provided with an adhesive coating on a surface facing away from said anvil, providing a 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 traveling web toward said anvil into contact with each successive tab segment while maintaining the velocity of said second web at said second velocity whereby said segments become adhered to said second traveling web.