Patent ID: 7128793
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: B32B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for cutting a laminate, comprising the steps of: guiding a laminate to a cutting station having a cutting blade, the laminate having a web-shaped sheet and a plurality of single sheets, each of the plurality of single sheets having edges, edges of adjacent single sheets being in either an edge to edge or overlapping configuration, the guiding of the laminate being at a feed rate; precisely detecting a rear edge of each of the plurality of single sheets, prior to lamination, with an edge sensor; calculating a plurality of cutting locations on the laminate based on the detected rear edge of each of the plurality of single sheets and the feed rate; and cutting and completely separating the laminate at each of the plurality of cutting locations with the cutting blade, wherein the laminate is cut by the cutting blade at cut locations that are within about one millimeter of the precisely detected rear edge of each of the respective single sheets.