Patent ID: 7285175
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: B65H,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An adhesive sheet attaching method that attaches an adhesive sheet with an attached release sheet supplied continuously in a longitudinal direction to a target object, and discharges a release sheet peeled off from the adhesive sheet, the method comprising: supplying, as the adhesive sheet, an adhesive sheet that is provided with a connecting portion in which ends of adhesive sheets that are continuous in the longitudinal direction are joined; feeding the adhesive sheet by moving the release sheet peeled off from the adhesive sheet with a feeder; cutting a length of the fed adhesive sheet that is necessary for attachment with a cutter, and attaching the cut adhesive sheet to the target object with an attacher; when the connecting portion is detected by a detector, after an adhesive sheet of an attachable length up to the connecting portion has been attached, causing the feeder to move until a position of the connecting portion is on the discharge side of the release sheet with respect to a cutting position of the cutter, causing the adhesive sheet to be cut by the cutter, and attaching the adhesive sheet to a discarding stage, and resuming an operation by the attacher.