Patent ID: 7111374
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: B23P,B60J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A flexible seal processing machine, for processing an elongate strip of flexible seal material, having a length, said flexible seal processing machine comprising: (a) a feed apparatus for feeding lengths of such flexible seal material along a path of travel to a work station; (b) a hole forming apparatus adapted to be movably positioned at a hole forming section of the work station, for forming holes, in which pins can be mounted, in such flexible seal material; and (c) a hole pinning apparatus adapted to be movably positioned at a pinning section of the work station, such pinning section remote from the hole forming section and, displaced from such hole forming section by a distance approximating a desired hole-to-hole distance between sequential holes in such flexible seal material, for inserting pins in the holes which are formed at the hole forming section.