Patent ID: 6494244
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
Apparatus for applying segments of tape to a traveling web comprising a cylindrical anvil roll with a pattern of vacuum openings on a peripheral surface thereof and means for drawing a vacuum within said cylindrical anvil,means for feeding a continuous web of adhesive-backed tape onto said anvil, with said adhesive facing outwardly relative to said anvil's center, a knife roll, positioned to cut said web of tape against said anvil, creating a continuous stream of segments of said tape on the face of said anvil, means for transporting a traveling web positioned in close proximity to, but not in contact with said anvil, means for intermittently displacing a selected portion of said traveling web into contact with said outwardly facing adhesive surface of each successive one of said tape segments carried by said anvil wherein said means for displacing said selected portion of traveling web is a rotating member.