Patent ID: 6523592
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: B32B,Y10T

Abstract:
A laminating apparatus comprising:a power switch that turns on and off a power source that supplies power; a sheet transport unit that transports, in a transport direction, a sheet to be laminated; a laminating unit that feeds out laminating webs have a predetermined width in a widthwise direction perpendicular to the transport directions, and that adheringly laminates the laminating webs onto upper and lower surfaces of the sheet transported by the sheet transport unit, thereby producing a laminate having the predetermined width; a cutter unit that cuts a widthwise edge from the laminate following the transport direction, the cutter unit being disposed downstream from the laminating unit in the transport direction; and a cutter transport unit that selectively positions the cutter unit at a cut position for cutting the laminate, and, when the power switch turns off the power source, moves the cutter unit in the widthwise direction to a retracted position outside the predetermined width of the laminate.