Patent ID: 7506678

Claim:
An adhesive tape joining apparatus which supplies an adhesive tape to a joining roller while moving forward along a workpiece and joins this adhesive tape on a tape joining face of the workpiece by pressing the adhesive tape against the tape joining face, the apparatus comprising: a main body that is moved and operated along the tape joining face of the workpiece; a joining roller which joins the supplied adhesive tape to the tape joining face of the workpiece by pressing the adhesive tape against the tape joining face and can be elastically transformed; a tape supply roller which winds and guides the adhesive tape and introduces the tape to the joining roller; a guide member which determines the position of the main body and keeps the posture of the main body with respect to the workpiece being engaged with the outer face of the workpiece at the opposite side of the tape joining face; a separator guide arranged to be opposed to the tape supply roller, on which a separator guide face for guiding the separator separated from the adhesive tape to a direction different from the direction of joining the adhesive tape at a region where the tape of the tape supply roller is wound; and a tape guide for preventing disengagement of the tape that is arranged adjacent to the side from which the adhesive tape is reeled out toward the separator guide.