Patent ID: 6972067

Claim:
A system for producing flexible magnets from a continuous web of a base material in a continuous process, said system comprising: a source of a continuous web of a base material, the base material including a flexible magnet material; a source of a plurality of individual, pre-printed sheets, wherein the preprinted sheets include an index mark; a drive mechanism for advancing the web of base material past the source of individual, pre-printed sheets; a transfer mechanism for transferring the individual, pre-printed sheets, one at a time, to the web of base material as the web of base material is advanced past the source of pre-printed sheets; a source of a laminate, the drive mechanism advancing the web of base material including the pre-printed sheets past the source of laminate for introducing the laminate in overlying relation with the individual, pre-printed sheets transferred thereto to laminate the pre-printed sheets to the web of base material; a cutting mechanism for cutting flexible magnets from the laminated base material during cutting operations, the drive mechanism advancing the laminated web of base material to the cutting mechanism and momentarily halting advancement of the web of base material during the cutting operations, and wherein the individual, pre-printed sheets are placed on the web of base material while advancement of the web of base material is halted during the cutting operations; and a registration sensor for detecting the index mark for indexing the pre-printed sheets carried by the web of base material with the cutting mechanism prior to cutting the flexible magnets from the web of base material.