Patent ID: 8616101

Claim:
A device for manufacturing a medicinal or active substance-containing product from strip tape, comprising: a pair of oppositely disposed with respect to a plane of symmetry x-x broad web medicinal or active-substance containing material rolls, said broad web material rolls for drawing off and separating a web of material, each of said broad web material rolls having the broad webs of material loosely rotatable on a take up mandrel for preventing excessive stretching of the broad web material, each of said broad web material rolls in operative arrangement with a vacuum roll adapted to draw off by negative pressure and separate the web of material or a smooth stripping roll adapted to cooperate with a pressure roll and a guide roll to draw off and separate the web of material in a web traveling zone; a pair of multiple circular knife rolls each disposed coaxially parallel to and proximate with the plane of symmetry x-x and each disposed and associated in rolling cutting relationship with one of the vacuum rolls or smooth stripping rolls for cutting each of said broad web carrying material rolls into a plurality of individual strips simultaneously, each of the multiple circular knife rolls being counter supported by its associated vacuum roll or its associated smooth stripping roll, a pair of vacuum conveyors each operatively arranged to receive one of the broad web carrying material rolls that is in the form of a plurality of individual strips, each vacuum conveyor having a plurality of channels for receiving and conveying an individual strip formed between two cover plates, each vacuum conveyor channel for causing each individual strip to be rotated about 90Â° around each strip's longitudinal axis from a first orientation to a second orientation on its way to the channel or through the channel with the longitudinal axis not changing direction, the plurality of channels of each said vacuum conveyors for bringing the individual strips associated therewith into stacked relationship with respect to one another to form the strip tape.