Patent ID: 8794292

Claim:
A double-faced adhesive tape joining apparatus for joining to a joining face of a workpiece a double-faced adhesive tape having one adhesive face exposed and an other adhesive face to which a separator is joined, comprising: a hand-operable base; a tape guide device for guiding the double-faced adhesive tape that is successively supplied to the base; a joining head for pressing against the joining face of the workpiece the double-faced adhesive tape guided to a front end of the base; and a tape cutting mechanism on the base for forming slits on sides of the separator at given intervals along a longitudinal tape direction, wherein the tape cutting mechanism comprises; an arm pivotally connected to the base as to swing downward; a rotary cutter operating from a separator side of the double-faced adhesive tape; and a holding roller for holding the double-faced adhesive tape from an adhesive face side thereof, and wherein the base and the joining head are configured to relatively rotate about a support shaft along the longitudinal tape direction.