Patent ID: 7258152

Claim:
A supply for a master processing apparatus operable to affect adhesive bonding between sheets of a pouch to a target substrate, the apparatus comprising: (a) a frame and (b) a processor operable to perform a processing operation wherein adhesive bonding is affected between the sheets of a pouch and a target substrate received therein as they are moved through the processor in a feeding direction, the supply comprising: a removable pouch holder constructed to be removably mounted to the frame of the apparatus; and a plurality of pouches arranged in the pouch holder, each pouch including a pair of sheets joined at leading ends thereof and adhesive provided on an inner surface of at least one of the sheets; the pouch holder being configured to enable the pouches to be successively exposed as a leading pouch in an operative position wherein one of the sheets of the leading pouch can be unfolded away from the other sheet to open the leading pouch into an open position for receipt of the target substrate, and thereafter the leading pouch with the target substrate can be fed into the processor for performance of the processing operation.