Patent ID: 8398808

Claim:
A method for attaching a sealing profile to a vehicle body part, the method comprising the following serial steps: pulling the sealing profile from a storage unit; passing the sealing profile through a first buffer which compensates for differences between incoming and outgoing speeds of the sealing profile; attaching, in an assembly unit, an adhesive strip to the sealing profile continuously after the sealing profile exits the first buffer, the adhesive strip having an adhesive layer; passing the sealing profile with the attached adhesive strip through a second buffer which compensates for differences between incoming and outgoing speeds of the sealing profile; and attaching, in an application unit, the sealing profile to the vehicle body part by rolling the adhesive layer onto the vehicle body part along a line provided for attaching the sealing profile, wherein the sealing profile runs from the storage unit to the application unit in one continuous run, whereby both the attaching of the adhesive strip to the sealing profile and the attaching of the sealing profile to a vehicle part occur in the one continuous run of the sealing profile.