Patent ID: 7370563

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a medicinal and/or an active substance containing product of at least two strip tapes, said process comprising the steps of: drawing a broad web of material in its entire width from a roll of material which is mounted loosely rotable on a take-up mandrel by a smooth stripping roll, which cooperates with a pressure roll and a guide roll in a zone in which the web of material travels around said smooth stripping roll; conveying said broad web of material by said smooth stripping roll to a multiple circular knife roll; separating said broad web of material into individual strips by rolling said multiple circular knife roll in cooperation with said smooth stripping roll; drawing each of said individual strips from said smooth stripping roll and introducing each of said individual strips into a vacuum conveyor channel; conveying each of said individual strips through said vacuum conveyor channel; turning each of said individual strips on its way to said vacuum conveyor channel or on its way through said vacuum conveyor channel by about 90°; allowing said strips at an end of said vacuum conveyor channel to lie one upon the other; and thereafter conveying said strips for further processing, wherein said individual strips are conveyed through said vacuum conveyor channel and led one upon the other by only a vacuum negative pressure.