Differentiated Material Portion (e.g., Material End, Tear, Or Signal) Patents (Class 242/554.4)
  • Patent number: 9340388
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a tape splicing system for coupling a leading end of a staged tape to a trailing end of a running tape to form a continuous tape. The splicing system can comprise a connector having an opening for allowing the running tape to pass through, a leading end element having an opening for engaging the connector, and a trailing end element. The leading end element can be secured to the leading end of the staged tape and the trailing end element can be secured to the trailing end of the running tape. The connector can couple the leading end element to the trailing end element to splice the staged tape to the running tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ADalis Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge A. Nash, Orion A. Cavins, Cynthia A. Stewart-Irvin
  • Patent number: 8382025
    Abstract: A method and a corresponding apparatus for connecting two material webs which are pulled off from an old and a new reel are specified, wherein each reel is driven and wherein the splicing takes place while both reels are in motion. One position of all units participating in the splicing operation is regulated as a function of a position of the new reel, by a position of an adhesive point which is applied to the new reel being detected for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Freddy Müller
  • Patent number: 7980505
    Abstract: In a method for calculating the diameter of a continuous-material reel on a roller, with which the roller is mounted on a swivel arm that is swivelable about a swiveling axis; the roller rotates at a changeable winding speed, and the continuous material is unwound from the roller and directed to a continuous-material machine, or it is removed from a continuous-material machine and wound onto the roller, the winding speed is set as a function of the web-conveyance speed, and the diameter of the continuous-material reel is calculated in a reel-control system; the winding speed is changed when the swivel arm on which the roller is mounted is swiveled about its swiveling axis during the winding motion; a correction value for correcting the change in winding speed is incorporated in the calculation of the diameter of the continuous-material reel, the correction value being determined within the reel-control system, and a related reel-control system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Doeres, Stephan Schultze
  • Patent number: 7681830
    Abstract: A film feeding device etc. in which, even if film rolls in which tapes are applied to joint between films of the rolls are used, an occurrence of a bag making failure caused by the tape is prevented. A film feeding mechanism (10A) has a receiving member (72) for holding the leading edge of a film (1B) of the standby side and a joining sealer (71) for joining films (1A, 1B). A tape (B) applied to the film (1A) on the use side is detected by a sensor (83), and according to the result of the detection, a cutter (81) cuts of the film (1A) at a portion on the downstream side of the tape. Then, the cut film (1A) and the film (1B) of the standby side are joined by the joining sealer (71), and the two films joined are sent as a long film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Orihiro Tsuruta, Shunji Yamada, Takayuki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20090184192
    Abstract: The invention enables to automatically connect a terminal end portion of a strip-like material drawn out from a winding member constituting an apparatus of supplying the strip-like material and a start end portion of a succeeding strip-like material, at supply support portions 1a, 1b, a strip-like material B is drawn out from one winding member Ba of a plurality of winding members Ba, Bb aligned on support shafts 2a, 2b to be supported thereby, a start end portion of the strip-like material B of other winding member Ba is made to be awaited at an awaiting portion 9a, at every time of finishing transporting the strip-like material B, the strip-like material B is temporarily stopped from being transported, during a time period of stopping to transport the strip-like material B, a start end portion of the strip-like material B of a succeeding winding member Ba is held by a hand apparatus 10 and transported from above the awaiting portion 9a to above a receiving base 7, the start end portion is laminated on a ter
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takatsuka, Hirokatsu Mizukusa
  • Patent number: 7201345
    Abstract: A system and method for splicing reeled media using operational feedback. According to certain embodiments, the method of operating a media production system involves sensing speed parameters of first and second reeled media, tracking an unwinding parameter of the first reeled media, and positionally tracking a leading end position of the second reeled media. The method also involves controlling splicing between the first and second reeled media based at least partially on the speed parameters, the unwinding parameter, and the leading end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter H. Werner, James A. Armstrong, Jr., Larry L. Hougum, Daniel J. Koziczkowski, Thomas E. Simon
  • Patent number: 6981537
    Abstract: A tape splicing mechanism joins the tail of one tape to the leading edge of another tape. A frame defines a passageway along which the tape passes. A pair of arms rotatably attached to the frame have projecting posts and rotate between a first position where the posts are closer to the pathway and a second position where they are further from the pathway. The arms are urged toward the first position and a catch mechanism holds them in the second position until released by a release mechanism when a release indicia in the first tape passes. The leading edge of the second tape is looped around the first tape to form a loose knot and is tied to the post on each side of the first tape. When the arms are released they move to the second position and tighten the knot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Industrial Adhesives, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilles Cyr, Elvin Dalebout, Ronald L. Willadson
  • Publication number: 20040256514
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesive tape for a flying reel change of a flat material wound up over a reel, provided with at least one detachable adhesive system. The invention is characterized in that the adhesive tape is provided with at least one transponder which can be detected by means of a detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Markus Eikmeier, Bernhard Gebbeken, Thomas Gassner, Christoph Nagel, Axel Burmeister
  • Patent number: 6764040
    Abstract: In the case where the width of a web roll for the next job is much different from that of the web roll for the former job, the rotational position of the new web roll is moved to a position at which a web of the new roll is easily pasted to the web of the old roll and the new web roll is held at the position. A device for continuously supplying a web can continuously supply the web by adhering the web of an old web roll onto the web of the new web roll. The device includes a manual paper paster setting means for setting a manual paper paster mode and a control device for locating/stopping the rotational position of the new web roll at an adhering waiting position in response to a signal from the manual paper paster setting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Komori Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kiyota
  • Patent number: 6629664
    Abstract: A flying reel changer includes first drive means for rotating the new paper reel at a minimum splice speed and second drive means for accelerating the old paper reel from either standstill or crawl speed to a speed which substantially corresponds to the minimum splice speed. The flying reel changer includes actuating means that, while the old paper reel is being accelerated from the first state, moves the dancer roll such that a substantially uniform tension is maintained in the paper web. The flying reel changer also includes joining means that joins the old paper web and the new paper web together while the old paper web and the new paper web are moving at the minimum splice speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Antoon Weijenborg