CARD MANUFACTURING MACHINE ASSEMBLY

摘要

A card manufacturing machine assembly for producing a coupon card fabricated from a continuous sheet of stock. The machine assembly has a support frame for supporting the continuous sheet of stock as the sheet of stock mov es through the machine assembly. A driving mechanism is mounted to the support frame an d has driving gears for transferring the sheet of stock through the machine assemb ly at a predetermined speed. A printing station prints indicia on the continuous she et of stock in two parallel rows. A cutting device separates the continuous sheet of sto ck into two strips. An inverting device rotates one of the strips 180.degree. relative t o the other strip. A stripping device removes a release liner from one of the strips to expose an adhesive layer. A pair of coupling rollers are mounted to the support frame and are i n driving engagement with one of the driving gears to rotate the coupling rollers at a predetermined rotational speed. The coupling rollers move the adhesive layer of one strip into a bonded relationship with the release liner of the other strip t o mate the strips and form a continuous series of two-sided coupon cards. A pair of forming rollers are mounted to the support frame and are in driving engagement with one of the driving gears to rotate the forming rollers at afaster speed of rotation tha n the predetermined rotational speed. The forming rollers engage the series of two - sided coupon cards and remove any exterior material from the strips to form individual coupon cards.