CUTTING AND LAMINATING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING REINFORCED WEB

摘要

In order to selectively reinforce portions of a material web (12), a cutting and laminating device efficiently produces the required reinforcing strips and then laminates them to the web. In order to efficiently and accurately produce these reinforcing strips, a cross web shear (40) is utilized which is capable of cutting required reinforcing strips from the fairly large web of reinforcing material (14) in an accurate manner. Once cut, a holding and positioning device (60) is capable of grabbing onto the reinforcing strip and appropriately positioning it next to the primary material web (12). A separate laminator can then attach this reinforcing strip to the web at a desired location.