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 a nd then laminates them to the web. In order to efficiently and accurately produ ce these reinforcing strips, a cross web shear (40) is utilized which is capabl e 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 an d appropriately positioning it next to the primary material web (12). A separa te laminator can then attach this reinforcing strip to the web at a desired location.