Assembly and method for rotating and placing strip of material on a substrate

摘要

An assembly and method for rotating and placing a strip of material on a substrate making use of a conveyor which includes a contour-changing conveyance surface on which a strip of material is conveyed and a rotatable transfer element. The rotatable transfer element has a contoured strip securing surface. At a point of interaction of the transfer element and the conveyor, the conveyance surface assumes a contour corresponding to that of the strip securing surface. The transfer element then secures the material strip from the conveyor, then rotates the strip of material to a selected degree of angular rotation and then deposits the rotated strip of material in surface contact with an adjacent moving surface.