摘要 |
A continuous automotive felt die cutting press, cuts pattern out of a web passing through it. After exit of the web from the cutting press, the cut patterns and web are passed over a perforated roller that rotates about internally segmented zones having a plurality of removable solid and perforated sleeves. The roller is capable of transmitting a vacuum or a pressure through any one of its internally segmented zones with directional and force control being partially provided by the removable sleeve placement on the segmented roller. Base guides, which are adjustable, are located in the area between the perforated sleeves to provide a solid base for the cut patterns to rest upon during their vacuum separation from the web. After vacuum separation of the cut pattern from the web the cut patterns are transported by conventional apparatus to a storage area, while the web, which remains secured to the perforated segmented roller through its vacuum stage, is separated from the roller during the rollers pressure stage and transported by conventional apparatus to a scrap storage area.
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