Transverse tab application method and apparatus
US7811403B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 7, 2007 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 10, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T156/178
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method and apparatus for applying tabs to a traveling web of material at a transfer position when the tabs are provided to the transfer position in a path that is skew to the web travel path. A tab supply assembly carries the tabs in a tab path that is either perpendicularly skew or obliquely skew to the travel path of the web. The web is generally spaced from the tab supply assembly. A plurality of bump transfer surfaces is adapted to urge the web towards the tab supply assembly, thereby contacting a tab.
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