The Gillette Company

Jon Fraser Ewing

Matthew Joseph Guay

Craig Stephen Vickery

Robert Genovisi

Stephen A Green

Norbert Binkowski

Ingomar Jk Summerauer

Arthur B Borgeson

George J Kirby

Robert Mikael Genovesi

Stephen Alan Green

Norbert Joseph Binkowski

Ingomar Jk Summeraur

This invention relates to methods and systems for attaching components to strips of material to form assemblies, e.g., a system for fastening pre-sharpened razor blades to individual support strips on a continuous band of material, such as a metal, to form discrete blade assemblies.

Systems for producing assemblies

A continuous edge of a strip of material is processed as it moves in a direction along the length of the strip. The condition of the continuous edge of the moving strip is inspected after it has been processed. The strip is cut into pieces. And the pieces are sorted into groups in response to the condition of the edge. The edge is continuously monitored by a pair of parallel, closely spaced laser beams. A visualization system includes a camera, a monitor, and a storage systems. The camera images an edge of the moving strip of material. The monitor, coupled to the camera, displays images captured by the camera. The storage system, coupled to the camera and the monitor, stores images captured by the camera. The monitor is capable of displaying the stored images.

Visual inspection system of moving strip edges using cameras and a

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