Landis & Gyr Betriebs Ag

Michael Wessner

Alex Nyfeler

Ohannes Minnetian

Daniel Holliger

The operation of sticking stamps from a foil in strip form at predetermined locations on a substrate which has motifs printed thereon and which is pulled through at least one sticking station at a predetermined forward feed speed is effected by means of pressing portions, which are raised radially above a pressing cylinder, in the sticking station. The pressing portions have curved pressing surfaces which are parts of a larger cylindrical surface which is concentric with respect to the pressing cylinder and which during each sticking phase roll against a backing cylinder and transfer the stamps onto the substrate. The strip speed of the foil may also be lower than the forward feed speed. The foil used may be a hot embossing foil with a layer of adhesive or an embossing foil without a layer of adhesive, while the apparatus, for sticking the embossing foil onto the substrate has an applicator mechanism for adhesive upstream of the sticking station and an irradiation station for the activation of adhesive layers.

Apparatus for sticking on stamps from an embossing foil

The arrangement comprises a tracking sensor with a light source, an optical means and a receiver with two photosensitive detectors, as well as a measuring apparatus with a computing unit. The optical means focuses light to provide a beam which falls on a moving web of foil. The tracking sensor may, for example, be installed in a re-winding installation, and during re-winding of the web, senses by means of the beam a marking track which is embossed in the web in the longitudinal direction of the web and which is composed of two different diffraction grating tracks. Each diffraction grating track projects the light diffracted therefrom in a predetermined direction of incidence to a respective detector. The sensed signals supplied by the receiver are converted into a difference signal by the measuring apparatus, and processed to provide correction signals which are supplied to a control means of the re-winding installation in order to compensate for lateral deviation of the moving web of foil.

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Michael Wessner