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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Dragan Filipovic, Garching bei München, DE;
Martin Petersen, Poing, DE;
Sultan Shair, Garching bei München, DE;
Stefaan Guido Van Nieuwenhove, Hohenkammer, DE;
Shatil Sinha, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Wendy Wen-Ling Lin, Montgomery, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system includes a gripper device to grasp a disposable proxy. The gripper device is moveable to position a pressure sensitive adhesive in contact with the disposable proxy and apply a pressure force to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive to the disposable proxy. The gripper device is moveable to position the pressure sensitive adhesive in contact with an edge portion of a first layer of a plurality of layers and apply a pressure force to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive to the edge portion of the first layer. The system further includes a cutting device moveable to apply a cutting force to separate a sacrificial corner portion of the first layer proximate the edge portion of the first layer from a remaining portion of the first layer. The gripper device is movable to peel the remaining portion of the first layer from one or more remaining layers of the plurality of layers.