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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1986
Gerhard Zwirner, Haan, DE;
Gebr. Happich GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for wrapping a cushioning member, particularly a sun visor, with a web of wrapping material formed from two blanks, in which one blank is placed on one main surface of the cushioning member and the second blank is placed on its other main surface. Each blank forms a continuously protruding flange in the center plane of the cushioning member. The flanges are clamped between two opposed web electrodes, and the flanges are welded peripherally to each other by high-frequency welding in such a manner than an inward-directed weld bead is formed by the flow of material at the flange edges facing the member. After the termination of the welding process, that is, after the disconnecting of the high-frequency voltage, the flanges remain clamped between the electrodes, possibly with an increase in the clamping pressure. Then the cushioning member is moved, by a punch that is movable perpendicular to the flanges, and is punched out (ejected) from the flanges, by being sheared from the flanges in the immediate vicinity of the flange edges facing the member, the web electrodes serving as auxiliary tools for the punch, one serving as a holder and the other as a die.