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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 05, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
G.D. Societa' per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83 13 ; 226 42 ; 2425621 ; 2425644 ; 83650 ; 83949 ;
Abstract
A method and device whereby a first runout strip, fed at a first speed along a guide by a traction device, is replaced with a new strip by cutting the first strip; activating both a push device, by which the new strip is engaged and fed along the guide at a second speed, and a movable guide device a portion of the guide and which is lowered in relation to the rest of the guide and together with a trailing portion of the first strip on the movable guide device itself; and controlling the second speed as a function of the first speed so that a leading portion of the new strip is superimposed on the trailing portion of the first strip along the movable guide device.