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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2000
Akira Ito, Nagoya, JP;
Nobuo Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Masaru Moriguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Motohito Muraki, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A laminate apparatus having a laminate target supply unit that supplies a laminate target along a supply path, a sheet supply unit in which a pair of upper and lower sheets being wound in roll shape are detachably mounted, the sheet supply unit supplying a pair of sheets to laminate the laminate target, a laminate processor, a laminate processor that laminates the laminate target supplied with the pair of sheets when the laminate target is sandwiched between the pair of sheets and then feeds the laminated product outwardly. The laminate processor includes a pair of upper and lower pinch rollers disposed in the laminating processor, a pair of upper and lower sheet guide portions disposed between the pinch rollers and the sides of the sheets drawn from the pair of sheet rolls. The sheets drawn from the sheet rolls contact the sheet guide portions and the centers of each sheet roll are disposed at positions apart from leadlines of the sheets which connect the peripheries of the pinching roller in the slide contact portions of the sheet guides.