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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2001
Hiromi Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus has a head portion for holding a strip of filter, and a support portion for supporting the head portion. The head portion has a guide portion for guiding the filter, a pair of plate members disposed on both sides of the guide portion, with a space left between tips of the plate members and with vicinities of the tips provided at a given angle, and a pair of blades disposed on the tips of the plate members. When the head portion is pressed against a V-shaped channel by the support portion, elastic deformation occurs in the pair of plate members, narrowing the space between the edges of the pair of blades. When the head portion is moved off the V-shaped channel, the space between the edges of the pair of blades expands to an original width.