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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2002
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A strip joining apparatus is provided wherein a time which a line is stopped is shortened, a number of installation spaces is decreased and precise notching may be performed. The strip joining apparatus comprising a first carriage comprising a shearing means for shearing each of the back end of the preceding strip and the lead end of the succeeding strip in a direction approximately orthogonal to the traveling direction of the strips, a welding means for sequentially welding, along a shearing surface, a location where the back end of the sheared preceding strip and the lead end of the sheared succeeding strip are contacted by abutting or overlapping, and a first side notching means for side notching a weld lead end portion of the weld location provided extending approximately above a weld traveling direction of the weld location, the first carriage provided so as to be capable of moving in the weld traveling direction; and a second carriage disposed facing the first carriage and comprising a second side notching means for side notching a weld back end portion of the weld location and constituting a pair together with the first side notching means