Apparatus for attaching elastic at an angle

• Main Author: VAN DER KLUGT; WALTER P. H. L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.03.1995
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CONVEYING; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROSTHESES; STORING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

This disclosure relates to a machine which receives a strip or strips of material, rotates the strip or strips, and transfers the strip or strips to sheet material. The machine comprises a plurality of tables including first and second adjacent tables, and a conveyor connected to the tables for moving the tables sequentially through first and second zones and through at least one turning zone which is between the first and second zones, the adjacent tables when in the first zone having an initial orientation and having adjacent edges which are closely spaced. The turning zone includes a mechanism for moving the tables along an arcuate path and thereby separating the adjacent edges, and another mechanism for rotating the tables to a second orientation while the adjacent edges are separated, and the adjacent tables when in the second zone have the second orientation and have adjacent edges which are closely spaced. The disclosure also relates to a method of moving the tables through the zones and rotating the tables while moving the tables along an arcuate path.