Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

A laminate-making system has a housing forming a tunnel extending in a transport direction and having a downstream end at an assembly station, a press-plate feeder for conveying a succession of press plates along a path through the tunnel to the assembly station, respective upper and lower supports holding respective upper and lower coils of metallic foil above and below the path at the assembly station, and a core-plate feeder for conveying a succession of core plates to a lay-up station adjacent the assembly station. Respective upper and lower foil feeders pull the foils off the respective coils and apply them to upper and lower faces of the press plates at the assembly station. A gripper beam engages leading ends of the foils and of the press plate in the assembly station for pulling the press plate and the foils from the assembly station into the lay-up station and depositing the press plate and foils atop the core plate therein. A cutter transversely severs the foils immediately downstream of the press plate after the press plate has been pulled by the gripper beam from the assembly station into the lay-up station.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim