Transfer devices

• US 7,610,665 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2007
• Issued: 11/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Esselte LLC (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Original Assignee: Xyron (ACCO Brands Incorporated)
• Inventors: Worth, Cory W, Casaldi, Heath E, Becker, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): Osele; Mark A
• Application Number:
  US11/735,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20070175589A1
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 156/523, 156/527, 156540-542, 156/574, 156/577, 156/579, 242/160.4, 242/171, 242/588.3, 242/170, 242/588, 242/588.2, 242/588.6, 118/76, 118/200, 118/257, 206/411, 294/28, 295/25
• US Class Current: 29/428
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 37/007 Applicators for applying coatings, e.g. correction, colour or adhesive coatings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1348 Work traversing type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/17 Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1788 Work traversing type and/or means applying work to wall or static structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1795 Implement carried web supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/195 Delaminating roller means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49945 by driven force fit

Abstract

Transfer devices are disclosed. At least one transfer device includes a housing, a supply roll rotatably mounted to the housing, a take-up roll rotatably mounted to the housing, and an application head. The supply roll has a wound supply of liner wound thereon, and the liner has an adhesive carrying surface with an adhesive provided thereon. The take-up roll has at least an end portion of the liner connected thereto such that rotation of the take-up roll in a take-up direction winds portions of the liner unwound from the supply roll onto the take-up roll. The application head includes a plurality of rollers that are rotatable about substantially parallel axes spaced apart from one another, and a closed-loop belt that is trained about the plurality of rollers to provide a transfer surface facing outwardly of the device. The rotation of the rollers enables the belt to travel around the rollers.

Claims

1. A method for loading a cartridge into a transfer device,

the cartridge comprising:

a body with a longitudinal axis;

a supply roll rotatably mounted to the body on the longitudinal axis,

the supply roll comprising a wound length of liner having an adhesive carrying surface with an adhesive provided thereon; and

a take-up roll rotatably mounted to the body on the longitudinal axis in spaced relation to the supply roll, the take-up roll having at least an end portion of the liner connected thereto such that rotation of the take-up roll in a take-up direction winds portions of the liner unwound from the supply roll onto the take-up roll;

the transfer device comprising;

a housing defining a cartridge receiving space;

an extension member slidably connected to the housing for rectilinear movement relative to the housing along an extension axis; and

a cartridge support slidably connected to the extension member for rectilinear movement relative to the extension member along the extension axis, the cartridge support being constructed to mount the cartridge thereon,

the cartridge support, the extension member, and the housing being constructed and arranged to enable the cartridge support and the extension member to be moved between (a) an extended position wherein the extension member extends outwardly from the housing along the extension axis and the cartridge support extends outwardly from the extension member along the extension axis to enable the cartridge to be mounted to the cartridge support, and (b) a retracted position, wherein the extension member and the cartridge support are moved inwardly into the cartridge receiving space so that, when the cartridge is mounted to the cartridge support, the cartridge is moved into an operative position in the cartridge receiving space;

the method comprising;

sliding the cartridge support and the extension member outwardly of the housing to the extended position;

mounting the cartridge to the cartridge support in the extended position; and

sliding the cartridge support and the extension member inwardly into the cartridge receiving space of the housing to the retracted position to move the cartridge into the operative position in the cartridge receiving space.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising training the liner over an application head of the transfer device.