US 12,325,608 B2
Apparatus and method for dispensing sections of double-sided adhesive tape
Oronzo Lucia, San Giovanni Teatino (IT); Alessandro Cipriani, San Giovanni Teatino (IT); Maurizio Spiriticchio, San Giovanni Teatino (IT); Khelifa Baizid, Genoa (IT); Emanuela Elisa Cepolina, Genoa (IT); Massimiliano Scaccia, Rome (IT); Roberto Gagliardi, San Benedetto del Tronto (IT); Mariapaola D'Imperio, Cittadella (IT); Isiah Zaplana, Genoa (IT); Ferdinando Cannella, Genoa (IT); and Darwin G. Caldwell, Serra Riccò (IT)
Assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A., San Giovanni Teatino Chieti (IT); and Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa (IT)
Filed by Fameccanica.Data S.p.A., San Giovanni Teatino (IT); and Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa (IT)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/505,839.
Claims priority of application No. 102020000024892 (IT), filed on Oct. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0119216 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 35/00 (2006.01); B65H 35/06 (2006.01); B65H 37/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 35/0086 (2013.01) [B65H 35/0066 (2013.01); B65H 35/06 (2013.01); B65H 37/002 (2013.01); B65H 2301/51532 (2013.01); B65H 2701/3772 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for dispensing discrete sections of double-sided adhesive tape, comprising:
a casing carrying an applicator roller and a motorized winding pin configured to wind a support film detached from an external surface of the double-sided adhesive tape,
a reel support unit comprising:
a base plate,
a hub rotatable relative to the base plate and configured to support a reel of double-sided tape,
a plurality of return pins carried by the base plate and arranged to guide the double-sided tape unwound from said reel, and a cutting device configured to transversely cut the double-sided tape unwound from the reel and to form successive discrete sections of double-sided tape, and
an adjustment mechanism configured to vary a position of said base plate with respect to the casing to vary a length of the discrete sections of double-sided tape to be dispensed.