US 11,833,793 B2
Jig providing accurate positional relationship between upper and lower labels for sticking the labels to each other
Ryuichi Kanda, Nagoya (JP); Masashi Iwamoto, Nagoya (JP); and Misato Osuka, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/153,866.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-013727 (JP), filed on Jan. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0237416 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B32B 38/00 (2006.01)
CPC B32B 37/0046 (2013.01) [B32B 38/0004 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A jig for sticking a first sheet superposed on top of a second sheet to the second sheet in a thickness direction of the first sheet and the second sheet, the first sheet including an adhesive sheet and a release sheet releasably adhered to the adhesive sheet, the first sheet having: a first edge in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction; and
a third edge in a second direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and the first direction, the second sheet having a second edge in the first direction and a fourth edge in the second direction, the jig comprising:
a first regulating portion on which the first edge and the second edge are configured to be abutted to regulate a position in the first direction of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position in the first direction of the second sheet;
a second regulating portion on which the third edge and the fourth edge are configured to be abutted to regulate a position in the second direction of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position in the second direction of the second sheet such that a contour of the first sheet and a contour of the second sheet are aligned with each other;
a nipper configured to nip the first sheet and the second sheet superposed and aligned with each other in the thickness direction such that a part of a peripheral portion of the first sheet is exposed to an outside of the nipper, the part of the peripheral portion of the first sheet including an edge opposite the first edge in the first direction of the first sheet, the nipper including:
a first abutment portion configured to face the first sheet superposed on top of the second sheet;
a second abutment portion configured to face the second sheet superposed with the first sheet to nip the first sheet and the second sheet in cooperation with the first abutment portion, the first regulating portion and the second regulating portion being provided at the second abutment portion; and
a pressing-force application portion configured to apply pressing force to the first abutment portion and the second abutment portion to urge the first abutment portion and the second abutment portion to relatively move toward each other; and
a hinge portion pivotably movably connecting together the first abutment portion and the second abutment portion at one end in the first direction of each of the first and second abutment portions to open and close the first abutment portion with respect to the second abutment portion.