US3203322A - Method and apparatus for forms splicing - Google Patents

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US3203322A
US3203322A US235444A US23544462A US3203322A US 3203322 A US3203322 A US 3203322A US 235444 A US235444 A US 235444A US 23544462 A US23544462 A US 23544462A US 3203322 A US3203322 A US 3203322A
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Robert N Eichorn
Jr Charles Holovka
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H21/00—Apparatus for splicing webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F5/00—Attaching together sheets, strips or webs; Reinforcing edges
    • B31F5/02—Attaching together sheets, strips or webs; Reinforcing edges by crimping or slotting or perforating
    • B31F5/027—Attaching together sheets, strips or webs; Reinforcing edges by crimping or slotting or perforating by perforating, e.g. by folding over the partially cut part
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D5/00—Sheets united without binding to form pads or blocks
    • B42D5/02—Form sets
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/16—Belt fasteners
    • Y10T24/1664—Splices
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
    • Y10T29/49863—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part
    • Y10T29/4987—Elastic joining of parts
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
    • Y10T29/49863—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part
    • Y10T29/49876—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part by snap fit
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/53—Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/53657—Means to assemble or disassemble to apply or remove a resilient article [e.g., tube, sleeve, etc.]

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  • This invention relates to a method and apparatus for connecting or splicing the trailing edge of a web of sheet material, such as paper, to the leading edge of another such web while printing and/or other operations are being performed on said first web.
  • Continuous paper forms are generally spliced together with adhesive tape or staples and in the case where two single ply continuous forms are being spliced together the use of a strip of adhesive tape has worked fairly well except that rather complicated and expensive equipment is required in order to satisfactorily apply the adhesive tape.
  • the present invention is provided whereby a Zipper type nonadhesive splicing tape or strip of resilient material is simply and economically applied to join the trailing edge of a stack of continuous forms in use to the leading edge of a new stack.
  • the nonadhesive splicing tape is provided with feed holes and pre-slit locking tabs arranged alternately in a row.
  • the tape is placed on a tab forming channel plate having a row of vertically extending ears and is rolled down with a forming tool to erect the pre-slit locking tabs.
  • the splice tape is designed for maximum utilization of material and maximum resistance to failure because of the semi-tubular configuration formed by the locking tabs in the direction of maximum stress.
  • the present simplified procedure may be carried out at the printer or in a remote location on the customers premises.
  • a principal object of the present invention is to provide an improved and simplified method and apparatus for splicing the trailing edge of a web of sheet material to the leading edge of another such web.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an improved method and apparatus for positively splicing the trailing edge of a stack of continuous forms in use to the leading edge of a new stack of continuous forms.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide an improved method and apparatus for splicing together multi-ply continuous forms and which utilizes a non-adhesive splicing tape.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide an improved method and apparatus for splicing together multi-ply continuous forms wherein tab portions on a strip of nonadhesive resilient splicing tape are formed and engaged through splice holes in all plies of the continuous forms.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide a simplified, low cost device for splicing continuous forms, which device may be used at the printer during use of the continuous forms or at a remote location.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of two multi-ply continuous forms, the edges of which are spliced together in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of FIG. 1 showing the locking action between a locking tab portion of the nonadhesive splicing tape and the splice holes in the continuous forms.
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the manner of assemblnig the splice and showing the tab forming channel plate and the roll down hand forming tool.
  • FIG. 4 is a partial perspective view showing the erection of a pair of locking tabs after the splicing tape has been rolled down on the tab forming channel plate.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown two multi-ply continuous forms It) and 11 the edges of which have been spliced together in accordance with the present invention.
  • the forms are shown as three ply forms, each one comprising a writing sheet 12, a carbon or transfer sheet 13 and a copy sheet 14.
  • the present invention may be equally applied to the splicing of con tinuous forms having more than three plies and to single ply forms as well.
  • each row of holes Disposed laterally across each leading and trailing end of each ply of the forms and transverse to the direction of feed is a row of holes, such as is shown across the leading end of the form 11 shown in FIG. 1.
  • Each row comprises feed holes 15 and splicing holes 16 arranged alternately across each ply.
  • the leading edge of the new form will overlap the trailing edge of the form in use with the rows of holes in superposed alignment or, if desired, the leading edge of the new form may underlie the trailing edge of the form in use.
  • a strip of nonadhesive splicing tape 17 is provided which extends across the forms and in superposed alignment with the superposed rows of feed and splice holes in the forms.
  • the splicing tape 17 may be made from any suitable nonadhesive resilient material. As one example, it has been found that a plastic film such as commercially available Mylar will work very well. As shown in FIG. 3, the strip of splicing tape 17 is provided with a row of alternately disposed feed holes 18 and pre-slit semicircular locking tab portions 19.
  • the feed holes 18 and the pairs of oppositely extending pre-slit tabs 19 will be in alignment respectively with the feed holes and splicing holes 1o in the forms and the preslit tabs 19 will be erected and inserted through the splicing holes 16 of all plies of the forms, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, to etfectively splice the forms together with the individual plies of the forms locked against relative movement with each other.
  • a tab forming channel plate and a tape roll down hand forming tool 21 to carry out the splicing operation there is provided a tab forming channel plate and a tape roll down hand forming tool 21.
  • the channel plate is provided with a plurality of vertically extending semi-circular cars 22 arranged equidistantly apart in a row similar to a toothed rack.
  • the disposition of the ears along the channel plate and the holes and slits along the splicing tape 17 is such that when the splicing tape is superposed or positioned on the channel plate there will be two adjacent ears 22 in alignment with each feed hole 18 and two adjacent ears in alignment with each pair of the pre-slit semi-circular tab portions 19.
  • the roll down tool or roller 21 is provided with a plurality of recesses 23 arranged equidistantly around its periphery to receive the cars 22, thus enabling the roller 21 to coact with the cars 22 in gear-like fashion as it is rolled along the channel plate.
  • a strip of the splicing tape is first positioned on the channel plate and rolled down by the forming roller 21.
  • the cars 22 on the channel plate will erect or bend to a vertical position the oppositely extending preslit locking tab portions 19 in the tape.
  • the ears not in alignment with the pre-slit tab portions will project up through the feed holes 18.
  • the trailing edge of the form 10 is rolled down around the erected locking tabs 19 after which the leading edge of the new form 11 is placed in position and rolled down.
  • a firm grasp and pull at either end of the splice will allow the tape tabs 19 to spring apart successively and lock every alternate splicing hole 16 as the splice tape strips away from the channel plate.
  • the locking tabs 19 which were initially erected to substantially a vertical position will spring or flatten out, due to the resiliency of the tape material, against the inner edge 24 of the splice holes to exert a positive locking action and to prevent any relative movement between the individual plies of the forms.
  • the splice tape is designed for maximum utilization of material and maximum resistance to failure because of the semi-tubular configuration of the locking tabs 19 in the direction of maximum stress, i.e., in the direction of feed of the forms, as shown by the arrow in FIG. 1.
  • a splicing tape dispenser roll down form wheel, a channel plate wheel, and a cutoff knife.
  • This approach may require a groove to permit the splicing tape tabs to go through the forms splice holes and expand on the other side and this method may have some advantage in speed.
  • Apparatus for splicing together continuous forms having a plurality of splice holes disposed therein with 10 resilient splicing tape having a plurality of similarly disposed pre-slit locking tabs which comprises:
  • a forming member plate on which the tape and forms to be spliced are positioned
  • a row of vertically extending ears arranged across said forming member plate to underlie the pre-slit locking tabs of splicing tape and the splice holes of forms positioned on said member; and a hand operated roller forming tool adapted to be manually rolled along said row of ears for rolling positioned splicing tape down over said vertically extending ears whereby the pre-slit tabs in the tape will be erected and for rolling the splice holes of forms to be spliced down over said ears and erected tape tabs whereby after being stripped from said forming member plate the forms and tape assembly will be held in spliced relationship by the erected tape tabs.
  • Apparatus for splicing together continuous forms each having a row of splice holes arranged across one end thereof with a strip of resilient splicing tape having a row of pairs of oppositely extending pre-slit locking tabs therein which comprises:
  • a hand operated roller tool having a plurality of recesses arranged around its periphery to receive said ears and adapted to be manually rolled along said row of ears for rolling positioned splicing tape down over said vertically extending ears whereby the pairs of oppositely extending pre-slit tabs in the tape will be erected and for rolling splice holes of forms to be spliced down over said ears and erected tape tabs whereby after being stripped from said forming member plate the forms and tape assembly will be held in spliced relationship by the erected pairs of tape tabs.

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US4769895A (en) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-13 Milliken Research Corporation Interlocking dust control mats
US6586751B1 (en) 1998-05-02 2003-07-01 Focal, Inc. Light source power tester
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