Apparatus for lap splicing a surface type fastener tape or like strip

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus for cutting off any defective part of a surface type fastener tape or like strip being fed in a predetermined direction and for splicing the thus created two parts of the strip into a continuous length by forming a fused lap joint of their ends. The strip is fed first through a movable gripping jaw assembly and then through a fixed gripping jaw assembly. Disposed between the two gripping jaw assemblies two retractable pairs of, cutters cut off any defective part of the strip while the latter is gripped by the jaw assemblies, leaving the end portions of the strip protruding from the jaw assemblies toward each other. The relative arrangement of the jaw assemblies is such that the …