Method and apparatus for applying self-adhesive protective sheeting to vehicle bodies
CA 2218453 A1 · Owner: Habisreitinger, Uwe · Inventors: Habisreitinger, Uwe; Link, Thomas; Starzmann, Fritz
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In a method and apparatus for automatically applying self-adhesive protective sheeting to surface parts of vehicle bodies, a specific rectangular piece of protective sheeting in the form of stock roll is grasped on its non-adhesive side, using a robot-controlled tentering frame with suction legs, is drawn off and is cut off. Before the sheeting blank is laid on to the body in the, freely stretched-out state tear-off lines are perforated preferably from the non-adhesive sheeting side in the, region of accessory parts by means of a perforating device guided along definite contour lines. Thereafter the protective sheeting, which is thus prepared and stretched out so as to be free of creases in …
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- Filed October 16, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 16, 2017.
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