Pressure-sensitive tape feeding device

Claim 1

A FEEDING DEVICE FOR A PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE STRIP WHICH COMPRISES FORWARDLY ADVANCING FEEDING MEANS ADAPTED TO PROGRESSIVELY ADHERE TO A NARROW ELONGATED AREA OF THE ADHESIVE SIDE OF SAID STRIP AND THEREBY ADVANCE SAID STRIP WITH SAID FEEDING MEANS, SAID ELONGATED AREA EXTENDING LENGTHWISE OF THE STRIP FOR AN APPRECIABLE DISTANCE ALONG A LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF CONTACT CENTRALLY LOCATED TRANSVERSELY OF THE STRIP, A GUIDE TRACK EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID STRIP FOR GUIDING THE STRIP AS IT ADHERES TO SAID FEEDING MEANS, SAID FEEDING MEANS RUNNING WITHIN SAID TRACK AND SAID TRACK COMPRISING OPPOSED EDGE GUIDE PORTIONS LOCATED TRANSVERSELY OUTWARDLY OF SAID FEEDING MEANS FOR GUIDING THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF THE STRIP ON EACH SIDE OF SAID FEEDING MEANS, SAID EDGE GUIDE PORTIONS BEING DISPLACED IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID FEEDING MEANS AWAY FROM THE NORMAL PLANE OF THE STRIP PASSING THROUGH SAID AXIS OF CONTACT FOR CAUSING THE STRIP TO ASSUME A THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSVERSE CROSS-SECTION WHILE SAID STRIP IS ADHERED TO SAID FEEDING MEANS ALONG SAID AXIS OF CONTACT, AND STRIPPING MEANS FOR PROGRESSIVELY SEPARATING SAID STRIP FROM SAID FEEDING MEANS WITHOUT ADHERING TO OR APPLYING TENSION TO THE STRIP AND WITHOUT RETARDING THE FORWARD MOVEMENT IMPARTED TO THE STRIP BY THE FEEDING MEANS; WHEREBY SAID STRIP IS PROGRESSIVELY FED FORWARD BY SAID FEEDING MEANS WHILE ADHERING TO SAID FEEDING MEANS ONLY IN A NARROW AREA OF THE ADHESIVE SIDE OF THE STRIP, CAUSED TO ASSUME A THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSVERSE CROSSSECTION BY VIRTUE OF ITS SIMULTANEOUS CONTACT WITH SAID FEEDING MEANS AND THE OPPOSED EDGE GUIDE PORTIONS OF SAID TRACK, AND PROGESSIVELY SEPARATED FROM SAID FEEDING MEANS BY SAID STRIPPING MEANS.