An apparatus for fabricating tissue reforcado starting from a tape of material elastomerico not vulcanized, and process for producing such material.

摘要

The subject disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for making reinforced fabric. A reinforcement is encapsulated within a ribbon of uncured elastomeric material. The ribbon is preliminarily oriented on a lead-in table, and a shuttle head translates longitudinally of itself from a position over an assembly table to a position over the lead-in table. The lead-in table is then raised to place the ribbon in juxtaposition with the shuttle head. After positively gripping the ribbon the shuttle head translates to a position over the assembly table-thereby metering a strip of ribbon having a predetermined length-and then lowers accurately to deposit the strip on the assembly table. A guillotine means severs the strip from the ribbon, and the assembly table indexes the strip so that the successively deposited strips are stitched to the immediately preceding strip. The resulting belt of fabric has the reinforcement therein oriented at a preselected bias because the assembly table may be selectively oriented with respect to the fixedly oriented lead-in table, shuttle head and guillotine means.