Patent attributes
The invention enables to automatically connect a terminal end portion of a strip-like material drawn out from a winding member constituting an apparatus of supplying the strip-like material and a start end portion of a succeeding strip-like material, at supply support portions 1a, 1b, a strip-like material B is drawn out from one winding member Ba of a plurality of winding members Ba, Bb aligned on support shafts 2a, 2b to be supported thereby, a start end portion of the strip-like material B of other winding member Ba is made to be awaited at an awaiting portion 9a, at every time of finishing transporting the strip-like material B, the strip-like material B is temporarily stopped from being transported, during a time period of stopping to transport the strip-like material B, a start end portion of the strip-like material B of a succeeding winding member Ba is held by a hand apparatus 10 and transported from above the awaiting portion 9a to above a receiving base 7, the start end portion is laminated on a terminal end portion of the preceding strip-like material, and the start end portion and the terminal end portion are pressed to connect above the receiving base 7.
