Abstract: Identification bands, particularly for use in hospitals as identification bracelets and other patient related labeling requirements, made up of a number of tapes laminated together by pressure-sensitive adhesive, including a transparent tape as an outer tape, with an insert underlying the transparent tape and have preprinted identification indicia on its face facing the transparent tape, at least one of the tapes being a pressure-sensitive tape having pressure-sensitive adhesive on one surface thereof, part of which is at an end of the band adapted to be exposed, with release means covering the pressure-sensitive adhesive at said end, and methods of and apparatus for making the bands.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for ultrasonically sealing and cutting workpieces wherein the workpiece is clamped between an anvil and an ultrasonic horn for being sealed and cut adjacent the seal by pressing a cutting edge into the workpiece from the anvil side of the workpiece while it is ultrasonically activated, particularly for making tabs for sanitary belts, and tabs made thereby of ultrasonically sealable fabric.

Abstract: A drapery pleating tape comprising two layers of flexible ultrasonically sealable fabric (which may be nonwoven or woven fabric) having ultrasonically sealed transverse lines of seals providing pockets for receiving pins of drapery hooks, ultrasonically sealed transverse lines of seal midway between the pockets, all these transverse lines of seal constituting fold lines on which the tape is foldable for pleating it, and ultrasonically sealed longitudinally extending lines of seal for stiffening the sections of the tape between the pockets and said midway lines of seal.

Abstract: A dress shield consisting of two pieces of composite material each generally of crescent shape having a concave inner edge and a convex outer edge, each piece being cut from a laminated material consisting of a central waterproof barrier layer of a flexible heat-sealable plastic film and outer layers of spun-bonded polyester. The pieces are disposed flatwise one against the other with their corresponding edges in register, and are seamed together in face-to-face relation along their concave inner edges by a continuous heat seal, the latter being formed by ultrasonically sewing the concave edges together.