Abstract: The following specification describes apparatus for successively applying magnetic patches on a tape to successive passbooks. Each passbook is moved in sequence to engage a switch and is then stopped. The switch operates a solenoid, which engages a roller with the passbook and disengages the stop. Thereafter, a metered pulse is applied to the motor of a rotary drive to move the passbook and tape through the same distance and one patch is separated from the tape and applied to the passbook by the solenoid engaged roller. As the tape moves under control of the metered pulse, a succeeding patch on the tape is sensed by a photocell to maintain the motor and rotary drive operated. The drive continues to advance the tape and when the succeeding patch is no longer sensed by the photocell, it provides a signal to deenergize the motor and stop the tape. The succeeding patch is thus accurately positioned for application to the next passbook operating the switch.

Abstract: Interposed between the conductor and the helical or longitudinal wrapping of paper insulation is a layer of selfsetting, heat sealable emulsion having adhesive properties and which is inert, water soluble and free of metal. The emulsion is absorbed by the innermost lay of the paper and causes it to adhere to the next outer paper lay, while the outer portion of the paper which is not exposed to the saturated portion remains loosely formed around the conductor. Upon drying of the paper insulation, the solid portion of the emulsion remains as a film on the periphery of the conductor and the innermost surface of the paper.

Abstract: A thermoplastic coupler sleeve for interconnecting tubes or pipes is made by extruding thermoplastic material, e.g., polyethylene, to make a ribbon, and wrapping the ribbon around a heater coil in as many layers as needed to obtain the sleeve.

Abstract: Tandem operations for manufacturing coaxial cable units include new and unobvious methods and apparatus for laminating an outer conductor, for drawing an inner conductor, for applying plastic discs to the inner conductor and for corrugating the outer conductor. Laminating the outer conductor is accomplished by passing a copper, copolymer adhesive, steel sandwich through three pairs of heated rolls. The heated laminate is passed over a roller designed to impart a three-dimensional curvature to the laminate. Then, the laminate is advanced in the manufacturing atmosphere and over another roller to remove the three dimensional curvature while the heat is removed. This produces a laminate which is essentially stress-free although composed of dissimilar materials. The inner conductor is drawn to a final diameter by an ultrasonically vibrating drawing die within a liquid medium which acts as a lubricant and as a cleaner to form a clean, smooth inner conductor.

Abstract: A corrugated plastic article comprising at least two corrugated plastic films each of polyethylene terephthalate held in contact with each other and capable of substantially maintaining its shape under extreme use conditions.Such corrugated plastic article when heated for 5 minutes at 150.degree.C. has a percent (%) fallout (i.e., the original peak-to-peak height of the corrugations minus the retained peak-to-peak height thereof after heating divided by the original peak-to-peak height) of less than 35%.In an electrical cable having a conductor core, this corrugated plastic article provides an improved protective member for the core, having good dielectric strength and mechanical strength, electrical stability, low moisture sensitivity and other properties, wherein the corrugations, strength and shape-retention capabilities of the article provide improved cushioning, insulation and other protection for the core.

Abstract: An apparatus for expanding a laminating interlayer is disclosed. The apparatus includes structure for feeding a heated web of laminating interlayer material to a conical member. A stretching of the web occurs between the feeding structure and the conical member. The web is cooled on the conical member. The apparatus also includes structure which maximizes the yield from the web being stretched.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for continuously making fiber reinforced plastic pipe in which a conveyor tube is formed on an axially fixed hollow rotatable mandrel. A plurality of bands of resin impregnated fiber elements are wound on the conveyor tube as it advances to provide the pipe assembly. The terminal end of the generated pipe assembly is sealed with a plug. A fluid under pressure is fed through the hollow mandrel and out the forward end of the mandrel into a chamber formed by the generated pipe assembly, the plug, and a fluid sealing means within the pipe assembly being generated, thereby causing the pipe assembly to advance.

Abstract: A continuous business form which includes a series of connected blanks adapted to be subsequently processed into multi-ply lottery tickets, envelopes or like articles, is produced from an endless web of sheet material. Each blank is developed from an odd number of continuous panels which span the width of the web wherein adjacent, non-abutting panels define the various plies of each article, and wherein one surface of certain of the non-abutting panels is provided with an adhesive which is not activated for adhering to other panels of the form until after original indicia has been applied to the non-abutting panels which are thereafter superposed in overlying relationship for producing the continuous series of multi-ply forms wherein each ply contains original, directly applied indicia.

Abstract: In the disclosed method of applying electrical insulation, a housing with a porous wall is placed around a conductor in spaced relationship thereto, and a slurry is pumped into the space between the housing and the conductor. This slurry comprises a liquid and particles suspended in the liquid having good electrical insulating properties. The liquid component is allowed to discharge from the housing via its pores, but the solid particles are filtered out within the housing so as to build up from the internal surface of the housing a deposit of the particles. This pumping and filtering action is continued until the space between the housing and the conductor is substantially filled with the deposit.

Abstract: An embossing assembly, for use in making high pressure decorative laminates, contains at least one metal sheet 0.0003-0.05 inch thick, having a patterned embossing side and a support side, the support side having indentations therein which form the pattern on the embossing side, and an accompanying fibrous support having a thickness of from about 0.5-7 times the deepness of the indentations per metal sheet, disposed next to the support side of the metal sheet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for feeding packages, dispensing strips, inserting nozzles in the strips, and securing the strips and nozzles on the packages, the nozzles providing for controlled dispensing of the contents of the package upon a squeezing of the package. Before the strips and nozzles are applied to the packages, a relationship is established between the strips and the packages so as to insure that the location of each nozzle is on a seam-free portion of each package wall.

Abstract: Extra-wide, heat-sealed nonwoven sheets of thermoplastic synthetic polymer monofilaments are prepared by folding said sheets in layers with heat-insulating fabric between said layers before contact with heating and pressing means to effect heat sealing, followed by removal of the insulating fabric and heat sealing of the fold areas.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for making resin tubes or pipes, the apparatus comprising a supporting structure having a cylindrical surface and a carrier strip mounted thereon and fed in a plurality of adjacent helical turns to provide a moving cylindrical surface on which the resin articles are formed. Friction reducing means is associated with the interface between the cylindrical supporting surface and the inner surface of the helical turns of the carrier strip. Provision is also made for forming articles by extruding resin material onto the moving cylindrical surface provided by the helical turns of the carrier strip.

Abstract: In the production of decorative gypsum board, wherein a hemihydrate gypsum slurry is continuously injected between decorative gypsum board card paper and conventional gypsum board card paper and the thus slurry-injected sheets are pressed by a suitable means to form the sheets in a predetermined thickness and then dried to form the decorative gypsum board, the improvement comprising coating with an urethane resin solution over decorative low-weight basis paper such as tissue paper or machine glazed white paper, drying the coated paper and laminating the resultant paper to a gypsum board card paper to obtain said decorative gypsum board card paper.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for replacing a portion of the insulating sheath of a submarine electric cable when the ends are inaccessible in which a split extrusion mold is placed around the cable and secured to the head of an extruder which is mounted on a carriage movable axially of the cable. The cable is held in a fixed position and as new insulating material is injected into the mold and extruded over the portion of the cable from which the old insulation has been removed, the carriage is moved at a rate dependent upon the extrusion rate. The interior of the mold may be subjected to vacuum. Alternatively, the mold may be held stationary and the cable moved axially thereof.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a brassiere pad which involves folding a fiberfill blank longitudinally, making an oblique cut at right angles to the fold through one thickness of the blank, folding the blank so as to expose surfaces which are to be bonded, refolding to abut the surfaces to be bonded and molding the resulting form to the desired pad contour. Means for controlling the thickness of the under portion of the pad to provide desired push up action is disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for insulating a plurality of electrically conductive elements and to produce electrical cable where the method includes heating the unformed insulative material and conductive elements, applying pressure and simultaneously removing heat with a pair of rollers at a relatively low temperature and applying pressure and heat to preselected regions only of the insulative material. The method and apparatus further allow preselected portions of the cable to be unbonded so as to facilitate access to the conductive elements by simply interrupting the application of pressure to the preselected portions. The heat, press and cool and press and bond method may also be accomplished in a step and repeat process using presses to insulative flexible circuits. The above method and apparatus provide more reliable bonding at an accelerated rate of production.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making corrugated collimators for radiation imaging devices. Strips of lead foil are corrugated in a pair of gear-like members, and the corrugated strips are mounted between straight strips to build up a honeycomb-like collimator structure. Specific techniques for producing parallel channel and converging or diverging channel collimators are illustrated.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for affixing labels to a web of sheet or film material by means of a cylindrical labelling device having a label arranged peripherally thereon, said label being affixed to the web with a pure rolling motion and compressive action.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a body of a moisture-proof container having at least two recesses for packaging purposes which comprises adhering a metal foil to a first thermoplastic resin film with a hot melt-type adhesive to form a laminated sheet, forming at least two closed blank portions in said laminated sheet by cutting only the metal foil, adhering a second thermoplastic resin film on the surface of the metal foil and stretch-forming said closed blank portions of the laminated sheet at a temperature wherein the hot melt-type adhesive and the thermoplastic resin films are softened, thereby forming said recesses.