Plural Superimposed Laminae Transferred Patents (Class 156/239)
  • Patent number: 4985103
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a cylindrical ceramic laminated body includes the steps of forming a ceramic green sheet on a carrier film, laminating the ceramic green sheet on a base plate having a flat upper surface, releasing the ceramic green sheet from the carrier film, applying a joining agent on the ceramic green sheet, and then winding the ceramic green sheet while releasing it from the base plate, thereby obtaining a cylindrical laminated roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kouno, Morio Sakai
  • Patent number: 4983245
    Abstract: The invention also relates to a process for dressing a flat, water-absorbing and water-permeable substrate having a rough surface with depressions at least on that side to be provided with the dressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Inventor: Philipp Schaefer
  • Patent number: 4936935
    Abstract: Novel laminate structures incorporating a thin metal layer which is of a thickness capable of converting incident microwave energy into thermal energy. The thin metal layer produces a greater heating effect than is produced by the same metal layer directly supporated on a polymeric film layer. The laminate is useful in the microwave heating of a variety of food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Beckett Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Donald G. Beckett
  • Patent number: 4936936
    Abstract: A process for forming a composite useful as an exterior vehicle part that has the following layered components:a. a layer of a glossy clear acrylic thermoplastic finish bonded firmly tob. a layer of an acrylic thermoplastic pigment containing paint firmly bonded toc. a flexible thermoformable polymeric material that is bonded tod. a thick rigid synthetic resinous substrate;The resulting composite and thermoformable laminate that can be made into the above composite having the layers a.-c. of the above structure also are part of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Frank Rohrbacher
  • Patent number: 4933042
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for disposing a polymer film on an irregularly-shaped substrate at relatively high temperatures. In particular, the method and apparatus of the present invention provide a system for the packaging of very large scale intergrated circuit chips. The system of the present invention particularly solves problems associated with high temperature processing and problems associated with the highly irregular surfaces that result. Nonetheless, the resultant product is capable of being fashioned into circuit chip systems which are independently testable and which may be reconfigured after testing by removal of the polymer film itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Charles W. Eichelberger, Robert J. Wojnarowski, Kenneth B. Welles, II
  • Patent number: 4927479
    Abstract: The plant comprises a first vacuum plate with openings on which a sheet may be fixed in an exact planar way by suction. A second plate with a slightly arcuated surface and turned towards the first plate is adjustable in height by two compressing cylinders and is pivotingly fixed to the structure. The second plate is also a vacuum plate and may be unrolled on the first plate. During the unrolling motion, the second plate is conducted by means of retractable bolts which are engaged into corresponding openings of the first plate. To compress two sheets, a first sheet is fixed in an exact planar way to the first plate by suction and transferred by an unrolling motion of the second plate thereon, the suction force of the plate being reduced and that of the second plate being correspondingly increased. A second sheet is then fixed to the first plate and cold- or hot-compressed according to the same unrolling process as the first sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Inventor: Josef Bock
  • Patent number: 4919994
    Abstract: A dry transfer graphics article and methods of preparation and use thereof are provided. The article is self-weeding to transfer fine graphic images without the use of detackifying radiation, solvents, etc. One of the elements of the article is a carrier having a surface which is compatible with an adhesive having a low work to fracture. The article further comprises a graphic pattern formed on the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Joseph H. Incremona, Richard H. Lundeen
  • Patent number: 4914079
    Abstract: A thermal transfer ink medium including a heat resistant support layer having an ink layer thereon and an ink transfer layer or film on the ink layer is provided. Printing is performed by applying thermal energy to selected portions of the thermal transfer ink medium in accordance with image signals. The ink transfer layer and selected portions of the ink layer are transferred to a transfer medium by selective activation of the ink layer. By providing the ink transfer layer, the ink is maintained as a cohesive body and transfer is not affected by the surface roughness of the transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumori Takei, Hitoshi Fukushima, Kohei Iwamoto, Hiroto Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4892602
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer medium comprising a support, and a transfer layer comprising a protective resin layer, a metal deposition layer and an adhesive layer, said three layers being provided in that order from the supporting side. The transfer layer of the medium can be selectively transferred to a plain paper upon heating with a thermal head to give a transfer image having an excellent metallic luster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Oike Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Oike, Motoshige Yanagimachi
  • Patent number: 4882000
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing printed circuit boards.The manufacturing method of printed circuit boards under the present invention is to detach a release paper from a metal board on which holes are provided and to which the adhesive sheet and a release paper are attached. Thereafter, the metal board is glued to a resin board having at least one circuit layer and at least either of through holes or lead wire holes, by means of the adhesive sheet by pressing.An alternative manufacturing method of printed circuit boards under the present invention is to provide lead wire holes at the centers of resin filled holes in a metal board material, and to which an adhesive sheet and a release paper are attached. From the metal board material, a metal board is made by finishing its outer configuration. The release paper is detached from the metal board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: O. Key Printed Wiring Co., Ltc.
    Inventor: Risuke Ozaki
  • Patent number: 4882004
    Abstract: A compact tabletop machine for making laminations such as labels of the type including a central substrate layer and first and second outer layers having inside glue-bearing faces in face-to-face contact with opposite faces of the central layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Inventor: Douglas M. Watson
  • Patent number: 4875961
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer medium comprising a support, and a transfer layer comprising at least a non-flowable ink layer and an adhesive layer, said two layers being provided in that order from the support side. The transfer medium can give a print image of a high quality on a rough paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Oike Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Oike, Motoshige Yanagimachi
  • Patent number: 4842673
    Abstract: Decorative articles (8) are located at spaced intervals over apertures (2) provided in a carrier tape (1). An elongate piston rod (16) is actuable by a piston (14) to move along a linear path. A toothed wheel (3') is rotatable and is formed diametric with channels (13) therein. Teeth (12) of the wheel guide the tape (1) to sequentially align the apertures carrying said articles with a predetermined rotational position wherein the piston rod (16) can move along the linear path through a channel (13) to act thereby on the decorative article to transfer and place it on a substrate (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Jakob Schlaepfer & Co. AG
    Inventor: Akira Kurihara
  • Patent number: 4826553
    Abstract: A method for transferring a dielectric mirror prepared on an optical flat replication substrate to a utilization device having a nonflat surface. In order to separate the replication substrate from the mirror after the mirror has been cemented to the device at room temperature and the cement allowed to cure over an extended time period, the composite assembly is inserted into a fixture which provides a buckling force to the center of the replication substrate to cause the replication substrate to be peeled from the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: David Armitage, John I. Thackara
  • Patent number: 4812191
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a high density electrical interconnection member by forming a composite interconnection from metallic conductors on cured liquid polymer resin on substrate. The resin is cured at an elevated temperature to form a solid dielectric layer. Successive metallic and dielectric layers form an interconnection subassembly with the coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate being less than the subassembly. The temperature of the subassembly is lowered placing it in tension. A support member is adhered to the exposed surface of the subassembly and the substrate removed. Multiple subassemblies can be joined together physically and electricaly to form a complex device for interconnecting a plurality of integrated circuit chips for high performance computer applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Chung W. Ho, B. Y. Min
  • Patent number: 4775439
    Abstract: A low temperature method of forming a circuit pattern on a plastic substrate which comprises applying a slurry of a vaporizable solvent, metal particles and a small quantity of binder in the shape of the circuit pattern desired to a removable layer, vaporizing the solvent, covering the powdered metal and binder with an adhesive to hold the powdered metal and carrier in place on the removable layer, laminating the hydrocarbon containing substrate with pressure and heat to cause compacting of said powder and bonding of said compacted powder to said substrate by adhesive layer, said heat being insufficient to destroy said adhesive, substrate and removable layer, and separation of the removable layer. A circuit pattern held on a removable layer by an adhesive overlying same is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Richard E. Seeger, Jr., Noredin H. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4766027
    Abstract: The method is directed to a method of forming a hermetic flux-sintered ceramic multilayer structure with internal copper conductor comprising:(a) forming at least one green ceramic layer comprised of a thermoplastic organic binder having dispersed therein a finely divided ceramic powder and a low melting flux;(b) forming on the surface of a first green ceramic layer a pattern of copper-based conductor paste comprised of fine copper powder, a non-cellulosic binder, and a solvent for the non-cellulosic binder which is a nonsolvent for the thermoplastic organic binder in the green ceramic layer;(c) laminating a second green ceramic layer on the surface of the first ceramic layer to sandwich the pattern therebetween;(d) heating the composite structure in an ambient gas comprising a dry buffered gas mixture whereby maintaining an oxygen partial pressure sufficient to remove the organics but not to oxidize the copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Ian Burn
  • Patent number: 4759816
    Abstract: A strippable film for adhesive coating and laminating comprising:a base paper, andan extrusion coated thermoplastic resin layer, wherein said film has the property that upon coating an adhesive onto said resin layer and assembling the adhesive coated strippable film with a base member, said base paper can be stripped from said resin layer and said resin layer can be subsequently stripped from said adhesive coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Schoeller Technical Papers, Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus B. Kasper, David R. Williams
  • Patent number: 4753702
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for sticking ornamental pieces onto a web of material in which the web and a sticking head are positioned relative to each other so that each ornamental piece can be placed on the web by the sticking head at a predetermined position. The sticking head has a cutting edge for cutting each article before it is pressed against the web. An ornamental piece cut from a tape of material by the cutting edge and attached to the lower side of the sticking head is positioned and stuck onto the web so as to achieve a desired pattern on the web. The web and the sticking head are positioned relative to each other at each position to which an ornamental piece should be stuck in order to achieve the desired pattern on the web. Each ornamental piece may be cut out from a tape of material having a hot-melt layer, which is heated by an element opposite the sticking head when the piece is stuck onto the surface of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Jacob Schlaepfer & Co., AG
    Inventor: Akira Kurihara
  • Patent number: 4753414
    Abstract: An improved procedure for manufacture of optical replication products comprising the use of a thin amorphous coating of carbon as a protective coating which also facilitates release during replication, between master and replication members. Particular attention is given to controlling the compressive forces of the carbon layer to provide good mechanical coatings on suitable optical surfaces. Thereafter, the replicated members may themselves be coated with the carbon as a protective coating only or for further use as a release-promoting "submasters".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Balzers Optical Corporation
    Inventor: James A. McCandless
  • Patent number: 4741791
    Abstract: A flocked transfer material for attachment to a fabric or other material comprises a release sheet. As the transfer material is cut into a preselected pattern, the release sheet holds unconnected portions of the pattern in the correct relative positions such that the entire pattern may be directly applied to a surface with precise registration in a single-step process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Bemis Associates Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur F. Howard, Philip K. So
  • Patent number: 4724026
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for selectively transferring metallic foil and xerographic images on a receiving substrate such as paper. The method generally comprises providing a transfer sheet (including a metallic film) and a receiving substrate (including xerographic images disposed thereon.) The receiving substrate is placed in face-to-face contact with the transfer sheet to form a sandwich with the xerographic images on the inside. the sandwich is then fed through an apparatus, where heat and pressure are applied, causing the xerographic images to tackify and causing the metal film from the transfer sheet to selectively adhere to the xerographic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Omnicrom Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Marshall A. Nelson
  • Patent number: 4721638
    Abstract: A sticking material for preventing resticking having an adhesive layer, a second layer laminated on one main surface of the adhesive layer, a peeling agent layer laminated on the second layer and a first layer laminated on the peeling agent layer. The following equation,a<bis satisfied, wherein the force required to separate the first layer from the second layer at the peeling agent layer is denoted as a, and the adhesive force of the adhesive layer with the surface of the second layer is represented by b. Since the second and first layers are adhered temporarily via the peeling agent layer, the first layer once separated from the second layer, cannot be restuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Daimatsu Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsuguchi, Noboru Matsuguchi
  • Patent number: 4697885
    Abstract: After the process of manufacturing a cell of a display device, a thick film conductor is bonded onto the terminal portion of a transparent electrode of the display panel by a dry or wet transfer mounting method and a flexible printed circuit board for a driver is soldered on the thick film conductor, such a display device; a process for producing the display device; and a decal for dry or wet transfer mounting method to form a display panel terminal are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd., Noritake Co., Limited
    Inventors: Toshio Minowa, Tetsuro Hashimoto, Kohji Kuroda, Kazutaka Nakayama
  • Patent number: 4676857
    Abstract: A microwave heating material and method of forming thereof is presented. In accordance with the present invention, a pre-selected metallized pattern is disposed on at least a portion of a dielectric material using a transfer process, preferably a hot stamping transfer process in conjunction with very thin metal, preferably aluminum roll leaf. The roll leaf can be easily hot-stamped in any variety of patterns such as dots, spirals, circles or any other desired pattern onto disposable or reuseable trays, flexible wraps, rigid substrates or any other suitable dielectric material. Such a transfer process is relatively inexpensive both in terms of labor and other costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Scharr Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome M. Scharr, Barry Skolnick
  • Patent number: 4655867
    Abstract: Non-slip strips are affixed to the shoulder members of garment hangers by supporting a row of resilient, adhesive-backed, non-slip strips removably adhered to a backing with a holder and by engagably drawing a guided garment hanger shoulder member along one such strip. The strip is thereby simultaneously removed from the backing and affixed to the garment hanger to assist in the retention of garments hanging thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Inventor: Abraham H. Berkovits
  • Patent number: 4653175
    Abstract: An applique of a prepatterned film of alpha particle resistant material, such as polyimide, is applied to a semiconductor wafer. The prepatterned film covers only the critical areas e.g. those affected by alpha particle impingement. Bond pads and scribe streets are not covered by the applique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Brueggeman, James W. Clark, William S. Phy
  • Patent number: 4631223
    Abstract: An embossing foil includes a layer which can be written upon, together with a magnetic layer for data storage purposes. Between the magnetic layer and the writing layer, the foil has a layer with a barrier effect to prevent the writing layer from being attacked by solvent contained in the magnetic layer. The foil may further comprise between the magnetic and writing layers, a structure producing an optical diffraction effect such as a hologram, with the writing surface and said structure being so arranged that nonetheless said structure can still be read, including by machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Messrs. Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Helfried Sander
  • Patent number: 4631222
    Abstract: A hot embossing foil includes, besides a magnetic layer, a layer which has a structure producing a diffraction effect such as a hologram. The foil may also be provided with a signing layer which in the operational condition of the foil is at the exposed surface thereof to which writing can thus be applied, while nonetheless permitting detection of the diffraction-effect structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Messrs. Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Helfried Sander
  • Patent number: 4629647
    Abstract: An embossing foil includes a signing layer which can be written upon, in conjunction with a layer having a structure giving an optical diffraction effect such as a hologram. The signing layer may be clear in the region over the diffraction structure or alternatively the signing layer, over the diffraction structure, may be of a patterned or grid configuration defining openings through which the structure therebeneath can be viewed. The foil may also include a magnetic layer for the storage of variable data which can be readily accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Helfried Sander
  • Patent number: 4605461
    Abstract: A method of transferring a retroreflective pattern onto a fabric, wherein a retroreflective pattern transfer sheet comprising a base film, a temporary holding adhesive, a mass of transparent fine glass spheres partially embedded into the temporary holding adhesive, and a reflective film layer which covers the exposed surface of the transparent fine glass spheres and the exposed surface of the temporary holding adhesive present in the gaps between individual adjacent transparent fine glass spheres, is superposed on the surface of a fabric coated with a compression bonding adhesive in a predetermined pattern, with the reflective film layer side put in contact with the fabric surface, the portion of the transfer sheet which is opposed to the compression bonding adhesive into bond with the fabric, an outer portion of the sheet is subsequently stripped off, whereby only the portion thereof which is in bond with the fabric through the compression bonding adhesive is allowed to remain on the fabric to form the retro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Ide Idustries Limited
    Inventor: Hisao Ogi
  • Patent number: 4555436
    Abstract: An improved release formulation for use in a heat transferable laminate wherein an ink design image is transferred from a carrier support to an article by application of heat to the carrier support. On transfer the release splits from the carrier and forms a protective coating over the transfered design. The improved release is coated onto the carrier as a solvent based-wax release. The release coating is then dried to evaporate the solvent contained therein. The improved release has the property that its constituents remain in solution down to temperatures approaching ambient temperature. Upon transfer, the release forms a protective coat which may be subjected to hot water. The improved release contains a montan wax, a rosin ester or hydrocarbon resin, a solvent, and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having a low vinyl acetate content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: Dennison Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Friedrich H. H. Geurtsen, John M. Anemaet, Donald R. Smith, Mary G. Boyd
  • Patent number: 4548857
    Abstract: A heat transferable laminate wherein an ink design image is transferred from a carrier support to a receiving article, typically a plastic bottle or container, by application of heat to the carrier. The heat transferable laminate is composed of a carrier support, release coating, an ink design layer, and improved adhesive coating thereon.The improved adhesive coating is prepared from a mix containing an adhesive component and a film-forming component blended in a miscible solvent. The solvent evaporates upon drying the coating. The adhesive component contains a blend of vinylacetate/ethylene copolymer and a styrene-based resin. The adhesive coating is equally suitable as an adhesive on heat transferable laminates for transfer to a wide variety of plastic articles including polyolefins, polystyrene, and polyvinylchloride. The improved adhesive coating obviates a long standing prior art need to pretreat polyolefin receiving articles as by preflaming prior to applying the heat transferable laminate thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Dennison Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: Richard J. Galante
  • Patent number: 4520062
    Abstract: Highly abrasion-resistant transfer coatings are provided on a wide variety of substrates, thermoplastic or thermosetting, by transfer coating from a mold surface or a flexible web, such as by use of a heat transfer tape, an ultra-thin coating consisting essentially of a non-resinous binder material such as microcrystalline cellulose together with mineral abrasive particles, preferably alumina or a mixture of silica and alumina which have been heated together at a temperature of at least 140.degree. F., the ultra-thin coating also preferably containing a silane and a small quantity of a sticking agent such as a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Nevamar Corporation
    Inventors: Israel S. Ungar, Herbert I. Scher, Nelson L. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 4517235
    Abstract: Highly abrasion-resistant transfer coatings are provided on a wide variety of substrates, thermoplastic or thermosetting, by transfer coating from a mold surface or a flexible web, such as by use of a heat transfer tape, an ultra-thin coating consisting essentially of a non-resinous binder material such as microcrystalline cellulose together with mineral abrasive particles, preferably alumina or a mixture of silica and alumina which have been heated together at a temperature of at least 140.degree. F., the ultra-thin coating also preferably containing a silane and a small quantity of a sticking agent such as a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Nevamar Corporation
    Inventors: Israel S. Ungar, Herbert I. Scher, Nelson L. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 4515849
    Abstract: A transfer printing sheet comprising a base sheet, a releasing resin layer coating the surface of the base sheet entirely or partially, a layer of a pattern printed on the release resin layer and comprising an elastic high-polymer resin and a pigment in admixture, and a layer containing an agent for dissolving synthetic fibers and covering the entire surface of the pattern layer. When the sheet is subjected to heat and pressure, the pattern of the pattern layer can be transferred onto a fabric of synthetic fiber in contact with the layer containing the dissolving agent to give a distinct print having a soft hand and outstanding color fastness against rubbing, washing and light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: Matsui Shikiso Chemical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Goro Keino, Yosuke Kitagawa, Yoshimi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4510000
    Abstract: A molybdenum or tungsten metallurgical pattern is formed on or in a dielectric green sheet. Palladium, nickel, platinum or rhodium is coated on a layer of polyvinyl butyral which is carried on a polyester film. The metal layer of this assembly is laminated to a dielectric green sheet which carries the molybdenum or tungsten metallurgy. The polyester film is stripped off. The resulting assembly is sintered to a fired structure, whereby the polyvinyl butyral is volatilized off and the palladium, nickel, platinum or rhodium is alloyed with the molybdenum or tungsten metallurgy to provide a densified metallurgy whose surface is free of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ananda H. Kumar, Bernard Schwartz
  • Patent number: 4473422
    Abstract: A method for producing a metalized paper or board product having a bright surface and improved scratch resistance, comprises a transfer metalization technique utilizing a tie coat applied to the metal layer and a pressure-sensitive, adhesive coat applied to the tie coat, the adhesive coat binding the metalized composite to the paper or board base. The adhesive coat is applied to the paper or board base in the dry state and in combination with the adjacent tie coat, forms a hard, stable bond with the base that favorably withstands subsequent deformation of the paper or board product. A top coat utilizing a particular solvent mixture, offers consistent wettability of adhesive release coats, and provides a smooth, continuous outer surface for the final product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Transfer Print Foils, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry A. Parker, Joseph Greenman
  • Patent number: 4419436
    Abstract: A kit for preparing a mountable plate having an image thereon, such as a nameplate, includes light sensitive film and a colored adhesive mounting element. The film includes a polymeric base, a clear polymeric protective overlay, and a light sensitive layer between the base and the overlay. The mounting element includes a clear adhesive layer for attaching to the film and a colored layer that provides color to the assembled nameplate. The mounting element can also include pressure-sensitive adhesive so that the nameplate can be attached to a surface.There is also described a method for preparing a nameplate using this kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Inventor: Leonard S. Kranser
  • Patent number: 4415942
    Abstract: The substrate 1 for magnetic disks takes the form of a laminate made up of a plurality of individual thin, fiber-reinforced, anisotropic and unidirectional lamellae. These lamellae are arranged staggered on top of each other at few angular spacings, i.e., at great angles of up to 60.degree., and are finally pressed together. The outer layers and lamellae, respectively, may be reinforced by stronger fibers or other material, such as carbon fibers outside and glass fibers inside, to influence the flexural modulus and the shearing modulus independently of each other. This makes for a substrate which consists of anisotropic material, whose characteristics are essentially isotropic, which is lighter than previously used substrates, and which has a higher critical number of revolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Frosch, Holger Hinkel, Georg Kraus
  • Patent number: 4415623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the decoration of sheet materials and has particular reference to the application of decorative stones either alone or in combination with embroidery patterns to sheet materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Jacob Schlaepfer & Co. AG
    Inventor: Robert J. Schlaepfer
  • Patent number: 4410203
    Abstract: Multi-purpose labelling making use of composite label structures which can be applied manually or by machine. The composite label structure includes at least an outer label that is temporarily held on an intermediate carrier by a suitable adhesive. The intermediate carrier is in turn releasably adhered to a base carrier.In use of the composite structure, the outer label and intermediate carrier are separated from the base carrier and applied to an item of inventory. The composite of the label and intermediate carrier are then used when the item is subsequently processed, for example, by removing the outer label from the intermediate carrier and transferring it for inventory control or other processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: Dennison Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: George A. Lothrop
  • Patent number: 4404055
    Abstract: An elastomeric bore seal, and a method of making and installing it. The seal is a fluid-impervious, thin-walled (0.025 inch), open-ended, cylinder-like member which is made of an expansible material that can withstand a wide range of temperatures (-65.degree. F. to +400.degree. F.) and that is to be bonded and thereby installed. The use of the seal is as a bore seal in an electrical machine not only provides an economical, reliable, leak-proof way of excluding stator cooling fluid from the rotor cavity, but also permits a significant reduction (26%) in the weight of the electrical machine and a correspondingly substantial reduction in the size of the machine itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Fred B. McCarty, Christopher M. Gibson
  • Patent number: 4401494
    Abstract: A reflective heat transfer combination and the method of making same whereby a tacky mixture of tack wax and mineral spirits defines a carrier layer applied over a paper substrate capable of absorbing the carrier layer when melted in response to heat and disposing a layer of glass beads over the carrier layer and forcing the glass beads into the carrier layer and against the paper substrate while allowing portions of the beads to be exposed above the carrier layer. A liquid binder layer of acrylic plastic is disposed around the beads and over the carrier layer while leaving portions of the beads exposed and is dried to retain the beads in position. Thereafter a liquid reflective coat of acrylic plastic is applied over the binder layer and covering the beads to provide a reflective background for reflecting light back through the beads. While the reflective coat is liquid and before being dried, a powdered adhesive is disposed over the reflective coat and thereafter the reflective coat is dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Inventors: Vincent S. Pernicano, Michael R. Wright
  • Patent number: 4392901
    Abstract: A reflective heat transfer combination and the method of making same whereby a tacky mixture of tack wax and mineral spirits defines a carrier layer applied over a paper substrate capable of absorbing the carrier layer when melted in response to heat and disposing a layer of glass beads over the carrier layer and forcing the glass beads into the carrier layer and against the paper substrate while allowing portions of the beads to be exposed above the carrier layer. A liquid binder layer of acrylic plastic is disposed around the beads and over the carrier layer while leaving portions of the beads exposed and is dried to retain the beads in position. Thereafter a liquid reflective coat of acrylic plastic is applied over the binder layer and covering the beads to provide a reflective background for reflecting light back through the beads. While the reflective coat is liquid and before being dried, a powdered adhesive is disposed over the reflective coat and thereafter the reflective coat is dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Inventors: Vincent S. Pernicano, Michael R. Wright
  • Patent number: 4391853
    Abstract: The disclosed adhesive products include a carrier sheet bearing a polymeric film and an adhesive layer, overlying the film as in dry transfers or underlying the film in products such as wire markers and other labels, or there may be adhesive layers both over and underneath the polymeric film. A constituent initially contained in the polymeric film layer migrates into an ordinarily non-tacky precursor of the adhesive layer, thereby rendering the precursor tacky. The precursor layer becomes adhesive only where it is opposite the polymeric film, being non-tacky outside the area of the film. In important applications, the common area of film and adhesive layers does not cover the whole carrier sheet. Both the adhesive precursor layer and the polymeric film may include portions extending outside the common area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Assignee: The Datak Corporation
    Inventor: David W. Pointon
  • Patent number: 4379012
    Abstract: There is provided an adhesive tape for the joining of webs, comprising a first tape provided on both its faces with adhesive, second and third cover tapes adhering to the faces of the first tape, and adhesive on the outside of the second cover tape, the adhesive on the outside of the second cover tape being stronger than the adhesive on its inside. The joinder is made by securing the outside face of the second cover tape to a carrier bar, removing the third cover tape, adhering the exposed face of the first tape to the tail end of a first web, removing the second cover tape with carrier bar attached from the first tape which continues to adhere to the web, and then adhering the freshly exposed face of the first tape to the head end of a second web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Jagenberg Werke AG
    Inventor: Willi Heymanns
  • Patent number: 4376006
    Abstract: A magnetic recording structure comprises (1) a substrate having an outer surface, and (2) a laminar magnetic recording piece disposed adjacent to at least one part of the outer surface of the substrate, the recording piece comprising a magnetic layer, a color layer and a non-magnetic metal deposition layer interposed between the magnetic layer and the color layer, the magnetic layer being closer to the substrate than the color layer.The non-magnetic metal deposition layer disposed on the magnetic layer has high hiding power and, even in the form of an extremely thin layer, can effectively hide the color of the magnetic material.Accordingly, this magnetic recording structure can be produced with a surface of a beautiful color without impairing its magnetic characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiichi Nishikawa, Makoto Honda
  • Patent number: 4367014
    Abstract: A polygonally shaped, multifaceted rotary scanner comprising a plurality of optically flat, reflective surfaces on the facets. The reflective surfaces are integrally bonded to a multifaceted, polygonal base at precise angles to the axis of rotation by a replication technique in which each optically flat reflective surface is produced on the surface of a flat master preform, and the flat master preform is then accurately located in position at the precise angle relative to the base by contact with upper and lower facets of a master multifaceted polygonal fixture. The flat reflective surface is then adhesively bonded to the corresponding facet of the polygonal base (while the polygonal base is arranged concentrically between the upper and lower facets of the fixture) by the application of a small quantity of a liquid adhesive to the surface of the facet of the polygonal base. On hardening, the adhesive bonds the reflective layer of each master preform to the appropriate facet of the polygonal base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Harry Howden
  • Patent number: 4366223
    Abstract: Image color faithfulness can be improved by permanent lamination of the individual proofing sheets. Color proofing sheets are used with transparent, colorless adhesive on the backside of the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Inventor: Gerald W. Larson