Cutting After Bonding Patents (Class 156/526)
  • Patent number: 10941564
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a control tube bearing assembly comprising in one example a main body having an outer surface, a longitudinal axis, a radial axis; and an actuator sleeve radially exterior of the main body longitudinally repositionable thereto. The actuator sleeve in use is grasped by a user and repositioned relative to the main body so as to actuate tape dispensing, mastic dispensing, creasing components, and/or tape cutting components or a taper as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Donald Ray Burns
  • Patent number: 10753107
    Abstract: An exemplary self-adhered membrane installation device includes a frame, a handle extending from the frame, a carrier for a roll of self-adhered membrane, and a plurality of rollers for feeding the self-adhered membrane through the installation device so that the self-adhered membrane can be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Tremco Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Douglas Mort, Charles Houk
  • Patent number: 10683673
    Abstract: A caulking assisting device has of a fixed frame mounted to a filler coating-supplying device, a rolling part mounted to the fixed frame, a movable frame and an elastic element. The positioning frame has a pair of first limiting recesses and a pair of second limiting recesses. The movable frame is pivoted to the fixed frame and is rotatable, and a tapered roller is pivoted at the end of the movable frame. Meanwhile, the elastic element is disposed on the movable frame, while a positioning protrusion is located at both ends respectively. As a result, the tapered roller can be moved to a use position and a non-use position by the rotation of the movable frame, thereby switching between the rolling part and the tapered roller while in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Inventor: Huang Chin-Chen
  • Patent number: 10557274
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for drywall banjo apparatus for applying joint tape. An example tool for applying joint tape to a corner drywall joint includes a base and a wheel configured to rotatably couple to the base and roll along the corner drywall joint. The wheel includes a body that defines an outer surface. The outer surface includes a first angled surface configured to press the joint tape against a first drywall defining the corner drywall joint, a second angled surface opposite the first angled surface and configured to press the joint tape against a second drywall defining the corner drywall joint, and a rounded vertex defined between the first angled surface and the second angled surface. The rounded vertex is rounded to deter the wheel from perforating the joint tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: THE ADVANCE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: John Wedekind, Duane Huber, Richard Eisfeller, II
  • Patent number: 10458129
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for drywall banjo tools for applying joint tape. An example tool for applying joint tape includes a base configured to couple to a drywall banjo that dispenses the joint tape. The example tool includes an arm including a proximal end and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The proximal end is rotatably coupled to the base to enable the arm to rotate between an extended position and a retracted position. The example tool includes a corner wheel rotatably coupled to the distal end of the arm to enable the corner wheel to apply the joint tape along a corner drywall joint when the arm is in the extended position. The example tool includes side wheels rotatably coupled to the base to enable the side wheels to apply the joint tape along a flat drywall joint when the arm is in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: THE ADVANCE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: John Wedekind, Duane Huber, Richard Eisfeller, II
  • Patent number: 10308468
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for drywall banjo tools for applying joint tape. An example drywall banjo for applying joint tape includes a banjo body. The banjo body includes a panel and side walls protruding from outer edges of the panel to define a cavity that is configured to contain joint compound mud. The side walls include a first side wall that extends between an inlet and an outlet. The example disclosed drywall banjo also includes a sloped mound configured to couple to and project away from the first side wall within the cavity. The sloped mound is configured to guide the joint compound mud within the cavity toward the joint tape travelling between the inlet and the outlet to enable the joint compound mud to uniformly collect on a side of the joint tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: The Advance Equipment Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: John Wedekind, Duane Huber, Richard Eisfeller, II
  • Patent number: 10195636
    Abstract: An automatic dispensing device for wallboard joint taping is provided, including a body for holding a supply of viscous material and having a rear end and an opposite front end, a spool assembly disposed on the body and configured for supporting a spool of tape; at least one drive roller positioned at the front end and receiving an end of the spool of tape. Certain embodiments include an adhesive application assembly connected to the drive roller and mounted in operational relationship to the front end for dispensing a measured amount of adhesive upon an upper surface of the tape upon rotation of the at least one drive roll. In such embodiments, the body may be configured for holding sufficient adhesive to cover tape advanced by at least 200 rotations of the at least one drive roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert H. Negri, Bernie St. James, Elliot St. James, Aaron St. James
  • Patent number: 9359777
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a taping tool for taping gaps, seams, and/or joints between wallboard members that includes a simplified tape advance/actuation assembly. The taping tool has an elongate body portion with first and second ends, and a connected head portion that directs dispensed tape toward a joint between wallboard members. The tape advance/actuation assembly has a control member forming part of the tool's elongate body portion and a tape engagement member housed by the tool's head portion. The tape engagement member moves in substantial unison with and in response to movement of the control member. The tape engagement member engages or disengages the tape depending at least in part on the position and/or direction of movement of the control member. The extent of the engagement between the tape engagement member and the tape may be adjusted though manipulation of a single fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: AXIA ACQUISITION CORPORATION, GRACO INC.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Jungklaus, Steven J. Wrobel, Jeromy D. Horning
  • Patent number: 8926778
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a stage mounted with an organic light emitting display panel and a supporting substrate of the organic light emitting display panel, a porous sheet attachable to and detachable from a thin film encapsulation layer of the organic light emitting display panel, and a porous sheet attaching/detaching apparatus configured to be separable from the organic light emitting display panel and to attach and detach the porous sheet to and from the thin film encapsulation layer of the organic light emitting display panel. The porous sheet attaching/detaching apparatus is configured to remove an attaching/detaching gas from between the porous sheet and the thin film encapsulation layer to attach the porous sheet to the thin film encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Namkung
  • Patent number: 8800630
    Abstract: A tape dispensing device dispenses and cuts tape to permit taping of elevated areas without a ladder or low areas without bending or kneeling. The device includes a first handle having an upper end and a lower end. A planar guard is pivotally coupled to the first handle. A retention spool is coupled to the guard wherein the retention spool is configured for holding a tape roll. A dispensing spool is coupled to the guard in spaced relationship to the retention spool. The dispensing spool is configured for abutting a back side of tape extending from the tape roll. The tape is dispensed onto a surface by rolling the dispensing spool against the surface with the tape being positioned between the dispensing spool and the surface. A cutting assembly is coupled to the guard and configured to selectively cut the tape extending from the tape roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Inventors: Sola Albanese, Roseanne Set
  • Patent number: 8735645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of applying absorbent gelling material (AGM) granules by indirect printing onto an carrier layer for use in an absorbent article, particularly diaper for babies or adults, training pants, pull-up diapers (diaper pants), sanitary napkins, panty liners or the like. These articles typically comprise the carrier layer with the AGM particles together with further layers, making up the complete article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Blessing, Hans Adolf Jackels, Siegfried Link, Volker Maier, Thomas Ludwig Woschnik, Martin Scaife
  • Patent number: 8584727
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically changing the flute size in a corrugation process without stopping or slowing the overall corrugation process utilizing a first single-faced web having a first flute size and a second single-faced web having a second flute size. The first single-faced web is conveyed along a track into a double backer forming a first corrugated material. When a flute change sequence is initiated, the single-faced web is cut using a pressurized stream of water such that the single-faced web disengages with the double backer. Generally simultaneously, the second single-faced web is introduced into the double backer using an air jet, wherein a second corrugated material is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Greif Packaging LLC
    Inventors: David W. Casey, Gregg A. Bryan, Karl U. Wuerminghausen
  • Patent number: 8528619
    Abstract: A highlighter tape pen assembly is provided for impermanently highlighting a selectable portion of a surface with removable tape. The assembly includes a pen-like dispenser having a first portion releasably attachable to a second portion, a generally hemi-cylindrical trough removably insertable within the pen-like dispenser, the trough having an in-use tape reel of highlighting tape removably rotatably disposed on a spool pin, the in-use tape reel having a leading strand extendible through a narrow guide channel disposed on a front end of the trough, said guide channel projecting through a tip section disposed on a first end of the first portion of the pen-like dispenser, with a cutting edge disposed endwise on the guide channel, whereby a section of relevant text, or other surface, may be easily and impermanently highlighted with removable tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Mario Watts
  • Patent number: 8528616
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesive tape application device for applying an adhesive tape section to an object, wherein the adhesive tape application device is designed for pulling an adhesive tape end from a supply of adhesive tape and applying said adhesive tape end to the object as an adhesive tape section by a relative motion of a movable portion and a stationary portion arranged on the object, comprising an application device, wherein the application device is designed and/or arranged for pressing the adhesive tape section against the object in an application position of the application device, wherein the application device is designed and/or arranged for performing a superimposed rotational-linear and/or swivelling-linear movement in the adhesive tape application device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Bohler GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Lessig, Christoph Böhler
  • Patent number: 8529017
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a web for wiping and receiving fluid ejected from a printhead. In one implementation, first and second supports support a portion of the web that receives fluid ejected from a printhead after the portion of the web has been supported in wiping engagement with the print head by the first support. In another implementation, a frame removably receives a cartridge which includes supports for the web, wherein one or more actuators linearly move the frame carrying the cartridge between a position opposite the web and a withdrawn position. In another implementation, a capper is pivotally supported by a frame which receives a cartridge, the capper pivoting to a capping position cantilevered from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin T. Kersey, Timothy J. Carlin
  • Patent number: 8408266
    Abstract: Head for the automatic positioning of fiber blankets, which determines a path for the fiber blanket (2) to be positioned, as far as a positioning zone (5), passing via a resin-impregnation zone (4) and via a cutting zone (3), including, in front of and behind said zones (3 and 4) individual sets of rollers (6-7) that convey the fiber blanket (2) and control the tension thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Ideko S. Coop.
    Inventors: Rafael Lizarralde Dorronsoro, Miguel Maria Zatarain Gordoa
  • Patent number: 8393376
    Abstract: A drywall trim application device that can hold a large role of drywall flex corner trim material and, as the material is being dispensed, pre-crease or form the material for use on an inside or outside corner, or any angle within the range of the trim material, apply a mastic material (drywall mud, adhesive or any other bonding medium) to the flex trim material, and cut the material at any desired length automatically. Measurements may be either input by hand or downloaded from an electronic measurement tool into this device. This invention can generally store multiple measurements such as length and angles, measure the length of flex trim material as it is dispensed from the device, crease the material, apply predetermined amount of mastic, and automatically cut the flex trim material to each length previously input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Inventor: Timothy Smythe, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8297327
    Abstract: A hand held adhesive tape dispensing machine for joining tape strips originating from two tape rolls to form one tape strip of a desired length with partially exposed adhesive on both sides, which has an offset frame structure supporting guide members to maintain tape positions; roller that tape strips join on; spools that can accommodate varying widths of tape; cutting blade for severing tape; and handle for grasping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Thelbert David Hardy
  • Patent number: 8215364
    Abstract: An improved squeegee and method of modifying a conventional squeegee. A novel hand tool for adherence assistance and cutting of tapes with threads incorporated into it. The squeegee is approximately 4 inches by 3 inches and held in one hand. While rubbing over the surface of the tape being adhered with the 4 inch elongated side causing friction heat for the glue of the tape to adhere. Turning the squeegee around to the other elongated 4 inch side where there is a cutting blade to separate the tape from the roll. The squeegee will provide a simplified and more commercially feasible method for a hand held tool for adherence and separation of tapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventor: Jeremy Lee Graham, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8182646
    Abstract: This invention provides a product comprised of a substrate with a rubber composition attached to the substrate by at least one interlayer of a polysilsesquioxane composition having phosphate cross-linkages. The at least one polysilsesquioxane layer having phosphate cross-linkages is produced from a mixture of a silane coupling agent and a phosphatizing reagent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Richard E. Dewald, Suky Singh
  • Patent number: 8156981
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a combination of a substrate (6) and a wafer (15), wherein the substrate (6) and the wafer (15) are arranged parallel to one another and bonded together with the aid of an adhesive layer (8) situated between the substrate (6) and the wafer (15), and wherein the adhesive is chosen such that its adhesive properties are neutralized or at least diminished when a predetermined temperature is exceeded. According to the invention, the adhesive layer (8) is only applied annularly between the substrate (6) and the wafer (15) in the edge region of the wafer (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventor: Erich Thallner
  • Patent number: 8079395
    Abstract: A quick change knife blade assembly, for use in conjunction with a tape roll dispensing cartridge assembly of a case sealing machine, comprises a knife blade mounted upon a knife blade mounting plate. A pin plate is fixedly connected to mounting pins passing through the knife blade, and springs are interposed between the pin plate and the mounting plate so as to normally bias the pin plate to a position at which the mounting pins prevent the removal of the knife blade from the mounting plate. When the pin plate is depressed against the biasing forces of the springs, the mounting pins are moved so as to permit the knife blade to be removed from the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Bryce J. Fox, William J. Menta
  • Patent number: 7958923
    Abstract: A drywall trim application device that can hold a large role of drywall flex corner trim material and, as the material is being dispensed, pre-crease or form the material for use on an inside or outside corner, or any angle within the range of the trim material, apply a mastic material (drywall mud, adhesive or any other bonding medium) to the flex trim material, and cut the material at any desired length automatically. Measurements may be either input by hand or down loaded from an electronic measurement tool into this device. This invention can generally store multiple measurements such as length and angles, measure the length of flex trim material as it is dispensed from the device, crease the material, apply predetermined amount of mastic, and automatically cut the flex trim material to each length previously input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Inventor: Timothy Smythe, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7896050
    Abstract: An outer edge of a protective tape projected from a semiconductor wafer is fixed and held by a tape holding section. In the condition, a part of the projected protective tape is caught and supported with a tape supporting section with a face having lower adhesive property provided in the outside of the traveling groove for the cutter. Furthermore, the part of the protective tape having the outer edge fixed and held with the tape holding section is compulsorily deformed and inserted into a depression provided between the tape holding section and the tape supporting section. Thereby, the part of the protective tape located in a traveling groove for the cutter is tensioned outward. A cutter blade is stuck into this tensioned part, and cuts the protective tape all over the peripheries of the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Yasuji Kaneshima
  • Patent number: 7861756
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing disposable undergarments having areas of defined elastic material is disclosed. The method provides for staggered cutting knives for severing the elastic material, which results in less necessary material used in the construction of the undergarments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Jenquin, John A. McCabe, Thomas R. Coose
  • Patent number: 7838722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of applying absorbent gelling material (AGM) granules by indirect printing onto an carrier layer for use in an absorbent article, particularly diaper for babies or adults, training pants, pull-up diapers (diaper pants), sanitary napkins, panty liners or the like. These articles typically comprise the carrier layer with the AGM particles together with further layers, making up the complete article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Blessing, Hans Adolf Jackels, Siegfried Link, Volker Maier, Thomas Ludwig Woschnik, Martin Scaife
  • Patent number: 7833367
    Abstract: A strip-shaped supporting adhesive tape is joined to a ring frame, and then is stuck with a cutter blade such that the cutter blade penetrates the adhesive tape. In a state where a cutting edge of the cutter blade is brought into contact with a tape joined side of the ring frame, thereafter, the adhesive tape is cut along a contour of the ring frame while electric current is fed to each of the cutter blade and the ring frame. Herein, a sensor monitors a conduction status in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Masaru Irie
  • Patent number: 7823617
    Abstract: A drywall tape or trim dispensing tool of the type similar to those sold under the name BAZOOKA with an elongated handle and a tape or trim dispensing head. The head can contain a blade coupled to a power mechanism such as a spring, hydraulic or electric energy source where the blade can be placed into a cocked position by a cocking mechanism and then triggered by a pull on a remote trigger located on the handle. After the device is cocked, the user can dispense tape or trim to a desired length and then cut it exactly by a simple trigger pull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventors: Timothy Smythe, Douglas Wambaugh
  • Publication number: 20100071852
    Abstract: A taper tool for applying tape to a wall surface is provided. The taper tool may simultaneously advance tape and apply mastic to the advancing tape. The taper tool may include a jam clearing assembly for clearing tape jams occurring along the tape path. The taper tool may include a body for holding mastic and a taper head coupled to an end of the body. The taper head includes a housing defining an opening and a mastic ejection nozzle, both of which are in fluid communication with the body. The opening facilitates introduction of mastic into the body and the nozzle facilitates ejection of the mastic from the body onto the tape. The taper head also includes a valve positioned within the opening to control introduction of mastic into the body, and a cover plate removeably connected to the housing to cover both the opening and the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Matt Jungklaus, David J. Castagnetta, JR.
  • Patent number: 7621309
    Abstract: A drywall taper is provided for applying drywall compound and tape to a wallboard joint. The drywall taper has an applicator head mounted on one end of a drywall compound storage device having a movable plunger with a drywall compound flow path extending from an opposite end of the storage device to an outlet on the applicator head. A pressurized air arrangement is provided for pushing the plunger and delivering drywall compound through the drywall compound flow path. An actuating arrangement is slidably disposed upon the storage body and is engaged with a tape advancing mechanism, a tape severing device and a creaser wheel assembly for separately controlling tape advancement, tape severing and creaser wheel movement. In another version, the plunger is eliminated so that a substantially continuous flow of pressurized drywall compound is provided through an unobstructed delivery tube to the applicator head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Apla-Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Mondloch, Jeffrey L. Denkins
  • Patent number: 7540932
    Abstract: An apparatus for the production of sandwich composite elements which includes at least two feed apparatus for facings, to which an application apparatus for an adhesion promoter, an application apparatus for a core layer, a conveying apparatus and a cutting apparatus are connected one after the other. The application apparatus for the adhesion promoter includes at least one feed line for the adhesion promoter, a rotary table with at least one lateral outlet orifice and a drive for the rotary table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Thomas RĂĽb, Johannes Van De Braak
  • Patent number: 7540933
    Abstract: A method and device for applying sheet material, such as wallpaper, to a substrate. The applicator is bi-positionable, having a first position where the sheet material is spaced apart from the substrate and a second position where the sheet material contacts the substrate. Additionally or alternatively, the applicator may be provided with a control bar. In the first position, the control bar contacts a portion of the sheet material such as its free end. This minimizes the chance of the sheet material prematurely contacting the substrate. In the second position, the sheet material is disengaged from the control bar for application to the substrate. The applicator and sheet material may be provided together in a kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Bernard Dugas, Keith Hobart Gausmann, Mark John Steinhardt, Timothy Charles Rothwell
  • Patent number: 7537036
    Abstract: An adhesive tape cutter provided with a double-portion forming means that folds a longitudinal side edge of a predetermined width of adhesive tape in the direction that its adhesive face is facing to form a double portion as a non-adhesive portion by pulling out the adhesive tape through between adhesive face-side members disposed on the side faced by the adhesive face and non-adhesive face-side members disposed on the side faced by a non-adhesive face thereof with both the members contacting and pressing against the adhesive tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Inventors: Hidejiro Namekawa, Mitsuaki Imazeki
  • Publication number: 20080236760
    Abstract: A dispenser for a flexible drywall joint tape and an adhesive mastic for securing such tape to adjacent edges of abutting wall boards comprises a housing within which is a chamber into which mastic from a source thereof may be introduced via an inlet. The housing has two spaced apart mastic outlets through which mastic from the chamber may be dispensed simultaneously. A tape passageway extends through the chamber for guiding a tape from a source thereof through a discharge opening which is positioned between the two mastic outlets. A squeegee is coupled to the housing for smoothing and spreading dispensed mastic. The arrangement is such that the tape and two layers of mastic may be dispensed simultaneously with the tape occupying a position between the mastic layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: Mark Gwizdala
  • Patent number: 7350553
    Abstract: A gripping separable paper peeler includes a grip frame, a paper roll holder, two idle gears, a separable paper holder, a pushing roller, and a pressing roller. The paper roll holder has a first gear engaging a second gear of the separable paper holder via the two idle gears, and a separable paper roll is fitted on the paper roll holder, with separable paper separated from gluing paper to be wound on the separable paper holder. While the pushing roller pushes the gluing paper on an object, separating and winding of the separable paper are carried out at the same time, with the pressing roller presses and adheres the gluing paper on the object smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Inventor: Hsiu-Man Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 7334620
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive tape cutter capable of, when attaching an adhesive tape to an object, automatically forming a non-adhesive area that constitutes a tab in order to make it easier to peel off the adhesive tape. An adhesive tape cutter 1 comprises: a support member 5 located at one end of a main bracket 2 to support a wound body of adhesive tape 4 so that the wound body of adhesive tape 4 can rotate; a cutting member 6 located at the other end of the main bracket 2 to cut an adhesive tape 3 drawn from the wound body of adhesive tape 4; an overlapping-area-forming mechanism 7 located between the support member 5 and the cutting member 6 to form an overlapping area 3E along one margin of the adhesive tape 3 in its lengthwise direction; and a pressing member 8 that is located near the cutting member 6 and comes into contact with the non-adhesive surface 3B of the adhesive tape 3, thereby pressing the adhesive tape 3 to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: CPC Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Imazeki
  • Publication number: 20080000590
    Abstract: A safety cutting mechanism for tape dispenser includes a fixing seat located above a hold-down roller of the tape dispenser, a cutter mounted in the fixing seat, and a safety cover located above the cutter. Two curved spring arms are rearward and outward extended from a rear edge center of the safety cover to provide a predetermined elasticity, and a rib is provided across a lower front edge of the safety cover to normally locate in front of and thereby shield a toothed blade of the cutter when the tape dispenser is not in use. When the tape dispenser is forward tilted to tense and press a length of dispensed adhesive tape against a desired location, the rib of the safety cover is pushed upward and rearward by the tensed adhesive tape to slide away from the cutter and expose the toothed blade for cutting the adhesive tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventor: Sheng Mei Fu
  • Patent number: 7138030
    Abstract: An in-line system for fabricating a liquid crystal display-includes a sealer coating unit for coating a sealer onto a first substrate with a plurality of liquid crystal display cell regions, a liquid crystal injection unit for dropping a liquid crystal onto the first substrate coated with the sealer, and an assembly unit for assembling the first substrate with the second substrate. A sealer hardening unit hardens the sealer interposed between the first and the second substrate to thereby assemble the first and the second substrate with each other. A substrate cutting unit cuts the first and the second substrates along cutting lines through illuminating a laser beam along the cutting lines such that the first and the second substrates are severed into the liquid crystal display cell regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-Ho Choo, Sang-Jun Lee, Yong-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 7114542
    Abstract: The carpet tape dispenser has a convex forward wall, a concave rearward wall, and at least one sidewall joined to the convex forward wall and concave rearward wall to define an arcuate main body having a channel therein. At least one plate is fixed to the arcuate main body and extends forward from at least one side wall. The arcuate main body and at least one plate define a view window. An iron engaging arm is fixed to the arcuate main body and adapted to receive a heating iron. A tape mounting arm is fixed to the arcuate main body and extends upward at an angle from the iron engaging arm. A tape holder having an arcuate base and at least one vertical side skirt extending upwardly from at least one edge of the arcuate base is mounted to the tape mounting arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Inventor: Debbie Pelligra
  • Patent number: 7096916
    Abstract: A method and system for manufacturing a consolidated cellulosic article having first and second surfaces of a desired contour, a uniform density and variable caliper and basis weight are disclosed. The method and system employ a primary press having first and second similarly contoured platens to consolidate a mat of cellulosic material and a binding agent to a softboard having first level of density with first and second opposed sides of similar contour. A removal tool is then employed to remove cellulosic material from one or both of the first and second sides in a planar fashion. The resulting mat is then compressed a second time by a secondary press having first and second platens corresponding in shape to a higher density level while maintaining a substantially uniform caliper and basis weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventor: Dennis H. Vaders
  • Patent number: 7056403
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying weft yarns in a cross direction to warp yarns assembled on a beam in parallel aligned relationship and having an adhesive scrim thereon includes a supply roll of the warp yarns on such a beam which are fed downstream of the apparatus by first laying the warp yarns onto a transfer belt to reduce the tension in the yarns and controlling them for application of the weft yarns. A transfer belt and warp yarns are first folded between folding bars into a cylindrical configuration where they are formed around the perimeter of an elongated mandrel having a heated section at its upstream end and a cooling section at its downstream end. The adhesive scrim is softened as the warp yarns pass over the heated section of the mandrel and shortly thereafter, weft yarns are wrapped around the warp yarns and the supporting transfer belt within a rotating tube having a plurality of longitudinally and circumferentially spaced spools of weft yarn disposed on its outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.
    Inventors: Wendell B. Colson, Kevin M. Dann
  • Patent number: 6808586
    Abstract: A method and device for applying sheet material, such as wallpaper, to a substrate. The applicator is bi-positionable, having a first position where the sheet material is spaced apart from the substrate and a second position where the sheet material contact the substrate. Additionally or alternatively, the applicator may be provided with a control bar. In the first position, the control bar contacts a portion of the sheet material such as its free end. This minimizes the chance of the sheet material prematurely contacting the substrate. In the second position, the sheet material is disengaged from the control bar for application to the substrate. The applicator and sheet material may be provided together in a kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mark John Steinhardt
  • Publication number: 20040079486
    Abstract: An hand application tool for laying a sealant spacer strip along a glass sheet for forming insulating glass units having a handle with first and second ends; a base having freely rotatable rollers connected to the first end of the handle; and a housing connected to the first end of said handle and to the base the housing having a positioning roller, at least one guide pin and a housing roller wherein the at least one guide pin and the housing roller form a guideway for deploying the adhesive strip and the housing roller provides pressure for applying the sealant spacer strip onto the glass sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Tom Pelcarsky, Wayne Pelcarsky, Jason Ackerman
  • Patent number: 6543506
    Abstract: A modeling apparatus for producing a model by lamination of sheet material including a support platform which can be raised and lowered, a sheet feed mechanism for feeding sheet material over the platform, a superstructure mounted over the platform, a cutting mechanism for cutting the sheet material to form shaped portions, an adhesive applicator for applying adhesive to the shaped portions, and a control mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Marrill Engineering Co. Limited
    Inventor: John Clifford Phillips
  • Patent number: 6513562
    Abstract: This invention provides a unitary nozzle for use in a taping apparatus. The unitary nozzle features a cradle section adjacent a tube receiving section and a flange for sealingly receiving a mastic tube. A mastic is extruded and contained along a path extending along one side of the tape and between a front and rear end of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventor: Willis Z. Trout
  • Patent number: 6360804
    Abstract: A hand tool for applying adhesive strip material to a glass sheet in the fabrication of double glazed windows has a body with a channel extending through the lower side thereof to guide an adhesive strip therethrough and a positioning member adjacent the channel for guiding the tool along the edge of a glass sheet. An adjustable wheel applies pressure on the strip to urge it to adhere with the glass sheet and a cutting mechanism mounted on the body is selectively operable for partially cutting the strip (as when the strip has to be bent through 90° at a corner of the glass sheet) and for fully cutting the strip (as when the strip applying step has been completed). The tool includes a pusher element carried adjacent one side of the channel and selectively operable to push the strip in the channel laterally into a side extension into full registration with the cutter when it is desired to settle the strip at the end of the strip applying operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Edgetech I.G. Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Field, Raymond Pek, Gerhard Reichert, Michael Glover
  • Patent number: 6116315
    Abstract: In applying an adhesive strip to a surface border at the periphery of a glass sheet a method comprises the steps of locating the glass sheet in the generally upright position and providing a hand tool that is adapted to be manipulated manually by the operator to apply the adhesive strip around the edges of the sheet. The strip is delivered from an overhead supply in a continuous length and is applied as the operator manipulates the hand tool to pass along the periphery of the sheet. The glass sheet can be arranged to be moved vertically and/or horizontally to make the strip application process more convenient for the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Edgetech I.G. Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Field, Gerhard Reichert, Raymond Pek, Michael Glover
  • Patent number: 5922160
    Abstract: A method and machine for producing a ring of abrasive sheet elements from which to form a rotary brush, and whereby the abrasive sheet elements are formed into an orderly row of abrasive elements of a length substantially equal to the mean circumference of the ring, and are connected to one another by feeding towards the row a flexible connecting element, and by connecting the flexible connecting element integrally to each of the sheet elements prior to curving the row to form the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Bibielle S.p.A.
    Inventor: Riccardo Audisio
  • Patent number: 5792308
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying an adhesive coated tape on a core mounted on a mandrel, includes a mounting frame having mounted thereon an adhesive tape supply roller, a rewind roller, an idler roller mounted between the supply and rewind rollers such that the adhesive tape on the idler roller can be sandwiched between the idler roller and mandrel and transferred to the mandrel with the carrier layer being wound on the rewind roller, a motor for rotating the rewind roller, and a knife assembly pivotally mounted thereon adjacent the idler roller for cutting the adhesive layer extending between the supply roller and mandrel after the adhesive layer has been transferred to the mandrel; two link arms pivotally connecting the mounting frame about a pivot shaft secured to a main frame; a piston-cylinder assembly for pivotally moving the mounting frame about the link arms and relative to the mandrel such that the adhesive tape around the idler roller can be transferred to the mandrel; and a cam plate for pivotally moving
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Compensating Tension Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph L. Ryan, Edward J. Caprario
  • Patent number: 5622583
    Abstract: A filter insert and a method for producing the same in which the filter insert has an accordion-folded filter medium. In a first operating step, folded edges are impressed on the filter medium. Subsequently, by glue application devices which are provided with glue application nozzles, at least two glue beads are applied to the surface of the filter medium and the folding is carried out subsequently. At least one of the glue application devices is movable transversely to the transport direction of the filter medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Ernst, Arthur Klotz, Michael Kolmeder, Bernhard Wimmer