Abstract: A hand-held wallpaper applicator for supporting and applying sheet material to a wall or other surface comprises a hand held support member having a hand grip portion and a flat generally rectangular base portion with an elongate separable roller assembly rotatably and removably carried by the support member. The roller assembly is adapted to receive and releasably secure one end of a strip of wallcovering material thereon and to receive the remaining strip material thereon in a rolled condition. A laterally adjustable elongate tubular pressure contact member is removably carried at the forward end of the support member parallel with the roller assembly for contacting and applying pressure to the wallcovering material as it is scrolled off the roller assembly. A tensioning mechanism on the support member applies resilient pressure to the material rolled on the roller assembly and maintains the remaining material in the rolled condition as the material is being scrolled off the roller assembly.

Abstract: A device for mounting flexible spacers (2) to a glass pane (3) during the course of manufacturing insulating glass comprises a tool (20) for attaching the spacer (2), this tool being movable relatively to the glass pane (3). The tool (20) is guided to be displaceable upwards and downwards by way of a slide (21) and is rotatable about an axis oriented essentially perpendicularly to the glass pane (3) and is reciprocatable in the direction of this axis. The spacer (2) is guided, through a shaft (23) of hollow design pertaining to the tool (20), to an attaching head (22) of the tool. The tool (20) and the supply station (70) are accommodated in a temperature-controlled housing (71).

Abstract: Disclosed is a combined tape dispenser and hand-held tape applicator formed of a minimum of molded components designed for interlocking assembly without fasteners. The housing includes a handgrip lockable either in an extended position when employed to apply tape to a surface or in a retracted position when not in use or when used to dispense tape from a desk top support. The tape is mounted on a tape carrier normally biased to an extended tape-applicating position and manually retractable to expose a normally guarded cutting blade for severing the tape. While the carrier is moving between retracted and extended positions, a tape catcher clutches the tape reawardly from its free end and holds it captive with the free end thereof extending outwardly beyond the dispensing port in visible readiness for precise visible attachment to a surface to be taped.

Abstract: A stand for supporting a roll paper sheet and a roll of tape having an adhesive coating on one face thereof. The stand includes four upright leg members. Opposed roll supports are carried by opposed ones of the leg members. A tape support is carried by another of the leg members. Tape from the roll of tape on the tape support passes over an edge portion of the roll paper sheet to attach a portion of the tape to the edge portion of the roll paper sheet with the adhesive coating of another portion of the tape being exposed.

Abstract: A laminating apparatus for multi-laminating different kinds of prepreg material sheets including roll stocker means provided with a plurality of rolls of different kinds of prepreg material tape on a common axis, lay-up table means movable with respect to said rolls in parallel with the common axis, cutting means for cutting said prepreg material tape into sheets disposed between said roll stocker means and said lay-up table means, pulling out means provided on said lay-up table means to be movable in the longitudinal direction thereof for pulling said prepreg material tape out from said rolls, and compaction head means provided on said lay-up table means for compacting said prepreg material sheet to be movable along the longitudinal direction of said lay-up table means. According to the present invention, it is possible to continuously laminate different kinds of prepreg material sheets in desired order and an automatic laminating operation can be easily accomplished.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming discrete length strip members each composed of a plurality of laterally interconnected items, and collating those strip members into a plurality of pads of items. A supply source of elongate material is supported by support means and fed along a feed path past longitudinal and transverse cutting means which, respectively, progressively longitudinally cut the elongate material into a plurality of material strips, and intermittently transversely cut the material strips into the strip members. Strip member feed means intermittently feeds the strip members onto a work surface with successive feedings being superimposed on preceding feedings. Following each feeding, a carriage moves over the work surface carrying a supply source of self-adhesive tape which is fed from the supply source and laid in a relaxed condition along, but laterally overlapping from, an edge portion of each strip member.

Abstract: A baseboard edge taping tool for applying tape to a baseboard edge and cutting the tape upon tilting the tool so that the cut can be placed in a corner and the tool can be used to continue applying tape to another baseboard edge without rethreading the tape. The taping tool has a base with a flat bottom surface for resting on the baseboard edge against which the masking tape is to be applied. A body portion is rotatably mounted to the base so that it can be rotated between a lowered position and a raised position. A spool is mounted to the body portion for holding a roll of masking tape which is fed over a roller at the front end of the body and across the bottom surface of the base. A second roller is mounted to the body adjacent the first roller to hold the tape against the first roller. A cutting mechanism is attached to the base and extends horizontally forward to cut the tape when the body is rotated. The rotation of the body lifts the first roller up and away from a corner.

Abstract: The foil welding device for welding thermoplastic foil bags in its upright position enables the hanging of the bags onto the suction nozzle whereat the bag can be filled with food and thereafter air can be sucked therefrom and it can be welded, while in lying position the device is provided for welding bags from which air need not be sucked.

Abstract: An apparatus for semiautomatically sticking an adhesive film on a silicon wafer and on a ring used as a carrier. After the ring and the silicon wafer have been manually positioned on tables, an adhesive film is automatically stuck on the ring and the silicon wafer. The excess portion of the film is then cut by hand along the ring and transversely. The apparatus greatly facilitates these works.

Abstract: A method of hanging wallpaper wherein a wallpaper hanging tool is constructed to include a guide plate assembly having a pair of paper clamps on one side, and having an elongated edge as a guide edge over which paper is drawn and then clamped. The handle is centrally attached to the guide plate assembly, and paper held by the clamps is positioned at the ceiling edge of a wall, then cut at the ceiling edge and smoothed downward.

Abstract: This insulation applicator applies electrical insulation to a thin conductive strap that is attached to and extends transversely of wire being wound into a coil. The applicator comprises two applicator segments between which is a feed passage through which two strips of insulation are fed. The segments are moved transversely of the wire from a first position at one side of the wire to a second position at the other side, thus introducing the strap into the feed passage. Holding means releasably holds the strips respectively to the segments while the strips extend through the feed passage, thus carrying the strips with the segments and holding apart the forward ends of the strips during the above-described transverse movement of the segments. Means on the segments acts when the insulating strips have been so moved to force the strips together about the strap and effect bonding between the strips.

Abstract: A tool, particularly adapted for use with a computer controlled robot includes an adhesive application device for depositing a quantity of liquid adhesive to a work piece, a transport roller for engaging the elongated material with the deposited adhesive on the work piece and about which the elongated material may be fed, and a separation means for severing a predetermined applied length of the elongated material from the supply of such material. The position of a pinch roller relative to the elongated material and transport roller is remotely controlled to provide holding of the elongated material during adhesive application, tacking, and cutting, and feeding of the material between tacking and cutting.

Abstract: An improvement for a system employing a heated iron V-shaped soleplate adapter to lay hot-melt tape in a "V" joint between building wall panels includes coacting subsystems for progressively changing the cross-sectional shape of tape fed in at the front end of the system from flat to "V" shaped and for releasibly retaining tape for preventing it from springing out of alignment at the rear end of the system; a special-shape head at the front end is resiliently mounted and a provision at the rear end keeps the tape retaining member out of the way when not in use.

Abstract: An apparatus for working on limp sheet material has a support surface with a high coefficient of static friction relative to the limp sheet material. A sheet of low friction material is attached at one end to a carriage supported to move longitudinally of the support surface and is spread on the support surface by advancing the carriage. The limp sheet material is spread on the support material and shifted relative to the support material to align the sheet material in predetermined position relative to the apparatus. The carriage is retracted and the support material simultaneously withdrawn from between the limp sheet material and the support surface by winding the support material onto a pay-off/take-up roll. A brush and a roller carried by the carriage smooth wrinkles from the limp sheet material and press the material into engagement with the support surface as the carriage retracts.

Abstract: An automatic ply applying apparatus and method for forming an elastic annular body, such as a vehicle tire, by transporting each ply to a former, retaining a portion of the ply adjacent to the leading end of the former, applying the leading end portion of the ply to the peripheral surface of the former and applying the remaining portion of the ply to the peripheral surface of the former during rotation of the former.

Abstract: A tape dispenser for securing a desired length of pressure sensitive tape onto a surface and severing the length from a tape roll held within the dispenser. The dispenser includes an applicator element having a tape support bar at the lower end thereof, a tape gripping member pivotally mounted on the lower end of the applicator forwardly of the tape support bar, a tape cutting edge disposed in the lower portion of the device and a spring member for raising the actuator after the desired length of tape has been paid out from the dispenser and urging the tape support bar against the tape gripping member to grip the tape therebetween and pull the tape over the cutting edge as the applicator moves upwardly within the dispenser severing the length of tape secured to the surface from the tape roll.

Abstract: A screen printer has a flat bed coplanar with a loading and an unloading surface on opposite sides thereof, the bed being divided into a stationary middle section and two movable outer sections confronting one another along boundary lines paralleling the direction of movement of copy sheets from the loading surface to the unloading surface. Such movement is effected with the aid of a conveyor comprising two chains underneath the bed entraining sheet-gripping jaws through the gaps formed between these sections when they are transversely separated. The jaws are almost flush with the plane of the bed and the loading and unloading surfaces; upon closure of the bed sections, they are received in cutouts of the outer sections and are thus immobilized while a printing screen descends into contact with a copy sheet overlying the bed.

Abstract: A bonding apparatus for applying a thermoplastic-adhesive coated core material to a moving substrate as disclosed. Heat exchanger guide means directs a continuous length of hot melt strand to an output orifice at a bonding station. The hot melt adhesive is softened by the unique heat exchanger means to its flow point, just before the strand leaves the output orifice. A rapidly replaceable bonding shoe presses the hot melt strand onto a substrate moving past the bonding station, as soon as the heated strand leaves the output orifice, thus bonding the strand to the moving substrate. Biasing means selectively provides presettable compression or tension forces to the bonding shoe, as required by the particular bonding application. Optional cooling apparatus positioned immediately downstream from the bonding station, further compresses the hot melt strand on the substrate and cools the adhesive to bonding consistency.

Abstract: A device for applying paper to a wall is disclosed which has a clamp member, a carriage and an actuator. The clamp member is formed of two elongate members for holding the paper therebetween and the carriage is formed of two pairs of wire members which hold a supply of the paper. One end of each pair of wire members is connected to one of the clamp members. The actuator is in the form of a hinge having two parts and includes a handle. The other end of each pair of wire members is connected to each part of the hinge so that the handle may be used to actuate the hinge to swing one pair of wire members relative to the other to open the clamp members and allow paper to be drawn therebetween.

Abstract: Disclosed are three embodiments of a hand-held apparatus for printing and applying pressure sensitive labels. All the embodiments are disclosed as having a housing, a rigid, metal, frame plate mounted by the housing, a platen and a cooperating print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels from the web of supporting material on which the labels are carried, an applicator for applying the printed labels, a feed wheel having teeth for engaging and advancing the web, a manually operable actuator drivingly connected to the feed wheel and the print head, a brake, and an ink roll for inking the print head. The apparatus also includes a feed wheel assembly having a feed wheel driven by a pawl and ratchet mechanism. The pawl and ratchet mechanism is adjustably connected to the feed wheel and a rolling contact type one-way clutch prevents loss of tension in the web between the brake and the feed wheel.

Abstract: A hand held tape applicator operable with one hand for holding and applying pressure sensitive adhesive tape to a receiving surface from a roll of tape and for severing the roll of tape from the tape applied. In operation, the tape is pressed against the receiving surface by a tape-applying roller until a desired length of tape is unrolled and applied to the surface. After the desired length of tape has been applied to the receiving surface, a thumb actuated slide button actuates a serrated cutting edge so as to cut the tape. If desired, the tape applicator can be operated in the conventional manner of stripping off a length of tape to be applied to a receiving surface by the use of both hands holding both ends of the tape strip as obtained from the roll.

Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping tape around the end of a stator coil. The apparatus advances tape from a spool to a position near the coil end, where it is clamped by clamping members and cut, and a section of the tape adjacent the leading end is pressed against one side of the coil end. The trailing end of the tape is then pushed around the opposite side of the coil end where it is received by the clamping members. The trailing end is moved by the clamping members toward the leading end to draw the trailing end tightly around the coil and press it to the leading end.

Abstract: A support framework is mounted on the purlins in a partially completed roof structure and is moved along the length of the purlins. A plurality of reels of sheet material are carried by the framework and the sheet material is progressively unrolled from the reels and applied to the purlins as the support framework moves. Loose insulation is blown onto the sheet material and hard sheet roofing material is applied over the sheet material and loose insulation to the purlins as the support framework progresses across the structure.

Abstract: A paperhanging hand tool and method of hanging wallpaper in which a tool comprising an elongated handle and a crosspiece carry a draped over roll of wallpaper cut to wall height with its adhesively coated surfaces facing outwardly, a first length of the roll hanging down from the crosspiece on one side of the tool to face the lower portion of the wall surface to which it is to be applied, the remaining second length of the roll hanging down on the opposite side of the tool with its adhesively coated surface facing the workman who carries the tool by grasping at the lower end of the elongated handle. A clamp is provided near such lower end, having a clamp lever biased toward the clamped shut position and positioned for manipulation of the clamp lever by the thumb of the workman's hand which grasps the tool at its lower end.

Abstract: A device for applying lengths of a heat sealable film over the open ends of cups. The device includes means which engage the end of a supply length of the film which is coiled in a cartridge, pull a predetermined length of the film from the cartridge, move the cup and predetermined length of film into engagement, heat fuse the film to the lip of the cup, and cut the fused length of film from the supply length at the cartridge.

Abstract: A device used in the application of a length of tape to a substrate comprising a pair of opposed brushes mounted along the edges of a path for the tape. The bristles of the brushes engage and position an end portion of the supply length of tape.

Abstract: A wallpapering method and dispenser therefor which is adapted to be set on the floor and when so positioned, wallpaper is pulled upwards from the dispenser and pressed against a wall. The dispenser includes an anti-skid resilient base mat, a rotatable mounting gripping the ends of a roll of wallpaper and a paste application roller running in a reservoir for paste. The wallpaper is fed from its mounting over the paste application roller and then past a brush positioned in the dispenser for smoothing the applied paste and removing any excess thereof.