Abstract: An apparatus for transporting a tail end in a fiber web machine from one structural section to another includes nozzles for guiding the tail end on the guide plate by means of an air flow such that the blown air is brought onto a guide plate shaped into a curve in such a way that the air flow of the blown air guides the tail end onto the curved guide plate by means of a bump functioning as an aerodynamic profile formed in the curved guide plate.

Abstract: A transport mechanism and method are provided for transporting sheets of a print medium in a printing system. The transport mechanism includes a first conveyor device having a first conveyor body configured to hold a plurality of sheets of print medium and to convey the sheets along the transport path, and a transfer system including a second conveyor device having a second conveyor body configured to hold the sheets and to convey the sheets further along the transport path. The transfer system is configured to transfer the sheets from the first conveyor body to the second conveyor body in a transfer region. The second conveyor body is adjacent the first conveyor body in the transfer region, and the transfer system includes a suction device configured to provide an under-pressure at the second conveyor body for contactless transfer of the sheets from the first conveyor body to the second conveyor body.

Abstract: A pickup arm for print media arranged to engage a roller.

Abstract: There is disclosed a printer with an arrangement for assuring that a linerless tacky adhesive-backed web is reliably fed. The printer has stripper elements which terminate at tip portions which extend into the platen roll to initially cut grooves in the platen roll, and because the tip portions extend below the outer periphery of the platen roll into these grooves, the stripper elements continue to strip the web reliably from the platen roll during subsequent printing cycles.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a continuous web printing apparatus comprising transport means including an endless belt having a sticky surface, a plurality of support rollers having said endless belt entrained therearound and a drive means for rotating said support rollers to move said endless belt, a press means for pressing a continuous web, such as a fabric or transfer sheet, against said endless belt to stick said continuous web to said endless belt, an ink jet head disposed between said support rollers in opposed relation to the surface of said continuous web stuck to said endless belt, an abutment adapted to abut against said endless belt, said abutment being opposed to said ink jet head with the continuous web and said endless belt interposed therebetween, head gap adjusting means for moving at least either of said ink jet head or said abutment in a direction in which the two are opposed to each other, and recovering means for peeling said continuous web, which has passed by said ink je

Abstract: A system for handling a waste web initially forming a label web adhesively bonded to a carrier web which together comprise a web laminate. The waste web, having its undersurface adhesively coated, results upon the formation of labels from the label web such that the carrier web supports the labels. The system includes a separating roll for causing the carrier and waste webs of the laminate to travel along separate paths. The machine has a web treating roll about which the waste web passes in adhereing contact therewith, and a doctor blade removes the waste web from the treating roll as waste material.

Abstract: In a packaging machine supplied continuously with strip material fed forward by means of pinch rolls and trimmed at a cutting station, the leading end of a new strip is overlapped with the trailing end of the depleted strip at the moment of effecting a changeover; the two strips are separated, before entering the cut, by a device comprising a pair of feelers stationed between the pinch rolls and the cutting station, and capable of movement at least between an at-rest position in which the feelers remain outside the dimensional compass of the strip material, and an operating position in which the feelers are moved substantially into alignment with the leading end of the new strip in such a way as to slip beneath and detach it from the trailing end of the depleted strip.

Abstract: A web transport apparatus that will not cause the web to break by exerting external forces in different ways on two lateral sides. The transport apparatus includes a group of pins that are studded on flat plates connected together to form a chain on either side of a web so that it is transported in multiple stages as it is retained on two lateral sides. An annular member supports the web from the inside by pins in each of the reversing sections that rotate to reverse the direction of web transport, with the piercing end of each pin facing either inward or outward. The annular member has a central shaft located at the center of the locus of rotation of the flat plates and has an outside diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the locus of rotation of the web. Preferably, the annular members rotate at the same speed as the web.

Abstract: A method and means for superimposing a secondary, higher frequency, lower amplitude oscillation of the angle of the trajectory of a glass fiber relative to a forming surface upon a primary, lower frequency, higher amplitude oscillation of the release mechanism.

Abstract: Glass fibers are projected along an oscillating trajectory onto a travelling conveyer to form a glass fiber mat. The trajectory is made to oscillate by stripping glass fibers from a pulling wheel by means of a stripping edge, such as a tight wire, which is oscillated arcuately immediately adjacent the surface of the pulling wheel. The stripping means is oscillated at a greater angular velocity where the trajectory makes a greater angle with the conveye=r in order that the impingement point of the trajectory upon the conveyer travel at a substantially uniform velocity across the conveyer so that a mat of uniform density is fabricated.

Abstract: Apparatus for peeling positive print sheets from disposable components of peel-apart diffusion transfer film unit assemblies which comprises an open bottom chassis capable of being positioned over a receptacle and supporting a rotatable drum for carrying a processed film unit assembly into operative relationship with peeling blade assemblies to remove the print and release the remaining components of the film assembly for disposal through the open bottom of the chassis. The peeling components engage only marginal portions of the print and involve a combination of a movable peeling blade to engage the leading marginal edge of the print and a pair of fixed peeling blades which engage the side margins of the print and retain the print for manual removal from the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided whereby two superposed strips (26, 28) of documents are conveyed in a direction of conveyance (30) toward a downstream workstation. The strips (26, 28) are conveyed over one another in a direction of superposition whereby leading edges of documents of one strip alternate in sequence in the direction of conveyance (30) with the leading edges of documents in the other strip. A determination and control circuit (190) is provided to determine whether the leading edges of documents in one strip are tending to creep up on the leading edges of documents in the other strip due to differing speeds of motion of the two superposed strips. If a creeping condition is determined by the circuit (190), the circuit (190) energizes braking means (400) whereby the motion of at least one of the strips is at least temporarily retarded for rectifying the creeping condition.

Abstract: A polyurethane carpet underlay having a barrier film attached to one side is prepared employing a continuous sheet of film material which serves both as the mold for the polyurethane-forming mixture and the barrier film.

Abstract: A fiber glass mat making process is described which utilizes an improved method of transferring unbonded mat from a mat forming chain to a bonding station on a continuous basis.The system involves passing the unbonded mat from a continuous conveyor surface to a roll which has on its surface a draped conveyor chain rotating around the roll but driven by the roll on which it is draped. By permitting the draped chain to hang freely below the roll and to rotate with the roll stray strands falling between the conveyor surface and the roll are returned on the draped chain to the feed end of the bonding station. Means are also provided to maintain the draped chain centered to insure that mat is delivered to the bonding station in a straight line from the conveyor surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for stripping an adherent cover sheet from a photosensitive film sandwich. A leader from a roll extends over a film having a cover sheet and is attached to an edge of the cover sheet. When the roll is driven, the leader wraps on it and strips the cover sheet from the film which had previously been fixed in a stationary position.

Abstract: An improved stripping and transfer roller assembly which is related to the device disclosed and claimed in prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,991,996 assigned the same assignee as the present invention. The present stripping and transfer roller assembly provides a hollow protective reinforcing sleeve element which surrounds and protects the compressible transfer elements and also permits compression and expansion of said elements during the transfer of a film sheet.

Abstract: A process for developing a photosensitive material, and a device therefor, are disclosed wherein an image on a photosensitive material consisting of a cover base laminated through the intermediary of a photosensitive layer to a support member is developed into a visible image by stripping the cover base from the support member. A preliminary stripping step of stripping the cover base from the support member in the leading end portion thereof is first performed. This is immediately followed by the reorientation of the leading end portion of the cover base to bring the same into registration with the support member. Therefore, a final stripping step is performed wherein the cover base is successively separated from the leading end portion thereof towards the trailing end thereof from the support member.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a size reduction apparatus such as a granulator and particularly to a novel feed assembly for such a granulator whereby thin plastic sheet material may be successfully granulated at high through-put speeds. The construction includes the use of a closed chamber mounted above the granulator chamber and having a longitudinally orientated feed slot therein, directly above which a pair of nip rolls are mounted so as to enable sheet material to be fed directly into the chamber of the granulating machine towards the rotor and in a generally radial direction thereto. The device is operated while the chamber thereof is at least partly full of partially granulated material.

Abstract: An improved system for directing a web of flexible material to a predetermined location, and more particularly, a system for directing the end or tail of a moving web into threading engagement with rolls forming a nip or the like. In this system a gas such as air is directed through a restricted opening under pressure whereupon it attaches itself to a flow attachment surface due to the "Coanda effect", so that it entrains ambient air and the moving web tail. In a preferred form of the system, after the web tail has been entrained and conveyed a predetermined distance, a substantial portion of the combined flow of the entraining gas and the entrained ambient air are diverted off toward a different direction. At the location of diversion, restraining means is provided for preventing the web tail from moving with such substantial portion of combined flow.

Abstract: A stripping and transfer roller assembly particularly constructed for use in sheet film processors and which includes a pair of cylindrical rollers positioned in closely spaced relation for driving individual sheets of film through a drier and thereafter transfer the same laterally while in substantially upright position into a receiving bin disposed in close association to said rollers, one roller being hollow and having a plurality of pairs of diametrically opposed openings formed therein in axially spaced relation, soft compressible stripping and transfer elements inserted into said hollow roller and aligned with a pair of said openings and having portions thereof normally extending through said openings and beyond the outer surface of said hollow roller, said portions being radially compressed when said sheet passes between said pair of rollers and which expand as said portions rotate out of contact with said sheet, the expansion of said elements stripping the sheet from the stripping roller, said expande

Abstract: A stripping and sheet transfer roller assembly particularly constructed for use in sheet film processors and which includes a pair of cylindrical rollers positioned in closely spaced relation for driving individual sheets of film through a dryer and thereafter transfer the same laterally while in substantially upright position into a receiving bin disposed in close association to said rollers, one roller having a plurality of spaced apart soft compressible stripping and transfer elements attached in radially extending relation to the periphery of the rollers and are radially compressed when said sheet passes between said pair of rollers and which expand as said elements rotate out of contact with said sheet, the expansion of said elements stripping the sheet from the stripping roller, said expanded elements then engaging the trailing edge of each stripped sheet to transport said edge laterally and deliver the sheets into said bin in substantially upstanding position in said bin.

Abstract: A tape cassette for compactly storing programmed tape in a random fashion having a leaf guide which is arranged to contact a rotatable program drum to insure separation of the tape from the drum as the program drum advances the programmed tape. Preferably, the cassette is provided with a tape control means which enables only one layer of tape to be fed to the tape reader mechanism and which also serves to maintain the fed tape under tension.

Abstract: A device comprising a sheet pick-off member maintained in pressing engagement with one marginal portion of a specific zone of the peripheral surface of a drum with which one marginal portion of each copy sheet is adapted to be brought into engagement, and sheet guide means for guiding the leading end portion of each copy sheet to move away from the drum after being picked off the peripheral surface of the drum by the sheet pick-off member, so that each copy sheet adhering to the peripheral surface of the drum can be stripped. The device also comprises a sheet presser member arranged parallel to the sheet pick-off member and interposed between the sheet pick-off member and the other marginal portion of the peripheral surface of the drum so as to force against the peripheral surface of the drum the marginal portion of the sheet superposed on the sheet pick-off member.