Secured, Attached Or Associated By Shaping Patents (Class 40/628)
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Patent number: 10054145Abstract: A system for attaching layers of material together comprised of a self-piercing rivet, a layer having a clearance hole through which the self-piercing rivet passes on assembly, and a layer free of a clearance hole and into which the self-piercing rivet is at least partially inserted. The system may include a third layer free of a clearance hole. The system may also include three layers wherein the clearance hole is formed in the middle layer. If the clearance hole is formed in the middle layer, the width of the hole may be greater than the diameter of the self-piercing rivet to avoid contact between the rivet and the middle layer. The layer having the clearance hole may be a hard material such as steel. One or more of the layers may be a material that is difficult to pierce or can be damaged if pierced.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aindrea McKelvey Campbell, Amanda Kay Freis
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Patent number: 8182893Abstract: A group of size-adjustable wristbands is disclosed. The group of wristbands includes a backing sheet that is connected to a stub area disposed at an end of the backing sheet. A plurality of elongated strips is connected to the stub area in a side-by-side fashion. Each strip includes a first end attached to an additional stub area and a second end attached to the stub area. Each strip further includes a top surface. The group of wristbands further includes a plurality of top sheets, each top sheet having a first end and a second end. The first end of each top sheet is attached to one of the strips along a top surface thereof. Each top sheet is clear and includes a bottom side coated with a top adhesive layer. Finally, the group of wristbands includes a plurality of top liners with each top liner being sandwiched between one of the top adhesive layers and one of the strips.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Chicago, Tag & Label, Inc.Inventors: F. Paul Valenti, Jr., Carl Opel, Dan Hedger
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Patent number: 6818084Abstract: The present invention includes a method for producing individual folded labels having an additional layer of material attached thereto. A ribbon of labels is provided along with an additional strip of material. Pieces of information, such as text or a machine readable-code are applied to the strip of material. The ribbon of labels and material strip with printed information thereon are joined together and then subdivided into individual folded labels. A label-making apparatus includes a mechanism for advancing the ribbon of labels and strip of material and a print head that prints the information on the strip of material at spaced intervals. A mechanism joins the ribbon of labels with the material strip. A cutting station subdivides an individual label from the ribbon of labels and material strip. A sensor in communication with the advance mechanism controls the advance of a length of the ribbon of labels and material.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2002Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Pittsfield Weaving Co., Inc.Inventor: Frederick August Blackmann
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Publication number: 20040194362Abstract: The invention provides a label structure for pistol type pneumatic tool, which is provided on the end surface of driving portion corresponding to the other end of quick coupler of pistol type pneumatic tool. In addition, expressed by text, numbers, or illustrations, the label structure can submit important information clearly and apparently. Moreover, through the advantages that the label structure can be firmly provided on the smooth end surface of driving portion and that the end surface is at the same side as the backend of grip portion, the label structure can be apparent to a user. Therefore, when the user is gripping the pistol type pneumatic tool and doing a mechanical operation, the user is able to read information showed on the label structure easily and clearly at the same time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2003Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventor: Lung-Hui Chen
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Patent number: 6723447Abstract: A universal assembly machine manufactures button medallions. The machine comprises a rotatably indexable die table to which are mounted pickup and crimp dies. A ram die is advancable and retractable in a pickup stroke and a crimp stroke by means of a handle. Indexing the die table causes a shifter post to rotate a ram outer ring into a pickup mode or a crimp mode to suit the ram pickup and crimp strokes, respectively. The universal assembly machine also manufactures buttons with flat backs. To make a button medallion, a flat back button is loaded into the pickup die. The ram die is advanced in a third press stroke to bend the shell frusto-conical wall of the flat back button inwardly to be flat and parallel to the flat back. The thin edge of the button medallion enables it to be used as an attractive embellishment on flat surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Tecre Co., Inc.Inventor: Benjamin A. Braunberger
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Patent number: 6581972Abstract: The present invention provides a tubular label with pre-printed fixed information adapted to be wrapped around a container body of a container with an inwardly facing surface of the tubular label contacting the container body and the pre-printed fixed information being visible from the outside of the container. The tubular label includes printed arbitrary information such as lottery indicia provided on the inwardly facing surface by a non-impact printer in such a manner as to be invisible through the outwardly facing surface of the tubular label. An elongated tubular member and method of manufacturing the same, as well as a labeled container are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Fuji Seal, Inc.Inventors: Michihiro Nojima, Masato Nakanishi, Toshinori Mimatsu
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Publication number: 20010028928Abstract: Label intended to go around a skein of yarns or the like, which comprises a projecting part extended by a tab which can be folded down inside a loop of the said skein so as to neatly separate of the said yarns by creating the said loop in a permanent way, and to limit any relative slip of the label with respect to the said skeinType: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2001Publication date: October 11, 2001Applicant: Dollfus & Mieg Cie - DMCInventors: Philippe Thomas Derevoge, Jean-Paul Ganaye
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Patent number: 6294237Abstract: An assembly for creating free form laminated objects, such as a throwing toys or napkin ring that can be printed or decorated by the use of printer or copier without jamming. The assembly includes a sheet of cardstock or thin printable sheet material, a sheet of transparent laminated plastic and intermediate adhesive layer that adheres the cardstock sheet and laminated sheet together. The cardstock sheet has a die cut outline configured to the desired shape of an object. The laminated sheet has a die cut outline substantially extending outside of the outline on the cardstock sheet, to allow laminated sheet to fold over and entirely cover the cardstock area within the cardstock die cut outline. The assembly has a substantially constant thickness and substantially flat upper and lower surfaces so that the assembly can pass through a printer or copier without jamming.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1997Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventor: Ghanshyam H. Popat
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Patent number: 6094781Abstract: A handle for tools such as screwdrivers where an end region is shaped as a smooth rounded surface and made by injection molding in multiple steps from at least two differently colored plastic materials, which are tactilely indistinct, to form a visible marking for identification of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1999Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Sandvik ABInventors: Conny Jansson, Hans Himbert, H.ang.kan Bergkvist
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Patent number: 5662976Abstract: An assembly for creating laminated cards for printing by a laser printer has a backing sheet. The backing sheet has a first side with a release coating, and a second side with a printable surface. The assembly also has a card which has been cut from the backing sheet. A lamination sheet adhesively adheres to the first side of the backing sheet and to the cut card. A lamination strip which has been cut from the lamination sheet has a first portion which adheres to and covers one surface of the card. The lamination strip also has an integral second portion which adheres to the backing sheet adjacent to the cut card. The lamination strip maintains the cut card in the same position relative to the backing sheet that the card had prior to being cut. The assembly has a substantially constant thickness and substantially flat upper and lower surfaces so that the assembly can pass through a complex paper path without jamming. A method for creating laminated cards from such an assembly has several steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1994Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Ghanshyam H. Popat, Thomas Mammen, David Robertson, Andre M. Saint
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Patent number: 5484996Abstract: A bar code disabling system for disabling a bar code to prevent reading of the bar code. The purpose of disabling the bar code is so that the bar code cannot be used to direct containers to the wrong locations when the bar codes are utilized for optical scanning and sorting.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1994Date of Patent: January 16, 1996Inventor: Lynn E. Wood
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Patent number: 5271787Abstract: A method of making a label-equipped sheet and product wherein the label is die-cut from base stock constituting the sheet and held in place by a pressure-sensitive adhesive-equipped release liner, the web patch constituting the release liner having a pattern of coatings thereon including a first pattern of release material so as to leave an uncoated perimeter and thereafter overcoated with pressure-sensitive adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1992Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.Inventors: Donald J. Hoffmann, Wayne E. Richter
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Patent number: 5225162Abstract: A locking device in the shape of a unitary body formed from a bio-degradable material which includes an element with at least one free end formed integral with said body. The severable element is designed to engage and secure a container lock mechanism when the container is in a closed position, whereby the free end of the element is capable of being mechanically or adhesively secured to said unitary body to form a seal, with said device being designed to fracture upon opening of the container lock mechanism thereby providing visible evidence of the lock mechanism being opened.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1990Date of Patent: July 6, 1993Assignee: SPS Medical Supply CorporationInventor: John R. Scoville
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Patent number: 5204163Abstract: A sheet for formation of a burned pattern and a burning label are disclosed. The sheet comprises a shape retaining layer comprising an organic binder and glass powder which is retained in a sheet form by the organic binder, the shape retaining layer further comprising mica powder covered with an oxide type ceramic compound.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1990Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Nakatsuka, Kazuhiro Tajiri, Takafumi Sakuramoto, Yozo Oishi
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Patent number: 5155878Abstract: Hand grips for the handles of devices such as motorcycles, tennis rackets, and guns can be custom-molded to fit exactly the contours of the user's hand. The grip has an inner layer that is thermoplastic and moldable at molding temperatures reached by heating with hot water or a hair dryer. An adherent outer, resilient, vibration-resistant layer is stable at these molding temperatures. The user heats the grip to molding temperature and then rapidly cools the outer surface to a comfortable temperature. The grip is then grasped by the hand while the inner layer is still at molding temperature. The hot inner layer conforms to the hand, becoming thinner under the fingers and thicker between fingers. The grip is cooled to ambient temperature and the inner layer retains its hand-conforming shape. The outer layer maintains its original thickness providing a fixed resilient cushioning layer over the custom formed inner layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Inventor: Edward A. Dellis
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Patent number: 4809426Abstract: A memory is built in a tool holder to which a working tool such as drill or the like is attached. Various tool information such as kind of tool, dimensions of tool, tool use time, and the like is written into the memory. The tool holder having the memory therein is coupled with an external unit by contactless coupling means which doesn't need any electrical coupling, thereby allowing the tool information to be written into or read out of the memory. The information is transmitted between the memory in the tool holder and the external unit by way of the optical or magnetical coupling. The memory built in the tool holder consists of a non-volatile memory such that the memory content is not erased even if the power supply is shut off.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1986Date of Patent: March 7, 1989Assignee: Tokyo Keiki Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kunihiko Takeuchi, Hiroshi Nogi
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Patent number: 4802295Abstract: A blow molded polyethylene terephthalate container (20) is disclosed as having a noncylindrical wall (28) to which at least one label (38) is secured with a textured surface provided by an in-mold labeling operation that prevents label shifting during the blow molding operation. The textured label surface includes isolated depressions (53) that are defined by mold projections (72) which define mold passages (74) through which a vacuum is drawn to provide the label securement. The label and wall depressions (53) of the container and the mold projections (72) that provide these depressions are preferably arranged in a repeating pattern of rows that are inclined in a crossing relationship preferably at 45 degrees with respect to the vertical direction of the container. Each depression (53) preferably has a square shape formed by the square shape of the associated mold projection such that the vacuum passages (74) have a generally straight shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1987Date of Patent: February 7, 1989Assignee: Plastipak Packaging, Inc.Inventor: Richard C. Darr
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Patent number: 4720907Abstract: A system for marking and identifying objects, particularly work implements such as tools and work piece holders required in manufacturing processes, which has modules (4) with electronically readable markings, which modules (4) are to be arranged on the objects (1) to be marked, as well as an evaluating device having at least one pick-up capable of reading the markings. Each module contains at least one oscillating circuit (5, 6, 7) to produce a characteristic resonant frequency or resonant frequency combination. The number of different resonant frequencies or resonant frequency combinations provided corresponds to the number of different elements in the selected characterizing code, and the resonant frequency or resonant frequency combination of each module (4) is selected according to one of these frequencies or frequency combinations.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1986Date of Patent: January 26, 1988Assignee: Euchner & Co.Inventor: Werner Rapp
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Patent number: 4694596Abstract: A merchandise information tag for mounting face-to-face against a surface of a perforated board has projections for fitting in respective holes of the perforated board to retain the tag on the board. The projections are slit longitudinally into fingers which are squeezed together in the respective holes so that the projections are held in the holes by friction.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1985Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Inventor: Jacob Fast