Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate with at least one section having a surface decoration and a coating between the surface and the decoration. The coating can be peeled from the surface, and is prepared from an aqueous anionic polyurethane-polyurea dispersion which are free from co-solvents.

Abstract: Applied to a substrate such as paper banknotes is a thread which includes a PET carrier layer with release layers on both surfaces of the carrier layer, and a metallic layer outward of one release layer. An adhesive layer lies outward of the metallic layer. When a substrate is brought into contact with the adhesive layer, the result is to bond the metallic layer to the substrate. Following this, the PET carrier layer is peeled away, leaving the metallic layer bonded to the substrate. An apparatus for accomplishing these steps includes means for bringing the substrate into contact with the adhesive layer, and means for peeling the PET carrier layer away so that it separates from the metallic layer at the adjacent release layer.

Abstract: A computer mouse interaction device that comprises a mouse interaction portion and a support surface interaction portion. The device further comprises a storage section formed based on coupling the mouse interaction portion and the support surface interaction portion to the device, the storage section being accessible from a side of the computer mouse interaction device and visible substantially only from the side. The device further comprises separate storage areas within the storage section.

Abstract: The problems of applying ink jet inks to various known coating surfaces so as to overcome smearing, poor resolution and attack by water etc., is overcome by the use of the new ink jet receptive media. The media comprises in combination: (1) a waterproof ink jet receptive coating, (2) a primer coating, (3) a non-porous substrate, (4) a pressure sensitive adhesive coating, (5) a silicone coating and (6) a backer layer. The receptive coating comprises the combination of: (1) binder, (2) charge control agent, (3) cross-linking agent, (4) adhesion enhancing agent and (5) dispersant. The absorption of the ink jet ink to the substrate is maximized, thus attracting and fixing the ink and providing a waterproofing effect.

Abstract: A sheet or strip of discreet magnets disposed on a common backing and a method of manufacturing a plurality of discreet magnets detachably adhered to a common backing is provided. The method includes the passing of a magnetic substrate that is detachably adhered to a common backing in front of a die. The die is equipped with an internal ejector so that when the die is moved towards the substrate and the cutting edge of the die cuts the substrate, an internal ejector engages the cut portion of the substrate that forms a cut magnet. As the die is withdrawn from the substrate, the ejector maintains a pressing engagement against the cut magnet to prevent the cut magnet from being pulled off of the backing. A similar apparatus may be provided for a stripper disposed outside of the die to prevent waste substrate from being pulled off of the backing as the die is removed. Both the stripper and internal ejector are pulled off of the magnetic material after the die has been successfully removed.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is disclosed a method of opening a package including a content wrapped with a wrapper. The method comprises the step of directing a laser beam to the wrapper for cutting the wrapper with the laser beam to open the package. The method further comprises the step of protecting the content from being damaged by the laser beam.

Abstract: The invention relates to a security device having at least one plastic layer and one specularly reflecting metal layer. An inorganic auxiliary layer is disposed between the plastic layer and the metal layer.

Abstract: Tags having a metallic heft and processes for making them are described in which a first resin-based thermal mass transfer printer image is applied to a metallized polymer film, with or without an intervening translucent print receptive layer, and then a second resin-based thermal mass transfer printer image is applied to at least a portion of the first resin-based thernal mass transfer printer image. The first resin-based thermal mass transfer printer image has an opaque first color and the second resin-based thermal mass transfer printer image has an opaque second color, the opaque second color preferably selected to contrast with the first opaque color. These tags are useful as replacements for anodized aluminum asset tags, which are more difficult and expensive to produce and do not lend themselves to printing computer-generated indica such as a series of different bar codes. The disclosed and described tags can be cost-effectively manufactured in small quantities and yet have such variable indica.

Abstract: A release liner which includes a metal layer with a release agent attached to a side of the metal layer. The release agent is exposed to releasably receive an article. The metal layer has a thickness sufficient to prevent a laser from penetrating through the metal layer as the article, attached to liner, is laser cut.

Abstract: Solvent-free and water-free radiation-curable primers based on hydroxy-functional prepolymers and cycloaliphatic epoxides or based on hydroxy-functional prepolymers and olefinically unsaturated compounds or based on epoxides and vinyl ethers together with cationic or free-radical initiators may be applied in the same manner as conventional commercial solvent-free laminating adhesives and, for many coatings, allow subsequent in-line coating without there being any need to evaporate solvent or water from the primer coating.

Abstract: A disposal cartridge for use in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet and a roller. An area of the sheet is at least equal to an area of the entire circumferential surface of the roller. The sheet is detachably bonded to an entire circumferential surface of the roller. The roller attracts toner and is detachably and rotatably mounted on the disposal cartridge.

Abstract: A self-adhesive strap to hold wires or other components permanently using a self-adhesive backed, flexible high strength carrier member as the main component of wire strap or harness. The strap has adhesive on the opposite side of the carrier member to facilitate bonding to a substrate, such as a wall. The strap replaces mechanically retained wire clips as straps. To apply the self-adhesive wire strap, first the back liner is removed and the adhesive is attached to the substrate; then the larger piece of liner is removed using the extended tab and the wire is placed against adhesive; and finally the strap is folded against itself and pushed together, adhesive to adhesive.

Abstract: An imitation wax seal suitable for application to a document, package or container is injection-molded out of a semi-rigid plastic, then coated in the back with an adhesive temporarily protected by a peelable film. The fabrication mold accepts a variety of substitutable center escutcheon that can carry a variety of letters, symbols, and logo types. The seal is flexible enough to pass through post office automatic sorting and canceling equipment without breaking or coming loose. The seal is impregnated with a bee-wax scent or other pleasant fragrance.

Abstract: A continuous process and apparatus are disclosed for applying an adhesive coating to one surface and a release coating to an opposite surface of sheets of previously embossed and optionally decoratively printed paper, and for drying the sheets and then stacking them for processing into individual pads of embossed, self-stick, removable sheets of notepaper. Individual sheets of embossed paper are fed onto a conveyor system, and the feed and conveyor speeds are regulated so that the sheets are in slightly overlapping relationship to form an artificial web as the sheets pass continuously through release coating and adhesive coating subassemblies which continuously apply release and adhesive coatings to opposite sides of the web. Conveyor speeds downstream of the coating subassemblies are regulated to separate the web into its individual coated and embossed sheets as they pass through a dryer.

Abstract: A label sheet having at least two labels for a compact disc. The compact disc has a read side and a reverse side with an outer diameter of the readable or writable area of the read side being less than the outer diameter of the disc and having a first inner diameter forming an aperture for the disc and a second inner diameter which is larger than the first forming a step. The labels have a dimension so that an inner diameter of the label forming an aperture or opening in the label is greater than the second internal diameter of the disc, preferably by an amount of 2 mm to 4 mm, and the label has an outer diameter which is less than the outer diameter of the readable or writable area, so that an annular ring of the readable area is visible around the periphery of the label.

Abstract: Packaging or lidding material containing at least two layers of material, and between the two layers hidden information in the form of a printed image viz., information that is visible only after peeling the first layer from the second layer. The packaging material serves the manufacture of film-type packaging or parts thereof, or as lidding material for containers. The packaging or lidding material of a packaging unit contains the following sequence of layers: a) a first layer of material, b) a printed pattern or image, the limits of which lie within the dimensions of the package in question or the lid of the packaging unit, c) a dividing layer, the dimensions of which are the same or greater than the printed image b) and smaller than the dimensions of the packaging or lid of the package, d) an adhesive layer covering the whole of the surface, e) a second layer of material, where the printed image b) can be made visible by lifting the first layer of material a) from the second layer of material e).

Abstract: An ultraviolet curing pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet prepared by forming an ultraviolet curing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on at least one surface of a substrate film and adhering a separator to the surface of the ultraviolet curing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the separator has an ultraviolet transmittance at a wavelength of 300 to 400 nm of 65% or lower. The separator is obtained by forming a layer containing an ultraviolet absorber on the surface of the substrate film opposite the surface adhering to the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer or incorporating an ultraviolet absorber in the film. The ultraviolet curing pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is useful as a semiconductor-protective pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet and a semiconductor wafer-fixing sheet, which can be used without causing a curing reaction with the exposure of a slight amount of ultraviolet rays from a surrounding environment at the standby for adhering wafers.

Abstract: An adhesive tape is disclosed that is useful in the manufacture of ceramic articles, and particularly ceramic electronic components such as capacitors. The tape can be used to adhere a green ceramic article to a rigid surface for handling during the manufacturing operation. The adhesive can be deactivated after the green ceramic article has been laminated and diced to release the laminated and diced ceramic articles. The adhesive tape comprises a substrate; a light-reflective metallic layer on the substrate; a first adhesive layer of a heat stable adhesive composition on one surface of the substrate, and a second adhesive layer on the opposite surface of the substrate. The second adhesive layer comprises a heat stable, radiation curable adhesive composition which loses its adhesive characteristics upon exposure to radiation.