Abstract: Apparatus and method for making disposable thermometers of a laminated construction containing an array of liquid-crystal droplets, requiring precise registration of the stretchable substrate layer, the droplets and the temperature markings, wherein the substrate film web from which the thermometers are formed is provided with wide margins for handling in the forming machine to provide strength and avoid stretching and heat deformation. The substrate film web is precisely directed through the machine by suitable guide members and is held at the marking, filling, and heat-seal processing stations by suitable vacuum chucks, the chuck at the heat-sealing station being particularly adapted for cooling the web to avoid unwanted heating of the crystal droplets. A cam-operated transporter is used for precisely indexing the movement of the film.

Abstract: Device for measuring temperature differentials on mammalian skin surfaces comprising separate dots of liquid crystals, sealed in a grid pattern between thin, performed, flexible films.

Abstract: Thermometric compositions for recording changes in temperature comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal system together with a chemically inert substance which is miscible with the crystal system. By varying the amount of the second component in the composition, the clearing point of the composition, that is the temperature at which there is a phase change to the isotropic phase, can be varied in a predictable manner.