Abstract: A control circuit for alternately actuating a pair of loads includes a voltage doubling circuit having a capacitor common to a pair of charge storage devices and switch means which are alternately actuated to discharge the charge storage devices through a pair of loads. Coupled to the circuit is a holding current power supply for maintaining the loads in an actuated position once the charge storage devices are discharged. The circuit thus provides an initially high current pulse for rapidly actuating inductive loads such as solenoids.

Abstract: The separation of label tape formed of oriented thermoplastic polymer fibers into individual labels having wash-durable ends, by progressively melting the fibers, in a transverse zone of the tape, beginning at one face of the tape, while also progressively forcing the molten polymer, in a direction diagonally away from this zone and toward the opposite face of the tape, into the interstices between the unmolten fibers and with a portion of the polymer forced along said opposite face, using a heated beveled blade, having a blunt leading edge and chilling the molten polymer at said opposite face with a cold platen opposite the blade, to form a polymer anchor at said opposite face, and anchor the fibers in the polymer which serves as a matrix.