Abstract: A finishing device for setting and finishing stockings hose such as stockings and panty hose through steam treatment while they are loaded onto templates, the finishing device including a pair of templates which intermittently move, a steam setting section, a stocking take-off section, and opening-closing mechanisms for the templates.When the templates having a stocking inserted thereon face the steam setting section, the stocking is steam set with steam supply. The steam setting section is composed of a two-part kiln. The templates are folded in two after the setting, and the stocking is taken off the templates at the stocking take-off section for the transfer to the packaging process, with the template open in parallel, ready for the insertion of another stocking.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically positioning welt portions and garter lines of pantyhose materials by aligning upper and lower positions in relation to each other for carrying out a pantyhose panty part seaming process, in which when detection sensors detect materials roughly fitted to respective upper and lower template assemblies, plates for positioning garter lines cause a panty part to move backward to be inserted deeply onto the template assemblies and the garter lines of the upper and lower materials are positioned by aligning with each other through detection sensors for positioning garter lines, and successively, a plate for positioning welt portions causes the panty part to move backward, stretching the panty part to a prescribed length so that the welt portions of the upper and lower materials are aligned with each other, thus fully fitting the upper and lower materials to the template assemblies and, at the same time completing the positioning of the welt portions and garter lines by aligning upper a

Abstract: A wire saw has a wire wound a number of turns around a plurality of multigrooved rollers to form rows of the wire between the rollers which cut a workpiece. By reversibly rotating the multigrooved rollers, the wire is moved gradually from a wire feeding side to wire recovery side of the saw while undergoing a reciprocating motion between the multigrooved rollers. In addition, the multigrooved rollers are rotated around a fixed axis to swing the wire in a manner that provides contact with the workpiece which is quite close to point contact. Thus, a concentrated load is applied to the workpiece fully utilizing the permissible tension on the wire, and thus accelerating the cutting speed and raising the cutting accuracy.

Abstract: A method for applying a protective tape on a wafer and cutting it out to the shape of the wafer in the process of manufacture of integrated circuits and the like, and an apparatus for use in carrying out the method. The method enables the protective tape to be applied on the wafer without allowing intersurface inclusion of air bubbles and to be accurately cut along the perimeter of the wafer. Any dimensional change with respect to the wafer can be properly coped with.The protective tape, as drawn out from a winder shaft, is applied by means of an application roller on the wafer which is supported and fixed in position on a transfer table.The tape is cut along an orientation flat of the wafer by a subcutter which is in movement integrally with the application roller. A main cutter positioned above the wafer is then lowered and caused to swivel, whereby the protective tape is cut along a circumferential edge of the wafer so that the tape on the wafer is cut out to the contour of the wafer.

Abstract: A method for making methylolated hydantoins by reacting a hydantoin, a formaldehyde such as paraformaldehyde and an alkaline catalyst at conditions of temperature and pressure sufficient to induce reaction to obtain a product in essentially 100% active form. Dry methylolated hydantoin product made by this process may be stored or shipped more economically than an aqueous solution containing a methylolated hydantoin.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process and an apparatus for automatically folding long hose, wrapping them up in dressing paper and packing them into an envelope using dressing paper capable of being folded in three on two crease lines. A sheet of the dressing paper, fed on to the start position of a conveyor unfolded, is intermittently transferred at a constant interval firmly held by a suction belt; to begin with one third on one side of the dressing paper, to form the inner-flap part, is bent up during transfer; on its arrival at next stop, a pair of hose are put on the central part of the dressing paper, to form the back cover part; the inner-flap part is laid on the hose; one of the hose ends behind the other on the conveyor is laid on the inner-flap part. A weighting plate, after having pressed them together, moves forward in order to tense the hose, and pass through under a fixed plate on which the other hose end is placed, whereby the second hose end is put on the first one.