Patents Examined by Charles E. Van Horn
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Patent number: 4049487Abstract: Method of and apparatus for producing honeycomb paneling comprising the steps of supplying two continuous webs of felted fibrous material, continuously impregnating each web with a liquid resin, continuously applying the webs to the two major faces of a rigid pre-formed honeycomb core having cells extending through its thickness, applying depthwise pressure to the laminated assembly to cause the cell edges to be embedded in the thickness of each web to produce substantial fillets between the webs and cells, and curing the webs in situ to form rigid bonded panel facings of fiber reinforced plastic, and means to carry out the above method steps.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1975Date of Patent: September 20, 1977Inventor: Bernard P. Kunz
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Patent number: 4048002Abstract: A tire building apparatus having main frame means, and rotatable tire building drum means supported by the main frame means. A pair of tire bead placing and end ply bag turn-up ring means are supported on the main frame means and are movable axially inwardly and outwardly longitudinally of the drum means. Positive stop means are carried by the main frame means and are engageable by the ring means for locating the latter in precise predetermined inward bead set positions.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1973Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: National-Standard CompanyInventor: Edwin F. Mallory
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Patent number: 4048359Abstract: A method of manufacturing polychromatic artificial yarns incorporating liquid crystals is provided.According to this method, a transparent film sheet of plastic or other suitable material having a row of a plurality of longitudinally extending grooves on its outer surface is prepared and then coatings of micro-encapsulated liquid crystals, and particles of an ultra-violet light adsorbent are applied onto the grooves. After these processes, the entire outer surface of the film sheet is coated with a thin layer of carbon black and is then covered adhesively with another transparent film sheet of the same material. The entire material is finally cut out, across the second and first mentioned film sheets, longitudinally along the grooves to produce linear strips to be spun into yarns.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1976Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: Japan Jewel Company LimitedInventors: Ichiro Shibanai, Shoji Tanabe
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Patent number: 4047999Abstract: A memory device and method is disclosed wherein positions of ions associated with a film are varied locally with respect to the film's surface by an electric field. A writing and erasing field is created by voltage modulating the film's conducting substrate in synchronization with low intensity electron bombardment of a local area of the film's surface by a scanning electron beam.The ion's position in the film varies the film's surface potential and alters the angular distribution imparted by its surface to primary diffracted and secondary emitted electrons. In the invention's read mode a scanning electron beam, combined with a detector discriminator, analyzes these emitted electrons to determine the surface potential at each address on the film thus reading out data stored in the film. A second means of reading out stored information utilizing detection of low energy electrons selectively diffracted by ions near the film's surface is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1975Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Inventor: Francis John Salgo
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Patent number: 4048003Abstract: An apparatus for the periodic transverse welding and severing of longitudinally advanced superposed wrapper sheets has two oppositely rotating, cooperating welding shoes, at least one of which is provided with a heater and at least one of which is displaced towards its rotary axis by virtue of the engagement between the welding shoes during each revolution thereof. One welding shoe has a tapered terminal head which includes leading and trailing flanks as well as a cutting edge. The other welding shoe has a counterface cooperating with the cutting edge and two elastic, rod-like members arranged adjacent and parallel to the counterface. As the welding shoes simultaneously engage the superposed wrapper sheets from opposite sides, the leading flank of the tapered head, cooperating with one of the elastic rod-like members pinches the wrapper sheets and provides a first transverse weld seam.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1975Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: SIG Schweizerische Industrie-GesellschaftInventor: Hans-Ulrich Bolli
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Patent number: 4047997Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for manufacturing a multi-layer flattened cylindrical film of thermoplastic resin stretched its layers crosswisely, the outer one being stretched lengthwise, the inner one transversely, more particularly, relates to a method and apparatus for manufacturing a multi-layered cylindrical film of thermoplastic resin stretched its layers crosswise, the outer one being stretched lengthwise having a larger diameter than the inner one which is stretched transversely being expanded by means of an inner mandrel so as to be stuck to the outer layer through an intermediate layer having a low melting point.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1976Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Inventor: Michio Sudo
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Patent number: 4048006Abstract: A composition and process for selectively removing nickel-iron alloys from a metal substrate which comprises contacting said metal surface with an aqueous bath containing:A. at least one nitro substituted organic compound containing at least one solubilizing group;B. at least one organic amine or polyamine or substituted amine or polyamine; andC. at least one aliphatic carboxylic acid or salt thereof, or a compound which will yield said carboxylic acid or salt thereof in solution, further characterized in that said aliphatic carboxylic acid or salt thereof additionally contains at least one substituent group selected from -NH.sub.2 or quaternary amine salts thereof, -OH, or -SH.By nickel-iron alloy deposit is meant a deposit containing from about 5 to 90 percent by weight iron with that portion which is not iron being primarily nickel or nickel and cobalt. Although small amounts of impurities such as copper, zinc, cadmium, lead, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1975Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: M&T Chemicals Inc.Inventors: Edward Paul Harbulak, Ronald J. Lash
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Patent number: 4048005Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing a heat resistant metallic laminated sheet which is composed of mutually insulated outer metallic sheets or foils and an inner binder layer sandwiched therebetween.In this process, the binder layer is a film of a heat resistant heterocyclic polymer from which volatile matter is substantially removed. The sandwiched structure composed of the outer metallic sheets and the binder film put therebetween is bonded at a temperature range above the heat distortion temperature of the binder film to form the metallic laminated sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1975Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: Nitto Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Nakagome, Toshiharu Suzuki
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Patent number: 4046935Abstract: Rigid-when-wet, but foldable, corrugated paperboard and process of making same by applying phenolic resin to contiguous surfaces of the outer liner, the medium, and the inner liner without substantially altering the hygroscopicity of the exposed faces of the liners, and adhering the three components together before the resin is cured.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1975Date of Patent: September 6, 1977Assignee: Altor Box Board CompanyInventors: Robert M. Wilkinson, James R. Lyon
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Patent number: 4046947Abstract: A strip of rubber base bonding material for use in cold bonding a prevulcanized tread strip to a tire contains both a low-temperature vulcanizing agent and accelerators. The bonding material is compounded by a special technique which stabilizes the vulcanizing agent and the accelerator thereby avoiding prevulcanization during storage. In use the bonding material is interposed between the tread strip and the tire, and the assembly is heated to less than about 300.degree. F under pressure to effect vulcanizing of the bonding material.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1975Date of Patent: September 6, 1977Assignee: Bandag IncorporationInventor: Edwin T. Brodie
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Patent number: 4046615Abstract: Apparatus for laminating film strips to a transport web, the laminating apparatus adaptable to handle film strips of different sizes having different perforation formats. The laminating apparatus comprises a module for positioning a film strip of a particular film size with respect to the transport web. The film strip and the transport web are then advanced through a laminating station where they are laminated together with a tape. The laminating apparatus is designed to interchangeably receive the positioning module. Thus, film strips of different film sizes may be laminated using the disclosed laminating apparatus by interchanging the positioning module to suit the particular film size to be laminated.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1975Date of Patent: September 6, 1977Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: John R. Jansen
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Patent number: 4047232Abstract: A leader tape for a magnetic recording tape having a coating layer consisting of a binder and a white pigment. A surface resistivity of the coating layer is less than 10.sup.12 ohms/sq. and a transmissivity of the leader tape is more than 20 percent.This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 244,421, filed Apr. 17, 1972, now abandoned.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1975Date of Patent: September 6, 1977Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Hisagen, Kazuo Hoshi
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Patent number: 4046613Abstract: A movable conveyor belt having first and second belt surfaces and an opening extending between the belt surfaces, a mechanism for depositing a label on the first belt surface at a first station, and a pressure source for blowing air under pressure through the opening to transfer the label from the belt at a second station to at least one object.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1976Date of Patent: September 6, 1977Assignee: Label-Aire Inc.Inventors: Leo Kucheck, Michael Crankshaw
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Patent number: 4044454Abstract: In the fabrication of integrated circuits, a method is provided for forming dielectrically isolated regions in a silicon substrate comprising initially introducing conductivity-determining impurities into the substrate to form at least one region of one-type conductivity at the surface of said substrate. Then, a mask comprising a composite of a bottom layer of silicon dioxide and a top layer of silicon nitride is formed over at least a portion of the surface of said introduced regions. The substrate is then subsequently thermally oxidized to an extent sufficient to form regions of recessed silicon dioxide abutting and thus laterally defining said region of one-type conductivity. In this manner, it is ensured that the recessed silicon dioxide will abut introduced region irrespective of the extent of the "bird's beak" normally associated with thermal oxidation utilizing silicon dioxide-silicon nitride masking.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1975Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: IBM CorporationInventor: Ingrid E. Magdo
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Patent number: 4045277Abstract: A building drum for building first-stage, steel-reinforced, radial monoply, pneumatic tire carcasses, is disclosed. The drum comprises a circumferential array of drum-forming segments which are supported for radial displacement to and from contracted and expanded dispositions, and apparatus for displacing the segments radially between the contracted and expanded dispositions. Each of the segments has the same axial extent and terminates at each end in a respective flange projecting radially inwardly. Each of the flanges has a respective recess exposed radially outwardly, corresponding ones of the recesses which are at the same segment end defining co-operatively with one another at each such segment end a radially outwardly exposed annular bead-seat. The segments, when in a fully contracted disposition, present a substantially cylindrical outer carcass-ply support-surface having a diameter which is less than the inner diameter of any annular metallic bead-core to be thereby operated upon.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1976Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: Uniroyal, Inc.Inventors: William C. Habert, Jasjit S. Jawanda
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Patent number: 4045274Abstract: The method of surface treatment of wooden panels which comprises drawing off carrier strips or sheets impregnated with hardenable synthetic resin from supply rollers, and laying the strips onto the top and bottom surfaces of the panel. The sheets are attached to the panel along the edges thereof by heat-bonding, using a heated tool which presses the strip to the corner formed by the intersection of the surface of the wooden panel with the perpendicular side edges thereof. The wooden panel, with carrier sheets attached thereto along its edges, is then placed in a heated press, where the sheets are pressed and heat-bonded to the surfaces of the panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1976Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: Becker & Van Hullen, Niederrheinische Maschinen FabrikInventors: Wolfgang Lange, Werner Schafer
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Patent number: 4043857Abstract: An improved heat fused pipe assembly joint is provided using an internally positioned fitting having an annular insert portion substantially the same diameter as the internal diameter of the pipe section to be joined and a shoulder portion having a larger diameter. The pipe section is joined to the fitting by heating the pipe end sufficiently to soften it, heating the insert portion of the fitting so as to soften its exterior wall, inserting the fitting so that the end edge of the pipe section substantially abuts the shoulder portion of the fitting and crimping to cause fusion of the pipe to the fitting. For additional strength, the fused pipe joint assembly may be provided with an externally positioned sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1975Date of Patent: August 23, 1977Assignee: Allied Chemical CorporationInventors: Michael F. Byrne, Douglas V. N. Powelson
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Patent number: 4043854Abstract: Method for splicing optical fiber cables which applies to those cables having an axial core and fibers disposed around the core, parallel to the cable axis or having a slight slant with respect thereto. At the places where splicing will have to be made, when the cable is laid down, the jacket of the cable is removed the fibers are glued on the core and two half-shells are disposed round the glued fibers and encase them. The half-shells are bonded to the core and fibers by gluing under pressure. When the glue has set, the half-shells together with the fibers and cable core are sawn perpendicularly to the cable axis which gives two half-shell segments. These segments have registering bores and splicing is achieved by inserting calibrated columns or pins into these bores.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1976Date of Patent: August 23, 1977Inventors: Georges E. Le Noane, Andre M. Mathern, Gabrielle Morizur
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Patent number: 4042436Abstract: Sheaths for covering battery electrodes are produced by introducing inner and outer layers of sheath material onto a plurality of adjacent mandrels. As the layers pass along connector sections of the mandrels, they are connected together to form interconnected tubes. The connector sections have an elongate cross-sectional configuration to facilitate such connection. Thereafter, the layers pass along reshaping sections of the mandrels which have a cross-sectional configuration that is different from that of the connector sections and which corresponds to the desired final shape of the tubes.BACKGROUND AND OBJECTSThe present invention concerns the manufacture of a type of sheath for tube electrodes used with electrical accumulators or batteries; it comprises two layers. One of the two layers, the actual or inner sheath wall, comprises a layer of fibrous material, preferably glass fiber. The sheaths comprise another layer outside the fibrous material.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1976Date of Patent: August 16, 1977Assignee: Aktiebolaget TudorInventors: Erik Sundberg, Erik Westberg
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Patent number: 4042451Abstract: A composition and process for selectively removing nickel and nickel alloys with iron and/or cobalt from a surface of a metal substrate which comprises contacting said metal surface with an aqueous bath containing:A. at least one nitro substituted organic compound:B. at least one organic amine or polyamine or substituted amine or polyamine; andC. at least one phosphorus oxo acid or organic phosphorus oxo acid or salts thereof or alkyl phosphonate substituted amines.By nickel-iron alloy deposit is meant a deposit containing from about 5 to 90 percent by weight iron with that portion which is not iron being primarily nickel or nickel and cobalt. Although small amounts of impurities such as copper, zinc, cadmium, lead, etc. may also be present, the major constituents of the alloy are nickel and iron.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1975Date of Patent: August 16, 1977Assignee: M&T Chemicals Inc.Inventors: Ronald J. Lash, Edward P. Harbulak