Abstract: A probe cover incorporating an inner sheath with a probe end engagement section. The section comprises a reduced width of the inner sheath adjacent the end opposite that into which the temperature probe is inserted. The reduced width section is produced by bonding of the layers of the sheath together with a graduated bond strength so that with a combination of bond separation and material stretch good contact and retention of the probe end is insured. A tapered welding head in association with a resilient platen is utilized to obtain the graduated weld section. When the temperature probe is removed after use the inner sheath is turned inside-out so that the contamination of the inner sheath is contained inside the inverted sheath and cannot contact the users hands.

Abstract: The present invention relates to decal applying and more specifically to an apparatus for and a method of stripping the backing paper of a water-soaked water-release slide-off decal from the transfer film of the decal and applying such transfer film to a surface of a dish-like article to be decorated.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for securing the tail or outer terminal convolution of a toilet tissue cant or similar roll product to the convolution immediately subjacent the tail. The tail of the roll product is secured by means of adhesive, and the method includes the step of ejecting a predetermined quantity of adhesive directly onto the subjacent convolution of the roll product while the tail is unwound therefrom. The adhesive is distributed along the length of the cant at spaced apart locations adapted to underlie the rewound tail, thereby allowing the tail to be adhesively secured to the cant. The apparatus includes adhesive applicator structure comprising a plurality of modules each of which is releasably secured to the apparatus so that it can be removed therefrom and replaced as an integer; and each adhesive applicator module includes a plurality of dispensing nozzles operative to eject a measured quantity of adhesive onto a cant underlying the same.

Abstract: A label applicator has a rotating head assembly for carrying labels from a hopper for application to articles to be labelled. The labels are held on the head assembly by suction. To load labels from the hopper, the hopper is reciprocated towards a spring loaded suction head of the head assembly, depressing the head thereby connecting suction to it, and then away again. A latch locks the head in a depressed state so that a label is withdrawn from the hopper. The head assembly is driven stepwise to stop temporarily for loading a label on each head. The latch is released allowing the loaded head to spring forward when it has rotated to a desired orientation on the head assembly. The released head presses the label onto the article to be labelled simultaneously disconnecting the suction. For heat activated adhesive labels, a radiant heater, preferably a quartz infra-red tube, is arranged to irradiate labels when loaded on the suction heads.

Abstract: A feeder mechanism for a labelling machine to transfer gum from a gumming apparatus to labels at a label supply location, and then to convey the labels to a transfer means. The mechanism includes a feeder member which carries at least one label receiving element mounted on the feeder member by means of a pivot shaft. The feeder member is rotatably driven about an axis and bodily driven in a circular path about a central axis, the feeder member axis being eccentric to said central axis. The pivot shaft is parallel to the rotary axis of its associated feeder member, whereby the movement of the pivot shaft perpendicular to its axial direction describes a looped hypotrochoid. The orientation of each label receiving element about the axis of its pivot shaft is controlled in dependence on the orientation of the feeder member about its rotary axis.

Abstract: The variable resist laminator receives a heated panel between two identical vacuum bails and the leading edge of a web of photoresist material is placed on opposite sides of the panel simultaneously prior to feeding the panel and attached webs between a pair of application rolls. Identical cutter mechanisms shear the webs into sheets of the desired length and the length may be varied for different length panels. Vacuum means are provided for maintaining control of the trailing edges of the cut sheets until they are applied to the panel to prevent the formation of wrinkles or other defects due to premature application. Vacuum means is also provided for removing flakes or debris as the webs are sheared. A gated conveyor system feeds the panels and the conveyor system has means for controlling the operation of the vacuum bails, the cutters, and the application rolls.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an apparatus for splicing rubber coated cord fabric sections in which a continuous rubber coated parallel cord fabric strip having side edges is obliquely severed into rhomboidal cord fabric sections and the side edges are thereafter overlapped and spliced in regular succession into a continuous bias cord fabric strip.

Abstract: An extrusion billet is fabricated from layers of soft magnetic material separated by one or more metal layers. The billet is coreduced and heat treated to impart the desired magnetic properties to the soft magnetic material and also to form intermetallic insulating layers between the magnetic layers. Electric field shield sections are formed in a similar manner by placing relatively thick layers of copper between adjacent layers of metal located adjacent to the layers of soft magnetic material. The layers of soft magnetic metal can also be separated by a layer of semiconductor material; or a metal foil having a semiconductor-forming or high electrical resistivity forming material deposited thereon. In the latter case no extrusion is required. Instead, pressure and heat cause the materials to react and form either a semiconductor layer or a layer with an electrical resistivity higher than about 10.sup..sup.-4 ohm-cm between adjacent layers of soft magnetic metal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuous welding together of sheets of the type in which adhesion is derived from the melting and re-hardening of the sheet material itself rather than from an externally applied adhesive. A sheet, formed into a tube with the opposite sides overlapping, is tensioned longitudinally so as to form longitudinally extending stress lines which appear as ripples, at least at the overlapping edges such that the sheets weld at the bottom of the valleys formed by the ripples. As the tensioned sheet moves continuously between a heating element and a backing plate, both of which are stationary relative to the tube forming means, the sheets weld as the material from the sides of the valley of at least one sheet runs to the bottom of the valley, at which point the weld bead is formed, whereby the thickness of the weld bead may be more than twice the thickness of the original unheated sheet material.

Abstract: The yarn folding mechanism includes a pair of wires extended across a plurality of strands of yarn between two opposing surfaces, the wires being connected at each end to a rotationally movable member capable of moving the wires along separate, concentric, orbital paths. The orbital movement at the ends of the wires is translated into linear movement where the wires engage and fold the yarn by a cam surface that engages and guides the wires along their separate linear paths. The wires are connected at their ends to a coil spring so that the length of the wire between the members can vary, all the time maintaining a minimum tension in the wires. Each member is rotated by a reversible stepping motor that is programmed to move its wire along a predetermined orbital path.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the co-orientation lamination of at least one ethylene polymer film (A) with at least one ethylene polymer film (B). The polymer of film (A) is of higher melting point than the polymer of film (B). The preferred ethylene polymers are ethylene homopolymers and ethylene-butene-l copolymers. The laminates produced may be heat sealed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the consumption of deleterious materials used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices comprising the steps of supporting a semiconductor wafer, supplying a predetermined volume of said materials onto the surface of said wafer to form a meniscus contained body of said materials less than the normal meniscus formed by the particular material, maintaining said wafer in a static condition during the desired reaction period, sensing the completion of said reaction and spinning said wafer upon completion of said reaction to remove reaction products and terminate the reaction.Accordingly, this invention is directed at significantly reducing the initial cost of the processing fluids and the large investment and maintenance costs needed to provide the means for recovering precious materials in the fluid waste, and for the environmental disposal of corrosive waste materials resulting from the use of the fluids in integrated circuit manufacture.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving a plurality of electrical components having a body portion and coaxial leads extending in opposite directions therefrom and securing said components in lengths of heat sealed tape on their extremities.

Abstract: A drum continuously rotating on a vertical axis carries at least two pairs of label transfer members spaced circumferentially around its axis and rotatably connected to the drum on vertical axes. One of the transfer members in each pair is a pick-up member and the other a delivery member, with the pick-up members alternating with the delivery members. The pick-up members are continuously rotated on their axes in one direction while the delivery members are rotated in the opposite direction at the same speed. Each of the transfer members has a label-contact surface provided with a vertical row of air inlets, the contact surface of each pick-up member facing away from the axis of the drum when that member is in pick-up position at the label magazine, at which time suction is applied to the air inlets to withdraw a label from the magazine.

Abstract: The application discloses a means and method for manufacture and assembly of a known pivotally mounted sleeve-type photographic print display device. The display device comprises a relatively rigid planar cardboard base to which there are pivotally attached to at least one surface thereof in mutually staggered relation, a plurality of individual open-ended flattened sleeves, each having a paper insert of congruent dimensions. Attachment to the base is by an adhesive strip which forms a hinge.

Abstract: A device including means for removing a protective liner from elastic reflex-light reflective strip material, means for applying a length of the strip material to a tire casing, and means for separating the applied length from a supply length of the strip material. The means for removing the liner includes means in driving engagement with the liner, the speed of which can be varied via rotation of a helical strip to match the rate of strip application. Rotation of the helical strip is caused by movement along the strip of a carriage on which the liner is separated from the strip, which movement of the carriage is caused by the accumulation or decrease in the amount of liner between the carriage and liner drive means when the ratio of liner movement to strip movement increases or decreases.

Abstract: The sticking between an array of melt spun eccentric bicomponent filaments converged together into yarn is avoided by selecting the filaments being converged so that the thin sheath regions of the filaments do not contact one another and conducting the convergence in two steps if the number of filaments required for the yarn is too great for convergence in one step while avoiding the aforesaid contact.

Abstract: An applicator is disclosed for applying pieces of tape having a fibrous surface on one side and a heat-activatable adhesive on the other side onto a receptor. The tape may be hook and loop-fastening tape and the applicator utilizes an applicating pad having wire bristles which engage the fibrous tape surface. The wire bristles support the tape such that the same may be moved into contact with a heater and then moved to apply the tape to a surface. The pad serves to uniformly affix the tape to the surface and the bristles will penetrate the fibers and force the backing and adhesive onto the surface to which the tape is to be applied. The tape may be applied to the brush and then cut to lengths or predetermined lengths of tape may be placed onto the brush.

Abstract: A method of reducing the thickness of a wafer of fragile material, e.g. pyroelectric material, by placing the wafer, supported only at its rim, in a holder filled with a non-corrosive liquid. The holder with the exposed surface of wafer is placed in an etch bath to reduce the thickness of the wafer. The wafer is removed from the etch bath, without removing it from the holder, to measure its thickness, using its index of refraction, which is facilitated by the presence of a bubble in the non-corrosive liquid.

Abstract: To produce a pile fabric, particularly a pile carpet, a fibrous batt, in which the fibres are transversely oriented, is cut into longitudinal strips which are then turned through an angle of 90.degree. about their longitudinal axes by means of pairs of conveying wires, which run in paths from oppositely located guiding grooves of a pair of input rollers to guiding grooves located side by side in the surface of a depositing roller by means of which the fibres, which are now standing on end, are applied to an adhesive backing.