Patents Examined by D. R. Zirker
  • Patent number: 5256228
    Abstract: A heat seamable sheet material for roofing prepared from an uncured polymeric composition of matter which comprises 100 parts by weight of a polymer blend comprising from about 50 to 90 parts by weight of polyolefins having up to about 2 percent by weight crystallinity, which polyolefins are prepared from monomers having at least 2 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof and from about 10 to 50 parts by weight of a highly crystalline thermoplasticity promoter selected from the group consisting of polymeric olefins prepared from monomers consisting of at least two carbon atoms; from about 50 to 250 parts by weight of a filler selected from the group consisting of reinforcing and non-reinforcing materials and mixtures thereof per 100 parts of the polymer blend; and from about 20 to 150 parts by weight of a processing material and mixtures thereof, per 100 parts of the polymer blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Davis, Joseph K. Valaitis
  • Patent number: 5232755
    Abstract: A laminated tube container has the body comprising a sheet material comprising a substrate, a silicon oxide deposited layer, a heat buffer layer and an extruded coating layer of a thermoadhesive resin which are successively formed in a laminate. The heat buffer layer prevents cracks from being produced in the silicon oxide deposited layer by the heat coming when the extruded coating layer of a thermoadhesive resin is laminated. The heat buffer layer is preferably formed by dry lamination or non-solvent lamination which requires no heating. An anchor coat layer may optionally be provided between the heat buffer layer and the extruded coating layer of a thermoadhesive resin so that the adhesion strength between these layers can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignees: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Lion Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Komiya, Hiroyuki Uchiumi, Shintaro Ohashi, Akio Kuboniwa
  • Patent number: 5232776
    Abstract: As a means to improve the adhesiveness of a wax coated surface on a polypropylene substrate film, so that a thermal stripe seal can be suitably adhered thereto, an adhesive promoting composition comprising a neutralized olefin-unsaturated acid ionomer, and a cross-linkable formaldehyde resin admixed into and applied to the polypropylene surface together with, an emulsion of wax and a binder therefore. The preferred ionomer is surlyn resin and the preferred cross-linkable resin is melamine-formaldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Pang-Chia Lu, Robert E. Touhsaent
  • Patent number: 5229207
    Abstract: A film composite has a thin flexible decorative backing bearing a layer of adhesive which affords good repositionability and yet can become permanently bonded to highly plasticized substrates such as vinyl films containing migratable monomeric plasticizers. Such substrates include wall coverings and vinyl coated fabrics. The adhesive is a blend of an acrylic latex adhesive and a heat-activatable urethane latex adhesive, which blend has been coated onto the backing from an aqueous emulsion. Useful backings include vinyl, polyurethane, and polyolefin films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Susan Z. Paquette, Heiner Johannsen
  • Patent number: 5229185
    Abstract: A speaker front sheet capable of providing a sound outlet structure well matched in finishing with a cabinet of an apparatus equipped with a speaker is disclosed, wherein a plain gauze fabric is bonded on the front surface of a perforated sheet having a porosity greater than 30% and an adhesive layer is applied to the back surface of the perforated sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomio Shiota, Toshiharu Hikida
  • Patent number: 5227233
    Abstract: A label comprising a polyethylene film in which the degree of crosslinking inwardly decreases across the thickness of the film and on one side of which printing is performed, and an adhesive layer further formed thereon. The label is good in clarity, is possible to perform back surface printing, can provide an integral feeling and a high-class feeling as if curved-surface printing is performed on a cylindrical container itself, is sufficient in rigidity and strength and therefore is possible to be thinly formed, is resistant to water wetting and contamination, is unnecessary to be stripped in recovering and recycling a polyethylene bottle when the label is stuck thereon, can be stuck on the bottle concurrently with blow molding of the bottle printed, and is therefore suitable for use as a label for in-molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Tonen Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Itaba, Yutaka Yoshifuji
  • Patent number: 5227234
    Abstract: A thermal adhesive vibration damping sheet comprising a sheet substrate having crystalline polyolefin particles attached to a surface thereof, said polyolefin particles having a mean particle size of 1 to 20 .mu.m and exhibiting an endothermic curve having a high temperature side endothermic peak in the range of from 50.degree. to 230.degree. C. as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter. The sheet has improved blocking resistance, adhesion to sheet steel through heat fusion, and impact resistance at low temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignees: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd., NEC Environment Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kakutaro Kauchi, Youhei Suzuki, Yasumasa Fujii, Kenji Yokoyama, Yoshio Iida, Masahiko Ooyama
  • Patent number: 5223312
    Abstract: Reflective tape for pinstriping of automobiles or other vehicles. The tape has strips of retroreflective material sandwiched between a bottom release liner of polyethylene coated paper and a clear top release liner having an adhesive undersurface for retaining the tape composite intact with the strips parallel one another prior to and during application to a vehicle. The retroreflective material is highly visible at night for safety. The strips include pressure-sensitive adhesive. When the tape is applied to a vehicle, thin pinstripes of retroreflective material are seen. The material may be colored to contrast with the color of the vehicle paint, which is visible on either side of the tape and also through the open middle section between the pinstripes of retroreflective material. The strips are applied by peeling away the bottom liner as the top liner and strips are applied to a surface; thereafter, the top release liner is peeled away leaving only the two retroreflective material strips on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Inventor: John D. Langille
  • Patent number: 5221567
    Abstract: A web of packaging material includes a pair of flaps folded onto a backing sheet and laterally heat sealed at uniform positions along the web, forming pairs of bags having laterally opposed openings. The web is perforated at the heat seals to allow ease of separation of the pairs of bags from the web, while longitudinal perforations allow for the separation of the bags of each pair from each other. Releasable adhesive strips are provided on closure flaps to allow closure of the openings of the separated bags. The bags are filled by draping them over a carrier bar, passing them under a blower and filler, and subsequently separating the bag pairs from each other and sealing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Inventor: Tony D. Baker
  • Patent number: 5219655
    Abstract: A method of forming a transferable pattern or image of an inorganic film by coating an embossed substrate with an inorganic layer, that may comprise one or more films, over both recessed and raised surface portions, adhesively laminating a transfer substrate to the inorganic layer coating the raised surface portions of the embossed substrate and separating the embossed substrate and the transfer substrate. The adhesive is selected such that the bond between the transfer substrate and the inorganic film on the raised surface portions is greater than the bond between the inorganic layer on the raised surface portions and the embossed substrate.The embossed substrate resulting after removal of the inorganic layer coating the raised surface portions may be modified to include additional inorganic layers over the recessed surface portions by tinning or electroplating methods such that this thickened inorganic layer may also be transferred from the embossed substrate to a transfer substrate a set forth above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Clyde D. Calhoun, David C. Koskenmaki
  • Patent number: 5217791
    Abstract: A printed film sheet in which an image printed on a transparent film sheet can be seen from both the printed side and the non-printed side of said film sheet. The transparent film sheet is provided with a coating composition containing one or more pigments and one or more adhesives so that said film sheet has a brightness of above 50%. The pigments include one or more pigments having a linseed oil absorption of 10 to 80 ml/100 g in an amount of 70 to 100% by weight of the total pigment content. The film sheet has an opacity of 20 to 60% and is printed so that the difference between the ink density of a printed image on the printed side of said film sheet and the ink density thereof on the non-printed side of said film sheet is below 35%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Kanzaki Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigoro Fujita, Yoichi Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 5212011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive tape which is low in cost and the properties of which such as unwindability, adhesiveness, trimmed clearance, printability, transparency and longitudinal tearing strength are improved without spoiling lateral hand cutting characteristics, wherein a smooth surface is formed on one side of a polyolefin resin base film and an uneven surface is formed on the other side thereof, the latter being coated with an adhesive and having an uneven depth of 0.03-0.30 mm and an uneven interval of 0.5-5.0 mm, the melt index of polyolefin resin being 0.2-20 g/10 min. and a surface wetting tension of the smooth surface of the polyolefin resin base film being less than 30 Dyn/cm and that of the uneven surface being more than 35 Dyn/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Ishikawa, Tsuneta Ikeda, Minoru Nishino
  • Patent number: 5209973
    Abstract: Adhesive paper tape, obtainable by impregnating and coating a paper which, immediately after the production process and still in the moist state, has been compressed between a rotating roller and a rotating web, and dried and which hasa mean weight of 45-80 g/m.sup.2a mean extensibility of 8-20%a means tensile strength of at least 35N/15 mm anda mean thickness of at most 0.13 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Romanus Wille, Herbert Knolle
  • Patent number: 5208103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cover tape used for packaging of electronic parts in the form of a chip, which comprises an outer layer, an intermediate layer and an adhesion layer and which is heat-sealable to a plastic carrier tape having at given intervals pockets for accommodation of chip type electronic parts, characterized in that the outer layer is a biaxially oriented film, the intermediate layer is a polyolefin film which causes its own cohesive failure to enable peeling, and the adhesion layer consists of a dispersion of conductive fine powders of tin oxide or the like in a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoharu Miyamoto, Shigeru Maeda
  • Patent number: 5206070
    Abstract: A zone adhering adhesive tape material for releasably retaining one or more electric or electronic conduit members of interest or the like in position with respect to an adjacent surface is disclosed which includes a continuous, flexible web of backing material in strip form and a pair of spaced parallel zones of adhesive material applied along both edges of one side of the backing material defining a relatively wide non-adhesive zone therebetween. The material attaches the conduit members releasably under the non-adhesive zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Specialty Tapes Division of RSW Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Haibach, John F. Starkey
  • Patent number: 5205391
    Abstract: A system is provided for adhesively attaching a first member to a generally planar portion of a second member. The system includes an attachment clip having a first, generally planar portion and a second portion remote from the first portion adapted for attachment to the first member. A generally planar base is sandwiched between the planar portion of the attachment clip and the planar portion of the second member. An adhesive is located between the base and the planar portion of the second member. A weld is provided between the base and the planar portion of the attachment clip. Therefore, "peel" stresses are eliminated between the base and the planar portion of the second member, as the weld develops a tensile load between the base and the planar portion of the attachment clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Montgomery Elevator Company
    Inventors: Thomas R. Nurnberg, James J. VanMeenen
  • Patent number: 5206068
    Abstract: Fine quartzite particles with a colored ceramic coating are used for surfacing roofing membranes to enable easier lapping of the roofing membranes while still maintaining necessary UV and heat protection. The roofing membranes may include modified and unmodified bitumen compositions that may be applied to roofing surfaces using heat welding, hot asphalt, cold adhesive, self adhesion and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Tarmac Roofing Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Husnu Kalkanoglu
  • Patent number: 5204181
    Abstract: The present invention provides a strong heat seal to a thermoplastic polyester container which can withstand hot water treatment such as retorting, and to a heat sealed container. A heat-sealable closure is also provided. It is composed of a laminate consisting of a heat-seal layer comprising as a main component a copolymerized polyester resin having a softening temperature of 120.degree. C. and a glass-transition temperature of 30.degree. to 85.degree. C., a metal substrate, and an epoxy-phenol resin primer layer interposed between them.Preferably, the container has a heat seal portion composed of a thermoplastic polyester having a fusion temperature in the crystalline state of at least 200.degree. C. This polyester portion is oriented and crystallized or heat-crystallized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Suzuki, Tsuneo Imatani, Hideo Kurashima, Kazuo Taira
  • Patent number: 5200268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transfer sheet comprising a release sheet, a stick-adhesive layer disposed on the releasable side of the release sheet and formed from the stick-adhesive composition comprising a sticking resin and a moisture-curing resin in a weight ratio of 90:10 through 20:80 based on the nonvolatile matter thereof, a main transfer layer disposed on the stick-adhesive layer, and a moisture-proofing means disposed on the main transfer layer and adapted to maintain the stick-adhesive layer in moisture-free condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Inventor: Hideo Hamada
  • Patent number: 5198301
    Abstract: Films are provided made from ionomeric polymer resins with 2-40% by weight of a filler material, where the film has a thickness between 0.050 and 0.127 mm. These films are highly flexible and conformable. Adhesive composites comprising these films are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Patrick J. Hager, Del A. Kauss, Janet T. Keller