Abstract: A label feeding apparatus for removing labels with the use of suction one by one from a label magazine in which a quantity of labels are stored and sending it to a label sticking device where labels are stuck to containers such as bottles and cans. The label feeding apparatus comprises a pivotally supported guide lever on which a slide member is slidably mounted. The slide member is provided with a label holding mechanism including suction members. The cooperation between the pivotal motion of the guide lever and the reciprocating motion of the slide member defines a particular closed path of the movement of the label holding mechanism. During one cycle of this closed path, one label is removed from the label magazine and fed to the label sticking device.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of applying heat transferable labels from a web onto a hollow article. The articles to be decorated pass through the apparatus continuously with the label being applied without any stoppage or other intermittent motion imparted to the article being decorated. In this respect, the articles are conveyed to a receptacle holding means which receives and holds the article while passing through the decorating station. The label carrying web, which is driven through the decorating station, is heated both at and prior to the decorating station to facilitate transfer without the necessity of interrupting either the movement of the label carrying web or article to be decorated.

Abstract: A device for dispensing adhesive tape directly onto a surface includes a housing comprising a pair of spaced tear-drop shaped panels and a wall joining the peripheral edges thereof. A spool extending between the panels supports a roll of adhesive tape in rotatable fashion, with the free end thereof extending to a slot opening in the apex of the housing. A post extends between the panels medially of the roll and the slot opening. A spring member is secured to the post, one end thereof having a serrated cutting edge and anvil disposed in the slot opening, the other end impinging resiliently on the supply roll to act as a brake thereon.

Abstract: The edge of an interior lamina or laminae of a laminated sheet or film having three or more laminae is positively encapsulated to protect material enclosed by the laminated sheet or film from contacting and interacting with the edge of the interior lamina or laminae. To encapsulate the interior lamina or laminae, the edge of the laminated sheet or film is heated and the molten outer laminae are mechanically forced out and over the interior lamina or laminae to be covered, thereby positively encapsulating the edge of the interior lamina or laminae.

Abstract: A device for applying tape to a box driven past the device in which an end of the tape to be applied is initially held adjacent an application member in the path for the box with its adhesive coating facing the box. After the box contacts the tape, the application member is moved by movement of the box to a second position at the side of the object along an essentially linear path disposed so that a component of movement of the application member is in the direction of the movement of the box. Also means are provided to form a central ridge in the end portion of the tape adjacent the contact member to keep it in position prior to contact by a box.

Abstract: A tape applicator for rotatably mounting a roll of adhesive tape to adhere the tape to an article and cut off the desired length of adhered tape comprising a roller belt for mounting the tape roll on an annular portion with the belt interposed therebetween, a finger inserting apertured portion defined by the annular portion and providing a finger engaging portion, and a safety stopper and a cutter attached to the applicator main body. The cutter is slanted toward one end of the applicator from the front side to the rear side thereof. The applicator is safe to use without causing any injuries to the finger, and well-balanced and easy to use even if large-sized. The tape is applicable under suitable tension and therefore will not be creased or warp the article.

Abstract: Apparatus for repairing sprocket holes on strip material, such as motion picture film, with pressure adhesive tape having holes is provided with improved guide means for feeding material through a sprocket wheel mounted on a shaft at a repair station, an improved means for pressure bonding repair tape on material at the sprocket wheel, an improved sprocket design, and a cutting knife (attached to a knob which can be pushed in on the shaft against the force of a spring and which is used to turn the sprocket wheel) aligned with a slot in the sprocket wheel to cut the repair tape after repairs have been made, but only when the knife and a slot in the sprocket wheel are in a position where a pin in the knob that passes through the sprocket wheel can also pass through a hole in a wall that supports the shaft so the knife will cut only the repair tape, and not the tape and the material. A second embodiment uses a motor to turn the sprocket shaft, and a friction clutch at the end of the shaft to engage the knob.

Abstract: In a bag-making machine, a flattened tubular plastics web is intermittently fed by rollers and the leading end is held taut by air jets from tubes above and below the web. Welding jaws apply base seams for bag sections successively severed from the leading web end by knives. Between the knives and a stacking conveyor for the bag sections there is a supporting plate for the bag sections co-operating with a depressor. Two rows of needles pass alternately through slots in the supporting plate into a raised spiking position. Upon completion of a stack, the needles of one row are moved by a carrier to push the stack closer to the conveyor while the latter is moving and are eventually retracted from the stack while the needles of the other row take their place by moving into the spiking position for the next stack of bag sections.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tape applicator head for dispensing tape onto a working surface in the construction of primarily structural parts. The tape applicator head includes a slidably mounted cylinder to which a rotation rack assembly is mounted. The rotation rack assembly includes a pair of dispensing and compacting blocks which are mounted to be stationary relative to each other but to pivot in unison relative to the remainder of the head at the end of a tape laying pass. This pivotal movement of the dispensing and compacting blocks produces the unique step-over or the looping of the tape.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for forming a series of shingles from two shingle members. In the past such apparatus has required an inordinate number of hand operations and warehousing of such shingle members. These hand operations and warehousing functions have resulted in a substantial number of non-conforming shingles, which must be rejected, and also causing other problems which affect the overall productivity of such prior art apparatus. The present invention anticipates forming from stock material a complete set of such shingle members, maintaining the shingle members in a set in a predetermined positional relationship throughout the manufacturing operation up to and including the formation of stacks of shingles formed thereby. When such a set of shingle members includes a pair of overlay portions formed of interdigitated tabs, the present invention permits these tabs to be defined to form two styles of shingles.

Abstract: Electrical cables having cross-linked polymer insulations are spliced by heating the insulations nearest the ends to be joined to a temperature such that the cross-linked polymers become amorphous, then expanding and axially moving the insulations away from the conductors such that they can be joined, then cooling the displaced insulations, then joining the conductors, and then reheating the insulations such that they return to generally their original shape and position around the conductors. The prior art technique of bevelling the insulators nearest the cable ends prior to conductor joining, with concurrent waste of insulating material, is made unnecessary.

Abstract: A labelling apparatus for tape cassettes is described in which the cassettes are pushed stepwise out of a magazine on to a guide track and advanced along a guide track by one cassette width at a time. A carrier is disposed above the track and carries at least one set of treatment devices, comprising a device for applying an adhesive or adhesive aid, a label applying device and a pressure stamp. In the intervals between two successive feed steps the carrier together with the devices is lowered and in this manner, as the cassette is advanced, the cassette successively has adhesive, a label and pressure applied thereto. Preferably the carrier carries two sets of treatment devices with a turn-over roll for the cassettes disposed between the sets so that the cassettes can be provided on both sides with a label during a single pass through the apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically splicing and feeding a web of paper, fabric or the like comprises a web feeder which includes a rotary shaft, web roll holding arms with their central portions fitted to the rotary shaft, lever members mounted on said rotary shaft on the outside of the arms to be substantially perpendicular thereto, an automatic web splicing device supported by the lever members, and a device for driving the rotary shaft so as to move the arms to a working position. The apparatus further comprises a festoon loop type web storing device and an electric mechanism for determining direction and angle of rotation of the rotary shaft. The web splicing device includes web nip rollers and a cutting device for cutting the web after bonding the trailing end of a preceding web to the leading end of a succeeding web.

Abstract: A labelling machine which includes a plurality of label suction drums rotatably mounted on a bed plate and a plurality of label holders for supplying labels one-by-one to a corresponding label suction drum. A label applicator drum is positioned adjacent to the label suction drums for receiving labels carried by the label suction drums, and thereafter applying the labels to an object which may have either an arcuate or a planar surface. Each label suction drum is provided with a plurality of arcuately spaced projections and vacuum suction outlets between the projections. The labels are retained on a peripheral surface of each label suction drum between the projections by a vacuum applied through the vacuum suction outlets. An upper stop element is positioned adjacent the periphery of each label suction drum and the label applicator drum.

Abstract: An array of dancer rollers are resiliently biased for engaging a plurality of webs in a take-up zone of a honeycomb machine. The dancer rollers engage each web and thrust it out of its plane of advance to maintain the webs under continuous tension loading as they are alternately advanced and halted during successive feeding and cutting cycles, respectively. A pair of index rollers engage the webs, pull them from supply rolls and feed them to a cyclic cutter in response to rotation of the index rollers. In this arrangement, the continuous drive rollers used in conventional web movement arrangements are eliminated with the webs being pulled from the supply roll intermittently and according to need by the index rollers.

Abstract: A web of jacketing material is unwound from a reservoir thereof and conveyed at constant speed. A double sided, pressure-sensitive adhesive strip, having one side protected by a removable sheet covering, conveyed in a direction normal to that of the jacketing material, is cut to predetermined lengths, positioned subjacent to and then applied across the width of the jacketing material at predetermined intervals. The jacketing material is sheared into sections by making cuts across the material along the middle of the adhesive strip and at a line midway between adhesive strips.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for treating a fibrous board, a portion of an edge of the board is cut away, a liquid adhesive is applied to the remaining edge portion, and the liquid is dried to bind the fibers of the remaining edge portion.

Abstract: In an apparatus and method for prefabricating pockets continuously, pocket material is directed lengthwise along a predetermined path. The pocket material is nipped between a feed roller and an idler roller for advancement first to an adhesive application station. In one embodiment, predetermined adhesive strips formed from ribbons comprising a layer of fusible adhesive on a backing are attached along the edges of the pocket material. If desired, a transverse strip of adhesive can also be applied. In the alternative, adhesive can be extruded directly onto the pocket material along the edges and transversely if desired. The pocket material is then advanced past a cutter and sheared to provide an individual pocket blank. The pocket blank is next aligned, after which the aligned pocket blank is transferred into position for transverse folding. In the preferred embodiment, the edges of the pocket blank having adhesive there along are folded inwardly simultaneously upon transfer.

Abstract: In a labeling machine the combination with a glue applying roll, pickers and a label magazine from which labels are picked by the picker when the latter has on its surface a layer of glue of a doctor blade supported with an edge at a distance from the surface of the glue applying roll which will provide adequate glue for labeling and pneumatically-operable means operable to retract the label magazine from the path of movement of the pickers when there is a gap in the procession of containers or no containers and simultaneously to move the doctor blade closer to the surface of the glue applying roll to reduce the amount of glue on the surface of the glue applying roll available to the pickers without removing all of the glue.

Abstract: An apparatus for laminating articles with plastic of the type having supply rolls, pressure rollers and pull rollers through which a web of plastic is drawn. Heat shoes heat the plastic prior to the pressure rollers to cause an adhesive side to become fluent. The heat shoes have a large heating surface and are filled with sand. A plenum chamber directs cooling air onto the bonded web between the pressure rollers and pull rollers. The upper rollers are carried by a spring biased slide while the lower rollers are journaled to the frame. An eccentric mechanism mounted in the slide lifts the slide and upper rollers for threading and cleaning. A threaded linking member is attached between the slide and the top of the frame for incrementally lifting the upper pressure roller to allow single side lamination.