Abstract: In a method and apparatus for fusing together thermoplastic synthetic resin molded articles wherein opposing ends of the molded articles are melted and then fused together under pressure, gaps are formed between holding mechanisms holding respective molded articles and moving mechanisms for moving the molded articles away from a heating plate so as to apply a percussive force upon the holding mechanisms by the movement of the moving mechanisms.

Abstract: A process for lining moulded articles, e.g. for the internal lining of motor vehicles, and apparatus for performing this process, are described in which a lining apparatus is supplied with blanks in alternating manner via a paired arrangement of lining moulds. When one lining mould is in the operating position for the actual lining process, the other lining mould is supplying a completed moulded article to the lower mould of a bending-over and/or punching or stamping device and receives a new blank and then supplies it to the lining apparatus. In the meantime the first-mentioned lining mould has removed again a fully lined moulded article from the lining apparatus. The bending-over process takes place between the taking over of a blank from one of the blank supports on either side of the lining apparatus and the transfer thereof, after lining, to the lower mould of the associated bending-over device.

Abstract: A multiple blood sampling device is disclosed together with its method of manufacture. The device includes a housing having a chamber therein, a first cannula attached to one end of the housing, a second cannula attached to the other end of the housing, and a one-way valve provided within the housing. Part of the housing is molded around a portion of the valve to securely hold it in place. Another portion of the valve extends into the chamber where it provides valving action in response to the relative pressures in to two cannulas. When one cannula penetrates the blood vessel of a patient and the other punctures the stopper of an evacuated tube, blood is able to flow through the device and into the tube. Backflow is prevented by the one-way valve.

Abstract: Method for constructing a forming structure for imparting a uniformly apertured three-dimensional pattern to a heated plastic material subjected to a fluid pressure differential while in contact with said forming structure. In a preferred embodiment, said forming structure is created by forming a substantially continuous pattern of apertures in a multiplicity of planar sheets, at least a portion of said sheets having aperture patterns which are concentrically aligned but dissimilar in size to one another. The sheets having said concentrically aligned aperture patterns are thereafter superposed upon one another and bonded together at contact points so as to form a stack exhibiting a three-dimensional continuum of capillary networks. A sufficient number of laminae are employed to ensure that said networks are of greater overall thickness than the maximum depth to which the plastic film is drawn when subjected to said fluid pressure differential.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the apparatus of the present invention includes a rotatably driven transfer means adapted to receive a design configuration and follower means synchronously driven therewith for carrying and orienting an article to receive the design from the transfer means into alignment therewith in nonslip rolling contact. The respective transfer means and article share a respective center and apex as established by the follower means. In another embodiment the transfer means and article are forced into engagement via an elastic interface.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for the automatic assembly of a flexible interlayer sheet with one or more bent glass sheets using residual heat from bending the glass sheets to make the flexible interlayer sheet sufficiently tacky to avoid relative sliding between the sheets comprising the subassembly or sandwich that is assembled.

Abstract: A tread configuration for pneumatic vehicle tires, especially for spare tires. A number of recesses are arranged in succession and next to each other in the circumferential direction of the tire. Transverse ribs and substantially circumferential ribs separate the recesses from one another and have a width which is approximately 1/4 to 3/4 of the circumferential dimension of the recesses. The radially outwardly located peripheral surface of the tire is subdivided into several segments. Within each of the segments, the circumferential dimension of the recesses and of the transverse ribs is constant, and the circumferential dimension of the recesses and of the transverse ribs is different in successive segments. The recesses are of such a cross-sectional shape or outline that at least one boundary line thereof is formed by an edge of a transverse rib. At least some of the circumferential ribs extend at an angle to the circumferential direction of the tire.

Abstract: An improved method of manufacturing an insulated metallic edge guard, such as a door edge guard, comprises applying an insulating layer to one side of the metal strip which remains on the strip for protecting and insulating the edge guard from the object on which it is installed when in use, applying a protective layer to the opposite surface of the metal strip for the purpose of protecting the appearance of the strip during manufacturing, forming the laminated metal strip into a U-shaped cross section of desired configuration and then stripping the protective layer which is on the exterior of the U-shaped cross section from the door edge guard to expose the exterior of the metal to view.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an expanded graphite gasket comprises the steps of taking co-operating male and female mould members, the female mould member comprising a channel extending through a block from one face to a directly opposite face, the channel as seen in plan having a width and configuration corresponding to a desired gasket shape, presenting a substrate to one face of said block with said channel in register with said locations, filling the channel with a charge of expanded graphite particles, followed by pressing the charge with the male mould member onto the substrate to form a gasket thereon and thereafter removing the mould members.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for imprinting and dispensing pressure-sensitive labels adhering to a carrier tape. The apparatus comprises an operating lever for controlling a printing mechanism and for controlling a feed means for stepwise drawing of the carrier tape over a platen and around a peel edge at which the pressure-sensitive labels detach from the carrier tape and move into a dispensing position. In the rest position of the operating lever the carrier tape is clamped by a braking means where the braking means is biased against the carrier tape by a spring. By means of a cam gearing arranged between the brake actuating member and the operating lever the brake actuating member can be pivoted against the bias of the spring from the carrier tape clamping position into a carrier tape release position when the operating lever has covered a part of its travel from the rest position into the operative position.

Abstract: A strength member is paid off from a neutralizer payoff in such a manner that the strength member is rotating. A tape having longitudinal grooves is paid off from a fixed payoff and passed through a forming die. The strength member is also passed through the forming die, and the tape is there applied to the exterior of the strength member. As a result of the rotation of the strength member, the tape obtains a helical lay about the strength member. An optical fiber is paid off from a neutralizer payoff and laid into a groove on said tape. An outer tape may be helically laid over the corrugated tape and a filling compound may be applied under and over the grooves of the corrugated tape. A binder may be provided to secure the outer tape over the fiber.

Abstract: A duplicating stencil is produced by placing an electrostatically-produced image on a substrate in contact with an ink-impervious surface layer of a stencil blank, bending the image to the surface layer by the application of heat and/or pressure and stripping the substrate from the stencil blank to remove the surface layer in the image area. The surface layer may comprise a synthetic resin composition containing a finely dispersed pigment and is attached to the porous base tissue of the stencil blank by an adhesive. Bonding of the image to the surface layer and possibly also fixing of the image to the substrate in the same operation can be effected by means of infra-red heating.

Abstract: A recording method of forming a picture image directly on a recording sheet by a magnetic brushing process using a dry developing powder on the basis of an input picture signal not by forming an optical image directly on the recording sheet surface.

Abstract: A method for applying adhesive to a printed paper commercial garment-making rolled pattern marker includes spraying the back (upward facing) side of the marker with a fast-drying adhesive and as the upper surface of the applied adhesive becomes tacky, rolling the marker upon itself. The adhesive remains tacky on the rolled-up marker for a relatively long time, so that it may be used later, when desired, by simply unrolling it tacky side down on top of the fabric to be cut. Apparatus for applying the adhesive includes a variable speed paper-handling mechanism which transfers the marker along a path from an upper feed roll, forward and downward to a take-up roll, and a multiple-nozzle airless spraying mechanism which applies the adhesive to the back side of the marker. The application and paper travel rates are such that the outer surface of the adhesive becomes tacky before the marker is rolled upon itself on the take-up roll.

Abstract: A thermocompression bonding apparatus (10), which is particularly adapted to bond an array of miniaturized electrical leads (36) to a corresponding array of respectively aligned pads (33) of a metallized circuit, supported on a substrate (31), includes a specially constructed and internally heated bonding thermode (12) that is uniquely pin-coupled at an upper surface midpoint portion thereof to the lower end of a single support rod (54). The latter is resiliently supported at its upper end, preferably through the use of a plurality of coaxially mounted Belleville washers (77), within an oversized central bore of a three-plate support assembly (14). The latter is, in turn, adapted to be secured to a reciprocally driven member, such as a multipost-mounted platen (16), of the composite apparatus.

Abstract: The band transfer device is provided between the band building device and tire building device, and on the side of the band transfer device facing the tire building device, is provided a bead supply means. This bead supply means comprises a bead retaining part having a plurality of divided segments movable in the radial direction and arranged in an expansible ring, and a bead kicking means for kicking a bead retained on the bead retaining part onto the bead ring of the tire building device.

Abstract: In the packaging field certain types of packages are manufactured from pre-shaped, cylindrical casings made from a heat-shrinkable laminate. The casings are formed by winding a material sheet around a mandrel and subsequent sealing together of the overlapping ends of the sheet. However, because of the stiffness of the material the leading end of the sheet protrudes tangentially from the mandrel during the winding and prevents an accurate adaptation of the material sheet to the surface of the mandrel.According to the method and arrangement of this invention this disadvantage is avoided in that the leading end of the sheet is pre-heated on the side facing the mandrel to such a degree, that the shrinking is initialled. The shrinking of one side only results in that the leading end of the material sheet is given a curved shape with a radius that coincides with the radius of the mandrel, and consequently the leading end is no longer an obstacle to the winding.

Abstract: In a labelling machine for objects such as bottles, comprising a bottle carrier having turntables for the bottles, a support, label pick-up elements on said support, a label gripper cylinder with transfer members, drive means coupling the support and the gripper cylinder so as to drive the pick-up elements successively past a glue roller, label stack and the gripper cylinder, and means for rotating each turntable comprising a stationary or fixed cam groove 30, 31 and a cam follower 24,25 so that during transfer of a label from the gripper cylinder to a bottle there is substantial synchronism between the transfer members of the gripper cylinder and the bottle areas to which the labels are to be applied, the improvement wherein the stationary cam in the area of the gripper cylinder contains a second cam 26, 27 which is exchangeable with another cam 39 or which is displaceable by a control means 32-38 such that upon entry and departure of the cam follower into or out of the second cam, the second cam merges with

Abstract: The invention relates to a tire suitable for all-year-round use comprising a tread profile in which--looking in the running direction--one half of the tire is formed from profile blocks separated from one another while the other half of the tire has a substantially continuous profile interrupted only by lamellae. The two halves of the tire are best made of different rubbers of which the properties are adapted to the particular tread profile.

Abstract: Electrical devices that are impregnated with a dielectric fluid, that is substantially free from water, having a high level of unsaturation and a low viscosity, are disclosed. This dielectric fluid is a reaction product of a siloxane and a silane. The silane has the general formula R.sub.a R'.sub.b Si(OX).sub.4-a-b wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, substituted saturated hydrocarbon radicals, and unsubstituted saturated hydrocarbon radicals, R' is selected from the group consisting of substituted and unsubstituted unsaturated hydrocarbon radicals, X is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl and acyl radicals, a has a value of 0 to 3, b has a value of 0 to 3, with a+b having a value of 0 to 3.