Abstract: A method for forming tires by the use of a tire-forming machine having a drum bladder and a turnup bladder. An organic halogen compound having in the molecule thereof a ##STR1## bond, in which X represents a halogen atom, is applied to the surfaces of the drum bladder and turnup bladder of the machine to form a layer of the organic halogen compound, whereby unvulcanized rubber for tires is prevented from sticking to said bladders during the formation of tires form the unvulcanized rubber.

Abstract: A process for etching deep trenches to achieve dielectric isolation for integrated circuit devices; the process insures obtaining substantially perfectly vertical trench walls by precluding significant variation in etch bias during the trench formation.

Abstract: An in vivo electrochemical monitoring device is formed by a catheter-like member which terminates in a closed end having a wall with a fixed opening to admit fluid to be tested, such as blood in an artery. An electrochemical sensor, such as an ISFET device for monitoring the concentration of a particular ion in blood, is mounted inside the tube at a fixed location below the opening preferably a larger sensing chamber. An infusion channel in the tube is arranged to flood the sensor with a fluid of known chemical properties so that the sensor output can be calibrated. Under pressure the calibration fluid expels the test fluid out of the tube or chamber via the fixed opening. A method of constructing a suitable chamber on an ISFET wafer is also disclosed.

Abstract: Flat pattern equivalents for curved surfaces may be generated by developing a regular network of quadrilateral grid elements resembling a fish net which is mathematically smoothed onto the curved surface. Surface features such as boundaries and cutouts are mapped onto the network. The network is then transformed onto a flat mapping plane to form a grid in a manner analagous to smoothing a fish net mesh onto a flat surface. The surface features are then transformed to the flat surface grid.Individual plies or parts are then cut based upon the flat patterns. The plies or parts will conform to the curved surface exactly.

Abstract: A thermoplastic end (110), particularly a bottom, for a container which has upstanding paperboard sidewalls (112) and which is inertially spinwelded onto the paperboard sidewall for bonding. The end portion (110) has an annular groove (148) for snugly receiving the sidewall (112) and a wall configuration (136, 138, 140, 142 and 144) which minimizes the forces exerted on the bond which would tend to dislodge the end portion. The wall configuration is generally in the form of an inverted U-shape with a portion of an upstanding wall of the U forming a side of the annular groove. The end portion has strengthening ribs (122) positioned generally within the region of U-shape and additional radial ribs imparting strength and rigidity to the container end. The paperboard sidewall may be internally lined with a layer of thermoplastic material or may be unlined.

Abstract: A machine for applying labels to the fin sealed ends of packages carried by a bucket conveyor in which the labels are cut from a web of printed roll stock placed on the fin seals and held in place by a hold down conveyor while the labels are folded by dynamic plows in conjunction with a series of guide bars.

Abstract: A rubber material which is a cured rubber having a hardness of from 30.degree. as measured with an A-type rubber hardness tester to 15.degree. as measured with an F-type rubber hardness tester and an impact resilience of not less than 50%. The material has excellent vibration-proof, sound-proof, shock-absorbing or cushioning properties and is useful as a material for vibration-proof, sound-proof, shock-absorbing and cushioning members.

Abstract: A machine for labeling containers which are oriented vertically and have a bottom surface provided with a transverse jam recess that is at least partially radial to the longitudinal axis of the container. The machine includes a labeler and a work table moveable relative to the labeler. A plurality of plates are each mounted on the table for rotation about vertical axis and each plate includes a container supporting surface. A holder is disposed above each plate for vertical movement relative thereto. A counter jam is mounted on each rotary plate for movement between a first position below the container supporting surface and a second position in which a portion of the counter jam extends above the container supporting surface for cooperating with the jam recess of a container positioned on the support surface. At least three rollers are mounted on each rotary plate to support the container for rotational movement about its longitudinal axis relative to the rotary plate.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the manufacture of pneumatic tires comprising a carcass formed of reinforcing plies and bead cores are disclosed. The tire carcass is built up around a first drum in cylindrical configuration and bead cores are applied to the carcass. The carcass is transferred telescopically to and around a second expandable drum. The carcass is then torically shaped and the ends of the plies turned-up around the bead cores.

Abstract: This invention concerns a process for preparing non-woven webs having a very soft hand and a high tensile strength. The process involved includes print bonding a non-woven web with a formaldehyde-free binder having a glass transition temperature of about 5.degree. C. to about 33.degree. C., then drying, curing and then calendering the non-woven web. The resultant non-woven web has a cross dimensional water wet tensile strength of at least 150 g/in and has a softness value of at least as soft as thermally bonded polypropylene. The invention is also concerned with a product produced by the above process.

Abstract: At a location between a single facer machine and a glue machine, a web of corrugated paperboard has the flutes crushed in a narrow zone longitudinally of the web. A bonding agent is applied only to the uncrushed flutes. Preprinted liners are applied to the bonding agent on the uncrushed flutes with the liners being spaced from one another by said narrow zone.

Abstract: A method for continuously producing tapes in rubbery vulcanizable material, adapted to the manufacture of hoses, includes causing a rubbery composition to pass and be calendered into a tape between rollers, cooling the calendered tape on a set of internally cooled hollow cylinders adding an anti-adherent powder, and slitting the tape longitudinally into a plurality of narrower tape portions.

Abstract: An inner lead bonder for bonding dies to leads of carrier tape with improved positional accuracy and improved work efficiency. In the inner lead bonder, dies are fed to a die positioning spot one at a time and positioned. Then, said positioned die is carried to a bonding position. On the other hand, leads of a carrier tape are fed to the bonding position and positioned at the spot above the aforesaid die. Thereafter, the leads of the carrier tape are pressed onto the die and bonded by using a bonding tool. This inner lead bonder is characterized in that it includes a rotary table with the size covering the die positioning point and the bonding position, and after positioning the die on the rotary table, the rotary table is rotated in order to bring the die positioned as mentioned above to the bonding position to place the die at a proper position for bonding.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adhesively bonding together in edge abutting relationship two sheets of woven, felted, or other textile material such as carpet using a joining tape which includes a removable electrically conductive foil and layer of heat so/tenable adhesive. The control circuit maintains the adhesive in a tacky state while the abutting edges which overlap the tape are adjusted as required to form the desired joint.

Abstract: A low-cost disposable tab applicator and method of applying reinforcing tabs to the margin area of a sheet in a loose-leaf binder between a hole in the sheet through which a binder ring passes and an adjacent edge of the sheet, without the necessity of removing the sheet from the binder.

Abstract: There is disclosed a composite label web and method of making and method of applying labels. The composite label web comprises a longitudinally extending carrier web and label material releasably adhered by pressure sensitive adhesive to the carrier web. There are cuts extending across the label material at longitudinally spaced intervals to provide adjacent labels having complementary leading and trailing edges defining a forwardly projecting portion and a rearwardly projecting portion. In dispensing the label from the carrier web, the forwardly projecting portion is gradually delaminated. It is preferred that only a part of the rearwardly projecting portion of the leading label which has been dispensed to a label applying position remain adhered to the carrier web and that only a part of the forwardly projecting portion of the next successive label be delaminated from the carrier web.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a credit card or identification card fabricated from amorphous polyester sheet material wherein at least the area of said card containing embossed numerical or letter characters and the characters themselves are composed of substantially crystalline polyester. Such characters can not readily be altered by either heat treatment or by shaving them off.

Abstract: To make inductance elements, thick film electrically conductive paste, which may include precious metal such as silver, are applied by a deformable stamp on a ferrite core which, for example, can be someone hump shaped, for adhesion to a carrier (30) and formed with openings thereto, the stamp being shaped to fit within the opening and deforming to penetrate the opening to apply the thick film conductive paste in form of conductive tracks thereon. Conductive tracks can be applied, previously, to a substrate carrier (30), which are then joined by the paste strips to form interconnected windings (FIGS. 1a, 1b); or the ferrite may be in form of a toroidal core (34), on which the conductive tracks are applied around all surfaces, to form connected windings thereon, the deformable stamp having a projecting tip which can fit within the opening of the toroidal core.

Abstract: In the manufacture of film containing integral fasteners and the like, the film commonly exits through an elongated slot die while profiles for the fasteners exit through a smaller configured slot located laterally along the film die slot. The fastener profiles normally carry a thickened base so that the profiles will stand without undue tipping for better interengagement with one another. It has been found that it is advantageous if the base of the profile can be adjusted transversely of the film slot so that the size of the base can be adjusted on-line. The present invention allows the die block to be transversely adjustable by a combination of a U-shaped mounting block, an inverted T-shaped profile plate and an eccentric adjustment pin, assembled in a fashion so that the eccentric pin can be rotated to adjust transversely the gap through which the profile base passes just before joining the film. This device also makes possible measurement of the gap for the profile base indirectly on line.

Abstract: A thermoplastic container bottom is inertially spin welded into the interior of a cylindrical container body of paperboard internally lined with a layer of thermoplastic material. A body supporting mandrel has an expansible body engaging portion which is inserted into the body and subsequently expanded to define a cylindrical surface of a diameter exactly equal to that of the specified internal diameter of the body. A seating member at the end of the body supporting mandrel establishes the depth to which the container bottom is inserted into the body and is provided with a low-friction projecting resilient member which contacts the rotating bottom.