Abstract: A label strip for applying labeling to the edge portions of sheet products, such as plywood and other lumber sheets comprises a label strip having a series of individual labels connected together by fragile lines of perforations so as to enable easy separation of adjacent labels from one another. The label strip is adhesively backed to facilitate its application to the side edges of a stack of sheets. The strip is attached so that at least one label is retained on each sheet as the sheets are removed from the stack. The label strip may include Bar Coding and written indicia.

Abstract: There is disclosed a strip applying tool for applying strip material to substrates. The tool includes a slidably mounted punching member to remove a portion of the strip material thereby facilitating the formation of a corner while maintaining the strip in a continuous uninterrupted length. The tool further provides a channel extending therein to receive strip material which provides a guide wall to permit the application of the strip to the substrate while maintaining a lower surface of the tool above the substrate to prevent moving or scratching of the substrate.

Abstract: An improved taping and masking apparatus to aid in the masking of windows, frames, and other surfaces includes a cutter mounted to a frame and linked to a trigger element by a control assembly having a transverse shaft, support boss, advance pivot and cutter pivot. A handle assembly allows for both left and right handed operation of the apparatus and is positioned adjacent to the trigger element. Dispensing elements are rotatably mounted to the frame and configured to hold one or more rolls of taper, paper, or other sheet material. A safety element shields the user from the cutting blade allowing for safe and efficient cutting of tape, paper, or other sheet material.

Abstract: A dispenser for a tape having a sticky side has a housing adapted to hold a supply of the tape and a roller rotatable on the housing about an axis and having a mainly cylindrical outer surface projecting radially past the housing. The tape passes partially around the roller with its sticky side turned radially away from the roller and engaging a central portion of the roller surface so that the tape can be pressed by the roller against a substrate to adhere the tape to the substrate and to inwardly deflect the central portion of the roller surface. Elements axially flanking the roller permit deflection of the roller surface in contact with the tape inward until the elements contact the surface and prevent further inward deflection of the central portion of the roller surface even if the elements are pressed with greater force against the substrate.

Abstract: A device for changing the angular relation between a carousel conveyor and a label applying apparatus including a support frame to which an internal hollow shaft and an external hollow shaft are mounted, the shafts being coaxial and respectively connected by a cogwheel to the drive shaft of the conveyor and to the drive shaft of the label applying apparatus, the shafts being coupled to each other by a rotatable coaxial joint which moves axially of the shafts.

Abstract: An apparatus applies labels onto small cylindrical articles and includes a label transport drum that defines a central axis. Labels are supplied onto the surface of the drum and returned thereto. The drum rotates about its axis so that the label moves with the drum into an article wrapping position. Small cylindrical articles are tangentially delivered onto the drum surface and into rotative engagement with the label as the label moves into the article wrapping position for wrap around labelling so that the trailing edge of the label overlaps its leading edge forming a bond. The rotation of the article is retarded after wrapping for a period of time while the drum continues its rotation so that the article rests on the overlapping seam and applies pressure while allowing sufficient time for any solvent or adhesive applied thereon to react with the label material. Magnetic attractive forces can be applied onto a magnetically attractive article to enhance pressure applied on the seam.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a label onto a small, cylindrical article, such as a dry cell battery, is disclosed. A rotatable label transport drum has a central, horizontal axis. A label is fed to the drum surface, retained thereto as the drum rotates, and moved with the rotating drum into an article wrapping position defined at the upper area of the drum. An article delivery system, such as a star transfer wheel, delivers the articles sequentially onto the drum surface. The delivery system is spaced outward from the drum surface to clear the trailing edge of the label which is outwardly positioned from the drum surface. An attractive force is imparted on the article in a direction so as to aid smooth delivery of the article onto the drum surface and the label moving therewith.

Abstract: A printing sleeve for a flexographic printing process is prepared by spirally winding successive adhesive coated tapes onto a forming mandrel such that the outer tape covers the seam in the previous layer, providing heat to the thermoplastic adhesive layers at the initial contact point between two tapes, providing sufficient tension to ensure consolidation, and advancing the resultant printing sleeve off the mandrel by means of a drive belt.

Abstract: A device in a cassette container for applying a strip of double-sided adhesive to a surface which comprises a rotatable supply roll of a composite tape consisting of a strip of double-sided pressure-sensitive tape adhered to a backing layer strip, a transfer roller adapted to receive the composite tape, temporarily adhere to the tape and, after rotating through a portion of a turn, apply the adhesive strip to a receiving surface. A return bend surface is provided near the transfer roller for separating the backing layer from the adhesive strip adhering to the transfer roll; a channel leads the stripped backing layer away from the transfer roll, and a braking means selectively prevents rotation of the transfer roller and releases the roller for free rotation.

Abstract: Single ply paperboard containers are wax-coated by directing a relatively narrow spray band of atomized wax towards the interior surfaces of the containers being treated. The spray band is volumetrically asymmetrical and is oriented relative to the interior surfaces of the container such that its volumetric asymmetry is directed towards the bottom circumferential seam between the tubular side wall and bottom wall of the containers. In this manner, a minimal (but fluid-impervious effective) nonsaturating amount of wax will be applied to the interior surfaces of the container so as to preserve the vivid appearance of color graphics and/or indicia that may be printed on the exterior surface of the container. At the same time, the volumetric asymmetry and orientation of the spray band ensures that a maximum amount of wax will be applied at or near the circumferential bottom seam so that a fluid-impervious fillet seal may be established thereat.

Abstract: A new and improved wallpaper applicator apparatus includes a shaft assembly that includes a paper-holding portion and an axle portion. A tubular handle assembly is adapted to receive the axle portion of the shaft assembly. The handle assembly includes a tubular wall which includes an inner bearing surface that is in contact with the axle portion of the shaft assembly when the shaft assembly rotates. The tubular wall also includes an outer hand grip portion adapted to be held by a user. An annular circular drip pan assembly is connected to the handle assembly. The annular circular drip pan assembly is adapted receive drippings from a wet roll of wallpaper when the wet roll of wallpaper is installed on the paper-holding portion of the shaft assembly and when the paper-holding portion is oriented above the axle portion. The paper-holding portion of the shaft assembly contains a slot adapted to receive a first free end of a roll of wallpaper.

Abstract: An elongate transfer tape includes a water-resistant removable top and bottom liner with two adhesive strips, one water soluble, the other water resistant, side-by-side in a plane between the liners. Above the water resistant adhesive is a water absorbent pad that when forced against paper will weaken the paper by the forced expulsion of water from the pad. The paper will attach to the tape and be drawn to a collecting spool to which the tape is attached. The paper will break along its weakened portion. The pad is constructed to hold water against the centrifugal forces that derive from the rotating collecting spool to which it is attached via the water resistant adhesive.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automated apparatus for automatic placement of a retroreflective sheeting material on markers used for the channelization of traffic. The apparatus includes a spool member to dispense the retroreflective sheeting and receive the liner material removed from the retroreflective sheeting during dispensing. The apparatus also includes a roller mechanism for advancing and positioning the retroreflective sheeting. A drive mechanism for regulating the advancement and position of the retroreflective sheeting to provide a precise length of the retroreflective sheeting according to the size of the marker is also included in the apparatus. The apparatus also comprises a positioning mechanism for automatically configuring a length of the retroreflective sheeting against the marker so that the retroreflective sheeting is precisely affixed the marker.

Abstract: A packaging arrangement for items to be subsequently mounted, having a pair of plastic sheets with dimensions that are greater than the item. One sheet includes an adhesive layer that adheres to the front face of the item and also adheres to portions of the other sheet so that the item is captured in between. The sheet with the adhesive layer is preferably transparent. When mounting, the sheets are separated, a mounting adhesive is applied to the back face of the item, and thereafter both the adhesive layer and the back face are urged against the mounting surface. The sheet temporarily maintains the item mounted until the mounting adhesive hardens and the sheet is thereafter removed. The item can a single unit, or a plurality of loose units, or a plurality of units attached to a backing. If a single unit or a plurality of pre-connected units, the packaging arrangement need not attach to the entire item.

Abstract: A wallpaper applicator comprises a handle portion comprising a gripping portion, a first frame member and a second frame member. The gripping portion, first frame member and second frame member are arranged in an "I" configuration. The first frame member has a trimmer guide and a clip pivotally mounted and biased in a closed condition for releasably retaining an end of a strip of wallpaper. The second frame member has frame extensions and a guide rod rotatably mounted at a remote end thereof. Two parallel foam cushioned rollers are rotatably mounted on the handle for rolling along a wall. The first frame member rotatably engages a first roller and the second frame member rotatably engages a second roller. The trimmer guide has a straight edge extending substantially parallel to the cushioned rollers. The wallpaper applicator pivots about one of the cushioned rollers for applying the trimmer guide to a corner between a ceiling and wall.

Abstract: An appliance for forming and dispensing masking from a roll of masking paper and a roll of masking tape is suitably formed as a lightweight plastic molding having a compact profile. The appliance is generally symmetrical about a front to back plane whereby it is non-handed, so permitting the appliance to be oriented at all times in a preferred manner when the masking is applied to a surface.

Abstract: A glue unit having a glue shoe and a glue wheel. The glue shoe has an adjustable metering plate and the glue wheel has a rim with depressions in its central area flanked by smooth side sections. The glue shoe has front, rear and side walls that are closed at the top with a top wall with the space between the walls forming a glue reservoir. The side walls seal to the glue wheel along its smooth side sections confining the glue in the reservoir and keeping the smooth side sections clean. The rear wall is shorter than the side walls and has a recess into which the metering plate is mounted with means for adjusting the metering plate toward and away from the glue wheel for use in applying a film of glue to the depressions. The front wall is coterminous with the side walls and has a plurality of notches permitting return of the glue to the reservoir.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing passive shimming for a superconducting magnet of the type that has a relatively small imaging volume. Such structures of this type, generally, provide the proper amount of passive shimming for a relatively small imaging volume.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for applying labels onto small cylindrical articles such as dry cell batteries is disclosed. A label transport drum has a substantially smooth surface. Cut labels are applied to the surface and an adhesive applicator applies a preferred cold adhesive onto an area adjacent the leading edge of the label. A solvent applicator applies a predetermined amount of solvent on the area adjacent the trailing edge of the label. The solvent applicator includes a solvent transfer roll and a rotatably support rotary pad print head. The rotary pad print head includes at least one narrowly tapering, flexible wiper tip. In one embodiment the wiper tip has a V-notch on its end. The flexible tip engages the solvent transfer roll, transferring solvent from the solvent transfer roll into the V-notch. the rotary pad print head is timed to rotate so that the flexible tip is deflected against the area adjacent the trailing edge of the label.

Abstract: A machine is disclosed for applying adhesive to the small, tubular cores on which paper webs are wound for the manufacture of toilet paper, kitchen towels and the like. The machine also moves the cores from the hopper, and after adhesive is applied, in an axial direction to the paper re-winder.