Abstract: The present invention relates to a pre-proof temperature controlling assembly associated with an off-press apparatus for laminating an image sheet to an image receiving substrate and, more particularly, for laminating a plurality of image sheets to the receiving substrate and then laminating a portion of the receiving substrate to a display sheet.

Abstract: A computer controlled turret type labeling apparatus having a label applying mechanism for applying labels to containers. The labeling apparatus has a turret having a motor for driving the turret and a sensor for providing turret status information to a controlling computer. The turret apparatus contains at least one labeling station. Each labeling station also has a motor and a sensor, the motor drives the labeling station and the sensor provides labeling station status information to the controlling computer. The computer is programmed to process status information in conjunction with prestored information relating to the characteristics of the labeling apparatus, containers, and desired labeling and generate suitable control signals for labeling apparatus operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pre-proof temperature controlling assembly associated with an off-press apparatus for laminating an image sheet to an image receiving substrate and, more particularly, for laminating a plurality of image sheets to the receiving substrate and then laminating a portion of the receiving substrate to a display sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for controlling the rate of drying of a high-viscosity chemical applied to a substantially flat surface of a spinning article. The rate of drying of the chemical is controlled by controlling the saturation level of a solvent in the local atmosphere in which the article is spinning, i.e., in the air space adjacent to the surface of the article. By spinning the article in a solvent-laden vapor, the evaporation of solvent from the chemical is slowed and therefore the rate at which the chemical dries and thickens is also slowed. Spreading of the chemical may also be facilitated and premature drying of the chemical may be avoided by applying to the surface of the article a thin layer of the solvent prior to application of the chemical.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which cuts sheets of resin impregnated fibers and their backer material into tows of precise width and stores them on cassette reels for placement on a tool or mandrel. The placement assembly can place several tows simultaneously from a plurality of tow cassettes attached to the assembly. The tows are passed through a cutting and scrapping assembly which cuts the tows to a precise shape and length as directed by a microprocessor controller and removes tow scraps. After cutting, the backer is removed from the tow and the tow placed on the tool. The backer is then used to drive the following tows individually as directed by the controller. Finally, the backers are delivered to individual backer cassettes for disposal.

Abstract: A method for removing a resist pattern formed on a semiconductor wafer, and a curable pressure-sensitive adhesive, adhesive sheets and an apparatus used for the method. The resist-removing method comprising adhering an adhesive tape on an upper surface of a resist pattern formed on an article and peeling off the resist pattern together with the adhesive tape; the curable pressure-sensitive adhesive constituting the adhesive tape, comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive polymer containing a non-volatile compound having at least one unsaturated double bond in the molecule and having a good affinity with a resist material to be removed; the adhesive sheet comprising a film substrate having formed thereon the curable pressure-sensitive adhesive; and the resist-removing apparatus comprising a means for press-adhering the adhesive tape, a tape-peeling means, and a substrate-washing means.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for connecting an I/O pad of an integrated circuit die to an electrical lead or contact on a lead frame that uses interposers formed directly on the die attach pad of the lead frame. Each interposer is formed by etching one or more grooves, preferably of depth no more than half the die attach pad thickness, in the die attach pad adjacent to the lead frame electrical lead(s). The exposed surfaces of the grooves and the die attach pad are coated with a layer of electrically insulating material, and the grooves are then filled with an electrically conducting material, such as conductive epoxy. An electrically conducting wire is then bonded between an I/O pad of an integrated circuit die and the electrically conducting material in the groove, and between the electrically conducting material and an electrical lead of a lead frame.

Abstract: A tape loader has a splicing station including a splicing block whose underside is grooved and provided with perforations constituting vacuum shoes. A slitting head mounts a blade which cooperates with the grooved under surface in slitting tape across its lateral dimension while it is received in its groove retained by vacuum. A splicing arm operates through an orifice in a face plate to splice together two lengths of tape retained in the groove. Operating on the front face of the face plate is a final guide assembly comprising an eccentric plate having a leader tape extraction arm; a bearing block housing a journal into which a cylindrical boss, integral with the plate, is rotatably received; and an internal flange of the boss forming a tooth wheel operably with a belt to apply the output of a motor to drive the plate. The changeover arm is comprised of a cranked changeover arm member mounted to a sleeve secured to a shaft passing through an orifice in the face plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating device for coating, e.g. a size-press roll, paper or board or of an equivalent moving base. The coating device comprises a revolving coating bar which rests against a moving base. The coating bar extends across the machine width and is supported in a cradle substantially over its entire length. The coating bar spreads and smoothes the coating agent onto the moving base which coating agent is introduced into the coating device in the running direction of the moving base before the coating bar. The coating bar in accordance with the invention is a smooth bar of large diameter arranged against the moving base so that the profile of coating quantity can be controlled.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for applying an adhesive handle to a load, both if it is a pack of items kept together by a unitizing means such as heat-shrunk wrapping or if it is a single article such as a box. More specifically, the apparatus for applies adhesive handles to loads that as they are driven along a path, the apparatus in its preferred embodiment being characterized by a rotatable lever having two opposing arms, either of the arms being in turn positioned within the path. A holding means is provided on the lever for carrying a handle to lay on a surface of the two arms of the lever with its non-adhesive side against the surface of the lever and its adhesive side exposed. Additionally a lever driving means is provided to controllably rotate the lever by about 180.degree. after a load that is driven along the path hits an arm of the lever that is positioned within the path.

Abstract: The process relates to the production of a product consisting of a substrate to which an adhesive with long-term effect and a protective band are attached to permit use of the adhesive to be deferred. The process is characterized by the use of a substrate whose surface to which the adhesive is attached may present irregularities. The adhesive is heated to a temperature at which is becomes paste-like and almost liquid, and is brought to an opening situated above a plane surface on which the substrate has been placed. The adhesive is then caused to flow simultaneously with a relative movement between the substrate and the opening. This results in the adhesive being deposited on the substrate as a strand that is preferably continuous. The temperature of the adhesive is then lowered in order to increase its viscosity until it becomes paste-like to the point of turning solid.

Abstract: Selected objects such as scallops, are automatically secured in spaced apart bottom-to-bottom relation to elongated strips for subsequent suspension in sea water for a final grow-out period. Linear arrays of these objects, to which adhesive has been applied, are brought into bottom-to-bottom contact with the strip and held there until bonds have formed, following which the strip with attached objects is released from the machine and the procedure is thereafter automatically repeated.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically creating a simulated mosaic controllably discharges tile pieces onto plate material and secures the tile pieces in place such that the plates with the tile pieces are freestanding permitting the plates themselves to be an ordered arrangement of sections of the mosaic once cemented to the substrate. Many different forms may be had for the plate material, including ones that are pressure or heat activatable to bond with the tile pieces or ones that are mechanically connectable.

Abstract: A system for coordinating the splices in each of the component webs used in making a composite corrugated paperboard web independently measures on a dynamic real time basis the length of each component web between the splicer where it is supplied and a downstream cutoff apparatus where the synchronized splices are cut out in a short length of web in which they are contained. The real time measurement of each component web includes continuous monitoring of web lengths subject to change while running through variable length storage areas, and an initialization procedure whereby an initially unknown length of component web in its respective storage is determined. The system also includes a calibration procedure by which the various devices used to measure running web lengths throughout the system are all calibrated to a master device which controls the total web length for each order.

Abstract: A process for decorating the top portion of the ski including a step of assembling and affixing an external, thick layer of transparent plastic material onto an opaque internal layer. Prior to the assembly step, the first decoration is transferred onto the external surface of the external layer and a second internal decoration, different from the first, is transferred onto one of the surfaces connecting the internal layer with the external layer. The invention enables an economical production of varied and easily interchangeable decorations.

Abstract: Active sites (18) on a semiconductor wafer (14) are protected from particulate and fluid contaminants (40,42)while the wafer (14) is sawed into chips (16) by a tape (62) carrying a pattern of adhesive (64) which is congruent and registerable with saw paths (15) between the active sites (18). Adhering the tape (62) to the wafer (14) encapsulates each active site (18) beneath a non-adherent protective envelope which if formed by adhesive-free portions (68) of the tape (62) as sawing occurs along the saw paths (15) and the congruent adhesive pattern (64). After sawing, the adhesive (64) is treated, as by directing UV through the tape (62), to release the tape (62) from the chips (16).

Abstract: An ultrasonic processing method is disclosed wherein during the processing time interval the motional amplitude of the resonating horn and thereby the power to the workpiece is reduced. The reduction in motional amplitude may be in response to a process condition such as a change in dimension of the workpiece or a sharp rise in the power curve, or it may be in response to the lapse of a predetermined time.

Abstract: A label applicator for applying a label to an article. The label includes a first side having printed matter visible thereon and including a second side having a pressure sensitive adhesive thereon. The label applicator includes label support structure for supporting the label with the second side of the label resting on the label support structure; and label transfer structure for griping the first side of the label, for picking-up the label from the label support structure, and for pressing the label onto the article.

Abstract: The tape laying head disclosed mounts the laydown rollers for steerability as a unit independently of the steering of the tape head as a whole. The separate steerability of the laydown roller unit is utilized for adaptive steering control in response to edgewise drift of the tape during normal tape laying, as determined by tape edge sensors. When laying tape along a curved path other than the natural path of the tape in free-rolling movement, the laydown roller unit is steered in counterrotation to the steering of the tape head as a whole, thereby to cause a relative axial shift of increments of the tape across its width, enabling the tape to lie flat along a curved course on the lay surface.

Abstract: A hot air cold form pin welding device for use in assembly of work pieces using thermoformable and pressure deformable synthetic resin studs. A hot air heater is positioned in a support structure that isolates heat transfer along with multiple power and air cycling to reduce heat build-up. The cold forming pin assembly with internal heat dissipation and airflow structure forms and presses a replasticized pin significantly reducing the cold pin press cycle time.