Abstract: An apparatus comprises a belt made of a continuous band having a plurality of scent reservoirs attached thereto. The apparatus includes a belt motor configured and positioned to drive and stop the belt. A heater block is positioned to heat one of the scent reservoirs having a first scent, after the motor positions the belt to bring one of the plurality of scent reservoirs into proximity to the heater block. A fan is positioned to blow air past the heated one of the plurality of scent reservoirs and out of the apparatus, presenting the scent to a user. The belt may then be moved to bring another scent reservoir into proximity to the heater block, this latter scent reservoir having a different scent, and the process may repeat. A series of scents may be presented to a user in this manner.

Abstract: A intranasal device and method for self-administration of a medicament are provided. The intranasal device includes a body, a catheter, a feedback mechanism, and a delivery system. The body has a chamber configured to store the medicament. The body defines a channel that extends from an interior of the body to an exterior of the body. The catheter is configured to be actuated to extend from the body through the channel and is in fluid communication with the chamber. A distal end of the catheter is configured for entry into a nasal passage of a patient. The feedback mechanism is configured to indicate a position of the distal end of the catheter within the nasal passage. The delivery system is configured to deliver the medicament from the chamber into the nasal passage via the catheter.

Abstract: A medicament delivery device may include a blister disposed about a blister axis. A dosing chamber may be configured to receive medicament from the blister and the dosing chamber may be disposed about a chamber axis. A transducer may confront the dosing chamber. The transducer may be configured to aerosolize the medicament when the transducer is activated. The chamber axis may be transverse to the blister axis when the blister is in a dosing position.

Abstract: A cover for a rotary die is centrifugally cast with multiple layers to substantially eliminate stress when the cover is cast in an arcuate shape for use in a die cutting system. A locking mechanism attached to ends of the cover is designed to be convenient to install on and remove from a cutting cylinder.

Abstract: A cover for a rotary die is centrifugally cast with multiple layers to substantially eliminate stress when the cover is cast in an arcuate shape for use in a die cutting system. A locking mechanism attached to ends of the cover is designed to be convenient to install on and remove from a cutting cylinder.

Abstract: A cover for a rotary die is centrifugally cast with multiple layers to substantially eliminate stress when the cover is cast in an arcuate shape for use in a die cutting system. A locking mechanism attached to ends of the cover is designed to be convenient to install on and remove from a cutting cylinder.

Abstract: A die cutter blanket covers an anvil roller and includes a polyurethane coating bonded to a sheet metal liner secured to an anvil roller channel by interlocking male and female locking portions secured to the blanket ends. The female locking portion comprises an end of the blanket coating depending from the blanket end and overlying a depending backing liner leg. Both are riveted to a first leg of an L-shaped member. An elastomeric element is secured to an end edge of the second leg via a tongue and groove and/or by bonding. The second leg and element are in interference compressive friction engagement with the channel. The male locking portion is interlocked to the inserted female portion. In other embodiments a separate compressible strip is secured in or formed part of the channel material to engage an end of the second leg. A further shim is in the channel or attached to the first leg and cooperates with the element to provide desired additional compressive frictional engagement with the channel.

Abstract: Locking means for a cutting die blanket including male and female locking elements that may be quickly engaged with minimal effort. A series of shoulders, located in the female section, are provided to engage a ledge on the male section. The locking means is closed by forcing the male section into the female section through a series of steps wherein the ledge and shoulders cooperate to effect engagement.

Abstract: A rotary, die cutting anvil system having a rotatable head with a cover mounted on the peripheral surface thereof. The cover includes inner and outer laminated layers. The outer layer is made of a generally tough resilient composition that is softer than the hard inner layer to which it is bonded. The inner layer has holes for receiving pins. The cover is mounted on the head by forcing the pins into the holes. The resilience and shape of the hard inner layer maintains the cover on the anvil until it is pryed off. The pins may be fixed to the anvil head or be fixed on rings or sleeves slidably mounted in grooves on the periphery of the anvil head to permit linear or oscillatory freewheeling.

Abstract: Rotary die cutting apparatus wherein the die blanket is mounted with respect to the anvil head such that both longitudinal and transverse relative movement is permitted between the die blanket and the anvil head during operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roller having a core with a channel formed in the surface which extends across the surface of the core. The channel is tapered in width from a first width adjacent a first edge to a second width adjacent a second opposite edge. A blanket is provided for covering the core with the blanket having a split element adapted to fit around the surface of the core and having first and second abutting edges. The blanket has first and second flanges depending from its abutting edges which flanges, when in abutting relationship, define a cross-sectional area substantially identical to the core channel.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling webs of material is disclosed in the context of a web joining apparatus. The leading edge of a fresh web of material is positioned either above an active web or below an active web and, upon imminent exhaustion of the active web, is accelerated to the speed of the active web to be joined thereto to define a continuous web of material. Acceleration is achieved through a clutch means which is driven by the active web and which is adjustable to achieve the desired acceleration in the space provided without exceeding the tensile strength of the web being accelerated.

Abstract: A clamp for carrying the leading edge of a web of material is disclosed to include a base bar and at least one clamping element, the clamping element being pivoted on the base bar between clamping and loading positions and being maintained in such positions by an overcenter spring means, and further including camming means for positively displacing the clamping means between clamping and a release position against the bias of said spring.

Abstract: Locking means for a cutting die blanket is disclosed to include male and female locking elements which, when engaged, generate a state of compression in the blanket coating material such as to achieve uniform resistance to penetration throughout the surface of the blanket.

Abstract: Anvil structure for use in rotary die cutting apparatus is disclosed to include a shaft mounted anvil head, a slip ring slidably mounted on the anvil head and a die blanket releasably secured to the slip ring.