Abstract: Disclosed herein is a waterproof, easy-to-install, easy to remove, easy to repair or replace, recyclable, flooring system. A substrate supports the floor, and planks are adhered to the substrate by a film sandwich, which can have an impermeable film and adhesive on both sides. The adhesive can be a pressure sensitive adhesive. This film sandwich can have the same width as the planks, or can be wider than the planks. The edges of two adjacent planks can share the same film sandwich strip so as to provide the longest adhered path for any water entering the slit formed by adjoining planks and exiting at the edge of any film-sandwich. Each side of the film sandwich may be coated with adhesives having different adhesive characteristics, i.e., different cohesive and adhesive strengths between the substrate and film and/or between the planks and the film.

Abstract: A method for preparing a toner cartridge for reconditioning and resealing with a replacement seal includes providing a used toner cartridge whose seal has been removed and the toner essentially consumed with the cartridge substantially otherwise intact. The interior of the cartridge is partially separated or penetrated so as to remove, modify or by-pass any impediments present which would or could interfere with the resealing of the cartridge. A new seal is secured to the toner cartridge.

Abstract: A method for preparing a toner cartridge for reconditioning and resealing with a replacement seal includes providing a used toner cartridge whose seal has been removed and the toner essentially consumed with the cartridge substantially otherwise intact. The interior of the cartridge is partially separated or penetrated so as to remove, modify or by-pass any impediments present which would or could interfere with the resealing of the cartridge. A new seal is secured to the toner cartridge.

Abstract: A method for preparing a toner cartridge for reconditioning and resealing with a replacement seal includes providing a used toner cartridge whose seal has been removed and the toner essentially consumed with the cartridge substantially otherwise intact. The interior of the cartridge is partially separated or penetrated so as to remove, modify or by-pass any impediments present which would or could interfere with the resealing of the cartridge. A new seal is secured to the toner cartridge.

Abstract: An original equipment type seal for recharged toner cartridges can be installed without splitting the cartridge itself, by screening a border of "hot-melt" type adhesive, preferably wax-based, onto a strip of polyester, the adhesive being capable of softening or melting at a temperature above the softening or coagulating point of the toner powder itself, but below the softening points of the plastic components of the cartridge. The polyester seal is inserted into the cartridge with the aid of a room temperature or even cold, metallic insertion tool, preferably made of a high magnetic permeability steel. Heating this cold tool, or subsequently inserting a hot tool, will cause the adhesive to melt and seal the cartridge.

Abstract: An original equipment type seal for recharged toner cartridges can be installed without splitting the cartridge itself, by screening a border of "hot-melt" type adhesive, preferably wax-based, onto a strip of polyester, the adhesive being capable of softening or melting at a temperature above the softening or coagulating point of the toner powder itself, but below the softening points of the plastic components of the cartridge. The polyester seal is inserted into the cartridge with the aid of a room temperature or even cold, metallic insertion tool, preferably made of a high magnetic permeability steel. Heating this cold tool, or subsequently inserting a hot tool, will cause the adhesive to melt and seal the cartridge.

Abstract: An original equipment type seal for recharged toner cartridges can be installed without splitting the cartridge itself, by screening a border of "hot-melt" type adhesive, preferably wax-based, onto a strip of polyester, the adhesive being capable of softening or melting at a temperature above the softening or coagulating point of the toner powder itself, but below the softening points of the plastic components of the cartridge. The polyester seal is inserted into the cartridge with the aid of a room temperature or even cold, metallic insertion tool, preferably made of a high magnetic permeability steel. Heating this cold tool, or subsequently inserting a hot tool, will cause the adhesive to melt and seal the cartridge.

Abstract: A method and system for significantly increasing the density of particulates on a substrate includes disposing a particulate material, such as fibers or abrasive material, onto a surface of the substrate, whereby the particles adhere to the substrate. The substrate is then exposed to conditions sufficient to cause the surface area, on which the particulate material is disposed, to diminish, thereby significantly increasing the density of the particulate material. The system includes a support on which the substrate is disposed, apparatus for disposing the particulate material in the substrate and apparatus for causing the surface on which the particulate material is disposed to significantly diminish.

Abstract: A method of curing the uncured adhesive on which elongated particles of material have been deposited in a relatively thick deposit or layer, (such as a flocked layer), the adhesive being on a substrate, which comprises subjecting the material to an electron beam directed toward the surface having the deposit, from apparatus for producing an electron beam of relatively low energy. The process is particularly adaptable to the curing of adhesives when used on heat-sensitive substrates, and/or where the particles may also be heat-sensitive, whose heat sensitivity would otherwise inherently limit the degree and speed of thermal curing that might be employed in order to cure the adhesive which holds the elongated particles to the substrate.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object is flocked by applying an adhesive to it, supporting it on a first side while applying fibers to the second side, and then curing the adhesive on most of the second side by directing a low energy electron beam at it that does not penetrate and cure the adhesive on the first side. The object is then supported on the second, cured, side while fibers are applied to the uncured first side, and then the electron beam is applied to cure the first side also.