Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced porous plastic tube which is essentially composed with fibers having a high tensile modulus such as glass fibers and a matrix resin such as polyethylene, and has continuous pores, and excellent mechanical strength. This porous tube is useful for structural materials in a building and/or construction, filters, diffusing tubes, drain materials and the like.

Abstract: An active silica gel honeycomb adsorbing body capable of adsorbing humidity and odorous components in a process air having 100% relative humidity. A single-faced corrugated sheet having a wave length of approximately 2.5-6.5 mm and a wave height of approximately 1.3-4.0 mm, a quantity of active silica gel approximately 0.5-3.0 times the weight of inorganic fiber papers and a thickness of approximately 0.1-0.3 mm is laminated to form a honeycomb structure laminated body. The honeycomb structure laminated body is impregnated with an aqueous water glass solution, and is then impregnated with acid and dried to form active silica gel having micropores and mesopores. The micropores and the mesopores have a diameter distributed in the range of not more than 200 .ANG. and a surface area of approximately 300-600 m.sup.2 /g. The active silica gel is adhered in fiber gaps and on the surface of the inorganic fiber paper.

Abstract: A labelling system (10) dispenses a web (36) of label material having a coating (43) of non-tacky activatable adhesive, subsequently activates the adhesive, cuts the web (36) preferrably using a pair of laser beams (52a, 52b) to produce labels (80) therefrom, and then applies the labels to respective packages (18). In another embodiment (90), a carrier sheet (104) is separated from an adhered web (102) whereupon the web (102) is then cut using a laser beam (52) to form labels (112) and a waste matrix (114). The labels (112) are then rejoined to the carrier sheet (104).

Abstract: An oriented, heat-sealable, multilayer polyolefin film is described, which includes a base layer containing polypropylene and resin, and at least one heat-sealable outer layer. The heat-sealable outer layer contains a propylene copolymer and/or a propylene terpolymer and a mixture of an antiblocking agent having a mean particle diameter of from 3 to 5 .mu.m and a further antiblocking agent having a mean particle diameter of from 1 to 2.5 .mu.m. In addition, a process for the production of the multilayer polyolefin film and the use of the film are described.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating a tail from a roll of material. The apparatus includes a rotator for rotating a roll of material about its longitudinal axis and a tail loosener for loosening a tail from the roll. Air flowing from a duct passes over a tail supporting surface to extend the tail along the surface. The apparatus may be used to arrange a tail before the tail is sealed to the roll.

Abstract: An insulating tape for the winding of an electric machine, in particular a rotary machine, may include an electric breakdown-resistant material, such as mica, of a support material, such as glass silk, and a thermoplastic adhesive for holding together the insulating tape. The adhesive may be a thermoplastic material having a continued use temperature at least one insulation class lower than the insulation class provided for the winding. The machine insulation has the required mechanical and electric stability after the winding insulation is impregnated with a hardenable resin.

Abstract: There is disclosed a composite web roll of pressure sensitive labels. The composite web comprises a composite label web including a carrier web and labels releasably adhered to the carrier web by pressure sensitive adhesive. By adhesively securing the underside of the carrier web of an end portion of the composite web to adjacent labels along the end portion, when the outer free end portion is unwound, the labels to which the adhesive is adhered are stripped from the carrier web. The disclosure also relates to method of making and using composite webs according to the invention.

Abstract: Fibrous substrates for the production of carbon and/or ceramic (including mixtures of these) fiber reinforced carbon and/or ceramic (including mixtures of these) composites and to methods of manufacture of same. A shaped fibrous structure comprising at least a first fibrous tape layer of a width generally corresponding to that of the fibrous structure to be formed, the first fibrous tape layer superposed upon and joined to least one other fibrous layer by needlepunching to produce cross-linking of the layers by fibers displaced out of the layers and extending in a direction generally perpendicular to the faces of the layers, and methods of making same.

Abstract: An elongate transfer tape assembly includes a water-resistant removable top and bottom liner with two adhesive strips, one which may be water soluble, the other water-resistant, between the liners and mounted on opposite sides of a carrier. The carrier preferably is wider than the adhesives to provide mechanized gripping area remote from the edge of the assembly being fed into the nip between a collecting spool and web drive roller. A water carrying pad preferably is mounted on the bottom of the carrier that when forced against paper by insertion into the nip will weaken the paper by contact with the pad or expulsion of water from the pad. Water may also be carried by the water soluble adhesive that is applied to the bottom of the carrier in lieu of the pad. The paper will attach to the tape assembly and be drawn to a collecting spool to which the tape assembly is attached. The paper will break along its weakened portion.

Abstract: Apparatus and process are described for impregnating a fibrous substrate with a thermosettable resin. The process involves the use of resin application means comprising a moving surface on which is positioned a liquid-form thermosettable resin in essentially uncured state, passing a fibrous web in countercurrent contact with the thermosettable resin so as to transfer the thermosettable resin into the fibrous web, and passing the resin-containing fibrous web to a heating zone to partially cure the resin and form a prepreg. The process is particularly suited for application of a solventless resin formulation to a glass web in the preparation of a prepreg for an electrical laminate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminate comprising at least two sheets of magnetic material is disclosed. The laminate may be used to form a stacked transformer core. The method increases the productivity of the core-stacking process, decreases the core loss destruction factor, decreases total core loss, decreases acoustic noise generated by the electrical device employing the laminate, and does all of this in a manner which is commercially practical. The method comprises applying an adhesive, preferably a hot melt adhesive, in a pattern of thin beads onto one side of a first lamina or sheet of magnetic material, the pattern comprising a plurality of lines, the lines being substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to a direction of grain orientation or rolling direction of the lamina. A second lamina is then stacked onto the one side of the first lamina, and then a compressive force is applied to specified areas of the laminate.

Abstract: For forming a fine pattern of ferroelectric film without using a resist, a solution containing polyalkoxide having ferroelectric components, as a base part, and functional groups to be activated when exposed to electromagnetic waves or corpuscular beams is used as a pattern forming agent. The pattern form agent is coated onto a substrate, and then electromagnetic or corpuscular beams are radiated thereover to form crosslinks between molecules in the agent. After the crosslinks are cured, the portions devoid of any crosslink and hence uncured are removed using a solvent. Then the molecules associated with the crosslinks remaining on the substrate are then heated to form a ferroelectric crystal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of forming coreless rolls of pressure sensitive adhesive tape involves the use of a mandrel assembly having a specific circumferential tape supporting segment thereon for winding tape. The circumferential tape supporting segment has a tape engaging surface portion that, in a radial orientation, is compressible yet sufficiently stiff to support the tape as it is successively wound about the mandrel to form a tape roll, and that is sufficiently pliant to permit ready axial removal of a wound tape roll from the shaft. The innermost wrap of pressure sensitive adhesive tape about the mandrel is masked by an adhesive liner. That liner is formed from one portion of a liner/tab segment which had been applied to the tape previously, and prior to winding, the tape is severed, and the remainder of that liner/tab forms an end tab on the outermost end of the previously formed coreless tape roll.

Abstract: A method of fabricating ceramic green sheets with supporting films, in which first and second supporting films 13 and 14 are respectively affixed to both surfaces of a pressure sensitive adhesive double coated tape 12 to construct a supporting member 11, first and second ceramic green sheets 20 and 21 are respectively formed on both surfaces of the supporting member 11, and the first ceramic green sheet 20, along with the first supporting film 13, is stripped from the adhesive tape 12, thereby to obtain the ceramic green sheets 20 and 21 respectively supported by the supporting films 13 and 14.

Abstract: A flexible, non-water absorbing insulation system is described for insulating articles exposed to relatively cold temperatures. This insulation system is especially adapted for insulating delivery or transfer hoses used with cryogenic liquid transfer operations. The insulating material is a thermoplastic sheet-like layer having gas-filled cells to which is attached or bonded to a metallized thermoplastic film. In one embodiment, the metallized thermoplastic material is bonded to the smooth side of the thermoplastic sheet-like material. In another embodiment, metallized thermoplastic material is bonded to both sides of the cell-containing thermoplastic material. The sheet-like insulating material is wrapped at least twice around the hose or article to be insulated. Slits may be cut in the insulating material to make the hose self draining whereby any condensed water can gravity drain once the temperature is above the freezing point of water.

Abstract: A fully absorbable prosthesis (1) for the repair of damaged ligaments and/or tendons in the form of a multilayer spiral roll comprising the following spiral layers: a foraminous layer (2) of a synthetic bioabsorbable material; a bioabsorbable film (3); and a layer (4) of a bioabsorbable biopolymer sponge. The invention also provides a method of making such a prosthesis, comprising the steps of: providing a laminate of a foraminous layer of bioabsorbable material and a bioabsorbable film; coating the laminate with a layer of an aqueous gel comprising a bioabsorbable polymer; rolling up the laminate and the gel layer into a spiral roll, followed by drying the gel to form a layer of bioabsorbable sponge. The foraminous layer (2) preferably comprises a synthetic bioabsorbable polymer having high tensile strength. The bioabsorbable film (3) and sponge layer (4) preferably comprise a chemotactic biopolymer such as collagen.

Abstract: Wrapped covering material, e.g. tape is applied around an elongate substrate, such as a pipe, using an apparatus comprising a hollow frame mounted on rollers that is rotatable about the substrate, a delivery device for holding the covering material, mounted on the frame, and pressure rollers designed to press down on the covering material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sealing the tail of a convolutely wound log which includes the steps of providing a turret rotatably mounted in a frame and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart three-roll clusters, feeding a log into a first cluster while positioning an immediately previously fed log with a draped tail in another cluster adjacent glue apparatus and while ejecting an even earlier fed log now rewound from still another cluster, and providing a log infeed mechanism adjacent the turret and including a pair of relatively movable rollers, feeding logs sequentially into the pair of said rollers, rotating the infeed rollers to orient the log tail in a predetermined position, by providing a mark on said log prior to the feeding step, and detecting said mark to orient the tail in a predetermined position.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing filter elements, in which sealant does not get onto the rolling claw and rolling of the roll filter paper is made easy. A long roll filter paper having laterally oriented filter parts for filtering, the filter parts being open on the inflow side of the roll filter paper and closed on the outflow side of the roll filter paper, is rolled. During rolling, a sealant is applied to the surface of the roll filter paper in a narrow longitudinal strip, in such a way that the sealant does not make contact with the rolling claw. The roll-start end of the roll filter paper is gripped with the rolling claw during rolling. The rolling claw is made up of 2 or 4 rolling bars having the shape of the parts produced when a cylinder is split into two halves along its axis.

Abstract: Spiral bands having a plurality of convolutions of a high tensile strength composite material are formed by feeding a plurality of continuous high tensile strength fibers through an uncured resin to form a web, depositing the web on a release web having at least one substantially planar surface to form a laminate, winding the laminate around the mandrel to form a plurality of overlapping convolutions, curing the resin in the composite web to set the convolutions in a spiral configuration, and then removing the release web from the composite web. The convolutions of the spiral bands in accordance with this process have substantially planar surfaces and an elastic memory. These bands can be used to reinforce axially extending structures having internal forces directed radially outward therefrom by wrapping the band around the structure with a layer of adhesive applied to hold the convolutions in place.

Abstract: A taping method and apparatus for performing at least one taping operation. Each taping operation is performed by adhering an extra length of adhering allowance of a tape to an outer surface of a coil having a coil bobbin rotatably supported by a spindle. A tape retaining means is used to retain the tape against a tape rolling means while a foremost end of the tape is projected, by a distance corresponding to the extra length of adhering allowance, ahead of a retaining position defined by the tape retaining means. The distance between the spindle and the tape rolling means is shortened until they come into contact thereby causing the extra length of adhering allowance to adhere to the outer surface of the coil.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing recyclable paper pallets utilizes spool-shaped laminated supports which are wound on a spool-shaped mandrel utilizing adhesive coated paper strips. In one aspect of the invention, the spool-shaped laminated supports can be glued to conventional upper and lower pallet skin sheets also made of paper material, such as corrugated paperboard. In another aspect of the invention, the spool-shaped pallet supports are utilized in a system in which the pallet is integrated directly into a pre-strapped load. In this system, a slip sheet is strapped directly to the bottom of a load and the slip sheet is glued directly to the upper faces of an array of pallet supports, sufficient to support the load and to provide the spacers or standoffs for subsequent insertion of lifting equipment, such as a lifting fork, beneath the load. The inherent rigidity of the strapped load may be sufficient to compensate for the lack of rigidity of the thin paper slip sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining a plurality of textile webs together in side-by-side relation includes a feeder for positioning a first textile web overlying a second textile web and advancing the textile webs along a predetermined path of travel, an ultrasonic horn and anvil for forming a relatively narrow flexible joint between the textile webs by heat fusing together adjacent portions thereof, and an unfolding frame for unfolding the textile webs about the joint so that the textile webs lie in a common plane to define the relatively wide textile fabric. More particularly, in order to form the convolute roll of the relatively wide textile fabric, the apparatus also preferably includes a driven take-up spindle positioned downstream from the unfolding frame to wind the relatively wide textile fabric into successive convolute wound layers.

Abstract: A method of producing a developing roller applicable to a developing device included in an image forming apparatus and capable of carrying a great amount of toner thereon by generating microfields. The surface of a conductive base is covered with a net constituting of conductive fibers and dielectric fibers woven together. The fibers are heated by a heater to melt with the result that conductive portions and dielectric portions appear on the surface of the developing roller.

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 method of forming a flower bouquet for decorative use wherein the bouquet includes at least one flower and a conically shaped decorative wrap. The wrap is a sheet of transparent plastic material or paper with decorative designs. An end edge of the sheet has an adhesive strip layer. A peel-off ribbon, which initially covered the adhesive layer, encircles the conically shaped sheet with its ends tied together. A method of making the bouquet is also provided.

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: A method for manufacturing filter elements, in which sealant does not get onto the rolling claw and rolling of the roll filter paper is made easy.A long roll filter paper having laterally oriented filter parts for filtering, the filter parts being open on the inflow side of the roll filter paper and closed on the outflow side of the roll filter paper, is rolled. During rolling, a sealant is applied to the surface of the roll filter paper in a narrow longitudinal strip, in such a way that the sealant does not make contact with the rolling claw. The roll-start end of the roll filter paper is gripped with the rolling claw during rolling. The rolling claw is made up of 2 or 4 rolling bars having the shape of the parts produced when a cylinder is split into two halves along its axis.

Abstract: An adhesive tape is provided which is obtained starting from a roll of composite material consisting of a first continuous strip or tape of film material and a second continuous strip in a material having low adherence to adhesives, such as a siliconized continuous backing strip, the film material being a high-strength polymeric material film having adhered to one face thereof at least one extremely thin continuous run of adhesive obtained by applying said continuous backing strip onto said tape whereby said adhesive remains on said tape after removal of said continuous backing strip by virtue of the greater adhesion of said adhesive to said tape than to said continuous backing strip, said adhesive tape being useful for splicing continuous webs of thin films.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb deodorizing filter including ceramic fibrous paper supporting cuprous oxide or both cuprous oxide and solid acid includes the steps of: soaking ceramic fibrous paper in a slurry; drying the soaked paper; and forming the dried paper into a honeycomb filter. The slurry includes a mixture of a reductant-added water solution with either (i) the cuprous oxide and binder, or (ii) cuprous oxide, solid acid and binder. Alternately, the fibrous paper and binder may first be formed into a honeycomb filter and then soaked in the slurry.

Abstract: A method of making a thermoplastic laminate includes the steps of extruding a tubular polymeric film; collapsing the extruded film to form a layflat film; slitting the edges of the collapsed film to form two plies; taking up both plies of the slit film onto a single take up roll to form a double wound film with two plies, the film having first and second outside surfaces; corona treating the first outside surface of the double wound film; applying a varnish to the treated surface; printing the varnished surface; corona treating the second outside surface of the double wound film; and taking up the printed film onto a wind-up roll such that the treated printed surface of one ply of the film in the roll bonds to the treated second outside surface on an adjacent wind in the roll, thereby forming a laminate. Alternatively, two separate films may be taken up on a take up roll to form a double wound film, and processed as described. The result is a trap printed laminate with good machinability and other properties.

Abstract: A method of winding a continuous web on a succession of cores comprises the steps of sequentially rotating a core to which the web is attached to longitudinally advance the web and wind it on the core while applying a strip of adhesive to a transfer roller and then stopping rotation of the core. Subsequently a crosswise row of perforations is formed in the web offset from the core and then the web is longitudinally advanced while pressing the roller against the web to transfer the adhesive strip to the web at and immediately upstream and downstream from the perforation row. The web is subsequently differentially. longitudinally advanced web upstream and downstream of the perforation row to tear the web longitudinally apart at the perforation row, thereby forming a trailing web end attached to the web wound on the core and a leading web end each carrying some of the adhesive strip.

Abstract: Rolls of toilet paper are produced by winding a paper web around each of a plurality of air permeable cylindrical cores each having a fixed, outer diameter while applying a liquid to only a leading portion of each web so that wound webs each having a wet inner portion are formed. After drying the wound webs to integrally bind the inner portion, the core is separated from each of the wound webs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing shipping rolls of wrinkle free ballistics type film faced composite sheet material which when assembled and cured on a shipping tube is subject to having surface wrinkles and creases. By assembling the material on a forming roll of large diameter, such that the thickness of the wound wraps of a given length of the sheet material is relatively thin, the deformation of each wrap is minimized during heat and compression curing and the cured material is free of surface wrinkles and creases. The cure-stabilized material then can be unwound and cut to desired length and wound on a small diameter shipping tube to provide a shipping package of material free of wrinkles and creases. The curing apparatus includes a cylinder with an internally lined inflatable bladder, such cylinder being adaptable to being moved into surrounding relation with the sheet material.

Abstract: A reinforced elastomer cover for use on conditioning rolls in harvesting machines for conditioning crop material. The roll cover comprises one or more layers or plies of reinforcing material interspersed between and bonded to layers of the elastomer. The reinforcing material preferably comprises fibers of synthetic polymers or glass. The reinforced elastomer sheets are placed on roll cores and bonded or otherwise secured to the outer periphery of the roll core. The reinforced elastomer sheets are also molded or machined to possess the desired tread pattern. The sheets may be assembled and bonded directly on a roll core and thereafter vulcanized; or the vulcanized sheets may be bonded or otherwise secured to the cores.

Abstract: The present invention provides a CFRP-made optical cylinder comprising, as the main CFRP layers, (a) CFRP layers containing a carbon fiber arranged in a direction substantially parallel to the cylinder axial direction and (b) CFRP layers containing a carbon fiber arranged in a direction making an angle of substantially.+-.(40.about.50) degree to the cylinder axial direction, in which cylinder at least 50% by weight of the carbon fiber arranged in a direction substantially parallel to the cylinder axial direction has a linear expansion coefficient of -1.times.10.sup.-6 /.degree.C. or less and at least 50% by weight of the carbon fiber arranged in a direction making all angle of substantially.+-.(40.about.50) degree to the cylinder axial direction has a linear expansion coefficient of -1.times.10.sup.-6 /.degree.C. or less, and which cylinder has a linear expansion coefficient of -0.5.times.10.sup.-6 /.degree.C. to 0.5.times.10.sup.-6 /.degree.C. in the axial direction.

Abstract: Rolls of toilet paper are produced by winding a paper web around each of a plurality of air permeable cylindrical cores each having a fixed, outer diameter while applying a liquid to only a leading portion of each web so that wound webs each having a wet inner portion are formed. After drying the wound webs to integrally bind the inner portion, the core is separated from each of the wound webs.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of tubular rubber articles includes a) forming a tube of uncured rubber on a mandrel; b) wrapping the tubular rubber by winding with a film laminate including i) at least one layer of a heat stabilized, oriented nylon film having a thickness of from 13 to 50 .mu.m and having a shrinkage of 2 to 10% in the machine direction, laminated to ii) at least one heat stabilized film selected from an oriented nylon film having a thickness of from 13 to 50 .mu.m and having a shrinkage of 2 to 10% in the machine direction, or a cast nylon film having a thickness of from 15 to 155 .mu.m and having a shrinkage of 0.5 to 1.5% in the machine direction; and c) curing the rubber at an elevated temperature.

Abstract: A laminated magnetic core is characterized in that core-forming thin sheets each having a surface roughness such that the maximum height Rmax is at least 1 .mu.m are laminated together with a sheet-to-sheet distance of 2 to 10 .mu.m, desirably 3 to 6 .mu.m and that at least a part of protruded portions of the opposite roughed surfaces is diffusion-bonded to each other at the interface between adjacent thin sheets. The laminated magnetic core may have innumberable voids present at the diffusion-bonded interface between the adjacent thin sheets. This invention further provides a method of manufacturing a laminated magnetic core comprising the steps of providing a plurality of core-forming thin sheets each having a surface roughness such that the maximum height Rmax is at least 1 .mu.m; laminating and bonding said core-forming thin sheets one upon another through an organic adhesive, desirably at a sheet-to-sheet distance of 2 to 10 .mu.

Abstract: Disclosed are a process for producing a tubular nonwoven fabric and tubular nonwoven fabrics produced by the same. In the process, a web is formed on a first rotating cylinder by catching fibers carried to the surface of the first rotating cylinder by a fluid, the web is transferred to a second rotating cylinder, a tube of the transferred web is formed on and around the second rotating cylinder, and the tube is drawn in the axial direction of the second rotating cylinder to form a tubular nonwoven fabric. The tubular nonwoven fabric with a high unit weight can be produced without elongating or breaking the nonwoven fabric, and the diameter of the tubular nonwoven fabric can be freely changed.

Abstract: This invention provides for a continuous PTFE fiber having on its surface a substantially round profile and a single spiralling seam formed from a continuous sheet of polytetrafluoroethylene which is helically rolled and self-adhered. The PTFE sheet may include microporous PTFE as well as expanded microporous PTFE. The PTFE sheet may be filled with particulate fillers or coated with polymeric coatings prior to the formation of the inventive fiber. The PTFE sheet may be used to contain various filamentary or sheet-like elements with the inventive fiber.The method for producing the inventive fiber is also disclosed.

Abstract: An insulating tape for winding coils which includes a guide sheet having a predetermined width and a plurality of narrow insulating strips provided with adhesive on both surfaces thereof and removably connected to the guide sheet at predetermined spaces, facilitating accurate winding of insulating strips on a bobbin or the like and further enabling the winding operation to be carried out automatically.

Abstract: This invention provides spiral-wound hollow fiber membrane fabric-containing cartridges and modules for separations and other phase contact applications, including tube sheets having improved solvent resistance and mechanical durability which are fabricated by extrusion of thermoplastic resins having particular defined characteristics, and methods for making the same.

Abstract: A fiber drum and the method of making the same having a detachable lining fabricated therewith but removable therefrom after a first use to allow for the reuse or recycling of the drum.

Abstract: Apparatus for winding web material (14) comprises a reciprocating carriage assembly (22) which delivers the leading end of the web to a winding spindle (30) and then moves away from the spindle as winding proceeds. A builder roll (138) mounted on the carriage assembly applies pressure during winding. A tape tab (178) is automatically applied to the trailing end of the web and pressed onto the completed roll (140) by the builder roll, while a stepping motor (176) for the builder roll resists the winding motor to maintain tension in the final convolution of the web. A corresponding method is taught.

Abstract: A process for preparing a moisture exchange element which comprises impregnating a substrate made of organic or inorganic fiber with an aqueous impregnating solution containing colloidal silica, an acid and a metallic cation; drying and gelatinizing the impregnating solution deposited on the impregnated substrate is disclosed. The absorbent formed on the substrate after the impregnating solution is dried has a pore size of about 60-70 .ANG., thus allowing the moisture exchange element of the present invention to provide improved moisture adsorbing/desorbing ability.

Abstract: The glueing apparatus includes a pair of endless conveyor members (13, 15) whose active branches (13A, 15A) are parallel, with one superimposed above the other and spaced apart to an extent corresponding to the diameter of the rolls or logs (R) and moving in the same direction whereby to move the log forward. The upper active branch (15A) extends further than the lower active branch (13A). Unwind mechanism (31) for unwinding the tail (L) of the material of the log (R) is located upstream of the lower endless conveyor member (13) and controlled by an optical sensor which checks the length of said tail. Downstream of the lower endless conveyor member (13) a glue dispenser (58) dispenses glue from below onto the outer surface of the log. A subsequent rewinding station (R) is located downstream of the lower continuous conveyor member (13).

Abstract: A method of making a pipe-like member such as a fishing rod and a golf club is disclosed. According to the method, a tape-like prepreg is formed by overlaying each other a first fiber layer comprised of fibers aligned along a longitudinal direction of the layer and a second fiber layer comprised of fibers aligned in a direction substantially normal to the fiber alignment direction of the first fiber layer. Then, the tape-like prepreg is wound about a mandrel with a turn of the prepreg being widthwise overlapped with an adjacent turn of the prepreg. Thereafter, the assembly is sintered.

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.