Abstract: An apparatus transposes a matrix of semiconductor pellets mounted on a first adhesive tape to a second adhesive tape in such a manner that the respective pellet rows are arranged spaced from the adjacent pellet rows. It has pellet-supporting means having an inclined plane and apical plane. The first adhesive tape bearing the matrix is carried stepwise along the inclined plane toward the apical plane to successively bring the respective rows of the matrix to the apical plane. Above the apical plane, a second adhesive tape is carried in a direction intersecting the pellet columns at right angles with the adhesive plane thereof facing the matrix. When each row mounted on the first tape is on the apical plane, the second tape is pressed against the row. Each time one pellet row is transposed to the second tape, the pellet-supporting means is shifted in a direction intersecting the pellet columns at right angles.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for printing floor tile. The transfer sheet containing the design to be placed upon the floor tile is utilized as the carrier for the floor tile as it passes through the processing operation. The floor tile is positioned upon the transfer sheet in register with the design on the transfer sheet. The tile is held in position on the transfer sheet by static electricity and is fed between laminated rolls which laminate the transfer sheet to the floor tile. Subsequent removal of the transfer sheet from the floor tile leaves the design of the transfer sheet on the surface of the floor tile.

Abstract: The tamperproof document consists of a photographic material as information carrier which is laminated on one or both sides with a transparent foil. The foil is attached to the surface of the information carrier by a layer of adhesive containing poly-1,2-alkyleneimine. The document is eminently saft against falsification.

Abstract: A process for preventing the counterfeiting of valuable documents through use of photography, photocopying techniques, or other methods of counterfeiting. The process includes laminating an extremely thin metallic film to the substrate of the valuable document before the document is printed with the area of the metallic film being small in comparison to the area of the document. The metallic film can be located anywhere on the face of the document and a "latent image" is embossed on the metallic film when the document is printed. Embossing the latent image on the metallic film, rather than on the document substrate, provides many advantages not possible in the prior art.A photocopy of a document containing the embossed metallic film does not include the latent image and a color photocopy will be different in color than the original document. Therefore, a lay observer can readily differentiate between a genuine document and a counterfeit document.

Abstract: A method of and composition for developing latent fingerprints on various surfaces including but not limited to glass, plastic, various metals such as copper, brass and the like and other materials such as paper which involves subjecting the latent fingerprints to gaseous fumes produced by cyanoacrylate ester, sodium bicarbonate and sulfur which will develop the latent fingerprints in a very short period of time thereby enabling the fingerprints to be easily lifted by conventional techniques for comparison with known fingerprints. The method of developing latent fingerprints of this invention may be used at the site of a crime by providing the fumes in a pressurized container so that the fumes can be directed into contact with the surface on which the latent fingerprints appear. The method is also effective at the laboratory by providing a container of sufficient size to receive the article or articles on which the fingerprints occur and a quantity of the composition which produces the fumes.

Abstract: A release film is coated with a thin layer of metal by, for example, a vapor deposition process. The film is then stretched over a composite object, made, e.g., of fiberglass-epoxy or graphite-epoxy, which one desires to metallize. A treatment involving either vacuum or pressure and that may involve heat is used to transfer the thin metal layer to the composite object. The stretchable film is then peeled off the object, leaving a metal coating bonded to the object. The epoxy resin or other adhesive in the composite material gives structural integrity to the object as well as provides a bond for the metal, so that the composite object may be molded and metallized in one step. Alternatively, a two-step process of molding then metallizing or metallizing then molding can be employed.

Abstract: A laminated construction having differential release characteristics is provided which will yield a self-detackifying adhesive surface upon delamination. The laminate is produced by coating a film of a polymeric material onto one side of a face stock material and then laminating this construction to an adhesive which has been coated onto a release liner. The release liner is removed and the remaining portion of the laminate is affixed to a suitable substrate utilizing the exposed adhesive surface. The polymeric material is chosen so that upon delamination of the face stock from the substrate, it remains affixed to the adhesive coating. This results in a self-detackified adhesive surface on the substrate. The laminate construction is useful for tags, labels, stickers, and the like as well as for sending credit, business, or membership cards on preprinted mailers to ultimate users.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film-paper fiber layer laminate comprising a film and a very thin paper fiber layer bonded to the surface of the film. This laminate is prepared by bonding films to both surfaces of a paper so that the adhesive bond strength between the film and the paper is higher than the failure strength of the paper fiber layer and separating the films by delamination. This film-paper fiber layer laminate is excellent in the transparency and dimension stability, and the tearing strength of the film per se is completely retained and the laminate is suitably used as a tracing paper.

Abstract: Radiation curable coating vehicles, suitable for transfer coating application and strippable from a variety of carrying webs, can be produced by proper selection of coating ingredients and cured either by actinic radiation or electron beams. Potential crosslink density (as herein defined), glass transition temperature and the relative presence or absence of specific adhesion-promoting functional groups are controlled to arrive at a coating composition having the desired degree of adhesion to the substrate to be coated and the carrying web which is to transfer the coating composition to that substrate.

Abstract: A method of transferring indicia from a first support base, such as a paper sheet, which is coated with a release agent, to a receiver surface, such as a wall or window. An adhesive surface is pressed against the first support base in order to transfer the indicia from the first support base to the adhesive surface. The adhesive bearing the indicia is then applied to a receiver surface to provide the receiver surface with a protected image. Preferably the indicia is a fused xerographic image and the release agent coated on the first support base is a unique radiation-curable fluorine-containing abherent coating composition.

Abstract: An integrated process for laminating a continuous layer of photosensitive composition to the surface of each member of a series of substrate elements and automatically trimming the layer from the leading and trailing edges of the laminated substrate elements.

Abstract: A magnetic recording structure comprises (1) a substrate having an outer surface, and (2) a laminar magnetic recording piece disposed adjacent to at least one part of the outer surface of the substrate, the recording piece comprising a magnetic layer, a color layer and a non-magnetic metal deposition layer interposed between the magnetic layer and the color layer, the magnetic layer being closer to the substrate than the color layer.The non-magnetic metal deposition layer disposed on the magnetic layer has high hiding power and, even in the form of an extremely thin layer, can effectively hide the color of the magnetic material.Accordingly, this magnetic recording structure can be produced with a surface of a beautiful color without impairing its magnetic characteristics.

Abstract: A composite material and method for forming graphics such as letters or numbers that are pressure transferable to a substrate. The composite material includes an accepting tape including a layer of latent adhesive material on a receiving web, and a friable slightly adhesive layer lightly adhered to a donor web. When the layers are pressed together and the composite material is selectively heated in graphic patterns, corresponding portions of the adhesive material and friable layer adhere together so that upon subsequent separation of the layer of adhesive and the donor web portions of the friable layer transfer to the accepting tape in the heated areas to provide graphics. When the graphics are then positioned against a substrate and are pressed against the substrate by rubbing pressure applied through the receiving web, the adhesive layer will tear around the graphic and separate from the receiving web over the graphic so that the graphic will be transferred to the substrate.

Abstract: A polygonally shaped, multifaceted rotary scanner comprising a plurality of optically flat, reflective surfaces on the facets. The reflective surfaces are integrally bonded to a multifaceted, polygonal base at precise angles to the axis of rotation by a replication technique in which each optically flat reflective surface is produced on the surface of a flat master preform, and the flat master preform is then accurately located in position at the precise angle relative to the base by contact with upper and lower facets of a master multifaceted polygonal fixture. The flat reflective surface is then adhesively bonded to the corresponding facet of the polygonal base (while the polygonal base is arranged concentrically between the upper and lower facets of the fixture) by the application of a small quantity of a liquid adhesive to the surface of the facet of the polygonal base. On hardening, the adhesive bonds the reflective layer of each master preform to the appropriate facet of the polygonal base.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for the spiral winding of a filament wherein e.g. a wire is directed by a guide plate into the spiral groove of a template and the template is rotated to wind the wire into a spiral winding. The winding is then bonded to a backer member to form a spirally wound element e.g. an electrostatic driver component in a speaker unit and the element is then separated from the template.

Abstract: A method of applying microelectronic circuit elements, such as high definition thin-film microwave components, typically to a lower definition thick film or printed circuit board substrate. The method described involves the formation of a high definition microwave filter on the surface of a transparent, flexible carrier substrate using thin film deposition techniques, and the circuit element is then adhesive bonded face down in an appropriate position in a thick film circuit on the surface of a second, permanent substrate. The thin film circuit element is formed with contact areas which overlap cooperating portions of the thick film circuit on insertion of the circuit element to provide electrical connections. The carrier substrate may then be removed, eg by dissolving, and the overlapping contact areas may be permanently bonded together. Thus only the high definition parts of the micro-circuit need be fabricated using expensive thin film technology.

Abstract: A tipping machine of the type in which articles, such as credit cards, identification cards or the like, are secured by adhesive to a continuous sheet at predetermined spaced intervals on the sheet. A feeder initially positions the articles on the moving sheet at or slightly behind the desired position, and a pusher mechanism is provided behind the card to accelerate to a speed greater than the speed of the moving web, contact the rear edge of the card, and align it to a desired orientation, and, if necessary, push it forwardly on the sheet to the desired position.The pusher operates in timed relation to the feeding mechanism and in relation to position of the spaced areas thereon intended to receive the articles, so that the pusher speed reaches the speed of the moving web simultaneously with the arrival of the forward end of the pusher at the position on the sheet at which the trailing edge of the article is to be positioned.

Abstract: A contrasting color is imparted to the decorative surface of a decorative laminate by inserting a pigment coated release sheet between the molding caul and the decorative surface during the molding operation, with the pigment facing the decorative surface. Upon application of heat and pressure during the formation of the laminate, color is transferred from the release sheet to the decorative surface. A suitable technique is also used to emboss or impart surface texture to the decorative surface during molding. Thereafter, the textured surface is subjected to rubbing or brushing to remove more color from the embossed or raised areas than the debossed areas, thereby highlighting or imparting a shaded effect to the textured surface.

Abstract: A method of transferring a substance adhering to the surface of a substrate to a receiving surface of a backing element which includes locating the substrate surface in juxtaposition with the receiving surface, supplying a transfer medium on the receiving surface in sufficient quantity to encapsulate the substance, joining the transfer medium on the backing element with a substance so as to encapsulate the substance within the transfer medium and removing the substrate to expose the encapsulated substance.

Abstract: An acid of the formula A--COOH).sub.x, or an anhydride thereof, wherein x is an integer of 1 or 2, wherein the acid groups are vicinal if x is 2, and A is phenyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 alkylene, C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 alkenylene, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 bridged or nonbridged cycloalkylene or cylcoalkenylene, with the proviso that A is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl if x is 1, renders ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene elastomers more adherent to fibers that have been treated with a resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex dip when said elastomers are cured directly onto said fibers.

Abstract: A system for the manufacture of leatherlike materials, particularly for shoe uppers, which avoids pollution, toxicity and fire hazards and makes it possible for the shoe manufacturer to make his shoe upper materials as required with a minimum of investment in inventory of raw materials and with simple, relatively inexpensive equipment.

Abstract: A process for the metallization of a substrate and the product formed thereby. An extremely thin (substantially less than the wavelength of light) coat of metallic particles is deposited on a transfer agent. A thin coat of varnish is applied to either the substrate or the transfer agent, the substrate and the transfer agent are laminated together and the varnish is cured. The metallic particles will become absorbed within the varnish and the substrate and transfer agent are then separated. The substrate is provided with a highly polished specular metallic finish.

Abstract: Fingerprint powder and method for developing latent fingerprints therewith, such powder comprised of a powder carrier, especially a mixture of silica and talc, containing a coloring agent, preferably a fluorescent dye. The fingerprint powder can be applied by blowing the powder over a surface containing latent fingerprints, or by brushing or pouring the powder on such surface, or by immersion thereof in such powder, thus developing and revealing a bright, sharp fingerprint, which can be photographed or lifted by applying tape or a strippable coating over the print.

Abstract: A composite material for forming graphics such as letters or numbers. The composite material includes a layer of latent adhesive material, a mono-layer of granules lightly adhered to a donor web, and a thin layer of bonding material between and in face-to-face contact with the layers of granules and adhesive. The layer of bonding material maintains the adhesive and granular layers in close proximity and excludes air from therebetween. When the composite material is selectively heated in graphic patterns, corresponding portions of the bonding layer melt; and corresponding portions of the adhesive material and granular layer soften, absorb the melted portions of the bonding layer and adhere together. Upon subsequent separation of the layer of adhesive and the donor web the remaining portions of the layer of bonding material separate, whereas granules transfer to the accepting tape in the heated areas to provide the graphics.

Abstract: This process comprises the steps of depositing a suitable maskant which is resistant to the chemicals used in chem-milling on a back-up sheet such as thin plastic, punching or cutting the desired pattern to be removed from the sheet metal through the maskant and the back-up sheet, then applying the maskant by adhering the same to the sheet metal surface with the plastic back-up sheet on the outside surface. The back-up sheet/maskant combination is placed on both sides of the sheet metal where the thickness of the sheet metal requires chem-milling from both surfaces. For thin metal, one surface of the material can be directly coated with the maskant while the other surface employs the back-up sheet/maskant combination.

Abstract: A process for obtaining a shiny metallized surface on a plated or laminated material by either coating the surface with a varnish, and then applying a plastic film which has been covered with a metallizing agent until the varnish absorbs the agent and sets; or applying a plastic film which has been precovered with metallizing agent and precoated with a varnish to a surface until the varnish sets. The film acts as both a carrier and a glossing element.

Abstract: A method resulting from proper use of a press-type mechanism by means of which reflective, mirror-forming layers in the form of coatings or conventional mirrors are transferred in pairs from right-angle master surfaces on prism-like blocks to right-angle mirror blanks, and the latter with the mirror-forming layers thereon are then delivered to the optical system of the shell of a binocular or like viewing instrument where they automatically become cemented in place so that the mirror-forming layers assume an accurate porro relationship. The existence of the cementitious material which is used for the cementing operation compensates for discrepancies in manufacturing tolerances of either the mirror blanks or the binocular shell.

Abstract: Process for transferring overlayed multiple ink patterns from the surface of a release blanket to a receiving surface on a container or other formed article being printed. A substantially transparent film is first formed on the release blanket, with each ink pattern being printed sequentially over this release film. Proper printing on the release film without picking the release film or previously applied ink films is obtained when certain adhesive and cohesive relationships are maintained between the ink films and the release film. An adhesive film may be formed on the article to be printed, or it may be formed over the ink films and the release film on the release blanket. The receiving surface on the article to be printed is brought into contact with the films on the release blanket, with a resulting total transfer of the films on the blanket to the surface of the article.

Abstract: A composite strip material for forming graphics such as letters, numbers, symbols or pictures. The strip includes an accepting tape comprising a layer of latent adhesive material in face-to-face contact with a layer of microgranules lightly adhered to a donor web. At least one of the layers bears a radiation absorbing pigment which, when selectively heated in accordance with a pattern of radiation, momentarily softens adjacent portions of the adhesive material. Upon separation of the accepting tape and donor web, microgranules transfer to the accepting tape only in irradiated areas.

Abstract: A method of transferring a substance adhering to the surface of a substrate to a receiving surface of a backing element which includes locating the substrate surface in juxtaposition with the receiving surface, supplying a transfer medium on the receiving surface in sufficient quantity to encapsulate the substance, joining the transfer medium on the backing element with a substance so as to encapsulate the substance within the transfer medium and removing the substrate to expose the encapsulated substance.

Abstract: A process for transferring printed information, in the form of printing ink, from a printed paper to a non-porous substrate by the application of a solvent to the surfaces of an adhesive coating on the printed information surface and a surface of the substrate, followed immediately by the application of pressure to unite the adhesive surfaces together and the subsequent dissolution and removal of the paper leaving the printed information attached to the substrate by means of the adhesive.

Abstract: A method for imprinting permanent indicia on backsized pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes comprising contacting the tape with a heat-sublimable dye source material in conjunction with a stencil or raised relief-imaged heat-conductive platen, and raising the temperature to a point sufficient to vaporize the dye, whereupon at least a portion of the dye penetrates through the backsizing to become absorbed in the flexible tape backing. In this manner, the image contained on the tape is permanent, smudge-proof and abrasion-resistant.

Abstract: In the method for making an article having a replicated coating with a durable dielectric overcoat. A master is formed having a surface to be replicated formed thereon. A parting compound such as silicon oil is placed on the surface while under a vacuum. An optical coating is formed in reverse order, with the protective coat first and the reflective coat last, on the coated surface while in the vacuum under a low temperature to cause initial curing of the protective coat without reevaporation of the silicon oil. Thereafter, the optical coating on the master is post-cured in air at an elevated temperature to cause final curing and hardening of the protective coat. After the post-curing has been completed, the replicated part, if desired, is transferred to the part to carry the same and is mounted thereon by a sealing plastic.

Abstract: A base board for printed circuits prepared by the additive process, obtained by heating under pressure a layer comprising at least one sheet of prepreg comprising a thermosetting resin as impregnant and a layer of composition comprising a semi-cured thermosetting resin and a nitrile rubber, said layer of composition being placed on one or both sides of said prepreg layer to integrate said layers as a finished laminate. This base board is used in the additive process for manufacturing a printed circuit board having favorable properties with strong adhesion between the circuit and the base board without showing any warp or twist.

Abstract: A process for preparing a mold for relief printing masters, said mold having an adhesive silicone surface, is provided comprising depositing a particulate material in image configuration on a suitable substrate, contacting said substrate with a second member comprising a substrate with an adhesive coating of a silicone gum curable to an adhesive elastomeric condition such that the adhesive gum is in contact with the image material, separating the members whereby the silicone layer splits in the nonimaged areas and is prevented from splitting by the transfer of the particulate image material to the second member in the image areas, and curing the silicone gum on the first member to an adhesive elastomeric condition to provide a mold for printing masters.

Abstract: A method for the production of a material for printed circuits is disclosed. A temporary base is coated by electroplating with a thin, unbroken and unpatterned metallic layer having a thickness less than 17.mu.m and the free surface of said metallic layer is bonded to a final insulating base. The temporary base is thereafter removed and the desired wiring pattern is produced by a process comprising etching of the metal layer. A material for use in production of printed circuits is also disclosed comprising a temporary base which is coated by electroplating with a thin, unbroken and unpatterned metal layer having a thickness less than 17.mu.m. Said material can comprise a final, insulating base bonded to the free surface of the thin metal layer.

Abstract: A plurality of small articles, such as beam-lead semiconductor devices, are precisely positioned by placing them on the ends of tubular members which are centered in cavities having the form of inverted, truncated, pyramids. The smallest cross section of the cavities is smaller than the smallest article to be positioned. The members slide vertically within the cavities and are resiliently supported by a vacuum chamber for movement therewith. The chamber is lowered with a vertical oscillatory motion, while a slight vacuum is applied, to lower the articles into the cavities and engage them intermittently with the walls of the cavity. This orients and centers the articles in the cavities. A substrate, having sites to which the articles are to be bonded, is coated with a liquefiable substance to render the sites adherent. The substrate is then positioned over the cavities.

Abstract: Retro-reflective material is made by applying a mono-layer of transparent glass beads to a tacky coating formed on a carrier sheet, coating exposed parts of the beads with a reflective material such as aluminium, and embedding the reflectively coated parts of the beads in an adhesive coating on a backing member. The carrier sheet is then stripped off. The thickness of the adhesive coating on the backing member is less than the typical diameter of the beads, and the thickness of the tacky coating on the carrier sheet is less than that of the adhesive on the backing member. In some cases screens or stencils are interposed between the carrier sheet and the backing member. Products resulting from these processes are described.

Abstract: There is provided a process for producing resin rich surfaces of desired and specified thickness and physical, chemical, electrical and/or optical properties involving the use of a transfer base material to move a viscous, liquid, hardenable composition after partial hardening into a non-tacky state into contact with the surface of a second, permanent base, completing the hardening of the composition into a resin-rich surface layer adhering to the second base and subsequently removing the transfer base therefrom. In specific embodiments, the permanent base itself can be hardenable and complete hardening is effected simultaneously; the surface layer can be an adhesive layer; and the surface layer can be catalytic throughout to electroless metal deposition.

Abstract: A laminated article comprising a magnetic impulse record element secured to a vinyl plastic member through an interface of a composition containing polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate and polyvinyl alcohol. The interface contributes to the formation of a record element of improved quality when the latter is transferred as a magnetic coating from a carrier to the vinyl plastic member in a hot stamping operation.

Abstract: An improved method of finishing leather by transferring a finish coating, at least the outer stratum of which comprises a thermoplastic, adhesive acrylic polymer, from a release layer bearing the finish coating to the leather. The leather to be coated (which may be supported on an appropriate backing layer) and the release layer are pressed into a sandwich-like assembly with the concurrent application of sufficient heat and pressure to transfer substantially the entire finish coating to the surfaces of the leather and the backing layer juxtaposed therewith. Transfer of the finish coating is effected without the application of any adhesive material or "tie coat" prior to pressing the coating into contact with the leather, by virtue of the thermoplastic, adhesive characteristics of the acrylic finish coating per se.The method may be carried out batch-wise employing discrete backing and release layers for the transfer of finish coatings to individual leather pieces.

Abstract: A method for the production of a material for printed circuits is disclosed. A temporary base is coated by electroplating with a thin, unbroken and unpatterned metallic layer having a thickness less than 17.mu.m and the free surface of said metallic layer is bonded to a final insulating base. The temporary base is thereafter removed and the desired wiring pattern is produced by a process comprising etching of the metal layer. A material for use in production of printed circuits is also disclosed comprising a temporary base which is coated by electroplating with a thin, unbroken and unpatterned metal layer having a thickness less than 17.mu.m. Said material can comprise a final, insulating base bonded to the free surface of the thin metal layer.