Abstract: There is described a method of preparing reeled slit web material which comprises transporting a web of material past a punching station and punching a series of holes across the width of the web. Then applying across the web material a strip of material covered with pressure sensitive adhesive which adheres to the web material so that all the punched holes are covered by the applied material, passing the web material to a slitting machine which slits the web into strips so that each strip contains a covered punched hole with the covering on the outer side of the strip as it is reeled up.

Abstract: A product and method for making a patterned area in a pile rug in which pile yarn is carved out and removed to form a trough-like area, and one or more fabric pattern pieces having a total area and shape coinciding with the carved out trough-like area is inserted into the trough-like area and adhesively bonded in place. The top surface of the fabric pattern piece is distinct in either color, texture, material, or pattern from the main pile surface to produce contrasting patterns in the surface of the rug. The fabric pattern piece may be a separate pile strip including its own base fabric and pile yarn of different color, texture, material, height, or other distinguishing characteristics from the pile yarn of the main body of the rug. The method is particularly adapted for forming linear patterned insert pieces along the borders of an area pile rug.

Abstract: A patch which is attached to a patient to collect sweat is formed. The patch collects sweat from a patient in a non-intrusive manner which produces very accurate and precise results to determine the amount of drug and/or alcohol use by such patient.

Abstract: A device that forms a ladder-like tape assembly, applies the assembly to a series of bottles moving along a conveyor with a transverse tape aligned with each bottle, and then severs the side tapes between the bottles and adheres the severed portions thereto to provide flexible bails for the bottles.

Abstract: A process for framing and mounting an indicia sheet, such as a photograph, within a flexible planar frame which is part of a laminated frame assembly as well as the frame assembly itself and a method for making the assembly. The frame is attached to a transparent film, such as a plastic sheet, which has thereon an adhesive layer. Covering the adhesive layer is a release sheet from which a portion, corresponding approximately in size to the frame opening may be removed and used as a template for a photograph, which is then trimmed to size and inserted in its place. Thereafter, the remaining release sheet portion is removed and reversed in position to obtain an integral laminate.

Abstract: A stake flag consists of a segment of flagging strip adhesively secured to the end of a wire stake. The apparatus includes a roller chain conveyor, driven at a continuous rate of speed, having fixed carriers for conveying the stakes transversely in parallel spaced relation. A conveyor for a strip of flagging material carries the strip in a path coincident with the path of the wire stakes, with one end of the stakes overlying the strip. A stake hopper, with automatic release, releases stakes sequentially to the conveyor carriers; and a glue gun deposits a quantity of glue on each stake end, and on the adjacent underlying portion of the strip, to provide immediate adhesion of the stake and strip. A rotating cutter blade coacts with a backing roller to sever the flagging strip into flagging segments adhering to respective stakes; and a rotating mechanism rotates the stake in the conveyor, after severance, to fold and press the segment onto itself and onto the stake.

Abstract: A web of jacketing material is unwound from a reservoir thereof and conveyed at constant speed. A double sided, pressure-sensitive adhesive strip, having one side protected by a removable sheet covering, conveyed in a direction normal to that of the jacketing material, is cut to predetermined lengths, positioned subjacent to and then applied across the width of the jacketing material at predetermined intervals. The jacketing material is sheared into sections by making cuts across the material along the middle of the adhesive strip and at a line midway between adhesive strips.

Abstract: An improved letter sheet continuous stationery assembly is disclosed, and includes a front web and a backing web. Longitudinal and transverse cuts are made in the front web, but not the backing web, so as to define a plurality of letter sheets. The front and backing webs are permanently secured together along their side margins by lines of adhesive. The letter sheets produced in the front web are temporarily secured to the backing web by other lines of adhesive during the time the assembly is fed through additional forms handling equipment such as a computer controlled printer.

Abstract: A method and machine for assembling sheets of battery plate separator material over the battery plates in envelope fashion and sealing the side edges together is disclosed. The machine feeds battery separator material from a storage roll into a folding station, scores a folding line across the sheet and severs the sheet from the roll, in a length double the height of a battery plate. A battery plate is fed bottom end first against the fold line of the separator sheet, and guides in a folding station cause the sheet to fold over and cover both sides of the plate. The plate and separator envelope are engaged between upper and lower conveyors adjacent to the folding station and carried away. Downstream, a pair of lifting devices positioned on either side of the path of travel of the plate and separator lift the upper edge of the overlapping separator envelope on each side, and a switch is tripped to cause a hot melt adhesive to be applied by nozzles to the lower overlapping separator edges.

Abstract: A manually operated carpet repair tool cuts a circular plug in a carpet to remove a damaged area. The carpet repair tool has two cutting blades which are equally spaced circumferentially on the lower periphery of the tool for balanced tracking of the blades in the cut.Circumferential grooves on a centering pin grip the carpet plug as the cut is being made so that the operator can test to see if the plug is free during the cutting operation and still continue the cut in exactly the same location as before if the cut has not been completed.A carpet repair disk is positioned beneath the opening cut in the carpet to retain a matching carpet repair patch in the opening cut by the carpet repair tool. The carpet repair disk includes a strand reinforced paper backing with an adhesive on the upper surface.The carpet repair disk is of larger diameter than the diameter of the opening cut in the carpet.

Abstract: A repair tool for performing quick, inexpensive and almost invisible repairs on fabrics which have been subjected to local damage. The tool comprises a base plate having core pins and ring pins projecting upwardly therefrom. An annular holding ring overfits the base plate and sandwiches the fabric to be repaired therebetween. A rotary knob including a circular razor turns within the holding ring central opening to cut a perfect circular hole in the fabric to remove the damaged area. The tool is utilized to cut a similar circular patch from an undamaged portion of the fabric. The patch is then applied to the circular hole in the damaged fabric and is secured thereto by rearwardly positioned adhesive faced material to provide an almost invisible repair.

Abstract: In a pultrusion laminating process, a plurality of tapes or other elongate, yielding plies are longitudinally combined into a composite unit and drawn through a heated die which compacts the plies into a desired cross section and cures the resin to produce a laminated, elongate structure. Method and apparatus are provided herein in combination with such a pultrusion system, for fabricating repetitive longitudinal tapers in the finished laminated structure.

Abstract: A composite foil or laminate of two synthetic-resin foils having mutually transverse main stretch directions (orientations) is formed by bonding the foils together after they have been incised in rows of spaced-apart incisions extending in the main stretch direction of each foil. Successive alternating rows along the foil have incisions offset along the rows from one another.

Abstract: A drive arrangement pressurizing system and method for a veneer edge gluer apparatus having a low pressure, constant-drive infeed crowder section and a high pressure intermittent-drive outfeed crowder section for producing a continuous veneer ribbon which is moved in a straight line path of travel as it issues from the edge gluer.

Abstract: A grain door and method of making the same wherein thin metallic straps having arcuate ends are partially adhesively secured to a double-face corrugated medium, and wherein the straps may be equipped with novel fittings for extension bands and are also adapted for receipt of center braces having horizontally flat tangs.

Abstract: Improvement in the process and apparatus of Application Ser. No. 236,766 filed Mar. 21 1971, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,769,124. There is described a technique for butt welding a trailing end of one roll of thermoplastic film or sheet material to the leading edge of another roll of such material by vertically superimposing the trailing and leading portions of the two rolls, aligning the lateral edges of such portions over a significant distance sufficient to insure angular alignment of the two rolls at the butt weld. Severing the two portions along a coincident transverse line, heating the severed portions to an extent sufficient to weld such together, and bringing the heated transverse edges of the two portions together while maintaining lateral edge alignment of said portions, whereby butt welding such into a continuous sheet.

Abstract: A veneer product of a supporting stratum and a veneer of naturally-occurring, slabable stone material is provided where the thickness of the veneer of the stone material is such that it would not otherwise be generally capable of being manoeuvred or handled without breaking. Such stone material as marble, granite, and other architecturally useful and decorative materials are particularly contemplated. The supporting stratum may be such as plywood; but is more usually a cellular honeycomb material adhesively bonded to one surface of the thin stone material slab.

Abstract: A porous laminate is disclosed consisting of a plurality of lamina each having a parallel slot series formed therein, stacked with the respective adjacent slot series overlapping and extending transversely to each other and bonded to each other to form the porous laminate. Variations disclosed include tapering the slots in one or more of the lamina to create a variable porosity and the inclusion of tying sections at intermediate points along the slots for reinforcement purposes.The disclosed process includes the steps of photoetching metal sheets to create the slot pattern, stacking a plurality of the sheets together with the slots in adjacent sheets extending transversely to each other, diffusion bonding the stacked sheets to form a porous laminate, and calendering the finished sheet to modify or adjust permeability.