Abstract: The invention relates to the manufacture of laminated glass, comprising glass sheets and plastic sheets. In the manufacture, glass and plastic sheets are each cut to a final dimension desired for use in laminated glass, assembled in a preliminary way, and, then, by the action of temperature and pressure formed to the laminate. The cutting of the plastic sheets, is carried out more particularly a plastic sheet of polyvinyl butyral as an interlayer between outer sheets of silicate glass is carried out by a high pressure water jet.

Abstract: A lamination bundle or stack for a long-statorlinear motor. Each lamination is made of a thin, siliconized metal sheet for the electrical industry with a thickness of between 0.35 to 1.00 mm, and at one end of its narrow side has a recess, and at its opposite end has an extension corresponding to this recess for a positive or form-locking arrangement of the bundles in rows adjacent to each other. Of the teeth laterally defining the grooves for cable windings each end tooth has a width which corresponds to half the width of the adjacent tooth and at its free end is cut at an incline, whereby the inclined cutting line extends from the groove to the end of the narrow side. The laminations are stacked so as to completely cover each other, and have their contacting surfaces glued together over the entire surface area thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.

Abstract: A method and closure are provided for sealing and repairing a puncture of a tire. The closure is a resilient plug of a rubber-like material stiffer and more durable than prior closures having a generally cylindrical shank portion and an adjoining circular head portion. The periphery of the shank portion has a labyrinth of closely spaced sealing rings and grooves therebetween. When the shank portion is forcibly engaged with a puncture, the sealing rings individually radially compress and locally conform to the size and shape of the puncture thereby providing multiple sealing members with the puncture. Additional sealing is provided by an auxiliary sealing ring on the head portion of the closure which is adhesively bonded to the inner surface of the tire, adjacent to the puncture. Tool attaching means are provided on the closure for forcibly engaging the closure with the puncture.

Abstract: An apparatus in the form of a die assembly for building a laminated core comprising a plurality of core sheets laminated one above another. Each of the core sheets has a plurality of caulking projections formed therein in the equally spaced relation which serve to achieve caulking between the adjacent core sheets. Prior to punching operation the blanking die is turned by a predetermined angle which is determined by a combination of gear ratio of the gearing mechanism and that of the indexing mechanism. A sprocket on the blanking die is operatively connected to a sprocket on the output shaft of the gearing mechanism and a sprocket on the input shaft of the gearing mechanism is operatively connected to a sprocket on the output shaft of the indexing mechanism.

Abstract: A process of manufacturing an element for electrophotresis which comprises steps of: sticking a spacer continuously to both side portions of a support web which is rolled back continuously from the rolled condition; casting on said support a solution for forming a medium membrane for electrophoresis; subjecting the support to hardening treatment to form a medium membrane; cutting off a portion of the medium membrane and support web; and sticking a cover sheet onto the medium membrane. An apparatus advantageously employable for performing the above process is disclosed.

Abstract: A medical electrode intended for short term use has a disposable electrode pad provided with a socket and a reusable electrode conductor which is attached to a lead wire and which has a ridged body adapted to enter and be retained by the socket. The pad includes a pair of spaced foam sheets with patient-contacting adhesive layers on their lower surfaces. An electrolyte gel matrix, preferably formed from conductive adhesive urethane hydrogel, is located between the foam sheets. The socket is formed in a relatively stiff socket plate that overlies the gel matrix and the foam sheets. The socket includes a bore located over the gel matrix shaped to receive the electrode conductor, which is slightly larger than the bore, and may optionally include outwardly extending slits projecting from the bore. A method of manufacturing a strip of the electrode pads on a release liner on a continuous basis is disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing various shapes of polyethylene bags includes a heating mold separating means, a cutting mold separating means and a collecting means. By using such an apparatus for making PE bags, a double-layered polyethylene sheet rolled on a roller is transported into the heating mold separating means by input rollers to form polyethylene bags of any desired shape. Since the bags can not be completely separated from the sheets by heating mold, the bags together with the sheets must be sent into the cutting mold separating means by transporting rollers again. The cutting mold separating means will cut the boundary of the bag except the root portion, so that the bag is completely separated from the sheets, except for the root portion. Finally, the bags together with the sheets are sent into the collecting means. The cutter of the collecting means indents the root portion of the bags and the needles of the collecting means pokes through the root portion of the bags.

Abstract: The invention provides a method by means of which it becomes possible to produce emblems or wordmarks having three-dimensional symbols, both the front face and the raised side faces of which are metallized, while the substrate is not metallized. For that purpose, the symbols are injection molded with a carrier and they are not secured to a separately manufactured substrate until after the metallizing operation.

Abstract: A woven textile fabric having at least 65% thermoplastic fibers therein with an ultrasonically cut and sealed edge characterized by a wash durability of preferably at least 25 to 50 washings without significant raveling. Apparatus and processes are provided for effecting such ultrasonic cutting and sealing to produce the desired cut and sealed edge in the woven textile fabric.

Abstract: A method of printing a pattern on a surface receptive to sublimation dye, in which (a) the back of a carrier foil (1) provided with sublimation dye is caused to adhesively contact an auxiliary carrier (4) by means of an adhesive (5) of greater adhesiveness to the auxiliary carrier (4) than to the carrier foil (1), (b) the pattern to be transferred is cut or punched in mirror-reversed form in the carrier foil (1) without cutting through the auxiliary carrier (4), (c) excess carrier foil (11) is released from the auxiliary carrier (4), and (d) the auxiliary carrier (4) with the applied positive or negative cut or punched pattern (10) is caused to adhesively contact the surface, is pressed and heated. The sublimation foil (9) consists of a carrier foil (1) of paper or plastics whose front is provided with a layer of sublimation dye and whose back is provided with an auxiliary carrier (4) by means of an adhesive (5) of greater adhesiveness to the auxiliary carrier ( 4).

Abstract: Multilayer labels may be manufactured by providing at least one continuous web with adhesive applied at least to spaced leaflet site portions of one face thereof. One applies leaflet members to the spaced leaflet site portions, followed by pressing the leaflet members and web together to adhere the leaflet members to the web. Thereafter, one cuts the continuous web to provide a plurality of separate, leaflet-carrying labels.

Abstract: An ostomy device comprises an ostomy bag with a first coupling member attached thereto. A second coupling member for mating engagement with the first is attached to an adhesive backed label for adhering to the skin of the wearer around a stoma by a flexible mounting member comprising first and second sections coupled together at an inner peripheral region defining a stoma aperture therein. The second coupling member is attached to the first section at an outer peripheral region spaced apart from the inner peripheral region by hot melt adhesive while the second section is attached to the label at an outer peripheral region spaced apart from the inner peripheral region. The second section is attached by hot melt adhesive.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for heat sealing are disclosed. A fin seal is formed along the edge of the film, with the seal being trimmed immediately after being formed, and while still warm and in registry.

Abstract: A process of manufacturing slide frames is disclosed, which are preferably adapted to be elastically expanded and are made from at least one extruded plastic sheet plastic web. Plastic web portions are adhesively joined or joined by ultrasonic welding to form a frame and picture gates and punching operations are performed to form picture gates in the frame and to form the external contour of the frame. A film bed which serves to receive a slide and is preferably peripherally closed is formed by embossing.

Abstract: A honeycomb part having a densified, frame-like outer periphery formed from compressed honeycomb cells which provide a relatively smooth, snag-free surface. The invention further includes the method of holding honeycomb stock material is a desired configuration and compressing an amount of the outer peripheral portion of the material beyond that configuration back to the configuration itself, thus providing the densified outer periphery of the honeycomb part. The apparatus for compressing and thereby densifying the honeycomb stock material includes a die having upper and lower knife edge gripping members and a cutting die which moves into cutting relationship to the honeycomb stock material to cut the material to the desired configuration. Then, the die, being stroked by a suitable press, continues to move and while doing so, presses the portion of the outer periphery of the stock material between the die and the knife edge grippers, compressing and thereby densifying the stock material.

Abstract: A self-adhesive label on a release backing material comprising a sheet which has been folded so that an upper sheet portion covers, and extends over an edge of, a lower sheet portion, the upper surface of the upper sheet portion bearing a desired lithographically printed image and the two opposed inner surfaces of the sheet portions bearing a second desired printed image. The self-adhesive label is manufacutred from a support web comprising a self-adhesive backed material carried on a release backing material. The lower surface of the lower sheet portion and the lower surface of the extending part of the upper sheet portion of the sheet being adhered to the upper surface of the self-adhesive backed material, and a weakened tear line extends across that part of the upper sheet portion which covers the lower sheet portion whereby the tear line can be torn thereby to unfold the label and reveal the two opposed inner surfaces.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying adhesive film to an annular frame having a substantially circular disc of uniformly tensioned film adhered to one surface thereof, said film covering the whole of the central aperture of the frame and not extending beyond the outer periphery of the frame at any point, said frame being substantially undamaged by contact with a cutting device used in forming the disc of film.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a small electronic device includes intermittently feeding predetermined length of a base film, which forms a film strip; arranging electronic elements, e.g., a film-like liquid crystal display cell, a film-like solar cell and a printed circuit board, on a predetermined region of the film strip; arranging a frame on the film strip, so that the frame surrounds the electronic elements; depositing an adhesive onto the film strip; placing a panel on the film strip; moving press means on the panel from one end of the panel to the other end thereof, thereby pressing the panel and bonding the same to the film strip; and cutting the film, thereby forming a semifinished product. This method further includes detecting the position of the periphery of the semifinished product and trimming unfinished portions with a laser beam, thereby forming a finished product of a prescribed shape and size.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for repairing damaged tapered radar radomes. The method comprises the steps of preparing the damaged skin layers, affixing corresponding patches thereto and trimming same, where only the radome skin has been damaged, and, when both skin and core have been damaged, includes preparing the damaged skin layers and core, affixing an oversized repair core section in said prepared core, trimming the repair core section to an appropriate local configuration, affixing repair patches to the prepared skin layers and trimming same. An apparatus in practice of the present invention comprises a support affixable to the surface of the radome, at least one circumferential track device coupled to the support, at least one meridional track device coupled to the circumferential track device, and a router carriage assembly coupled to the meridional track device. A particular router device capable of precision vertical adjustment to 0.0005" is also disclosed for practice with the above apparatus.

Abstract: A method for making base assemblies for medicine dispensing compresses, includes using a web of substantially imperforate material, and a web of backing material having a base layer with an adhesive on one side. A plurality of individual dam patches are cut from the web of imperforate material, and applied to the adhesive side of the base layer. A cover layer is applied to the adhesive side of the base layer to sandwich the dam patches between the base layer and the cover layer. Individual base units are cut into the base layer, with one of dam patches positioned within each of the base units. Apertures are cut in the areas of the cover layer overlying the dam patches to access a portion of the foil surface of each of the dam patches. The offal portion of the base layer is removed from the cover layer, forming fabricated base assemblies for the compresses, which are conveniently carried together on the cover layer for final assembly.

Abstract: A label assembly includes machine readable indicia on the underside of the backing strip for verifying correspondence between identifying indicia on the label and the contents of a container before and/or during and/or after labeling of the container and is made by feeding a label layer/backing layer laminate web along a travel path and printing machine readable indicia on the underside of the backing layer and printing identifying indicia on the label layer.

Abstract: In order to stress relieve exposed portions of plastic welds, and thereby reduce susceptability of such welds to solvent-induced crazing and cracking, the welded parts are formed with flanges extending outwardly therefrom. These flanges are at least partially joined during welding, their adjoining surfaces providing at least a portion of the welded joint. After welding, the flanges are compressed in a direction transverse to their adjoining welded surfaces, the compression being of sufficient magnitude to exceed the yield strength of the flanges, thereby relieving stresses in the exposed portion of the welds. The flanges may be sheared, as by a blade which provides both transverse compressive forces and compressive forces in the direction of the adjoining welded surfaces. The flanges may be sheared through, so as to enable the sheared off end to be removed, or the shearing may penetrate only through the weld zone, providing a notch, but leaving the flanges in place.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing discrete elements such as labels, borne by a carrier sheet, the method including passing an element sheet from which said elements are to be formed along a first path of travel; passing a carrier sheet along a second path of travel spaced from the first path of travel in a first course and retained in substantial facing engagement with the element sheet in a second course; applying adhesive to one of the sheets prior to the second course in discrete zones individually having positions corresponding to the positions of the planar elements to be formed; and cutting the element sheet in the second course outwardly of the discrete zones of adhesive to form discrete elements adhesively borne by the carrier sheet.

Abstract: The invention concerns a top cloth, especially a top cloth cut for clothes, which top cloth or cut is coated on one side with a patterned coating serving to stabilize it. Inventively this coating comprises a lower adhesive layer (2) of patterned heat-sealable plastics elements which are not interconnected and which adhere to the back of said top cloth or cut (1), and an upper covering layer (3) of non-hot sealable or substantially non-hot sealable material. The covering layer can extend substantially or fairly continuously, i.e. pattern-free, over the lower patterned adhesive layer and optionally beyond it and can in its areas between the pattern points of the lower layer not adhere to the top cloth or only slightly adhere thereto, while being easily wiped off. But it can also be directly patterned and congruent with the adhesive pattern beneath it. The invention concerns a process for the manufacture of such a top cloth and a transfer unit for implementing said process.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing finished articles of flexible plastic material includes formation of a sheet of plastic material with a first portion having a raised pattern on one surface thereof and at least partially curing the sheet. The first portion having the raised pattern is removed from the sheet and a second portion of plastic material having a raised pattern on one surface and of a color contrasting with that of the first portion is formed in that area of the sheet from which the first portion was removed. A plastic backing layer is formed on the sheet and the article thus formed is cured. The backing layer may be of a color contrasting with that of the second portion of plastic material, or the first portion may be allowed to remain and its back surface may be coated with a layer of plastic of a color contrasting with that of the first portion after which the backing layer is applied.

Abstract: Gloves and other articles are manufactured from a pair of thermoplastic sheets which are drawn along a process line in adjacent, facing relation. A portion of one of the sheets is pushed outwardly to form an outwardly projecting loop, and a thumb-shaped line is formed between adjacent sides of the loop. The loop and adjacent portions of the thermoplastic sheets are then advanced to a finger and hand-forming station, where a thermobonded line of the shape of fingers and hand is formed between the thermoplastic sheets in registry with the thumb-shaped line, while retaining an open wrist portion. One may then cut away the resulting glove at the wrist portion.

Abstract: Sheet material to be laminated to a substructure is presented in a stretched out condition for enclosing between upper and lower laminating tools. For this purpose a sheet material transport mechanism such as a tentering frame is movable back and forth between the laminating station and a sheet receiving position. The sheet margins around outer and inner edges of the laminated work piece are then trimmed and bent over inwardly. These operations are performed while keeping the work piece on the same lower tool or mold during all operations. The lower tools are moved from laminating to trimming and vice versa on a turntable.

Abstract: A plurality of different types of book style cassette holders or albums are selectively progressively produced by an in-line operation having stations which can be by-passed and selectively actuated to omit or add steps to produce the different types. The initial steps in the method unwind a relatively rigid or stiff thermoplastic sheet from a roll, successively thermoform the sheet into blanks having a plurality of pairs of adjoining hollow wall album trays in side-by-side relation connected by a flexible spine and surrounded by marginal portions. The blanks are fed successively, hollow face upwardly, through successive stations which apply adhesive and cardboard slabs over the bottoms of the trays. Subsequent stations either deposit individual printed cover sheets onto the blanks, or a continuous cover sheet fed from a roll. Succeeding stations selectively apply individual printed sheets over the continuous cover sheet and a transparent film over the printed sheets.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising an at least partially compatible mixture of a thermoplastic rubber and an aliphatic hydrocarbon tackifying system having a softening point of from about 30.degree. to about 80.degree. C. and in which the thermoplstic rubber is present in an amount of from about 15 to about 30 percent by weight, based on the total weight of the thermoplastic rubber and the aliphatic hydrocarbon resin tackifying system, enable high-speed production of matrix-stripped label stock.

Abstract: A procedure for manufacturing elongated glued beams by gluing veneers in their grain direction after each other and upon each other. The veneer ends are cut obliquely so that the glue bond area will be large enough in view of adhesion, whereafter the veneer strips joined by gluing at their ends are glued to each other to form a beam.

Abstract: This process of forming ornamental joints comprises sticking a sheet flooring material onto a floor base, thereafter drawing one desirably outlined standard line on the thus stuck sheet flooring material, then sliding one cutting blade of a cutter with a pair of cutting blades, disposed leaving a space corresponding to the joint width therebetween, on the sheet flooring material along the standard line to thereby form two parallel cuts on the flooring material, stripping the sheet flooring material between these cuts to thereby form a groove for forming a joint, and charging the grooved portion with a joint material. According to the process like this, there can be obtained ornamental joints of various patterns.

Abstract: A water deflector for securement to the inner panel of a vehicle door to prevent water from entering the vehicle body or wetting the inner door trim panel. The deflector comprises a sheet of polyethylene peripherally shaped for covering the inner door panel, and having permanently plastic and permanently tacky pressure-sensitive adhesive on selective areas thereof for attaching the sheet to the inner door panel.

Abstract: To relieve stresses in a plastic weld which may weaken the weld and increase its susceptibility to solvent-induced crazing or cracking, forces are applied to the weld zone (the interface between welded parts) after it has cooled to solid condition, but preferably when it is at a higher temperature than the regions of the parts adjacent thereto, which forces are higher than the yield strength of the material at the weld zone and lower than the yield strength of the material in the regions of the parts adjacent to the weld zone. The forces thereby cause yielding or plastic deformation which effectively relieves certain thermally induced stresses in the weld. Tensile stresses in the weld are thereby relieved, to reduce susceptibility of the weld to solvent-induced crazing or cracking.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing apertured elements such as reinforcing rings having precisely defined edges without tearing or distortion operates on an elongated strip of first and second sheet material held together by a detachable adhesive. Both perimeters of the desired apertured element are first cut in one sheet of the strip without cutting the other sheet. A second shape, within the inner perimeter of the apertured shape, is cut into the second sheet without cutting into the first sheet, either before or after the cuts in the opposite side. This leaves material within the apertured shape that is held in place by a border due to the adhesive backing. After first sheet material outside the apertured shape is separated from the second sheet, a mechanism is used to overcome the adhesive force at the border and remove the inner cuts simultaneously. Thus only the desired apertured elements are left on the second sheet to be removed for use either at that time or thereafter.

Abstract: Disposable fitted sheets and method for making them. The sheets are formed without necessitating prior cutting by folding edges of the material and attaching the folded-over edges along diagonal lines associated with each corner. Elastic bands cooperate with each pocket to maintain the fit on the corners of the mattress. The bands are fastened in a stretched condition to the folded-over edges while the sheet is in a flat state. The process of the invention is particularly adapted to continuously forming such sheets which may be formed from a variety of inexpensive materials. Sheets of the invention are particularly useful in hospitals and nursing homes where frequent bedding changes may be needed.

Abstract: Apparatus for and method of making, among other things, layered labels of the type comprising a central substrate layer of printable material disposed between first and second clear cover layers, and a backing layer.

Abstract: A machine for applying tax stamps or like adhesive labels to articles such as cigarette packages arranged in two or more rows in a carton, including mechanism for advancing the carton lengthwise with exposed ends of the packages facing upwardly, and a head disposed above the path of carton advance for transporting a corresponding number of rows of spaced-apart labels into contact with the advancing package ends while the labels and packages are moving in the same direction and at the same velocity.

Abstract: An improved glazing system wherein glass panels are secured to a frame member in an edge-to-edge sealed relationship. A first glass panel is bonded to a frame member such as a vertical mullion using a sealant which adheres to the edge of the first glass panel and to the face of the first glass panel adjacent the edge. A portion of the frame is removed to expose a section of the bonded sealant and thereafter a second glass panel is positioned on the sealant such that the two glass panels are in an edge-to-edge, sealed relationship. The edge to edge abutting relationship of the panels may be accomplished without the need for caulking or exterior access to the glass panels.

Abstract: A tape applying device for punching an annular piece out of an adhesive tape and applying the annular piece of adhesive tape to the inner leads of a lead frame having leads which extend outwardly therefrom in four general directions includes an inner pattern punch disposed along the direction of the travel of the adhesive tape on one surface side thereof and an outer pattern punch disposed along the direction of the travel of the adhesive tape on the same side as the inner punch on the downstream side relative to the inner punch. The outer pattern punch is provided with a press mechanism for applying under pressure the annularly shaped piece of the adhesive tape to the inner leads of the lead frame.

Abstract: A method for tensioning a thin film on a support ring to achieve an optically flat membrane. The support ring is optically flat with a slight bevel at its outside edge where the membrane is epoxied to the support ring.

Abstract: Each disclosed wire marker or other adhesive product includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive portion or applique that has a readily peelable bond to the release surface of a carrier sheet. A tab extends from an extremity of the applique, to be torn away when the applique is adhered to a receiving surface, due to a weakening formation between the tab and the applique. Wire markers have an elongated wire-marking portions divided into segments by connections that are progressively weaker in the order of their distance from the tab. Where made by screen printing, the same operation that defines the outlines of the adhesive products also produces the weakening formations.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for applying a tread to a tire, whereby around a toroidal tire a layer of non-vulcanized rubber is applied, which will form the tread area of the tire after vulcanization in the vulcanization press; and whereby the thus prepared tire is vulcanized in vulcanization press. According to the invention, before the vulcanization of the thus prepared tire in a vulcanization press, portions of the layer of non-vulcanized rubber are removed by peeling or by forming peels of non-vulcanized rubber, so that the shape of the peeled tire is adapted to the shape of the vulcanization press. The invention also relates to a machine for carrying out the method according to the invention.

Abstract: A rigid snap-on plastic cover for a sun-damaged vinyl-covered dashboard pad is installed in an automobile without loosening or removing the dashboard pad from a dashboard substructure. The snap-on cover is made by draping a preheated softened polycarbonate sheet over a mold positioned on a narrowed support. A partial vacuum is produced in the region covered by the draped polycarbonate material, causing it to be drawn against the mold for support and to conform thereto. A skirt portion of the polycarbonate material from the support is severed after the vacuum is released, and the forward portion of the hardened polycarbonate is lifted over the mold, forcing any breakage of the "back draft" portion of the polycarbonate to occur in forward corner locations that will not be visable when the snap-on cover is installed in the automobile. The peripheral portions of the polycarbonate material are cut cleanly away and the outer surface is spray painted.

Abstract: A method of effecting practical, simple and economical production of ore-concentrating pads of numerous configurations and sizes. Nails are employed to secure extruded strips to a backing sheet and an underlying support, following which the strips are pivoted about the nails and progressively secured to the backing sheet. The nails are then removed and the resulting pad is vacuum-applied to a concave bowl and adhesively secured therein. The shapes and positions of the strips are such that there is very close sealing engagement beween adjacent strips, after the pad is made into bowl shape, yet there is great elasticity permitting practical vacuum application to the bowl. In one embodiment, the strip-formed pad is used as a mold over which plaster of paris is molded, and the plaster of paris is used as a guide for a tracing machine adapted to make a mold for the mass-manufacture of large numbers of concentrating pads.

Abstract: An ultrasonic seal and cut method and apparatus comprises an ultrasonic sealing and cutting station which includes a horn adapted to be resonant at an ultrasonic frequency and an oppositely disposed anvil having a sealing surface and a cutting surface. As sheet material is passed through the station, the sheet material is cut and sealed in a marginal area adjacent to the cut. A substantially thermoplastic thread, either monofilament or multifilament, is fed together with the sheet material through the station in a position to cause the thread to fuse with the material in the marginal area. The provision of the thread permits the ultrasonic seal and cut method to be used for sheet material having a relatively low thermoplastic fiber content or exhibiting an open mesh weave, or being made of natural fibers.

Abstract: A machine and method for making base assemblies for medicine dispensing compresses, includes using a web of substantially imperforate material, and a web of backing material having a base layer with an adhesive on one side to attach the compress to the skin of the user. A plurality of individual foil lids or dam patches are cut from the web of imperforate material, and applied to the adhesive side of the base layer. A release or cover layer is applied to the adhesive side of the base layer to sandwich the dam patches between the base layer and the cover layer. Individual base units are cut into the base layer, with one of the dam patches positioned within each of the base units. Apertures are cut in the areas of the cover layer overlying the dam patches to access a portion of the foil surface of each of the dam patches.

Abstract: A method of constructing an LC network, and the resulting LC network manufactured by cutting and removing a predetermined pattern from a first and a second conductive sheet, leaving on each sheet a generally coil-like configuration of windings with a sufficient number of interconnections between the adjacent windings to add rigidity to the sheets, laminating these conductive sheets to opposing faces of a non-conductive sheet, thereby forming at least one capacitor, cutting and removing a pre-determined pattern from the lamination eliminating at least some of the interconnections and leaving a conductive path on the conductive sheets which is in the configuration of a coil.

Abstract: Information storage mediums such as video discs and digital audio discs are fabricated by extruding a mass of electrically conductive synthetic resin into a block assembly composed of a pair of separable blocks in which the mass is molded into a cake that is then carried by one of the blocks as separated into a press in which the cake is pressed into an information storage medium or disc blank. The blank is transferred into a trimmer for trimming an overflow off the disc blank as an annular scrap, which is in turn chopped by a chopper into pieces for reuse. A disc from which the scrap has been removed is fed to a hot stamping machine in which an identification foil piece is attached with heat to the disc. The disc with the foil piece stamped thereon is punched to form a central hole by a punching machine.

Abstract: A process sequence for fabricating magnetic note holders incorporates the following steps: (a) selecting flat artwork of a particular subject; (b) trimming the artwork to the size desired for the note holder; (c) adhering the trimmed artwork to the coated side of a piece of adhesive-coated transparent material; (d) trimming the piece of adhesive-coated transparent material to the size of the trimmed artwork; (e) applying the trimmed artwork with adhered transparent layer to the adhesive-coated side of a layer of stainless steel tape; (f) trimming the stainless steel tape to the size of the trimmed artwork and adhered transparent layer; (g) adhering the transparent layer/trimmed artwork/stainless steel tape sandwich structure onto a double sided thick tape of variable thickness with the double sided tape contacting the stainless steel tape; (h) trimming the double sided tape to the size of the trimmed transparent layer/artwork/stainless steel tape sandwich structure; (i) adhering the trimmed transparent layer/