Abstract: A pile weatherstripping has a continuous length of a resin anchorage base with even lengths of filaments secured to opposite sides of the base along the length of the base and extending away from the base in the same general direction on each side of the base. The filaments are long enough and dense enough to form insulating pile rows extending out of a retainer slot in which the anchorage base has an interference fit. A sheet resin fin preferably extends continuously outward from the base between the filaments on the opposite sides of the base, and such a weatherstripping is preferably made by wrapping a multifilament yarn around a plurality of bases, securing the yarn to opposite sides of the bases, and then slitting to separate each individual weatherstrip.

Abstract: The invention disclosed sets forth a method and machine for forming a sleeve of a shrinkable, cellular polymeric material from a predecorated web. The web is processed to provide (1) a partial-depth slit along the longitudinal dimension, and (2) cross-dimension pleats. Predecorated shrunken neck labels are formed from the web for overlying the neck and closure of the bottle and including a pilfer-proof feature. Such a label is formed from the processed web by cutting a blank having the cross pleats therein and winding the blank on a mandrel to overlap the ends and seam the overlap to make a sleeve. The sleeve is stripped onto the top neck end and over the closure of a bottle of room temperature to a label position and shrunken to a snug fit, the pleats absorbing wrinkles that occur in shrinking the material onto a "cold" bottle.The disclosure includes a novel machine for making the sleeve from a plastic web and placing it on the bottle.

Abstract: The invention disclosed sets forth a method and machine for forming a sleeve of a shrinkable, cellular polymeric material from a predecorated web. The web is processed to provide (1) a partial-depth slit along the longitudinal dimension, and (2) cross-dimension pleats. Predecorated shrunken neck labels are formed from the web for overlying the neck and closure of the bottle and including a pilfer-proof feature. Such a label is formed from the processed web by cutting a blank having the cross pleats therein and winding the blank on a mandrel to overlap the ends and seam the overlap to make a sleeve. The sleeve is stripped onto the top neck end and over the closure of a bottle of room temperature to a label position and shrunken to a snug fit, the pleats absorbing wrinkles that occur in shrinking the material onto a "cold" bottle.The disclosure includes a novel machine for making the sleeve from a plastic web and placing it on the bottle.

Abstract: The invention disclosed sets forth a method and machine for forming a sleeve of a shrinkable, cellular polymeric material from a predecorated web. The web is processed to provide (1) a partial-depth slit along the longitudinal dimension, and (2) cross-dimension pleats. Predecorated shrunken neck labels are formed from the web for overlying the neck and closure of the bottle and including a pilfer-proof feature. Such a label is formed from the processed web by cutting a blank having the cross pleats therein and winding the blank on a mandrel to overlap the ends and seam the overlap to make a sleeve. The sleeve is stripped onto the top neck end and over the closure of a bottle of room temperature to a label position and shrunken to a snug fit, the pleats absorbing wrinkles that occur in shrinking the material onto a "cold" bottle.The disclosure includes a novel machine for making the sleeve from a plastic web and placing it on the bottle.

Abstract: A conveyor and a cooling table define a path of advance for assemblies comprising two or more sheets of glass of the same dimensions held in juxtaposition and at a fixed spacing by a clamping jig. Heating means heat an edge of the glass sheets and are followed by a nozzle which injects a fusible sealant bead between the sheets along that edge prior to cooling at the cooling table of the bead so formed. A crank and associated clamps rotate the assembly about its corners for application of the bead along successive edges.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously forming a reinforced flexible hose is disclosed. The apparatus includes a hose-forming device including a plurality of synchronously-rotatable mandrels with a plurality of spaced apart, annular grooves therein fixedly disposed in skewed fashion relative to each other. The reinforcing element of the flexible plastic hose is formed from metal wire which is delivered tangentially into the grooves in the rotating mandrels in a sequential, progressive fashion thereby forming a helically arranged wire structure. Simultaneously with the delivery of the wire to the mandrel grooves, the longitudinal edge of the plastic ribbon which is to form the body of the hose is pre-moistened with an appropriate rapid-drying, liquid-bonding agent and then circumferentially wrapped about the wire to completely enclose it. The succeeding edge of the following tape wrap is adhesively bonded to the subsequent tape wrap.

Abstract: A non cylindrical tubular container is formed from a blank creased to delineate contiguous hexagonal cells. The blank is provided with tabs at one edge which engage in slots in a mandrel having a pair of hexagonal ends between which extends a contoured surface that initiates folding of the blank about its creases. The blank is first partially wrapped around the stationary mandrel and glue is applied to the free end of the blank. Wrapping is completed by rotating the mandrel so that the ends of the blank overlap. The overlapped ends are pinched together by a presser bar that pushes the ends against the mandrel. The completed tubular container is then pulled off the mandrel by gripping one edge of the container and pulling it endwise away from the mandrel.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a reinforced flexible tube in which a hard synthetic resin spiral core is embedded in and fused to a soft synthetic resin matrix through the medium of a semi-hard synthetic resin adhesive layer and the apparatus for carrying out the method of manufacturing the tube. Hard and semi-hard synthetic resin materials are simultaneously extruded from extruders to form a first composite linear element in which these two separate materials are firmly bonded together owing to the small extruding temperature difference between these two separate materials. The first composite linear element is preheated to make the temperature difference between the linear element and a soft synthetic resin material to be extruded on the linear element small.

Abstract: A bundle of loose sheet material such as printed matter is produced by stacking the material; compressing the stack flatwise between pressure jaws; gripping the compressed stack at vertical transversely spaced edge portions thereof by an up and down movable clamping unit; releasing the pressure jaws; lifting the clamping unit and gripped stack above the released pressure jaws; wrapping banding tape around the lifted stack by rotating the lifted clamping unit and stack about a central vertical axis; lowering the clamping unit and stack; and finally opening the lowered clamping unit to release the banded stack.

Abstract: A method and assembly for making a power transmission belt having driving teeth on opposite surfaces thereof and a tensile member embedded therein. The disclosure also relates to a belt made by the method and apparatus.

Abstract: This taping attachment or device applies a ribbon or adhesive-coated tape to an article moving relatively thereto, such as around a coil of strip material being wound upon a rotating mandrel, in order to prevent subsequent unwinding of the coil. This taping attachment or device consists of a tape roll holder mounted above the carrier for the article to be taped, such as a mandrel, adjacent a reciprocatory fluid pressure motor. The latter includes a piston rod having mounted on its lower end a pivoted tape applicator with a tape cutter thereon urged or positively driven in a downward tape-severing direction.

Abstract: A hand operated taping machine for winding protective tape upon a wire coil used in a relay, solenoid or the like in which a coil is chucked upon a spindle. Tape with a tacky adhesive is fed via a series of rollers terminating in a leading end which is supported upon an applicator pad adjacent the coil. The pad is manually pressed into engagement with the coil to tack the leading end. The spindle is rotated via a main drive shaft by a manual crank. A cutter blade is provided adjacent the pad. A first cam on the main drive shaft lowers the cutter blade and pad permitting the tape, under tension, to be manually severed below the level of the coil to form a tail and to position a new leading end on the pad. A second cam on the main drive shaft operates a wiper to wipe the tail down upon the coil, withdrawing the wiper as the pad is restored to its initial tape applying position in readiness for a new cycle.

Abstract: A taping machine for applying a protective wrapping to small parts, particularly electronic parts such as capacitors, having a longitudinal axis. Permanently adhesive tape is fed from a supply roll onto a forwardly inclined table at the front of the machine. Below the front lip of the table are a pair of horizontally extending rollers vertically aligned with one another. Interposed between the lip of the table and the rollers is a reciprocated cutter blade. A third roller mounted upon a swingable arm is bodily movable in triangular relation with respect to the pair of rollers. The end of the tape extends to the lip of the table, sticky side up, so that a part may be manually pressed adheringly to the tape in a transversely extending direction. Interposed between the roll of tape and the table is a swingably mounted knurled roller engaging the sticky side of the tape and about which the tape is looped.

Abstract: An insulating blanket is disclosed in which a semi-rigid mat of glass fibers is bonded on one side to a facing material. Lateral cuts are formed in the mat extending from the opposite side thereof toward the side on which the facing is bonded. Such cuts allow the facing to bend with a hinge-like manner when the insulating blanket is rolled, permitting the lamination of the facing and mat and the rolling of the laminate prior to the setting of the adhesive. The preferred method and apparatus for forming such insulating blanket is also disclosed.

Abstract: A filament winding apparatus comprising an arm pivotable to traverse a filament guide longitudinally of a mandrel, the guide being pivotally mounted on the arm, and the pivotal motions of the arm and guide being derived from a common rotatable member with a phase difference such that the guide is maintained in advance of the arm in the direction of travel of the latter.

Abstract: This invention relates to an assembly for applying labels to the longitudinal surface of cylindrical articles. The assembly includes a label dispenser which carries the labels to a label station and dispenses them, one at a time, at the labelling station. The labels are carried on a backing tape and are slid off the tape at the labelling station. The assembly also includes means for advancing the articles to the labelling station, for example, a walking beam, and means for supporting the article at the labelling station so that it is free to rotate about its longitudinal axis. A cylindrical roller is disposed in a two position parallel arrangement with an article at the labelling station such that, in one position, the roller is spaced from the article and, in a second position, the roller is in physical contact with the article along a longitudinal contact line. Means are provided for moving the roller to its two positions, and further means are provided for rotating the roller about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A sleeve forming method wherein a rectangular sheet of thermoplastic material is formed into a tubular shape having overlapped end portions that are sealed together by directing heated air between the end portions to soften their facing surface and pressing the end portions together to form a seam. The seam preferably is liquid-tight, so that the sleeve may be utilized to form the sidewall of a cup or nestable container wherein the sleeve is heat-shrunk about a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel to give the container sidewall its desired shape. A two-piece container can be formed by sealing a bottom disc member to the end of the sidewall, and a one-piece container can be formed by collapsing and fusing the end of the sidewall sleeve to close the bottom of the container.

Abstract: A tape dispenser for use in winding tape about a rotating body generally includes a frame mounted on a base with adhesive tape mounted on a reel on the frame. The tape is run from the reel to a holding means which in the preferred form is a vacuum surface which holds the tape thereon but permits it to slide along the surface. The tape is fed in a manner in which the adhesive side faces outward from the vacuum surface. The dispenser has displacement means which pivots the frame and moves it toward the rotating body until the body touches the adhesive of the tape at or near the vacuum surface. The rotation of the rotating body causes tape to be payed from the reel until a predetermined length of tape is wound around the body. Thereafter, it is cut between the body and the vacuum surface.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for fabricating on-site storage structures with reinforced composite materials, as well as the storage structures produced in accordance with the apparatus and method. In one aspect of the invention, reinforcing material which comprises at least one layer of fiber containing strand material, and one or more layers of fiber containing mat material are resin impregnated and passed through a draw-die orifice. Upon passing through the draw-die orifice this material is deposited in a continuously formed spiral where the turns forming the spiral are registered with each other. A cure of the resin material is initiated as the impregnated reinforcing material passes through the draw-die orifice. The cure is initiated by means of a curing device which applies dielectric energy to the impregnated reinforcing material, to thereby form a rigid spiral turn which becomes bonded to the next adjacent registered layer.

Abstract: In the manufacture of prestressed concrete pipe, wire is wound under tension around the concrete body of the pipe and secured thereto. In accomplishing this the concrete pipe is mounted on a turntable for rotaton about the longitudinal axis of the pipe and wire under tension is wrapped thereon in a helical fashion from one end to the other.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for winding fiber glass roving, tape rope, and/or the like, on a mandrel. The apparatus includes a turntable rotatable in either direction about a vertical axis and carrying means for winding the reinforcing material on the mandrel in response to rotation of the turntable, the mandrel being located on the turntable axis. The machine also includes means for shifting the axis of a shaft carrying the mandrel angularly relative to a vertical position wherein the mandrel shaft axis coincides with the turntable axis. The apparatus further includes means for rotating the mandrel shaft about its axis in either direction, when the mandrel shaft is in its vertical position, to assist the rotation of the turntable in winding the reinforcing material about the mandrel. With this construction, the reinforcing material may be wound on the mandrel in a variety of patterns.

Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of optical-fiber bundles comprises a frame, a plate-like rotor having upper and lower parallel surfaces journaled to rotate in the frame about an axis of rotation parallel to the surfaces, a fiber guide mounted in the frame along a line parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor, means for rotating the rotor, and means for moving the fiber guide coordinately with the rotor such that optical fibers passing through the fiber guide are wound on the rotor in a parallel fan-like manner.

Abstract: Decalcomanias are automatically transferred from a vacuumized porous transfer surface to an object to be decorated which is held in position to assure constant non-slipping, rolling contact with the decalcomania. The porous decalcomania-holding surface coacts in transfer relation with the object to be decorated.

Abstract: In an apparatus comprising a non-circular rotary mandrel on which a strip of paper or a similar sheet material is wound to form a multilayer tubular article, the material entering the mandrel is subjected to pressure thereagainst by means of a roller unit including at least two pairs of rollers. Both pairs of rollers are independently and pivotably suspended in a common carrier so that all of the rollers may continuously and independently apply a surface pressure to the material being wound onto the mandrel.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming the edges of mineral fiber blankets during their advance along a processing path. Guide means having surfaces shaped to continuously direct feathered or ragged longitudinal edges of an uncured mat of mineral fibers as it is introduced to forming apparatus causes a gathering of the fibers to control the uniformity of the density of the edge portion of the mass. The guide can comprise surfaces extending radially outward at the effective ends of a pressure roll cooperating with a rotatable mandrel in the formation of tubes of fiber mat. The first surface encountered by an advancing blanket raises the feathered edge. The raised edge is turned inward toward the major body portion of the blanket by a second surface. A third surface parallels the path of advance to establish the desired margin and maintain that margin as the blanket is compacted in its major face.