Abstract: A system and method for automated application of adhesive, buffer, and/or liner to I-joists, whereby a controlled amount of adhesive, glue, buffer material, and/or a protective liner, are successively applied to the exposed flange of an I-joist. An air-activated side pressure wheel first pushes one flange of an I-joist against an opposing friction-reduced straight edge, then at least one adhesive/glue head extrudes adhesive and/or buffer material onto the opposing exposed flange of the I-joist. An overhead liner applicator may then place a protective liner upon the applied adhesive and/or buffer material. An applicator roller bearing and a pressure roller bearing press the adhesive/buffer/liner to the desired mil thickness, after which the liner applicator cuts the protective liner according to the cut pattern instructions received from a controller. A cooler can be used to cool the adhesive/buffer before release liner application.

Abstract: A tape dispenser with paper cutting tool is disclosed. The tape dispenser with paper cutter includes a blade and paper guide tine integrally formed with a tape dispenser housing. Additional capabilities can be added such as a ribbon curler and a glue stick. The tool can be used for multiple purposes when wrapping gifts, craft projects, or performing other office or home tasks.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus of manufacturing a pipe-shaped insulator, wherein a thin fiberglass mat is coated, at a surface thereof, with a binder (adhesive) and is press-wound on a forming roller, so as to manufacture a pipe-shaped insulator having a predetermined thickness and a predetermined diameter. The apparatus includes a mat feeding roller, a plurality of fiberglass mat transportation rollers, a coating roller to coat a binder over a surface of the fiberglass mat, a forming roller on which the fiberglass mat, coated with the binder, is wound in plural times to form a pipe-shaped insulator, a squeeze roller disposed parallel to the forming roller, a pressure regulator to press the fiberglass mat, an encoder to measure a transported length of the fiberglass mat, a cutting unit to diagonally cut the fiberglass mat, a control system, a sensor, and a plurality of drive motors and power transmission members.

Abstract: A method of reinforcing an embedded cylinder pipe by applying a composite structural reinforcement within the pipe through in situ stratification of at least one band of reinforcement fibers and a resin or a resin including matrix comprising the steps of applying said band onto a contact area on an internal face of said pipe by means of a contacting member; moving said contacting member along an helical path so that said contact area follows said path; moving a main pressing member behind said contacting member along said path, to apply pressure to said band in a main pressure area separated from said contact area. Related device for reinforcing an embedded cylinder pipe by applying a composite structural reinforcement within the pipe.

Abstract: There is provided a mounting apparatus capable of forming dicing tapes in the process of feeding-out a strip material, and sticking the dicing tape to a ring frame to fix a semiconductor wafer. The mounting apparatus 10 sticks the dicing tape to the ring frame RF to fix the semiconductor wafer to the ring frame in a state that the ring frame RF and the semiconductor wafer W are disposed on a table 11. The mounting apparatus 10 includes a pre-cut means 13 for forming a cut L in a state of half cut in a film FL of a strip material A to form a dicing tape T in the process of feeding out the strip material A and a sticking means 34 for peeling off the dicing tape from a base sheet S to stick the dicing tape to the ring frame RF.

Abstract: This invention provides a product comprised of a substrate with a rubber composition attached to the substrate by at least one interlayer of a polysilsesquioxane composition having phosphate cross-linkages. The at least one polysilsesquioxane layer having phosphate cross-linkages is produced from a mixture of a silane coupling agent and a phosphatizing reagent.

Abstract: A method and an improvement to saw systems configured to convert raw I-joists from inventory to pre-cut sizes and/or cut routed patterns in I-joists for utility pass-through applications prior to their shipment to a construction site or return to inventory, whereby a controlled amount of adhesive and a protective liner are automatically and successively applied to the top flange of each I-joist. The saw system improvement comprises coordinated mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic components.

Abstract: An outer edge of a protective tape projected from a semiconductor wafer is fixed and held by a tape holding section. In the condition, a part of the projected protective tape is caught and supported with a tape supporting section with a face having lower adhesive property provided in the outside of the traveling groove for the cutter. Furthermore, the part of the protective tape having the outer edge fixed and held with the tape holding section is compulsorily deformed and inserted into a depression provided between the tape holding section and the tape supporting section. Thereby, the part of the protective tape located in a traveling groove for the cutter is tensioned outward. A cutter blade is stuck into this tensioned part, and cuts the protective tape all over the peripheries of the wafer.

Abstract: A fiber lay-up apparatus and method includes one or more fiber sources from at least one fiber supply wherein a fiber may be fed under tension to provide a pre-stress to the fiber. The fiber lay-up apparatus may include a resin impregnator for impregnating a fiber with a resin. The fiber may be impregnated under pressure to reduce friction, to provide a motive force to move the fiber through the impregnator, or to enhance control over impregnation. The fiber may be shaped by a fiber shaping unit including one or more active or passive shaping members that provide enhanced control over the shape and placement of the fiber as the fiber leaves the fiber lay-up apparatus. A cutting element for cutting a fiber as it is being layed-up may be positioned proximal to the one or more shaping members, and may enable the fiber lay-up apparatus to end the lay-up of one fiber (or set of fibers) and begin the lay-up of a new fiber (or set of fibers) without delay.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method of bonding garments with elastomers and particularly to a system and method to cut and hem in a garment in a continuous process and also a system and method to incorporate an elastic strip into a garment in a continuous process and a system and method to provide computer control of hemming, bonding, gathering and inserting an elastic strip into a garment.

Abstract: An apparatus for the production of sandwich composite elements which includes at least two feed apparatus for facings, to which an application apparatus for an adhesion promoter, an application apparatus for a core layer, a conveying apparatus and a cutting apparatus are connected one after the other. The application apparatus for the adhesion promoter includes at least one feed line for the adhesion promoter, a rotary table with at least one lateral outlet orifice and a drive for the rotary table.

Abstract: A border guide and method for applying an elongated strip of border paper in a horizontal position on a vertical wall. The paper is soaked in water to activate the adhesive and then wound on a roll on the border guide. The user then presses one end of the border guide to the wall and unrolls the roll of paper as he removes the handle in a horizontal position. A squeegee presses the paper to the wall as it is being unwound.

Abstract: A fiber lay-up apparatus and method includes one or more fiber sources from at least one fiber supply wherein a fiber may be fed under tension to provide a pre-stress to the fiber. The fiber lay-up apparatus may include a resin impregnator for impregnating a fiber with a resin. The fiber may be impregnated under pressure to reduce friction, to provide a motive force to move the fiber through the impregnator, or to enhance control over impregnation. The fiber may be shaped by a fiber shaping unit including one or more active or passive shaping members that provide enhanced control over the shape and placement of the fiber as the fiber leaves the fiber lay-up apparatus. A cutting element for cutting a fiber as it is being layed-up may be positioned proximal to the one or more shaping members, and may enable the fiber lay-up apparatus to end the lay-up of one fiber (or set of fibers) and begin the lay-up of a new fiber (or set of fibers) without delay.

Abstract: A device for attaching a code strip to a supporting structure of an elevator is in the form of a fitting tool capable of being guided along the supporting structure to play out an extended length of code strip material. The fitting tool has a guide shoe and a strip station mounted to the guide shoe for attaching the code strip to the supporting structure as the fitting tool is slid along the supporting structure, such as a guide rail, by a mechanic.

Abstract: A modeling apparatus for producing a model by lamination of sheet material including a support platform which can be raised and lowered, a sheet feed mechanism for feeding sheet material over the platform, a superstructure mounted over the platform, a cutting mechanism for cutting the sheet material to form shaped portions, an adhesive applicator for applying adhesive to the shaped portions, and a control mechanism.

Abstract: A cured tire having an integral adhered applique both cured in the same cure step in a mold to form spaced apart scuff resistant ribs under the applique on the sidewall of the tire, said applique a thin gauge non-staining compatible rubber backing adhered to said sidewall, a highly stable rubberized ink design adhered to said backing and covered with a removable film before and at the time of removal of the tire from the mold.

Abstract: A decoloring apparatus for an image forming material comprising means for bringing a solvent into contact with an image forming material formed on a paper sheet and containing a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, and means for removing a residual solvent from the paper sheet.

Abstract: An improvement to a corner-box drywall taping tool. It uses a housing similar to the existing tools. This housing has a quick release spring-loaded one-way valve attached to the mud area of the tool. One a roll of tape is installed; the unit is attached to a mud pump by the quick release fitting. A pump then fills the housing with mud in about 20 seconds. To prevent the case from opening under the pressure of the pump, additional latches are required to seal the housing. When the mud is exhausted with this device, the operator returns to the mud pump, attaches the fitting to the pump and in another 20 seconds is ready to go. This process can be repeated until the tape supply is exhausted. In this way, the device saves a lot of time during the filling process.

Abstract: A decoloring apparatus for an image forming material comprising means for bringing a solvent into contact with an image forming material formed on a paper sheet and containing a color former, a developer and a decolorizer, and means for removing a residual solvent from the paper sheet.

Abstract: A wallpaper preparation device including a tray having a length and defining a reservoir for receiving a fluid for application to wallpaper. A roller rotatably carried by the tray and extending into the reservoir. A retaining member having opposing ends engagable with engagement features formed in opposing ends of the tray on a first side of the roller. The retaining member extends the length of the tray parallel to a surface of the roller with a gap therebetween, for holding the wallpaper against the roller. The retaining member is adjustable to increase and decrease the gap, thereby decreasing and increasing a frictional force between the wallpaper to be prepared and the roller.

Abstract: A method and machine for producing a ring of abrasive sheet elements from which to form a rotary brush, and whereby the abrasive sheet elements are formed into an orderly row of abrasive elements of a length substantially equal to the mean circumference of the ring, and are connected to one another by feeding towards the row a flexible connecting element, and by connecting the flexible connecting element integrally to each of the sheet elements prior to curving the row to form the ring.

Abstract: A glue sizing mechanism includes a container secured to the bottom of a pair of walls. A coil of sheet member is rotatably supported on the walls. A roller has the ends slidably engaged in the walls and a pair of cams are engaged with the ends of the roller for moving the roller up and down. A cover is pivotally secured to the walls for covering the roller and includes a panel having a groove for engaging with a knife. A rule includes two extensions secured to the walls for measuring the width of the sheet member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tape cutter and self-adhesive label peeler which associates a tape cutter stand with an engaging arm assembly so that it may not only cut an ordinary adhesive tape but also peel self-adhesive labels off from an under layer thereof. To use the device as a self-adhesive label peeler, put a roll of such tape into the cutter stand with a length of the tape from a front end thereof pulled beyond a front stop member, push the engaging arm assembly backward to attach to the cutter stand so that the front stop member is shifted upward to be between a front shaft and a leading member. At this position, an under layer of the tape is bent down to pass beneath the leading member while the harder self-adhesive labels on the under layer are not bent and are conveniently and quickly separated from the under layer.

Abstract: The handheld paper border pasting and dispensing device has a container for holding a quantity of liquid paste. Preferably, unistructural with the container are two side arms which provide attachment for a paper holder below the container. Also, preferably unistructural with the container are two harness plates which provide attachment for a paper guide from the rear of the container. The paper guide redirects a paper border in a transverse direction for application against a wall or near vertical surface. A flow regulator is attached to the container for providing control of paste being dispensed from the container. Also attached to the container over the flow regulator is a contact guide which has a seal portion for sealing off part of the flow regulator not in contact with a paper border.

Abstract: A filter insert and a method for producing the same in which the filter insert has an accordion-folded filter medium. In a first operating step, folded edges are impressed on the filter medium. Subsequently, by glue application devices which are provided with glue application nozzles, at least two glue beads are applied to the surface of the filter medium and the folding is carried out subsequently. At least one of the glue application devices is movable transversely to the transport direction of the filter medium.

Abstract: A product order specification change system for a corrugation machine having a slitter-scorer device and a plurality of cutoff devices for producing corrugated board sheets having various widths and lengths, includes a cutting apparatus wherein at an order change where specifications for the sheet width are changed from one order to the next, a region is formed between the leading end of the new order sheets and the trailing end of the old order sheets, wherein a transitional slit groove is cut connecting a slit groove of the old order sheets with a slit groove of the new order sheets. As a result, the web can be stably transferred through stages of the machine, the cutting dimension accuracy can be maintained precisely, and faults such as jamming can be eliminated.

Abstract: An applicator for applying wetted, pasted wallpaper border to a wall comprising: a tray having parametral sidewalls; a handle connected to the tray; a spool disposed at one end of the tray within the sidewalls for dispensing a roll of the wallpaper border; a roller disposed at another end of the tray within the sidewalls for applying the wallpaper border to the wall; and a wiper blade disposed between the spool and the roller for wiping excess paste and water from the border.

Abstract: An arrangement for holding together a package of boards to be used in the manufacture of printed circuits by applying glue to an edge of the package or by applying glue into holes formed in the boards.

Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing wallboard tape and wallboard compound is provided with a nozzle which applies the compound through a series of opposed feed channels. Each feed channel applies a bead of compound to one side of the tape as the tape passes through the nozzle in a longitudinally folded condition. Upon exiting the nozzle the tape is unfolded and the compound is uniformly extruded beneath the tape. Venting grooves extend from the feed channels to the nozzle exit to prevent clogging of the feed channels by the tape.

Abstract: A two-sided adhesive tape comprising first and second single-sided adhesive tapes connected to one another by a bridge member. Each single-sided adhesive tape comprises an elongated strip of flexible material having lengthwise extending lateral edges, an adhesive side surfaced with adhesive, and a back side not surfaced with adhesive. The bridge member comprises an elongated strip of flexible material having lengthwise extending lateral edges. The single-sided adhesive tapes are positioned in edge-to-edge relationship to one another, such that their inner lateral edges are adjacent to one another with the adhesive sides of the single-sided adhesive tapes facing in opposite directions. The bridge member extends between the single-sided adhesive tapes. In one embodiment, the bridge member is adhesively joined to the adhesive sides of the single-side adhesive tapes.

Abstract: One edge face of each stack of overlapping paper sheets in a series of moving stacks is trimmed and simultaneously roughened by a driven circular knife before the thus trimmed and roughened edge faces are coated with adhesive paste in a step which immediately follows the combined trimming and roughening operation. The edge faces are roughened by teeth which form the cutting edge of the circular knife and/or by particles of hard metal and/or boron nitride on that major surface of the knife which confronts the edge face of the stack at the combined trimming and roughening station.

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: Wallboard tape and compound are simultaneously dispensed through an applicator which is provided with a pressurized reservoir which acts as a fluid capacitor to ensure an even application of compound to the tape, even under intermittent and uneven tape application rates. Applicator nozzles are provided for applying the tape and compound to flat surfaces as well as to corner joints. Compound is wiped from the edges of the tape and the remaining compound is subsequently spread laterally to these wiped edge areas so that no excess compound is extruded from under the tape, thereby avoiding subsequent wiping and clean-up procedures.

Abstract: A double surfaced adhesive tape comprising an elongated strip (14) of flexible material having a longitudinally extending center portion (20) and longitudinally extending first and second edge portions (22, 24). The center portion is thicker than either edge portion, and each edge portion has one adhesively surfaced side (26, 28) and one side (27, 29) that is not surfaced with adhesive. The adhesively surfaced sides may comprise adhesives having different tack properties from one another. The adhesively surfaced sides of the edge portions face in opposite directions from one another.

Abstract: A tape applicator and mastic dispenser for dry wall taping comprising a holder for a replaceable cartridge, means for forcing mastic material from said cartridge through a discharge outlet onto a tape, tape advancing means for feeding a tape from a supply roll beneath the discharge outlet, a roll for applying a mastic coated segment of tape onto a wall joint and means connecting the roll to the tape advancing means for positioning the roll in retracted or tape supporting position by actuation of the tape advancing means, whereby the pressure roll is retracted as tape is advanced beneath the discharge outlet and selectively positionable in front of the dispenser for supporting and applying mastic coated tape to a wall joint.

Abstract: A compound machine for mechanically forming traffic dividing and regulating lines on a roadway pavement, comprising a motor driven vehicle adapted to travel along a desired direction on said pavement, the machine being implemented by a first apparatus supplied and adapted for forming spaced line segment by applying on said pavement spaced lengths of a multilayer road marking prefabricated tape material, and by a second apparatus supplied and adapted for forming painted marking line lengths aligned with and in the intervals between the spaced road marking tape segments, whereby a discontinuous marking line including alternatively arranged tape segments and painted segments is formed on the roadway pavement.

Abstract: A method of treating asphaltic membrane covered roofs for inhibiting the formation of blisters therein and reducing blisters that have formed therein comprises applying to the blistered portions and surrounding areas of the membrane a quantity of selected liquid hydrocarbon. The selected hydrocarbon is miscible with the asphalt of the membrane to instill self-healing qualities therein.

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: The present invention involves a portable taping tool for applying tape over joints in wallboard, sheet rock, gypsum board, drywall, and the like. The taping tool has a main frame which has a dispensing chamber for joint compound, a mounting for a roll of tape, main rollers, a second roller, and a tape cutting blade. In one embodiment, the second roller is a corner roller that not only creases the tape but also squares it in the corner. In another embodiment, the second roller is a substantially cylindrical roller which has a slightly concave shape to its working surface. The cylindrical, second roller is used to apply tape over flat joints and its slightly concave shape serves to concentrate the joint compound towards the middle of the tape so that joint compound will be more evenly distributed when the tape is wiped down. The second roller of each of these embodiments can be rigidly supported in a forward, extended position or spring biased in a forward, extended position.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for mounting a filter to a valve member which is suitable for use in an aerosol container or the like. The apparatus includes a valve member holder adapted for moving the valve member between a loading position, a securing position and an unloading position. The valve member is loaded on the valve member holder at the loading position. A securing element is mounted relative to the securing position with the filter being interposed between the valve member and the securing element. The securing element secures the filter to the valve member by sonic or ultrasonic welding. The valve member and the secured filter is unloaded from the valve member holder at the unloading position. The invention may include a sensor for sensing the presence of the filter secured to the valve member for testing each of the filtered valve members.