At Spaced Areas Patents (Class 156/548)
  • Patent number: 10857781
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing a document and a document produced in a corresponding manner are presented, said document being produced from a paper reel (1), being printed in a continuous rotary method, being divided into partial webs (4.1 to 4.4) and being assembled to form a document which is ready for use and has a plurality of sheets or pages. The thickness of individual pages or sheets of said document can be increased by the fact that a gluing machine (26) is integrated into the production process of said document, the gluing machine gluing individual page sections, individual pages or entire sheets of said document to one another. A second paper reel or second type of paper or second paper quality having a higher paper thickness or paper quality is therefore unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Bernd Rose
  • Publication number: 20140234586
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a heat retaining multi-ply textile includes an adhesive tank; a lower drive roll partially submerged in the tank; an upper drive roll including spaced, longitudinal projections wherein the projections contact the lower drive roll to bring the adhesive onto the projections; two opposite driven rolls; a first supply spool for moving a continuous upper textile sheet wherein the continuous upper textile sheet moves to have its underside contacted the longitudinal projections when passing the upper drive roll before moves to a joining line of the driven rolls; a second supply spool for moving a continuous lower textile sheet to the joining line of the driven rolls wherein the continuous lower and upper textile sheets are pressed toward each other to form compartments; and an oven for heating in order to produce the production. Down migration can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: CHIEN HUA CHEN, YU LIANG GU, CHAO KUEI LEE, JAI CHENG LIU, JUN DAI, BEN CHENG LU, WEI WEI WANG
  • Patent number: 8735645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of applying absorbent gelling material (AGM) granules by indirect printing onto an carrier layer for use in an absorbent article, particularly diaper for babies or adults, training pants, pull-up diapers (diaper pants), sanitary napkins, panty liners or the like. These articles typically comprise the carrier layer with the AGM particles together with further layers, making up the complete article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Blessing, Hans Adolf Jackels, Siegfried Link, Volker Maier, Thomas Ludwig Woschnik, Martin Scaife
  • Patent number: 8402642
    Abstract: In a pocket coil spring structure assembling apparatus, a row-of-pocket-coil-springs auxiliary feed stock mechanism and a row-of-pocket-coil-springs delivery mechanism are connected together in series so as to form a row-of-pocket-coil-springs supply unit, a plurality of row-of-pocket-coil-springs supply units are disposed on an upstream side with respect to a sealing/cutting mechanism, a control apparatus is allowed to alternatively select a row-of-pocket-coil-springs supply unit to face the sealing/cutting mechanism from the plurality of row-of-pocket-coil-springs supply units, and a row-of-pocket-coil-springs supply unit alternatively selected is moved to face the sealing/cutting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Matsushita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Kujuro, Hiroyuki Etoh
  • Patent number: 8327903
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus of a transdermal absorption preparation includes an adhesive sheet supplying part to feed out a band-like first adhesive sheet into a runway, wherein the adhesive sheet has at least an adhesive layer comprising an adhesive and a liquid component compatible with the adhesive, a drug liquid application part to apply a given amount of a drug liquid to an adhesive face, and a traveling section for impregnation which is set in the runway after the drug liquid application part, during which the adhesive sheet is run for a period necessary for the applied drug liquid to soak into the adhesive layer without contact of the drug liquid coated face of the adhesive layer with other members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro Satoda, Shunetsu Kikuchi, Kazuhisa Ninomiya, Katsuhiro Okada, Hitoshi Akemi
  • Patent number: 8287676
    Abstract: A seal agent D and liquid crystal C are clamped to a lower substrate 6, a pair of the lower substrate 7 and an upper substrate 7 are laminated with the seal agent D and the liquid crystal C interposed therebetween, and at least one of the pair of substrates is a roll-shaped long flexible resin film. When the substrates are laminated, the lower substrate 6 on one hand is aligned to the upper substrate 7 on the other hand in every arbitrary length. With this arrangement, productivity can be improved as well as a positional dislocation due to accumulation of positioning errors can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: JSR Corporation, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsuo Nozaki
  • Patent number: 7838722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of applying absorbent gelling material (AGM) granules by indirect printing onto an carrier layer for use in an absorbent article, particularly diaper for babies or adults, training pants, pull-up diapers (diaper pants), sanitary napkins, panty liners or the like. These articles typically comprise the carrier layer with the AGM particles together with further layers, making up the complete article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Blessing, Hans Adolf Jackels, Siegfried Link, Volker Maier, Thomas Ludwig Woschnik, Martin Scaife
  • Patent number: 7520951
    Abstract: A method of transferring nanoparticles to a surface is provided. The method includes rotating a perimeter surface through a colloidal solution such that nanoparticles are captured by binding sites, removing liquid from the captured nanoparticles and rotating a take-up roll such that the captured nanoparticles contact a carrier surface. Moreover, the method includes removing the captured nanoparticles from the perimeter surface and transferring the nanoparticles to the carrier surface with a carrier adhesive material, rotating the carrier surface such that the transferred nanoparticles contact a target substrate, and removing the transferred nanoparticles from the carrier surface and transferring the transferred nanoparticles to the target substrate with a target substrate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation
    Inventors: Heiko Wolf, Tobias Kraus
  • Patent number: 7409976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a product comprising a support having a long-acting adhesive and a protective tape disposed thereon, so that said adhesive can be used at a later time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Valco Cincinnati, Inc.
    Inventors: Simone Chevalier, legal representative, Gilbert Eugène Veniard, Patrick André Martial Chevalier, Pierre André´ Marc Chevalier
  • Patent number: 6887914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a material, method, and application for reinforcement of structural members, especially joints such as a hem flange joint of an automobile. The method and material of the present invention comprises of combining, in parts by weight: less than about twenty percent (<20%) ethylene copolymer, less than about forty percent (<40%) epoxy, less than about thirty percent (<45%) epoxy-based resin, less than about two percent (<2%) blowing agent and from about one percent (1%) to about five percent (5%) curing agent (and optionally add any of the following components: less than about two percent (<2%) curing agent accelerator, from about twenty-five percent (25%) to fifty-five percent (55%) filler, and less than about one percent (<1%) of coloring agent).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: L&L Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Czaplicki, David J. Kosal, Jeanne Antrim
  • Patent number: 6531027
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making disposable absorbent articles comprising adhering two components materials to each other using an improved roll printing process to provide an adhesive to one of the two components, the adhesive has an application temperature which is greater than a print roll temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Andreas Lender, Julian Ashton Plumley
  • Patent number: 6290800
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminate particularly adapted for bedding, padding upholstering and like applications by feeding an indeterminate length of a first material along a predetermined first path of travel from a source of the first material to a downstream assembly area. Feeding an indeterminate length of second material along a predetermined second path of travel from a source of the second material to the downstream assembly area. Depositing a multiplicity of substantially yieldable cushioning materials upon an upper surface of one of the first and second indeterminate lengths of material during the feeding thereof between the respective sources and the assembly area. Thereafter, sandwiching the cushioning materials between the indeterminate lengths of first and second materials to form a laminate therefrom, and rolling the laminate into a roll. The cushioning materials are foam latex and/or down and the first and second lengths of material are polyester fiber material and/or convoluted foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Inventors: Steven Antinori, Manuel Fernandez, William Harp
  • Patent number: 6112794
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for applying an edgeband to a planar edge and an apparatus for performing the process. In the process, one or more gluing edge(s) of the structure and/or edgeband is/are heated to a temperature of greater than 25.degree. C., a heated reactive adhesive is then applied to the gluing edge(s), the structure and edgeband are then brought together to form a composite structure, with the reactive adhesive forming the bond. In the apparatus, the reactive adhesive is provided from a sealed adhesive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: John L. Hannon, Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Patent number: 6063226
    Abstract: A file folder has a pocket disposed on one of its surfaces. The edges of the pocket and the file folder are in sheared alignment with each other. A method for manufacturing a file folder having a pocket is disclosed. Adhesive is deposited along several edges of a first web of material which is pressed to a second web of material to join the webs together by the adhesive. The combined materials are cut along one of the edges of adhesive to form a sheet having a pocket. The first and second webs have side edges which are in sheared alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Esselte Corporation
    Inventors: Allan Eugene Foster, Lee A. Boy, Steven Read, Mark Rocco, Juan C. Gonzales, Mark D. Van Leer, Harry S. Smith
  • Patent number: 6059911
    Abstract: A core has honeycomb-shaped cells in rows with sides adhered to each other by glue. All the glue adhering all the cells of at least one of the rows to the cells of a next of the rows is in two glue strips that are spaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Besin B. V.
    Inventor: Hendrik Jozef Kroeze
  • Patent number: 5979530
    Abstract: A separator sheet is formed of a plastic material and has a number of ribs formed on one side thereof. The ribs extend in the direction in which the separator sheet is fed. The sheet is overlaid with a glass mat, and a laminated member obtained thereby is moved into the region between a pair of driving rolls. After being sandwiched by the driving rolls, the laminated member is fed into an envelope apparatus. In an adhesive coating step, a hot melt type adhesive is coated on one side of the glass mat. The adhesive is coated at portions C corresponding to the base sections between the ribs of the sheet, in such a manner that the coated adhesive forms a line extending in the longitudinal direction of the glass mat. In a stacking step, the sheet and the glass mat are stacked one upon the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigenori Moue
  • Patent number: 5942082
    Abstract: A method for producing and coating melt portions includes two sheet strips, which form coating material layers, being continually fed. The melt portions embedded between the sheet strips are cooled and calibrated according to their thickness. The sheet strips are longitudinally and transversely separated in the region of their connection points such that the melt portions become isolated and the sheet strips are connected to each other such that each melt portion is embraced tightly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Jurgen Winter, Matthias Kleinhans, Warnfried Baumann
  • Patent number: 5783298
    Abstract: A container having a mixture of one part of a two-part epoxy adhesive with a plurality of glass beads pre-mixed therein. The concentration of beads in the final mixture as applied to the joint to be bonded is in the range of about 5% to about 20% by weight, with the beads having a diameter in the range of 0.003 to about 0.030 inches. The mixture is capable of being pumped from the container and applied to a member for forming a hem flange joint with another member. The adhesive/glass beads mixture finds particular utility to help prevent excess squeeze out and promote reliable bonds in processes in which an inner and outer panel of an exterior automotive closure member are joined together by way of a hem flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: The Budd Company
    Inventors: James Morton Herring, Jr., Bruce Norman Greve
  • Patent number: 5746855
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the archival storage of tissue sections which have been cut from a sample block by a microtome blade includes a tape bearing serially-spaced areas of adhesive material, generally the same size as the surface of the tissue sample block. The tape may be delivered from a feed reel by a feed roller mechanism. Between each cut, the tape is advanced to align the adhesive area on the tape with the tissue sample. An application roller presses the adhesive against the sample, the section is cut, and a takeup roller lifts the tape and section away from the blade. The tape may then be wound onto a takeup reel for archival storage. The entire process may be automated, including the operation of a transport mechanism to move the apparatus away from the tissue sample during microscopic imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Advanced Pathology Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Bolles
  • Patent number: 5718799
    Abstract: A fabric light control window covering in which fabric vanes are adhesively bonded between two sheer fabric sheets such that relative movement between the sheer fabric sheets in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the fabric vanes changes the angle of the fabric vanes and, thus, controls the amount of light admitted through the shade. The vanes are bonded to the sheer fabric sheets in a manner which tends to bias the sheer fabric sheets together to the nonlight admitting position. Also, disclosed are methods and apparatus for manufacturing the above window covering. The method features linear application of adhesive to the vane material which provides for a uniform appearance in the finished product. A heat setting process and apparatus is disclosed in which the bonded layers of sheer fabrics and vanes are fed between belts over hot and cool surfaces, under uniform tension and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.
    Inventors: Wendell B. Colson, Paul G. Swiszcz
  • Patent number: 5637183
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for processing flat workpieces, in particular for carrying out operations between fabric pieces in superposed relationship, feeding the workpieces to a continuously operating workstation by pre-conveyors that cooperate with subsequent conveyors. The pre-conveyor and each subsequent conveyor are so arranged that, upon starting the pre-conveyor with a workpiece on its conveyor path, the conveyor path of the pre-conveyor is extended over the conveyor path of the subsequent conveyor to such an extent that the workpiece can be moved over the conveyor path of the subsequent conveyor. When that position is adopted, the conveyor belt of the pre-conveyor is stopped and the workpiece is deposited on the conveyor belt of the subsequent conveyor by shortening the path of the pre-conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Herbert Meyer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Borner
  • Patent number: 5628845
    Abstract: The present invention utilizes a controlled pressure application system to insure that the proper pressure is applied in a lamination of permeable and semi-permeable roll mounted sheets into a cellular sheet structure. The present invention uses a pressure roller mounted on a carriage which is movable horizontally radially of a heated roll by a controllable linear actuator such that variable and closely controlled pressure may be applied to a web passing between the heated roll and the carriage mounted pressure roller. Additionally, the present invention uses a precisely controllable fluid heated pressure roller and a precisely controllable fluid cooled cooling roller acting as a heat sink for the pressure roller to maintain a precise temperature gradient across the web at the nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Thermal Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph C. J. Murray, Jonathan S. Browne
  • Patent number: 5624522
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying granules to a coated asphalt sheet to form at high production speeds with shingles a variegated pattern having uniform pattern edges. Granules of a first color are applied to spaced first areas on a continuously moving tacky asphaltic strip, such as a hot asphalt coated organic or glass fiber mat. Hot asphalt or another adhesive is applied to at least a portion of one or both of the leading and trailing edges of the first areas to provide predetermined uniform edges to tacky second areas between the spaced first areas. Granules of a second color are then deposited on the second areas. The granule coated strip is then cut into shingles. The method may be used to create multiple pattern areas with two or more different colored granules or granule blends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Technology Inc.
    Inventors: James S. Belt, Roger W. Smith
  • Patent number: 5545284
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of manufacturing laminate for honeycomb structure. The invention includes first and second adhesive agent applying units, each of which applies an adhesive agent to a material strip in parallel strips, first and second pressing rolls corresponding to each of said adhesive agent applying units, and a layering table reciprocated by a predetermined stroke. The second stripes of the adhesive agent are displaced transversely by a half pitch from the first stripes of the adhesive agent. The adhesive agent applying units and the pressing rolls are disposed immediately above the layering table and the rolls press the material strip being fed onto the layered material strip, and are moved between an operating position and an inoperative position with relation to the movement of the layering table. The layering table is movable and a roll stand housing the pressing rolls moves in a direction opposite to that of the layering table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Oji Kenzai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriyasu Miura
  • Patent number: 5507906
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method for manufacturing a laminated pad in a cost-efficient manner. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of applying strips of adhesive to a first substrate and mounting the first substrate to a second substrate. Next, adhesive is applied to the entire width of a third substrate which is in turn mounted to the laminated first and second substrates to create a laminated sheet. The laminated sheet can be slit and then die cut into individual laminated pads. The pads which result from this process have a base pad, an intermediate layer which is adhered to the base pad and a top layer in which only a portion of the top layer is mounted to the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: M. J. Woods, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Woods, Marilyn S. Woods
  • Patent number: 5443678
    Abstract: The process relates to the production of a product consisting of a substrate to which an adhesive with long-term effect and a protective band are attached to permit use of the adhesive to be deferred. The process is characterized by the use of a substrate whose surface to which the adhesive is attached may present irregularities. The adhesive is heated to a temperature at which is becomes paste-like and almost liquid, and is brought to an opening situated above a plane surface on which the substrate has been placed. The adhesive is then caused to flow simultaneously with a relative movement between the substrate and the opening. This results in the adhesive being deposited on the substrate as a strand that is preferably continuous. The temperature of the adhesive is then lowered in order to increase its viscosity until it becomes paste-like to the point of turning solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Pierre A. Chevalier
    Inventors: Pierre A. M. Chevalier, Jacques P. Chevalier, Gilbert E. Veniard
  • Patent number: 5443682
    Abstract: Selected objects such as scallops, are automatically secured in spaced apart bottom-to-bottom relation to elongated strips for subsequent suspension in sea water for a final grow-out period. Linear arrays of these objects, to which adhesive has been applied, are brought into bottom-to-bottom contact with the strip and held there until bonds have formed, following which the strip with attached objects is released from the machine and the procedure is thereafter automatically repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Fisheries Resource Development (1988) Limited
    Inventors: Timothy K. Edmonds, James D. MacAulay
  • Patent number: 5407515
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for laminating two pieces of material involves edge bonding. The method includes the steps of: placing pieces of a first material into a fixture on a work platform, depositing a powder adhesive onto an edge zone of each first material piece, curing the adhesive to a form ready for bonding, placing pieces of a second material into the fixture such that each sits above a piece of the first material, applying heat and pressure to the fixture to press each piece of first material against each piece of second material, and removing the finished pieces from the fixture. The method utilizes a rotatable table carrying six equiangularly-positioned fixtures, as well as six workstations positioned equiangularly around the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventor: Steven Singer
  • Patent number: 5405483
    Abstract: An expandable collapsible product is made by providing a pleated sheet (8,10) having legs (20) which are made by securing two parts of a fold (17) together. Two sheets are combined by securing the end of a leg (20) to a crease (16) or a leg (20) of an opposite sheet. The sheet material is folded to prefereably provide alternating taller folds (17) and shorter folds (16), and the taller folds are modified to provide the legs (20) by gluing parts of the taller folds (17) together. Gluing is accomplished by moving glue heads across the sheet at high velocity through the use of linear motors. The glue lines are heated after being laid down by the use of electro-magnetic radiation, preferably from a high-powered laser. The finished product is used as insulated window coverings, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Hunter Douglas, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig A. Neff
  • Patent number: 5314559
    Abstract: An apparatus applies glue to closure stamps for insertion onto packages, such as cigarette packs. A pair of rotatable glue-applying wheels receive glue from a glue pot and transfer the glue onto the backs of the closure stamps as the closure stamps are fed therepast. A portion of the peripheral edge of each glue-applying wheel is recessed radially inwardly, to define an interruption in an outer diameter of the peripheral edge, so that only a non-recessed portion of the outer edge transfers glue to the closure stamps. In this way, opposite ends of the glue lines are spaced from leading and trailing edges of the closure stamp. A synchronizing mechanism is provided to achieve a proper synchronization between the stamp-feeding mechanism and the glue-applying wheels to ensure that the glue lines are kept spaced from the leading and trailing ends of the closure stamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven R. Rinehart, James W. Giles, Jr., Charles P. Pendleton, Marvin M. Grimsley
  • Patent number: 5308435
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing one or more individual stacks of superimposed, secured together, expandable tubular strips forming an expandable honeycomb panel. The strips coated with adhesive are advanced sequentially to the inlet of a stacking chamber having an elevated floor with a longitudinally extending slot of a length to receive each strip and which is narrower than the width of the strips to be delivered thereto. The strip so delivered is pushed up through the narrower slot and against the strip just previously delivered to the chamber, to adhere it to the latter strip. The chamber has a weight bar to exert a downward force on the stack of strips to provide good adherence between the strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Home Fashions, Inc.
    Inventors: Kay L. Ruggles, Cary L. Ruggles, Bryan K. Ruggles, Kerry Strauss, Dennis Buehner
  • Patent number: 5261990
    Abstract: A method of making an elongate strip for the production of a sealing member includes, as a first step, applying a plurality of strips of a first adhesive to one of a membrane and a first sheet, the membrane and the first sheet are then bonded together so that composite portions are formed where they are bonded together by the strips of the first adhesive, and separated portions are formed where the membrane and the first sheet are free from one another. The other side of the membrane is then coated with an additional layer of adhesive, for example a hot melt bonding material. Then, sealing members can be cut from the resultant composite elongate strip, with each sealing member having a composite portion in which the membrane and the first sheet are bonded together and a separated portion in which the membrane and the first sheet are free of one another. The free portion of the first sheet then forms a tab, for removal of the sealing member, in use, after it has been bonded to the lip of a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Stanpac Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Galda, Brian M. Klassen, Stephen H. Witt
  • Patent number: 5238523
    Abstract: A substrate coated with a film of liquid crystal material having a uniform thickness is produced efficiently by applying the liquid crystal material to the electrode side of a substrate using an impregnating matter impregnated with the liquid crystal material, and such a method ensures uniform thickness even for a film of liquid crystal material having a large area. A liquid crystal optical device having a uniform optical quality and a large area is produced efficiently by coating a flexible substrate with a film of liquid crystal material using the method described above, laminating the coated flexible substrate with another flexible substrate, with the film of the liquid crystal material disposed between the electrode sides of the flexible substrates, and orienting the liquid crystal material in thus obtained laminate by subjecting the laminate to bending treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimihiro Yuasa, Tetsuo Fujimoto, Kenji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 5167754
    Abstract: A cohesive layered sheet of thermoplastic fiber material formed by two outer layers of material, each outer layer having a standard full width, and an inner layer made from strips of scrap material. The strips of scrap material each have a width substantially less than the standard full width and are arranged side-by-side so as to have a combined width approximately equal to a standard full width. The layers are ultrasonically bonded together so as to form a cohesive layered sheet. A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing such a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Matarah Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Lutzow, Lance Appleby
  • Patent number: 5160563
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a pleated expandable and collapsible multi-cell product for window coverings and the like. A web of material is accordion folded widthwise to form a series of web panels united in alternate succession along first and second creased folds disposed at respective first and second sides of the web. Successive panels are advanced in an unfolded condition lengthwise of the web through an adhesive applying zone to an inlet end of a refold stack and adhesive is applied to each web panel, in a band parallel to and spaced from the associated creased fold with a preceding panel. The web panels having adhesive applied thereto are refolded in succession along the associated creased fold with a preceding panel onto the inlet end of the refold stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Graber Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darrell J. Kutchmarek, James H. Stauffacher
  • Patent number: 5139597
    Abstract: A distinct conveyor assembly allows a business form sealer--such as a pressure sealer--to operate with forms that have been detached from a continuous supply. Individual forms are detached from the continuous supply while being conveyed in a first direction, to form shingled forms having irregularly positioned side edges. The forms are deshingled by conveying them from the detacher at high speed (e.g. an increase in speed of about ten times or more), and they are registered while being conveyed in the first direction at high speed. Registration may take place by moving the forms against one side edge, or moving them between funnelled side edges to ultimately engage straight guides on both side edges. After registration, the forms may be fed directly to the sealer, or into the top of a hopper, and then withdrawn from the bottom of the hopper and passed through a folder before being fed to the sealer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: George E. Walter, John E. Traise
  • Patent number: 5030314
    Abstract: The invention is generally accomplished by providing a roll having cavities suitable for retaining small quantities of particulate material. The roll further is adapted to be rotated such that the particulate material is deposited onto a web in discrete areas. These areas correspond to the depressions on the roll. The appartus and method of the invention further provides in its preferred form a roll applicator device for adhesive having a series of lands and valleys wherein the lands correspond to the areas between the discrete particulate material. The applicator roll provides adhesive on the land areas that is transferred to a web of material which is brought into contact with the substrate bearing the discrete deposits of particulate material and sealed thereto. There is thereby provided areas of discrete particulate material securely separated by the adhesive connected webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
    Inventor: Theodore B. Lang
  • Patent number: 4997504
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for high speed pouch or bag making from thin, extensible heat-sensitive thermoplastic film webs in which the method is applied to a continuously moving web and sealing is achieved at temperatures below the softening temperatures of the film or sealing interfaces. The method of forming an open pouch comprising the steps of continuously pulling an elongated web of pouch forming material at a constant speed along a pouch making path which extends continuously through a web slitting station, a web coating station, a web collating station, an Electron Beam curing station and a web cutting station. An elongated web is slit into first and second webs at the slitting station, a pattern of E.B. curable adhesive is applied to a first surface of the first web as it is pulled continuously through the web coating station to render the first surface bondable at a seal pattern and non-bondable in the area of the storage compartment when subjected to Electron Beam radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Inventor: James R. Wood
  • Patent number: 4992132
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the production of an endless honeycomb band, consisting of flatly adjacent, partially bonded strips, which band can be drawn out by stretching in band longitudinal direction to form a honeycomb. Film sheets are continuously drawn off from a plurality of coils, provided on one side with equally spaced glue strips running mutually parallel in the sheet longitudinal direction and subsequently being laid one on top of another. The gluing is performed with a hotmelt adhesive, which is sprayed onto each film sheet in the form of a plurality of strips. The glue strips of the one film sheet are arranged offset with respect to the above-lying or below-lying film sheet by half a strip spacing in each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Hans Schmidlin
    Inventors: Hans Schmidlin, Christoph Rohrer
  • Patent number: 4986871
    Abstract: A honeycomb panel manufacturing system and method comprises expansion tables, a curing chamber, adhesive application table, and a pressing station for bonding face sheets to honeycomb panels. The method of manufacture comprises expanding honeycomb material, curing expanded panels, and pressing face sheets onto opposite sides of cured panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Panel Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert H. Leslie
  • Patent number: 4859266
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for powder sewing two plies of cloth or fabric material by spraying an adhesive powder onto one side of one ply of cloth or fabric from a powder spray gun having a corona discharge electrode mounted thereon. A second pin electrode is provided on the opposite side of the one ply of cloth or fabric. Electrical charges of differing polarity are applied to the electrodes while the cloth or fabric material is moved between the two and powder is sprayed thereon. In the course of migrating through the electrostatic field created between the two electrodes, the powder is caused to follow the force lines created within that field and to migrate onto one side of fabric in the form of a long, narrow band of powder. A second ply of cloth or fabric is then positioned over the first ply and over the band of powder. Pressure and heat applied to the powder activates the powder and causes it to become tacky so that when subsequently cooled, it adheres the two plies together along the narrow powder band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Akasaki, Masafumi Matsunaga, Takashi Watanabe, Hironari Matsushima
  • Patent number: 4850948
    Abstract: A laminated package insert is provided having increased compressive strength for a given weight of board stock, and being easier to erect, as compared to previously known inserts. The insert is made from two substantially identical blanks, with identical score patterns, placed face-to-face and adhered in selected areas, leaving other areas adhesive-free. The score lines are formed so that no score line has to be broken backwards during erection, thereby making erection easier, particularly for automatic insert erecting equipment. A method and apparatus for assembling the insert are also provided wherein two feeders alternately feed blanks into a hopper, each successive pair of blands being face-to-face, one blank having adhesive on selected areas of the face facing the other blank. The synchronization of the two feeders is carefully controlled, as is the settling of the blanks in the hopper, using air jets free of turbulence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Four M Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald F. Schmitz
  • Patent number: 4849040
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for high speed pouch or bag making from thin, extensible heat-sensitive thermoplastic film webs or multiple webs of paper, film and foil in which the seal pattern may be simple or complex sealing and in which the method is applied to a continuously moving web and sealing is achieved at temperatures below the softening temperatures of the film or the sealing interfaces. A method of forming an open pouch comprising the steps of continuously pulling an elongated web of pouch forming material at a constant speed along a pouch making path which extends continuously through a web coating station, a web collating station, an Electron Beam curing station and a web cutting station. A pattern of E.B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Inventor: James R. Wood
  • Patent number: 4824503
    Abstract: Paper from a roll or other supply is processed by an in-line magazine publishing and/or assembly system. The processing sequence includes printing pages of the magazine in predetermined places on the paper, laying down patterns of glue in other places of the paper, cutting a pattern of perforations and slits in the paper related to the glue pattern, cutting the paper into two sections, one of which is folded forming the pages of the magazine. The other section is folded forming the magazine cover, including pockets defined by the glue pattern. One pocket takes the form of a tear-out remittance envelope, the other pocket taking the form of a tear-out invoice sheet. A window in the cover exposes and uses the name and address on the invoice for the magazine mailing address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Inventor: Richard Wilen
  • Patent number: 4776916
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for applying a thermoplastic adhesive to a portion of a garment in a predetermined pattern. The portion of the garment is initially loaded onto a conveyor device through a loading fixture and a powdered adhesive is screen printed onto said portion in a predetermined pattern. The adhesive is cured in a drying oven and permitted to cool. A cover panel is then placed over the adhesive and the cover panel is fused to that portion of the garment at elevated temperature and pressure. The resultant garment, preferably a woman's undergarment, possesses the combination of unique control, support, shape and aesthetic characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Playtex Apparel, Inc.
    Inventors: James Prunesti, William D. Bell, Jane P. Gannaway, Dolores O'Boyle, Anthony Tedeschi
  • Patent number: 4657624
    Abstract: At a location between a single facer machine and a glue machine, a web of corrugated paperboard has the flutes crushed in a narrow zone longitudinally of the web. A bonding agent is applied only to the uncrushed flutes. Preprinted liners are applied to the bonding agent on the uncrushed flutes with the liners being spaced from one another by said narrow zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Molins Machine Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Benedict R. Buinewicz
  • Patent number: 4655870
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for glueing corrugated board and an apparatus for carrying out the same, the method comprising: heating a starch glue to a predetermined temperature range by heat exchange; supplying the starch glue to a glue pan placed in a hot atmosphere of a heat-insulated space so as to maintain the glue in a heated state; feeding a corrugated core sheet and a liner into the heat-insulated space; applying the heated starch glue to ridge portions of the corrugated core sheet; and bonding together the corrugated core sheet and liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Isowa Industry Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Mori, Eiichi Isowa
  • Patent number: 4631108
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for fabricating honeycomb expandable insulation panels disclosed herein includes a method and apparatus for folding a continuous thin film of flexible plastic material into a uniform, open faced tubular configuration and for heat setting the folds in permanent sharp creases. It also includes a rotatable rack apparatus for continuously stacking successive lengths of the tubular formed plastic film one on top of another on flat surfaces and adhering them together in the form of a neat, uniform expandable panel of interior honeycomb cell configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Thermocell, Ltd.
    Inventor: Wendell B. Colson
  • Patent number: 4572762
    Abstract: A machine for assembling lost foam pattern sections. The machine has an upper retainer for holding an upper pattern section in a generally horizontal position with the surfaces to be glued facing downwardly to be contacted by a glue plate having a raised configuration depicting the glue pattern desired on the to-be-glued surfaces of the upper section. The machine provides for application of glue to the glue plate prior to moving the glue plate into contact with the upper section to transfer glue to the upper section. A lower retainer for a lower pattern section is moved into contact with the upper section long enough for the glue to set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation
    Inventor: John H. Winston
  • Patent number: RE36601
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method for manufacturing a laminated pad in a cost-efficient manner. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of applying strips of adhesive to a first substrate and mounting the first substrate to a second substrate. Next, adhesive is applied to the entire width of a third substrate which is in turn mounted to the laminated first and second substrates to create a laminated sheet. The laminated sheet can be slit and then die cut into individual laminated pads. The pads which result from this process have a base pad, an intermediate layer which is adhered to the base pad and a top layer in which only a portion of the top layer is mounted to the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: M.J. Woods, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Woods, Marilyn S. Woods