Abstract: A set of sheets delivered seriatim from a copier/duplicator or other source are advanced along a sheet path leading from an input station to an assembly station where a booklet is formed. As a sheet is moved along the path a line of adhesive is applied to one surface of the sheet adjacent to one side edge of the sheet. In the assembly station the sheets are jogged to align the sheets of the set and then pressure is applied to the sheets over the line of adhesive. When the entire set has been bound together into a booklet, the booklet is removed from the assembly station and delivered to an output station, such as a tote tray.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is equipment for the manufacture of a continuous multi-layer veneer board consisting of veneer sheets. In the equipment, the component devices have been combined into an integrated whole, whereby complete automation of the operation of the equipment is possible.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining sheet segments, typically rubberized, to one another to form an elongated strip, wherein a strip composed of sheet segments joined together is conveyed into a joining zone between rear and front conveyance zones in such a manner that the strip has a trailing end portion slightly projecting rearwardly from the rearmost ends of guide rails extending through the joining zone and front conveyance zone, whereupon a vertically movable pressing surface is brought into pressing contact with the trailing edge of the strip for causing the trailing edge to extend at a desired angle to a transverse direction of the joining zone. A sheet segment to be joined to such a strip is conveyed into the joining zone under the guidance of a vertically movable ride-on surface whereupon vertically movable edge portions are brought into pressing contact with the leading edge of the sheet segment for causing the leading edge to extend in parallel with the trailing edge of the strip.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for joining veneer strips with an adhesive string between the abutting edges of the veneer strips, which string forms loops between the edges of one side of the veneer, the string being pressed and cemented against the other side of the veneer. The loop is being made by lifting the adhesive string through the plane of movement of the veneer strips using a supply eye in front of a holding hook. Thereafter, the string is being hung into the holding hook by a swinging movement and a following return movement of the supply eye.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for making a continuous solid wood-laminated panel from elongated wooden blocks precoated with glue along two right angular edges. An elongated table is provided at its feeding end with a plurality of rack members disposed over the same for holding individual stacks of glue-coated wooden blocks at a feeding station with the blocks all aligned longitudinally of the table and equally offset transversely of the table.

Abstract: The subject apparatus assemblies strips of pocketed upholstery springs, one strip at a time, into spring cores for mattresses and the like.The connections of each such strip to its predecessor are made between the interpocket webs of the pocket sheeting of the two adjacent strips, preferably at intervals of two springs, and are staggered by one spring from strip to strip.The disclosed and preferred technique for joining the pocket material of the adjacent strips is thermal welding by ultrasonic vibration, but other specific forms of connection are also suggested.

Abstract: A technique for salvaging scrap veneer wherein scrap veneer is cut to a common width. The cut veneer will then be cut into common lengths and fed to a number of butt jointing machines. These butt jointing machines will end joint the pieces and feed out parallel ribbons of butt jointed veneer. These ribbons will then be fed to a series of splicing machines which will splice the ribbons together to form sheets made of small uniform size pieces of veneer. The sheets may then be fastened to a backing material.

Abstract: The welding apparatus serves for the purpose of butt-welding of plastic pipes of diameters larger than 500 mm. All the work is performed by means of the welding apparatus from inside the pipe. Thereby the working time is reduced, the welding quality ensured, and the installation becomes faster. Lifting cranes and heating tents become unnecessary. A novelty is also the possibility of welding pipes together at an angle position. As the welding apparatus is collapsible, it may also be advantageously used for repair work on old pipes in the ground (relining), with a minimum exposure of the pipes.

Abstract: Copy sheets having a re-fusable xerographic toner along an edge thereof are bound into booklets by arranging the sheets in a stack and re-fusing the toner so that the re-fused toner adheres adjacent sheets together. The re-fusing operation can be accomplished after each group of a few sheets is received from a copier so that the finisher operation can be carried on at the same rate copies are produced by the copier. Alternately, a larger stack of sheets can be bound together in an off-line basis by a simple heating step.

Abstract: An apparatus for stacking flattened-out bags has a stacking drum rotatable in one rotational sense about a stacking drum axis at a stacking station which subdivides a conveyor into an upstream stretch that feeds the flattened-out bags one at a time to the drum and a downstream stretch which carries the stacks of bags away from the station. A pressure drum at the station is rotatable in the opposite directional sense about an axis parallel to that of the stacking drum. An axially extending array of generally radially extending pickup needles is provided on the stacking drum pointed forwardly in the respective rotational sense. An axially extending pusher bar is provided on the pressure drum and at least one spot welder is also provided on this pressure drum adjacent the pusher.

Abstract: A ticket shingling process and an apparatus for performing the process by which tickets are serially stripped from the bottom of a stack of tickets by means of a reciprocating suction means which, in conjunction with rotable feed means, transfers the stripped ticket to a longitudinally extending first conveyor. Suction means is provided above the downstream end of the first conveyor to lift each ticket into engagement with ticket aligning means on a second, laterally extending conveyor where glue is applied to the ticket. The second conveyor is advanced a predetermined increment whereupon a succeeding ticket is mated with the first ticket in adhesive offset or shingled manner. The process is repeated until a predetermined number of tickets comprise the ticket assembly. Means is provided for alternative movement of the second conveyor to accomplish desired ticket placement within a bank.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of and apparatus for laminating timber to form beams for use in structural and other uses. The beam is formed from timber strips forced through a set of pressure means comprising preferably pressure rollers in a side by side relationship with bonding medium applied to the vertical sides of the strips. These sides preferably have interengaging castellations formed thereon for improved connection between the strips. The strips are formed from timber lengths which are connected together preferably by finger jointing. The bonding medium is applied to the side faces of the timber lengths and to the ends at the same time. A braking system ensures that the ends of timber lengths are spaced well apart to enable adequate bonding medium to be applied to the timber length ends.

Abstract: In a veneer assembling machine in which an adhesive thread is adhesively applied over the joint between two strips of veneer, a spool (26) is detachably secured to a machine base plate (27) in a receiving ring (31). A ring shoulder (28) engaging in the receiving ring (31) at the end of the spool (26) is thus provided with sliding tracks (29) and with adjacent indentations (30) in which a machine end stop pin (38) engages. A thrust ring (33) is resiliently mounted in the receiving ring (31) and presses against the ring shoulder (28) from below and tensions the spool (26).

Abstract: Apparatus is described for continuously producing finger jointed lumber from individual elongated boards. Each board includes opposed end faces with elongated parallel fingers that will mate with complementary fingers of a following board to form end-jointed lumber. A reciprocating ram engages one end of successive individual boards, pushing the board longitudinally along a path to a confining box. The ram retracts to engage a successive board along its end face to push it longitudinally into engagement with the board held by the confining box. The fingers of the engaging board ends mate within the confining box and are pressed together to complete a joint. The ram includes a ram face that is complementary to the finger configuration of the board ends to mate intimately with the board end. The ram face may be heated to apply heat to the successive board ends for glue curing purposes.

Abstract: A method of forming a stack of unexpanded honeycomb core sheets from a continous web of which alternate sheets in the stack have linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one side spaced equally between similar adhesive lines on the others of the sheets when evenly stacked, such method including applying linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one face of the web, cutting the web parallel to the adhesive lines with one cut being made along the linear center of a line of adhesive and the next cut being made along the linear center of the space between the adhesive lines, and then stacking the cut sheets in even edge alignment resulting in the lines of adhesive being linearly staggered on one sheet with respect to those on the adjacent sheet.

Abstract: Machine for assembling veneer strips comprising a reciprocating thread guide which is provided above a supporting table, a paper strip pasting device or the like which is arranged in front of a pressure roller rolling on the veneer strips along the connecting join thereof, comprising a device for conveying the veneer strips in opposite directions to a separating bar serving as a stop and extending vertically upwardly out of the table along the connecting join, and comprising a device for sealing the joins of the veneer strips by compression in which the thread guide and the pressure roller are arranged on a common carriage above the veneer strips, the carriage being displaceable parallel to the connecting join of the veneer strips, the separating bar being divided into individual separating elements which are arranged in a row at spaced intervals from each other and are lowerable in succession into the supporting table synchronously with the movement of the carriage.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining plywood core strips comprises a feeding conveyor floor for the wood strips to be jointed, a crowding conveyor floor therefore and pressure elements, effective to press the wood strips against the feeding and crowding conveyor floors. Each pressure element includes a rod having its front end bent upwardly and supported by the machine frame through a kinematic train including a pneumatic cylinder urging the rod against the underlying conveyor floor. Alignment means including stop pawls and sensors controlling the actuation of the stop pawls are provided to align the strips perpendicular to the feeding direction, as well as jointing material applying means.

Abstract: In a method of press-forming a planer board of corrugated paperboard into a curved board which serves as the substrate of, for example, an automobile roof trim board by utilizing a thermoplastic adhesive in the production of the corrugated paperboard and applying heat to the planer board through dies in a hot-press, the liners of the corrugated paperboard are prevented from wrinkling by preheating the planer board so as to soften the thermoplastic adhesive therein immediately before placement between the dies. An apparatus to perform this method comprises a board carrier which has heaters and can carry the planer board into the hot-press with continued heating of the board.

Abstract: A machine for making hanging file folders, each of which folders comprises a folded paperboard blank and a pair of support rods fastened to the upper edges of the folded blanks and includes a rod applicator mechanism comprising a conveyor for moving an unfolded flat blank having glue patterns thereon along a path; a mechanism for momentarily interrupting or stopping movement of the blank along the path; a pair of rod-dispensing magazines adjacent the path; and rod transfer mechanisms for transferring rods from the magazines and applying them to the glue patterns while the blank is stopped, whereafter blank movement resumes. The conveyor includes a pair of separable rollers between which the blank passes and by which it is advanced when the rollers are closed. The mechanism for momentarily interrupting movement of the blank effects momentary separation of the rollers and includes a stop member temporarily movable into the path of movement of the blank to arrest its progress after the rollers separate.

Abstract: Reconsolidated wood product and process and apparatus for forming the product, the product being formed from webs of splintered natural wood broken down by crushing or like processes, the webs being consolidated by compression and bonded with an adhesive.

Abstract: A machine for edge-to-edge joining of planar sheets or strips of material into a board or ribbon of material includes an upper fixed press platen, a lower vertically movable platen, a plurality of rails between the two platens for curing glue used in the joining process, and a delivery table which is movable to and from a position between the platens. The delivery table is provided with grooves holding spacer members to maintain the strips in evenly spaced relationship. Glue is applied to the strips and they are placed on the table, and the table is then moved between the platens. The rails press the strips upwardly against the upper platen, and the lower platen is then moved upwardly to compress the strips, and is shiftable longitudinally to move them into abutting relationship. The initial spacing and subsequent abutment during the assembling and pressing prevent overlapping of the pieces during the joining process.

Abstract: A process and apparatus are provided for joining overlapping fore and rear ends of two pieces of deformable material which are placed in overlapping relationship through the conjunctive use of a first fixed support surface supporting a protruding rear edge of one of the pieces of material and a second rotative support surface supporting a non-protruding fore edge of the second piece of material. Each support surface is provided with associated devices for shifting an associated support edge of material to create small waves of material near the edges of the first and second pieces of material. The shifted pieces of material are overlapped by rotating the second support surface into substantial alignment with the first support surface thereby bringing the fore edge of the second piece under and in contact with the rear protruding edge of the first piece. A pressing device joins the overlapped edges of the two pieces of material by pressing them against the second support surface.

Abstract: Sections successively severed from a double layer web of synthetic thermoplastic film, e.g., flattened tube stock, as produced are each stacked and welded to a precedingly stacked section near one edge, or in a tear off part or hanger portion to which a bag portion of the section is attached; forming ultimately a pad of bag sections, wherein each section includes either a complete bag or a partially completed bag, in the latter case with certain final bag producing operations carried out simultaneously for all bags already brought together and preferably welded together in a pad structure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a novel corrugated paperboard web of indefinite length, which web includes a planar facer layer and a corrugated layer the flutes of which extend longitudinally the length of the web. The web is formed by splicing together sections having offset planar facer and corrugated layers of generally equal dimensions, respectively, whereby at one end the facer layer projects beyond the corrugated layer and at the other end the corrugated layer projects beyond the facer layer, the flutes of the corrugated layer extending from one projecting end to the other. Successive sections are spliced together with the projecting facer layer portion of one section overlying the projecting corrugated portion and the facing layer of another section, preferably with the adjacent portions of the corrugated layers of the two sections being in flute-enmeshing engagement.

Abstract: An apparatus for making paper cylinders for nursing seedlings in which pasted, cut pieces are transferred, piled and stuck together by pressing, the apparatus includes transfer members positioned to receive cut pieces, the transfer members including a rotary cylinder having a surface provided with a plurality of grooves and a plurality of air passageways which open to said surface and extend from air holes in the cylinder pieces. A lamination table is positioned in the vicinity of the rotary cylinder. A pressing mechanism is positioned in the vicinity of the lamination table, the pressing mechanism including a pressing member fixed to a bell crank shaft in correspondence to the grooves so as to be reciprocated between the grooves and the table by motion of the bell crank shaft, edge aligning means are mounted on ends of the bell crank shaft for aligning both side portions of the cut pieces by rocking motion thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of splicing a train for veneer sheets being fed in a horizontal direction on infeed and outfeed conveyors operated by electric sensors that signal the conveyors to start or to stop at predetermined appropriate times when the preceding and succeeding veneer sheets pass certain predetermined positions, coordinated with application of a strand and beads of a thermoplastic adhesive onto said train of the veneer sheets on conveyors by a cold press. According to this method and apparatus, the splicing of veneer sheets may be achieved with an increased speed and strength of splicing in the transverse direction, in comparison with conventional method and apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing corrugated paper material, which corrugated paper material includes a plurality of corrugated paper strips and planar intermediate inner and outer layers glued together as a unit. One of the corrugated paper strips from a production line is permitted to travel through an adhesive applicating station while the next following corrugated paper strip is moved to bypass the adhesive applicating station and placed on top of the corrugated paper strip which went through the adhesive applicating station and had an adhesive applied thereto. Thereafter, the two superposed corrugated paper strips move through a compression station to effect a tight engagement between the two strips. Thereafter, other processing steps can be performed to the united strips to enhance further handling thereof.

Abstract: In a laminated beam press apparatus a predetermined number of wooden members are conveyed through an adhesive spreader and then are individually transferred laterally into a re-orienting transfer conveyor. The re-orienting transfer conveyor is then moved vertically downward to deposit the collected wooden pieces in a press section. The press platens are closed in order to cure the beam. After curing, the press is open and the re-orienting transfer conveyor then moves vertically upward through the press section, thereby removing the laminated beam.

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

Abstract: Apparatus for producing continuous unexpanded honeycomb material from slices of unexpanded material has a magazine for delivering the slices to a ramming station in turn, a ramming device for ramming them from the station in their expansion direction through a gripping guideway, and an adhesive applicator for applying adhesive to the slices so that they adhere together in the guideway under the ramming pressure. Provision may be made for feeding the magazine with layers of unexpanded slices from a stillage.The apparatus may be joined to a machine for lapping the unexpanded material for storage or transport if required.

Abstract: A pair of torque driven pneumatic tires serially feeds pre-assembled finger jointed boards, aligned end to end, along a path with sufficient force to overcome a drag force imparted to the boards at a point disposed in the longitudinal direction of travel. The drag force is produced by a retarding unit positioned downstream of the tires for engaging opposite surfaces of the boards passing therethrough with conforming bearing surfaces and producing uniform normal forces and friction thereupon. The boards along the path between the points of feed and drag are thus subjected to longitudinal compression facilitating complete interengagement in the finger joint.

Abstract: A panel manufacturing machine adapted to produce panels of building blocks; the machine involving the formation of a horizontal course of blocks in end-to-end relation to each other with mortared head joints between ends of the blocks and with bed mortar on top of the blocks, which course is transferred as a unit to be assembled with other courses of blocks to produce a panel. Further, the machine can progressively sense a modular measurement longitudinally of said course to control the overall length of each course when assembled and mortared together.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the production of prefabricated block wall panels wherein a row of blocks is placed on a conveyor system with the intended vertical joints of the blocks facing upwardly in a horizontal plane. A first mortar applying device applies mortar to these intended vertical joints whereupon the blocks are rotated 90.degree. onto another conveyor system where the now actually vertical joints of the blocks are compressed against each preceeding block. The mortar for the upper horizontal joint is then applied by a second mortar applying device and the thus assembled row of mortared blocks are then stacked onto a descending wall panel comprising a plurality of such rows. Openings for doors and windows may also be provided in the wall panel by aligning blocks into piers and lifting them onto a wall panel. Different sized blocks and cross-pieces may also be fed onto the conveyor system for subsequent stacking onto a wall panel.