Abstract: A method for producing a container package includes forming container streams in which the containers have had adhesive applied thereto, separating the containers into container groups, with a container from each stream being in the group, and pressing the containers together from the side by using a pair of clamps so that the adhesive binds the containers together to form the container package.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing container bundles without a shrink film or strapping has container guides, which are either base or head guides, a grouping unit, one or more application elements, a multiple track container feed providing multiple container streams, and a container transporter for each stream. The guides are disposed on the container transporter. An application element near the transporter applies adhesive to containers. The grouping unit groups and compress a predetermined number of containers to form a container bundle.

Abstract: A semiconductor mounting apparatus has a dispensing station configured to dispense adhesive portions to the substrate locations of a substrate, a bonding station configured to place semiconductor chips on the substrate locations and a transport device configured to transport the substrates along a transport path. The transport device includes a buffer station disposed between the dispensing station and the bonding station. The buffer station is configured to temporarily remove a substrate which is to be transported from the dispensing station to the bonding station, or in reverse direction, from the transport path so that another substrate can be transported by the transport device from the bonding station to the dispensing station, or in reverse direction, respectively.

Abstract: A substrate backing device places and holds a rigid substrate thereon and receives, from therebelow, a pressing force during operations for thermocompressively bonding a flexible substrate thereto. The substrate backing device includes a plate-shaped backing plate provided with a backing support surface adapted to come into contact with the lower surface of the rigid substrate for supporting it. The backing support surface is provided with an opening portion having a planar opening shape encompassing the area of the rigid substrate to be compressively bonded to the flexible substrate. The backing support surface is provided, within the opening portion, a receiving member which, during the thermocompression bonding operations, come into contact with the lower surface of the rigid substrate and with an already-mounted component having been preliminarily mounted on this lower surface in the compression-bonding area and, further, apply an upward supporting counterforce corresponding to the pressing force.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via a single set of sheet engaging members. Individual sheets are removed from a stack of sheets at a feeding station. The sheets are aligned into a predetermined position for feeding to the sheet engaging members. A single set of sheet engaging members directs each sheet through an adhesive applying station where glue spots are placed on the sheets at predetermined locations. Each sheet is then advanced by the same set of sheet engaging members through one or more swatch applying stations where swatches are applied to the glue spots on the sheets. The sheets are then discharged from direction via the sheet engaging members at a disengaging station. The sheets are then fed through a pressing station to firmly adhere the swatches to the glue spots on the sheets.

Abstract: A method and apparatus use an in-line printer to print on chips or swatches mounted on an underlying substrate such as a sheet or web of paper or paperboard. The chips may have varying heights due to variations of thickness of the paint on the chip and/or adhesive mounting the chips to the substrate. The sheets are continuously moving through the chip mounting machine and the printing machine which are synchronized to operate at the same speed. In the illustrated apparatus, conveyor pushers push the sheets through the chip mounting machine and through the printer machine and resilient strips on the printing roller form a nip with an underlying anvil roller to grip and hold the chips against shifting to prevent smearing of the ink as the sheets are pushed through the nip between the printing cylinder and the anvil roller. An in-line trimming apparatus such as die cutter may cut the chips to size and/or shape as to provide rectangularly mounted chips with arcs, curves, circles, etc.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a packaging or cushioning product made from grains comprising an essentially flat support, means for driving the support in translational movement, means for depositing on the support a first fiber sheet, means for distributing popped or unpopped grains on the fiber sheet; means for spreading the grains on the fiber sheet to thereby form a layer of grains, means for depositing a second fiber sheet on the layer of grains, and means for attaching the fiber sheets to each other to at least partially separate said grains to form the packaging or cushioning products.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting electronic parts on a printed circuit board in which a number of electronic parts to be mounted on a printed circuit board are arranged as a set and loaded in a loading member for electronic parts. A set of such loading members for electronic parts, each carrying a set of electronic parts of the same type, are arrayed in a loading member furnishing casing. This set of the loading members for electronic parts, arrayed and held in the loading member furnishing casings inserted and held by a loading member holder by which the set of the loading members for electronic parts can be held in register with an electronic part mounting portion of the printed circuit board. The loading member holder holding the set of the loading members for electronic parts is loaded on an electronic part loading device. The set of the electronic parts held by the loading member holder is loaded at one time on the sole printed circuit board by the electronic part loading device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the high volume manufacture of fluid infusion devices which embody a self-contained, stored-energy source for expelling fluids from the reservoir of the device into an ambulatory patient at precisely controlled rates over extended periods of time. In accordance with the method of the invention, the base and cover infusion components of the devices of the invention are manufactured in injection molded arrays which comprise a cover array which is superimposed over and connected to a base array with the elastomeric membrane being captured therebetween. The elastomeric membrane material, which forms the stored-energy source of the infusion devices, is continuously unrolled from a large roll of film-backed membrane material which is rotatably mounted on a turret assembly upon which a second back-up roll of elastomeric membrane material is also mounted.

Abstract: A system for aligning and attaching together a plurality of thin film transistor tiles for constructing a flat panel display. A coverplate loading station where a coverplate that the tiles are to be attached to is arranged on a coverplate support. A coverplate bonding material dispensing station where a bonding material for bonding the tiles to the coverplate is applied to a surface of the coverplate. A tile placement station where the tiles are arranged on the coverplate. A tile aligning and securing station where the tiles are aligned relative to each other and the coverplate by the tile aligner and where the tiles are at least partially bonded to the coverplate. A tile assembly bonding material dispensing station where a bonding material is applied to a surface of the tiles opposite the side that the coverplate is bonded to. A backplate placement station where a backplate is arranged on the tiles.

Abstract: Color swatch charts are formed by feeding sheets eighteen inches or longer in length with this long dimension of the sheet disposed transversely to the sheet travel direction. Ribbons in a row of eighteen inches or longer are simultaneously severed with the first and last swatch in each row of identical size and with the swatches having four square corners to form a rectangular shape. This orientation of the long axis of the sheet reduces the number of stations and the length of travel of the sheets, thereby increasing production. The sheets are fed through an adhesive applying station where spots of adhesive are applied in rows to the sheet. The sheet travels through a series of swatch forming and applying stations. At each such station, a plurality of swatch ribbons are fed forwardly and severed to form the individual swatches in a row; and a row of swatches is then transferred to and adhered by the adhesive spots on the sheet.

Abstract: A machine for embedding copper nuts in pasted holes of a workpiece, including a machine base holding two horizontal sliding rails and four upright guide rods, a mold carrier reciprocated along the sliding rails, a mold carried on the mold carrier and having upright heating elements for holding and heating copper nuts, a slotted workpiece carrier reciprocated along the upright guide rods, a holding down plate moved along the upright guide rods and controlled to hold down the workpiece on the slotted workpiece carrier, a first air cylinder controlled to move the mold carrier and the mold into the working position, a second air cylinder controlled to lower the workpiece, permitting pasted mounting holes of the workpiece to be respectively forced into engagement with heated copper nuts on the heating elements of the mold, and two third air cylinders controlled to move the slotted workpiece carrier relative to the holding down plate for loading/unloading of the workpiece.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing sample parts arranged in an array on a base sheet. The apparatus includes a roller about which webbing of the sample material is drawn, the webbing being severed to form the sample parts and to transport the sample parts to a transfer station. Needle take-down apparatus at the transfer station engages the sample part with a plurality of retractable needles to moving the sample parts to a base sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for the application of adhesive coated slips to a moving web or to workpieces being conveyed, and preferably to the drawn up and still open bottoms of bags, consists of pairs of feed rolls for a web of material and means for perforating and tearing off, or means for detaching, the slips from the web of material and of a transfer folding gripper cylinder for receiving and subsequent transfer of the slips or pieces of tube.

Abstract: An apparatus for assembling a fiberglass reinforced grating from preformed bearing bars and cross bars includes an elongated open frame table having a plurality of rollers in side-by-side fashion with their axes transverse to the longitudinal axis of the table and supporting a set of upwardly upright transversely spaced bearing bars on the peripheries of the rollers. A loading rack formed of vertically upright transversely spaced spacing and alignment pins controls the lateral spacing of the bearing bars. A raisable stop upstream of a grooving station aligns the ends of the bearing bars. A vertically shiftable hold press hold down bar operates alternately with a vertically shiftable car press hold down bar and the car press is incremented which frictionally presses the bearing bars against the tabletop rollers to increment the set of bearing bars upon release of the hold press hold down bar.

Abstract: A five-piece expanding pocket having front inner and outer panels secured to each other by cohesive glue, rear inner and outer panels secured thereof by cohesive glue, and a gusset having outer edge portions with cohesive glue on opposite sides thereof bonded between edge portions of the front and rear inner and outer panels which are bonded to each other. A fixture for assembling a five-piece expanding pocket including locating plates for retaining front and rear inner panels in a predetermined position, a positioning member for locating a gusset relative to the front and rear inner panels on the locating plates and permitting the gusset to be secured to cohesive glue on the front and rear inner panels, and the locating plates also permitting the locating of the front and rear outer panels relative to the front and rear inner panels, respectively.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fixing members such as labels and foils to bottles wherein cut-to-size members are picked up at pick-up station, glue coated as they are picked up and pressed onto a bottle on their glue coated side. The members are severed from a continuous roll of web material and are individually and successively fed before coating to the pick-up station at the rate at which they are picked-up.

Abstract: A plurality of tiles arranged as a set the same as are pasted onto a wall or floor are integrally connected with one another by pasting rectangular connecting pieces made of such sheet materials as of paper, cloth or resin film onto the back surfaces of the tiles to bridge two adjacent tiles with each other. The connecting pieces are obtained by cutting fixed lengths off the long tape-shaped materials. The connecting pieces thus cut off are sucked by suckers, are fed to a set of tiles conveyed as mounted as inverted on a conveyor and are pasted by a bonding agent onto the back surfaces of two adjacent tiles to bridge them with each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to an unit tile pack manufacturing apparatus. The apparatus comprises a tile pack conveying passage (8) for conveying a plurality of pallets (9), a combination tile pack forming unit (100), a joint alignment correcting unit (15), an adhesive dropping unit (30), and a connecting sheet supplying and pressing unit (45). These units (100, 15, 30 and 45) are disposed along the tile pack conveying passage (8). In the combination tile pack forming unit (100) a plurality of tiles of different tones of the same color or a plurality of tiles of different color are arranged side by side in lines and rows. The adhesive dropping unit (30) includes adhesive dropping nozzles (35) disposed at a predetermined interval from the tiles and intermittently dropping an adhesive on the upper surface of each of the tiles at positions close to the side adjacent to corresponding positions of the adjacent tiles.

Abstract: An apparatus for locating chip type circuit elements on a printed circuit board includes an accommodating assembly for temporarily storing said circuit elements supplied from hoppers, a movable shutter placed under the accommodating assembly, and which supports and rotates circuit elements within the accommodating assembly, and a template placed under the shutter to receive the circuit elements dropped from the accommodating assembly when the shutter is removed laterally from under the accommodating assembly.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mirror which comprises the steps of selecting a former of shape complementary to the shape of the desired mirror surface, applying to such former a plurality of mirror elements each constituted by a glass element having a reflective coating on one face thereof, and applying and adhesively bonding directly to such mirror elements a preformed, substantially rigid, unitary structural support.

Abstract: The manufacturing of at least one photothermal converter element according to the invention consists essentially of implanting a multiplicity of substantially uniformly distributed parallely projecting transparent fibers onto a baseplate element provided with an absorbing coating of a normally solid material capable of being temporarily converted to a plastic state, thanks to the use of an array of guiding means arranged above the baseplate element. The implantation proper of the desired fiber structure is then performed by advancing a series of bundles of fibers through the array of guiding means, to the desired level above the baseplate element, and by clipping the advanced bundles to the desired length above the guiding means, so as to cause the falling with limited transverse spreading of the clipped fibers onto the coating of the baseplate element.

Abstract: An improved rack for laying tiles with provision for preventing contact of the main rack surfaces with the tile adhesive and with means for adjustment of rack dimensions to permit accommodation of different tile sizes. A lightweight and inexpensive rack is provided in a form that facilitates assembly so that the rack may be readily shipped or stored in unassembled form.

Abstract: A signmaker's jig assembly incorporates a signblank-supporting worktable, a setting bar movable over the signblank for guiding the alignment of a line of letters to be installed on the signblank, a letter staging zone incorporating a letter aligning staging bar, a centering guide, and a manually movable adhesive transfer bar co-acting with the staging bar for seizing the staged line of letters en bloc, transferring them to the signblank, and installing them thereon. Different embodiments incorporate different features facilitating stripping each line of letters from the staging zone.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel method for detachably fastening cylindrical cans together in assembled relation which includes mounting a generally rectangular ring-like insert on a compressible pick-up member carried by a mandrel preparatory to applying an adhesive to the exterior insert surfaces, arranging the cans in groups of four or six defining an open rectangular array, inserting one or more mandrels carrying precoated inserts into the center of the array, closing the array so as to press the adhesive-coated portions of the inserts into concave engagement with the can walls as they compress the mandrel pick-ups, and withdrawing the mandrel once the adhesive has set.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically constructing prefabricated wall sections of brick wall panels with a tile lining. A prefabricated brick wall panel has columns of mortar disposed in parallel strips thereon, a lining panel of unconnected tile members is assembled, proper spacing being introduced between each of the tile members, and the tile members are transferred in groups or en masse to a position over the wall panel. The lining panel members are then firmly pressed into engagement with the wall panel with mortar columns therealong, thereby forming a completed wall section. Preferred specific apparatus includes vacuum grippers, scissor-connected link spacing means, and flatbed cars movable on tracks to a position below automatic mortar applying means.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for the manufacture of a colored chip or colored swatch bearing sheet, i.e. a color chart, comprising a base sheet bearing an array of adhesively attached colored chips in rows with indicia identifying the color of each chip with a particular paint. The base sheets are fed automatically from a stack of sheets to an adhesive applying means which applies spots of adhesive to the sheet at swatch receiving areas on the sheet. Narrow webs or ribbons of swatch material are severed to form the individual swatches or color chips which then are transferred automatically to a passing sheet and applied thereto. The sheets pass through a series of swatch forming and applying stations with a row of swatches being applied to each sheet at each of the respective stations. Preferably, the sheets are fed continuously and at a relativey fast rate of speed. The arrangement and size of the swatches may be easily changed to allow the apparatus to be used for various types of color charts.

Abstract: Microfilm is converted into microfiche by feeding the film through a cutter, cutting the film into one or more frames, and then mounting the frame(s) upon a transparent microfiche base. The microfilm has a pair of adhesive strips along the top and bottom edge of its bottom surface for attaching the microfilm to the base. The microfiche base is mounted on a fiche deck by means of registration pins; lights are provided below the fiche deck for informing the operator where to place the frames on the base; and a margin grid having guide bars overlies the base to aid the operator in mounting the frames in precise alignment on the base. The film cutter removes a slice from the cut frames to aid the operator to mount the frames.The microfiche is updated by mounting all "updatable" frames in the same row and pre-cut from each adjacent frame. A solenoid and its push pin are positioned beneath each updatable frame and a clearance opening for each push pin is located in the microfiche base.