Abstract: A hand tool for applying adhesive strip material to a glass sheet has a manually graspable body with a channel extending through it to receive the strip material. A positioning member adjacent the channel guides the tool along the edge of the glass sheet. The body includes a punch selectively operable to notch the strip material to facilitate corner formation, and a cutter selectively operable to sever the strip when application of the strip to the glass sheet has been completed. Actuators for the punch and for the cutter are accessible on the exterior surface of the hand tool in locations where they can be operated by the user in a number of different holding positions.

Abstract: An adhesive transfer device is provided, which can lead a separable paper sheet after adhesive transfer to the outside of its case so that the separable paper sheet is not collected therein, is not consumable but capable of being re-used by renewing a tape roll, and permits the user to transfer the adhesive while watching the end of a transfer member from above with its case in a laid-down state. A tape roll support 6 has a first bevel gear 7, and a second bevel gear 2 meshing with the first, bevel gear and having its axis, crossing the axis of the first bevel gear, has fewer teeth than the first bevel gear, and is formed on one side of a feed roller 8, which is disposed on the extension of the separable paper sheet 4 returning, after transfer of adhesive, from the transfer member into the case.

Abstract: In applying an adhesive strip to a surface border at the periphery of a glass sheet a method comprises the steps of locating the glass sheet in the generally upright position and providing a hand tool that is adapted to be manipulated manually by the operator to apply the adhesive strip around the edges of the sheet. The strip is delivered from an overhead supply in a continuous length and is applied as the operator manipulates the hand tool to pass along the periphery of the sheet. The glass sheet can be arranged to be moved vertically and/or horizontally to make the strip application process more convenient for the operator.

Abstract: A composite fiber placement mid-span redirect device (10) mounted on a fiber placement assembly (12) guides a plurality of composite material tows (14) along a fiber path from a material supply creel (20) to a fiber placement head (30) during a composite forming process. The mid-span redirect device (10) includes a frame assembly (38) to which a plurality of outer swivel roller assemblies (80) and a plurality of inner swivel roller assemblies (90) are attached. Each outer swivel roller assembly (80) contains an outer roller (82), an outer capture roller (84), an outer swivel bracket assembly (86), and a counterbalancing member (88). Each inner swivel assembly (90) contains an inner roller (92), an inner swivel bracket assembly (96), and a counterbalancing member (98).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tape application device for applying a strip form adhesive tape along a tape application surface formed on a work, with removing from a release liner. The tape application device includes a roller supporting shaft fixed to a body at both ends, a roller rotatably mounted on the roller supporting shaft and wrapped thereover an adhesive tape, locating elements mounted on the main body and engaging with the body for movement along a tape application surface so that the roller is depressed onto the tape application surface, a tape guide plate hinged on the sub-body at the base end portion for pivoting, and fixing elements for fixing the tape guide plate so that a gap portion between the tape guide plate and the roller is defined for guiding the adhesive tape with the release liner. According to the present invention, the adhesive tape can be accurately attached onto the tape application surface without requiring qualified worker.

Abstract: A fiber placement machine undergoes a plurality of axes of motion in locating a delivery head (containing a compaction roller) perpendicular to a mandrel, with relative movement between the head and the mandrel along a predetermined path, which may be over a complex compounded shape. The machine includes a temperature controlled creel where rovings (or tows) of fibrous material are stored on spools and are fed from the creel to the delivery head. The delivery head processes the tows into a band and applies the band on the surface of the mandrel by means of the roller compaction.

Abstract: A method and fiber-placement head are provided for placing fibers into a plurality of channels of a mold to form the ribs of a structural member, including panels, cylinders and cones, or even a ribbed latticework structure by itself. While providing relative movement between the mold and a plurality of fiber-placement heads, fibers are simultaneously placed into a number of the channels of the mold by means of the heads. The relative movement and placement is repeated as often as necessary in order to dispose into the channels a desired thickness of the fibers.

Abstract: A wallpaper border installation aid is provided including a housing with a vertical slot formed therein. The housing is releasably mounted to a recipient surface, namely a wall. The slot is adapted to slidably receive a wallpaper border and maintain the same a predetermined distance from a ceiling during installation.

Abstract: An automatic tape cutter/sticker includes a bottom shell body, a main shell body pivoted to the bottom shell body and turned in and out of a side opening on the bottom shell body, the main shell body having an annular tube, which holds an adhesive tape, and an arched spring plate, which is mounted in the annular tube and having two opposite ends extended out of respective slots on the annular tube to hold the adhesive tape in place, a rotary cutter holder with a cutter blade rotated by the main shell body to cut the free end of the adhesive tape, a rotary guard plate rotated by the main shell body in the reverse of the rotary cutter holder to close/open a tape outlet notch slot on the bottom shell body, and a cover plate covered on the bottom shell body, the cover plate having coupling means at one end hinged to one side of the bottom shell body, and hook means at an opposite side for hooking in a hook hole at an opposite side of the bottom shell body.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the manufacture of fiber reinforced structures wherein tooling and a delivery head are employed for the placement of discrete, elongated fiber elements in mutually superimposed relationship to define reinforcement or stiffening members on fiber elements for the interiors or exteriors of composite shells and the consolidation of the fibers to form the cured composite structure. A consolidation medium is provided for the positioning and control of the fiber elements on the hard tooling and during the curing of the fiber elements. Method and apparatus for the manufacture of fiber reinforced structures.

Abstract: A welding apparatus is provided for welding overlapping film edges. In order to plasticize film edges, the apparatus includes a heating element with converging heating surfaces over which the film edges are guided. A least one leaf spring extends from a support to resiliently suspend the heating element to permit movement of the heating element perpendicular to the heating surfaces.

Abstract: A window glass of a vehicle, to which a hot melt adhesive agent is applied, is pushed while the window glass is held by a jig which is mounted on a robot. An allowable range of temperature of the adhesive agent is set between an upper limit and a lower limit. The upper limit is one at which the adhesive agent comes to have such a holding force above a predetermined value as to prevent deviation of the window glass. The lower limit is one at which a compression reaction force when a bead of the adhesive agent applied to the window glass is crushed to a predetermined thickness becomes smaller than a predetermined value. The adhesive agent is applied to the window glass at such a temperature that the temperature thereof at the time of completion of pushing of the window glass falls within the allowable range. The apparatus for mounting the window glass has a jig for the window glass which is provided at a front end of a robot arm.

Abstract: A self-contained apparatus for placement of discrete fiber element tows on a mandrel or other tooling. The apparatus carries a spooled fiber element supply, which is directed to a compaction roller over a short, non-convoluted path through a cut/add module having a knife assembly for severing a discrete tow from a continuous fiber element filament, and a drive assembly for feeding the tow and restarting feed of a new tow after severance of the prior one from the filament. The apparatus is particularly suitable for sequentially laying up superimposed, or stacked, tows to define rib-like stiffeners of composite material for reinforcing composite shell structures, and grids of such stiffeners. Methods of using the apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for installing carpet which provides for assembling and suspending a wheeled gantry hoist over a work domain for lifting furniture or other objects in a work-space, raising the suspended furniture by as little as one-half inch, and subsequently installing rolled carpet beneath the furniture. The wheeled gantry hoist comprises a pair of mobile support trusses spanned by an elongated beam of sufficient length to permit the full width of the carpet to be passed thereunder. The beam suspends at least one ratchet winch adapted to lift modular office panels and furniture and be slidably and detachably suspended from the beam. The carpet roll, having been rolled onto a spindle, is horizontally supported by a mobile carriage for spooling out the carpet. A blower is disposed to force high-velocity air beneath adhesive carpet to lift the carpet and prevent adhesion of the carpet to the floor as the carpet is being pulled beneath the raised furniture to be set in place by an installer.

Abstract: A head is positionable close to a supported composite material. A compactor on the head is movable relative to the head by a fluid actuator. A programmable valve means ports air into the actuator at several different pressures to provide variable compaction force.

Abstract: A fiber placement head movable with respect to a surface, for placing fiber tows thereon, including a feed assembly for feeding the tows to a front end of the feed assembly where the feed assembly includes first and second sets of feed tow guides, an applicator assembly at the front end to receive the tows and apply such to the surface where the applicator assembly includes first and second sets of applicator tow guides, and a device for rotating the applicator assembly relative to the feed assembly between first and second positions. In the first position, the first set of applicator guides is aligned with the first set of feed guides, and in the second position, the first set of applicator guides is aligned with the second set of feed guides.

Abstract: A tool for applying strip material to a major face of a substrate including a tool body having a lower surface and a channel extending therethrough and a substrate positioning member adjacent the channel for guiding the tool along the edge of the substrate. The substrate positioning member includes spaced apart front and rear guide members contiguous with the edge. The rear guide member is mounted to a frame pivotally mounted to the tool body and includes two spaced apart rollers. The tool also includes an elevating means for elevating the lower surface of the tool from the major and a cutting means for cutting a slit into the strip material to a selected depth extending by part way into the strip material to permit the strip material to be bent about a corner of the substrate.

Abstract: A device for applying a vapor retarder film onto purlins on a roofing system has a base with rollers and guides for directing the base across the purlins. The base has a fore end and an aft end with a pair of side members. The base moves across the purlins such that the side members remain in a fixed spaced apart relationship wider than the spacing between the pair of purlins. A vertical member attached to each of the side members provides a means for mounting a web of the vapor retarder film on a roll above the base and the adjacent pair of the spaced apart purlins. Adhesive is dispensed onto the edges of the web and the web is payed out and guided onto the purlin so that the edge of the web having the adhesive is put into adhesive engagement with the top surface of the purlins and the film sealingly spans the interval between the adjacent purlins. By use of a plurality of these devices acting in parallel, a method of applying the web to the roof purlins is taught.

Abstract: A machine for applying labels distributed uniformly on a strip to items which includes a swinging arm mounted on a support for engaging the items and a drum for driving the strip of labels. The drum is rotated incrementally by a drive mechanism and means are provided for controlling the drive mechanism and for detecting movement of the arm by engagement with an item. The means for detecting movement of the arm detect the initial movement of the arm to thereby initiate the means for controlling the drive mechanism to index the drum through one complete step thus advancing a label for application to the item.

Abstract: An improved carpet seaming electric iron of the kind used for making carpet face seams with hot melt adhesive tapes is disclosed. Improved heat transfer and control is achieved by reducing the thermal mass of the iron baseplate, and by providing a raised channel, integral with the top surface of the base plate, for mounting the heating element to efficiently transmit the heat generated by the heating element through the baseplate. A temperature control switch having a sensor is provided for sensing the temperature of the baseplate at the top surface, and for controlling the flow of current to the heating element to return the baseplate to a desired temperature set by the operator. A heat shield is provided to protect the operator and carpet backings.

Abstract: A dual-weld heat welding apparatus capable of simultaneously welding a first membrane and an overlapping second membrane on opposite sides of a roof membrane fastening apparatus fastened through the first membrane and located under the overlapping second membrane The heat welding apparatus includes a movably supported chassis, a hot air welder attached to the chassis including a nozzle having an outlet including at least one opening for simultaneously applying a weld on opposite sides of the roof membrane fastener to weld the overlapping second membrane and the first membrane, and at least one weld wheel rotatably attached to the chassis and located rearward of the nozzle relative to the direction of movement of the apparatus and capable of simultaneously applying pressure to the weld on each side of the roof membrane fastener.

Abstract: In a welding device having a heating device (14) for heating thermoplastic fiber composite material tapes (15, 16), the surfaces of the thermoplastic fiber tapes (15, 16) are melted by means of the heating device (14) in order to weld the thermoplastic fiber tapes (15, 16) to each other. At least one extended heating element is arranged on the heating device (14).

Abstract: An apparatus for applying an adhesive spacer material to a substrate, such as a glass lite, for the manufacture of insulated windows. The apparatus includes an infeed and an outfeed conveyor for advancing a glass lite, and a transverse beam on which is mounted a first travelling applicator head and a second stationary applicator head. A first and second feed reel are provided to supply spacer material to their respective applicator heads. The travelling applicator head is adapted to move transversely across the conveyor, rotationally through 180.degree., and vertically above the substrate. The stationary applicator head is adapted to apply a length of spacer material in a straight pattern simultaneously with the travelling head as the substrate is advanced by the conveyor. The travelling applicator head applies spacer material to three sides of the substrate, cutting notches in the spacer material and rotating 90.degree. at the corners of the substrate.

Abstract: A hot wedge, automatic seam welder is disclosed. The welder is comprised of a chassis having a base plate, a motor housing and a support arm extending from the motor housing. An S-shaped guide for guiding opposing sheets of material is between the base plate and the motor housing. Disposed downstream from the motor housing, depending from the support arm, is vertically-movable suspension for a driven upper pressure roller which is occludable with a driven lower pressure roller on the base plate. Also depending from the support arm is vertically-movable and adjustable suspension for the hot wedge. A horn-shaped shroud for guiding material over and under the wedge, and for shrouding the wedge when in its disengaged mode, is disposed upstream from the wedge. Guides for performing lap welds, fin welds and hem welds, as well as many variations thereupon, are also disclosed.

Abstract: A tape applying apparatus for applying adhesive tape product to a primarily vertical surface includes a taping head which can be adjusted to apply the tape product at a specific predetermined location along such a primarily vertical surface, wherein the taping head is mounted to follow surface fluctuations. Moreover, the taping head is preferably vertically adjustable, horizontally movable, and angularly repositionable. Thus, adhesive tape product can be applied consistently and for an indefinite length based on preset positions, and the taping head is movable to follow surface changes or undulations.

Abstract: A dispenser for tags, and the like which are removably and adhesively secured along the length of a roll of liner paper for transfer from such liner paper onto a document. The dispenser includes a housing for the roll of liner paper containing a take-up reel upon which the liner paper is wound as the tags are forced out of the housing over a presser finger. The presser finger is utilized to apply the tag to the document.

Abstract: A hand pressure roller adapted for spreading a sticky transparent film over a stripping paper for removing a back-glued cut pattern from said stripping paper, including a roller frame and a roller, the roller frame having an upright front panel, two forward front lugs bilaterally extended from the front panel for holding the roller, a handle backwardly extended from the front panel for moving the roller with the hand, and a back panel obliquely downwardly extended from the rear side and terminating in a smoothly curved upward tail for pressing over the workpiece, the roller having two bearings at two opposite ends of a roller shaft thereof pivotably connected between the front lugs of the roller frame by a respective pivot.

Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing a ribbon into a web laminating machine including movable guide arms that move transversely to the direction on movement of the webs and include remote repositioning of the arms and locking means to lock the arms in desired spaced relationship along a guide rail.

Abstract: A head is positionable close to a supported composite material. A compactor on the head is movable relative to the head by a fluid actuator. A programmable valve means ports air into the actuator at several different pressures to provide variable compaction force.

Abstract: An applicator for applying a label to the interior surface of a hollow body is provided. The applicator includes an applicator rod, which is connected to a source of negative pressure and is adapted to retain the label by means of the negative pressure. The applicator rod co-operates with an inflatable member. The inflatable member is positioned so as to force a label that is retained on the applicator rod against the inner surface of the hollow body when the applicator rod is inserted into the hollow body via an opening and the inflatable member is inflated. The inner surface of the hollow body and the label co-operate so that the label will adhere to the inner surface as the label is forced against this surface. The applicator is particularly well suited for use in a bicycle registration system. Used in such a system, the applicator functions to apply a label which adheres to the interior tube of a bicycle frame.

Abstract: A system for affixing cards to a form and folding the form with the cards attached. The system includes a card affixer for affixing cards to any location on a form having a form transporting mechanism for moving the form, a carriage for receiving and holding a card, a carriage translating mechanism for moving the carriage across the width of the form transporting mechanism and a pressing mechanism for pressing the card against the form. The system also includes a form folder for precisely folding forms with the cards already attached. The form folder includes a form guide structure having at least one scoring edge, a form transfer mechanism, a roller unit, a roller translating mechanism and a roller rotating mechanism.

Abstract: A thermoplastic head for laying down a plurality of thermoplastic resin-impregnated tapes to form a composite. The head includes a clutch, of substantially equal static and dynamic friction coefficients, coupled to the tape spools to maintain the tapes under controlled tension; a tape guide assembly of unique design to align the tapes and prevent gaps between adjacent tapes; a guillotine-type shear cutter to cut off the tapes and a set of rethread rollers to hold the cut tapes to obviate the need for rethreading at the end of each tape lay down cycle; a heating assembly to provide high temperature heat on demand; and that provides cooler gas to avoid heat damage when the head is not laying down tape; unique compression rollers that are able to withstand high temperature operating conditions; and an actively cooled post-compression foot, with cooling fins, for cooling and consolidating laid down tape. The head has a tiltable roller assembly to accommodate edge misalignment and edge-stepdown.

Abstract: A delivery head assembly is provided for forming a tape band from a plurality of tows and applying the band as superimposed layers in a helical pattern on to a mandrel to produce non-uniform cross sectional articles. This head assembly is composed of a distribution section, ribbonizing section, coating section, add section, and compaction roller.

Abstract: An applicator for dispensing tape, with the tape having an adhesive on at least one face. The applicator includes a shell with a pivotably attached door. A tape cartridge is received within the door. The cartridge supports a roll of the tape, and a leading edge of the tape extends outwardly from the roll. A partial cylindrical cover member is connected to the first end of the shell for pivotable movement thereabout along a predetermined path to cover the a first passageway. A slider having a first end which is pivotally connected to the cover member and having a button which extends through a first slot in the shell is movable between a first position, in which the cover member covers the first passageway, and a second position, in which the cover member is removed from the first passageway. A cutter actuator is located on the slider and is movable in response to inward pressure on the button when the slider is in the second position. A cutting tool is pivotally connected to the shell.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for sealing seams between adjacent sheets of flooring which define an upwardly facing, elongated groove where they meet. A conventional hand-held portable seam welding gun has a body defining a longitudinal axis. A heat concentration nose is mounted on a heat conducting member. A heating tip mounting post projects at an angle of at least about fifteen degrees, from the longitudinal axis of the seam welding gun. A hollow heating tip employed on the mounting post is provided with a forwardly directed, upturned toe having a concave, downwardly facing groove therein forward of the front extremity of a sealant dispensing mouth. Also, a heating duct extends between the melting chamber of the heating tip and an orifice located behind the rear extremity of the sealant dispensing mouth.

Abstract: Machine is provided for the simultaneous laying down/winding of a plurality of rovings, including a gantry supporting a laying down/winding head carrier mechanism plate movable along the X,Y,Z directions, at least one laying down/winding head rotatably mounted on the mechanism plate around at least one vertical axis and comprising a laying down/winding roller, a mechanism for presenting on the roller rovings along at least two tangent laps, selective mechanisms for driving and cutting each roving, and spools delivering the rovings. The spools are mounted on a fixed creel and the rovings are guided between the creel and the head by sets of return pulleys disposed in such a way as to limit the surface scanned by the rovings and reduce the jerks of the roving reeling speed. The machine is especially adapted for production of composite structures.

Abstract: Rear view mirror mounting brackets are adhesively bonded to a windshield using a relatively small, portable rework fixture that can be temporarily secured to an automotive windshield by means of suction cups. The framework of the fixture supports a pair of movable guide rods connected to a metal block equipped with a heating element and having a surface that holds the adhesive coated mounting bracket. The guide rods are equipped with compressible springs that maintain the block and associated mounting bracket in close contact with the windshield during curing of the layer of heat-curable bonding adhesive present on the surface of the bracket that is in contact with the windshield.

Abstract: An adhesive sheeting applicator and method adapted to dispense strips of adhesive-backed sheeting from a supply roll rotatably disposed thereon and to apply said strips of sheeting to a surface with a desired spacing between successive strips by advancing the applicator a distance along the surface, the sheeting on the supply roll being in successive cut strips applied to a continuous substrate liner.

Abstract: There is disclosed a strip applying tool for applying strip material to substrates. The tool includes a slidably mounted punching member to remove a portion of the strip material thereby facilitating the formation of a corner while maintaining the strip in a continuous uninterrupted length. The tool further provides a channel extending therein to receive strip material which provides a guide wall to permit the application of the strip to the substrate while maintaining a lower surface of the tool above the substrate to prevent moving or scratching of the substrate.

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: Apparatus and a method for welding overlapping edge sections of heat sealable materials are disclosed. The apparatus generally includes a frame, a heating body attached to the frame for being positioned between the overlapping sheets to heat the sheets, an alignment control mechanism for urging the overlapping sheet into a desired alignment relative to the overlapped sheet and a pressure roller for pressing the heated sections together to weld them together.

Abstract: The object is applied to the glass surface by a platen assembly mounted inside the apparatus which resiliently urges the object against the glass surface. In one embodiment, the platen assembly is mounted on a resilient diaphragm within the apparatus and the application of a vacuum causes the diaphragm to move the platen assembly towards the object, thereby causing the platen assembly to urge the object against the glass surface. In a second embodiment, the platen assembly is mounted to the apparatus shell or housing and the apparatus is sealed against the glass surface by a resilient bellows. Upon application of a vacuum, the bellows compresses, thereby causing the platen assembly to urge the object against the glass surface.

Abstract: A heated shoe and cooled pressure roller assembly for composite prepreg application is provided. The shoe assembly includes a heated forward contact surface having a curved pressure surface. The following cooled roller provides a continuous pressure to the thermoplastic while reducing the temperature to approximately 5.degree. C. below glass transition temperature. Electric heating coils inside the forward portion of the shoe heat a thermoplastic workpiece to approximately 100.degree. C. above the glass transition. Immediately following the heated contact surface, a cooled roller cools the work. The end sharpened shape of the heated shoe trailing edge tends to prevent slag buildup and maintain a uniform, relaxed stress fabrication.

Abstract: A machine for seam welding overlapping heat weldable lengths of covering, comprising a wheel-borne frame having a heating element suspended on one side designed for insertion between an underlying and an overlying length of covering. The machine has pressing means and driving wheels for compressive stress of the upper side of the overlying length of covering and for movement of the machine in the longitudinal direction of the overlapping seam or lap. To make possible wheel transport of the machine, with the heating element raised from the underlying surface, and to make possible an easier guiding of the heating element between the two lengths of covering in the lap, the machine has especially positioned transport wheels which in the welding position will be lifted clear of the underlying surface, but by tilting the machine can be brought into contact with the underlying surface, so that the machine can be wheeled by means of the transport wheels.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for detecting flaws on a composite surface laid-up by a fiber placement machine. The invention includes a vision imaging system (78) mounted on the machine so that it has a field of view of the composite tows after they have been compacted by a compaction roller (74). In one embodiment, the visual imaging system (78) includes a laser analog displacement sensor. The imaging system provides a computer analysis system (84) with data regarding the location of the edges of the individual composite tows. The computer imaging system (84) uses the tow edge location data to compute the location and size of gaps or overlaps between the tows or the presence of foreign material. This information is useful in quality control models to evaluate the manufacturing process or final part quality.

Abstract: Tools for finishing joints at flat surfaces or corners of wallboard walls after adhesive and tape have been applied are attached to the applicator tool by a rotatable yoke connection near the roller of the applicator so that the finishing tool will follow the applicator tool. The finishing tool includes a roller rotatable about an axle for embedding tape into the adhesive. Frame structure rotatably supported on the roller axle is provided with trowel means having a working surface moving parallel to the wallboard surface and placed close to the roller, at least on the sides, to spread adhesive pressed from under the tape back over the tape. Finishing means attached to the frame structure to follow the trowel collects the excess adhesive and distributes it in a smooth surface generally in the plane of the wallboard, filling in any voids left by trowel action. A cylindrical roller is used for joints in flat wallboard.

Abstract: A torch is mounted on the central portion of a frame having a near end portion and a far end portion. The torch directs heat toward the far end portion of the frame, adjacent to a rotatable embedment roller. A handle is formed on the near end portion of the frame. The torch melts the granules of torch-on roofing, and the embedment roller follows behind to smoothen the surface of the roofing in the area of a lap joint.

Abstract: A head for the application of composite bands, of the type which has a compacting group which incorporates rollers intended to press on a composite band to make it conform to the corresponding piece, the head having a pair of rollers (12.1) and (12.2) mounted in diametrical opposition on a gyratory support, each roller (12.1) or (12.2) being formed by a multiplicity of identical pieces (2.4) which are maintained in position by tubular pipes (12.5) from which a pressurized fluid flows.

Abstract: A prepreg tape is firstly prepared by bonding prepreg layer to a backing paper and then the prepreg tape is cut to a depth enough to cut the prepreg tape but not the backing paper. A unnecessary portion of the prepreg tape is removed from the backing paper to obtain a cut prepreg tape. A laminating attachment is moved in a predetermined direction while urging the prepreg tape against the surface of an operating table. The cut prepreg tape is peeled off from the backing paper and the peeled off prepreg tape is bonded to the operating table. The cut prepreg tapes are successively oriented in a predetermined direction and juxtaposed to form a laminated sheet. When the sheet is mounted on a mold of a predetermined shape. When the impregnated thermosetting resin is perfectly cured under heat and pressure a product useful for assembling various vehicles can be obtained.

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes an apparatus for laying an adhesive strip along the peripheral edges of a glass sheet positioned on a work table with a view to forming a double-glazed insulated glass panel. The apparatus comprises a handle with a housing mounted at one end thereof and includes therein a series of rollers for positioning and laying the adhesive strip on the glass sheet. A third roller, whose axis is perpendicular to the axis of each of the strip-laying rollers, applies pressure to the strip being laid.