Abstract: A method of applying outwardly disposed images to the interior surfaces of transparent and opaque enclosures with limited interior access includes preparing the image to be interiorally mounted in the enclosure, at least partially rolling the image, inserting the rolled imaged through the access, unrolling the image, and adhering the image to the inside surface of the enclosure with liquid adhesive.

Abstract: An encoder plate, or wheel, is connected for rotation on a toner cartridge for an electrophotographic machine, wherein the encoder plate conveys cartridge characteristic information to the machine when the cartridge is installed in the machine. The encoder plate includes a plurality of openings, wherein an opened or closed status of the plurality of openings represent the cartridge characteristic information. Apparatus and method is provided to program the encoder plate by applying a material to the encoder plate to selectively cover one or more of the plurality of openings.

Abstract: For applying a decoration to an article, the decoration with a supporting film is arranged on the surface of a liquid in a tank and is extended and/or condensed parallel to the surface according to requirements depending on the shape of the article to be printed. The article is immersed into the liquid in order to transfer the decoration onto the article. For the extending and/or condensing of the decoration on the surface of the liquid, nozzles are arranged below the surface of the liquid and produce flows in the water.

Abstract: The inventive labeling device employs a vacuum belt transport having a motor-driven endless belt, for conveying a label from a proximal end to a distal end of the transport. Initially, a chute is disposed between the label dispenser and the vacuum belt transport, which is capable of receiving a label dispensed by the label dispenser and holding it until the vacuum belt transport returns to a label receiving position and can accept the new label. This combination of a vacuum belt transport and a chute allow the labeler to dispense a new label while the previous label is still being applied to an article, thereby greatly increasing the labeling capacity of the labeler.

Abstract: A filter element includes a cylindrical support tube, pleated filter material surrounding the support tube, and end caps at either end of the filter material. The filter material has pleat sidewalls along the opposed side edges of the material which are located in surface-to-surface contact with each other. A mass of adhesive is disposed axially along the filter element in the pleat cavities defined in part by the adjacent pleat sidewalls. The adhesive entirely fills the cavities and encapsulates the pleat sidewalls along the side edges to retain the side edges together. Color and/or alpha-numeric character(s) representing a structural or functional characteristic of the filter element (e.g., efficiency, chemical resistivity, model number, trade name, etc.) are included with the mass of adhesive. The color can be introduced into the adhesive as a dye or pigment before curing, or can be applied as a dye or a paint to the exterior surface of the adhesive after the adhesive is cured.

Abstract: An automatic labelling system for products, such as fruits and vegetables, of the type including a conveyor (4) for feeding a product-receiving structure (2) to a labelling station (5) provided with a device for labelling the products. The product-receiving structure (2) includes a mechanism (3) for identifying the position of the products in the structure. The system also includes a sensor detector (6) for detecting the identifying means for causing the actuation of the labelling device of the labelling station.

Abstract: In a hollow molded container equipped with a label and its production method, molding is made by use of a label consisting, as a base, of a stretched film of a plastic having a thermal shrinkage ratio greater than a mold shrinkage ratio of a plastic constituting the outer surface of a container, at a temperature 40.degree. C. lower than the melting point or softening point of the plastic so that the label is bonded to the container at a residual equilibrium shrinkage ratio (Rs), defined below, of 0.5 to 100%: Rs=L.sub.1 -L.sub.2 /L.sub.1, where L.sub.1 is a length of a label film peeled from the container and L.sub.2 is a length when the peeled label film is brought to equilibrium at the temperature (T.sub.1) described above. In this manner, crease and swelling of the label during labelling operation inside the mold can be prevented and adhesion and peel-resistance between the label and the container outer surface can be improved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fence support including a generally vertically oriented main support post 31 in the form of a T shaped iron bar and a pair of braces 18. Each brace 18 includes an elongated bearing element 26 that is received in the bites of the T and a collar member 25 fits over the top of the main support post 31 and bearing elements 26 to hold them together. The braces 18 have at their bottom ends stake holders 16 and 17 which receive stakes 23 that are driven into the ground. An anchor 24 holds the main support post 31 in position.

Abstract: A method of forming an image forming medium for a color image and a method of carrying the color image on an image carrying medium having an arbitrary surface condition such as a sheet type having a flat surface, a solid type having a three-dimensional surface or the like, using a photosensitive and pressure-sensitive recording medium carrying microcapsules and a developer sheet carrying developer material, comprising the steps of exposing the photosensitive and pressure-sensitive recording medium to an original image light to form a latent image on the photosensitive and pressure-sensitive recording medium, closely contacting the photosensitive and pressure-sensitive recording medium with the developer sheet while supplied with a pressure to thereby form a visible image on the developer sheet, separating the developer sheet from the photosensitive and pressure-sensitive recording medium, and attaching the developer sheet to one surface of a double-sided adhesive sheet having a separation sheet provided detac

Abstract: A plastic adhesive label for microsample collection tubes has opaque end portions for receipt of identifying markings, and a transparent middle portion to permit viewing of the contents of the collection tube. In use, the transparent portion of the label is wrapped around and adhered to a collection tube and the end portions of the label are brought together in adhesion, the end portions forming a flag which carries the identifying information. With the transparent portion of the label surrounding the collection tube, the contents of the tube are still visible to an observer for confirmation at the same time the identifying information is displayed on the label.

Abstract: Apparatus for the automatic labelling of objects of differing shapes, which comprises a first guide means, a second guide means in spaced, opposed relationship to the first guide means, means, for example, a conveyor belt, for advancing objects between the said first and second guide means, pressure contact means provided on at least one of the said first and second guide means operative to urge an object passing between the said first and second guide means against the other said second or first guide means, respectively, and means for transferring an image, by a pressure-transfer operation, to an object passing between the said first and second guide means. The apparatus is especially applicable to the labelling of pieces of fruit, preferably using self-adhesive pressure-transferable labels which are pressed onto the fruit, or other object, by the pressure-contact means as it passes between the first and second guide means.