Fold At Edge Patents (Class 428/121)
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Patent number: 6495238Abstract: The banner material is comprised of flexible polyester fabric which comes in a rolled elongated sheet. A number of grommets are placed along the top and bottom edges. The grommets along the top edge are aligned with the grommets along the bottom edge and are placed along the top and bottom edges of the banner material alternately a first distance apart and a second substantially smaller distance apart. The user of the banner can customize the length of the banner by cutting from top edge to bottom edge between the grommets, preferably between the grommets spaced the second substantially smaller distance apart in order to avoid wasting any excess banner material.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1998Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Cambridge Canvas Centre Ltd.Inventor: William Paul Campbell
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Patent number: 6495248Abstract: A substantially flexible, shape-sustaining cover having a cloth-appearing finish on a surface thereof, the substantially flexible, shape-sustaining cover formed from a flexible, substantially non-shape sustaining laminated material having at least one surface with a cloth-like texture or appearance. The substantially flexible, shape-sustaining cover has a closed lower end, an open upper end with an opening extending therethrough and a decorative border extending outwardly from the open upper end thereof. The substantially flexible, shape-sustaining cover has a plurality of overlapping folds of which at least a portion are permanently connected so that the substantially flexible, shape-sustaining cover may be substantially flattened and then unflattened to assume the original shape of the substantially flexible, shape-sustaining cover.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.Inventor: Donald E. Weder
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Patent number: 6489006Abstract: The invention relates to inflatable fabrics which comprise two separated and distinct fabric layers in discrete areas of such fabrics as well as connecting seam-producing materials to which such fabric layers are simultaneously attached. The resultant inflatable fabric composite thus includes inflatable areas separated, at least partially, by seamed barrier areas. This configuration will form “pillowed” structures within the target fabric upon inflation. Such connecting seam-producing materials are incorporated within the two-layer structure as peel seams in relation with the individual fabric layers. Upon inflation, the seams then act as shear seams which greatly increases the overall strength of the two-layer inflatable fabric. These shear seams thus provide a relatively effective manner of reducing air permeability within the entire fabric article. Such a fabric may be utilized in numerous and various applications wherein fabric inflation is desired or necessary.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2000Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Milliken & CompanyInventor: Ramesh Keshavaraj
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Patent number: 6489001Abstract: A protective structure for thermal insulation and impact resistance, and especially suited for bonded application to the exterior of aircraft including spacecraft to protect the craft from high temperatures generated by exhaust gases and by atmospheric re-entry. The structure includes either a single ceramic tile component with a cover component comprising a fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite encasing the tile component, or a plurality of ceramic tile components with a like single cover component encasing the plurality of tile components. Utilizing the structures as an external aircraft surface imparts a super hard exterior that functions to significantly prohibit impact and erosion damage while not compromising the desirable thermal insulation properties inherent to tile.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corp.Inventors: Anthony Cazzato, David Sherrill
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Patent number: 6482500Abstract: A trim member is made from a single piece of trim material. The trim material has a plurality of spaced apart cut out regions which divide the trim member into a plurality of trim sections. These trim sections are connected to one another by thin strips of the trim material in each cut out region. The strips are bendable and the cut out regions are shaped to enable a reconfiguring of the trim member from a lineal to a trim border forming configuration for use around a door, a window or a windowed wall area of a building wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1999Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Royal Group Technologies LimitedInventor: Anthony V. Diginosa
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Patent number: 6482085Abstract: Forms, such as mailing forms, constructed as a single sheet or multiple sheets of standard paper size, which are printable by a single pass through a standard non-impact printer are described. Certain variations of the forms can be configured to be extendible to provide additional surface area for the form exceeding standard paper size. The extendible form can be adapted for use with mailing forms such as multi-part collated unit sets. The forms can be useful for providing a Customs Declaration and Dispatch Note having each part thereof printable by a single pass through a non-impact printer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2000Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Laser Substrates, Inc.Inventor: Warren M. Fabel
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Patent number: 6479124Abstract: A panel of composite material, in particular with a thermosetting or thermoplastic matrix, with edges and/or external surface protected from shocks and erosion, for any streamlining element for housings or nacelles of aeronautical motors, comprises, over all or a portion of its edges, a cladding which forms a border overlapping the two opposite surfaces of the panel. The border comprises a metallic cloth connected to the structure of the panel by an adhesive agent, diffused through the cloth. The panel is particularly applicable to aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1999Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale IndustrielleInventors: Alain Porte, Robert Andre
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Publication number: 20020164452Abstract: Flat strips cut from discarded tires are stacked and stored as bulk rubber on pallets for easy handling, transport by fork lift trucks and storage in outside compacted storage space without accumulating water where mosquitos can breed. Typically flat rectangular longitudinal tread strips are folded and stacked in a plurality of abutting stacks about five feet high for rubber-to-rubber engagement in configurations extending substantially to opposite edges of a pallet platform, thus storing about a ton of bulk rubber per pallet. The pallets then may be transported and stored in compact stacks at outside locations without accumulating water and breeding mosquitos.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2001Publication date: November 7, 2002Inventor: Joseph J. Solon
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Patent number: 6472044Abstract: A mailer type business form is constructed from an intermediate having a plurality of pressure activated cohesive cooperating patterns, and a card is mounted on or with the intermediate. Despite the fact that a card is included, because of the provision of surface manifestations in the intermediate, and/or because of the relative thicknesses of the card and the intermediate, the mailer may be sealed by steam rolling rather than requiring selective edge sealing. A surface manifestation may comprise a cutout with a patch, or a folded over portion of the intermediate, retaining the card with the intermediate during processing. Alternatively, first and second thinned portions of the sheet of paper, disposed on opposite sides of a fold line so as to cooperate and hold the card when the sheet is folded about the fold line, may be provided, the thinned portions provided by embossing, for example.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Moore North America, Inc.Inventors: John J. Vichinsky, Jr., Wayne Peterson, Will Hutchinson
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Patent number: 6468611Abstract: An anti-fomitic device in the form of a bag or envelope which forms a cover for an object for preventing cross-infection by bacteria and other pathogens that may reside on the object being covered. The anti-fomitic device is a flat, flexible bag or envelope with a closure means at one end of the bag or envelope, having a sterile interior which is sealed during manufacture to maintain sterility. Therefore, no outer wrapping for the anti-fomitic device is required. Alternatively, the anti-fomitic device is a flat, flexible, internally sterile bag with two releasably closed ends, where one end is tucked inward so that the sterile interiors of the two releasably closed ends touch.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1997Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Inventor: Marvin E. Haskin
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Publication number: 20020142145Abstract: A composition veneer that is extremely flexible, foldable and moldable, is provided by impregnating a wood veneer with a plastic film. The veneer has a smooth protective polymer surface without separate and distinguishable layers. As a result, the composition veneers of this invention exhibit moldability and shapeability properties similar to plastic sheeting, but contain natural wood and have the appearance of natural wood.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventor: Thomas A. Lenderink
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Publication number: 20020142127Abstract: A process for forming an injection molded article including multiple appliques. The process generally includes the steps of: positioning in a mold a first applique including a edge; positioning in the mold a second applique including a terminating end; abutting the second terminating end against the edge in a non-overlapping, substantially perpendicular configuration; injection molding a thermoplastic resin around the appliques to form an article. Because the first and second appliques do not overlap, they will not separate from one another over the life of the injection molded article. Accordingly, multiple applique articles formed according to the process of the present invention maintain their structural integrity and are resistant to warping, peeling and/or separation of the appliques from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventors: Victor D. Hansen, Aron I. Palmer, Eric L. Seath
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Publication number: 20020142128Abstract: A stamper for forming a data recording region on a recording medium substrate by means of a transfer surface thereof. The transfer surface transfers a predetermined set of data to the recording medium substrate. The stamper is fitted on at least one of metal molds that are arranged opposite one another for forming the recording medium substrate. The stamper includes a stepped portion formed as bends in the material of the stamper. The stepped portion is configured to project from the transfer surface toward the recording medium substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2002Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventors: Yuuichi Kawaguchi, Kenji Yamaga, Hiroaki Takahata, Hisaji Oyake, Yoshimi Sakai
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Patent number: 6458448Abstract: An edge protector for the edges of roll shaped articles, e.g. pallets, reeled steel and paper products is made from an elongated sheet (10) of plastics material, the sheet having an indentation (11) extending longitudinally along a major surface of the sheet and extending only partially into the thickness of the sheet. The indentation (11) divides the sheet into webs (12, 13) which are folded into an L-shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1999Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: ITW LimitedInventor: Raymond John Hunt
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Patent number: 6451397Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pouch label for attaching a sample to an item, such as a product displayed for sale. Before use, the pouch label is supported by a release-coated liner to which a transparent base layer having an adhesive bottom surface is removably adhered. A pouch, defining a sealed envelope containing the sample, is supported by the base layer. A transparent over-laminate with an adhesive bottom surface is adhered to the base layer to secure the pouch to the base layer. The pouch label can be removed from the release liner so as to attach the sample to the display item.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Menasha CorporationInventor: Ronald G. Hagen
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Patent number: 6444307Abstract: A window (26) is masked accurately by placing the side (44) of a tape roll (42) against a window frame (28) and pressing the outer rim (46) of the tape roll (42) against the window (26). Pressure bonds the adhesive (22a) to the window (26). The side (44) of the tape roll (42) is guided and supported against the window frame (28) and tape (100) is simultaneously unwound against the window (26). The outer longitudinal periphery of the tape (100) accurately follows the corner (36).Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1999Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Inventor: Veijo M. Tuoriniemi
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Patent number: 6436500Abstract: This invention relates to a system and method for reclosing a package. A package reclosure is provided with a top layer having a perforation and a carrier substrate. A folded substrate or folded member is provided between the carrier substrate and top layer. The folded member is only secured to the top layer such that, when the perforation is torn, a portion of the folded member may be unfolded to reveal a repositionable adhesive which is used to retain an end of the package in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: 3 Sigma CorporationInventors: Kenneth Ralph Yingst, Paul Reid Benson
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Publication number: 20020106484Abstract: A sealing strip, such as for fitting to the frame of a door opening in a motor vehicle body, comprises a longitudinally extending channel-shaped mounting portion (8) incorporating a channel-shaped reinforcing carrier (20). A hollow tubular longitudinally extending sealing portion (10) is attached to the outside of the mounting portion (8). When such a strip is bent to follow curves in the door frame, the increased tension in the mounting portion (8) at the curves may cause the sealing portion (10) to move inwardly of the curve into the position shown in the dotted line In order to avoid this, the sealing strip, and particularly the mounting portion (8), is longitudinally compressed at positions corresponding to the positions where curves are to be formed in the strip. This local longitudinal compression helps to maintain the sealing portion (10) in its correct attitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2000Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventor: HELMUT GREVEN
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Publication number: 20020081416Abstract: A sheet of material which is made two dimensional which includes portions that are removed that allows the sheet to be folded to create a three dimensional structure without the need for cutting and darting.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2001Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventor: Jonathan Goering
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Patent number: 6406764Abstract: There is provided an improved two-ply sterilization wrap and a method for using the improved sterilization wrap to sterilize an article. The wrap is made of a single sheet of sterilization material. The sheet is folded forming at least one fold. The folded sheet forms first and second overlapping panels and two layers of sterilization material. Preferably, the panels are bonded to each other. The folded single sheet provides two layers of sterilization material covering the article to be sterilized.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1998Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: American Threshold Industries, Inc.Inventor: Robert T. Bayer
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Publication number: 20020068144Abstract: The towel has differential surfaces such that the user may selectively use each for a particular purpose without later confusing for what each surface was used. The towel may be constructed of one or more layers of material with each exposed surface having a different color. In the instance of use of more than one layer the exposed layers may be constructed of different materials. An example is a towel for use in sports activities wherein one layer is suitable for drying and the opposite layer is suitable for placing on a chair or bench for protection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2000Publication date: June 6, 2002Inventor: Robert E. McCumber
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Patent number: 6399183Abstract: The invention targets a plate made of glass material such as tempered glass or glass-ceramic designed to be mounted in a frame, comprising at least one polymer strip on its periphery, said strip having on at least one part of its length a shape that allows the plate to be mounted, for example by nesting with the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: EurokeraInventors: Pablo Vilato, Michel Grassi, Jean-Francois Mikoda
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Patent number: 6387470Abstract: Expandable sealant and baffle compositions and methods of forming and using such compositions are provided wherein the compositions comprise a first thermoplastic resin, an epoxy resin, preferably a second thermoplastic resin different from the first thermoplastic resin, and optionally a compound selected from the group consisting of pigments, blowing agents, catalysts, curing agents, reinforcers, and mixtures thereof. The resulting compositions are formed as self-sustaining bodies which can be heat-expanded into a lightweight, high strength product for sealing hollow structural members of vehicles, substantially decreasing the noise which travels along the length of those members as well as strengthening those members with minimal increases in their weights. In a preferred embodiment, the first thermoplastic resin is an SBS block co-polymer, the epoxy resin is a bisphenol A-based liquid epoxy resin, the second thermoplastic resin is a polystyrene, and the reinforcer is hydrated amorphous silica.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1998Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Sika CorporationInventors: Chin-Jui Chang, Gerald Fitzgerald
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Patent number: 6358591Abstract: An insulation blanket is disclosed that contains fire-blocking materials for preventing rapid penetration of fire into an aircraft fuselage in case of a fire outside the aircraft. The insulation blanket contains at least one layer of fiberglass or other thermal-acoustic insulation material without fire-blocking properties, and one or more layers of fire-blocking material. The fire blocking material is wider than the thermal-acoustic insulation so that it may be folded against and attached to adjacent structural frame members of the fuselage. In the alternative, a thermal-acoustic insulation material is used that has fire-blocking properties instead of the separate layers of fire-blocking and thermal-acoustic insulation materials. A method for installing insulation blankets according to the present invention is disclosed, whereby a fire-blocking insulation portion of the blanket is folded against and attached to frame members of the aircraft using attachment posts or spring clips.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1999Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: Orcon CorporationInventor: Sherman S. Smith
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Patent number: 6352748Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanically assembled picture comprising at least one image element comprising an image on a thin polymer sheet, a brace, and a transparent polymer sheet overlaying said image and brace, wherein said transparent sheet mechanically holds said image to said brace.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2000Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Peter T. Aylward, Robert P. Bourdelais, Alphonse D. Camp
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Publication number: 20020015820Abstract: The invention relates to a composite comprising a thermoplastic resin and a glass fabric that can be used in the form of a linear extrudate as a structural member or as a repair unit. The resin glass fiber composite structural member can be manufactured in an extrusion process. The linear extrudate can have a cross-section of any arbitrary shape or can be a regular geometric shape. The profile is made by first preforming the glass fabric into a useful shape, combining the preform fabric with melt resin and extruding the resin and glass fiber in a useful shape. When contacted with melt resin, the glass fiber becomes intimately contacted with and substantially coated with the melt resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Applicant: Andersen CorporationInventor: Giuseppe Puppin
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Patent number: 6306480Abstract: The present invention is a new elongate single-ply paper napkin that achieves the necessary absorbency, strength, hand feel and softness for commercial use but which is less expensive than traditional napkin products. More particularly, the invention is a single-ply napkin that contains folds running only in the transverse direction of the product, i.e. perpendicular to the length of the napkin.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1998Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Fort James CorporationInventors: Craig D. Yardley, Chester W. Gooding, Jr., Byron E. Burrier
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Patent number: 6299965Abstract: The invention relates to inflatable fabrics which comprise two separated and distinct fabric layers in discrete areas of such fabrics as well as C-shaped seam-producing materials to which such fabric layers are attached. The resultant inflatable fabric composite this includes inflatable areas separated, at least partially, by seamed barrier areas. This configuration will form “pillowed” structures within the target fabric upon inflation. Such seam-producing materials are incorporated within the two-layer structure as C-shaped peel seams in relation with the individual fabric layers. Upon inflation, the seams then act as shear seams which greatly increases the overall strength of the two-layer inflatable fabric. These shear seams thus provide a relatively effective manner of reducing air permeability within the entire fabric article. Such a fabric may be utilized in numerous and various applications wherein fabric inflation is desired or necessary.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Milliken & CompanyInventor: Ramesh Keshavaraj
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Publication number: 20010023157Abstract: The present invention relates to both a textile article and a method of making the textile article. The textile article is a two-sided multicolor Jacquard, Dobby or Cam woven textile with a graphic impression on at least one side thereof. In one embodiment, the front side of the textile has a dark color border and a light color area within said border. The light color area is the area receiving the graphic impression. It is sometimes advantageous to reverse the textile. Therefore, in another embodiment the front side has a light color border with a dark central area, and the dark central area will receive the graphic impression. The graphic impression may be applied by screen printing, image dyeing, digital imaging, or heat transfer (heat applied graphics).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2001Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventor: James M. Sheppard
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Patent number: 6267836Abstract: A method of manufacturing tape tabs for use in disposable absorbent articles such as diapers. The method includes steps of cutting a unitary strip of material along parallel curved transverse lines to product tab shapes in the strip material having rounded corners, doubling over the strip material into itself to form a gripping area, and cutting the strip material along parallel cut lines which extend from the curved transverse cut lines to the longitudinal edge to form individual tape tabs.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Wilfried Horst Fenske, Christoph Johann Schmitz
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Patent number: 6265048Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated clothing for a papermaking or cellulose manufacturing machine, as well as a method and a blank for manufacturing thereof. The clothing comprises two laminated layers (O, I), each having an inclined direction-defined thread system, the thread systems being inclined relative to the machine direction of the clothing and relative to each other. The two layers (O, I) constitute an upper and an inner part, respectively, of an endless band (40), which is so flattened that two edge folds (48, 50) are formed transversely of the machine direction, and which is then doubled with the edge folds (48, 50) coupled together. As a result, the band comprises a direction-defined thread system which is inclined relative to the machine direction and which, owing to the flattening and doubling of the band, forms the thread systems, inclined relative to each other, of the first and the second layer (O, I).Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Björn Rydin, Douglas L Horanburg
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Patent number: 6261658Abstract: A standable sticker is provided comprising an integral one-piece shape that is divided into a figure portion and a base portion. The base portion is adapted for permanent or removable adherence to a surface, and is coated on one side with a pressure sensitive adhesive. A perforated or scored line defines a boundary between the figure portion and base portion and the figure portion in foldable at an angle to the base portion at the perforated or scored line to permit the figure portion to be presented in a substantially vertical orientation. The sticker is adapted for releasable adhesion to liner material or substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Allied Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Charles W. Schmidt
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Patent number: 6248420Abstract: A method for producing a mineral fiber-insulating web comprises the steps of firstly producing a first non-woven mineral fiber-web being a loosely compacted mineral fiber web of a low area weight. The first material fiber web contains mineral fibers arranged generally in the longitudinal direction of the mineral fiber web. Secondly, the first material fiber web is moved in the longitudinal direction of the web and folded transversely relative to the longitudinal direction and parallel with a transversal direction of the first mineral fiber web, so as to produce a second mineral fiber-web containing mineral fibers arranged generally perpendicular to the longitudinal and transversal directions. Thereupon, the folded mineral fiber web is cured for bonding the mineral fibers together so as to produce the mineral fiber-insulating web comprising a central body containing mineral fibers arranged generally perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the mineral fiber web.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Rockwool International A/SInventors: Kim Brandt, Erik Holtze
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Patent number: 6231943Abstract: A record pad is provided having a paper top sheet with top and bottom faces and an underlying record bottom sheet with a transfer medium between them. The top sheet has an upper margin and a pattern (such as a substantially continuous strip) of repositional adhesive is provided on each top sheet bottom face adjacent the upper margin and substantially parallel to the upper margin. This provides a record pad construction which is more user friendly particularly for left handed writers, and makes it simpler to attach a top sheet—once removed from the pad—to another sheet or object. Preferably the top sheet is segmented into three different portions by through cut lines (or perforations or other lines of weakness), and along a securing edge of the top sheet another through cut line is provided, substantially perpendicular to the upper margin. The repositional adhesive strips are spaced from the upper margin or lines of weakness about 1—5 mm (e.g. about 2 mm).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1996Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.Inventors: Anton Nijboer, Fokke Jager, Henry Wowick Dingley
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Publication number: 20010000096Abstract: A tape dispenser folds over an edge portion of a strip of masking tape while the masking tape is being dispensed therefrom. The masking tape may then be used to effect feathering or blending of paint sprayed on a desired surface, such as an automobile body or the like. The tape dispenser has a holder for holding at least one roll of masking tape and also has a tape guide configured to cause the masking tape dispensed from the tape holder to fold over and to adhere to itself when the masking tape is manually pulled against the tape guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2000Publication date: April 5, 2001Inventors: Gary E. Tolerico, Ron D. Shaw, Lee A. Shaw, Scott G. Shaw, Michael J. Davis, Paul J. Taylor
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Patent number: 6190747Abstract: A form 1 has a detachable card 3. A peel glue layer 22 adheres a support layer 21 to the card 3. The card 3 is a blank produced by punching the form 1 up to the support layer 21. The blank is held in the form by the peel glue layer 22 and support layer until removed.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Folien Fischer AGInventor: Jules Fischer
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Patent number: 6187403Abstract: A preformed gift wrap for quickly and easily wrapping a gift box. The preformed gift wrap includes a generally rectangular sheet having a pair of spaced apart lateral fold lines extending between the sides of the sheet which divide the sheet into three generally rectangular panels. Extending from each side of the middle second panel is a generally trapezoidal middle flap. Each of the middle flaps is foldable along a line extending along the associated side of the sheet. Extending from each side of the outer first and third panels is a side flap. Each of the side flaps is foldable along a line extending along the associated side of the sheet. Each of the sides of the sheet also has two corner flaps extending therefrom such that a first pair of corner flaps are positioned adjacent the first panel and a second pair of corner flaps are positioned adjacent the third panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Inventor: Cecil A. Richardson
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Patent number: 6183840Abstract: An extruded plastic strip (1) adapted for use in protecting the edge of an article having a curved surface: said strip including alongitudinal groove (6), a flexible covering portion (2) extending from one side of the longitudinal groove adapted to be placed over and conform with the curve surface of an article to be protected and a plurality of tabs (3-5) hinged to and extending from the other side of the longitudinal groove, wherein said covering portion includes a plurality of holes (9, 10) which are located at or proximate the outer most edge of the covering portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1998Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: Nylex Corporation LimitedInventor: Edward Morris Arrowsmith
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Patent number: 6177155Abstract: A trim assembly 40 for a vehicle comprising: a top cover 10 comprising gather-sewn peripheral portions 12 and 13 to form gather-sewn portions 15; a plate-like base member 20, to which the peripheral portions 12 and 13 of the top cover 10 are sewn on peripheral portions 22 and 23 of the base member to form sewn portions 26; and a cushion member inserted between the plate-like base member 20 and the top cover 10; wherein a gather-sewn upper peripheral portion 12 of the top cover 10 is overlapped and sewn on an upper peripheral portion on a body side surface of the base member 20 to form a sewn portion 26, the overlapped and sewn top cover 10 is turned over upwardly and further turned over beyond an upper edge of the base member 20 so as to face a room side surface of the base member 20, a gather-sewn lower peripheral portion 13 of the further turned top cover 10 is overlapped and sewn on a lower peripheral portion on the room side surface of the base member 20 to form a sewn portion 26, and the lower peripheralType: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideyuki Kurosaki
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Patent number: 6168847Abstract: Pre-folded stock material for use in a cushioning conversion machine which converts the pre-folded stock material into a three-dimensional cushioning product. The stock material includes at least one ply having a plurality of layers at two of which are joined at a longitudinally extending fold. The stock material is preferably biodegradable, recyclable, and reusable paper and may be supplied in a roll or in a fan-folded stack.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: Ranpak CorporationInventors: Cynthia S. Murphy, Richard O. Ratzel
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Patent number: 6168840Abstract: There is disclosed the provision of a plastic film for covering soil for use in cropping or covering a frame for greenhouse effect. At least part of the plastic film has been stretched beyond its yield point prior to application. In alternative forms, the film undergoes a secondary stretch to form a predetermined pattern of weakness in certain localized areas of the film. The film may be photodegradable and biologically degradable to accelerate decomposition of the film when exposed to the elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: First Green Park PTY LTDInventor: Peter Johnstone
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Patent number: 6129387Abstract: An intermediate for a card holder, the card holder produced from the intermediate, and a method of making the card holder, are provided which are particularly useful for easily and efficiently making and attaching a card holder to a library book, or other object that a card holder is desirably associated with. The card holder is formed from an intermediate having a first (e.g. paper) ply, a second release liner ply, and pressure sensitive adhesive or cohesive holding the plies together. Various die cuts and lines of weakness (such as perf lines) are provided in the plies so as to facilitate easy assembly of the card holder from an integral sheet by removing various die cut strips or sections in sequence to readily fold the intermediate after imaging (for example with a laser printer) and then apply the card holder formed with the pressure sensitive adhesive or cohesive already associated with the intermediate, to a library book or the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1999Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Moore North America, Inc.Inventor: Stanley Chess
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Patent number: 6124018Abstract: The invention provides an on-line continuous method for producing a masking film roll to be used in painting, comprising corona-discharging the inner surface of a tubular film of a polyolefinic resin, cutting the tubular film open, folding the film in the lengthwise direction in a particular manner, partly attaching an adhesive tape to the film along its lengthwise one edge in such a manner that the adhesive surface of the tape is made to face the corona-discharged surface of the film and that the thus-attached tape is left to have a non-attached part in its lengthwise direction, and winding up the film around a tubular core to be a roll, provides the masking film roll as produced by the method in which the adhesive surface of the adhesive tape attached to thereto faces opposite to the non-corona-discharged surface of the uppermost layer of the folded film, and provides a tubular film of a polyolefinic resin from which the masking film of the invention is produced and of which the inner surface has been coronType: GrantFiled: October 22, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Yoshino Kasei Company LimitedInventor: Takashi Yoshino
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Patent number: 6120867Abstract: A tape laminate comprising a support layer having first and second parts, and an anchor portion of one of its opposite major surfaces on each of the parts. The first and second parts of the support layer are disposed with the anchor portions on opposite sides of the support layer and in generally parallel relationship. The anchor portions can be bonded to the opposed surfaces of rigid objects so that the tape laminate supports one object from the other against a static force generally parallel to the anchor portions. One of those bonds is made by an attachment strip having a portion of its outer major surface defined by pressure sensitive adhesive and its inner major surface bonded to one of the anchor portions, and a manually engageable tab portion at one end. The attachment strip is stretchable by pulling its tab portion to release adhesive engagement of its outer major surface from an object to which it is adhered.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Michael D. Hamerski, Robert H. Heil
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Patent number: 6114002Abstract: Hygienic mat which can be used standing steadily on it to wipe the feet after a shower or a bath and which at the same time can be folded, as well as being light and portable. Its characteristic is to comprise a first and a second pad (2a, 2b) hinged on adjacent borders (3) in a folding relationship between an open flat position and a closed book-like position. Each pad (2a, 2b) preferably engages with a flat stiff support (4a, 4b) in a recesses (5a, 5b) defined by a boundary rim (6) raised from a stiff bottom (4). Preferably, the pads (2a, 2b) have a permeable spongy towel-like absorbing cloth (9) attached to a resilient base sheet (10) and are hinged by means of either a a flexible strip (7) or a plurality of joints (8). Gripping means (13) fixed to the boundary of said pads or supports are advantageously provided for.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignees: Roberto Risaliti, Patrizio InnocentiInventor: Burgassi Rinaldo
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Patent number: 6103338Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making glass-ceramic plates which are bent at a radius of curvature especially suitable in the manufacture of cooking plates.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1995Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Claude Gille, Michele Marie-Louise Meyer, Paul Leon Netter, Sophie Peschiera, Pablo Juan Luis Vilato Gailloud
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Patent number: 6103348Abstract: A plastic molding with a plastic carrier (62) comprises several regions (50, 52, 54) separated from one another, at least some of these regions (50, 52, 54) being provided with optionally different films (40, 42). In the production of this non-coherent individual moldings separated from one another by separating spaces (46, 58) and corresponding to the regions (50, 52, 54) are first of all produced. Melt of the plastic carrier (62) is then injected into the separating spaces (46, 58), the individual moldings thereby being joined together. The plastic molding thus constitutes a one-piece whole which can be produced in a single production device (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Otto Deuschle Model- und Formenbau GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Alfred Scharrenberg, Hans H. Schmitz
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Patent number: 6103332Abstract: Folded sheet means (20.sup.1, 10) (e.g. substantially one-half or one-third of credit card size) (e.g. in the form of a kit of parts) comprises a sheet (22.sup.1, 12) of paper or like material with a first set of concertina folds (26.sup.1, 14) and a second set of concertina folds (28.sup.1, 16) transverse to the first set, at which folds (26.sup.1, 28.sup.1, 14, 16) the sheet (22.sup.1, 12) can be folded and unfolded, connection means (106.sup.1, 52) adapted to serve as or as part of means for releasably connecting between the folded sheet means (20.sup.1, 10) and another object, and holding means (24.sup.1, 22, 24) adapted for releasably holding the folded sheet means folded. Said holding means comprises an envelope or other container (24.sup.1), said sheet (22.sup.1) being adapted to be retained therein, e.g. with the aid of friction and/or at least one inwardly directed lip (34.sup.1). The folded sheet material (22.sup.1) may be (e.g. removably) in a carrier (96.sup.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1997Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Inventor: George Wallace McDonald
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Patent number: 6099928Abstract: A transparency mat card comprising a mat with a window and a transparency mounted in the window using a weak, removable glue applied to portions of a glue border so that the transparency can be detached intact from the mat card. A picture or other visual pattern is preferably printed or otherwise marked on the transparency, preferably on the rear surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Inventor: Jeffrey Jock Fai Chee
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Patent number: 6095919Abstract: A form, such as a mailing form, constructed on a single laminated sheet of standard paper size, which is printable by a single pass through a standard non-impact printer, and extendible to provide additional surface area for the form exceeding standard paper size. The extendible form can be adapted for use with mailing forms such as multi-part collated unit sets. The form is useful for providing a Customs Declaration and Dispatch Note having each part printable by a single pass through a non-impact printer.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Inventor: Warren M. Fabel