Abstract: A processing substrate comprises a first material having a liquid-permeable surface, a second material disposed adjacent to the first material and having a liquid-absorbent portion and a third material disposed adjacent the second material and having a liquid-impermeable surface.

Abstract: A die apparatus, a method of using the die apparatus to produce co-extruded polymeric articles, and co-extruded polymeric articles produced using the die apparatus and method are disclosed. The die apparatus includes a hollow vane configured to extrude a material into a chamber within the die, thereby producing a co-extruded web. The co-extruded web has a plurality of distinct, discontinuous phases in the cross-web direction, the phases having a uniform width as shown by a coefficient of variation of less than 8 percent for, any three consecutive phases. The phases are substantially continuous down-web and are surrounded by a matrix having two or more layers.

Abstract: A film is placed over a mold cavity and molten plastic deposited thereon to form a combination of a film with molten plastic thereon. The film-molten plastic combination is then formed in said mold cavity into a molded article in the shape of the mold cavity.

Abstract: A laminated label has a first conductive material defining electrical attachment pads; a dielectric material surrounding the attachment pads; a second conductive material deposited on the dielectric material and forming an antenna electrically connected to the attachment pads. A layer of expandable material forms a protective cavity surrounding the attachment pads. An IC chip is received in the protective cavity and connected to the antenna.

Abstract: A conductive blade includes a blade member formed of an electrically conductive rubber, and an electrically conductive holder. The blade member has one widthwise end portion serving as a free end portion and the other widthwise end portion serving as a bonding end portion. One end of the free end portion is brought into contact with a subject member. The holder is bonded to the bonding end portion of the blade member over the length of the blade member. A conductive layer formed of a conducting filler and an elastomer is provided for connecting the end face of the bonding end portion of the blade member and a portion of the holder which is adjacent to the end face of the bonding end portion.

Abstract: The present invention is a key sheet comprising a resin film wherein a mirror-like evaporation deposit layer is provided on a part or all of the back, and further a colored layer is provided at the back of the evaporation deposit layer, said resin film is integrated with the top face side of a button made of resin, allowing to realize a key sheet having all color metallic tones at a low cost, by making the optical concentration of the laminated portion of resin film and evaporation deposit layer 0.35 to 0.85.

Abstract: A three-layer asphalt composition shingle where the top layer is of a full width, a middle layer is less than the full width, and a bottom layer has a width shorter than the middle layer. The middle and top layers of the shingle have tabs and cutouts. The tabs of each such layer generally differ in some feature. Moreover, the corresponding tabs between the middle layer and top layer also differ with respect to some feature, such as a lengthwise size, a widthwise size, shape or in color. Each of the three layers includes color zones, and often plural color zones. The different tab features and the different color features of the various layers provide a high degree of randomness to enhance a visual appearance to a roof shingled with such type of shingles.

Abstract: A device and a method of forming the device, includes selective area deposition of a ferromagnetic material on a substrate.

Abstract: A cube corner article having a structured surface of geometric structures, each geometric structure having a plurality of faces at least some of which are arranged as a cube corner element, is made by providing a first substrate having a plurality of grooves therein, replicating the first substrate in a second substrate, and forming a second plurality of grooves in the second substrate. Geometric structures in the second substrate are formed in part by replication of the first plurality of grooves and in part by the information of the second plurality of grooves.

Abstract: A laminated label has a first conductive material defining electrical attachment pads; a dielectric material surrounding the attachment pads; a second conductive material deposited on the dielectric material and forming an antenna electrically connected to the attachment pads. A layer of expandable material forms a protective cavity surrounding the attachment pads. An IC chip is received in the protective cavity and connected to the antenna.

Abstract: A nonslip member in which a large number of nonslip convexes are fixed to an upper surface of a base fabric performing an anchoring action, and the nonslip convexes are made of rubber. By engaging a male mold and a female mold with each other, a large number of small pieces coincident to a shape of through holes of the female mold are punched out from a plate-like material. By pressurizing and heating each small piece between a punching convex and a mounting base while engaging the male mold and the female mold with each other, the small piece is bridged and fixed to the base fabric to serve as a nonslip convex.

Abstract: A set which can be printed on in a simple manner with reduced waste material. The set is formed of a flat supporting sheet and a plurality of flat repositionable adhesive information carriers each having a front and a back and are provided on their back with a layer of contact adhesive. All adhesive information carriers are disposed above one another and staggered with respect to one another on the supporting sheet in such a way that the first adhesive information carrier with its layer of contact adhesive is detachably disposed on the supporting sheet and the next adhesive information carrier in each case is disposed with its layer of contact adhesive detachably on the front of the adhesive information carrier lying below it, wherein in each case a region of the front of the underlying adhesive information carrier is not covered by the adhesive information carrier lying above it. All the adhesive information carriers have the same length.

Abstract: A tape roll structure which includes a tape having adhesive on one face, and the tape can be pulled off a tape roll and cut into segments of varying lengths. The tape is provided with a paper tape or coating on one or both sides for receiving written indicia, and which becomes part of a tape segment. Thus, once a tape segment has been attached by adhesive to a marginal edge of a sheet, written indicia can be written on the paper tape or coating so that a tab is immediately formed on a sheet. In a preferred embodiment, a pair of tape rolls are mounted in a shell, and one of the tape rolls carries a paper tape and the other tape roll carries adhesive tape. When the two tapes are pulled from their rolls, the paper tape moves into bonded engagement with one-half of the adhesive tape of the other roll. Then the tapes are cut into a segment and bonded to the sheet to which a tab is to be mounted.

Abstract: A heat bond seaming tape has a base formed of a sheet of paper or a paper-like material and an overlying strip of an open mesh material. A plurality of transversely spaced, longitudinally extending beads of a hot melt thermoplastic adhesive material is placed on a top surface of the mesh for adhering the tape to the backs of adjacent carpet edges. A strip of a polyolefin such as a semi-rigid high density polyethylene material is sandwiched between the base sheet and the strip of open mesh material and extends longitudinally along the center of the strip and extends transversely across the carpet seam to prevent seam buckling. The base sheet and reinforcing strip can be extruded as an integral one piece member of the high density polyethylene prior to being joined with the mesh and hot melt adhesive.

Abstract: A blow molded hollow doubled wall article wherein the inner wall has an edge portion and a central portion adjacent the edge portion, including at least one opening in the central portion providing access to the space between the inner and outer walls and forming a flap member connected to said edge portion.

Abstract: A tape roll structure which includes a tape having adhesive on one face, and the tape can be pulled off a tape roll and cut into segments of varying lengths. The tape is provided with a paper tape or coating on one or both sides for receiving written indicia, and which becomes part of a tape segment. Thus, once a tape segment has been attached by adhesive to a marginal edge of a sheet, written indicia can be written on the paper tape or coating so that a tab is immediately formed on a sheet. In a preferred embodiment, a pair of tape rolls are mounted in a shell, and one of the tape rolls carries a paper tape and the other tape roll carries adhesive tape. When the two tapes are pulled from their rolls, the paper tape moves into bonded engagement with one-half of the adhesive tape of the other roll. Then the tapes are cut into a segment and bonded to the sheet to which a tab is to be mounted.

Abstract: Flashing for rendering a seam in a structure water-tight, wherein the flashing comprises a composite comprising a sheet layer and a foam layer, with the sheet layer comprising a closed surface, waterproof material which is lightweight and flexible, and the foam layer comprising a thermally-insulating material which is lightweight and flexible, and resilient and water-resistant.

Abstract: Smart cards having high quality external surfaces can be made through the use of partially cured, low shrinkage glues to hold the smart card's electronic elements during their immersion in a thermosetting material that becomes the core layer of said cards. Mounds of low shrinkages give serve to hold the electronic component in a given position in the core layer.

Abstract: An improved sandwich structure including a top facing sheet, a bottom facing sheet, a core located between the top facing sheet and the bottom facing sheet, and a damping layer extending only partially across the core and not fully interrupting the continuity of the core between the top facing sheet portion and the bottom facing sheet portion to provide damping to the core without adversely affecting the static stiffness or strength of the core.

Abstract: An aesthetic structure comprising a sheet of material having a smooth surface and a plurality of strips of a non-metallic material. Each strip has a surface and a layer of adhesive material is adhered to the surface of each strip for securing the strip to the smooth surface of the sheet of material. The strips are disposed on the smooth surface of the sheet of material to segment the smooth surface of the sheet of material into discrete portions. A method for making an aesthetic structure such as a stained glass window is provided.

Abstract: A blank construction for a foot orthotic is formed of a first section and a second section smaller than the first section and which is joined to the first section. The first section has a shape generally the same as a bottom inside surface of a shoe. The blank construction is heat softened at a temperature between about 65.degree. C. and about 85.degree. C. at a pressure up to about 5 psig.

Abstract: A birefringent material have two major parallel surfaces and a method of making such a material, wherein the said material comprises plural identical uniaxial birefringent polymeric films, each of said uniaxial films having an optical axis, or comprising plural identical biaxial birefringent polymeric films, each of said biaxial films having an acute bisectrix of the optical axes, wherein the material is formed from a stack of said films, with the optical axes or the acute bisectrixes of the films in the stack being aligned, and wherein said stack has been cut or skived at an angle to the optical axes or the acute bisectrixes thereof, such that when incident light passes through said material in a direction perpendicular to said major surfaces of the material, the incident light having a first plane of polarization is displaced relative to the incident light having a second plane of polarization, the first and second planes of polarization being perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing reinforced twin-sheet thermoformed articles comprising the steps of heating first and second sheets of thermoplastic material; forming the sheets in molds; heating a reinforcing insert of thermoplastic material; placing the heated insert on the first sheet in its mold at the location to be reinforced; pressing the second sheet into contact with the heated first sheet and the heated insert to form the insert between the sheets so that a fusion of the thermoplastic sheets and the insert takes place to produce a reinforced section of the article having a desired shape and thickness. Alternative processes are disclosed wherein a heated quantity of thermoplastic liquid material is extruded or injected between the first and second sheets within the first and second molds either by inserting the liquid material before the molds are closed or by injecting it through one of the molds.

Abstract: A vehicle panel material comprises a mixture of recycled, reground thermo-formable material and reprocessed headliner material which includes fibrous bats with polyester fibers, glass fibers and a thermo-setting resin. The method of manufacturing such material includes the steps of shredding thermo-formable material into strips; shredding headliner material comprising thermo-formable fibrous bats, glass fibers and thermo-setting resin; mixing and carding the thermo-formable material and headliner material into a mat; heating the mat to at least partially melt the thermo-formable material; and shaping the mat into a vehicle panel.

Abstract: A hollow body with an internal supporting frame (10) which is connected to a housing (14) at at least two contact points. The housing and the supporting frame are made of synthetic resin material with the housing, which is produced by blow molding, enclosing the supporting frame.

Abstract: A blown-film textured liner having a textured surface to provide improved soil gripping properties and smooth untextured edges for improving the integrity of the joint between adjacent liner sheets. The textured liner can be used to protect soil from waste products.

Abstract: The polymer and fabric composite includes at least two polymer sheets with fabric attached covering substantially one side of the polymer sheets. In one embodiment, one of the sheets has a strip of polymer along at least one edge not backed by the fabric. This edge forms a lip that can be attached to another polymer sheet to form a strong bond between the two polymer layers. In another embodiment multiple polymer sheets are prepared with the fabric backing covering substantially one side leaving a lip of polymer for attachment along an edge of each of the polymer sheets. Additional similarly prepared polymer sheets with a polymer lip and fabric backing can be attached to manufacture the desired size of continuous composite.

Abstract: A self-contained composite roofing batten bar has a layer of adhesive material secured to the bottom or undersurface portion of a roofing batten bar or strip. The adhesive material is tacky or sticky at room temperature and preferably comprises a butyl rubber composition. In view of the inherent tackiness or stickiness of the butyl rubber adhesive composition, one surface of the adhesive material layer is inherently adhered to the bottom or undersurface portion of the roofing batten bar or strip, and the other lower or undersurface portion of the adhesive layer is covered by a releasable paper backing strip. When it is desired to use the composite batten bar in order to secure, for example, a roofing membrane to underlying roofing structure, the releasably paper backing strip is simply removed thereby exposing the lower or undersurface portion of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: The liquid-permeable composite nonwoven fabric for use in the body fluids absorptive articles such as sanitary napkins comprises a liquid-permeable nonwoven fabric made from thermoplastic synthetic fibres and a plurality of continuous filaments made from thermoplastic synthetic resin being arranged parallel to one another and bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fabric at bonding zones arranged intermittently along and longitudinally of the respective filaments so that each filament may form bulges describing circular arcs above the nonwoven fabric.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite cushioning system for protecting articles, packaged within a box, from damage while being transported in the box. The composite structure includes an expansion sheet of expanded slit sheet, in combination with a separator sheet. The expanded sheet has a slit pattern which produces open cells, preferably of a hexagonal configuration. The separator sheet precludes the nesting of legs and lands of the slit sheet with other slit sheet of the same slit pattern. A variety of combinations of separator sheets and expansion sheets can be used, such as a pair of expansion sheets with a separator sheet between the pair of expansion sheets, or two such pairs of expansion sheets, with or without a separator sheet between the pairs. The separator sheet can be unslit, or tear-perforated or slit to accommodate expansion. Where the separator sheet is slit, the slits preferably produce the same amount of expansion as produced in the expansion sheets.

Abstract: A fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin structure comprising a thermoplastic resin and reinforcing fibers, having a ratio (Lw/Ln) of the number average fiber length (Ln) to the weight average fiber length (Lw) of the uniformly dispersed reinforcing fibers of 1.1 to 5, and having a weight average fiber length of 1.0 mm to 200 mm as well as a process and extruder for the production thereof.

Abstract: The binding machine (1) using the tape employs the binding tape (6) having the bonding tape (7) coated on its rear surface with the adhesive and consists of the boring mechanism (2) for boring the aperture (h) through the papers (P) to be bound and the binding mechanism (3) which winds the bonding tape (7) around or halfway around the portion between the bored aperture (h) and the end surface (p.sub.1) of the papers (P) and so on to be bound and bonds the bonding tape (7) thereto.

Abstract: An insulating batt having two sheets of heat reflective insulating material and connecting means between and connecting sheets together in an overlapping substantially parallel relationship. The connecting means includes a plurality of bracing strips extending between and connected to each of sheets. The bracing strips enable the batt to be adjusted between a collapsed position in which the sheets are closely adjacent, and an operative position in which sheets are mutually spaced. Each bracing strip has two substantially parallel longitudinal fold lines that a bracing web is defined between lines and a respective side margin extends from the web beyond each line. The respective margin of each bracing strip is secured to each of sheets such that the bracing strip web is substantially normal to and defines the spacing between the sheets when batt is in its operative position and such that, moving the batt to its collapsed position, the webs are substantially parallel to sheets.

Abstract: A laminated glass pane having at least one rigid glass sheet and one flexible plastic material sheet is described, which has a peripheral strip disposed over at least a part of the edge of the pane over at least one edge of a flexible plastic sheet. The peripheral strip has two layers of respectively different materials, a first layer designated the "internal layer", is comprised of a material having a softening temperature which is less than or equal to the temperature employed in autoclaving the sheets which are components of the pane, and a second layer designated the "external layer", is comprised of a material having a softening temperature which is greater than the temperature employed in autoclaving the sheets.

Abstract: An antitheft label composed of a soft magnetic metal strip permanently applied to an electroconductive nonmagnetic metal member. The label is attached to an object to prevent the object from being stolen or taken without permission. An object, such as food goods, having such an antitheft label can be thawed or heated in a high-frequency heater such as a microwave oven without developing spark discharge at edges of the soft magnetic metal strip of the label, thereby preventing the occurrence of fire damage to the food product.

Abstract: Self-adhesive lidding film for packaging electronic components, whose adhesive layer is covered with a non-adhesive covering in the center, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a mixture of two acrylate adhesive compositions of different polarity, the first, highly polar component containing from 1 to 20%, in particular from 6 to 10%, especially about 8%, of acrylic acid in the monomer composition, and the other, nonpolar component containing from 5 to 50%, in particular from 10 to 30%, especially about 20%, of stearyl acrylate in the monomer composition, and where an adhesion promoter or primer is present between the adhesive layer and the film support of the lidding film.

Abstract: A composite article useful as a material of construction made of a plurality of individual pieces of corrugated cardboard cut from scrap corrugated boxes or sheets. The corrugated pieces lie in a shingle-like configuration, a bridge-like configuration, or a combination thereof and form multiple, generally planar layers of individual corrugated cardboard pieces having a length only a fraction of the full length of the article. The material of construction is particularly useful in making shipping pallets to replace wood pallets currently in use and as a substitute for wood products in general.

Abstract: A molding obtained by laminating resinous plates of 0.05 to 1 mm thick, prepared by impregnating 20% by volume or more of a reinforcing fiber with a thermoplastic resin, and molding the resultant laminate, wherein sections where deviation or deformation is caused by an external force, or preferably nonjoining parts having an area of 5 to 60% based on the area of the location where impact is absorbed, are provided between the laminated layers constituting the molding, or the laminated layer surface where the impact is absorbed is formed with a shape having a curvature of 5 to 20 mm in radius. The molding absorbs impact force significantly and prevents efficiently human body, etc. from the shock upon striking.

Abstract: An antitheft label composed of a soft magnetic metal strip permanently applied to an electroconductive nonmagnetic metal member. The label is attached to an object to prevent the object from being stolen or taken without permission. An object, such as food goods, having such an antitheft label can be thawed or heated in a high-frequency heater such as a microwave oven without developing spark discharge at edges of the soft magnetic metal strip of the label, thereby preventing the occurrence of fire damage to the food product.

Abstract: A composite roof covering securement element is comprised of an elongated rubber membrane onto which a plastic batten strip is adhesively bonded. The membrane and strip have a range of flexibility which permitts the same to be rolled into a coil for manual prepositioning on a roof and then unrolled to lie flat upon the roof for attachment along the perimeter. When installed the composite element resists shear loads and securely retains the overlying roof covering in place.

Abstract: A blade member, mountable onto an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, such as copier, printer, facsimile, word processor, and the like, for removing residual matter from an electrophotographic photosensitive member, includes an elastic blade one side surface of which is flat in a longitudinal direction thereof and the other side surface of which has a vertical portion perpendicular to an end surface of the elastic blade, and an inclined portion inclined with respect to the vertical portion, the inclined portion having a larger thickness than the vertical portion, and a support member for supporting the elastic blade. A thickness (f) of a portion of the elastic blade, which is engaged by the support member at a side of the one side surface, is greater than a thickness (g) of a portion of the elastic blade which is engaged by the support member at a side of the other side surface.

Abstract: A laminated body panel for aircraft applications comprises first and second metal layers and an adhesive layer. First and second sections in each metal layer are generally coplanar and separated by a splice line. A first splice line in a first metal layer is generally parallel to a second splice line in a second metal layer, and spaced laterally from the second splice line. An adhesive layer between the metal layers preferably contains reinforcing fibers bridging across the splice lines. An aircraft fuselage or wing or empennage made with spliced body panels of the invention has fewer joints and weighs less than one made with narrower body panels containing unspliced metal layers.

Abstract: A safety net attached to the doors at a pumping station to cover the open well when the doors are open. The safety net has a plurality of strips in a first direction and a substantially perpendicular plurality of strips in a second direction. The strips are connected where there are intersections. The edges of the strips have attachment means for connection to the doors, or alternately for connection to the frame about the top of the well. When the doors are opened, the safety net is in place and when the doors are closed, the safety net is suspended in the open well. The safety net may also be connected to a single door for those wells which have only a single door as a cover.

Abstract: An improved method for producing a multi-colored emblem which may be bonded to a fabric is disclosed which provides an emblem with an embroidered appearance. The emblem is easily heat sealable onto difficult to adhere fabrics. The method generally involves providing a first woven material blank, providing a barrier layer of thermoplastic material, laminating the barrier layer onto one side of said material blank to form an assembly, cutting said assembly to a specific configuration, sewing a thread about the periphery of the cut assembly, and laminating said assembly onto a second woven material blank having a different color. This second assembly is again cut to a complimentary larger configuration and also provided with a thread about the periphery. The two material blanks are then heat sealed together and an adhesive layer is provided to the exposed barrier layer.

Abstract: A lap seal packaging band for wrapping or bundling objects. The band is formed from two overlying strips at least one of which is a non-woven material. The strips may be unequal or equal in length and at least one end of one strip is exposed. One or both of the strips are coated with a water borne pressure sensitive adhesive or both strips are coated with a water borne pressure sensitive cohesive. The exposed end or ends are bonded after coiling to form a band. The band may be readily opened by manually transversely tearing or by manually peeling the sealed end or ends. The strips of substrate may be of different materials and the water borne bonding agents may be different to achieve different properties in the resulting band. The coatings may be curable by air drying, heat drying or chemical content to vary the bonding properties of the coatings.

Abstract: A tubular electrical shielding sheath has inner and outer flexible electrically insulating sheets and an electrically conductive sheet shield sandwiched therebetween. An edge of the conductive shield is folded over the adjacent edge of the inner sheet and brought into electrical contact with the other edge of the shield. One edge of the outer sheet overlaps the other edge of the outer sheet and is adhesively bonded thereto, and one edge of the inner sheet overlaps the other edge of the inner sheet and is adhesively bonded thereto.

Abstract: An ornamental panel for automobiles has a synthetic resin cover. An attaching base is molded separately from the cover and disposed opposite a rear surface of the cover. The cover is molded of a translucent material. The cover has its outer surface made smooth and its inner surface formed with a fine rugged pattern such as crimps. The base has a surface with a rugged pattern of a dimension larger than a dimension of the crimps of the cover. The pattern of the base may be hemispheric concave fisheyes which are two-dimensionally arranged side by side, for example. A metallic film is coated on the pattern of the base.

Abstract: An elongated composite tape structure including an elongated carrier, and a plurality of sinterable, thermally fusible tape strips of different characteristics disposed on the elongated carrier. Also disclosed is a reel-to-reel process wherein the composite tape structure as stored on a reel is incrementally processed by longitudinally feeding the tape structure through one or more processing stations at each of which the tape is driven in an indexed manner so that predetermined portions of the tape are processed at each station for substantially the length of the tape structure.

Abstract: A composite roof covering securement element is comprised of an elongated rubber membrane onto which a plastic batten strip is adhesively bonded. The membrane and strip have a range of flexibility which permits the same to be rolled into a coil for manual prepositioning on a roof and then unrolled to lie flat upon the roof for attachment along the perimeter. When installed the composite element resists shear loads and securely retains the overlying roof covering in place.

Abstract: In the packaging of foodstuffs in flexible tubular sheaths made of plastic, natural guts or netting and closed by closing staples by means of closing machines, it is often desired to include in the closing staple a tag, which bears the inscription required for the package. Besides, such a tag is required to be able to be provided with a sufficient inscription and should have a portion which can be gripped by the closing staple. For that purpose a tag strip 1 is provided, which for its feeding is centrally provided with a continuous perforation line in the feeding direction and which between the tags 5 has a sufficiently long portion 4 which is narrower to such an extent that said portion when it has been severed from the preceding tag can be engaged and embraced by the closing staple 7.