Sheet, Web, Or Layer Weakened To Permit Separation Through Thickness Patents (Class 428/43)
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Patent number: 7059792Abstract: A web of print media dispensable as individual sheets along lines of perforation includes a pattern of ties and slits that provide a more predictable resistance to manually separating the sheets from the web. The lines of perforation extend transversely with respect to a longitudinal dimension of the web and cross a longitudinal centerline between two edges of the web. The ties are weaker near the centerline of the web than near either of the two edges sufficient to relatively increase resistance to tearing along the lines of perforation starting near either of the two edges while relatively decreasing resistance to tearing along the same lines of perforation starting near the centerline of the web.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Translucent Technologies, LLCInventor: Chauncey T. Mitchell, Jr.
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Patent number: 7045186Abstract: Radio frequency identification labels are made in a high speed and effective manner in a variety of different ways utilizing a number of different sources of RFID inlets, each inlet including an antenna and a chip. A plurality of webs are matched together and RFID labels are die cut from the webs, to produce lined RFID labels. Alternatively linerless RFID labels are produced from a composite web with a release material on one face and pressure sensitive adhesive on the other, the labels formed by perforations in the web.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2002Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Moore North America, Inc.Inventors: Robert E. Grabau, Nancy G. Mitchell, Thomas P. Nash, Eric V. Palmer, Adele C. Shipston, John R. Soltysiak
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Patent number: 7045204Abstract: The present invention provides a fragrant ornament that releases fragrance only when people who use the ornament change the shape of the ornament by pulling, kneading and squashing. Also, the present invention comprises a fragrant ornament having a fragrance container, which is made of elastic material and has fragrance release pores that completely or approximately hold the aromatic substance inside and generally release fragrance when the shape of the fragrance container is changed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: E-Anthree Systems Inc.Inventor: Yasushi Enguchi
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Patent number: 7045192Abstract: A shapeable, weather-resistant anti-slip panel has a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on a rigid substrate and a pattern of cuttable lines; this enables the panel to be shaped by cutting the substrate along selected lines and overcomes the problem with known weather resistant anti-slip panels that the anti-slip coating particles, being very hard, make the anti-slip coating very difficult to cut or drill, as the coating readily and speedily blunts cutting tools.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Wayne Morgan John, Neil Kettlewell, Catherine Janet Ripley
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Patent number: 7041353Abstract: An insulation package contains a plurality of unfaced or faced, uncut and pre-cut fibrous insulation batts of a pre-selected width enveloped within a covering in a compressed condition. Each of the pre-cut fibrous insulation batts has a plurality of longitudinally extending batt sections separably joined to adjacent batt sections by separable connectors. The separable connectors hold the pre-cut fibrous insulation batt together for handling but can be separated along the lengths of the batt sections by hand to separate adjacent batt sections. Preferably, between 20% and 70% of the fibrous insulation batts in each of the insulation packages are pre-cut fibrous insulation batts.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: John Brooks Smith, Blake Boyd Bogrett, Dennis Robert Larratt, Larry J. Weinstein, Robert J. Allwein
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Patent number: 7037564Abstract: A composite assembly for assembling documents and including a substrate sheet, and adhesive layer, and a release liner disposed over the adhesive layer. To assemble a document, the pages of the document are printed on the substrate sheets, the substrate sheets are ordered and aligned, the release liners are removed by the a portion of the release liner overlaying a removed tab being grasped and pulled to peel the release liners from the adhesive layers, and the pages are bonded together by pressure.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Inventor: Elijah Abron
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Patent number: 7033095Abstract: Disclosed herein is printing paper containing a center portion having a curved edge connecting adjacent sides to each other at four corners and outside portions connected to the center portion at at least one straight line portion of said sides, wherein the center portion and the outside portions are connected to each other through a structure by which the printing paper can be cut.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshinobu Shiraiwa
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Patent number: 7033657Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible magnetic wafer seal for adhesive attachment to folded pieces, such as brochures, folded cards, self-mailers and postal mailers, which are generally made of card stock. One or more flexible magnetic wafer seals may be adhesively attached to the open edges of a folded piece to secure the open edges together, for example, as required during the mailing process. The magnetic wafer seal can then be broken, preferably along at least one line of weakness, allowing the piece to be unfolded and converting the magnetic wafer seal into at least two magnetic holders for securing a piece to a metal surface. The unfolded piece can then be secured to a metallic surface by placing the side of the piece with the magnetic holders against the metallic surface, thereby allowing the magnetic holders to engage the metal surface, holding the piece in place.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Crane Productions, Inc.Inventor: John J. Martin
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Patent number: 7029740Abstract: The present invention relates to a layered magnetic wafer seal for adhesive attachment to folded pieces, such as brochures, folded cards, self-mailers and postal mailers, which are generally made of card stock. One or more layered magnetic wafer seals may be adhesively attached to the open edges of a folded piece to secure the open edges together, for example, as required during the mailing process. The layered magnetic wafer seal can then be broken, preferably along at least one line of weakness, allowing the piece to be unfolded and converting the layered magnetic wafer seal into at least two magnetic holders for securing a piece to a metal surface. The unfolded piece can then be secured to a metallic surface by placing the side of the piece with the magnetic holders against the metallic surface, thereby allowing the magnetic holders to engage the metal surface, holding the piece in place.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Crane Productions, Inc.Inventor: John J. Martin
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Patent number: 7029739Abstract: An elongated fibrous insulation blanket is pre-cut for custom fitting the insulation blanket into wall, floor, ceiling and roof cavities of different widths formed by the framework of a building. The blanket has at least one, preferably two or three, series of cuts extending between major surfaces of the blanket with successive cuts of each series of cuts being separated by a series of separable connectors located intermediate the major surfaces of the blanket. Each series of separable connectors hold together adjacent sections of the blanket for handling, but are separable by hand so that the blanket can be handled as a unit for insulating a cavity having a predetermined width or easily separated by hand into two or more sections at one or more of the series of separable connectors for insulating a cavity having a lesser width.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Johns ManvilleInventors: Larry J. Weinstein, Robert J. Allwein
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Patent number: 7014208Abstract: An overmolded interior vehicle trim panel includes a substrate having a front face and an under face. The under face has a tear seam integrally molded therein to allow an airbag to exit the substrate when the airbag is deployed. The tear seam defines an airbag door. An outer layer is bonded to the front face of the substrate in a mold, thereby forming an overmolded interior vehicle trim panel. The trim panel can include a sheet of hinge material attached to one of the substrate and the outer layer of the overmolded interior trim panel. A portion of the sheet of hinge material defines a hinge member.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2003Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Todd DePue, Robert J. Adams, Michael J. Hier, Glenn A. Cowelchuk
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Patent number: 6994899Abstract: A curl resistant single substrate label sheet, and in-line high speed method for making same, for use with conventional printers, including at least one body portion, at least one label portion, and at least one release liner portion, all of which are made of a common substrate permitting the use of the label sheet with conventional printers including off the shelf laser printers, including duplex printers. The label portion may include multiple individual labels that may extend all the way to the edges of the label sheet. The label sheet may contain printed indicia on all portions of the label sheet and permit the end user to print on all exposed surfaces. The label sheet may include at least one score across the grain of the substrate to increase the rigidity of the label and further prevent curling.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2003Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: The Cyril-Scott CompanyInventors: Leslie E. McClelland, Chad Stephenson
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Patent number: 6991261Abstract: Labels having a permanent section and at least one removable coupon section are made from polymeric sheets or rolls suitable for printing and forming, at high rates of production, blown or injection in-mold labeled plastic containers are based on a polymeric white opaque, transparent, translucent or contact clear substrate monoaxially oriented and having a thickness in the range of 0.002 to 0.008 inches. The polymer film is reverse pattern-printed with an abhesive coextensive with the detachable portion then overcoated on the container-facing side with a continuous coating of heat activatable adhesive. Such sheet or roll can be printed and then cut into individual labels for affixing to the container as part of a in-molding process. Recyclable containers are provided at high speed without missing labels or doubled labels due to feeding problems.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Multi-Color CorporationInventors: Peter J. Dronzek, Jr., Wallace J. Zychowski, Jeffrey P. Bau
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Patent number: 6991521Abstract: The circumferential edges of glass or ceramic disks used in disk drive data storage devices are preferably finished by ductile grinding to produce an essentially fracture-free surface, which is not chemically strengthened. Preferably, the material is glass, and both the inner and outer edges of the disk are finished. Edge finishing is preferably achieved in a two-stage process, involving a coarse grind and a ductile grind, using air bearing spindles rotated at high speed for grinding wheels and workpiece. Preferably, the grinding wheels are shaped to provide a radius at the juncture of the circumferential edges and flat disk surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2005Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: James A. Hagan, Bruce Peter Kruger, David C. Paurus, Thomas E. Priebe
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Patent number: 6991840Abstract: The invention relates to a group of wipes. The group of wipes includes at least three wipes separably joined together, each wipe separable joined to each adjacent wipe by a weakened line. Each weakened line includes a plurality of first-type weakened zones and at least one second-type weakened zone. The second-type weakened zone has a length that is at least 1.5 times a length of the first-type weakened zone and the second-type weakened zone is randomly positioned along the weakened line such that no two consecutive weakened lines have the second-type weakened zone in the same position relative to opposite ends of consecutive weakened lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Gerald Keith Sosalla
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Patent number: 6991259Abstract: The present invention is a business form with an integrated card. The form comprises a base paper layer having top and bottom surfaces and a periphery, a primary film layer having top and bottom surfaces and a periphery, a breakaway layer coated on the top surface within the periphery of the primary film layer, and an adhesive layer wherein the breakaway layer is adhesively secured to the bottom of the secondary film layer, at least one die cut through the top and bottom surfaces within the periphery of the form layer, through the adhesive layer, and through the breakaway layer. The die cut base paper layer, adhesive layer and breakaway layer comprise an information card wherein the breakaway layer has a greater affinity for the adhesive layer than the top surface of the primary film layer such that when the information card is removed from the form, the breakaway layer stays adhered to the bottom surface of the base paper layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Strata-Tac, Inc.Inventors: Andrew M. Schwarzbauer, Charles L. Casgrande
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Patent number: 6991838Abstract: The use of a double sided adhesive tape for sealing and opening cartons or cartonlike packages, at least one of the two films of adhesive of the double sided adhesive tape being present applied in the lengthwise direction of the carrier material in the form of a strip which is present at least partially and which is narrower than the carrier material of the adhesive tape, the bonding of the adhesive tape between the two plies or flaps of the carton or of the cartonlike packages taking place in such a way that the part of the carrier material not covered by the film of adhesive is likewise situated between the two plies or flaps.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: tesa AGInventors: Michael Schwertfeger, Olaf Görbig
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Patent number: 6991839Abstract: A generally planar laminate used in forming a personalized presentation folder is provided. The laminate includes one or more patterns of adhesive and one or more die cuts or lines of weakness so as to be able to create one or more pockets and other variable configurations for an individual folder. The laminate of the present invention can be processed through a non-impact printer and may be selectively configured or tailored to meet the needs of the individual user or recipient.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2004Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Ward/Kraft, Inc.Inventor: Michael C. Maier
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Patent number: 6989184Abstract: An extruded polymeric void-board is configured for placement between adjacent horizontal layers of bricks to maintain an opening in a lower layer of the bricks. The void-board is formed as a relatively thin planar element having first and second surfaces. A plurality of parallel ribs extend from and generally transverse to the first side. The ribs have a predetermined height to width ratio and have a height that is less than a thickness of the planar element. The ribs being formed parallel to one another. A method for forming a bundle of bricks with the void-board is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2004Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.Inventors: David J. Duke, William J. Williams, John M. Kruelle, Tilak R. Varma
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Patent number: 6989183Abstract: A form that incorporates either a label or card such that the form can be reliably printed on by the end user and manufactured less expensively. The integrated label form includes a top printable substrate and a liner substrate mated together by an adhesive. The top printable substrate serves at least partially as removable portions capable of being reapplied. Weakened lines of substrate may be provided to define removable portions on the top printable substrate. The form also may include a similar printable substrate mated to the other side of the liner by adhesive. Weakened lines of substrate also may formed in the second substrate to define removable portions. The integrated card form includes a printable substrate and a first and second laminate mated to the substrate and together by an adhesive. Weakened lines of substrate and first laminate define an integrated removable portion capable of being held in the form by the second laminate and easily removed manually when desired.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Malessa Partners, L.L.C.Inventor: John J. McKillip
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Patent number: 6984083Abstract: A die cut printed blank (10) providing a bisectional, continuous printed surface (24) defined by non-magnetic and magnetic sheets (12,14) joined with an adhesion seam (36) is disclosed. The blank (10) broadly includes a printable sheet (12), a magnetic sheet (14) coupled to the printable sheet (12), a coating carrier (16) applied to the magnetic sheet (14), and a plurality of die cuts (18) in the magnetic sheet (14). The coating carrier (16) is a thin solid liner having a relatively low coefficient of friction that is formed by applying a curable liquid to the rear face (34b) of the magnetic layer (34) and then UV curing the liquid to form the solid liner (16). The coating carrier (16) retains the magnetic sheet (14) together after the sheet (14) has been die cut and enables the sheet (14) to be easily and quickly removed from a stack of other similar magnetic sheets without inhibiting the desired magnetic properties of the finished printed blank (10).Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Ward-Kraft, Inc.Inventor: Jesse D. Crum
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Patent number: 6967046Abstract: An adhesive-based sticker for adhering to a surface and incorporating a pocket between the surface and the sticker for insertion of objects into the pocket and removal therefrom. A sticker substrate is provided with a first section and a flap section with a fold line therebetween. An adhesive is provided on at least a portion of the back surface, and upon folding the flap section at the fold line, the back surface of the flap section is adhered to a portion of the back surface of the first section. When the sticker substrate is applied to a mounting surface, a pocket is formed between the sticker substrate and the mounting surface in registry with at least the portion of the flap section adhered to the first section. The pocket so formed may be bound around the entire perimeter excluding the fold line or may be a through-pocket.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2003Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Inventors: Marilyn Bollinger, Howard Bollinger
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Patent number: 6959832Abstract: A lid member for a food container having a layered structure in which a surface sheet is laid on a composite sheet, said surface sheet including an easily-peelable area that is easily separated from the composite sheet, formed by applying a lubricant between the surface sheet and the composite sheet, said surface sheet including a non-peelable area adjacent to said easily-peelable area; a first slit cut vertical-sectionally through the composite sheet, said first slit defining one or more apertures in said lid to form an opening area in said composite sheet; a second slit in said surface sheet defining a boundary between the easily-peelable area and said non-peelable area of said surface sheet; and said surface sheet being adhered to said composite sheet at said composite sheet opening area over an area that is smaller than said composite sheet opening area.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1999Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Nissin Shokuhin Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoshi Sawada, Mitsuo Yoshimura, Hirofumi Kawai, Takashi Takagi, Yuko Zenpuku
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Patent number: 6958179Abstract: The present invention provides a new sheeting article that may suitably include: a carrier having a first major surface and a second major surface; and a plurality of discrete segments of a sheeting (e.g., a retroreflective sheeting), wherein the sheeting has a first major viewing surface and a second major opposing surface, and the first major viewing surface of the sheeting is preferably removably attached to the second major surface of the carrier. Preferably, the first major surface of the carrier comprises a release surface, the second major opposing surface of the sheeting comprises an adhesive, the article is provided in the form of a roll, and the adhesive surface of the sheeting is adjacent the release surface of an adjacent layer of the roll. In a presently preferred embodiment the present invention provides novel easy-to-use truck conspicuity sheeting.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2000Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Eugene H. Carlson, James C. Coderre, Christopher L. Harvey, James E. Lasch, David W. Meitz, Colleen C. Nagel
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Patent number: 6955843Abstract: A label assembly including a face sheet having a removable label portion and a layer of adhesive adhered to the face sheet. A back sheet includes a removable first portion generally coextensive with the label portion of the face sheet so that when the first portion is removed from the label assembly, a remaining portion of the back sheet is attached to the label portion of the face sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Thomas E. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn
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Patent number: 6951677Abstract: A laminate with a peelable top layer is provided. The laminate comprises a substrate such as a porous board, the top layer such as a plastic top layer or a decorated metal plate, and a bonding layer between the top layer and the substrate. At least one of the substrate and the top layer is porous. An adhesive for forming the bonding layer comprises (A) an aqueous dispersion containing a polymer, which demonstrates properties that a dried film of the aqueous dispersion has a tensile strength of 1 to 28 MPa and a percentage elongation of 100 to 2000%, and (B) a water-based adhesive composition containing microspheres with thermal expansion capability, each of which is composed of a polymer shell encapsulating a gas. By use of this adhesive, the bonding layer provides a high bonding strength between the top layer and the substrate. When irradiating the laminate with ultraviolet or far infrared, while heating, the top layer can be easily peeled off from the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignees: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Konishi Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Sumiya Shimotsuma, Shinichiro Matsushita, Keiichi Hamada
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Patent number: 6951301Abstract: A combination closure tape and tear strip, an object comprising the combination closure tape and tear strip, and a method of sealing and later opening said object utilizing the combination closure tape and tear strip are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: tesa AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ronald Edmund Miaskiewicz, Jr., Raja Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 6946044Abstract: A plastic tube is prefabricated for producing gas-filled filling bodies. The tube comprises an upper film and a lower film which are connected together in superposed relationship along both of their longitudinal edges. The upper film is divided in its center by a longitudinal cut, thus forming upstanding flaps on both sides of the cut. The films are also subdivided into individual pockets by weld seams extending in the transverse direction of the tube at a spacing from each other. The tube can be filled by introducing a filling gas under the film flaps, the open ends of the pockets being closed after they have been inflated in that way.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Inventor: Johannes Lörsch
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Patent number: 6939594Abstract: A self-adhesive label carried on a backing of release material comprising a multilaminar label portion having a front cover panel having an end, the multilaminar label portion having a first part, and a second part comprising the end of the front cover panel, and a self-adhesive support piece upon which the multilaminar label portion is disposed, the, support piece comprising first and second portions which are spaced apart to define a gap therebetween and at least one connecting portion extending across the gap and integrally connecting the first and second portions together, the first and second parts of the multilaminar label portion being respectively adhered to the first and second portions of the support piece, and the self-adhesive surface of the support piece being adhered to a backing of release liner.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Inprint Systems, Inc.Inventor: David R. Barry
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Patent number: 6936553Abstract: A wrap for wrapping elongate product, especially cable harnesses, with a preferably textile sheath, wherein there is a self-adhesive tape present on at least one edge region of the sheath that is narrow in comparison to the width of the sheath, said tape being adhered on the sheath in such a way that it extends over one of the longitudinal edges of the sheath, the textile sheath and the adhesive tape having one or more weakening lines substantially at right angles to the running direction, so that the wrap is relatively easy to tear by hand.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: tesa AktiengesellschaftInventor: Matthias Von Samson-Himmelstjerna
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Patent number: 6935080Abstract: An elongated fibrous insulation blanket is pre-cut for custom fitting the insulation blanket into wall, floor, ceiling and roof cavities of different widths formed by the framework of a building. The blanket has one or more cuts extending for the length of the blanket which separate the blanket into two or more longitudinally extending sections. Adjacent sections of the blanket are joined together along the cut(s) by separable adhesive connectors which hold together the sections of the blanket for handling, but are separable by hand along the cut(s) so that the blanket can be handled as a unit for insulating a cavity having a predetermined width or easily separated by hand into two or more sections at a cut for insulating a cavity having a lesser width. The pre-cut insulation blanket may have a facing sheet, overlaying and bonded to a major surface of the blanket, that is separable by hand along the cut(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2001Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Allwein, Larry J. Weinstein
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Patent number: 6933030Abstract: A continuous web of flexible plastic strips, for use in a flexible strip door system, the continuous web of flexible plastic strips having uninterrupted cuts, of a depth less than the thickness of the web, arranged along lines which are perpendicular to the longitudinal edges of the web. Remaining material of the web, which is located below each cut, provides sufficient strength along the length of the web to prevent severing during routine handling, but allows for manual tearing of the web along the cuts when the web is subjected to opposing forces perpendicular to upper and lower faces of the web on either side of the cut.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: TMI IncorporatedInventor: Richard Michael Paterni
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Patent number: 6929838Abstract: An apparatus and process for making sheets having indicia spaced in a machine direction. Between or among the indicia are perforations or chop-off cuts. The spacing, in the machine direction, between the indicia and perforations or chop-off cuts is maintained over long sheet lengths. The product produced using this apparatus and process is typically paper, and particularly can be used for paper towels or placemats.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1997Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Kevin Benson McNeil
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Patent number: 6929839Abstract: An elongated fibrous insulation blanket is pre-cut for custom fitting the insulation blanket into wall, floor, ceiling and roof cavities of different widths formed by the framework of a building. The blanket has at least one, preferably two or three, series of cuts extending between major surfaces of the blanket with successive cuts of each series of cuts being separated by a series of separable connectors located intermediate the major surfaces of the blanket. Each series of separable connectors hold together adjacent sections of the blanket for handling, but are separable by hand so that the blanket can be handled as a unit for insulating a cavity having a predetermined width or easily separated by hand into two or more sections at one or more of the series of separable connectors for insulating a cavity having a lesser width.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Larry J. Weinstein, Robert J. Allwein
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Patent number: 6929843Abstract: A tape barrier consisting of flexible material, has generally parallel edges and substantially greater length than width. Cuts are made into the tape at intervals along the tape forming slits that define cross members that extend generally along the length of the tape. The slits may be completed cuts so that the cross members are free to fall away from the tape or perforations that enable the cross members to be separated from the tape by tearing along the perforations. When the tape is deployed generally horizontally, the cross members will fall vertically so as to provide cross members along the length of the resulting tape structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Inventor: David M. Kuchar
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Patent number: 6926942Abstract: Label sheets are formed from a continuous web of laminated stock material comprising a face stock layer and a liner layer secured together by an adhesive layer. The stock material is delaminated and an adhesive deactivating material is applied to the adhesive layer in longitudinal strips to create active and inactive adhesive portions. Label sheets are formed by cutting the web of stock material transversely. Individual labels are formed on the label sheets by kiss-cutting the face stock layer. Each individual label includes an attachment end with active adhesive and a free/unattached end with inactive adhesive. A method of manufacturing partially-secured labels includes the steps of delaminating a stock material, deactivating strips of an adhesive layer, and relaminating the stock material. The method also includes the steps of cutting the stock material into individual label sheets and kiss-cutting the label sheets to form individual, partially-secured labels.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Graphic Technology, Inc.Inventors: James E. Garvic, Mike H. Wilkinson
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Patent number: 6925765Abstract: A faced insulation assembly has a facing sheet with a central field portion that overlays and is bonded to a major surface of the insulation layer. The sheet has two lateral tabs that are joined to the central field portion of the sheet along fold lines. The tabs are folded back to overlay the central field portion of sheet. The fold lines may include score lines or weld lines to help maintain the tabs in the folded position for handling. The tabs have tab strips bonded thereto that may be bonded to the tabs by a pressure sensitive adhesive whereby the tabs may be left in the folded position, unfolded for stapling to framing members, or have the tab strips removed for bonding to framing members either in a folded or an unfolded position.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, John Brooks Smith, Angela Robin Bratsch
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Patent number: 6908113Abstract: A tamper-evident label suitable for placement onto a container and cap assembly. The label may be characterized as a planar sheet having a tear strip that divides upper and lower panels. The lower panel of the label attaches to the container, while the upper panel, defined by at least one tab, and preferably two tabs, is attached to the cap. To open the container and cap assembly, the tear strip is pulled across the label to separate the two panels of the label. Thereafter, the cap may be removed from the container to reveal the contents of the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Laboratories Merck Sharp and Dohme-Chibret, SNCInventors: Alain Chaduc, Olivier Naudan
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Patent number: 6908654Abstract: A laminate with a peelable top layer is provided. The laminate comprises a substrate such as a porous board, the top layer such as a plastic top layer or a decorated metal plate, and a bonding layer between the top layer and the substrate. At least one of the substrate and the top layer is porous. An adhesive for forming the bonding layer comprises (A) an aqueous dispersion containing a polymer, which demonstrates properties that a dried film of the aqueous dispersion has a tensile strength of 1 to 28 MPa and a percentage elongation of 100 to 2000%, and (B) a water-based adhesive composition containing microspheres with thermal expansion capability, each of which is composed of a polymer shell encapsulating a gas. By use of this adhesive, the bonding layer provides a high bonding strength between the top layer and the substrate. When irradiating the laminate with ultraviolet or far infrared, while heating, the top layer can be easily peeled off from the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2001Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignees: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Konishi Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Sumiya Shimotsuma, Shinichiro Matsushita, Keiichi Hamada
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Patent number: 6905746Abstract: A substantially planar packaging device including printed indicia and defining a closed cavity being suitable for containing at least one product. The substantially planar packaging device including a first sheet forming the closed cavity, and a second sheet at least partially detachably coupled to the first sheet to allow the second sheet to be at least partially detached from the first sheet to view at least a portion of the indicia and reattached to the first sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: National Label CompanyInventor: Neil G. Sellars
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Patent number: 6905748Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of fan folded material and related systems and processes. The stack includes at least two clips of fan folded material. Each clip includes a plurality of fan folded sheets, with each sheet joined to at least one adjacent sheet by a weakened line. Each clip is joined to an adjacent clip by a last sheet of one clip being separably joined to a first sheet of a succeeding clip.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Gerald Keith Sosalla
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Patent number: 6902784Abstract: Disclosed is a pressure sensitive adhesive insulation structure for joining two adjacent insulation structures. The pressure sensitive insulation comprises a carrier having a first side and second side. A pressure sensitive adhesive is in communication with the first side and in communication with the second side for adhering an insulation structure, such as those used to insulate piping.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Armacell Enterprise GmbHInventors: Charles M. Princell, Kartik A. Patel, Holger Wilhelm Johann
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Patent number: 6901711Abstract: The facing of a faced insulation layer has Z-folded, double-folded, or single-folded lateral tabs extending the length of the facing sheet along or spaced inwardly from lateral edges of the facing sheet. Each lateral tab has multiple segments. One of the segments of each lateral tab has an adhesive thereon that can be exposed and extended beyond one of the lateral edges of the insulation layer for bonding the faced insulation layer to a framing member. Where the blanket is separable into sections, the facing has pairs of separable tabs that separate when the blanket is separated to expose surfaces of the separable tabs with adhesive thereon. The adhesive may be microencapsulated or have microencapsulated constituent(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, John Brooks Smith, William David Blalock, Blake Boyd Bogrett, Timothy G. Swales
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Patent number: 6899933Abstract: A splicing tape (100) is provided having a base layer (10), an adhesive layer (20) on the top of the base layer (10), a first adhesive strip (30a) and a second adhesive strip (30b) on the bottom of the base layer (10), and a two lines of separating portions (50a and 50b) in the base layer (10). A splicing tape (100a) is also provided having a base layer (10a), a top adhesive (20a) on the top of the base layer (10) with detackified portions (14a and 15a), and a bottom adhesive (30c) on the bottom of the base layer (10a) with a detackified portion (23a), and first and second lines of separating portions (50a and 50b) in the base layer (10a). The line of separating portions (50a or 50b) can include perforations having a ratio of perforation length to space between perforations between a ratio of 4 to 6 and a ratio of 9 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignees: Permacel, Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Jason A. Bean, Koichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 6893697Abstract: A pre-cut sheeting of durable yet foldable plastic of substantially 4-6 mil thickness with a length of adhesion tape secured along the perimeter of its backing surface adjacent its outer edges, and a protective cover strip overlying the tape so as to be peelable therefrom at the time of intended use, employable in sealing out “bad air” from a room in the event of a chemical or biological attack.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Inventor: Mark C. Arthur
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Patent number: 6890112Abstract: There is disclosed a linerless label web roll wherein the label web has a patterned coating of pressure sensitive adhesive on its underside between marginal side edges and at marginal side edges of the label web. The adhesive is provided in longitudinally extending laterally spaced stripes of adhesive with intervening adhesive-free zones. The label web can be supported and/or guided by support or guide elements which contact the adhesive-free zones in a suitable utilization device such as a printer or label applicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Paxar Americas, Inc.Inventor: James Richard Kline
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Patent number: 6887553Abstract: A roll of masking material comprising a coiled elongate thin flexible sheet, which sheet has longitudinal folds defining, in some embodiments with elongate edges of the sheet, edges of longitudinally extending portions of said sheet. Those longitudinally extending portions of the sheet include pleat-like portions of the sheet each having opposite major surfaces generally parallel with the axis of the roll, which pleat-like portions are superimposed major surfaces to major surfaces to form a laminate with outermost ones of the superimposed pleat like portions defining the opposite outer surfaces of the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1999Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Robert H. Heil, James F. Pitzen, Jeffrey J. Schwab
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Patent number: 6881461Abstract: A label assembly for a CD includes a face sheet having a generally circular label portion removable with respect to a carrier portion of the face sheet and at least one index hole positioned in the face sheet, the at least one index hole mateable with an applicator apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Thomas E. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn
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Patent number: RE38976Abstract: A business form is provided which is particularly useful in shipping products where certain preprinted information can be provided and then individualized information is printed before the form is applied to a substrate. The form includes a face ply which has a pattern of adhesive applied to at least a portion of the inner face, and a release liner which includes a pattern of adhesive which exposes a portion of the release liner to direct adhesive contact to the face ply without intervening release coating to permanently adhere a part of the release liner to the face ply. The release liner has a surrounding protective border provided with release coating on the release face thereof and which is removed prior to application to the substrate, and a slip which remains with the form as applied to the substrate. The face ply includes lines of perforation defining a central portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Ward-Kraft, Inc.Inventor: Bruce Raming
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Patent number: RE39100Abstract: A business form is provided which is particularly useful in shipping products where certain preprinted information can be provided and then individualized information is printed before the form is applied to a substrate. The form includes a face ply which has a pattern of adhesive applied to at least a portion of the inner face, and a release liner which includes a pattern of adhesive which exposes a portion of the release liner to direct adhesive contact to the face ply without intervening release coating to permanently adhere a part of the release liner to the face ply. The release liner has a surrounding protective border provided with release coating on the release face thereof and which is removed prior to application to the substrate, and a slip which remains with the form as applied to the substrate. The face ply includes lines of perforation defining a central portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Ward/Kraft, Inc.Inventor: Bruce Raming