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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7127407 | Method of grouping and analyzing clinical risks, and system therefor A comprehensive set of risk groups explicitly identifies groups of individuals with multiple interacting co-morbid conditions, and which explicitly identifies the severity of illness level. This allows accurate prediction of future health care resource needs of an e... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6855386 | Wet surface adhesives A wet stick pressure sensitive adhesive comprising the solventless polymerization product of: a) about 30 to about 70 parts by weight of an (meth)acrylate ester monomer wherein the (meth)acrylate ester monomer, when homopolymerized, has a Tg of less than about 10° ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6846893 | Polymer mixtures containing polydiorganosiloxane urea-containing components A mixture is provided comprising (a) at least one of an elastomeric thermoplastic, a non-elastomeric thermoplastic, an elastomeric thermoset and mixtures thereof, excluding polydiorganosiloxane fluids and (b) a polymer having soft polydiorganosiloxane units, hard po... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6797375 | Oriented polypropylene films for adhesive tape An adhesive tape comprising a backing and a layer of adhesive on the backing. The backing comprises a biaxially oriented substrate which comprises an isotactic polypropylene composition. The tapes and backings of this invention can be severed readily using commercia... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6773539 | Method for adhering linerless repositionable sheets onto articles A method for sequentially and precisely registering cut sheets for application onto advertising signatures at high speeds employs an initial roll of sheeting material. The sheeting material is unwound to track a process path, where eyemarks on the sheeting material ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6749084 | Plate spring for pop-up sheet material dispenser A package for dispensing sheet material from a stack includes a novel biasing device for urging the stack of sheet material toward an opening in one side of the package. The biasing device is comprised of a flat sheet of material sized and shaped to be located withi... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6740379 | Adhesive tape for adhering inserts to a page of a magazine The present invention provides an adhesive tape for laminating a first substrate to a second substrate, wherein the adhesive tape includes a carrier having on a first major surface a first adhesive layer and having on a second major surface opposite to the first maj... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6688488 | Blister spring for pop-up sheet material dispenser A package for dispensing individual sheets of material from a stack includes a base and a compartment with side walls connected to the base and a cover connected to the side walls for holding the stack of sheet material. The cover includes an opening that... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6677007 | Image receptor medium and method of making and using same An image receptor medium is disclosed as having a non-porous base medium and an imaging layer. The imaging layer includes a solvent-soluble multivalent cationic salt coated from an organic solvent. A water-insoluble binder holds the imaging layer together... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6669992 | Stack of sheets with repositionable adhesive alternating between opposite edges and containing one of more sheets different from other sheets The present invention provides a stack of flexible sheet material (200) comprising a plurality of sheets (201) disposed one on top of another, each sheet having repositionable adhesive (202) along one edge and being free of adhesive along the opposite edg... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6664359 | Tackified polydiorganosiloxane polyurea segmented copolymers and a process for making same A tackified composition comprising (a) a polydiorgannosiloxane polyurea segmented copolymer comprising the reaction product of (i) at least one polyaminie, wherein the polyamine comprises at least one polydiorganosiloxane diamine, or a mixture of at least... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6660352 | Adhesive electrostatic sheets Electrostatically charged graphic sheets are additionally provided with a preapplied activatable adhesive. Such sheets may be oriented on a display substrate using the electrostatically induced adhesion, and more securely fastened to the display substrate... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6656567 | Adhesive sheet and adhesive sheet applied structure An adhesive sheet comprises a film substrate layer, a channel breathing layer and a breathing adhesive layer. The channel breathing layer has a plurality of convex parts and a concave part interposed between the convex parts that forms a channel communica... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6648173 | Dispenser for tape strip pads A tape strip dispenser defining a retention chamber and having an opening through which the tape strips are dispensed from a W-stacked pad of tape strips retained within the retention chamber. The opening is longitudinally bounded along a first end by a f... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6632510 | Microporous inkjet receptors containing both a pigment management system and a fluid management system Inkjet receptor media are disclosed that have both a fluid management system and a pigment management system for use with pigmented inkjet inks that produce vibrant, durable images. The fluid management system is provided by microporous media with the pre... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6630218 | Adhesive sheet and method for producing the same An adhesive sheet containing a flexible substrate film; an adhesive layer in contact with a main surface of the substrate film; and a liner is disclosed. The adhesive layer has an uneven surface structure with a plurality of projections extending from the... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6627688 | Adhesive compositions and adhesive sheets The adhesive composition comprises a hydroxyl group-containing adhesive polymer having little or no carboxylic groups in the molecule, and a separate compound that is an aromatic carboxylic acid compound. This composition prevents the corrosion of a metal... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6624273 | Plasticized acrylics for pressure sensitive adhesive applications Non-tacky, base polymers are plasticized into pressure-sensitive adhesives and comprise: a) about 100 parts by weight of a base copolymer having a Tg greater than about 0° C., wherein the base copolymer is formed from and comprises: (1) about 50 to 70% b... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6617293 | Thickening on dilution liquid soap A concentrated liquid soap composition that readily increases in viscosity upon dilution with water, the concentrated liquid soap composition containing an amine oxide surfactant or mixture thereof having the general formula R1R2 R3N.fwdarw.O, where R1 an... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6613411 | Conformable multi-layer sheet materials A multi-layer sheet material comprises a film, and adhesive layer and an optional release liner. The film is a polyester blend comprising first and second polyesters that are substantially amorphous and possess certain physical properties including soften... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6611612 | Security reader for automatic detection of tampering and alteration A document (10) is covered by a laminate (13) comprising a layer of microspheres (16) over an adhesive layer (14) covering a source image (12) such as a photograph, printed matter, or a bar code arranged on a substrate (11). Light impinging on the documen... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6606168 | Narrow band, anisotropic stochastic halftone patterns and methods of creating and using the same A stochastic halftone pattern has been invented which has a narrow band power spectrum due to the incorporation of a dot growth process. The narrow band power spectrum may be matched to the resolution characteristics of specific printers, resulting in smo... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6551654 | Apparatus and method for applying coating materials to individual sheet members Sheets to be coated with water-based coating material, for example a primer and a low adhesion backsize, are supplied from a feeder (1), in end-to-end overlapping relationship, to a dual coater (3) in which the sheets are coated individually on both sides... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6500260 | Apparatus for applying a coating material to sheets A method and apparatus for applying pressure sensitive adhesive to a substrate, in which the adhesive is deposited on a transfer surface, such as a circulating transfer belt, dried, and subsequently transferred to a plurality of overlapping sheets. The sh... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6497949 | Adhesive blends comprising hydrophilic and hydrophobic pressure sensitive adhesives An adhesive blend is comprised of a hydrophilic pressure sensitive adhesive comprising the polymerization product of (a) about 15 to about 85 parts by weight of an (meth)acrylate ester monomer wherein the (meth)acrylate ester monomer, when polymerized, ha... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6471975 | Microspheres as a delivery vehicle for bio-active agents useful in agricultural applications A plurality of releasably loaded elastomeric microspheres comprising a plurality of elastomeric microspheres loaded with at least one releasable agriculturally active agent within the optical boundaries of the elastomeric microspheres and post-polymerizat... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6458454 | Holding device The present invention refers to a holding device which is attachable to a rigid surface comprising an exposed pressure-sensitive adhesive layer wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive is readily removable from the surface and is selected to exhibit a comp... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6444305 | Contact printable adhesive composition and methods of making thereof A contact printable adhesive composition comprises (a) swellable, elastomeric microspheres and (b) at least one polymerizable monomer or a mixture of polymerizable monomers capable of swelling the microspheres. As used in this application "contact printab... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6441114 | Adhesives for use on fluorine-containing or polycarbonate surfaces Adhesives useful in applying articles, such as tapes, labels, signs, decals, emblems, car moldings, protective or optical films, etc., to surfaces to which articles normally do not adhere well, such as surfaces containing fluorine and polycarbonate, for e... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6436218 | Cling films having a microreplicated topography and methods of making and using same Films having a microreplicated topography are prepared from contacting a microembossed pattern to a layer of film. When an adhesion interface is established between the layer of film and a supporting substrate, the topography of the film surface controls ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6420480 | Waterborne silicone acrylate latex polymers for release Polymer latices are provided that are useful as release coatings for pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) coated paper and tapes. With the ever-present environmental concern to eliminate organic solvents, the use of 100% solids and water-based release coatin... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6407195 | Tackified polydiorganosiloxane oligourea segmented copolymers and a process for making same Tackified compositions comprise a curable polydiorganosiloxane oligourea segmented copolymer which has alternating soft polydiorganosiloxane units and hard diisocyanate residues, the diisocyanate residue being the diisocyanate minus the --NCO groups. The ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6406244 | Stack of sheets with repositionable adhesive alternating between opposite edges and containing one or more sheets different from other sheets The present invention provides a stack of flexible sheet material comprising a plurality of sheets disposed one on top of another, each sheet having repositionable adhesive along one edge and being free of adhesive along the opposite edge and the sheets a... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6383613 | Decorative film and method for the production of the same To provide a method for the production of a decorative film, by which minute uneven patterns can randomly be formed on a metal layer, and a decorative film which presents rainbow color appearances irrespective of observing directions. The decorative film ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6383612 | Ink-drying agents for inkjet receptor media A drying agent for inkjet receptor media is disclosed. The drying agent can be an aromatic or aliphatic acid having sulfonic, carboxylic, phenolic or mixed functionalities thereof, which in combination with a multivalent salt is capable of drying the film... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6379444 | Piezo inkjet inks and methods for making and using same An organic solvent-based piezo ink is disclosed having (a) a particulate material; (b) a binder; (c) a plasticizer; (d) an organic solvent; (e) a fluorochemical surfactant; and (f) an antifoaming agent including an oil. Preferably, the particulate materia... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6355759 | Polydiorganosiloxane polyurea segmented copolymers and a process for making same Melt-processable polydiorganosiloxane polyurea segmented copolymer compositions are provided. The compositions comprise alternating soft polydiorganosiloxane units and hard diisocyanate residue units, the diisocyanate residue being the diisocyanate minus ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6352766 | Self-associating low adhesion backsize material A low adhesion backsize (LAB) material made by mixing together materials, which self-associate. The mixtures can be waterbased and have high solids levels. The release is provided by functional groups such as silicones, fluorocarbons or long chain hydroca... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6322874 | Electrostatic toner receptor layer of rubber modified thermoplastic An electrostatic toner receptor layer comprised of a blend of an acrylic resin, a vinyl resin, a solution or dispersion grade rubber and a plasticizer. The resulting receptor layer provide durability and flexibility when applied to a crack resistance film... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6296932 | Microsphere adhesive coated article for use with coated papers An adhesive coated article comprises a layer of microsphere adhesive onto a portion of at least one major surface of a substrate. The microspheres in the adhesive are obtained as the reaction product of (a) at least one alkyl (meth)acrylate ester wherein ... | 10/02/2001 |
