Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136473 | Gluing mechanism and gluing method for tissue paper winding machine A gluing mechanism and method is used to dispense glue onto predetermined positions at a gluing side of a long tape of tissue paper when the tissue paper is feeding through a winding machine. The gluing mechanism includes a glue dispensing roller oriented towards an... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136474 | Apparatus for the transfer of a fluid to a moving web material The present disclosure provides for an apparatus for transferring fluid. The apparatus has a fluid transfer component, a fluid receiving component, a fluid supply, and a fluid motivating component. The fluid transfer component has a first surface, a second surface, ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7559989 | Apparatus and method for producing a patterned sheet and/or film having a predetermined surface characteristic An apparatus for producing a patterned material having a predetermined surface characteristic of high quality and fine definition formed on one side thereof, said apparatus comprising: a cylindrical roll having a peripheral surface of a predetermined texture corresp... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7402209 | Apparatus and method for applying coating liquid to cylindrical substrate, and electrophotographic photoreceptor produced by that method and electrophotographic apparatus provided with the same A coating liquid to be used for coating has a loss tangent tan δ of from 1 to 10 at a frequency of 6.28 radians/sec. A coating liquid supplying roll has a fine concave portion in at least a part of the circumferential length thereof, and in the vicinities of the bo... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7282459 | Ejection method and optical device manufacturing method for arranging nozzles in agreement with sections subject to ejection Aspects of the invention can provide an ejection method to form a micro lens efficiently on each of a plurality of semiconductor lasers in a wafer state. So that a distance in an x-axis direction between two mutually adjacent sections subject to ejection and a dista... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7165959 | Apparatus and method for producing two-sided patterned webs in registration An apparatus for casting a patterned surface on both sides of a web. The apparatus includes a first patterned roll; a second pattered roll; and a means for rotating the first and second patterned rolls such that their patterns are transferred to opposite sides of th... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7111916 | System and method of fluid level regulating for a media coating system An apparatus for the management of the fluid level in a media coating system. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a supply item for the storage of a media coating fluid and an applicator having a trough for receiving the media coating fluid from the supply item. Th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7101437 | Elements for embossing and adhesive application A patterned element for use in an embossing and adhesive application process. The patterened element comprises a material having an pattern disposed thereon, wherein the material comprises a polymer and has a Shore A hardness of greater than about 70, and has a crit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7073514 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7063122 | Bottom-up/top-down retractable cellular shade A covering for an architectural opening includes a head rail, a bottom rail with a take-up roller therein and an intermediate rail with both the intermediate rail and bottom rail suspended from the head rail, a fabric material interconnecting the intermediate rail w... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7029529 | Method and apparatus for metallization of large area substrates A system and method for processing large area substrates. In one embodiment, a system for processing large area substrates includes prep station, a stamping station and a stamp that is automatically moved between the stamping station and the prep station. The stampi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7011728 | Container-labeling and-printing synchronization apparatus and process An apparatus for printing and labeling an object such as a container is provided. The apparatus includes a printer and a label applicator. The object is presented to both the printer and the label applicator during processing. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6941103 | Release agent management system with anilox roller A reproduction apparatus having a station for fusing images to a receiver sheet with a heated fuser roller has a release agent management system that uses an anilox roller. The anilox roller is made of metal or ceramic or other material and has a number of metering ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6915759 | Printing apparatus and method for spark plug insulator An object of the present invention is to disclose an apparatus and method for printing a spark plug, wherein an excellent print quality is obtained and maintained. The printing apparatus comprises: a marking roller for forming an ink film on an intaglio on itself; a... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6881265 | Grease rework applicator A grease applicator is assembled from three parts, a base unit, a cap unit and a slider unit. The base unit has tenons that couple with corresponding slots in the cap unit to form a cavity with a window opening on a first surface and a slider opening on a second sur... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6866715 | Gravure method and apparatus for coating a liquid reactive to the atmosphere A method and apparatus is disclosed for gravure coating a liquid reactive with the atmosphere onto a web. The gravure apparatus comprises an engraved gravure cylinder, an impression roller backing the web and pressing it onto the gravure cylinder to form a nip, a cu... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6866716 | Method for striping a surface with paint and apparatus therefor A tool and method for painting pinstripes on vehicles or other objects includes a wheel which cooperates with a paint reservoir. As the wheel is rolled along a surface, the wheel picks up paint from the reservoir and deposits it upon the surface. The wheel has round... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6827783 | Paste application apparatus and method for applying paste A paste application apparatus capable of evenly applying a paste to each of the front portion and the rear portion of a coating target with a simple operation. The paste application apparatus includes a setting device for setting the velocity difference between the ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6756006 | Method of forming sculptured designs onto a substrate A method of forming sculptured designs onto a substrate using a hand tool includes a container that can contain compound that is suitable for placing sculptured designs onto a substrate such as a ceiling or a wall, and an applicator that can move into and out of the... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6709515 | Gravure coating apparatus In the gravure coating apparatus, while a bead portion of a coating liquid is formed between a roll surface of a gravure roll to which the coating liquid is excessively supplied and a web that runs continuously, the web is pressed on the gravure roll by using a back... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6695916 | Protective paint applications to tires A paint applying roller is positioned over the sidewall of a tire rotating about a vertical axis and the roller is vertically movable into contact with the sidewall to apply and spread protective paint over white sidewall surfaces.... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6607596 | Paintless film edge sealing tool An apparatus and method for securing an edge of a paintless type film gore. A fluid sealant material is beaded along the edge of the gore using a bead striping apparatus. The striping apparatus comprises a serrated wheel rotatably coupled to a housing whi... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6572703 | Fabric making apparatus An apparatus for forming and finishing a continuous fabric web in a single operation. The apparatus includes a fabric web forming station for forming a continuous fabric web and a finishing station downstream from the fabric web forming station for receiv... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6554900 | Device and method for applying a flowable medium onto a moving surface An apparatus for the application of a flowable medium (2, 2') from a stock chamber (7, 8) to a surface (6) being moved along the apparatus, and to the use of an apparatus of this type. The stock chamber (7, 8) partly covers the surface (6), with formation... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6531027 | Adhesive printing process for disposable absorbent articles The present invention relates to a process for making disposable absorbent articles comprising adhering two components materials to each other using an improved roll printing process to provide an adhesive to one of the two components, the adhesive has an... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6471776 | Apparatus for applying abrasive substances to continuous paper webs An apparatus applies a coating composition consisting of a resin and fine abrasive particles like corundum particles, to a paper web by feeding the composition to the paper web as it loops around a guide roller to a metering roller juxtaposed with the gui... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6361640 | Edge decorated articles and method of making same using hot stamping foils Articles such as glassware, ceramicware and hollowware are decorated with hot stamping foil along their exposed edge. The hot stamping foil is adhered to an underlying radiation curable adhesive ink which avoids the use of inks or frits having heavy metal... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6346147 | Dimple pattern glue roller A dimple pattern glue roller functions to apply glue to the closure flaps of a partially assembled cigarette pack. The roller has an outer cylindrical surface, and a pattern of dimpled recesses in the cylindrical surface receive glue and apply that glue t... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6287383 | Texturing and preferential painting process for vertical and horizontal blinds Extruded material for forming blind slats has at least one textured surface with raised areas and adjacent lower areas. After extrusion and texturing processes, the slat material is passed through a spray painting process applying a substantially thicker ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6277196 | Coating apparatus Apparatus for applying a coating of an insulation lacquer to a moving surface of a strip comprises a rotatable roller whose surface defines a multiplicity of cells and a reservoir containing a bath of heated organic/inorganic insulating lacquer in which a... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6214118 | Apparatus for forming external electrodes of electronic component, component, component inserting apparatus, paste coating apparatus, and component conveyer belt An external electrode forming apparatus is used to form external electrodes on the component chips. The external electrode forming apparatus comprises a component conveyer belt, a belt feeding mechanism, a component-inserting machine, a component-reversin... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6193799 | Device for application of glue on objects Device for the application of a coating composition on a traveling web (17) comprising a transfer roll (5), a support roll (3) cooperating with the transfer roll (5), the traveling web being fed in a nip between said rolls, further comprising a gravure ro... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6033513 | Method of adhesive application using transfer roll A roll transfer coating method for hot melt adhesive comprising a step in which hot melt adhesive supplied from a hot melt adhesive supply apparatus passes through a slotted nozzle with a smoother roll and coats the raised pattern surface of a coating rol... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6013132 | Paint roller with masked surface In a paint roller having an inner core with an outer annular surface and a radially resilient, substantially cylindrical paint roller medium extending around and affixed to the inner core for rotation therewith, the improvement wherein the outer medium ha... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5983970 | Apparatus for applying labels to objects having a helically grooved gluine roller An apparatus for applying labels to bottles or the like comprises at least one moveable gluing palette 7 which coacts with a rotary gluing roller 1 so as to be coated with glue, and which thereafter transfers the glue to a label 17 which is transported by... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5944897 | Paste application and recovery system for IPC termination unit An improved chip termination or application wheel for applying a layer of silver paste to the edge or end of a chip including a wheel that is defined by a broad circumferential surface, for contact with the chip, the surface containing an increased surfac... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5922406 | Coating method and apparatus A coating applicator is provided having a plate cylinder including a cylindrical body about which a coating plate is mounted in sleeve-like fashion. The plate is the type used in the flexographic printing industry, and is made of photosensitive, monomeric... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5908505 | High volume, textured liquid transfer surface In-line printing and coating method achieves high coat weights (e.g, over 0.7 lb./1,000 sq.ft.) characteristic of blister seal operations and/or high gloss and high scuff resistance requirements, substantially without deleterious slinging. A high volume o... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5895553 | Device for applying glue to wrapper sheets, especially cold glue, in cigarettes packaging machines or the like A device for applying glue to wrapper sheets, especially cold glue, in cigarette packaging machines or the like, includes a device (7) for conveying a succession of wrapper sheets (1) through a glue application station in which devices (10) are provided f... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5891509 | Method of applying a coating material to a plate with conveying rollers clamping side edges of the plate A method of applying a coating material to two surfaces of a plate includes the steps of applying the coating material to the two surfaces simultaneously such that holding areas in the absence of the coating material are provided on the two surfaces in pr... | 04/06/1999 |
