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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8061402 | Method and apparatus for positioning layers within a layered heater system An apparatus for positioning a tape preform as a layer onto a substrate during the manufacture of a layered resistive device is provided. The apparatus includes at least one positioning member, wherein the positioning member defines a proximal end portion and a dist... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7191576 | Device for applying a prepared handle to a pack A device for making it possible to apply to a pack, moved along a conveyor, a handle (n) of nominal length L situated at the end of a tape. The tape includes a succession of handles (n+i), each handle comprising two adhesive ends and a central part. The device inclu... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7153382 | Pressure element for an edge gluing machine and gluing method The pressure element (7) is designed for gluing a bandlike covering (4) by means of an adhesive onto a narrow face (3) (edge) of straight or curved (profiled) cross section of a board element (2) or for gluing a film onto a profile bar ha... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6651717 | Taping machine Provided is a taping machine which enables shortening the time length for bonding to each other a Fresnel lens sheet and a lenticular lens sheet and for the inspection process as well as reducing the space occupied by apparatuses used for the both process... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6152203 | Tape squeezing device The tape squeezing device has a grooved portion including a bottom wall portion and a pair of side wall portions, a pair of tilted surface portions arranged both end portions in longitudinal direction of a recessed portion and tilted in respect to the lon... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5932064 | Method for continuously manufacturing tape strip folded about a ring As tape drawer rollers are driven for intermittent rotation, a continuous tape is intermittently fed along a tape traveling path with a leading end portion of the tape inserted through a ring at a tape folding section. When the continuous tape has been fe... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5614042 | Tape binding device for electric wire bundle and tape binding method The present invention discloses a tape binding device winding a tape piece having an adhesive surface on one side around an electric wire bundle to bundle it. In the device, a pair of arms having a holding surface are lowered while holding the tape piece ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5374326 | Sealing machine with two superimposed sealing units for parallelepiped boxes with down-turned flaps with simplified access to the lower sealing unit A sealing machine for sealing parallelpiped boxes with down-turned flaps, comprises a lower supporting and containment structure defining a supporting plane for the boxes; a lower sealing unit normally contained within the supporting and containment struc... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5279698 | Apparatus for securing a mailing brochure in a folded state A device for applying a fastening tab to an open edge of a folder mailing brochure to hold the brochure in a folded state including a feed mechanism, a drive assembly, and an application mechanism. The feed mechanism removes fastening tabs from a supply o... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5209808 | Corner label applicator system and method An applicator system and method for automatically applying and securing an adhesive backed (or gummed) label onto a corner surface of a typically three-dimensional, right-angle polygonal object such that the body of the label is applied and adhered to one... | 05/11/1993 |
| 4976803 | Apparatus for pressing foil on containers, such as on the tops and the necks of bottles or the like This invention relates to a pressing station for metal foil sheets applied around the top and neck of bottles. By means of bell-shaped pressing elements which can be axially lowered toward the bottle top, the foil sheets are firmly applied to the top and ... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4832774 | Method and apparatus for applying wrap-around labels to containers Apparatus and method of applying wrap-around labels to bottles or containers where the label is formed into a complete sleeve with a heat-sealed seam on the container as the containers are moved in a linear path on a conveyor. The bottles and conveyor pas... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4758301 | Handle adhering device A handle adhering device wherein an adhesive is applied to one surface of a belt-like article, auxiliary pieces are adhered to the adhesive surface with predetermined spaces therebetween, the belt-like article is wound onto a reel-like shape, is cut into ... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4750966 | Apparatus for the application of an adhesive tape about the rim of a flat shaped part; in particular a shaped sheet metal part The apparatus comprises an application roller pair which rolls an adhesive tape in a U-shaped manner about the rim of a shaped sheet metal part. The adhesive tape is located initially on a carrier ribbon and is drawn jointly with the former off a storage ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4741797 | Apparatus for applying surfacing sheets to support surfaces therefor Apparatus is provided in which a support table and clamp arrangement serve to hold a panel in position while a surfacing sheet already applied to the major face of such panel, is applied around radiused edges of the panel. The apparatus includes a turntab... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4605459 | Literature applying machine and method A system for securing literature to a container by means of a band segment includes a supply of banding material, drawing rollers for drawing out a predetermined length of band segment and a knife for cutting it off. A dispenser of the literature and a co... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4596620 | Process and apparatus for covering a cut edge of a cardboard blank The open cut edge of a cardboard blank is covered by a cover strip folded around the cut edge. The cover strip is cut from a band having a width corresponding to the length of the cut edge to be covered. The strip is held flatly on a folding device and is... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4561923 | Method and apparatus for automatically coiling and taping elongated tubing and the like Tubing typically produced by an extruder is advanced to coiling apparatus and is cut to predetermined lengths. The automated apparatus includes a plurality of spindles arranged at spaced intervals about a turret, which is indexed to position each spindle ... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4415399 | Handle applicator A handle applicator having a first and second gripping means movable alternatively between a pick-up station and an application station applying handles to articles delivered to the application station, when an article and one of the gripping means carryi... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4373985 | Adhesive binder An adhesive binding machine which is for gluing the covers to the collated pages of the books and which includes a cutter for trimming the edges of the pages, a glue pot for applying glue to the cut edges, a nipper for pressing a cover to the glued edges ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4293361 | Work support for forming laminations A split table with portions to either side of a contoured mold and movable away from each other while hugging the contour of the mold so as to transfer a laminate from the split table onto the mold with application rollers from each portion forcing the la... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4238270 | Tape pressing roller set applying different wipe down pressures A pair of wipe down rollers are carried on a respective pair of rotatable arms to which arms force can be applied through separate air actuated cylinders so as to provide that the wipe down roller which engages in wipe down contact with the trailing verti... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4227955 | Article taping system A method and apparatus for applying segments of sealing tape to both ends of a carton and for forming pull-tabs at both ends of the segments of sealing tape so applied. Cartons are conveyed in indexed fashion at uniform intervals on a conveyor. Sealing ta... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4211598 | Foil applicator for folding and applying adhesive backed foil to the edge of a work piece A foil applicator is provided having a base incorporating a platform with a planar work surface. The platform includes an entrance and an exit end with the exit end terminating in a smoothly curved surface extending from the plane of the work surface to f... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4204380 | Device for conveying, stacking, and packing aligned laminations of electrical machines An arrangement for feeding, stacking and packaging plate-like members punched by the die of a press of the type wherein the plate-like members are carried away initially vertically and then along a curve away from the vicinity of the press by guideways is... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4182223 | Swivel mounting for tape applying apparatus wipe down roller A wipe down roller for use in apparatus for applying tape to cartons in which the roller is mounted to swivel to allow for uniform roller contact and pressure application to the tape when such roller is engaged by an end wall panel of the carton which is ... | 01/08/1980 |
| 3953272 | Process for end sealing a bag and apparatus therefor Superimposed heat-sealable layers are heat-sealed by applying external suction to draw the layers apart, inserting a nozzle between the parted layers, directing hot gas from the nozzle onto the inside surfaces of the layers, removing the nozzle and pressi... | 04/27/1976 |
