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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136565 | Speed changing transmission mechanism of sheet laminating apparatus A speed changing transmission mechanism of a sheet laminating apparatus includes a speed changing module, a motor, a switching gear, a hot press gear, a first connecting gear and a second connecting gear. By switching the switching gear to be engaged with different ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7984741 | High release nip roll assembly Disclosed herein is a high release nip roll assembly comprising a nip roll with a covering comprising a high release material. The release properties of the nip roll material can permit intermittent contact without the coating adhering to the surface of the roller a... | 07/26/2011 |
| RE42330 | Hot laminating apparatus and electric contact enabling device for use in same A laminating apparatus includes a roller, an electro-heating shaft, a power transmitting and resilient member and a power transmitting and securing member. The roller is in contact with a thin film, moves through the thin film to heat and laminate the thin film to a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7909081 | Sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and sheet laminating method A sheet laminator includes a bonding unit and a restricting unit. The bonding unit bonds a first sheet to a second sheet that includes an adhesive layer. The restricting unit restricts movement of any one of the first sheet and the second sheet thereby preventing bo... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7886799 | Laminating device A laminating device includes first and second rollers, a motor, a first drive element associated with the motor and configured to be driven thereby, a second drive element associated with at least one of the rollers, and adapted to engage the first drive element so ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7874340 | Laminating machine A laminating machine with upper and lower laminating rollers and upper and lower laminating film supply rollers is disclosed. An upper laminating film extends onto the upper and lower laminating rollers and a lower laminating film also extends onto the laminating ro... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7828034 | Temporary plaque manufacturing apparatus This invention relates to a temporary plaque manufacturing apparatus of the type comprising a plaque support frame having a pair of substantially parallel slots, one of which is a plaque receiving slot and the other is a flexible sheet receiving slot. The plaque rec... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7571755 | Apparatus for regulating rotation speed of roller in laminator There is provided an apparatus for adjusting a rotation speed of a roller in a laminator. In this apparatus, at least one of the roller gear connected with a roller and a motor gear connected with a motor is a two-stage shift gear in which teeth of the same shape ar... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7556077 | Speed-change transmission mechanism for laminator or the like A speed-change transmission mechanism used in a laminator is disclosed to include a plurality of driving gears rotatable with a transmission shaft by a power drive, a driven shaft for rotating two thermal-compression rolls through two meshed driven gears, a pluralit... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7435209 | Contact-bonding film insertion means included in contact-bonding paper manufacturing apparatus A contact-bonding film insertion device included in a contact-bonded paper manufacturing apparatus which produces releasable and expandable contact-bonded paper such as postcards (Q) by inserting a contact-bonding film (F) carried on a vertically movable support pla... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7406993 | Gear assembly of laminating apparatus A gear assembly of a laminating apparatus includes a fixed gear device and an adjustable gear device connected between a motor and the fixed gear. The adjustable gear device includes a transmission shaft driven by the motor to rotate, a movable gear sleeved on and s... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398812 | Apparatus for thermal development having a removable support member This invention pertains to a method and apparatus for thermally developing a photosensitive element, and particularly to a method and apparatus for supporting the photosensitive element with a removable flexible support member during thermal treatment. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398814 | Portable laminator A portable laminator designed primarily for home use where the laminator includes a handle for carrying which may also act as a guide for articles being fed into the laminator. In alternate embodiments, the laminator includes a cover which may first position acts as... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7361249 | Apparatus for applying a removable cover to a ticket substrate A covering apparatus (10) includes a cutter (12), an applicator (14) and a continuous length of removable cover material (16). The cutter (12) is adapted to cut off a discrete section (50) of cover material, and the applicat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7341084 | Apparatus for mechanically bonding and cutting an article In apparatus for mechanically bonding and cutting an article during assembly thereof at least a portion of the article is transported through a nip defined by first and second members. A bonding segment is disposed on one of the first and second members and a cuttin... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341784 | Light management film and its preparation and use A light management film includes a first layer with a thermoplastic resin and a particular phosphonium sulfonate salt, and a second layer formed from a curable composition and having a refractive index of at least 1.5. The light management film exhibits reduced stat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341088 | Mechanism for laminating profiles The invention concerns a mechanism for laminating profiles, such as plastic window profiles, for example, in which several profile sides, as of L-shaped or Z-shaped profiles, for example, can be laminated at the same time, by means of a single work pass, in that an ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338572 | Processing apparatus The present invention relates to a processing apparatus, such as a laminator, for performing operations involving effecting adhesive bonding on substrates. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7320206 | Device for processing flat objects, especially for packing printed products For processing flat objects (10), in particular for packing printed products or small groups thereof, using a continuous packing material, the objects are conveyed in a conveying stream in which they are arranged in succession and essentially parallel to the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7311798 | Apparatus for manufacturing an adjustable covering for architectural openings An apparatus is disclosed for fabricating a laminate product having a pair of sheet materials spaced by a plurality of flexible parallel vanes which are secured to the sheet material so that planar movement of the sheet materials in opposite directions cause the van... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300535 | Magnetically readable card and a method of making a magnetically readable card The present invention includes a process for making a magnetically readable card. The process includes providing a polymeric extrudable substrate material and one or more magnetic strips. The substrate is extruded in an extruder. The magnetic strips are aligned and ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291243 | Device for joining sheets of cardboard to form corrugated cardboard The device to join a sheet of smooth cardboard (N4) to a sheet of corrugated cardboard (N1; N2; N3), comprises a series of heated plates (3) aligned according to a longitudinal direction of feed (F) of the cardboard and, above said... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7267154 | Water-proof film laminating machine A water-proof film laminating machine has a laminating machine body, a top roller, a bottom roller, multiple connecting devices, a cylinder, a first holder, a second holder and a cooling device. The holders are connected to the connecting devices and driven by the c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267857 | Mounting and laminating system A laminating and mounting system include a pouch (10) made of thermal laminating film (15,16) and a thermal adhesive (21,22) on a surface (17,18) both inside the pouch and outside the pouch. A first substrate (19), like a print, is... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7261789 | Method of producing paperboard product with an even thickness A method is disclosed for producing a multilayer paperboard product, as well as an assembly suited for implementing the method and a paperboard manufactured according to the method, whereby the paperboard is made from at least two, advantageously three layers (4,... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261790 | Master processing apparatus A removable cartridge assembly for a master processing apparatus includes a cartridge body and a pair of feed roll assemblies. Each feed roll assembly includes a stock material wound about a core and mounting members on the ends of the core. Feed roll mounting struc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258152 | Master processing apparatus A master processing apparatus for performing a master processing operation on a target substrate includes a frame, a supply, and a processor. The supply includes a plurality of pouches. The pouch holder enables the pouches to be successively exposed as a leading pou... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251079 | Brightness enhancement film, and methods of making and using the same In one embodiment, a brightness enhancement film comprises: a diffusing film comprising a front surface and a back surface, a coating on the front surface, and light redirecting structures disposed in the coating. The brightness enhancement film is capable of collim... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7238253 | Bag manufacturing system A placement component rapidly moves individual bag blanks from a pack or magazine to a conveyor system in uniformly spaced relationship. Each bag blank has opposite surfaces. While the conveyor system continues to move the bags, opening tabs are automatically applie... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225847 | Laminated product automatic transporting and feeding device for laminator This invention discloses a laminated product automatic transporting and feeding device for laminator, including plural resilient tabs provided to a transporting conveyor of an automatic feeding device in parallel, the tabs retaining plural objects to be laminated th... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7216685 | Method and apparatus for producing wearing article An apparatus and method for producing a wearing article of the present invention includes supplying an elastic member; stretching the elastic member; placing the stretched elastic member so that the elastic member spreads across a plurality of first webs divided in ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213629 | Vacuum assisted ply placement shoe and method A device for placing a ply on a substrate surface includes a vacuum manifold assembly configured for attachment to a vacuum source and a substrate seal configured to provide a substantially gas impermeable interface with the substrate surface. This device further in... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213628 | Photosensitive layer laminator and photosensitive layer laminating method Photosensitive material includes a support, and a photosensitive layer overlaid thereon and containing resin. A photosensitive layer laminator transfers the photosensitive layer from the photosensitive material to a glass substrate. In the photosensitive layer lamin... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213383 | Bag forming system edge seal A foam-in-bag assembly with a film feed mechanism which feeds film with a film driver and a bag forming assembly which includes an edge sealer that contacts film being fed by the film driver and which is supported on a moving member of the film feed mechanism and re... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204899 | Apparatus and method for mechanically bonding and cutting an article In a method and apparatus for mechanically bonding and cutting an article during assembly thereof at least a portion of the article is transported through a nip defined by first and second members. A bonding segment is disposed on one of the first and second members... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201202 | No-mask sticker maker A transfer device for adhering a transferable material to a target substrate is disclosed. The transfer device includes a supply of transfer substrate. The transfer substrate has a carrying surface and an adhesive-type transferable material provided on the carrying ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7182831 | Method and device for moistening fibrous raw materials with binding agents The disclosure includes a method for gluing fibrous raw materials, which improves the even distribution of the binding agent on the fibers considerably. The disclosure furthermore describes a device for performing the gluing process. The disclosure suggests a method... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175738 | Automated fold and seal apparatus A folding and sealing apparatus supporting a feed platform for feeding a supply of pre-glued forms to the folding and sealing apparatus. The housing accommodating a first roller, a second roller, a third roller and a fourth roller, and the first and second rollers f... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172277 | Transfer pressure roll, transfer device and image recording apparatus A transfer pressure roll is characterized in that a cylindrical roll body and an elastic layer which coats the surface of the roll body and comes into contact with an image protection film at the pressurizing time are included, and the hardness of an elastic matter ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7143800 | Non-autoclave laminated glass The invention provides a non-autoclave method and apparatus for producing laminated glass. The method and apparatus provide a non-autoclave laminated glass process that is continuous and thus eliminates the batch processing of known autoclave processes. In addition,... | 12/05/2006 |
