DELAMINATING APPARATUS

Pressure-sensitive tape attached to and extending beyond the front edge of a stiff card is removed by grasping the extending end in jaws in a wind-up roller. Rotating the roller winds the tape thereon, facing outward. Upon completion of winding, the roller is stopped, the clamp jaws released, and the...     

An adhesive system is described as including an adhesive having dispersed metal particles whose function it is to emit heat for the purposes of breaking the bond formed by the adhesive when such action is desired. Specifically, metal particles are embedded within a suitable adhesive material which loses...     

A folded paperboard dispenser for supporting a roll of pressure sensitive adhesive backed labels removably adhered to a release coated carrier web. The new structure includes a unique arrangement of elements which combine to protect the label roll and to dispense individual "butt-cut" or "laid-on" labels...     

A delaminating method and apparatus wherein a laminated assembly of generally flat strips is passed between rotary pressure members having different speeds and surface characteristics to simultaneously apply localized compressive and shear forces to effect delamination of the assembly. The term "delaminating"...     

Microfilm is converted into microfiche by feeding the film through a cutter, cutting the film into one or more frames, and then mounting the frame(s) upon a transparent microfiche base. The microfilm has a pair of adhesive strips along the top and bottom edge of its bottom surface for attaching the microfilm...     

The present invention relates to decal applying and more specifically to an apparatus for and a method of stripping the backing paper of a water-soaked water-release slide-off decal from the transfer film of the decal and applying such transfer film to a surface of a dish-like article to be decorated.

A pick-up head for the manipulation of workpieces comprised of tacky material includes a rocker foot capable of four degrees of motion. The pick-up head is mounted on a horizontally movable carriage and includes controllable apparatus for causing the rocker foot to rotate, reciprocate vertically with...     

An adhesive dispensing and applying device is disclosed suitable for applying lengths of adhesive onto an article from a convolutely wound roll of transfer adhesive disposed on a liner and convolutely wound about a core. The device has an applicating roller mounted in the forward portion of a housing....     

This invention refers to a machine for applying transfer-designs to a substrate or a succession of substrates. Basically the machine includes a magazine for holding a stack of stick-down transfers, means for withdrawing one transfer from a stack and positioning it adjacent but in spaced relation to the...     

According to the invention a tab pick up and applying mechanism comprises a picker head moveable between a pick up and an applying position and having a tab carrying face, to be presented at said positions, means for applying vacuum to said tab carrying face at said pick up position to effect pick up...     

An apparatus for applying severed strips of double-coated adhesive tape to a substrate from the face of a carrier liner. A length of tape having adhesive on both sides and disposed on a release liner is fed continuously past a severing means which cuts the tape into strips but does not sever the liner....     

A device including two heads which may be positioned at an applying station to apply parallel lengths of elastic reflex-light reflective strip material in an unstretched condition around the circular outer surface of a tire casing rotated past the station. Each head includes a vacuum column which supports...     

A printing apparatus wherein a thin film on which a pattern is printed is floated on the surface of liquid and the pattern is transferred onto a surface of an object to be printed with the pattern utilizing the liquid pressure by submerging the object into the liquid while pressing the object onto the...     

Mechanical delabeling apparatus includes a slotted tubular feed conduit containing drive belts, an open delabeling zone at the end of the conduit circumscribed by adjacent, circularly arranged members comprising an abrading wheel, an article turning wheel and a yieldably biased set of spherical rollers....     

A device including means for removing a protective liner from elastic reflex-light reflective strip material, means for applying a length of the strip material to a tire casing, and means for separating the applied length from a supply length of the strip material. The means for removing the liner includes...     

Pipe wrapping apparatus, having one or more pipe wrapping tape spindles with each of which is associated a take up spindle onto which tape backing is wound after the backing has been stripped from the tape as the tape is wound onto the pipe.

A tape applicator including a frame with a rotatable mandrel for mounting one or more rolls of adhesive tape, the frame including a flat, elongated portion under which the tape passes and which acts to apply the tape positively and firmly to a selected surface as the applicator is moved thereover, and...     

A capacitor removal device and method is disclosed for removing capacitors from a holder strip on which the capacitors are secured by an adhesive strip with a body portion of the capacitor extending above the holder strip. The removal device comprises a conveyor carried by a frame for transporting the...     

There is disclosed label printing and applying apparatus by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise. The apparatus feeds pressure sensitive labels mounted on a web of supporting material to a printing zone and to a delaminating zone. An applicator disposed downstream of the delaminating...     

A tape dispenser for applying paper lined electrically conductive pressure sensitive adhesive tape or foil on a flat surface for forming a part of an electrical alarm system. The dispenser includes a housing having a tape storage chamber in which is rotatably mounted a roll of paper lined pressure sensitive...     

A portable pipe joint wrapping machine is provided wherein a pipe enveloping frame which is rotatably supported concentrically with respect to a pipe comprises a reel assembly that is mounted on the frame and that is adapted to receive and rotatably support a roll of wrapping material of the cold wrap...     

A label applicator including a wrap around label applicator, a transport for transporting labels to the wrap around label applicator, and a label dispenser for sequentially supplying labels to the transport.

A tape dispenser which includes a portable frame having a single upright sidewall and an upwardly projecting front wall provided with a cutting blade adjacent the upper edge thereof. A pair of horizontally cantilevered spindle assemblies are rotatably supported on the sidewall in parallel but horizontally...     

A developing device for a photosensitive material consisting of a cover base laminated through the intermediary of a photosensitive layer to a support member develops the photosensitive material by stripping the cover base from the support member. The developing device employs a stripping roller consisting...     

Laminate layers, such as a label and its liner, are separated by bending lengthwise-adjacent portions of the laminate end in opposite directions to cause shearing and lengthwise offset between the layers, and then releasing the end, the overall orientation being such that, upon release of the end, a...     

Laminate layers, such as a label and its liner, are separated by directing both layers at an end of the laminate around a sharp bend to cause shearing and lengthwise offset between the layers, and then releasing the end, the overall orientation being such that, upon release of the end, a differential...     

Laminate layers, such as a label and its liner, are separated by bending lengthwise-adjacent portions of the laminate end in opposite directions to cause shearing and lengthwise offset between the layers, and then releasing the end, the overall orientation being such that, upon release of the end, a...     

A liner-separating tape-feeding machine that automatically feeds pressure-sensitive tape from a supply roll, peels the liner off the tape, delivering the tape in one direction and the liner in another and separating the tape into predetermined lengths. The liner is peeled from the tape by being brought...     

A real time system for writing and depositing a label on a cut piece is disclosed. The labeler is positioned relative to the cutting head of a cutting system and moves with the cutting head as a cutting operation proceeds. As the cutting takes place under the direction of the cutting system computer,...     

A method and mechanism for opening envelopes by chemical means.

A hand-held labeler or apparatus provides for printing and applying pressure sensitive labels and includes a housing, a rigid metal frame plate mounted on the housing, a platen and a cooperating print head, and a delaminator for delaminating printed labels from the web of supporting material on which...     

Laminate layers, such as a label and its liner, are separated by directing both layers at an end of the laminate around a sharp bend to cause shearing and lengthwise offset between the layers, and then releasing the end, the overall orientation being such that, upon release of the end, a differential...     

During the labeling of a vial, mislabeling can occur. The unwanted label is cleanly and economically removed by forcing the vial through a novel collet-cutter. The cutter has at least two cutting edges and two slots. The slots permit expansion of the diameter of the cutting edges during the passage of...     

A method and apparatus for dispensing adhesive-backed foil having a protective covering in contact with the adhesive surface. A spool is mounted on a frame to provide a continuous strip of foil to a guide roller having a circumferential groove for receiving and guiding the strip of foil, the groove being...     

A series of labels remain supported on a liner after a matrix of waste label material has been stripped from the liner. The adhesion of the matrix to the liner is weakened prior to stripping of the matrix by mechanically disturbing without severing, as by embossing, areas of the construction where the...     

A device for removing self-adhesive labels from a substrate includes a blade portion and a handle portion. The blade has a first normally downwardly facing flat surface for contacting the substrate and a second opposed normally upwardly facing generally convex surface. The first and second surfaces come...     

During the labeling of a vial, mislabeling can occur. The unwanted label is cleanly and economically removed by forcing the vial through a novel collet-cutter. The cutter has at least two cutting edges and two slots. The slots permit expansion of the diameter of the cutting edges during the passage of...     

A printing pattern support sheet made up of a film soluble in water and a pattern pre-printed on one surface of the film is prepared beforehand. The pattern is activated, immediately before being used for transfer printing, into a tacky or adherent condition ready for printing by applying a solvent thereto....     

A composite laminate sheet material consists of a metallic foil positioned on a congruent thick sheet of paper by means of an adhesive which can be heat cured. The composite laminate is directed via a series of rollers through a printer and a rotary die cutter where suitable geometrical sections are...     

An apparatus and method for removing material from a surface so that the removed material will not escape into the ambient environment are disclosed. The present invention includes a coagulant-applying mechanism for spraying a coating of coagulant on the material to be removed. Also included is a cutter...     

An improved tape dispenser and applicator assembly for wrapping a foil-like tape about edge portions of glass pieces and similar material, wherein the assembly includes at least one roller assembly formed by a pair of rollers biased against one another. A groove straddles the pair of rollers, with the...     

A method of making a resin panel in which a carrier film receives thereon a layer of thermosetting resin and glass fibers are placed on the resin layer. This composite is inverted and passed between a roller and a section of a moving belt, the belt being of a material impermeable to the resin. The resin...     

A rolled strip of adhesive mounted on a reel is unrolled and punched with a cutter pressed against it or by passing between a punching roll and a receiving roll, the punched part being affixed to a band-shaped film of paper or plastic. The film having had a part of the punched adhesive pasted on it is...     

A label applicator and registration device for such an applicator are disclosed. The applicator includes along the path of a web including both a backing strip and a series of contact-adhesive coated labels, a web reel mounting, a brake for preventing overrun of the web from its mounting and to provide...     

A label handling apparatus comprises a label issuing machine (2) for weighing an article, printing predetermined data, such as the measured weight, price per unit weight and article price, on a label on the basis of the measured weight, and issuing the printed label, a transfer device (40) for transferring...     

A reinforcer applicator for applying gummed reinforcers to individual, punched sheets of paper which includes a base member, a beam pivotally carried by one end of the base member, and a ratchet-and-drum assembly in articulated cooperation with the beam to advance a tape carrying a plurality of gummed...     

A hosiery repair kit includes a repair strip, textured as original hosiery material, adhesive-backed and carried in strips or a tape on a peel-off backing. The backing may be in the form of a sheet carrying several strips. As a tape, the repair material may be mounted in a dispenser which has a cutting...     

Apparatus for transferring self-adhesive labels from a supply roll to continuously advancing containers or packaging material, including means for simple, on-site adjustment of the label positions with respect to the velocity and/or spacing of the items to be labeled. The labels move on a conveyor belt...     

A delabeler (11) provides a conveyor (12) which sandwiches a series of containers (13) to positively rotatably move such containers through a plurality of processing stations. A strip brush section (31) includes a series of stations (32-35) each including a plurality of rotating brushes (53-55) located...     

In an apparatus for and method of depositing adhesive strips, a ribbon including a layer of adhesive is directed along a predetermined input path. In the first two embodiments, the ribbon is engaged between a measuring roller and a driven roller responsive thereto, and fed into positioning structure....     

In an apparatus for and method of depositing adhesive strips, a ribbon including a layer of adhesive is directed along a predetermined input path. In the first two embodiments, the ribbon is engaged between a measuring roller and a driven roller responsive thereto, and fed into positioning structure....     

A hand held dispenser for liner wound adhesive tape having walls that define a first cavity for storing a supply roll of liner wound tape, a second cavity with an inner wall surface which causes liner pushed into the second cavity to wind into a coil, an opening through which liner may be withdrawn from...     

A hand held dispenser for liner wound adhesive tape having walls that define a first cavity for storing a supply roll of liner wound tape, a second cavity with an inner wall surface which causes liner pushed into the second cavity to wind into a coil, an opening through which liner tape may be withdrawn...     

A tool is disclosed for installing a glazing strip in the corner defined by two mutually perpendicular surfaces. The strip comprises extruded polyvinylchloride plastic having a cross sectional shape such that a glazing compound is provided in a central cavity to be extruded through a slot covered temporarily...     

A hand held applicator for transferring pressure transferable graphic images from an accepting tape to a receptor surface. The applicator comprises a body having a bottom surface and a back surface intersecting the bottom surface to define a sharp separating edge, and a roller rotatably mounted on the...     

Labels are separated from a strip and charged with static electricity upon separation. The labels are supplied to articles by utilizing static electricity and label adhesion while the adhesive layer surface of the label is directed outwardly. By application of the labels to the articles, the indications...     

There is disclosed a hand-held label printing and applying apparatus for printing on labels releasably adhered to a web of supporting material, the apparatus having a print head and a platen with an impression control mechanism for the print head, a traveling inker with an easily replaceable inking member,...     

A film dispenser and slitter is described which is comprised of an upstanding ladder-like support member which has forward and rearward ends. An elongated horizontally disposed support is mounted on the upper end of the support member and has opposite ends. First and second roll support members are mounted...     

A printer system for printing upon labels mounted on a web of release material, includes a stationary reel support upon which a supply reel and a take up reel are mounted for free rotation thereon. A printer is mounted adjacent a supply path extending from the supply reel to the take up reel, and a web...     

Web-splicing apparatus comprises a web splicer and, associated therewith, an air mover and web-presentation means operable to present to the inlet end of the air mover the leading end of a first web extending from a reel and the leading end of a second web extending from another reel, which air mover...     

A programmable platen for use in a label applying system wherein the labels are transferred to the platen and retained thereby under negative pressure and subsequently driven from the platen by application of positive pressure. The platen comprises a number of pin like valves of differing type which...     

A machine for individually dispensing die cut pressure-sensitive labels from the carrier web of a label train. An AC synchronous stepping motor rotates a pair of drive rolls for a predetermined time period sufficient to move the label train from a supply roll past an infrared detecting member to a discharge...     

The invention relates to a process and apparatus for making a thermoplastic polymer sheet and particularly a thermoplastic polymer netting structure. It further relates to a process and apparatus for splitting a thermoplastic polymer sheet or net structure so as to divide the sheet or net at the center...     

Layered blending tape comprised of a mask layer having an adhesive layer on one surface thereof, an elongated mask section adhered to a portion of the adhesive layer longitudinally thereof, and a release strip section releasably adhered to the remaining portion of the adhesive layer is spirally wrapped...     

A printing apparatus provided with a structure which supplies a transcription film into a transcription tub containing a liquid so that the transcription film is kept afloat on the liquid, a structure which makes the liquid flow in a direction in which the film is supplied, and a structure which slantingly...     

The disclosure is directed to an electronic component supply apparatus for use in an electronic component mounting arrangement, which employs an electronic component carrier tape. The apparatus is arranged to separate a covering tape from a tape base of the carrier tape only at a position directly below...     

A process and apparatus is disclosed for removing adhesive tape such as is used in masking PC boards during plating operations, the apparatus including rollers carrying an adhesive band which is brought into pressure contact with the adhesive tape. The PC board is moved past the rollers to pick up the...     

An apparatus (100) for applying a strip of adhesive (22) to a workpiece (10) is provided. The apparatus (100) includes an applicator (150) reciprocally mounted to a support member (108) such that a working position and a standby position are established. If desired, a pair of applicators (150, 152) can...     

A labeling mechanism is provided which utilizes a servo motor driven capstan to rapidly accelerate and decelerate label stock through the mechanism. Rapid acceleration is permitted because a secondary motor is provided to a label stock supply reel to reduce system inertia. Rapid deceleration is possible...     

A system for the dispensing of literature to objects, such as containers carried by a conveyor, includes a tape for the application of adhesive to literature, and a device for the separation of the literature from the tape to permit the securing of the literature, adhesively, to the containers. A drive...     

An apparatus for stripping a protective coating from a substrate such as an architectural ornament or copper-plated resin board. First and second rotatable rollers are mounted parallel to one another with the spacing therebetween being adjustable. Discharge units are mounted above and below, respectively,...     

Apparatus for heat transfer labelling of articles using a resilient pad maintained at elevated temperatures. Decorative laminates affixed to a support member such as a web are fed to a heated platen. A resilient pad consisting of a silicone elastomer is pressed against the laminate at the heated platen,...     

An assembly designed to strip carpet or like floor covering from the surface of a floor to which it is directly adhered as by adhesive or the like wherein a gripping jaw is affixed to a carpet portion to be stripped and interconnected to an anchored driving assembly in the form of a winch and interconnecting...     

A intermediate feed mechanism in a label printing device enables correct registry of a printing plate with successive labels on a strip material backing, and easy adjustment of the intermittent feed in accordance with the label size, in a very simple and inexpensive manner. A drive wheel releasably secured...     

A tape slicer comprises a base with cutting plates having cooperating cutting edges. A cassette contains adhesive items mounted on a roll of carrier strip and has an arcuate and grooved recess formed in its base for receiving the sprocket wheel of the drive mechanism whereby the carrier strip passes...     

A dispensing device for perfumes or deodorants comprises a housing for a reel of mounting tape with tabs adhesively mounted thereon. The mounting tape extends to a member impregnated with the perfume or deodorant and is passed against the member for coating the upper tab surface. The mounting tape extends...     

There is disclosed a hand-held labeler with a thermographic print head for printing on labels releasably secured to a carrier web, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, a web feeding mechanism including an electric motor for advancing the carrier web,...     

A plastic bottle delabeling apparatus in which a series of heated rolls that are driven at increasingly greater peripheral velocity engage the plastic bottles to flatten and stretch the bottles. While flattening the bottles, the apparatus heats the plastic bottle surface by the contact with the heated...     

This invention is a carpet tape stripper that includes a scraper made of toothed blades, pivot means for the scraper and a handle for holding the tool in use.

A peeling type developing method and apparatus for removing exposed photoresist from printed circuit boards. The printed circuit board is covered with a photopolymerization compound layer and then a transparent support layer. After exposure, a thin adhesive tape is stuck to the support layer extending...     

The invention proposes a device designed for separating IC lead frames, boards, etc., piece by piece, and loading them continuously, and composed of a work stocker which holds laminated work of strips; a work-pressing mechanism which continuously presses the work within the work stocker; a separating...     

The invention is directed to a covering remover, the covering including roofing shingles. Removal of roofing shingles and other coverings presently requires hand tools, such as crow bars, hammers, shovels and nail pullers. This manual method is time and labor-intensive, as roofing needs to be removed...     

An apparatus for removing a mask which extends beyond the outer edges of a semiconductor wafer bonded thereto. The apparatus includes a base having a vacuum chamber opening onto the upper surface of the base, a vacuum valve separating the vacuum chamber from a vacuum source, an actuating lever and a...     

An apparatus is provided for rolling tape onto a seam between two sheets of flexible material, such as a roofing membrane. The apparatus solves the problem of wave formation in front of the applicator roll by providing a support roll that carries most of the load of the apparatus. There is also provided...     

A handling machine for deposit envelopes includes a delivery device for carrying inserted deposit envelopes along a delivery path, a printer for printing deposit information on one side of a succession of labels, the other sides of which contain an adhesive, a label feed device for supplying the printed...     

Apparatus for extracting a coverslide from a solar cell includes a receptacle defining a cavity in which a rack is disposed which mounts a plurality of partitions in spaced, side-by-side relationship. The partitions define a plurality of extraction chambers therebetween which are open at their opposite...     

It is convenient to supply electrical or electronic components for placement on tapes; however it has proved difficult to satisfactorily handle tapes for carrying large components. Use of wide tapes to feed larger components is facilitated by using a drive belt (48) to rotate at a sprocket wheel (44)...     

A portable decal stripping tool particularly adapted for the quick removal of adhesive decals from an automotive surface and comprising a decal stripper attachment for a soldering iron including an elongate shaft with a head portion secured thereto adapted to removably engage and support a razor blade....     

The invention is an improved dispenser for a transfer adhesive. The adhesive is called a "transfer" adhesive because it is separated from its backing material and transferred onto a working surface, without the backing. The adhesive and backing are initially formed on a tape which is threaded from a...     

A sheet separating machine automatically separates and removes a sheet of a dry nonextendable film from a printed circuit panel. The machine comprises a plurality of feeding rollers carrying the panel with the films attached to either or both sides thereof through the machine. The stop lever interrupts...     

A printer, which is especially adapted for printing a bar code on label paper has a housing having a front panel with some operation buttons and a winding drawer having a protruding label table. The printer prints a bar code and alphanumeric numerals on a label which is fed to the label table for then...     

A label printer for printing data on a label attached on a long ground paper by means of a thermal head opposed to a platen. The label printer includes a ground paper feeder constituted of a drive roller and a pinch roller for sandwiching the ground paper therebetween. The drive roller stretches the...     

A film peeling apparatus for peeling off a film stuck onto a base by raising one end thereof comprises a projection-formed detecting member for detecting the end of said film stuck onto said base and an oscillating device for oscillating said projection-formed detecting member upon detection of the end...     

A dispenser for correction tape, reinforcement tabs and the like which is singularly capable of housing and dispensing one at a time of a permanent correction tape or permanent reinforcement tabs each of which includes a releasable backing sheet. The dispenser is also capable of housing and dispensing...     

An apparatus for automatically detaping taped components without cutting or otherwise damaging the leads, using a pair of index wheels, rotating about different axes in synchronism.

An apparatus for removing segments of a wafer adhering to an upper surface of a flat flexible carrier. The apparatus comprises a base supporting a separator plate disposed between a cassette-type conveyor and a support plate. The separator plate has a separator edge spaced apart from the conveyor to...     

There is disclosed a hand-held device for optionally printing and dispensing a web of tags or pressure sensitive labels, or printing on pressure sensitive labels and applying the printed labels to merchandise. Also disclosed are composite webs of pressure sensitive labels and method of using such webs.

The label dispenser and holder includes a rectangular frame having a bottom support member, a top member, a pair of spaced apart end members, a back member, and a front member. At least two rectangular label dispensers are positioned within the holder. The holder includes various brackets which permit...     

A dispenser for correction tape, reinforcement tabs and the like which is singularly capable of housing and dispensing one at a time of a permanent correction tape or permanent reinforcement tabs each of which includes a releasable backing sheet. The dispenser is also capable of housing and dispensing...     

An apparatus useful for storing and dispensing articles which are releasably secured to a continuous length of release paper. The apparatus includes a dispensing guide adapted to receive the strip of release paper. The dispensing guide includes a passageway which deforms the release paper as it passes...