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A method and apparatus for sealing packages, e.g., microelectronics packages containing heat sensitive elements, by applying heat to melt solder on the peripheries thereof. At the same time heat is being applied to a package heat sinks are simultaneously engaged with the top and bottom portions thereof...     

The invention is a simplified roller-type apparatus for laminating articles in sheet form with transparent plastic laminating film. It comprises a heating station for heating the work and a pair of pressure rolls for bonding the film to one or both sides of each article. The heating station comprises...     

A machine for the colour printing of textile webs or structures such as carpets and tiles which are tufted or non-woven wherein the colour is sublimatic dyestuff carried by a printing foil and this is placed over the textile structure with the dyestuff facing the textile structure to form a sandwich....     

A device for controlling the sealing of thermoplastic overwraps, particularly sealing end flaps of the overwraps on packets of cigarettes. At various speed levels of the overwrapping machine the time devoted to this sealing operation is kept constant. This is achieved by providing a plurality of control...     

A device for controlling the sealing of thermoplastic wraps comprises contrivances for heat-sealing each wrap, at a speed compatible with individual speed levels of a wrapping machine; cams for causing the heat-sealing contrivances to operate with a reciprocating motion; means sensitive to variations...     

A double facer platen is constructed so as to utilize a liquid heating medium which flows through a chamber containing a labyrinth defining a flow passage whose cross-sectional area decreases in the direction of flow from an inlet toward an outlet. The platen is adapted for use with liquids which have...     

This invention relates to heat transfer presses and more particularly to the transferring of a colored picture printed on paper to polyester knit goods by means of heat and pressure. The polyester cloth heat softens while the ink vaporizes and passes through the intercies of the cloth. The cooling of...     

The method of rigidifying portions of flexible structures comprised in part or wholly of yarns comprised of man-made fibers of filaments wherein the fibers or filaments of the yarns become welded to each other, specifically to a method of welding the constituent yarns of shoelaces at the ends of the...     

A blister sealing machine plate means is disclosed wherein a heater element which extends around the periphery of an opening therein, in which blisters are received, is maintained co-planar with the surface of the plate means at all times. Expansion or contraction of the heater element does not cause...     

Apparatus for inelastically deforming an initially flat blank of a corrugated fiberboard, comprising two die blocks movable relative to each other and having complementarily convex and concave pressing surfaces and blank retaining means adapted to clamp opposite marginal portions of a blank of a corrugated...     

A low profile heat sealing iron for use in applying heat activatable tape in areas of very limited access, such as the sealing of periodic joints in air duct is disclosed. The low profile sealing iron requires only a few inches or less of clearance and has a tape guiding means that feeds the tape to...     

A sealing shoe assembly for forming a seam, by application of heat and pressure, on face-to-face arranged sheets disposed between a backup support and the sealing shoe assembly cooperating with the backup support has an elongated carrier and a sealing shoe supported on the carrier. The sealing shoe is...     

A machine for heat sealing articles between two continuous webs of plastic material comprises two parallel synchronously driven shafts, each of which has a pair of wheels on it which are brought into pressure relationship for heat sealing. One shaft is mounted for yielding perpendicularly to its rotational...     

A sealing apparatus for joining container parts of a plastic-lightweight al foil laminate by heat and pressure applied to the laminates when the respective plastic layers are pressed into contact uses a toggle linkage and a yieldable buffer, with a hydraulic actuator to drive the toggle linkage to close...     

A system is disclosed for laminating surfacing materials, such as high and low pressure laminates, paper, wood veneers, metal foils and the like, to core material, such as plywood, particle board, flake board, hard board, rigid plastic foams and the like. The disclosure includes a machine for laminating,...     

This invention relates to a small laminating machine which is primarily designed to laminate identification cards and the like with heat sealable packets of a special configuration. The packets to be used with the machine consist preferably of two sheets of Mylar film coated with polyethylene on the...     

A method and apparatus for applying indicia to the surface of generally cylindrical articles. The machine utilizes a rotary article transport assembly or turret mechanism which has a plurality of gripper hands mounted thereon for holding the cylindrical articles to be decorated. At least one article...     

A platen for a press comprises a housing having a recess therein, an inflatable member being received in the recess. When the inflatable member is inflated, it acts as a pressure applying member. The press may be provided with one or two such platens.

A carton brander including an anvil, a heated dater block, an actuating cylinder for moving the dater block toward the anvil to brand carton flaps therebetween, and interposer apparatus isolating the cylinder from the heat of the dater block. The interposer comprises a longitudinally slidable rod extending...     

A kit for making O-rings from cord stock material essentially includes a holding fixture for securing the material, a container of bonding liquid and a heating mold. The holding fixture allows the cord material to be cut diagonally in such a fashion that the magnitude of the angle is smaller for cord...     

A displacement device in a thermoplastic web welding apparatus withdraws the leading edge of the web from the welding apparatus during pauses in feeding and/or production to prevent melting and sticking of the leading edge.

An apparatus for bonding brake linings to the tables of brake shoes for heavy duty vehicles by applying heat and pressure. A pair of brake shoes received in movable carrier members are forced by a ram into engagement with brake linings received in a pair of spaced apart restrainer members located in...     

This relates to a heat sealer for engaging heat sealable material between a pair of heat sealer members and clamping the material to be heat sealed under a controlled force. The heat sealing mechanism includes a pair of parallel members which are mounted for movement in unison and in opposite direction...     

Apparatus for bonding heat bondable materials through the application of pressure and heat employs a diaphragm pressed by fluid pressure against the materials. The diaphragm comprises a web having a flexible heating element bonded to its non-material pressing side and has a configuration corresponding...     

A tool for micro-soldering the connecting tags of an integrated circuit chip to corresponding terminals on a substrate by Joule heating includes a high conductivity bit having a planar bottom face adapted to contact the tags and press them against the terminals while applying sufficient heat to the tags...     

A short dwell indexing drive system for intermittently moving a web of thermosealing material through a bag machine includes a conjugate cam defined by a pair of disc cams on a continuously driven input or cam shaft which engage cooperating groups of cam followers on an intermittently driven output shaft...     

A continuous laminating system is disclosed wherein a pair of rotating laminating rollers are provided which form a laminating nip through which a product to be laminated together with sheets of laminating film are fed and pressed. A pair of rearwardly positioned pull rollers pull the laminating film...     

A thermode (12) of a thermocompression bonding head (11) is adjustably mounted to a frame (35). A bonding tip (26) of the thermode (12) rests against a reference surface (17). After an initial adjustment of the thermode (12) with respect to a bonding platform (37), the bonding tip (26) may be removed...     

There is disclosed a strapping machine for applying a plastic strap around an object, tensioning the strap and heat-sealing together overlapping portions of the strap, including a retractable heating member movable between the overlapping strap portions and a pressure-applying means including a pressure...     

Apparatus is described for continuously producing finger jointed lumber from individual elongated boards. Each board includes opposed end faces with elongated parallel fingers that will mate with complementary fingers of a following board to form end-jointed lumber. A reciprocating ram engages one end...     

This relates to a heat sealer which is particularly adapted for sequentially heat sealing opposite edge portions of a web which has been formed into a tubular configuration. The heat sealer functions after each advancement of the web to seal a portion of the longitudinal side seam of the tube while a...     

In a welding apparatus of the type including a pair of opposing press plates relatively movable toward and away each other and each supporting a molded article to be welded together, and a heating plate movable into and out of a space between separated molded articles for fusing confronting surfaces...     

An improved laminator with a novel heating control system is disclosed for particular employment with laminating packets formed of an article to be laminated positioned between top and bottom leaves. When the packet is aligned in a ready position within the laminating machine, heating elements in a heating...     

An adjustable sealing mechanism for heat sealing packages in plastic film is disclosed. The sealing apparatus includes means for vertically adjusting the position of the heat seal to accommodate objects of varying heights while maintaining a vertically controlled heat seal at the ends of the object.

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 portable, flame powered sealer including a sleeve-like body portion receptive to a standard, throw-away type cigarette lighter, a pair of upwardly extending brackets, a heating element held over the flame of the lighter by the brackets, and a compression member pivotally attached to one of the brackets...     

An apparatus (10) for incorporating a pocket bag (30) into a garment panel (84) includes several operational stations (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24). The pocket bag (30) and the garment panel (84) are held in place by a manually moveable template (44). The pocket bag (30) and garment panel (84) are adhesively...     

A heating press plate for a multilevel or multistage platen press is formed with passages, traversed by a heating fluid, e.g. superheated steam. According to the invention, these passages are formed by paired parallel bores with the bores of each pair being separated from one another by relatively thin...     

A fabric repairing assembly is provided with an impact cutter which is operable by a plunger that is slidably mounted in an embracing housing. The assembly is further provided with a heater which includes a sleeve that slidably receives the said housing and wherein the housing can be moved to cause the...     

An apparatus for producing girders, as for example I girders, from lengths of wood forming the flanges and the web of the girder has a carriage running on rails through a first station in which lengths of wood are placed thereon for forming the girder, a pressing station in which the so put-together...     

A laminate assembly having rigid sheets about a thermoplastic interlayer has interfacial surfaces evacuated and peripheral edges sealed by applying localized vacuum and heat to only the periphery and marginal edge portions. A flexible heating blanket having marginally embedded heating elements overlies...     

A stabilizing improvement for a manually operated system employing a heated "V"-section soleplate attachment for applying a heat-sealing tape along the interior joint between wall panels set at right angles to each other, provides first and second contacts located respectively in the planes of but spaced...     

A heat transfer apparatus includes a dome type enclosure member with a heating element internally mounted within a dome formed within the member. The diaphragm cooperatively forms a variable volume chamber with the enclosure member and is movable toward the heating element under the impetus of atmospheric...     

A label applicator device for applying a label to the surface of a substantially rectangular package in a selected orientation includes a package conveyor for presenting a package at an applicator station, control means for manually selecting a first or a second label orientation, and applicator means....     

A belt press comprises a plurality of upper and a plurality of lower traverses respectively having lower and upper traverse faces, upper and lower press platens carried on and between these traverses and having respective upper and lower platen faces respectively confronting the lower and upper traverse...     

An apparatus and method are provided for producing a non-woven fabric ultrasonically without unacceptable streaking. A fibrous batt is continuously fed in a first direction toward and past a plurality of vibration sources and anvil. Energy is supplied to the vibration sources so that bonding of the fibrous...     

Copy sheets having a re-fusable xerographic toner along an edge thereof are bound into booklets by arranging the sheets in a stack and re-fusing the toner so that the re-fused toner adheres adjacent sheets together. The re-fusing operation can be accomplished after each group of a few sheets is received...     

A fastener bonding machine for bonding a fastener to a leaf of a file folder, the fastener consisting of an overlay member having hot melt adhesive on one side thereof and having a pronged member mounted thereon, the bonding machine including a base, a heated platen on the base, a first gauge for locating...     

A modular element for a bridge or structural bearing having metal plates encased within layers of vulcanized rubber is formed in a press including a lower member with at least one post or pin extending upwardly through corresponding holes in the metal plates. A vulcanized rubber plug is inserted and...     

A thermocompression bonding apparatus (10), which is particularly adapted to bond an array of miniaturized electrical leads (36) to a corresponding array of respectively aligned pads (33) of a metallized circuit, supported on a substrate (31), includes a specially constructed and internally heated bonding...     

A heat sealing and cut-off device for making packages with shrink film wrapping. The device includes a rotating anvil and a counter-rotating knife and clamping bars. The rotations are synchronous and independently mounted clamping bars hold the film for heat sealing and severing without scuffing.

A packet-type laminating machine for laminating a flat object between two sheets of protective plastic film, involving two pairs of motor driven inlet and outlet rollers under compression with heating platens between and cooling shelf with guide after, wherein a gentle compression with minimum drag is...     

The present invention provides an apparatus for the simultaneous application of pressure and microwaves to a curable assembly, comprising (1) a continuous press including two endless press belts forming a nip region, the press belts being disposed to apply pressure to curable assemblies inserted therebetween,...     

Heat seal apparatus is disclosed which comprises a heater unit having a heater therein and a roller insertable in and removable from the heater unit. The roller, when in the heater unit, is in heat transfer relation with the heater so as to be heated to a predetermined temperature level. When the roller...     

Elongated hollow members or tubes frictionally engage the interior wall of a hollow corrugating roll or a hollow pressure roll of a single facer so as to minimize the elastic vibration thereof and thereby to minimize the noise developed and transmitted during the operation of the single facer. A plurality...     

Dot Hot Stapling is provided wherein articles such as bags can be made of interwoven or knitted plastic material and wherein the interfitting or interwoven strips are adapted to be sealed together so as to prevent unraveling and to provide an economical method of making such articles. With the present...     

A process is provided for the treatment of foil laminated paperboard stock to obtain a super smooth printing surface. The smoothness is accomplished by eliminating the surface irregularities of the foil by passing the foil laminated paperboard through a smoothing nip formed with a heated highly polished...     

Apparatus for producing finger jointed lumber from random length boards is disclosed. Adhesive applied to the union of two boards of lumber mated end-to-end in a finger joint union is cured in a rotary bonding assembly including a stator and a rotor. Mounted on the stator assembly are a plurality of...     

An improved apparatus is disclosed in which a tensioned plastic strap loop is placed about an article. The invention includes an improved rear guide. The guide is connected to the rear gripper so that it moves with it. The rear guide has a pair of forward and a pair of rear guide members. The forward...     

Two weatherstrippings are joined before the application of any backing to the woven strip of artificial yarn which carries the rows of pile which form the air barrier. A plastics material is placed across the butted ends of the strips in contact with the lower surfaces of the strips and the two are then...     

A flyleaf heat sealer for adhering a flyleaf having its inner surface pre-coated with hot melt or heat sensitive adhesive to the exposed outer surfaces of the end sheets of a book block insert, includes means for engaging and transporting a book block insert and the flyleaf folded therearound, means...     

Apparatus and method for bonding surfaces together. A laser beam is applied to the opening in a bonding tip. The bonding tip includes a central cavity forming a black body tapered from the opening to a second tip end. The heated tip end is applied to the fuseable surfaces in either a thermocompression...     

A process and apparatus for forming a series of plastic laminate samples one-by-one in a semi-continuous manner. Samples pass continuously one after the other through a series of heating, compressing, and cooling steps. Each sample is heated and pressed for a predetermined interval in a first compression...     

A press for securing a plurality of workpiece elements in substantially coplanar, side-by-side, pressurized engagement during a gluing operation. The press comprises a bed, a retaining wall adjacent one edge of the bed, a plurality of pusher shoes mounted adjacent an opposite edge of the bed, and a top...     

For producing transverse seams on tube bag machines, two conjointly, oppositely moving sealing tool jaws (15, 16) are provided, which are movable on a carriage (6) during the sealing process. For driving the sealing tool and selecting an appropriate stroke length, the frame (5) on which the carriage...     

Apparatus for making bags from a folded web of thermoplastic material includes a rotating drum to which the web is continuously applied. As the drum rotates through a given arc length, the web is tucked outwardly from the periphery of the drum in progressively deeper folds wherein the depth of tuck determines...     

A hot press capable of minimizing a displacement of one substrate from another in multilayer printed circuit boards each constituted by a plurality of substrates having wiring pattern groups printed thereon which are pressed together by applying pressure into a multilayer printed circuit board. The end...     

A tag assembling machine feeds tag bodies and tag ties from opposite directions along a lineal path into a centralized work station in predetermined alignment for assembly. In the preferred embodiment, the work station includes a welding apparatus for bonding the tag tie to the tag body.

This invention is an improved heatseal die that forms superior airtight seals. The die has opposed die faces, with one die face having longitudinal lands and the other die face having grooves for receiving the lands. The lands are truncated and the depth of the grooves is greater than the height of the...     

An apparatus and process for improving the method of joining abutting carpet seams with an underlying reinforced adhesive tape. The apparatus comprises a flexible elongated backing of non-stick heat reflective material and includes an adhesive tape guide and heating iron attachment point at one end....     

A simple proofing apparatus which provides a proof by preparing a synthetic image from proofreading films of each color which are colored with cyan, yellow, magenta, black etc., corresponding to original plates for each color separation films, comprising a table for mounting a ground paper or a proofreading...     

A tube closure apparatus for sealing the open end of a plastic tube, such as the tip of a pipette, comprising a sealing element constructed of a fluoroplastic material and a heating element for controllably heating the sealing element to a temperature greater than the melting temperature of the plastic...     

A device for applying seal tape to sheet-like material, wherein an adhesive tape is fed together with a portion of the material in a feed direction and pressed between a pair of opposed rollers, comprising: a machine body; a fixed arm projecting substantially horizontally from the machine body; a common...     

Apparatus for laminating articles such as cards, ID-cards and the like, with the aid of films, consisting of plastic foil that can be activated by heat, comprising two heated pressing rollers that can be driven, which are included in frames that are composed of side plates and through which the films...     

A machine for making plastic bags, such as trash or garbage bags, includes a rotary sealing drum of variable diameter, the drum including one or more sealing bars for cross-sealing a flattened plastic film tube passing through the machine. A blanket tensioning system surrounds the drum and is adjustable...     

An improved L-sealing apparatus providing an L-shaped sealing bed assembly mounted at its ends and corner on three piston-and-cylinder assemblies operable upon closing of the sealing arm into adjacency with the sealing bed assembly to translatorily move the sealing bed assembly into uniform and continuous...     

A hand trowel device for particular use in roofing and like constructions is specially provided with an integral heating means. The heating means is adapted to continuously maintain the trowel blade at a temperature sufficient to plasticize or render flowable, preferably under applied pressure, the roofing...     

A magnetic recording disc-jacket assembly within which a magnetic recording disc is positioned includes a jacket having a central window for receiving a drive shaft and an elongated head window for receiving a recording/reproducing head. A cleaning liner made of fibrous material is disposed at each side...     

A cap heat-sealing apparatus for containers comprises a stationary pressing member (18), and movable pressing members (19) arranged around the stationary pressing member (18) and identical in number to the number of corners of a container opening fitting portion (8) of a polygonal cap (5) formed at its...     

A sealer is disclosed for sealing upper and lower portions of a web without sealing the portions together, such as side gussets in side gusseted bags. A sealing bar is placed below the web and fixed with respect to the machine. Another sealing bar is placed above the web, parallel to the first one. An...     

To provide for uniform pressure, under predetermined conditions, of application of closure sealing jaws for a bag making machine, to close thermoplastic tubular foils, a hydraulic pressure element (7;26,28) applies the pressure of a pressure jaw (1) against another (2), with the foil interposed; the...     

Disclosed herein is a device for sealing portions of an overlapped pair of single or composite films by contacting or facing an appropriately heated sealing surface of a heat sealing member. The heat sealing member is provided with the sealing surface in a part of its outer surface and with a sealed...     

A laminating system includes a pair of heated laminating rollers for drawing laminating film from supply rolls and preheat members between the supply rolls and the laminating rollers with the rollers being heated by circulating oil. The preheat members have surface area consisting of a synthetic resin...     

In a bagmaker, two pairs of opposed jaws to draw a web of material about a former and seal the web to form separate bags, each set of jaws are cantilevered on a support and have electromagnetic assist to provide pressure during sealing.

An apparatus for splicing film together is provided. The apparatus includes a first jaw and a second jaw, the jaws cooperating to clamp two film ends together. A heat sealer for sealing the two film ends together is located in the first jaw. A rotatable block is located in a second jaw. The rotatable...     

An improved thermoplastic film heat bonding apparatus includes a heated seal bar, a support member supporting the heated seal bar for reciprocating motion against a platen and a resilient coupling between the support member and the heated seal bar to allow deflection of the heated seal bar with respect...     

A system for transferring an image to an article and includes a base for supporting the article, an article conveyor for sequentially moving articles onto and off of the base in a given direction between an entrance end and an exit end, a roller disposed adjacent to the base, an image conveyor for sequentially...     

A welding apparatus for producing at least two spaced welding seams for welding together overlapping ends of two lengths of thermoplastic synthetic resin sheets at a welding station, comprises a frame, a heating device arranged on the frame ahead of the welding station in an operating direction and being...     

Laminated lumber press apparatus is described including a plurality of press sections each having a lower press platen and an upper press platen of adjustable height which are spaced apart for receiving lumber members therebetween and pressing such lumber members together during gluing to produce laminated...     

A system for heat sealing in conjunction a pair of plastic strips each of having a series of regularly spaced transverse pockets so that the pockets together form chambers separated by webs. The two pocketed strips to be joined are brought together and the strips heat sealed around the pockets to seal...     

A heating sealing apparatus including a heat sealing press and a table assembly. The press includes a C-frame mounted along a pair of rails and including a base portion, a rear pillar portion, an upper cantilever portion extending forwardly from the rear pillar portion, a lower platen mounted on the...     

An oven-heated hot wheel sealing unit for heat sealing thermoplastic film. The unit includes an oven having a heater for heating the air therein. A plurality of rotors are rotatably supported within the oven. Each of the rotors includes a wheel having a rim adapted to extend outside of the oven for engaging...     

A high-frequency welding installation for welding particularly plastic material parts includes at least two work stations and one feed station arranged in linear succession and trays on which work pieces are conducted through the stations by means of a transport system in a single direction and are returned...     

A horizontal multiplaten press used for pressing sheet materials under heat for making plywood, decorative laminate or veneer. It has a pair of vertically disposed and horizontally spaced apart frames. At least one upper beam and at least one lower beam extend horizontally to connect the frames at their...     

A composite board press is provided with a single set of platen supporting rods for supporting and loosely guiding a plurality of platens, the heights of which are dually adjustable. The invention also includes a method of laminating a composite to form a printed circuit board by applying heat and pressure...     

A packet-type laminating machine for laminating a flat object between two sheets of protective plastic film, comprising a pair of closely spaced heating platens with a flared opening at one end designed to accept the insertion of a packet-type laminable plastic pouch and a pair of manually driven outlet...     

This invention discloses a horizontal multistage press which comprises a pair of frames disposed upright in face-to-face relationship with each other, at least one upper lateral beam disposed to connect the upper portions of the abovementioned pair of frames, at least one lower lateral beam disposed...     

A device for the cross-welding and/or cross-cutting of sealable foil material having inserted therein at regular intervals a particularly bulky fill material. Swingably mounted sealing jaws are forcedly guided in closed cam guideways which are an inverted mirror image of one another and located on opposite...     

The invention is an apparatus for molding an article made of layed up materials having opposed principle surfaces, such as one that is hollow tubular shaped. In detail, the invention includes a first mold part for forming one surface of the article on which the layup is placed and a second mold part...