Abstract:
A method for folding a fastener during a high speed manufacturing process and maintaining the fastener in a folded configuration throughout the high speed manufacturing process. The method includes obtaining an article that has a foldable fastener and moving the article in the machine direction during the high speed manufacturing process. The foldable fastener has first and second opposing surfaces, a web and at least one engaging member joined to the web. The method includes applying a frangible bonding agent to a first portion of the first surface of the fastening system; folding the fastening system such that the frangible bonding agent contacts a second portion of the first surface of the fastening system; and allowing the frangible bonding agent to cool at a temperature of less than 60° C.
Abstract:
A method for folding a fastener during a high speed manufacturing process and maintaining the fastener in a folded configuration throughout the high speed manufacturing process. The method includes obtaining an article that has a foldable fastener and moving the article in the machine direction during the high speed manufacturing process. The foldable fastener has first and second opposing surfaces, a web and at least one engaging member joined to the web. The method includes applying a frangible bonding agent to a first portion of the first surface of the fastening system; folding the fastening system such that the frangible bonding agent contacts a second portion of the first surface of the fastening system; and allowing the frangible bonding agent to cool at a temperature of less than 60° C.
Abstract:
A system and method of making an open-ended, reinforced, layered belt having a profile layer, a top layer material, and tensile cords fully encapsulated there between. The method includes engaging portion of the profile layer on a rotatable cylindrical mandrel with an engaging roller, disengaging with a take-off roller, and applying and fusing the cords to the profile layer at a desired cord spacing there between. The cord may be fused by melting the profile layer surface with a heated plow and/or with heated cord. The cord is then covered with the top layer material in a lamination step involving heating to melt at least a portion of the top layer and pressing it to fuse it to the reinforced profile layer. Lamination may be done downstream or directly on the mandrel.
Abstract:
A molded part is made by cold-stretching a nonwoven web so as to rupture fibers or filaments thereof, laminating to a face of the cold-stretched nonwoven web a stretchable plastic film, and then inserting the laminated nonwoven web and film into a mold cavity with the film juxtaposed with an inner surface of the cavity and the cold-stretched web turned inward. This mold cavity is then filled a polymer melt to press the film against the inner mold surface while forcing the melt to penetrate the nonwoven web.
Abstract:
The object of the invention is a process for continuous consolidation of at least one fold (22, 24), whereby said process consists in unwinding a unit that consists of said at least one fold (22, 24) that is placed between two strips (26, 28) continuously along at least one curved path, said at least one fold (22, 24) being placed between guiding means and a strip (26) to the right of the curved path to heat said at least one fold (22, 24) at least at the curved path and to exert tension on said strip (26) so that the latter compresses said at least one fold (22, 24) at least at said curved path, characterized in that it consists in using strips (26, 28) whose width is greater than that of said at least one fold (22, 24) so as to be in contact on both sides of said at least one fold (22, 24).
Abstract:
A transfer device in which a material which transmits a laser beam LB is employed as an upper mold, and a photothermal conversion layer is formed thereon. A transfer film, at which a transfer material layer is formed, and a workpiece are superposed and pressured between the upper mold and a lower mold. During this pressuring, the laser beam is irradiated in accordance with a pattern of an organic electroluminescent light-emitting layer that is to be formed on the workpiece. Thus, the photothermal conversion layer is heated and the transfer material layer is softened. As a result, the transfer material layer is cleaved and detached from a temporary support, and a component in the transfer material layer that is to form the organic electroluminescent light-emitting layer is transferred to the workpiece. Accordingly, efficient transfer processing is enabled when a transfer material is transferred to a transfer object by a thermal imaging process.
Abstract:
A compressible printing element that has a thermosol lamina. A thermosol is a thermosetting plastisol, preferably a polyvinyl chloride plastisol containing dioctyl phthalate as a plasticizer and having a di- or tri-acrylate monomer that crosslinks therewith to form a thermoset material preferably in the presence of a peroxide free-radical initiator activated by heat. A phenolic resin is preferably included in the thermosol. The thermosol lamina is resilient and adhered to a compressible lamina, preferably one that is highly porous.
Abstract:
A method of making an open-ended, reinforced, layered belt is disclosed. The method includes extruding a top layer onto said cords and meterering it into a first cavity or into a first gap defined by a smooth cylindrical mandrel and a molding band or a first gap defined between said mandrel and a laminating roller, thereby forming a carcass comprising said cords embedded at one surface of a film of said top layer material and training said carcass on a second portion of a cylindrical mandrel, said second portion including a second cavity defined between said cylindrical mandrel and a molding band or a second gap defined between said cylindrical mandrel and a laminating roller.
Abstract:
A method of making an open-ended, reinforced, layered belt is disclosed. The method includes extruding a top layer onto said cords and meterering it into a first cavity or into a first gap defined by a smooth cylindrical mandrel and a molding band or a first gap defined between said mandrel and a laminating roller, thereby forming a carcass comprising said cords embedded at one surface of a film of said top layer material and training said carcass on a second portion of a cylindrical mandrel, said second portion including a second cavity defined between said cylindrical mandrel and a molding band or a second gap defined between said cylindrical mandrel and a laminating roller.
Abstract:
A tufted carpet is provided having a primary backing with yarn comprised of at least 85 % by weight of fibers selected from the group nylon fibers, wool fibers, and blends thereof. A polymer adhesive is applied to the back side of the tufted primary backing, which adhesive consists of at least 85 % by weight of one or more ethylene copolymers each comprised of 50 to 95 weight % of ethylene, and 5-50 weight % of at least one comonomer selected from the group of esters and carboxylic acids. The polymer adhesive has a melt index greater than 150 and a tenacity at room temperature of at least 5 Mpa. A secondary backing is adhered to the back side of the primary backing. Preferred comonomers in the ethylene copolymer adhesive include vinyl acetate, butyl acrylate, methyl acrylate, methacrylic acid, and acrylic acid. A process for making the tufted carpet of the invention is also provided.