摘要:
A thermo-shrinkable sheet material is punched (at 34) into arcuate container side blanks having information pre-printed thereon. Simultaneous to the punching of the arcuate blank, a bottom blank is presented (at 81) to a forming cone or mandrel (90). The side blanks are then transferred to a folding station (83) where they are individually folded about the forming cone or mandrel and where the seam is ultrasonically welded. The thermoshrink material is then heated (at 84) to shrink the frustoconical container side about the end of the forming cone or mandrel. Vacuum draws the thermo-shrink material into recesses formed in the forming cone or mandrel. The bottom side seams (at 87) are then seamed and the side seam is ironed to make the thickness of the side walls substantially uniform throughout the container circumference. The circumferential container lip is then curled (at 222) to form a finished container which is ejected for packaging. The apparatus of the present invention allows the use of existing paper cup manufacturing machinery to make a two piece thermo-plastic container. Further, the use of arcuate side blanks results in a container having a sidewall of substantially uniform thickness.
摘要:
A heat recoverable article comprises a recoverable fabric and a polymeric layer of at least 0.03mm thickness, and preferably unstressed. Such an article can be recovered by means of an torch to provide an environmental seal around substrates such as cables and pipes.
摘要:
The device for enclosing at least part of an elongate object, preferably a connection between electrical conductors, comprising a hollow dimensionally recoverable article 1 having an aperture that communicates between the interior and the exterior of the article, and a quantity of material 5 which seals an aperture. The material 5 is self sealing so that it will allow penetration of a test probe through the material and will continue to seal the article after removal of the probe. Advantageously the article 1 contains an arrangement for connecting the electrical conductors, for example a solder insert 3 or crimping connector.
摘要:
A wraparound closure article comprising a slit tubular body (41) having upstanding rails (42) extending along the slit is formed by a combination of blow-and compression- moulding. The rails (42) are formed by compressing a longitudinal edge portion of a parison between two parts of a closed split-mould to form a flange, and the tubular body (41) is formed integrally with the rails by blowing the remainder of the parison into contact with the closed mould. The flange is then cut to provide the slit of the wraparound closure article and to divide the flange into two discrete rails. The slit extends along the pinch-line (58) that forms as a result of compressing the edge portion of the parison in the closed mould.
摘要:
A seal is formed between a heat-shrinkable sleeve and at least two substrates extending from one end of the sleeve by placing a clip having at least two spaced apart legs over the sleeve so as to form at least two conduits in its end, the legs defining a channel between them that causes the sleeve positioned therein to adopt a line other than straight.
摘要:
A substrate 4 enclosed for environmental or other protection by a sheet 1 of plain, preferably recoverable, material. The sheet 1 is wrapped around the substrate 4 and closed by a method which allows the diameter of the resulting sleeve to be chosen at will so that the sheet can be cut to length in the field The method involves the following steps; (I) wrapping a plain sheet 1 around the substrate 4; (ii) placing a first support 4 within the resulting sleeve adjacent at least a first edge portion of the sleeve; and (iii) either placing a first fastening means over the support 4 so as frictionally to engage opposing edge portions 3 of the sheet 1 therebetween, or placing a second support within the sleeve spaced along the sleeve from the first support and frictionally engaging respective edge portions of the sleeve between respective first and second supports plus fastening means and securing the first fastening means and support relative to the second fastening means and support.
摘要:
A curable fabric member comprising first and second uring reactants in elongate, preferably extruded, form. The reactants may be coextruded or sequentially extruded to form a single filament, or may be provided as separate staple fibres incorporated in a spun yarn, or as separate continuous filaments assembled into a multi-filament yarn.
摘要:
A device for enclosing elongate objects comprises a dimensionally-recoverable cover (1) which can be wrapped- around the object and closed by means of closure elements (8, 9) located on the cover. The closure elements (8, 9) are preferably in the form of a row of protuberances spaced apart along the edge portions (2, 3) of the cover, the protuberances of one edge portion being nestable within the protuberances of the other edge portion. The protuberances are preferably provided with retaining elements which lock the nested protuberances together and will accommodate relative movement between adjacent pairs of nested protuberances to allow the device to be recovered onto objects of varying dimensions.
摘要:
A dimensionally recoverable body, which is preferably heat-recoverable, has a body wall which is provided with a plurality of locking elements that are engagable with each other, or are engagable with corresponding elements located on a separate partition, to furcate the bod into a plurality of channels. The body may be used for enclosing branch-offs in electrical cables in order to protect the enclosed branch-off from the environment.