Abstract:
Various methods and apparatus are disclosed for the treatment of poorly conducting substrates with ions so that the substrate is more receptive to printing material and the printing material is more adherent to the substrate prior to being fused thereon.
Abstract:
1,212,877. Seaming non-metallic sheet material. CONTINENTAL CAN CO. Inc. 28 Dec., 1967 [28 Dec., 1966], No. 58777/67. Heading B5K. [Also in Divisions B8 and H5] One side of an electrically non-conducting material 14 is heat sealed to another surface by a heat sealable material by applying at least one resistive heating element 10 to the one side of the material 14 and applying a high frequency alternating voltage to the other side of the material 14 to produce a flow of alternating current in the element 10 by capacitive coupling to heat the one side by Joulean heating. As shown in Fig. 1, the element 10 is fixed to a substrate layer 12 secured to the non- conductive layer 14 and is heated by placing the layer 14 adjacent to electrodes 16, 18 positioned to apply the tangential portion of an electric field generated therebetween to the element 10. The method is applicable to sealing frozen food cartons which are imprinted, in the regions to be sealed, with heating elements comprising electro-conductive ink, the conductive material being carbon, aluminium, silver, platinum, gold, nickel, tin or copper. The heating elements are arranged in any of the patterns shown in Fig. 2 and are covered with polyethylene or a heat sealable wax, e.g. an ethylene vinyl acetateparaffin blend. A carton 34, Fig. 7, provided with conductive lines 10 1 is moved past a pair of etched comb-like electrodes 22 1 , 241 whose individual teeth are intermeshed and which are embedded in a polystyrene block 26 and coated with a polystyrene sheet 28. In Fig. 9, filled cartons 34 are fed by a conveyer 40 past electrode structures 36, 38..to seal the side flaps and then past chill rails 42, 44 to cool the seals. The front flap of the carton is sealed by subsequently moving it past a similar electrode structure and chill rail. The flaps of milk cartons (45), Fig. 10 (not shown) having conductive lines (46) thereon, are closed by cams 50, are sealed by passage between electrode structures (52), (54) and are cooled by chill rails (56), (58).
Abstract:
This invention is directed to a pneumatic flow switching device particularly adapted for the electrostatic coating of tubular workpieces, particularly can bodies, and includes a generally cylindrical chamber, a conduit for peripherally delivering a fluidized admixture of powder and air into the chamber, means for peripherally exhausting the powder-air admixture from the chamber, means adjacent the conduit for directing air tangentially into the chamber whereby the powder-air admixture is directed toward the exhausting means, and means for pneumatically traversing the powder-air admixture generally axially of the chamber for the delivery to an article intended to be treated thereby.