US 4,911,777 AGranted

Method for manufacturing photograph slide sleeving material

AssigneePakon, Inc.

InventorsJames A. Truc, Nils Lund-Nielsen

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Abstract

Photograph slide sleeving material is manufactured by cutting pocket opening slots in an elongated first web section of polymer film material as the web is continuously moved through a slot cutting station. The slotted first web section and an adjacent elongated second web section of polymer film material are continuously moved through a laminating station where they are laminated at locations forming pocket bottom walls and side walls. An elongated web of photograph slide sleeving material having a plurality of rows of pockets emerges from the laminating station and is continuously moved through a perforating station where it is perforated between adjacent rows of pockets. Ring binder storage files and hanging storage files are assembled by separating sheets of slide sleeving material from the elongated web and attaching storage mounts having adhesive edges.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method for manufacturing photograph slide sleeving material, including:

providing a continuously moving first web section of polymer film material to a cutting station;
continuously cutting a plurality of pocket opening slots aligned in a transverse direction and spaced in a longitudinal direction along the first web section of film material while it moves past the cutting station, to form a continuously moving slotted first web section of film material;
providing the continuously moving slotted first web section of film material to a laminating station;
providing a continuously moving second web section of polymer film material to the laminating station;
laminating the slotted first web section of film material to the second web section of film material at locations forming a plurality of pocket bottom walls and a plurality of side walls while the web sections move past the laminating station, to form a web of slide sleeving material having a plurality of transversely oriented and parallel rows of pockets;
continuously moving the web of slide sleeving material from the laminating station to a perforating station;
perforating the laminated web of slide sleeving material between the rows of pockets to form sheets as it moves past the perforating station;
and
winding the perforated, laminated web of side sleeving material on a spool.

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A method for manufacturing a slide storage file, including:

providing a continuously moving first web section of polymer film material to a cutting station;
continuously cutting a plurality of pocket opening slots aligned in a transverse direction and spaced in a longitudinal direction along the first web section of film material while it moves past the cutting station, to form a continuously moving slotted first web section of film material;
providing the continuously moving slotted first web section of film material to a laminating station;
providing a continuously moving second web section of polymer film material to the laminating station;
laminating the slotted first web section of film material to the second web section of film material at locations forming a plurality of pocket bottom walls and a plurality of side walls while the web sections move past the laminating station, to form a web of slide sleeving material having a plurality of transversely oriented and parallel rows of pockets;
continuously moving the web of slide sleeving material from the laminating station to a perforating station;
perforating the laminated web of slide sleeving material between the rows of pockets to form sheets as the web moves past the perforating station;
separating a sheet of slide sleeving material from the web of slide sleeving material;
providing a storage mount having an adhesive strip on an edge thereof;
and
affixing the edge of the storage mount with the adhesive strip to an edge of the sheet of slide sleeving material.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.