A laminated packaging material is provided. The laminated packaging material comprises a bulk layer of paper or paperboard or other cellulose-based material comprising a plurality of longitudinally distributed holes extending through the bulk layer, one or more outside layers being laminated to the bulk layer, one or more inside layers being laminated to the bulk layer, wherein said inside and outside layers covering said holes on the bulk layer and so form the plurality of longitudinally distributed laminated holes, and a plurality of longitudinally distributed primary holes extending through the entire thickness of the of the associated laminated hole and wherein the each primary hole is surrounded by the edges of the laminated hole.

An electro-optic display is produced using a sub-assembly comprising a front sheet, an electro-optic medium; and an adhesive layer. An aperture is formed through the adhesive layer where the adhesive layer is not covered by the electro-optic medium, and the sub-assembly is adhered to a backplane having a co-operating member with the aperture engaged with a co-operating member, thus locating the sub-assembly relative to the backplane. In another form of electro-optic display, a chip extends through an aperture in the electro-optic medium and adhesive layer. In a third form, the aforementioned sub-assembly is secured to a backplane and then a cut is made through both backplane and sub-assembly to provide an aligned edge.

A packaging structure including: a cover secured to a first substrate and forming first and second distinct cavities between the cover and the first substrate, first and second channels formed in the first substrate and/or in the cover and/or between the first substrate and the cover, the first channel including a first end leading into the first cavity and a second end leading off the first cavity via a first hole passing through the cover, the second channel including a first end leading into the second cavity and a second end leading off the second cavity via a second hole passing through the cover, a height H.sub.A of the first channel at its second end is lower than a height H.sub.B of the second channel at its second end.

A method for fabricating a part includes sectionalizing a computer-generated representation of a part into strata having an order, forming layers corresponding to the strata from sheet material, stacking at least two of the layers in the order, and joining the layers together. The method is suitable for producing a phase-change material container for a thermal energy harvesting device, for example.

A packaging unit for hygiene articles is formed from a sheet of material having an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface includes an edge zone including an inner edge portion and an outer edge portion. The sheet has at least one folding axis dividing the sheet into a first region and a second region. The inner edge portion and the outer edge portion of the edge zone of the first region is provided with adhesive, and the other of the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion of the edge zone of the first region is adhesive-free. Further, one of the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion of the edge zone of the second region is provided with adhesive, and the other is adhesive-free in a complementary manner to the edge zone of the first region.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for manufacturing absorbent articles, wherein discrete zones of protrusions may be formed on a substrate. In some configurations, the protrusions may be formed as hooks. When forming the discrete zones of protrusions, localized speed variances may be imparted to the advancing substrate to ensure the adequate time to form the protrusions is provided. As such, protrusions may be formed on portions of the substrate that have been temporarily stopped or slowed to relatively slow speeds. The substrates with zones of protrusions may then be incorporated into products, such as assembled absorbent articles, so as to place the protrusions in desired positions on the absorbent articles. As such, the methods and apparatuses herein allow for the use of hook forming techniques on substrates in article manufacturing processes that provide flexibility in such configurations without sacrificing desired manufacturing speeds.

The present invention relates to a washable linerless self-adhesive label, and to a method and apparatus for producing said label. The present invention also relates to labelled products.

A flooring material having a textile pad substructure with a density of greater than 10 pounds per cubic foot is provided. The textile pad has reinforcement and binding fibers. The binding fibers are thermoplastic and are used to bind the reinforcement fibers together. The pad is created by heating and compressing a fibrous textile batt so that it has a density of greater than 13 pounds per cubic foot.

Infrared and ultraviolet reflecting films and methods for producing the films using metal oxide particles such as TiO.sub.2 or ZnO fibers that have been decorated with magnetically responsive particles such as super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and a curable matrix. The size, position and orientation of the magnetically responsive fibers can be controlled. The orientation of the fibers can be controlled with the application of a magnetic field and the oriented fibers can then be fixed into position by curing the polymer matrix. Multiple layers with selected configurations of fiber sizes and orientation can be formed into laminates. The range of infrared wavelengths and the range of irradiance angles can be widened with successive layers of increasingly angled fiber sections, fiber section spacing and section sizes.

The present invention includes recognizing, as positions of outermost circumferential cells, positions each of which is calculated from an average cell pitch of usual cells and each of which is present on an inner side from a circumference of an end face of a honeycomb structure; disposing, on the basis of the recognition, virtual perforation regions at positions on a sheet which correspond to the outermost circumferential cells to be plugged, each of the virtual perforation regions being divided into a plurality of squares; and performing perforation processing of perforating at least one of a plurality of squares in each of the virtual perforation regions. Positions and a number of squares to be perforated in each of the virtual perforation regions are individually set in accordance with each of the positions of the outermost circumferential cells to be plugged to which each of the virtual perforation regions corresponds.