Packages made from flexible material, wherein the packages include one or more self-folds formed by applying activation energy to the flexible material.

Transfer of nanoscale elements from a substrate on which they were manufactured or transferred to a flexible sheet may be performed by local and progressive deformation of the flexible sheet over the surface of the substrate to attach and lift the nanoscale elements from the substrate with controlled inter-element registration.

A patch lamination device includes a laminate feed roller, a laminating roller, and a laminate spreader. The laminate feed roller is configured to feed a patch laminate ribbon along a laminate path. The laminating roller is configured to laminate individual patch laminates of the ribbon to a surface of a card substrate. The laminate spreader is positioned between the laminate feed roller and the laminating roller. The laminate spreader is configured to reduce the formation of trough wrinkles in a patch laminate that is tensioned between the laminate feed roller and the laminating roller during lamination of the patch laminate to a card substrate using the laminating roller.

Packages made from flexible material, wherein the packages include one or more self-folds formed by applying activation energy to the flexible material.

Plastic flooring having registration system contains: an electronic control unit electrically connected with roller equipment and the registration system, the roller equipment is configured to deliver a substrate, a printing layer, and an abrasion resistance layer toward a rolling device. The rolling device includes a fourth roller set having pressing patterns identical to surface patterns of the printing layer, and the registration system has a first sensor, a tension regulator, and a second sensor. The first sensor is disposed on a delivery path of the printing layer which corresponds to the first sensor and has multiple positioning points. A length between a first positioning point and a second positioning point depends on a perimeter of the fourth roller set so as to form a print unit, and the first sensor is configured to sense the multiple positioning points and to transmit sensed signals to the electronic control unit.

An article of footwear includes an upper formed of a base layer, a reinforcement layer, and an auxetic structure coupled to the reinforcement layer. The base layer includes an elastic material and is elastically deformable between a resting configuration and a stretched configuration. The base layer is configured to be stretched to a predetermined amount. The inelastic reinforcement layer is coupled to the base layer. The reinforcement layer is configured to delimit the stretch amount of the base layer when the base layer is in the stretched configuration.

An article of footwear includes at least one panel comprised of a composite material. The composite material includes a plurality of layers that are secured together according to a predetermined embroidery stitching pattern. The panel includes a first layer having a maximum elongation in a length direction of the article of footwear, and a second layer having a maximum elongation in a width direction of the article of footwear. The composite material also includes additional layers coupled to the first layer and the second layer.

A method of applying labels to a store shelf in a retail environment. The method includes applying labels with adhesive strips applied to a bottom surface of each label and a top laminate layer with a release coating applied to the top surface of each label. The labels in the pad are sequenced according to a store's planogram.

The invention relates to a method for producing composite elements, comprising the steps: 1) providing a first cover layer; 2) applying a first reaction mixture, which reacts to a bonding agent, to the cover layer; 3) applying a second reaction mixture, which reacts to a polyurethane/polyisocyanurate foam, to the first cover layer so that the first reaction mixture, applied to the first cover layer, is contacted at least in part by the second reaction mixture. According to the invention, the bonding agent is preferably a 2K bonding agent, the components of which are applied separately and according to a predetermined pattern and react to the bonding agent on the substrate.

A process for laminating a polyester film onto a major surface of a metal strip and to a laminated metal strip produced thereby, or a can produced therefrom.