A sheet product package and method of making discrete plastic sheets includes a package enclosure with a dispensing opening structure and a plurality of discrete plastic sheets arranged in a stack. The plurality of discrete plastic sheets are disposed within the package enclosure, and each of the plurality of discrete plastic sheets is electrostatically charged. In the method of making the dispensable plastic sheets, electrostatically charged discrete plastic sheets are formed and arranged in a stack. The method may include forming a continuous plastic film, cutting the continuous plastic film into discrete plastic sheets, and, after cutting, electrostatically charging the discrete plastic sheets.

The present invention refers to an apparatus and a method for wrapping a film around an object. The apparatus includes a device capable of being electrostatically charged and capable of transmitting the electrostatic charge to the portion of film that comes out of the carriage. In this way, the fixing of the leading end flap of the film around the object to be wrapped is thus facilitated. In fact, the leading end flap of the film, as soon as it is dispensed, remains stretched out of the carriage and, as soon as it meets the object to be wrapped, it immediately fastens to it due to the attraction force. The rotation is then activated to wrap the film around the object. The apparatus is simple to make, cheap, and highly efficient.

An adhesive tape dispenser includes a main body provided with a flattening sheet at an upper side of a first end and the flattening sheet is connected with a blade. The main body is provided with a Velcro at an underside of the first end and pivotally mounted with a first roller corresponding with the Velcro. In the process of release of adhesive tape, the adhesive tape enables the first roller and the Velcro to rub each other and generates static electricity and thus, when the adhesive tape is not used, the adhesive tape will be absorbed to the first roller and impossible to roll up back to the adhesive tape roll.

A winding machine for web-type materials, in particular film materials, comprises a feeding device and at least one winding shaft which is capable of being driven and designed to receive a winding core for the winding of the web-type film material, wherein the winding machine is allocated a system for regulating and/or reducing an electrostatic charge of the web-type material during the winding process.

A printer as a medium processing apparatus includes a transport path through which a paper being transported passes, a recording head that records on the paper on the transport path, and a platen that forms at least a portion of the transport path as a path forming member with which the paper comes into contact, in which a surface resistance value of the path forming member changes according to an applied voltage of the medium.

The present invention concerns a method for joining the ply of a reel of paper in depletion with the initial flap of a new reel, as well as an apparatus adapted for carrying out such a method. Thanks to the method according to the present invention, and to the apparatus suitable for carrying it out, the joining of the reels takes place without using gluing means, like for example the double-sided tape used in known methods, avoiding the relative drawbacks, the adhesion between the plies of the reels to be joined taking place by electrostatic attraction.

The present invention refers to an apparatus and a method for wrapping a film around an object. The apparatus includes a device capable of being electrostatically charged and capable of transmitting the electrostatic charge to the portion of film that comes out of the carriage. In this way, the fixing of the leading end flap of the film around the object to be wrapped is thus facilitated. In fact, the leading end flap of the film, as soon as it is dispensed, remains stretched out of the carriage and, as soon as it meets the object to be wrapped, it immediately fastens to it due to the attraction force. The rotation is then activated to wrap the film around the object. The apparatus is simple to make, cheap, and highly efficient.

A winding machine for web-type materials, in particular film materials, comprises a feeding device and at least one winding shaft which is capable of being driven and designed to receive a winding core for the winding of the web-type film material, wherein the winding machine is allocated a system for regulating and/or reducing an electrostatic charge of the web-type material during the winding process.

A printer as a medium processing apparatus includes a transport path through which a paper being transported passes, a recording head that records on the paper on the transport path, and a platen that forms at least a portion of the transport path as a path forming member with which the paper comes into contact, in which a surface resistance value of the path forming member changes according to an applied voltage of the medium.

A roll (10) of glass ribbon (20) and an interleaf material (40) disposed in alternating layers, wherein a layer of the interleaf material is pinned to an adjacent layer of the glass ribbon by an electrostatic force that is of a value so that a shear force required to cause slip between the interleaf material and the glass ribbon is greater than or equal to 10 times that required to cause slip between them when not electrostatically pinned together. Methods for winding and unwinding the roll, as well as an apparatus for winding the glass ribbon and interleaf material into a roll, are also disclosed.