3M Innovative Properties Company

Joshua M Retterath

Ronald Wayne Ausen

Bruce E Tait

Kevin B Newhouse

Fred J Roska

Ramasubramani Kuduva Raman Thanumoorthy

Chris J Tanley

Terence A Lee

A looped pile static reduction blanket or cloth, an apparatus including the looped pile static reduction blanket, and a technique to neutralize static and static patterns from a polymeric film surface during processing, to enable higher speeds and fewer defects during web transport and subsequent processing of wound film rolls, an apparatus including the looped pile static reduction cloth, and a technique to neutralize static from a polymeric shaped part during processing, to enable fewer defects. The looped pile static reduction blanket includes a static reduction engagement cloth that is resilient and can facilitate discharge of static from a web to ground before, during, and after contact with a charged web.

Articles for eliminating static electricity and methods for their use

A method for conveying a workpiece having a first major surface with exposed adhesive using at least one transport roll () having an engagement cover () having an engagement surface comprising looped filaments () that have a low surface energy wherein the work-piece () passes through engaging contact with the engagement surface such that at least a portion of the pressure sensitive adhesive () directly contacts the engagement surface wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive () is tacky when in contact with the engagement surface. Also an apparatus for carrying out the method.

Method for conveying adhesive-sided articles and apparatus for doing so

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Cannon Falls, MN, United States of America

Joshua M Retterath