3m Innovative Properties Company

Michael Sean Bates

Peter Joseph Fritz

Paul J Richtman

Stanley L Conwell

Richard Louis Fry

James W Malaske

Douglas E Devaney

Bradley S McKay

Darla A Elgin

Bruce W Livermore

David F Slama

David C Roeker

Donna C Rockette

An apparatus for making a surface treating article, and in one embodment for making a plurality of surface treating articles. The apparatus includes an attaching means for attaching a fastener to a surface treating web and a cutting means for cutting the web around the fastener to provide a surface treating article. In one embodiment, a sensor, such as a machine vision system, senses a position of the fastener on the web, with this sensed position being used to direct operation of the cutting means.

Apparatus for making a surface treating article

A surface treating article including a surface treating member and a fastener including a fiducial. The present invention also provides a preferred method of making a surface treating article that includes to a method of sensing the location of a fasteners on a surface treating web and thereafter cutting the surface treating web around the fastener to provide a surface treating article.

Method of making a surface treating article and such a surface treating article

Method of making a surface treating article

A container for a stack of sheets (e.g., abrasive coated discs) including a base portion adapted to extend transversely across a bottom surface of the stack of sheets and having opposite ends adapted to be positioned at spaced locations along a side surface of the stack of sheets; and a plurality of stiff elongate retaining portions having proximal portions attached to the base portion at its opposite ends with the retaining portions at spaced locations around the side surface of the stack of sheets. The retaining portions have central parts adapted to extend along the side surface of the stack of sheets from its bottom surface to its top surface at those spaced locations, and have distal parts adapted to extend above the top surface of the stack of sheets. Those retaining portions are positioned or bendable to position the distal part in contact with the top surface of the stack of sheets, and have a shape or retain a shape to which the retaining portions are bent to retain the stack of sheets in the container.

Container for stacked sheets

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North Oaks, MN, United States of America

Michael Sean Bates