Color Communications, Inc.

Robert Shearer

Stanley I Lerner

A method and apparatus are disclosed for the manufacture of a colored chip or colored swatch bearing sheet, i.e. a color chart, comprising a base sheet bearing an array of adhesively attached colored chips in rows with indicia identifying the color of each chip with a particular paint. The base sheets are fed automatically from a stack of sheets to an adhesive applying means which applies spots of adhesive to the sheet at swatch receiving areas on the sheet. Narrow webs or ribbons of swatch material are severed to form the individual swatches or color chips which then are transferred automatically to a passing sheet and applied thereto. The sheets pass through a series of swatch forming and applying stations with a row of swatches being applied to each sheet at each of the respective stations. Preferably, the sheets are fed continuously and at a relativey fast rate of speed. The arrangement and size of the swatches may be easily changed to allow the apparatus to be used for various types of color charts.

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Park Ridge, IL, United States of America

Robert Shearer