Color Communications, Inc.

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Color Communication, Inc.

Stanley I Lerner

Steven B Winter

Gregory O'Brien

Robert Shearer

Steve Winter

Gregory O'brien

A fan blade and color display fan deck provide a changeable color display product because the fan deck blades can be added to and removed from the fan deck without opening the fastener to which the fan blades are pivotally attached. Despite being removable from the fan deck, the blades can withstand the normal wear and tear associated with use in a color fan deck such as supporting the weight of the whole fan deck when a user holds an individual fan blade.

Color fan deck with removable blades

A method of making a color display device and color display device are provided for the display of metallic or special effect pigmented paint using commercially available or the manufacturer's paint. In the method provided herein, the metallic or special effect pigmented paint is sprayed onto a web behind a knife or onto a first roller which is a part of a roller roller coater.

Method for making a color display device

The present invention is directed to a paint color sample display device for the illustration of paint colors and a method for making such a color display device. The color display device may be a color fan deck which displays color on each side of the blades of the fan deck. The fan blades include a painted polymeric film laminated to both sides of a base paper to form a painted film/base paper/painted film laminate for the fan blades.

Method of making color fan deck

An apparatus and method of high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via sequentially releasing a suction force from an endless vacuum belt conveyor while sequentially pulling the sheet onto another endless vacuum belt conveyor with a suction force to allow for substantially continuous engagement of the sheet with the endless vacuum conveyors during the manufacture and inspection of the sheets.

Method and apparatus for manufacture and inspection of swatch bearing sheets using a vacuum conveyor

A method and apparatus are provided for high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via a single set of sheet engaging members. Individual sheets are removed from a stack of sheets at a feeding station. The sheets are aligned into a predetermined position for feeding to the sheet engaging members. A single set of sheet engaging members directs each sheet through an adhesive applying station where glue spots are placed on the sheets at predetermined locations. Each sheet is then advanced by the same set of sheet engaging members through one or more swatch applying stations where swatches are applied to the glue spots on the sheets. The sheets are then discharged from direction via the sheet engaging members at a disengaging station. The sheets are then fed through a pressing station to firmly adhere the swatches to the glue spots on the sheets.

Method and apparatus for manufacture of swatch-bearing sheets

A method and apparatus use an in-line printer to print on chips or swatches mounted on an underlying substrate such as a sheet or web of paper or paperboard. The chips may have varying heights due to variations of thickness of the paint on the chip and/or adhesive mounting the chips to the substrate. The sheets are continuously moving through the chip mounting machine and the printing machine which are synchronized to operate at the same speed. In the illustrated apparatus, conveyor pushers push the sheets through the chip mounting machine and through the printer machine and resilient strips on the printing roller form a nip with an underlying anvil roller to grip and hold the chips against shifting to prevent smearing of the ink as the sheets are pushed through the nip between the printing cylinder and the anvil roller. An in-line trimming apparatus such as die cutter may cut the chips to size and/or shape as to provide rectangularly mounted chips with arcs, curves, circles, etc. The trimmed scrap from a trimmed chip is removed by a vacuum conveying system. In the illustrated apparatus, an in-line folder may fold the printed chip bearing sheets to complete the illustrated in-line apparatus and method.

High speed mounting and printing for colored chips on a sheet

The color card or display device of the invention has one or more paint color swatches or chips which are removable from a base and are repositionable and adhesively affixable to another substrate remote from the color card or display device. The color card with repositionable paint swatches provides swatches which may be remounted onto furniture, walls, other samples and fabrics to aid the consumer of the color to select the color on the swatch and match it with other colors and the environment for which the color is intended.

Color display product with removable color chips and a method for making same

Method of making a color display device

The invention is directed to controlling and/or managing a marketing color on mass-produced articles. According to the invention, an unmanaged marketing color is managed over time where mass-produced samples having the unmanaged marketing color are periodically tested or audited to confirm that the unmanaged marketing color and/or a part of the mass-produced articles conforms to a master color standard.

Method for the control of colors

Color swatch charts are formed by feeding sheets eighteen inches or longer in length with this long dimension of the sheet disposed transversely to the sheet travel direction. Ribbons in a row of eighteen inches or longer are simultaneously severed with the first and last swatch in each row of identical size and with the swatches having four square corners to form a rectangular shape. This orientation of the long axis of the sheet reduces the number of stations and the length of travel of the sheets, thereby increasing production. The sheets are fed through an adhesive applying station where spots of adhesive are applied in rows to the sheet. The sheet travels through a series of swatch forming and applying stations. At each such station, a plurality of swatch ribbons are fed forwardly and severed to form the individual swatches in a row; and a row of swatches is then transferred to and adhered by the adhesive spots on the sheet. The preferred severing station comprises a rotating cylinder carrying a straight cutting blade that is resiliently backed by springs that allow the rotating cutting blade to shift radially inwardly as it sweeps past a stationary anvil blade. Thus, all of the swatches in a row are cut simultaneously rather in seriatim fashion as with a curved or helical blade. The sheets travel through a succession of stations and a succession of rows of swatches are adhered thereto.

Method and apparatus for manufacture of swatch bearing sheets

Apparatus for producing sample parts arranged in an array on a base sheet. The apparatus includes a roller about which webbing of the sample material is drawn, the webbing being severed to form the sample parts and to transport the sample parts to a transfer station. Needle take-down apparatus at the transfer station engages the sample part with a plurality of retractable needles to moving the sample parts to a base sheet.

Apparatus for the manufacture of sheets bearing display samples

Apparatus for coating a webbing uses rollers in contact with each other. The coating is applied to a first roller and coating thickness is limited by a knife blade. The coating travels to a point of contact with the second roller about which the webbing is wound, and the coating is thereby transferred to the webbing. By controlling the relative speed between the two rollers, the knife blade can be raised or lowered with respect to the first roller to attain greater control over the coating operation.

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Glencoe, IL, United States of America

Stanley I Lerner