US PATENT SUBCLASS 156 / 540
.~.~.~ Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier

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156 /   HD   ADHESIVE BONDING AND MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL MANUFACTURE

349  DF  SURFACE BONDING MEANS AND/OR ASSEMBLY MEANS THEREFOR {34}
538  DF  .~ With work feeding or handling means {4}
539  DF  .~.~ For plural parts or plural areas of single part {3}
540.~.~.~ Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier {1}
541  DF  .~.~.~.~> Discrete spaced laminae on adhered carrier {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 156/540

(under subclass 539) Apparatus in which a lamina to be secured to a base is carried on and bonded to a flexible tape or sheet and is stripped from the carrier during the securing step.

(1) Note. The devices in this and the indented subclasses are commonly referred to as "transfer devices".

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

230+, for methods of surface bonding involving direct contact transfer of adhered lamina from a carrier to the base lamina and especially subclass 238 where the carrier is a running or continuous flexible web.

584, for delaminating, per se.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

29, Metal Working, 90.01+, for devices for burnishing a metal leaf coating on a

base.

101, Printing, appropriate subclasses for transfer printing devices wherein a printing die is used to cause direct transfer of a portion of a lamina carried on a flexible sheet. In Class 101 may be found, for example gold leaf printing devices in which the leaf is directly transferred from a carrier to the article utilizing a die stamp acting on the back of the flexible sheet.

400, Typewriting Machines,

118.1, for a typewriter that applies gold leaf, and subclass 696 for a typewriter wherein an error is corrected by an adhesive ribbon.