Apparatus for testing adhesive tape

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR TESTING ADHESIVENESS OF ADHESIVE TAPE CARRYING AN ADHESIVE COATING ON A SIDE THEREOF, WHICH COMPRISES, IN CONBINATION, A TESTING TABLE FOR RECEIVING TAPE TO BE TESTED, HOLDING MEANS FOR THE TAPE ON THE TABLE, HEATING MEANS FOR HEATING THE TAPE TO A SELECTED KNOWN TEMPERATURE AS IT IS PASSED ALONG THE TABLE, MEANS FOR FEEDING THE TAPE AT SELECTED CONSTANT TIME INTERVALS THROUGH THE INCLUDING MEANS AND BENEATH AN APERTURED PROVIDED IN THE HOLDING MEANS FOR RECEPTION OF A TAPETESTING PLUNGER, OPPOSITELY SPACED SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY EXTENDING FRAME MEMBERS CARRIED BY THE TESTING TABLE, A SCALE FRAME VERTICALLY SHIFTABLE IN THE FRAME MEMBER, SUSPENSION MEANS FOR THE SCALE FRAME INCLUDING A FLEXIBLE SUSPENSION CABLE SECURED TO THE SCALE FRAME, AND PULLEY SHEAVES MOUNTED ON AN OVERHEAD BEAM CONNECTING THE SAID VERTICALLY EXTENDING FRAME MEMBERS, MOTORACTUATED MEANS CONNECTED TO THE SUSPENSION CABLE FOR IMPARTING VERTICAL RECIPROCATORY MOVEMENT TO THE SCALE FRAME THROUGH A FIXED DISTANCE, A PAIR OF PULLEY SHEAVES MOUNTED ON LOWER PORTIONS OF THE SCALE FRAME IN ADJACENT JUXTAPOSITION, FLEXIBLE CABLES PASSING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS OVER AND AROUND THESE PULLEY SHEAVES AND SECURED ADJACENT TO ONE END OF THE SAID SHEAVES AT DIAMMETRICALLY OPPOSITE LOCATIONS FOR OPPOSITELY ROTATING THE PULLEY SHEAVES, PENDULIUM-TYPE COUNTERWEIGHTS DEPENDING FROM THE PULLEY SHEAVES, HANGER MEANS SUSPENDED FROM THE LAST MENTIONED FLEXIBLE CABLES AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF PARALLEL COUPLING LINKS PROVIDED WITH SPACER PINS BETWEEN THE LINKS, THE SAID LAST MENTIONED FLEXIBLE CABLES HAVING FREE ENDS SECURED TO THE SAID LINKS, A SUSPENSION HOOK HAVING