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|Lyijynen Fred
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|Briggs Mfg Co
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F. LYIJYNEN Nov. 2, 1954 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING LAMTNATED MATERIALS Filed June 22, 1951 2 sheets-sheet 1 ".ahg
Nov. 2, 1954 F. L YlJYNEN 2,693,221
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United States Patent O IVIETHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING vLAMINATED MATERIALS Application June 22,1951, Serial No. 233,026
14 Claims. (Cl. 154-1) This invention relates to the manufacture of laminated upholstery material particularly, although not exclusively, adapted for use as the covering material for vehicle seat and back structures orfor trimming the interiors of vehicle bodies, such as automobile bodies. The laminations of the upholstered material, which preferably include atop or cover sheet of fabric or other ldecorative material, an intermediate layer of padding material and a foundation sheet, are bonded together at predetermined regions between heated'dies by means of a bonding substance which'usually comprises a thermoplastic or thermosetting resinous material. When completely fabricated-foruuse the bonded laminated material is customarily in the form of panels dimensioned for the purposes intended. L
Heretofore, in the fabrication of laminated upholstery panel material or trim panels it has been the practice to cut the sheets or laminations to desired panel size, lay up or assemble the sheets in proper superimposed relation, Yand. introduce the assembled layers or sheets into a hydraulic-press between heated platens which bond the layers together at desired localities under the influence of heat and pressure. Hydraulic presses employed for these purposes are costly and the cost of production consequent to their use is enhanced owing to inactive periods when the presses are open to permit loading thereof and removal of the panels therefrom, also on account of the substantial intervals of time required for carrying out the bonding operations so as to complete the curing or polymerization of the bonding resins used to bond the panel laminations together. In addition, costs of production are relatively high on account of the personnel needed to conduct operations, and the time and handling required to cut the various layers or sheet materials to panel size and assemble them preparatory to introduction into the press.
An object of the present invention is to overcome previous disadvantages encountered in the fabrication of laminated panel materials and to reduce machine, personnel and production costs while at the same time enabling superior laminated articles to be produced for trim yor covering purposes. This object of the invention is accomplished by eliminating individual molding of laminated panels and in lieu thereof molding the laminated materials by a continuous method in which the superimposed panel materials in sheet or strip form are fed between a rotatable die and a fixed or stationary curved die, the former cooperating with the fixed die to compact the laminations at selected regions and to feed the laminations through the machine relatively to the fixed die while in contact with the curved surface thereof. Thus, successive portions of the rotatable die engage-and compress the materials against the curved surface of the fixed die upon entering the machine, each such die portionfmaintaining uniform pressure upon the materials as the latter travel a predetermined distance and for a predetermined period of time in contact with and relatively to the curved surface of the fixed die, whereupon as the materials emerge from between the dies they are bonded together and may thereafter pass through a cutting mechanism effective to cut the laminated sheet or strip into panels.
In the embodiment of the invention herein illustrated, there is provided a die mechanism for bonding together under the influence of heat and pressure and along preice dingsheet and a foundation sheet which, for the purposes of upholstering a seat or back structure, is ilexible or pliable. The machine comprises a fxed or stationary upright die which is concaved to provide a generally arcuate, smooth die surface. A rotatable drum is associated with the stationary die and is mounted upon a shaft driven at the desired speed through suitable drive mechanism. The center of curvature or the curved surface of the stationary die corresponds substantially to the axis of rotation or' the die drum and the latter carry die elements which travel within the cavity yof the stationary die along and proximate to the curved surface thereof. The superimposed laminations of materials in strip form are fed into the machine between the movable die elements and fixed die surface, which successively grip and compact the materials at the selected'regions. 'the materials are fed by the movable die elements against and along the smooth curved die surface of the lixed die during which time the materials are heated to cure or set the bonding substance. The length ot' time that each successive compressed portion of the materials is held in compacted condition under the inuence of heat is determined either by the effective length of the curved I die surface or the speed of revolution or' the die drum or nate corresponding parts in the severalviews.
Fig. l is a transverse sectional elevation, taken substantially through lines 1-1 or' Big. 2, illustrating a machine or apparatus constructed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is in part a diagrammatic view and also in part a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken substantially through lines 3--3 of Fig. l looking in the direction of the arrows.
- Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of a strip or sheet of bonded laminated materials after issuingfrom the apparatusshown in Figs. l to 3 inclusive.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken substantially through lines 5--5 of Fig. 4 looking in the direction of the arrows.
Before explaining in detail the present invention it is Vto be understood that the invention 1s not limited in its application -to the` details of construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, since the invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or carried out in various ways. Also it is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.
In thefdi'awings there is illustrated, byvway of example, an apparatus for consolidating or bonding together laminations ofsheet or strip material in a continuous manner. This machine or apparatus comprises a base plate or platform 10 which may be mounted upon a suitable upright frame structure or table 11. Rigidly mounted upon the' base 10 is a fixed or stationary die structure 12 which, in the present instance, comprises upper and lower horizontal frame members 12a and 12D, respectively, Which are joined together at the front of the machine by a fixed or stationary heated die member 13. The fixed die member or platen 13 is curvilinear and is of the desired width transversely of the machine so as yto accommodate strip or sheet material of any predetermined width. Although the die member v13 is herein illustrated as being substantially uniform in crosssection thereby providing curved front and rear faces, it will be understood that for the purposes of the present invention it is only of importance that the front face or surface 13a ofthe die be curvilinear so as to provide a stationary generally varcuate pressing surface against which the laminated materials are compacted and bonded together through the medium of travelling die elements carried by a rotatable drum hereinafter described.
The curved die 13 may be heated and maintained at the desired molding temperature by any suitable means, preferably through the usev of steam or by electrical means. In the present instance steam is used to heat the die 13 and maintain it at the required temperature during the molding` or bonding operation. Accordingly, the die or` platen 13 is provided with a suitable number of transverse conduits or steam passages14 extending transversely therethrough. Each passage or conduit is tapped at opposite ends to receive threaded couplings 15 which in turn are connected to piping 16 through which steamis forced under pressure from a suitable source of supply and circulated through the steam passages or conduits in the die orl platen 13.
Rigidly mounted upon the base or platform at opposite ends of the stationary die structure are a pair of similar hollow standards 17. Mounted upon these standards through the medium of .suitable shims 18a are fixed bearing blocks 18 bored to receive bearing bushings 19 within which opposite ends of a shaft 20 are journalled. A hollow drum 21 s keyed to the shaft 2t) for rotation therewith. This drum carries various die elements of predetermined design or configuration for impressing grooves, depressions, indentations or the like in the laminated materials. yIn the present instance, by way of example, the supporting means Yfor the die elements or members comprise bars or blocks rigidly secured to the outer surface of the drum 21 and arranged as desired either transversely of the drum or circumferentially thereof so as to bond the laminated materials together along predetermined lines or regions, such as shown in Fig. 4 hereinafter described.
As an exempliiication of a die structure for eifecting a bond between the laminated materials along lines producing a pattern on the order of that illustrated in Fig. 4, there is rigidly secured, as by welding, to'the outer surface of the drum 21 a number of die supporting bars vor members 22` which project radially of the drum and extend transversely of the machine. Detachably secured in any suitable manner to the outer faces of the bars 22 are die members 23 carrying, in the present instance, pressing elements in the form of ribs 23a. These ribs or die elements, as later described, produce in cooperation with the stationary die 13 spaced parallel transverse grooves in the laminated materials. Whereit is desirable, as illustrated inFig. 4, to form spaced longitudinal grooves or depressions in the materials joined by transverse grooves there may be rigidly secured to the drum an arcuate die supporting plate or block'24 of desired length circumferentially of the drum. Detachably secured in any sm'table manner to the Vcurvilinear die supporting plate 24 is a die member 215 carryingarcuate longitudinal curved pressing elements inthe form of arcuate ribs 25a joined at opposite ends by transverse ribs 25b.
The die elements or ribs carried by .the supporting members 22 and 24 may bey heated in any suitable manner and maintained at the desired temperature for bonding the laminated materials together. In the present instance the die elements are heated electrically through the medium of electrical resistanceeleements` These may be installed either Within the drum 21 or within the die supporting members 22 and 24. In the. present instance the die supporting members are bored to .provide holes or cavities 26 within which are mounted resistance heat,- ing elements 27 each of which is provided with a pair of contact terminals 2S and 29. The contact terminals 28 and 29 project into position to contactand ride over a pair of circular conductor strips or tracks 30 and 31, respectively, which are embedded in andI ,carried by a circular insulating member 32. The latter is boltedat 33 to a `fixed supporting-disk or plate 34 rigidly .secured by means of an angle 35 to the stationary bearing block 18v at the right-hand side of the/machine asy viewed in Fig. 1. Each pair of projecting contact terminals 28 and 29 for the electric resistance elements 27 is encased within an insulating guard or protector'member 36. It will be evident from the foregoing that during rotation of the die drum 21 the contact terminals 28 and .29 wil-l maintain contact with and `ride along the conductor tracksv 3tLand 3,1, and since these tracks are connected infcircuit to a suitable source ofl electricity' the' 'heatingl elements; `27
will be energized thereby to heat the die supporting members 22 and 24.
The shaft 20 and the die drum 21 secured thereto are rotated through the medium of power supplied from a suitable electric motor (not shown) which drives through a sprocket chain 37 a sprocket gear 38. This gear is drivingly connected in any well known manner to reduction gearingmounted Within a casing 39 bolted at 40 to a platform 41. The reduction gearing within the casing 39 drives an output shaft 42 which is connected by a coupling 43 to the drum shaft 20. It will be understood that the reduction gearing `is so selected as to-drive the shaft1 20 and, hence, the die drum 21 at the desired spee It will be .noted .that the vstationary ,die member 13 forms in effect a substantially arcuate cavity within which the drum 21 projectsythe position of this drum and its supporting shaft 20 with relation to the die 13 being such that during rotation of the drum the successive die elements carried thereby move into the concave cavity of the die 13 with the outer working surfaces of the die elements 23a, 25a and 25b travelling in close proximity to the curved or arcuate surface 13a of the die 13. These outer working surfaces of the die elements, as shown in Fig. 3, move along the curved die surface 13a in uniformly spaced relation thereto, the spacing between the die elements and the fixed die surface 13a being predetermined to achieve the proper compacting of the laminated materials, and this spacing may be varied to accommodate different thicknesses of material or variations in the number of laminations in any suitable manner such as by meansof shims which may be introduced between the die members 23 and 2S and the die supporting members 22` and 24.
The upholstery material, which is to be bonded together along predetermined pattern lines or regions, comprises, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, a top cover sheet 44 of cloth or other desired fabric, an intermediate paddingv sheet or layer 45 which may be sponge or `foam rubber, wadding or the like, and a foundation sheet 46. Where the laminated material is to be used for upholstering the seat or back structure the foundation sheet 46 is composed of a flexible or pliable material, such as coarse woven sheeting or other fabric. As illustrated in Fig. 2, the materials or laminations 44, 45 and 46 are preferably fed to the machine in strip formfrom suitably supported rolls 47, 48 and 49, respectively. The top sheet or strip 44 may be fed from the roll 47 through tension guide rolls 50 which are preferably driven by gearing so as to enable these rolls to be driven at variable speeds so as tovary the tautness of the cover sheet as it passes through the machine. The padding layer 4S may be fed from' the roll 48 through tension guide rolls 51and .the foundation layer 46 may be fed from the roll 49 through tension guide rolls 52 over a table 53 and. thence into the machine. The laminations or layers in superimposed relation are fed into the machine .between the rotatable die members and the `fixed or kstationary `die member, and the die elements 23a, 25a and 25b during rotation of the drum 21.successively grip and compact the materials against the smooth arcuate die surface 13a. The die elements embed themselves in the materials and feed them along the xed die surface 13a. After emerging from the upper portion of the die apparatus. as shown in Fig. 2, the laminated material in bonded condition passes over a guide roll V54 and is thence fed rearwardly over the upper horizontal portion 12a of the fixed die 12 to a cutting or shearing mechanism, such as illustrated diagrammatically at 55, which cuts the strip into panels of the desired dimensions.
In Figs. 4 and 5 there is illustrated, by way of .example, a laminated material bonded together along certain pattern lines. It will be understood that these lhave been selected arbitrarily for the purpose `merely of exemplifying a laminated product produced yby va die apparatusv embodying the present invention. As illustrated in Fig. 4, the die member 25 with its die. elements 25a and 25b forms, during each revolution of the drum 21, a seat panel P. This panel is defined bymarginal compressed bondedtogether areas indicated at S6, 57 and 58 which extend continuously around the foursides of the panel. The bonded areas 56 and k58-are formed by the die elements 25b and the areas 57 are formed by two of the die elements 25a located at opposite `ends of the die ,plate 25. The -panel P isz :bonded: together areas 63.
materials along the lines 5659, they are compressed grausamy along parallel pattern lines 59 joining the areas 56 and 58, these being formed by arcuate die elements or ribs 25a carried by the die plate 25. When thefsuccessive panels P, formed in the laminated material, pass through the cutting or shearing mechanism 55, they are cut out or separated from the laminated stripy along the outer marginal lines 61 bounding the bonded areas 56, 57 and S8. Since these areas are hat and compressed they provide a convenient means for stitching the upholstered seat cover P to the trim fabric covering the upright sides, front and back of the seat. It will be seen that by compressing or bonding theA materials forming the panel P along the narrow parallel lines 59, there are provided intervening uncompressed padded areas 60. VAs also illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, the laminated strip, as it is fed through the machine, is compressed and bonded together by the die elements 23a along transverse lines 62, these die elements producing Vrelatively deep grooves along these lines and intervening uncompressed padded It will be understood that in bonding the together in a manner generally similar to thatillustrated at 62 in Fig.- 5.
Although in the present embodiment the die apparatus is illustrated for thepurpose of producing flexible or pliable upholstery panels especially useful as coverings for back and seat structures, it will be` understood that the invention may be used for the purpose of fabricating relatively stiff trim panels such as are used in trimming the insides of automobile doors. For such purposes the foundation layer may comprise a comparatively stii material such as iiberboard. Such material, however, will be sufficiently bendable so that it may be fed through the machine in conjunction with the padding l and cover sheets. In order to reduce to a minimum the amount of bend to which the foundation board would be subjected to when fed along the curved die surface 13a, this surface as Well as the diameter of the drum 21 may be relatively great.
The bonding substance for bonding together thelaminations may be applied either to the surface of the foundation sheet 46 or the surface of the padding layer 45 or both and is usually somewhat tacky and of a kind that will be cured or polymerized under the inuence of the heat from the die member 13 and the rotatable die elements which cooperate therewith. Such bonding substance preferably includes, at least in part, a thermosetting resin such as a phenol-formaldehyde resin or a urea formaldehyde resin which is in an intermediate stage of reaction when applied to the laminations and which will cure or set permanently under the influence of heat upon being subjected thereto during a predetermined period of time. In connection withl upholstery panels for seat'and back covers it is desirable that the bonding substance be such as not only to permanently bond the laminations together but also to provide bonded lines or areas which are flexible or pliable. T hisvis important in connection with seat or back cushions which are subjected to deforming or distorting forces due to the weight of the occupant of the seat. It has beenfound that thermosetting resins, especially of the phenolic type, when used as the bonding medium produce undesirably sti bonding lines or regions which are comparatively brittle and, when deformed or bent out of shape due to the weight of the occupant of the seat, crack or pucker and eventually produce an unsightly appearance along the bonding pattern lines.
I have found that relatively flexible or pliable bonding lines or regions may be produced by means of a bonding resin comprising as the principal constituents thereof atrubber-like bonding substance mixed with a phenolic resin. As an example, a rubbercement cornposed principally of approximately three parts of a synthetic or natural ,rubber or latex and one part of rosin or colophony may be utilized. A liquid varnish may be prepared by mixing this cement and a phenolic resin in a water carrier, the cement and resin being of the types that are soluble or miscible in water. This resin mixture may comprise, for example, from approximately 5% to 11% by weight of phenolic resin and from approximately 22% to 28% by weight of Vrubber cement, the balance ofthe varnish being water. Such a bonding mixture, when cureduuder heat and pressure, will produce exible or pliable bonding lines or areas and will withstand the bending or deforming forces to which the seat or vback cushion issubjected to on account of the weight t of they occupant.
I claimz. l. ln-a die apparatus for bonding together laminated materials through the medium of a bonding material said materials including a backing sheet, a cover sheet and an intermediate Ypadding sheet; a xed die member formed with a concave recess providing a smooth plain curved die surface, a rotatable die member, die elements carried thereby and movable during rotation of the rotatable die member along and proximate to said curved die surface, and means for rotating said die member to cause said die elements to successively engage and embed in said cover and padding sheets at spaced localities and to compactthe same at said localities against said backing sheet and curved die surface and feed the sheets relatively to and along said surface to bond the same together at said localities. f
2. In a die apparatus for bonding together laminated materials through the medium of a bonding material,
said materials including a backing sheet, a cover sheet` and an intermediate padding sheet; a xed die member formed with a concave recess providing a smooth plain curved die surface, a rotatable die member, die elements` carried thereby and movable during rotation of the rotatable die member along and proximate to said curved die surface, means forheating said die elements, and means for rotating said die member to cause said die elements to successively engage and embed in said cover and padding sheets at spaced localities and to compact the same at said localities against said backing sheet and curved die surface and feed the sheets relatively to and along said surface to bond the same togetherat said localities.
3. In a die apparatus for bonding together laminated materials through the medium of a bonding material, said materials including a backing sheet, a cover sheet and an intermediate padding sheet; a fixed die member formed with av concave recess providing a smooth plain curved die surface, a rotatable die member, die elements carried thereby and movable during rotation of the rotatable die member along and proximate to said curved die surface, and means for rotating said die member to cause said die elements to successively engage and embed in 4. In a die apparatus for bonding together laminated materials including a backing sheet, a cover sheet and an intermediate padding sheet; a xed die member formed with a concave recess providing a smooth curved die surface, a rotatable die member, die elements carried thereby and movable during rotation of the rotatable die member within said recess along and proximate to said curved die surface and spaced therefrom a less distance than the thickness of said materials, means for rotating said die member to cause said die elements to successively engage and embed in said cover and padding sheets to compact the same at spaced localities against said backing sheet and curved die surface and feed the sheets relatively to and along said surface to bond the same together at said localities, and means for heating said sheets while in contact with said die surface.
5. In a die apparatus for bonding together laminated sheets through the medium of a bonding material introduced between adjacent sheetsz a fixed die member formed with a concave recess providlng'a plain curved die surface, a rotatable die member, die elements carried therel by and movable during rotation of the rotatable die member within said recess along and proximate to said curvedtion yof said rotatable die member and said die elements being spaced from said die surface a less distance than the combined thickness of said sheets, and means for heating said sheets while in contact with said die surface.
geesten-11i- 6.; An die; apparatus: for.; bondngi'itogetherlaminationsi of material through the rnediumfoffa--bondingsubstance; comprising a die member having a xed generallwarcuate diedsurface, a:.rotatable. drum, die elements -mounted .on the r outer. face of said drum;
adjacent said die :member to.i.causeieachf diefelement f during. -rotationn of the drum.. to wmoven into position tof compact. said .laminations latt-.spaeedf'localities againstnsaidfl die surface adjacent vone end thereof andto Imaintailiv'saids laminations` ini .compacted .relation `against :saidfdiefsurfacef- 10: i
to bond the .same together :at-'said ;localities las feachbsuchf: die element travels along-said sunfacerto:agpointladjacentf the opposite zend., thereof, said ldiev elements bein'gcsplaced',` from said ldie; surface al less distanceA 1t1i\an,^.the.` combinedil thickness a of 1 saidlaminationsf each,` die elements: at saidd 151 1 latterl i end moving 1 away from.` said dief surfaee'stoareleasei4 said laminations, and. means fomheating said laminations 1 during the travel thereof along saidtdies-sunfcet:
7. Ardie apparatusfor-bondingwtogether ythrough the medium' of g aibonding substanceya :backi-ngisheetn and: :a:. pluralityv of Acover sheets y:superi1r1p-osed thereon; compris-'.1 ing 1.a:.ixed.:.upright die. memberfhavingta;irecessfterminati ing in atfront openingiand havingv'az.'cunvedrlback..Walla formingia plainadie :surface,. arotatablerdnum; die means;` mounted.y upon the outery side of `said drunr, .meansa for mounting: saidz.- drumi adjacent rsaid opening: to-.ipositionf portions of said .diet means:y within.'.saidfrecessawithf.thea: outerV surfaces :thereof proximateto: saididie surface: sox: asttoembed in saidifcoverfsheetsfat spaced localitiesand press `thesame .against said backing sheet. andrd-iessurfacei. and vbond. .the same together, and means:for-rotatingsaidf, drurnnto cause successive vportionsioff'saidndie :means tof.v4 enga'gessaid1-laminations adjacent onejendeof said'zopeningg-. feed the.` same :in compacted conditionalong saiddie surface,IA and release the. samefatthe oppositeeend tofisaid;` openings 8u A dier; apparatus for bonding` i together a laminations .1.- of: material.. through :thefmedium of.v a-'bondingasubstancc-,t comprising a. fixed upright die memberfy havingca.L recesS1. terminating :in a vfront openingv and'having a1 curved:bacia:V wall forming a :plain s die surface,. a frotatable:drum;l die' means mounted upon. the outer side :of saidudrum; means: for; mounting .said .drum adjacent Asaid opening :tocpositiona` portions ofsaid die means withinzsaid recess with thefouter. surfaces thereof proximate-towsaid :die surfaces-.soz-asito compact -said laminations against vsaidnsunfaceiandabondu the same/together,l means for rotatingrsaidadrumwto cause successive portions off'said die means =to engage said lami-.- nations adjacent sone end ofi-:said opening,v feed the-samaA in compactedl conditionalong said die'surface, andfrelease the.L same-at. :the oppositeend of. said. opening, andameans` for heating said laminations during the trailelxthereof.V alongsaid .die surface, said diey means being spacedufrom said die. surface 1 a less distancef than the; cox1tbin`ed;,thi :k nessrofsaid laminations.
9.1'AYA die `apparatus v.for bondinggtogethernlaminationsf. of-:material through1the mediumof sa bonding.esubstanteav comprising a: fixed upright :die: member."'havingtazfrecess terminating in a front-opening and-havingaacurvedrback'f. wallr forminga plain diesurface, a:rotatablevdrum', die; means mounted. upon zthe outer .sidefo .said:.clrum,f mcanss. for 3 mounting saidadrum adjacent :saidopeningnto. ,posifi tion=-portions of said :die means. within'said;recesstwithnA theoutensurfacesthereof proximateato saiddie surfaces so as .to compact-said laminationsagainst. said-.surface f andbon'd the-same together, means *for-rotatingsaiddrumn to .cause successive portions of said die'means'toengage.y said laminations adjacent one endv of .saitkopening'l feed the samefin compacted condition along said idie surface, and release thesame at the opposite end of said..opening,; said die surface throughout themajor. length thereof being y arcuate with the center of .curvature ,thereof substantiallyA at the axis of ,rotation of thedrum, andl means for. heating.-v said. laminations during. thetravelv thereof along saiddie surface.,4 said. die ,means being, spaced. from 4 said .die sur. face'aless `distance than the .combined thickness of saidv. laminations.
10., In a die apparatus for bondingtogetherlaminated; materials through the mediumof a .bonding.,substance said materials including a backing;l sheet, a cover sheet and ,an .intermediate padding sheet; a. fixed upright die. member having yagenerally arcuate plaindie surface, ai rotatable drum, a curveddie supporting,member, secured means` for .1 mounting: #said1 5f! heatftofsaidsheetsat said L rotatable sheets 'at spaced localities and to rotatablendrum,x 'dieY tof,- thee outer surface ofsaid difum" andl havin-gM spacedtransverselyextending rib-like die elements.and longitudi-l nally extending 1 curved rib-likel .L die elements-extending b'etweenfsaidrst named die-elements, meansfor support ingfand rotating saiddrum Ato Vmove said die elements to embed the same-in1said1cover1and padding -sheets acipredetermined areas andpress thesame-against said backing sheet and 'die' surfacel at said lareas `and -to feedthe materials-along1 and# relativelyto saidldie surface during aL portion: oi'-l one revolution of the drum, said die elements during .another portion of 5one revolution i of the drum i moving-away from isaid -die 1 surfaceA toy release the. materials; and rneansfor.heating` the materials-while-'under compressionbetween-said die elements .Land die surface.
11'. Theumethod'ofv bondingy togethcrlaminated materials Jincludngoa covcrfsheet and an underlying padding" sheet, including the 1steps -of 1 introducing said materials betweenl. a. stationary `curved"substantiallyfplain dieA surface-fand @dier` elements finterposedbet-weenI said materials and'rotating said drum'to feed saidl materialsralongandllrelat-ive-to `said die surfacel and'fto" cause f said 1 die` Yelements I to travel with' xsaid materials' and i to embed in said cover and padding sheetslatfispacedrlo calitiesragainstsaid-1diefsurfaceandf at-the same' time bonding said sheetsi together :at said '-localities.
12.,.1n a die -apparat'usfor bonding. togetherflaminated materials throughthefmedium'ofa bonding material, said'A materlals includingia cover-sheet'andan underlying-pad-'- dmgfsheety a stationaryfdiefmembereconcaved'-to provide smoothv plain-cu1'ved"diel surface,- aA rotatable. drum, dlevelements l.adaptedv tol be interposed f betu/eenusaidtdrumwandesheets and movable therewith* during :rotation-'ofthe drum-along andfproximateto said curveddiesurface; and means -forfrotating said vdrum to forceasaidzdieelementstoembedfiin Asaid cover and padding-sheetszab spaced-localities andto compact the same atvsaid. .localities Vagai-nst said'curved-die surface and to feed rtheasheets relativelyto=and alongy said surface to' bond the saine together at said localities.
13. In `a d1e^apparatus for `bonding-together''laminated materials through the medium -of a'bonding material, said4 materialsmcluding alcover Asheet-and an underlying pad' ding. sheet, avstationary 4diemember concavedto Aprovide ac-.recess'having a: smoothl plain-,curved die surface, a
rdimm, die-elements adapted'to/ be interposedy betvveenl ,said drum` andlsheetsy and 'movable therewith durmg rotation; ofvthedrum along and-proxir'nateto said curved dieisurface,-fmeans iforl rotating saidl drum to force said dle.- elements to :embed v'inl said :cover "andpadding u compact the sameat'said localities against: saiddcurved die-surfacey and' to -feed-fthe sheets'rrelatively to ."andalong Asaid surfacedofbond the sameatogetherr at- :saidf-localities;l and means for applying .v localities; y A 14.1In`y a die) apparatus` for bonding-together laminated i materialsy through the Imedium 'of afbondingmaterial,z said4 matcrialsnncluding acoverzsheet andfanA underlyingpadl ding sheet; a stat1onary-diemember 'concavedzto provide' anrecess 1havunggaA smooth; plain-curved fdie surface, a elements adapted'y to be'intcrposed" betvyeen said `drumhandl sheets andy movabler therewith during ynatation. of the drum-along and proximate torsaid curved'dle surface,-` and means for yrotating .said vdrum t0 force ysaid'dlerelements toembed in saidr cover and 'padding :sheets at spacedl ylocalities and to `compact the same at said-localities-agamst saidscurved die*` surface and to feed the sheets relatively to and along said surface to bond the .same together atsaidflocalities,l said `die elements having sheetembedding `portionslspacedffrom saddie surfacefazless distance-than thefthickness of' said materials durlng .operation ofthe4 die elements to compact said. materials, atsaid localities.:
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why can't people understand that this isn't a selling forum!!
I dont really know if this is the right place to put this thread but i'll give it a go.
I got a WII in January but really don't have the time to use it right now and am pretty sure I want to sell it simply because I know there are quite a few people out there desperate to get their hands on the console and it feels stupid just to have to sitting around my house.
Anyway, it's in perfect condition, has one controller (and nunchuck controller), wii sports and also the zelda game.
How much should I expect to get for it? This is in the UK where it has sold out EVERYWHERE.
I have a friend who interested in buying it and has the money but I just need to know how much to ask for.
Thank you!
why can't people understand that this isn't a selling forum!!
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360 Games: Forza 2, Viva Pinata, Ace Combat 6, King Kong,
Fifa 07, Rockstar Table Tennis, Call of Duty 4, GRAW.
Wii Games: Wii Sports, Wii Play, NFS Carbon, SMG, TH Downhill Jam, SSX Blur, SCDA, re4 Wii edition, MSCF.
Gamerscore: 2035! FTW...ONLY HAD XBOX ABOUT A MONTH!My Gamertag is WiseGuy123. PM me if you add me! Currently don't have XBL!
im not trying to sell im asking for advice on selling.
Probs 200 as you will make 20 quid profit, and if he is desperate to get one he will buy it, if not , he will suffer and have to wait a few months to find one in shops..
Game (UK) would give you 120 pounds for the console and 25 quid for The Ledgend of Zelda. Isnt much though?
iMac 2.4ghz Aluminum, 4GB iPhone, 12 iPods!
Well I have a friend who will pay £170 for the console and £35 for the game.
Sounds like a good price to me


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Giveaway: Optimus G, PHOTON Q and Galaxy Victory for Sprint #2
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As promised, here's our second giveaway, where, thanks to our partners from Sprint, we'll be presenting you with three marvelous smartphones: the LG Optimus G, the Motorola PHOTON Q and the Samsung Galaxy Victory! As a reminder, next week we'll be giving away a total of 4 handsets - these three here, plus an LG Mach. What better way there is to end the year...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
61. ibap (Posts: 758; Member since: 09 Sep 2009)
I really, really still prefer physical keyboards. I guess that makes me a dinosaur.
If you want to talk about why people are so attached to their smartphones, it's clearly connectivity. For better or for worse, being able to reach or be reached by family and friends is really what it is all about.
62. ryanp (Posts: 3; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
The ability to run multiple apps on the same screen
63. Daimious (Posts: 4; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Internet access
64. mydi.maus (unregistered)
its capability,..
65. endwhysee (Posts: 4; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
well im a big samsung user but i love the gaming chip on the lg optimus g it has as well as the eco mode on the quad core control. that will be amazing to take control of the quad core with out being root . as well as the over laying screen looks like a hologram in ur hands .. that crazy . but i must say the eco mode and gaming chip will want me to have this phone.
hope i win. I LOVE SPRINT....
66. Yankchef (Posts: 76; Member since: 03 Feb 2012)
For sure battery life. With heavy usage i need to charge twice a day
67. Yankchef (Posts: 76; Member since: 03 Feb 2012)
For sure battery life! I need to charge twice a day with my photon that was supposed to get ics but now is stuck with gingerbread! But im not bitter...
68. shnibz (Posts: 300; Member since: 18 Sep 2011)
Hard choice between 4g and Battery life.....to bad the 2 are mortal enemies
69. mdrharris (Posts: 3; Member since: 09 Dec 2010)
The best feature for me is highspeed mobile data, so that I can always stay connected.
70. Hammerfest (Posts: 383; Member since: 12 May 2012)
External Storage and excellent/true multitasking ability... they go hand-in-hand!
71. mirv314159 (Posts: 4; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
large screen, emailing, and 4G LTE.
72. htafari1 (Posts: 6; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
Battery life is a must!
73. nicholassss (Posts: 368; Member since: 10 May 2012)
My data connection. What good is a smart phone without it?
74. MaineMan91 (Posts: 25; Member since: 26 Jul 2012)
75. adamspoetic2012 (Posts: 2; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
Would have to be style. All these phones are spec'd pretty well to run android. I need a phone that physically stands out from the pack.
76. Christman (Posts: 2; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
Pure speed! It a must have today. All the features in the world, can't help you, without speed.
77. dchacons (Posts: 8; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
Multi tasking / Fast processor and / big screen
78. thepumpkinkmping93 (Posts: 3; Member since: 01 Dec 2012)
the Camera, a lot easier to just carry your phone instead of the phone and a separate camera in your pockets
79. clintius (Posts: 12; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
It needs to have a fast processor and good internet browsing. Also security is a big plus.
80. drum009 (Posts: 33; Member since: 23 Jan 2012)
Most important feature is having great battery life to last through a work day and the gym while streaming pandora.
81. parkwaydr (Posts: 572; Member since: 07 Sep 2011)
That optimus g is so nice I love the multitasking on that thing.
82. juanls78634 (Posts: 3; Member since: 28 Nov 2012)
Best feature is Speed, Phone and network. Photon Q or Opimus G would be good.
83. Mechanism (Posts: 6; Member since: 15 Nov 2012)
Battery Life, build quality, speed
84. Skidro13 (Posts: 65; Member since: 27 Jul 2010)
Wifi Tethering!
85. NOLEFTHERE (Posts: 4; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
pretty screen!
87. arbitrage2004 (Posts: 12; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Scree, processor, camera!
88. rafaelian2004 (Posts: 11; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
From all three I would prefer LG Optimus. It is an excellent phone with great camera!!!
89. brokenchains (Posts: 17; Member since: 28 Nov 2012)
Screen! Lots and lots of colorful, sharp-looking pixels. That Optimus G's got a glorious screen on it. A good camera would be my close #2.
Thanks pA.
90. Gsmalltheway (Posts: 174; Member since: 15 Aug 2009)
The most important feature for me in a smartphone would have to be the processor. Being able to do everything that i need it to do quickly and efficiently is huge.
91. dahveed (Posts: 5; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
id say its a tie between aftermarket developer support for the phone and the phones build quality.
moto photon please!
92. s8877 (Posts: 15; Member since: 01 May 2012)
Speed, absence of lag, screen, camera, memory...
93. lesterdtally (Posts: 6; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
LG Optimus G for me !
Features thats most important feature would be the processor and display size secondary, a poor processor kills the phone performance making it hard to enjoy a large screen size since it would be freezing all the time.
94. Benmather (Posts: 4; Member since: 03 Dec 2012)
I want the Optimus G goodness!
I need battery life and email, I like gaming
96. armoleo (Posts: 12; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
All features of LG Optimus G sound good to me, especially camera.
97. arbitrage8877 (Posts: 7; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Android OS+speed+screen+memory
98. anDroidq (Posts: 5; Member since: 02 Aug 2012)
Reliable connectivity. Battery life
99. KMcCar24 (Posts: 7; Member since: 16 Jan 2010)
The screen and the keyboard. The optimus g and the photon q is are the best examples of these too.
100. Dumaru (Posts: 4; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
The most valuable feature in a smartphone for me is the Operating System(and it's smooth operation). Android, all the way!
101. arbitrage2004ru (Posts: 7; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Big screen for browsing
102. blowfish (Posts: 11; Member since: 10 Feb 2012)
size and battery life.
103. fervid (Posts: 183; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I said Battery for last, so for this I will say hardware keyboard. Touch screens are ok, but usually need a powerful keyboard to compensate. And, I don't want any of the lame offerings like in the past. Give me a keyboard in a highend phone with good screen, battery, processor, and memory.
104. pchola81 (Posts: 5; Member since: 03 Dec 2012)
all features i like!
105. granddiaz (Posts: 6; Member since: 18 Jul 2012)
The Battery life ! as I working college student with a 2 hour commute the battery life in the main priority !!
106. a_merryman (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
A great camera and sharp HD screen
107. samsungcaptivateglide777 (Posts: 13; Member since: 22 Jul 2012)
A full slide out qwerty keyboard and 4.3" screen.
108. sscott3548 (Posts: 15; Member since: 04 Apr 2012)
109. Foudascaralho (Posts: 5; Member since: 21 Nov 2012)
Web browsing
110. RoTheChamp (Posts: 16; Member since: 26 Jan 2012)
processor and screen quality
111. zonam (Posts: 20; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
Good battery life
112. mdhlk (Posts: 13; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
Good camera is essential nowadays. I no longer carry any point and shoots
113. jgermia (Posts: 18; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
Big screen, good apps, smooth UI
114. hrs1282 (Posts: 11; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
Fast web speeds... 4G LTE now
115. nebjamin99 (Posts: 5; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
Battery Life is still most important in my book
116. mnp188 (Posts: 19; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
A good ,ix of everything: camera, apps, data speeds, screen
117. kraj.snps (Posts: 12; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
Build quality
119. marco_no_polo (Posts: 1; Member since: 03 Dec 2012)
For me battery life n a music player !!!!!
120. alexts (Posts: 8; Member since: 26 Nov 2012)
I think a quality processor is critical to the entire operation of the handset.


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study questions for Romeo and Juliet Act III
How does Mercutio treat Tybalt
He purposely misunderstands what he says and makes puns out of his comments.
Why is Mercutio horrified that Romeo is being forgiving and polite to Tybalt?
Mercutio knows that Romeo has been formally challenged to a duel and thinks he is being cowardly.
What is the source of the conceit of the cat metaphors as they apply to Tybalt.
Mercutio is playing off Tybalt's name which is the same as the King of Cats in a story,.
Why don't Romeo and the others realize right away that Mercutio is seriously hurt?
Mercutio is joking with them to the last minute.
Who does Romeo blame for the fact that he didn't fight Tybalt himself?
It is Juliet's fault because her love has softened his courage and made him effeminate.
Romeo is angry at Tybalt and kills him in a sword fight but who is to blame then?
"O I am fortune's fool! II.i.130 He blames fate.
Who convinces the Prince that Romeo was not the instigator of the fighting?
Benvolio is the witness who tells the whole story,
How does old Montague defend Romeo?
He claims that Romeo was justified in killing Tybalt since the law would have had him killed anyway.
When the nurse comes in crying about a death, who does Juliet think is dead?
She thinks it it Romeo and then that it is both Romeo and Tybalt.
With two people she loves dead, one at the other's hand, who does she side with?
She follows her duty and supports her husband even though he killed her cousin.
Where does the Nurse find Romeo?
He is weeping and blubbering in Friar Lawrence's room in the church.
What sets Romeo off to try to kill himself?
He hears that Juliet is grieving for Tybalt and he tries to kill himself because she must think he is a murderer.
What does Friar Lawrence point out to get Romeo to see that life isn't so bad?
Juliet is alive and still his wife, Tybalt wanted to kill Romeo but Romeo killed him instead, the Prince could have condemned him to death but he banished him instead.
What does old Capulet decide to do to try to comfort Juliet?
Capulet decides to marry her to Paris in a few days.
What "vision" does Juliet see just as Romeo is leaving her after their wedding night?
She thinks she sees him pale and in a tomb.
What is Lady Capulet's plan for getting revenge on Romeo?
She'll pay someone to poison him in Mantua.
What does the Nurse recommend that Juliet do about Paris?
She recommends that she forget Romeo and marry Paris because he is the better choice.
How does Juliet react to the Nurse's apparent change of heart?
She vows to cut her out of her confidence from then on.


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Chris Murphy and the devil inside INXS
- From: The Australian
- February 01, 2014
CHRIS Murphy - or C.M. Murphy, as he prefers it - is the man who transformed INXS from a little-known Sydney pub band into the biggest pop stars on Planet Earth.
By any measure he's one of the savviest operators the Australian entertainment business has ever produced. According to his forthcoming memoir, he founded Australia's most successful independent record company, established one of the world's finest polo-horse studs, transformed the marketing of world music and is a pretty dab hand at breeding chooks. Which makes it odd that he doesn't have more admirers.
"He's an evil little prick," says concert promoter Michael Chugg, who's been known to hang up the phone at the mere mention of Murphy's name.
"I don't understand what that demon in him is," says Gary Grant, who was Murphy's right-hand man for 12 years, until they fell out. "Someone in the industry once said to me: 'No amount of money is worth dealing with him. Because he will f... you'."
"Murphy?" muses Roger Grierson, former head of Polygram Music. "Just hearing his name makes me laugh. Ah, the hubris!"
Chris Murphy knows people say these things about him, and he's aggrieved by it. Only last year he was invited to the offices of Shine Productions in Sydney to view videotaped actor-auditions for Never Tear Us Apart, the television mini-series about INXS which he has helped mastermind. Murphy was sitting before a laptop computer watching a parade of young hopefuls acting out the dramatis personae of the INXS saga - Michael Hutchence, Kylie Minogue, Paula Yates - when a thuggish young man suddenly appeared on screen talking like some amphetamine-crazed bogan. "This guy was going, 'You motherf...er! I'm gunna break your motherf...ing legs!! Then I'm gunna pull your balls out and put them in your f...ing EARS!!'," recalls Murphy, acting out the scene as he sits poolside at his farm on the outskirts of Sydney. "I said, 'Wow, is that supposed to be one of the roadies?' The producers said: 'No - that's you.' "
Murphy looks aghast, although one suspects that this face-to-face encounter with his television doppelganger couldn't have been that much of a shock. This is the man whose bombastic style was lampooned by the punk band Spiderbait in the song Buy Me A Pony; the man who, by his own admission, once threatened to kill the senior legal counsel of a US record company. The news that Murphy is publishing a memoir as he approaches his 60th birthday causes many in the music industry to groan.
Here under the shade of the poolside cabana at Archerfield Farm - with the Hawkesbury River flowing nearby, a newborn foal frolicking in the adjacent paddock and hundreds of free-range chickens wandering the grounds - those old rock'n'roll enmities seem far distant. Dressed in a light blue short-sleeved shirt and shorts, sporting prescription shades and flicking his unruly silver-grey hair out of his eyes, Murphy could almost be a gentleman farmer if it weren't for the laptop and mobile phone by his elbow. His hands are battered from years of polo and farming accidents, his face is a little jowlier than it once was. Yet it doesn't take long to get a glimpse of the manic energy for which he's renowned. Murphy doesn't so much talk as unleash spiralling 10-15 minute monologues that mix anecdote, exaggeration, profanity and impersonations into a Tourettes-like torrent that ends often with the phrase, "Did that answer your question?"
Murphy the book is much like the man himself - entertaining and exhausting by turns. Much of it deals with the heady 15 years that Murphy managed INXS, a period in which he somehow kicked down the doors of the US music business after landing in New York as an unknown 25-year-old. Murphy is publishing the book himself in a deluxe, full-colour hardback edition under the moniker C.M. Murphy, which he adopted in the late 1980s to distinguish himself from the Sydney barrister who annoyingly shares his name. It will appear in shops almost exactly as Never Tear Us Apart goes to air on the Seven Network, a synchronicity that Murphy insists is entirely accidental. "It's actually quite frankly an embarrassment for me," he says, adding that he has spent his life trying to avoid the spotlight. This claim would be easier to swallow if the book and his various websites didn't so loudly trumpet his greatness as a businessman, "fearless dream weaver", "surfing cowboy" and "man of the earth".
That latter phrase refers to Murphy's sideline activities as a polo horseman and farmer, most recently the proprietor of a free-range chicken business. Archerfield Farm is his third rural home in the past 12 years, the largest having been Bethungra Park in southern NSW, a 4000ha, nine-bedroom estate which he bought at the peak of his INXS wealth and turned into an organic lamb exporter.
Restlessness bordering on attention-deficit seems to be Murphy's default setting. His complicated love life has left him with five children by four women and an impressive list of ex-girlfriends. His three oldest children, now in their 20s and 30s, live in Australia; a teenage son, Louis, lives in Paris and another son, Charlie, is eight and lives in London. Murphy offers a glimpse of his unsentimental approach to romance when he mentions that he broke off his most recent relationship, with the proverbial attractive brunette roughly 30 years his junior, because he had to focus on the INXS television series.
It was here by the pool that Murphy sat down with a notebook and pen to document his memories, prompted by the discovery of some old family archives among his trunks of long-forgotten memorabilia. A working-class kid from Shellharbour, a town near BHP's Port Kembla steelworks on the industrial coastline an hour south of Sydney, Murphy grew up in a fibro Housing Commission house sharing a bedroom with two sisters. His father, Mark, was a striving show-business talent agent and keen ice-hockey player who conscripted his son into both pursuits, taking him onto the club circuit and the skating rink.
From the moment he began writing Murphy knew he had to confront the singular event of his adolescence - the day in 1969 when he and his father were playing an ice-hockey final at Wollongong Ice-Skating Rink and Mark Murphy keeled over on the ice from a heart attack and was taken to hospital. Only after the game ended did Chris Murphy learn his father was dead. That scene opens Murphy's book and echoes through its pages, a tragedy that forged his iron-hard shell. "I'd never spoken to a single soul about what happened that night - not even our family ever spoke about it," he says, appearing to become upset even discussing it now.
An abject failure at school ("I still can't spell grammar"), it's not hard to see how Murphy reached late adolescence with a chip on each shoulder - a runty kid trying to live up to his dad's memory. At 17 he began working alongside his mother in the family booking agency; at 22 he opened his own agency in Sydney. Three years later, in 1979, he spotted a little-known band called INXS playing at the Stagedoor Tavern in Castlereagh Street; when the band asked him to manage them he accepted, despite having no experience. Within a few years he had negotiated separate record deals for the band in the US, Europe and Australia and was working out of an office on Broadway in New York.
Timing is everything in show business, of course, and INXS were a rock band just funky enough to cross genres, with a front-man in Michael Hutchence who was destined for stardom in the MTV era. But Murphy was pivotal to their success; he refused to sign them to one record company worldwide, demanded fair terms and argued their cause with a canny mixture of bravado, backslapping and sheer doggedness. "Murphy was an amazing negotiator," says Gary Grant, who joined the INXS management team when it was still run out of Murphy's Mosman home. "People dreaded getting a call from him because they knew they wouldn't get a word in and he wouldn't hang up until he'd got what he wanted. He was extraordinary in the way he played the record companies in Europe, America and Australia against one another, setting them up to compete."
It was the high-water mark of CD sales and the business was awash in money, drugs and excess. Video budgets were huge; tours were cavalcades of extravagance. After their breakthrough in 1987, INXS played to crowds measured in the 100,000s, sold 14 million copies of their album Kick, toured the world in private jets and lived out their name. A taste of the whole wild ride can be sampled by watching footage of their 1991 concert at Wembley Stadium in London, as Hutchence - stroking his body and peaking on ecstasy - seduces 72,000 people with a performance of pure sexual insouciance.
Within four years of that concert it was all falling apart as the singer slid down a familiar path to rock-star self-destruction. Murphy remains uncertain to this day how much of it was due to an altercation after a bicycle accident in 1992 that left Hutchence with a fractured skull, but by 1995 the singer's escalating drug use and hectic romantic affairs - with Kylie Minogue, supermodel Helena Christensen and Paula Yates, wife of Irish icon Bob Geldof - had become a tabloid circus. Murphy at that time was living back in Sydney, attempting to hold together his shaky second marriage, looking after his daughters from his first and running a music publishing company and a record label, rooArt. He suspected - correctly, it turned out - that Yates was leaking information to reporters about her romantic trysts with Hutchence. It all came to a head in March 1995 when Hutchence slipped away from his security minder and met Yates at a Kent hotel, unaware that the place was crawling with paparazzi. In the ensuing fracas, Hutchence assaulted a photographer, then rang Murphy and insinuated that someone within INXS was leaking his whereabouts to the press.
"I go, 'Wow, boy - number one, don't f...ing talk to me like this. Don't ever think I can't get on a f ... ing plane and knock you out'," recalls Murphy, conjuring some of the colourful language that fostered his reputation. "'Number two, what the f ... are you doing? If you think I tip off the media in my office to get this shit press, you are off the planet more than I think you are.' He goes: 'Are you insinuating that Paula's people are doing it? You motherf ... er!' And I said, 'Mate, go f ... yourself'." That may have been the last conversation the two men ever had; Murphy quit only a few months later.
Hutchence's subsequent decline is a subject still raw for Murphy, who skirts around the ugly details - the heroin and cocaine abuse, Yates's drug bust, her vicious custody battle with Geldof and Hutchence's final lonely hours in a Sydney hotel room in 1997. The tawdry circumstances of the singer's death - naked, doped-up on cocaine and antidepressants, hanging by his belt from the hotel door - cast a cloud over the band's name that has never dispersed.
"I still don't know how he died - that's a fact," says Murphy, who recalls reading the various scripts of Never Tear Us Apart last year through an "emotional cascade of tears" that left him more mystified than ever about whether it was suicide or autoerotic asphyxiation, as many believe. As a young man Hutchence had slept in the spare room of Murphy's house, later becoming godfather to his daughter Stevey. But the last time Murphy saw the singer - across the ballroom of the Sydney Convention Centre at the 1996 ARIA awards - is a painful memory. "I looked at Michael, with his black hair and grey skin, and I just thought, 'Oh, f ... ' I think that's why I didn't go and talk to them."
Murphy had plenty to keep him busy without INXS - he had ventured into organic farming and polo horse breeding, built up a substantial music publishing business. His record label, rooArt, scored a number of hits and opened international offices. But by the late 1990s his win-at-all-costs style had left him with many enemies. He publicly bagged the entire Australian record industry for "living in the dark ages", accused the veteran promoters Michael Coppel and Michael Chugg of only caring about money and blamed Warner Brothers Records, his partner in rooArt, when the label's sales slid.
"He would just piss off everyone, and I could never understand why it had to be that way," says Gary Grant, who quit the INXS team in 1993. "There were just too many times when it got personal." Grant recalls getting a memo one day informing him that if he wanted to speak to Murphy he'd have to make an appointment. "I'm like, 'Dude, it's me'." After 12 years together, his relationship with Murphy foundered in a dispute over money and personal matters following his resignation and they have spoken rarely since.
Michael Chugg of Chugg Entertainment says Murphy's greatest sin was bad-mouthing other Australian rock acts to US promoters and agents. "He destroyed anybody he could," says Chugg. "When he was overseas he could have opened doors for others. What he did I'll never forgive him for." Murphy describes that as "baloney" and paints himself as a victim of an age-old Australian impulse to cut down those who succeed.
"I was 25 when I started managing INXS and what a lot of people don't realise is that I was shit-scared, taking on the responsibility of six young men whose lives were in my hands. My job from 25 to 40 was to protect them, and quite frankly, yes, I was a soldier, I was a general, and I took no prisoners ... Australia is a matey society, and I didn't play mates with promoters and record companies. I was at home planning INXS's strategy when everybody else in the industry was out at Benny's or wherever snorting coke off the toilet seats. Nobody in the local industry believed INXS could be an international band. So my attitude was, 'F ... you'."
Sebastian Chase, a veteran music business figure who has known Murphy since the mid-1970s and was a founding partner in rooArt, has been on both sides of this war: Chase admires Murphy as "a unique figure in the Australian music landscape" and has forged a close friendship with him; he also sued Murphy in the NSW Supreme Court over his rightful share of rooArt, after quitting the label in 1990. "We had musical differences and banished each other to Siberia for a short period," he laughs. "But we got over it." It's unfortunate, says Chase, that Murphy's innate combativeness has so inflamed the professional jealousies that are endemic to the music business. "It's that thing where your strength is also your fault-line."
Murphy's friend Mark Pope, producer of the ARIA awards, once told him: "Chris, we all agree you don't suffer fools gladly; what we don't agree with is that we're all fools." Pope describes Murphy as a brilliant tactician and negotiator whose willingness to play the role of hard man may have left more scars than he lets on. "What he achieved was remarkable, but at what personal cost only he could know. That emotionally vulnerable side of him is coated with the hide of an elephant."
In his more reflective moments, Murphy returns to the death of his father as a key to his personality. Musing on his inconstant ways with women, he says: "My relationships with women, it's never been their problem, it's been my problem - I never wanted to have anyone so close that what happened with my father could ever happen again. My father trained my football team, he taught me how to shoot, talked to me about business, he took me on the road with exotic dancers when I was 10. He was my world. And what I didn't realise until I got into the book was that I've been spending my life trying to get that family back together. But because I'm a f ... ing workaholic, I struggle to balance the intensity of work with the personal. And the minute there's some problem or doubt about love, the veil would come down and I'd just be gone, whether immediately or a year later."
It may be telling that some of the most admiring comments on Murphy come from American music industry figures such as Arthur Fogel of Global Touring. Perhaps his blustering style is more at home outside Australia, or perhaps a few thousands kilometres of distance makes his persona easier to handle.
Back home, the Murphy-haters had their moment of schadenfreude in the new millennium when he nearly lost everything in an ambitious attempt to become a multimedia mogul. After selling rooArt and his music publishing business he bought a stake in Australian Style magazine, pulled together a syndicate to buy the Sydney AM radio station 2SM, then set up a digital-radio operation called DigitalOne with backing from Kerry Stokes. But virtually no one in Australia owned a digital radio at the time and the AM station's ratings tanked. By 2002, Murphy was selling off chunks of his art collection to keep his listing empire afloat. In the wash-up he ended up as a judge on Popstars and started a small record label, Petrol, which packaged compilations of world music with soft-porn covers.
Murphy puts the best possible spin on these years, and almost inevitably tries to settle some old scores. The book's claim that rooArt was the most successful independent record company in Australian history would surely make the founders of Mushroom Records and Alberts choke. But to hear it from the man himself, he's been quietly plotting these past five years to prove his doubters wrong by taking on the unlikely job of "creative director/global strategist" for INXS.
Michael Hutchence's death ushered in a dismal time for the remaining members of INXS, who were rich beyond their dreams but trapped in the role of INXS cover-band fronted by a succession of singers - Terence Trent D'Arby, Jon Stevens, JD Fortune, Ciaran Gribbin - who tried and failed to recapture the glory years. Their name was forever identified with the music industry's last great era of excess, and the Hutchence legacy got even messier when Paula Yates died from an overdose in 2000, leaving daughter Tiger Lily orphaned. It's since been revealed that the singer's vast wealth - millions of dollars in property, luxury cars, royalties and copyright entitlements - evaporated after he took his financial affairs out of Murphy's hands in the late 1980s and handed them to a group of accountants based in Monaco, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
"As far as I'm concerned Michael's life changed when he did that deal, and I know the night it happened," says Murphy, visibly seething as he talks about it. "We're in a foreign country, an exotic hotel, and I'm in the lobby going, 'Mate, don't do this - every part of my body, my intuition, is telling me.' He said, 'Oh mate, you're such a f ... ing cynic.' To me, that's where Michael's life changed: separated from the band, finances separated. He had to move to foreign countries to be protected in this web of darkness."
For a time the other members of INXS hated Murphy for abandoning them, but in 2008 they approached him for help in marketing their remastered recordings. Characteristically, Murphy came up with a strategy for rebirthing the band as a kind of heritage rock'n'roll "brand". He got them to re-record key songs from their back catalogue using guest singers such as Ben Harper and John Mayer, then began testing the waters among film, television and theatre producers for interest in a dramatised version of their story. The resulting album, Original Sin, received the proverbial mixed reviews; the mini-series Never Tear Us Apart is getting such saturation promotion on the Seven Network that INXS albums are charting again. A feature film of Hutchence's life by director Richard Lowenstein is also under discussion.
"I made it really clear that for me this is about restoring Michael's dignity," says Murphy of the mini-series. "There was no way, as a father and as a friend of Michael, that I was going to allow this whole thing to be cheapened." That's a tricky juggling act, of course, given that the story gets its juice from the excesses of Hutchence's life - the drugs, the sexual kicks, the rock-star decadence he embodied. The band can control access to their music but not the script, which hasn't stopped Murphy - as co-executive producer - demanding that certain material be excised. He says he's mindful of protecting Hutchence's daughter, who is now 17 and spent most of her childhood in the care of Sir Bob Geldof.
Murphy sees his book, meanwhile, as an inspirational text aimed at anyone who, like him, has been pigeonholed as a dunce and told to try manual labour. Like many people from humble beginnings who've risen far, he seems driven by a sense that he could end up back there. "I look back on starting my agency when I was 22, moving to New York with $100 in my pocket," he says at one point. "...I know this might sound arrogant, and it isn't meant to be, but f...ing hell, that's some brave shit. I could have ended up in a caravan."
The last time I speak to Murphy it's late at night and he's on the phone from the farm, having just learnt that INXS's greatest hits album has gone to Number 11 on the ARIA charts. "The way we're tracking now, we'll be Number One," he predicts. "It's weird - I took INXS from a tiny pub band to playing Wembley Stadium. Then I came back with them and everybody laughed at me. But this is exactly the strategy I planned. We'll be on Broadway, there'll be films, there'll be cover versions of their songs by the biggest country artists in the world..." It's C.M. Murphy versus the world, all over again.


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Reflections: It is time to forgive
As I write these words, the Hebrew month of Elul is coming to a close. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, this year began at sundown on Sept. 16.
During the month leading up to the Festival of Rosh Hashanah and during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we are supposed to look inside and determine who we may have hurt during the year.
We then say we are sorry, ask for forgiveness, and try to make amends.
Only then are we supposed to ask God to forgive us.
Recently, in preparation for the Holy Days, we viewed a movie that told the most incredible story of forgiveness. The movie is called: "Fambul Talk." In the Creole language of Sierra Leone this means "Family Talk."
In that culture, everyone in a village or area is viewed as being family. In the days before the civil wars and the influence of blood diamonds on the culture, families literally shared, and everyone literally helped raise the children.
After the civil wars and after the atrocities that were committed, the cultural bonds had been wrenched apart. Now distrust, anger and hate filled the lives of the survivors. In order to combat this, a group called "Fambul Talk" began to speak of reconciliation and to seek ways to encourage forgiveness and confession of guilt.
The way forward was not easy.
One woman had been raped by a party of 15 rebels.
One of these men was her uncle.
One woman's brother had participated in the beheading of many of their village members and had fled to another part of the country. "How was forgiveness even on the table?" we might ask.
Slowly through the work of the committee, villages began having discussions around bonfires in the community.
There, one person could bring forth the charges against another. That person would have to answer the charges and then ask for forgiveness.
As we watch the film, we see person after person forgive the other. As that happens, we watch the village heal.
At the beginning of the process, we see the victims ask if they will receive money in damages.
We witness them asking if they can inflict the same injury on their perpetrators. When they are told "no" in each of these cases, they then move on to reconciliation.
Clearly, we have no similar concept of forgiveness in our society.
We seek revenge.
We seek restitution.
Forgiveness is never discussed in court. Yet, when I witnessed these stories, I began to look at my own process of teshuvah -- repentance -- in a different way.
My prayer for all of us at this season of forgiveness is that we can reach out to the others in our lives and say we are sorry.
To all of my Jewish readers, L'shanah tovah -- may you be blessed with a year filled with wonder and peace.
Reflections is a column by religious leaders in the community. Rabbi John Bush is the spiritual leader of Temple Anshe Hesed, 930 Liberty St.


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Shakira visits Phoenix to protest immigration law
Latina pop star Shakira condemned Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigration, saying it promotes discrimination and robs Latinos of human dignity.
Visiting Phoenix City Hall on Thursday, the Colombian-born entertainer told more than 100 members of the media: "I'm in opposition to this law because it is a violation of human and civil rights. It goes against all human dignity, against the principles of most Americans I know.
"As a person and Latina who believes in equal opportunities and who believes that this country has values that I have always admired and defended," she added, "I'm worried about the impact that implementation of this law will have on hard working Latinos."
Shakira was joined by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and local Hispanic leaders.
"I'm not an expert on the Constitution but I know the constitution exists for a reason," she said. "It exists to protect human beings, to protect the rights of people living in a nation, with or without documents. We're talking about human beings here."
The singer and dancer, sporting stiletto boots, diamond earrings, a wifebeater tank top and black zippered jacket, later visited CPLC Carl Hayden Youth Community Center.
Before a City Hall news conference, Shakira met privately with Gordon, Vice Mayor Michael Nowakowski, Police Chief Jack Harris and other city officials to raise concerns about the law. She argued that Hispanic immigrants have generated economic growth for decades in this country.
"Let's not foster division but unity. Let's not foster chaos but safety," Shakira said. "This law goes against all the principles of prosperity that we know and promotes discrimination and resentment."
Gordon said he had created a fund called Arizonans for Common Sense to raise private money for a lawsuit he intends to bring on behalf of the city to block the law from taking effect.
The law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally, and requires police officers to question individuals about their immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that person is in the country illegally.
A crowd of about 150 lined the sidewalks and pressed against the wrought iron fence surrounding the Carl Hayden Community Center in Phoenix trying to get a glimpse of the singer. They cheered and chanted her name when she arrived with a police escort in a gray Chevrolet Tahoe.
People cheered wildly when she walked over to the fence and began shaking hands, greeting people, and signing autographs. Some people were standing on cars to see into the throng surrounding her. At one point, a man on the second-story balcony of an apartment a half-block away strained to catch a peek. Some held anti-1070 signs such as "SB1070 Unconstitutional."
It was packed inside the center, too, where about 20 people waited in metal folding chairs for a chance to talk with her � after the media swarm could be pried back far enough for everyone to see.
Shakira arrived at the center to speak against the new legislation. But she also went to the resource center to listen.
The Colombian-born musician gave the stage to immigrant women and students to share the potential impact the new law would have on their lives.
Erika, who declined to give her last name, did things right, she said. The 22-year-old got the grades and graduated from high school. But without a Social Security number, she couldn't qualify for loans and couldn't afford college.
"I have a diploma," she said, crying. "But I can't use it."
With the new law, she envisions living in fear � fear she'll be detained.
"It's not just," she said. "I'm not a criminal."
Shakira said she, with the help of Mayor Phil Gordon, would do everything to oppose the immigration law. She also aims to dispel the misconception that Latinos are a drain to the American economy.
"Immigrants forged this country," she said. "They came to this country wanting to work hard. They work long hours."
Victor Gonzalez of El Mirage was one of the people invited to meet and speak to Shakira. He said afterwards that her appearance in the state but may not meet the expectations some have had. "We're not going to solve all of our problems in one day," he said.
He predicts 1070 would be overturned by the courts.
"It's not going to happen," he said. "I'm sure the guys who wrote the Constitution would be laughing if they were here today."
Arturo Ortiz of Phoenix waited outside the fence until the singer left, taking photos with a friend. He said it was important that Shakira made the appearance.
"She's here to represent us," he said. "We needed a voice. Hopefully, people will take notice."
The Carl Hayden center, part of Chicanos Por La Causa, offers education and recreation programs for youths, including tutoring, help with homework, games and a computer lab.
Roberto Valadez, 21, of Phoenix, held T-shirts, photos and a CD, all of which he hoped to get autographed. He said he supported what Shakira was doing socially and "we're still here to support her."
George Luna, 32, of Phoenix, said he went "because I'm supporting what she's doing for us. It will have an effect, because she is a very important woman. The new law affects everyone, not just Hispanics."
Sandra Tovar, 35, of Phoenix, runs a furniture store, said she feels SB 1070 is "trying to scare the Hispanic community away."
In Tovar's case, it is having an effect: she plans to close her business and move to Texas with her three teenagers because of the law.
"If they pass the same thing there, we'll move from there," Tovar said.
The Latina pop star, flanked by local elected officials, later told supporters at the Arizona Capitol that the legislation essentially criminalizes people for the color of their skin.
She said immigration status should not dictate the quality of treatment someone receives from law enforcement and the government.
"It's not just unconstitutional," said Shakira inside a Radio Campesina van. "It's a violation of civil rights."
She said if the law were in effect right now, she would be arrested for not carrying her driver's license."Are you going to arrest me, Sheriff Arpaio, because I didn't bring my papers?" said Shakira, whose statement was followed by cheers.
After the speech, supporters expressed their gratitude for her message, chanting "Si, se puede," meaning "Yes, we can" in Spanish.
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Its that time again :)
And I know they're not professional. Lol I took them in my living room and stink at editing.
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by peachy on May. 16, 2013 at 11:37 AM
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Our recital isnt until June 5th. The costumes came in last week but they didnt fit so we wont get them until this week. but this what they look like
by Platinum Member on May. 16, 2013 at 9:54 PM
screw em not being professional...i think they're absolutely perfect :)
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August 31, 2007, 05:23 PM
For those of you who have enough experience to have handled/shot/owned both Bond Arms and American Derringer products, which would you consider higher quality? Upon finding the prices, there's quite a difference. Would I really be getting all that much more with the American than the Bond?