Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a silicone gel material has a pair of tanks for separately storing and kneading first and second liquids gel forming materials, a feeder feeding the liquids while kneading them, a debubbling unit with a debubbling tank for removing air bubbles contained in the materials from the feeder and turning the tank upside down to discharge into a hopper, a nozzle for discharging silicone gel material received from the hopper in a predetermined thickness onto a lower film moving below the nozzle, an upper film supplier placing an upper film onto the film of silicone gel material, upper and lower rollers rolling the upper and lower films and the film of silicone gel material into a laminated strip, a belt conveyor receiving the laminated strip, a heating tunnel for gelling the silicone gel material and a strip take up device at the exit of the heating tunnel.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing silicone gel sheet comprising a material supplying means which supplies kneaded silicone gel material to a nozzle, a nozzle which admits to flow silicone gel material supplied from said material supplying means and is provided with a discharging port which is open to be narrow and long, at least one movable receiving means which receives a sheet-formed strip made of silicone gel material discharged from said nozzle and moves in accordance with the discharging speed of the sheet-formed strip, and a heating section for heating and gelling the sheet-formed strip made of silicone gel material on said movable receiving means.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sheet-formed buffer material using a gelled material wherein a thermally flexible and weldable covering sheet is applied to each of both surfaces of a flat gel material layer made of gelled material with penetration value of 50 to 200 and a buffer layer is thus made, said buffer layer being divided from above said covering sheet by a dividing means having a thermally welding means whereby said buffer layer is divided by said dividing means to form separate cells and simultaneously said covering sheets of the divided portions are welded by said thermally welding means to form dividing grooves between separate independent cells.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sheet-formed buffer material using a gelled material wherein a thermally flexible and weldable covering sheet is applied to each of both surfaces of a flat gel material layer made of gelled material with penetration value of 50 to 200 and a buffer layer is thus made, said buffer layer being divided from above said covering sheet by a dividing means having a thermally welding means whereby said buffer layer is divided by said dividing means to form separate cells and simultaneously said covering sheets of the divided portions are welded by said thermally welding means to form dividing grooves between separate independent cells.

Abstract: A compound type silicone gel material which uses silicone gel having a penetration of 50 to 200 as basic material and contains a number of fine hollow cells.

Abstract: A bellows type shock absorber comprises a sealed bellows, a shock absorbing column which is provided with a chamber around it inside the bellows and which is along the axial line of the bellows and combined with the bellows so that it physically varies in conjunction with expansion and contraction of the bellows. Also, the bellows type shock absorber may have a through hole which communicates the internal chamber and the outside, and preferably the shock absorbing column is made of a kind of gelled material with a penetration value of approximately 50 to 200. In addition, another shock absorber is provided with the main bellows and a sub-bellows having a spring constant differing from that of the main bellows and a through hole which communicates the internal chamber of the main bellows and the internal chamber of the sub-bellows.

Abstract: A shock absorbing type footwear having a buffer part which is provided at a specified position of a sole, said buffer part having a buffer layer made of a gelled material and at least one space formed adjacent to this buffer layer to absorb deformation of the buffer layer. Said buffer layer can be made to have either a continuous surface or at least two independent segments.Said buffer layer is provided below a flexible covering member which entirely covers the buffer layer and the space to absorb a shock which is caused upon each step of a foot and applied to the covering member.

Abstract: A deformable type variable resistor element using silicone gel with a penetration value of approximately 50 to 200 as a basic member in which electrically conductive fine particles as much as 20 to 50 weight percent are mixed, which basic member is provided with at least a pair of electrodes so that the conductive fine particles contained in the basic member come in contact each other to form a number of electrical passages between the pair of electrodes when the basic member is physically deformed by an external force.

Abstract: A headrest apparatus comprising at least one support member mounted on a seat, a high cushioning elastic base provided on said support member, a low cushioning elastic support wall provided on said elastic base, an empty room formed in front of said elastic support wall, a head resting part formed at the front side of this empty room and a gel material layer formed by filling said empty room with gel material, wherein a load to be applied to said head resting part is applied to said gel material layer.

Abstract: A printing apparatus provided with a structure which supplies a transcription film into a transcription tub containing a liquid so that the transcription film is kept afloat on the liquid, a structure which makes the liquid flow in a direction in which the film is supplied, and a structure which slantingly immerses an article to be printed into the liquid in the transcription tub from an upstream position to a downstream position of the liquid. The transcription tub is provided with a structure which blows pressurized air onto the transcription film to eliminate wrinkles of the film. The film supplying structure of the printing apparatus is equipped with a feed roller mechanism provided with a cutter for cutting slits in both side end parts of the film. In the transcription tub of the printing apparatus is provided a set of belt-type guide members which support both side edges of the film and feed the film along the liquid flow.

Abstract: A method of printing which comprises placing a pattern for printing on a deformable layer consisting of an assemblage of a plurality of fine straight pins which are arranged in parallel in high density and having an impression surface for printing which is formed by the ends of the pins, and impressing a material to be printed onto the pattern to relatively immerse the material to be printed into the deformable layer so that the pattern is closely adhered to the material to be printed.

Abstract: A method of printing wherein a material to be printed is applied onto a pattern which is preprinted on an extendible film which is extended on an accumulated granule layer composed of a number of spherical granules so that the preprinted pattern at its whole surface is adhered to the surface of the material to be printed by forcing the material to be printed into the accumulated granule layer.