Abstract: The invention concerns a bending device (10) comprising two shaping dies (12, 14) with shaping chambers (22, 24) in order to round a sheet bar (26) about a core (16). The peripheral lengths of the two shaping chambers (22, 24) are each longer than half the bushing circumference. During a pre-shaping step, the core (16) penetrates a first chamber (22) by a depth which is greater than the bushing radius. The sheet bar (26) is thus shaped in the form of a U. In an intermediate shaping stage, an auxiliary core (18) is placed on the core (16) such that, as the second shaping die (14) moves downwards, only the end of the U-legs of the sheet bar blank (26) are shaped arcuately. When the auxiliary core (18) and part (20) of the first shaping die (12) have been removed, the final bushing shaping process occurs, in which the second shaping die (14) likewise travels over the center of the bushing. The three-stage bending method enables a bushing to be rounded highly accurately and carefully.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for manufacturing thin-walled moldings with a ground layer (4) made of thermoplastic materials and a covering layer (5) made of prefabricated flat covering materials pressed together with the ground layer by a back pressing technique in a form tool (8) having a top die (6) and a bottom die (7). The object of the process is to produce thin-walled moldings having laminated and non-laminated areas in a simple manner, with no danger of damaging sensitive covering layer materials and with non-laminated areas having a high quality surface. For that purpose, during or after back pressure lamination, while or after the two dies are closed, besides at least one molding area (2) laminated with a covering layer by a back pressing technique, at least another area (3) of the molding is produced by injection molding thermoplastic material in the part of the molding cavity (17) in which the area of the molding which is not laminated with a covering layer (5) is produced.

Abstract: A stamping and bending machine (10) has upper and lower horizontal supports (18, 16) in each of which are formed two longitudinal chambers (80) which open out through broad longitudinal slits (86) on opposite sides of the horizontal supports (16, 18). On both lateral faces of the horizontal supports (16, 18) carriage assemblies (26) are fixed; each of these carries an angular gear (36) which is encapsulated in a gear housing and protrudes through the longitudinal slit (86) into the appropriate longitudinal chamber (80). The angular gears (36) in each longitudinal chamber (80) are provided with coaxial through-channels with polygonal profiles. A drive shaft (28) with matching polygonal profiles is inserted through the angular gear (36) of each longitudinal channel (80) and couples the carriage assemblies (26) together.

Abstract: A synchronous linear motor with primary part having a winding and a secondary part including an elongated bearing plate to which the pre-magnetized permanent magnets of brittle and corrosion-prone material, are firmly adhesively secured while maintaining the pole pitch grid. In order to be able to securely bond the pre-magnetized permanent magnets to the secondary part economically and with high precision, it is proposed that spacers (2,3) corresponding to the pole pitch grid of the synchronous linear motor be arranged between pre-magnetized permanent magnets (4).

Abstract: A compensator is used with a machine frame having a pair of ends, a first mold half secured to one of the frame ends, a second mold half movable along an axis toward and away from the first mold half, and an actuator braced against the other frame end and having an outer end operatively engageable with the second mold half for pressing the second mold half axially against the first mold half. The compensator has an element secured on the second mold half and another element secured on the actuator outer end together forming a substantially closed chamber. The two elements are displaceable axially and tippable relative to each other. A multiplicity of relatively displaceable and substantially incompressible metal balls fills the chamber.

Abstract: A mold closing device for an injection molding machine has four tension members (17, 19) which interconnect the fixed mold closing plate (3) and the support plate (5) of the closing drive (7) in a tension-resistant manner are not formed as straight rods but have a L-shaped configuration, with each tension member (17, 19) being connected at an upper connection point (21, 25) to one plate (5, 3) and at a lower connection point (23, 27) to another pate (3, 5). The upper edge (33) of the tension members (17, 19) is positioned at a lower level than the closing pressure axis (11) in order to ensure a free access to the space between the mold clamping plates. The tension members (17, 19) are of exactly same shape and dimension so as to extend by the same amount when being subject to the closing pressure in order to maintain parallel disposition of the fixed clamping plate (3) and the support plate (5).

Abstract: A linear motor includes a primary part which is cooled using a coolant circuit to remove heat loss caused in the current-carrying conductor windings so as to prevent excess operational temperatures in the linear motor. In order to allow the linear motor to be used in immediate proximity of a production machine without affecting operation thereof by interference occurring in the work zone and without affecting the work zone through heat released by the linear motor, the primary part is completely encapsulated by an enveloping casing in conjunction with a cooling plate through which coolant flows. The cooling plate represents the element by which the primary part is secured to the machine part to be moved of the production machine.

Abstract: An injection molding machine has a pair of C-shaped tension members interconnecting the fixed bracing plates at location above the axis of force action in the mold closing and injection operations. The mold closing unit is mounted on one of these plates and a mold part on the other plate while the mold closing unit acts on the movable mold part. According to the invention, the fixed plates are also interconnected by lower tension members which can be C-shaped or can be tension rods so that access to the space between the mold parts remains available, the upper and lower tension members being matched as to elongation under the generation of the mold closing and injection forces.

Abstract: After a thermoplastic synthetic resin has been injection molded onto a transfer plate in a thermoplastic injection mold, the transfer plate is shifted into a silicone injection mold maintained at a high temperature and a silicone member is injection molded onto the thermoplastic member. The heat transfer to the thermoplastic body is minimized by, for example, providing insulating material between heated portions of the mold system and other portions thereof and/or by maintaining air gaps from which the silicone is excluded between the thermoplastic member and heated portions of the silicone injection mold.

Abstract: A device for mixing at least two chemically reactive plastic components, includes a cylindrical mixing chamber into which plastic components are injected, wherein a reversible piston is disposed inside the mixing chamber, and a cylindrical stabilizing chamber adjoining the mixing chamber and positioned at an angle of preferably 90.degree., with a reversible cleaning piston disposed inside the stabilizing chamber for removing the reactive plastic mixture from the stabilizing chamber. In order to reduce the forces exerted on the cleaning piston by the plastic mixture and to reduce the tear-off forces on a stuck piston to a minimum, it is proposed to form on the cylindrical surface area of the cleaning piston indentations which are filled with spacer material and arranged in a manner that the cleaning piston executes a rotational motion when it moves axially.

Abstract: A mould closing device for an injection moulding machine includes a fixed (1) and a movable (4) mould clamping plate for support of screw drives (36) which are freely rotatable in the fixed mould clamping plate (1) and axially supported in one direction and supported in spindle nuts (39) secured in the movable mould clamping plate (4). Provided for actuation of the screw drives (36) for the closing and opening stroke of the movable mould clamping plate (4) are a rotary drive (44) and a hydraulic piston-cylinder unit (45, 46) interacting with the screw drives for effecting the closing force build-up.

Abstract: To improve the movement precision of a synchronous linear motor, it is proposed that the front and rear end faces (11, 12) of the primary section (10) be ungrooved and not wound and bevelled in sections in such a way that the angle of inclination (.beta.) of the bevelled surfaces (11a, 12a) on the front and rear end faces (11, 12) of the primary section (10) in relation to the longitudinal axis (13) of the motor is selected according to the relation: .beta.=arctan (b/.tau..sub.p) where .beta. is the angle of inclination of the bevelled surfaces (11a, 12a) at the front and rear end faces (11, 12) of the primary section (10), b is the electrically active width of the primary section (10) and .tau..sub.p is the pitch of the poles (21, 22) of the secondary section (20).

Abstract: An injection-molding apparatus has a housing, a plate fixed on the housing, a plurality of fixed mold halves on the fixed plate, a plate movable along an axis toward and away from the fixed plate and supported on the housing without tie rods, respective movable mold halves on the movable plate engageable with the fixed mold halves, and an actuator rod passing axially through the fixed plate between the fixed mold halves and having an outer end fixed to the movable plate and an opposite inner end. An actuator fixed to the housing and to the inner rod end displaces the movable mold plate and the movable mold halves axially toward and away from the fixed mold plate and fixed mold halves.

Abstract: A track-laying vehicle has a frame with a pair of opposite sides, a track suspension on each side of the frame, and respective vibration-damping support bodies fixed on the suspensions and on the frame and securing the suspensions to the frame. Each suspension has a support housing movable relative to the side, road wheels journaled on the housing, a drive wheel journaled on the housing, and a track spanned over the respective wheels. In accordance with this invention a brace strut extending crosswise across the frame between the sides thereof has outer ends connected to the respective suspension housings. The strut can extend underneath the frame so that the forces caused by upward pressure of the ground on the ground wheels that tend to push out the bottoms of the suspension housings cancel each other out. The strut can also extend horizontally between the frames ahead of the front wall and another such strut can extend horizontally between the frames behind the back wall.

Abstract: An injection-molding assembly has a fixed mold plate carrying a centering ring, a fixed mold half carrying a centering ring snugly interfitted with the fixed-plate centering ring, a movable mold plate carrying a centering ring, and a movable mold half carrying a centering ring snugly interfitted with the movable-plate centering ring. One of the rings is formed of an outer ring part having a substantially circular outer periphery and a substantially circular inner periphery and of an inner ring part having a substantially circular outer periphery and a Substantially circular inner periphery. The outer periphery of one of the ring parts has a center of curvature offset radially from a center of curvature of the respective inner periphery. The annular parts can be angularly displaced and can be clamped relative to each other.

Abstract: An evertable drum centrifuge has a housing extending along an axis, a hollow filter drum rotatable in the housing about the axis and having a front end wall formed with a fill opening centered on the axis, and a nonrotatable fill tube extending along the axis and having a back end. A fill head complementarily engageable in the fill opening is fitted in a closed position in the fill opening and a suspension to be filtered is introduced through the fill tube and fill opening into the drum. A bearing rotatably supports the fill head on the fill-tube back end and a static seal is engaged between the fill head and the fill opening.

Abstract: A laminate is made by first forming a substantially closed mold cavity between a pair of mold halves, then injecting a plastified synthetic resin into the cavity under pressure to substantially fill the cavity and at least partially curing the resin in the cavity to form a base body. The mold halves are then separated to leave the partially cured body in one of the mold halves with a face of the body exposed and a deformable sheet is laid over the face of the body in the one mold half. A die having a face conforming at least generally to the shape of the body face is then laid down against the sheet onto the body to press the sheet into intimate contact with the body face and bond the sheet and body together.

Abstract: A molding system has a base, a fixed mold plate secured to the base, a fixed mold half carried on the fixed mold plate, a movable mold plate displaceable on the base longitudinally forward away from the fixed mold half and backward toward the fixed mold half, and a movable mold half carried on the movable plate and fittable with the fixed mold half. A mold-closing apparatus has a pair of main cylinders fixed to the fixed mold half and respective main pistons subdividing the main cylinders into respective front and rear main compartments and each having a piston rod secured to the movable mold plate and formed with a longitudinally extending chamber. A small-diameter fast-closing piston and cylinder are formed in one of the piston rods, and the other piston rod is provided internally with a force-amplifying piston unit. Two flow-control valves and check valves control the system.

Abstract: A mixing head for a mold can receive two or more reactive synthetic resin components in a mixing chamber in which a mixing-chamber piston is displaceable to drive the residues into a first calming chamber communicating with the outlet of the mixing chamber. The first calming chamber also has a piston or plunger which can be advanced to drive the residues into a second calming chamber connected to the outlet of the first calming chamber. The second calming chamber has a second piston displacing the mixture into the mold cavity. Because the pistons of the first and second calming chambers can be retracted as the mixture flows through these chambers, a highly effective calming effect can be obtained for the turbulent mixture of the mixing chamber without throttling.

Abstract: Through three separate passages opening in a common plane at right angles to one another into a mixing chamber, three components of a reactant polyurethane or polyurea elastomer composition to form in a mold cavity are introduced. One of the components is an aliphatic polyether amine having primary amino function and substantially free from free hydroxyl groups, catalysts with tertiary amino groups, carbon dioxide as a carbamate reactive with the polyether amine and optionally other inert gases and conventional polyurea additives. The second component is a polyisocyanate or prepolymer thereof and the third component C is water. The reacting mixture is formed through a throttle gap into the mold to form low-density foamed products under low fuming conditions and has no unreacted diisocyanates.