Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for padding corners of, for example, equipment housings. The device has two arms joined to each other at an angle and cheeks. The cheeks are fitted to the outside of the arms. To enable a device of this kind to be used in a variety of applications, i.e., over a wide range of housing sizes, and still remain firmly in place, each arm of the device has a honeycomblike structure designed so that it can be stretched in the lateral direction of the device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing loose fill in the form of spherical segments having a convex outer surface and a concave inner surface, and the granules formed. It is provided that starch granules are fed into a drum, and that in the drum, a nucleating agent is drum-coated onto the starch granules, and that the starch granules drum-coated with the nucleating agent are fed to an extruder, in which the starch granules are converted from their solid state into a viscous-liquid state. A starch foam created, by furnishing heat, in the extruder by the decomposition of the nucleating agent emerges from a forming opening of the extruder with a curved surface as a result of the difference in speed prevailing over the cross section of the composition, and that the skein of starch emerging from this forming opening is cut off directly at the forming opening, before any considerable expansion has taken place. The thus-created starch particles are received in a storage container.

Abstract: A shaped body made from a plurality of granulate beads of biodegradable material. The beads are subjected to either hot air or steam having relative residual moisture content of 0.5 to 2%. As a result, the beads have at least a part of their surface dissolved forming an adhesive surface. Adjacent adhesive surfaces are then bonded to each other to form the shaped body.

Abstract: Units for supplying a circuit of a heating or cooling supply system which are required for conveying a medium and for regulating and monitoring are arranged at parallel pipelines for the forward and return flows so as to be combined in an installation-ready structural component group in a housing of thermal insulating plastic, the housing being divided into a lower shell and an upper shell by a seam extending approximately in the central plane formed by the pipelines, the lower shell and the upper shell having a lock-seam connection with lock-seams that form a positive-locking connection along the entire outer edges of the shells, the upper shell being provided with openings that allow the parts of the units essential for operation to penetrate, while the lower shell is provided with a component for direct fastening to a wall, the strength and thickness of the material of the lower shell and upper shell being selected so that the housing can be used as protective transportation packing for the structural comp

Abstract: A cushioning or padding body for insertion into footwear, a method of manufacturing the body and a method for the simultaneous manufacture and exact fitting of the body to the respective shape of a corresponding part of the foot of the wearer are related. The body comprises a plurality of individual foam material beads alone or a mixture of a plurality of individual foam material beads and a resiliently cushioning, thermoplastically non-deformable plastic material. The beads are each provided with a closed surface and each is generally impermeable to air. The beads are fixed in their position relative to each other by the effect of that.

Abstract: A thermoplastic plastic granule having an expansion agent uniformly distributed within a plastic polymer-matrix and, containing additionally a cell-forming agent in a finely and uniformly distributed manner. Such thermoplastic granules are used for producing foamed molded bodies in a mold.

Abstract: A packaging filler formed by cutting off and expanding small pieces of continuously extruded plastic to have generally the shape of an H in plan view. The filler has a transverse part and a plurality of substantially elliptically shaped lateral parts extending from either end of the transverse part defining with the transverse part two spaced apart substantially rounded recesses. The length of the packaging filler is at least equal to the height of the lateral parts.

Abstract: In a case of a process for producing pourable spherical-segment-shaped packing material particles made of a plastic material which have an external convex and an internal concave surface, the plastic material is fed in by means of a feeding funnel through an opening in a bush surrounding the extrusion screw. The plastic material is plasticized and, because of the difference in speed existing over the cross section of the mass, comes out of an opening in the die with a bent surface. The extruded plastic material is cut off directly at the opening of the die and before any considerable expansion has taken place. In this case, the plastic material is pulled into a space between the extrusion screw and a bush (28) provided with longitudinal grooves (35) in the material pull-in zone (13). The result is a possibility for some of the plastic granules to escape into the longitudinal grooves (35) and an increased and steadier transport of material through the extruder (FIG. 1).

Abstract: In the case of a process for producing pourable spherical-segment-shaped packing material particles (18) made of plastic which have an external convex and an internal concave surface, the plastic material is mixed with additives, such as bubble forming agents, coloring pigments and similar agents. The plastic material is fed, by means of a feeding funnel (17) into an extruder (14) through an opening in a bush (13) surrounding the extrusion screw. The plastic material plasticizes over the course of the extruder (14) and, because of the difference in speed existing over the cross section of the mass, comes out of an opening (15) in the die with a bent surface. The plastic material is cut off directly at the opening (15) of the die and before any considerable expansion has taken place. Before the processing of the plastic granules in the extruder (14) a bubble-forming agent (nucleation agent) is applied to their surface in a drum (5).