Abstract: A loader for a tire curing press comprising a support, a loader frame mounted to the support for vertical and horizontal movement, a loader basket mounted to the loader frame for engaging, holding and releasing a tire, a first actuator for vertically moving the loader frame, a second actuator for horizontally moving the loader frame into and out of the press when open, and a mechanical guide for guiding the loader frame from an over-center position in the press to a center position as the loader frame is moved vertically in the press. The loader frame is supported on a spline shaft for movement therealong and rotation therewith by ball bushings riding in the grooves of the spline split. The loader basket comprises a plurality of generally radially movable shoes, an adjustable stop for limiting radial movement of each shoe and an adjustment mechanism for simultaneously and uniformly adjusting the adjustable stops.

Abstract: A sample mounting system includes a coupon holder having a plurality of apertures defining in part mold cavities for supporting a plurality of printed circuit board coupons on the holder. A removable mold is also provided and engages the coupon holder to define mold cavities into which molding resin is poured. The mold is then removed from the coupon holder which is secured in an annular stop ring and mounted to a polishing machine for polishing coupons molded in place with respect to the holder.

Abstract: A retreading curing ring is disclosed. The ring includes a body member which defines a circular platform. A plurality of clamps are mounted at circumferentially spaced locations on the body members. The clamps are movable between an open and a closed position. A tire retreading assembly including a tire carcass and new retread tread stock is positioned within a flexible bag or envelope. Guides center the tire with respect to the circular platform. The envelope is sandwiched between the upper surface of the circular platform of the curing ring and the sidewall of the tire. When the clamps are moved to the closed position, an air tight seal is formed.

Abstract: A plasticating control apparatus for an in-line screw type injection machine, including: a resin pressure sensor for detecting as an electrical signal pressure of a molten material at a distal end of a heating cylinder during plastication; means for directly converting the rotational speed of an electric motor to reciprocal movement of a hydraulic piston for driving a screw; and a control circuit for receiving the electrical signal from the resin pressure sensor and supplying the control signal to the electric motor in accordance with the electrical signal, the control signal supplied from the control circuit to the electric motor being adapted to control the rotational speed of the electric motor and hence a backward speed of the screw such that the pressure of the molten material at the distal end of the heating cylinder is not a negative pressure but substantially zero kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: Apparatus for making blocks from earth, soil or like material wherein a horizontally disposed channel is provided with a fill chamber and with a compression chamber downstream of the fill chamber and wherein further means is provided which, during a first cycle and while inhibiting further material from being supplied to the fill chamber, moves already supplied material from the fill chamber to the compression chamber to form a block and which, during a second cycle, enables further material to be supplied to the fill chamber.

Abstract: A radially expandable core pin is disclosed for blow-molding a thermoplastic container having a body-portion and a neck-portion, with such neck-portion including a dispensing orifice and internal attachment means. The core pin is radially expandable to compression mold the internal attachment means of the container and comprises a plurality of circumferentially disposed core sections surrounding the central axis of the core pin. These core sections are radially movable between a normally collapsed position and an expanded position, and have outer surfaces which mate along their longitudinal adjacent sides when radially displaced to expanded position to form a substantially continuous neck-forming surface thereabout. The neck-forming surface is relieved in a predetermined pattern to form the internal attachment means of the container.

Abstract: An engine-driven trowel includes a handle, a set of blades rotated within a single plane, a blade pitch control unit having a swash plate, a swash plate actuator arm and a pivot pin for pivotally coupling the actuator arm to the trowel. A blade pitch adjustment mechanism includes a lever-actuated cam assembly which engages and deflects the outboard end of the swash plate actuator arm. Up and down movements of the lever rotate the cam and displace the swash plate actuator arm to change the pitch of the trowel blades.

Abstract: A coextrusion head for producing a generally tubular elastomeric ply made up of first and second concentric tubular streams of elastomeric material having interposed, adjacent to their interface, a closely spaced array of parallel reinforcing elements wherein the coextrusion head includes a reinforcing element guide subassembly including a generally annular guide element as well as a mechanism for individually and independently directing and accurately positioning a circular array of uniformly spaced individual reinforcing elements.

Abstract: An improved for loading green tires in a laterally aligned two chamber type tire curing press, in which green tire loading devices for the respective chambers are provided in a movable manner at a center portion of the tire curing press. A green tire placing table is provided in a movable manner at a position in front of the center portion of the tire curing press. Positions in front of the respective chambers of the tire curing press are used as standby positions of the green tire loading devices. A position in front of the center position of the tire curing press is used as a green tire supply position onto the green tire placing table. Delivery of a green tire is effected either by moving the green tire loading device to the green tire supply position or by moving the green tire placing table to the standby position and then inverting the green tire onto gripping claws of the loading device. Green tires can be thereby successively loaded into the respective chambers of the tire curing press.

Abstract: A mold assembly for producing a plastic container having internal compartments separated by partitions. A male mold is slidably moveable into a female mold and includes a plurality of upstanding cores to form the container with injectors provided to force plastic melt between the molds and between the cores. A plurality of side locking members are reciprocably mounted in the cores and when extended contact adjacent cores limiting relative motion therebetween. The locking members form holes in the partitions formed between the cores. The locking members are withdrawn only after the plastic melt is cooled.

Abstract: A rotary roll-type rubber extruder including a roll having an outer cylindrical surface rotatively driven by driving means, a housing having a stationary concave surface spaced from and in opposition to the rotating outer cylindrical surface of said roll between a pair of sidewalls close to the outer cylindrical surface of the roll to form a define chamber with the roll, and a mouthpiece detachably secured to the housing to form a defined extruding opening with the roll at an outlet of the defined chamber.The concave surface of the housing is determined such that pressure gradients at mouthpieces are within a quadrilateral area having four corners corresponding to pressure gradients 65 and 150 kg/cm.sup.3 at a 1 mm opening mouthpiece and pressure gradients 11 and 23 kg/cm.sup.3 at a 5 mm opening mouthpiece in a graph having an ordinate in logarithm showing the pressure gradients ##EQU1## and an abscissa in logarithm showing heights mm of openings of the mouthpieces.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a paperboard receptacle includes male and female dies which draw the receptacle from a blank. The receptacle is moisturized during the drawing process to plasticize and lubricate the paperboard by injecting steam into one of the dies.

Abstract: A tire manufacturing mold comprises a mold body having an inner circumferential surface corresponding to the contour of a tire being molded, and includes at least the tread thereof. The body has a mold attachment for molding recesses of the tire being molded and a joint surface with the inner circumferential surface of the mold body. The mold attachment is detachably fitted to the inner circumferential surface of the mold body.

Abstract: Tubeless tire curing rim apparatus having rim bodies which telescope together under spring pressure to form an initial seal between a tire bead and sealing rim flanges on the rim bodies and which telescope apart as the tire is inflated to form the conventional bead rim seal. The bead-to-bead spacing for the tire is adjustable by means of calibrated threaded rings on the rim bodies or by a means of calibrated threaded central column.

Abstract: A method of forming a long cogged power transmission belt including extending a continuous looped vulcanizable belt preform element about a pair of axially parallel spaced support members, press-forming a first preselected length portion of the element disposed between the support members to form a first longitudinally extending series of cogs therein, vulcanizing the press-formed portion, press-forming a second, similar length portion of the element extending from the first portion and disposed between the support members to form a second longitudinally extending series of cogs therein continuing from the first series, vulcanizing the second press-formed portion, repeating the press-forming and vulcanizing operations if necessary until a final unformed portion of the belt extending from the last formed series of cogs and disposed between the support members has a length less than the preselected length, longitudinally stretching the final unformed portion to cause it to have a length approximately equal to t

Abstract: A system for generating three-dimensional objects by creating a cross-sectional pattern of the object to be formed at a selected surface of a fluid medium capable of altering its physical state in response to appropriate synergistic stimulation by impinging radiation, particle bombardment or chemical reaction, successive adjacent laminae, representing corresponding successive adjacent cross-sections of the object, being automatically formed and integrated together to provide a step-wise laminar buildup of the desired object, whereby a three-dimensional object is formed and drawn from a substantially planar surface of the fluid medium during the forming process.

Abstract: A device and method for flash suppression in a molding with rotation system having a non-rotating mating surface capable of venting gases during the molding process while simultaneously suppressing flash. Flash is directed inwardly and away from the mating surface and contained between a mandrel and mandrel housing in a low pressure reservoir which is completely separate from the mating surface. A cooling fluid is utilized to carry away flash particles from the low pressure reservoir and thereby further prevent contamination of the mating surface.

Abstract: The body of a cabinet for storing temperature-sensitive articles such as magnetic discs and tapes is built by a process which involves the successive steps of (i) fabricating an internal skin; (ii) attaching so-called "phase-change" material to the skin; (iii) applying insulative polyurethane foam in-situ to the structure of step (ii); (iv) casting concrete or the like water-bearing material around the structure of step (iii); and (v) completing the outer finishing skin. Thus the conventional "double-box" structure is avoided. The door for the cabinet can be built by a similar sequence in which "phase-change" material, insulative form and water-bearing layers are applied successively to a pan forming the internal face of the door.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for controlling operating pressure within a mold cavity of an injection molding die. Finely detailed, and parts having thin walls are molded with the invention providing a process for eliminating defects. There is a pressure control apparatus which is preset to provide varying degrees of negative and positive pressure during the mold cycle, and to reset to repeat the procedure for subsequent cycles. The procedure includes a cleaning stage for preparing the mold cavity for the following mold cycle.

Abstract: A semi-rigid pool coping form board of the type which is temporarily adhered on the generally vertical surface of a pool mouth-bounding structure to project a uniform height above the generally horizontal upper surface of that bounding structure is provided where its basal feet adjoin its coping inner edge-molding concave surface with an integral bead. At regular intervals, the bead is replaced by a spring clip with a similarly shaped nose. Each spring clip is rooted in the foam board to a standard depth with the aid of a stop shoulder and an adhesive. By locating in, snapping into and filling the liner track channel mouth the bead/spring clip structure automatically locates the form boards heightwise in relation to the pool mouth-bounding structure, provides an easy to use and effective secondary securement system for the form boards and keeps the pool liner track channel so free of cement that any clean-up needed is minor.