Abstract: An analyzer apparatus and method is provided for analyzing restenosis associated with a stent implanted within a living body. The apparatus includes an input for receiving ultrasonic data from an ultrasonic imaging apparatus; digital memory for storing the ultrasonic data at least temporarily; a processor for analyzing the ultrasonic data, the processor being configured to analyze the data in accordance with at least one predefined criteria to diagnose a degree of restenosis experienced by the stent; and an output for outputting information indicative of the diagnosis.

Abstract: A system and method for creating a personal occupational program at a website includes prevention and rehabilitation information that is specifically directed to an individual's work environment and occupational specialty in order to foster worksite wellness. In operation, an end user will input personal data as background for his/her personal occupational program. A medical expert may, or may not, help customize the program that includes prevention and rehabilitation sections by prescribing treatment exercises for the individual end user. In general, sections of the program provide information on education, activities of daily living, exercise and specific safe work activities. Once the program is prepared, the end user may retrieve information in his/her program over the internet, in a printout, on a CD or on a videotape.

Abstract: In an applicator, in particular a mascara brush, comprising a plurality of bristles that are secured between at least two twisted wires, it is provided, with a view to the possibility of implementation of completely new properties without the need of giving up the proven manufacturing processes and associated equipment, that in addition to the bristles a stiffening element is provided that extends in the region of the freely projecting bristles and is interspersed with the bristles.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a hair accessary is described for a women's hair. The hair accessary includes a includes an elongated rectangularly shaped elastic strap having an inner elongated surface foldable back on itself so as to form a P-shaped hoop in cross section and an outer elongate surface (opposite to the inner surface) to which a series of beaded strings are attached. The P-shaped hoop includes an upright arm and an arcuate arm that intersects the upright arm over a segment of inner elongated surface. As a result, the arcuate arm forms a closed cavity (that incorporates a segment of the inner surface of the strap) so as to enclose a strand of hair of the user yet is flexible to allow radial expansion as required. A portion of the upright arm of the P-shaped hoop is used to support beaded strings.

Abstract: Cleaning a media surface, such as a disc surface, comprises subjecting the surface to a detector for sensing the nature of the surface for an irregularity in the smoothness of the surface. Directing, on detecting an irregularity beyond a predetermined amount, a burnishing pulse laser output to that irregularity, and energizing the laser to thereby impart an energy source to reduce the irregularity to a degree less than a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A method is provided for cleaning a surface of a wafer. First, the wafer is placed in a closed cleaning chamber, and then a cleaning agent is infused into the cleaning chamber to a predetermined height, so that the wafer is completely immersed in the cleaning agent. Next, the pressure in the cleaning chamber is lowered to a sub-atmospheric state of 0.1 to 0.5 atm with a vacuum pump, and then returned to the normal value to complete the cleaning process.

Abstract: An automated power-driven pool cleaning apparatus is provided with a motion translating member that contacts the surface being cleaned, an associated signal transmitter and a sensor that is connected to the pool cleaner's programmed electronic control device, or chip, so that when the cleaner is moving, the mtm moves the signal transmitter past the sensor thereby providing an intermittent signal. When the cleaner stops moving, no intermittent signal is received and after a predetermined period of time, the control device causes the cleaner's drive means to move the cleaner in a different direction.

Abstract: Apparatus for scarifying an interior surface of a pipe both of round and non-round cross-section. The apparatus, which has a nozzle for discharging fluid under pressure against the interior surface of the pipe, also has a vehicle moveable along an interior of the pipe in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of the pipe, a principal arm coupled to the vehicle and a scarifying assembly rotatably coupled to the principal arm having a fluid nozzle assembly with at least one fluid nozzle. The fluid nozzle assembly is operative to one of rotate and oscillate, one of the scarifying assembly and the principal arm being extendible to place the fluid nozzle at a location adjacent the interior surface of the pipe and operative, as the vehicle moves along the interior surface of said pipe, to remove contaminants and corrosion along a selected region along the interior surface of pipe.

Abstract: In cleaning by sodium hypochlorite, filtration membrane cartridges are immersed in a washing tank storing a solution of sodium hypochlorite to decompose and remove organic contaminants clogging the pores of filtration membranes by oxidation of sodium hypochlorite; in rinsing with water, the cartridges are immersed in a washing tank storing a rinsing water to wash away the sodium hypochlorite attached to the filtration membrane by the rinsing water; in cleaning by oxalic acid, the cartridges are immersed in a washing tank storing oxalic acid to wash away ferrous substances attached to the filtration membrane by oxalic acid; and in giving hydrophilic property by a hydrophilic agent, the cartridges are immersed in a washing tank storing a solution of the hydrophilic agent so as to apply the hydrophilic agent to the filtration membranes in preparation for dry lay-up.

Abstract: A continuous flow, steady state fluid delivery and recovery system for a process chamber and processes requiring supercritical fluid and desired additives including co-solvents, for conducting repetitive batch processing operations in an automated environment, for such processes as supercritical carbon dioxide cleaning and processing of semiconductor wafers. The system provides for steady-state operation of fluid flow and byproducts recovery while the process chamber is brought rapidly and repeatedly on and off line as in batch operations and for various process steps.

Abstract: An umbrella cover is disclosed for minimizing or eliminating wear and tear on an outdoor umbrella while the umbrella is not being used. The umbrella cover utilizes two support sticks and a hard cover to keep the wear and tear of weather from damaging an umbrella Further, the umbrella cover utilizes an attachment means, preferably a hook and loop attachment system or a plurality of buckles, to firmly maintain the umbrella cover in a “down” position when in use. The two support sticks can be broken down into shorter lengths to make packaging of the present invention more convenient.

Abstract: An improved tent (10) for quick construction, including a fabric enclosure (11) which serves as walls (28, 30, 32), roof (34) and floor (36) of the tent (10). The tent (10) includes a frame (12), which attaches to and supports the fabric enclosure (11). The frame (12) includes at least two frame poles (13) having upper (20) and lower ends (22). The frame poles (13) form at least one V-shape (90), the lower ends (22) being positioned in close proximity to form the tip (92) of the V-shape (90), and the upper ends (20) spread apart forming the legs (94) of the V shape (90). The upper ends (20) tend to fall away from each other on either side of a bisecting vertical line (96) to the extent allowed by their attachment to the fabric enclosure (11), thereby spreading the fabric enclosure (11) and aiding in the quick construction of the tent (10).

Abstract: A multi-stage cooler is formed from monolithically integrated thermionic and thermoelectric coolers, wherein the thermionic and thermoelectric coolers each have a separate electrical connection and a common ground, thereby forming a three terminal device. The thermionic cooler is comprised of a superlattice barrier surrounded by cathode and anode layers grown onto an appropriate substrate, one or more metal contacts with a finite surface area deposited on top of the cathode layer, and one or more mesas of different areas formed by etching around the contacts to the anode layer. The thermoelectric cooler is defined by metal contacts deposited on the anode layer or the substrate itself. A backside metal is deposited on the substrate for connecting to the common ground.

Abstract: A Cu plated ceramic substrate is used in a semiconductor. On a ceramic substrate layer, a thin-film Cr layer is put, and a thin-firm Au layer is put on the Cr layer. The Au layer is plated with Cu. By providing the Au and Cr layers between the ceramic plate and Cu layer, adhesibility is increased. A Pertier element which includes the Cu plated ceramic layer is employed in a semiconductor to absorb and generate heat efficiently.

Abstract: A fixing member for fixing a solar cell module or a roofing member with no solar cell onto a installation face, said fixing member comprising a meshing portion to mesh at least a solar cell module or a part of a roofing member with no solar cell; a fixing portion to fix said fixing member to said installation face; and a raised portion to connect said meshing portion and said fixing portion, wherein said raised portion has a height which is greater than the thickness of a portion of said solar cell module or said roofing member which is engaged in the meshing by said meshing portion.

Abstract: A solar cell module includes a connecting member to be passed through a coating of a cable for electrically connecting a plurality of solar cell modules and to be electrically connected to a core wire of the cable. The solar cell module is connected to the cable by pressing the connecting member of the solar cell module to pass through the coating of the cable and come into contact with the core wire of the cable. An electrical connection of the solar cell module with a ground wire is made by a similar technique.

Abstract: A solar cell comprising a substrate having cleavage directions perpendicular to each other and having textures arranged on its light-receiving surface, said textures having bottom sides adjacent to each other along the cleavage directions and the bottom sides along at least one cleavage direction being discontinuous.

Abstract: A fuel cutoff valve includes a full fuel control valve and an overfill prevention valve inside a casing. The overfill prevention valve is equipped with first and second floats. The second float is disposed in the storage chamber inside the first float of the full fuel control valve while being allowed to move up and down. The second float is configured such that a second connection conduit is closed by a second valve element as a result of a rising movement when the fuel level exceeds a second liquid level located above a first liquid level, and the second valve element is connected to a first connection conduit through a second connection conduit to reduce the force with which the first valve element of the first float is pressed against a first seat as a result of the fact that the fuel level has dropped below the second liquid level but is still above the first liquid level.

Abstract: A cementing head is provided for introduction and separation of fluids in a well. The cementing head comprises a plug container having upper and lower fluid inlets oriented tangent to the bore of the plug container. The upper inlet is located below the upper end of the plug so that a compact manifold can be used therewith. The compact manifold includes first and second discharge tees which may be connected by a one-piece coupling such that rotation of the coupling in one direction causes the discharge tees to seal against a spacer therebetween and rotation in a second direction causes the discharge tees to move apart from one another. A coupling for quick coupling of the plug container to a casing collar is also provided. The coupling apparatus comprises a locking clamp having pivotally connected arcuate clamp portions. Each arcuate clamp portion engages a lower end of a casing collar. A threaded adjustment is provided for increasing an initial compression of a seal against the upper end of the casing collar.

Abstract: A nonretum valve with a valve disk (2) located on a valve seat (3) and with guide supports on the circumference of the valve disk is improved such that the wear on the guide supports is reduced to a minimum. This is accomplished with guide supports designed as pins (7) mounted in a rotatably movable manner.

Abstract: A fuel delivery unit includes an installation holder accommodating at least a first reservoir with a fuel pump arranged therein, a fuel filter and a cover closure for a fitting opening in a fuel tank. The fuel delivery unit additionally includes a second reservoir which in the installation position is disposed beside the first reservoir and communicates therewith. The first and second reservoirs are accommodated by the installation holder displaceably and/or pivotably relative to each other at least between a fitting configuration and an installation configuration. At least one reservoir at least in the installation configuration is arranged at least partly outside the projected area of the cover closure in the tank.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply valve comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a rigid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing operating costs and emissions in a pumping installation. A first step involves providing a flow dividing apparatus capable of dividing flow from a pump. The apparatus has a single inlet and two or more outlets. A second step involves coupling the flow dividing apparatus with a pump of the pumping installation and directing flow from the pump through the single inlet of the flow dividing apparatus. The pump will generate a flow stream from each of the two or more outlets and perform work that, in the absence of the flow dividing apparatus, would have to be performed by two or more pumps. The reduction in the number of pumps used necessarily reduces both operating costs and emissions.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the manufacture of individual pipe sections of a pipe formed by a product pipe [(1) and by] having at least one channel [(5)] running along the product pipe. The channel is formed by filling a pipe jacket with an insulating mass which exhibits a flowability only in the processing condition. The pipe jacket contains the product pipe and a core which is disposed on the product pipe and which defines the contour of the channel. [(1), in which case the product pipe (1) and the channel (5) are fitted with the insulation (3) enclosed by the jacket pipe (2). A method consisting of the following process steps is proposed to provide a simple and cost-effective manufacture of almost any type of channel along the product pipe (1).

Abstract: Armored control cables are described. The control cables include fluid communication tubes and a metal armor layer that surrounds each of the fluid communication tubes. In one described embodiment, there are three fluid communication tubes that are disposed in a parallel relation and maintained in contact with one another. The metal armor layer is in contact with the outer surface of each of the three tubes and is preferable formed of spirally wound metal tape.

Abstract: This invention relates to a more productive method for face-to-face weaving pile fabrics with high pile density whereby two backing fabrics are woven one above the other in which groups of three weft yarns (1-3), (4-6) are inwoven in respective openings between binding warp yarns (7), (8), (9) (10) crossing each other, and in which non-pile-forming pile warp yarns are inwoven, while pile warp yarns are alternately interlaced in the top and the bottom backing fabric over a weft yarn according to a two-shot weave. According to this method in series of four successive weft insertion cycles in each case three weft yarns (1), (2), (3) are inserted for the top backing fabric (30) and three weft yarns (4), (5), (6) for the bottom backing fabric (31). For this purpose use can be made of a weaving machine that is provided in order to insert two weft yarns one above the other per weft insertion cycle and by weft disengagement or weft cancellation in the course of two cycles per series to insert only one weft yarn.

Abstract: Ink is filled in an ink cartridge having a housing communicating with ambient air through an air communicating hole, a porous member impregnating with ink, an ink supply port, and a valve device including a valve body always urged by a spring and a valve seat abutting against the valve body, and ink is filled in the housing of the ink cartridge through the ink supply port.

Abstract: A method and a configuration are provided for transporting electrically conductive paint from a point at earth potential to at least one paint application device which is at a high voltage potential. A needed quantity of paint is filled into a cartridge at a point at earth potential. The filled cartridge is conveyed by a first conveying device to a second conveying device. The cartridges are then allocated to workpieces to be painted. The filled cartridge is transported by the second conveying device to the at least one paint application device. At the paint application device, the cartridge is connected to at least one spray head. The emptied cartridge is transported by the second conveying device to a third conveying device, and the third conveying device transports the cartridge back to the loading station, while a further cartridge is filled there and conveyed by the first conveying device.

Abstract: A system and method for dividing a single stream of long, cooked noodles into a plurality of product streams. The system includes an inlet conduit for receiving the stream of cooked noodles, a rough portioner for dividing the stream of noodles into discrete portions, and a diverter mechanism which selectively directs the discrete portions into one of two outlet streams. Additional diverter mechanisms may be disposed in the outlet streams to further divide and redirect the noodles into any number of final outlet streams. The final outlet streams are directed toward container filling machines which precisely measure the noodles and place them into containers. A computerized logic controller can accommodate the failure of any one or more container filling machines by stopping flow to any combination of final outlet conduits while maintaining uninterrupted operation of the remainder of the system.

Abstract: An automatic container detection and fill control device includes a number of transmitter and receiver pairs arranged generally in parallel such that a transmission from a given transmitter is directed downwardly toward an interior of a container when present in a dispensing station. At least a portion of the transmission is capable of reflection toward a given receiver. A control circuit is connected to the transmitter and receiver pairs to periodically activate a given transmitter and monitor a corresponding receiver. Preferably, the control circuit includes a microprocessor programmed and capable of determining both container presence and a product Fill level by detecting and differentiating signal strengths of reflected transmissions, and activating and deactivating a dispenser in response thereto. The control is capable of detecting the size of a container and dispensing product until the container is considered full.

Abstract: A near-&bgr; or &bgr; titanium alloy having high strength, high ductility, and high toughness which is capable of coil rolling at a high temperature and recoiling for high productivity, and a process for producing said titanium alloy. The titanium alloy contains not more than 1.0% (excluding 0%) of Si alone or in combination with not more than 10% of Sn. The process comprises heating a &bgr; alloy or near-&bgr; alloy containing not more than 1.0% (excluding 0%) of Si alone or in combination with not more than 10% of Sn and subjecting said alloy to plastic deformation while keeping silicides solved in it at a temperature above the &bgr;-transus, so that silicides precipitate in the form of fine particles, with recrystallization suppressed. The resulting titanium alloy is good in workability and has high strength after aging treatment.

Abstract: The invention relates to rolled or extruded products for welded constructions made of AlMgMn type aluminium alloy.

Abstract: The method for manufacturing steel sheet comprises the steps of: rough-rolling to form a sheet bar; finish-rolling the sheet bar to form a steel strip; applying primary cooling and secondary cooling to the finish-rolled steel strip; and coiling the secondary-cooled steel strip. The primary cooling is conducted at cooling speeds of 120° C./sec or more down to the temperatures of from 500 to 800° C. The secondary cooling is conducted at cooling speeds of less than 60° C./sec.

Abstract: This invention provides a method and apparatus for casting, hot rolling and annealing of non-heat treatable aluminum alloys which comprises continuously casting, hot rolling, and, in-line with the hot rolling line, inductively heating the aluminum sheet. The induction heating system uses a feedback control to assure that the aluminum alloy is heated to the proper temperature based on one or a number of process variables, such as hot rolling exit temperature, hot rolled product exit rate in terms of speed and product dimensions, and sheet temperature at the exit of the induction heater. Variations in the induction heating temperature can be tolerated in the product without deviating from target mechanical properties.

Abstract: Crawler belt bushings and their producing methods, with which productivity and cost performance can be improved over the carburization treatment and the induction hardening treatment. After a workpiece made from steel is heated from its outer circumferential surface such that at least the surface temperature of the inner circumferential surface of the workpiece is raised to a quenching temperature, a series of quenching operation is performed to form quench hardened layers which extend toward the core from the inner and outer circumferential surfaces respectively and a soft, imperfectly hardened layer between these quench hardened layers. The quenching operation comprises: cooling the workpiece from the inner circumferential surface; cooling the workpiece from the inner circumferential surface while heating from the outer circumferential surface; and cooling the workpiece from the outer circumferential surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy support body for a presensitized plate in which the uniformity of the grained surface due to electrochemical etching is further improved, and a method of producing the same. The aluminum alloy support body for the presensitized plate according to the present invention has a composition comprising 0.1 to 0.7% by weight of Fe; 0.01 to 0.2% by weight of Si; 0.005 to 1.0% by weight of one or more rare earth elements; and the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities. In the present invention, the aluminum alloy support body may further contain 0.005 to 0.1% by weight of Ni and 0.005 to 0.3% by weight of one or more rare earth elements. One or more elements of Ce, La and Nd can be selected as the rare earth elements.

Abstract: Tie invention relates to a process to manufacture an object using at least one granular material (16) having a large particle size, for example greater than or equal to 0.

Abstract: The invention is a process of manufacture, namely an automobile tire that is made of a colored composition that is of a single, inherent non-black color. The rubber composition of the tire is thus enhanced by the use of a coloring agent such as a pigment or dye that will yield a desired color upon completion of the tire manufacturing process. Such dye or pigment may be enhanced by the use of reflective, luminescent or photochromic agents that will enhance certain effects and appearances of the tire including: ease of visibility, other safety concerns including wear and puncture identification, and aesthetic appearance.

Abstract: A heavy-transport radial tire (1), the tread (2) of which has a number of circumferential main grooves (4) and, at each shoulder (3), a circumferential decoupling groove (5) defining a peripheral rib (6), which contacts the ground along a respective annular contact portion (9) and, in section, is of tapered shape defined by a taper (8) formed along an outer surface of the peripheral rib (6) and imparting a substantially truncated-cone shape to the respective shoulder (3).

Abstract: A pneumatic radial ply tire with an aspect ratio of less than 50 has a ground contacting tread radially outward of a circumferential belt structure which in turn is radially ourtward of a carcass structure. The carcass structure has a pair of bead areas that include a bead foot compatible with a conventionally-shaped wheel rim having flanges with laterally extending portions. The carcass structure has a cord-reinforced elastomeric ply layer extend laterally between the two bead areas and radially inward of the belt structure. The tread area is directly connected to the bead areas without a sidewall. Rim flange protectors comprising a continuous circumferential elastomeric projection extend laterally outward from each bead/tread area and thereby radially outward of the rim flanges.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a bead core consisting of a single core and plural sheath layers formed by helically winding plural sheath wires around the core, in which an end count of sheath wires in an outermost sheath layer is made smaller than an end count at a close-packed state or each sheath wire constituting a second sheath layer from an outermost side is covered with a coating rubber prior to the winding.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions and turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portion and a main portion therebetween; each of the turnup portion extends radially outwardly and adjoins the main portion from a certain height above the bead core; a space surrounded by the carcass ply main portion, each turnup portion and the bead core is filled with a small size bead apex rubber or a gus; and the bead portion is provided between the carcass ply and the bead core with a bead core cover for preventing the carcass cords from direct contacting with the bead core.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions and turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portion and a main portion therebetween; each of the turnup portion extends radially outwardly and adjoins the main portion from a certain height above the bead core; a space surrounded by the carcass ply main portion, each turnup portion and the bead core is filled with a small size bead apex rubber or a gus; and the bead portion is provided between the carcass ply and the bead core with a bead core cover for preventing the carcass cords from direct contacting with the bead core.

Abstract: A printed circuit board is made from at least one non-woven sheet or web layer comprising at least 50% by weight acrylic fibers, with any balance substantially electrically non-conductive fibers, filler, and binder. The sheet or web is preferably made by the foam process, and may contain 60-80% straight polyacrylonitrile fibers and 40-20% fibrillated (pulp) ones. The web or sheet is preferably compressed by thermal calendering so that it has a density of about 0.1-1 grams per cubic centimeter; and the web or sheet may have a basis weight of between about 20-120 grams per square meter. The web or sheet may also have a 1-40% of substantially electrically non-conductive organic or inorganic binder, or may be substantially binder free.

Abstract: A method of making a fabric Venetian blind comprises helical winding of a narrow, elongated strip, which, when properly overlapped and bonded along longitudinal glue lines, will form the vanes and front and rear facings of the blind. The strips may be formed of a single, uniform material, or of adjacent, longitudinally extending portions of relatively opaque and relatively translucent fabric. An alternative embodiment uses the same winding technique to similarly form a structure of only translucent fabric, but with pockets for subsequent insertion of opaque vanes. Several alternative strip configurations and assembly arrangements are disclosed. The disclosed method and structure may also be used to form products for other applications.

Abstract: A tape-reinforced tubular vascular graft formed of sintered fluoropolymer(s), such as expanded, sintered PTFE. The graft includes a base graft and a reinforcing tape applied thereto. The tape may be spirally wrapped about the graft or spirally wrapped into a tube about a cylindrical mandrel and then applied to the exterior of the graft. Radial shrinkage of the combined base graft and tape, or of the reinforcing tape tube, renders the vascular graft subsequently radially enlargeable by more than 5%, without tearing or breaking of the reinforcement tape layer of the graft. Radially enlargeable grafts of the present invention may be combined with various types of stents or anchoring systems, to form endovascular graft devices which are transluminally insertable and implantable within the lumen of a host blood vessel.

Abstract: The tape is free from any slack and separation even when it is applied and bonded to a metal joint portion while being bent. The tape, made of an unvulcanized material containing an unvulcanized rubber-base material, a vulcanization accelerator, an anti-oxidizing agent, a pigment and a bulk filler, is formed into an elongated shape having an upper and a lower surface and a predetermined thickness measured in a direction perpendicular to the lower surface or flat bottom surface 1. The upper surface forms a circularly-curved surface 2 in cross section. Since the tape is in an unvulcanized state, it is capable of being free bent when applied to the metal joint portion. After application of the tape to the metal joint portion, a paint is applied to the tape, which is followed by a heating process in which the tape is heated, and, therefore vulcanized.

Abstract: A method of producing a tire with a simplified operation and a high productivity, for improving the lateral rigidity and the steering stability performance of the tire. An annular laminated body as a reinforcing layer in the side surface area of the tire is formed by spirally winding and laminating a ribbon of an unvulcanized rubber embedding a thin gauge and embedding short fibers with a desired orientation. The annular laminated body is applied at a position corresponding to the side surface area of the tire, between the outer rubber and the inner liner rubber, upon formation of a green tire for the tire.

Abstract: The invention is a method or a device for wrapping the rubber strip around the forming drum while extruding an unvulcanized rubber strip from an injection device, wherein the rubber strip is pressed by a guide roll against the forming drum under tension, as well as a space for absorbing variations in an amount of extrusion of the rubber strip is formed between the guide roll and an extrusion outlet of the injection device, the forming drum is rotated in synchronism with extrusion of the rubber strip so that the guide roll is driven, and the rubber strip guided by the guide roll is wrapped around the forming drum.

Abstract: A method for producing a pleated filter material from a nonwoven fabric having spacers for the pleated folds formed from the filter material itself, a formed fabric made of stretched synthetic fibers and thermoplastic and/or thermally cross-linked binding agent being heated in an oven to a temperature lying at least in the softening temperature range and/or the cross-linking temperature range of the binding agent, and subsequently, the formed fabric being formed between profiled calender rolls and cooled simultaneously.