Abstract: A wringing device is provided including a housing with a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a rear face and a pair of side faces formed therebetween thus defining an interior space. The top face has an entry opening formed therein and the front face has an exit opening formed therein. A roller assembly is situated within the housing. A drive mechanism is also positioned within the housing and remains in communication with the roller assembly for wringing a piece of cloth when put in the entry opening, whereafter the piece of cloth is dispensed from the exit opening.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for kneading used fluid filters having an initial kneader and a final kneader disposed subsequent to the inital kneader. The initial kneader includes a first roller and a second roller disposed on the frame adjacent to the first roller at a distance less than the diameter of the used fluid filter. The first and second rollers include a bar extending longitudinally along the perimeter of each of the first and second rollers for grabbing the used fluid filter. The second roller rotates faster than the first roller and includes a high bar extending longitudinally along the perimeter of the second roller for shearing away the filter plate from the filter canister. The final kneader includes a fifth roller and a sixth roller on the frame adjacent to the fifth roller at a distance less than the distance between the first roller and the second roller. The fifth and sixth rollers include a plurality of points.

Abstract: A drive mechanism of a suction or deflection adjustment roll having a spur wheel gear. For a suction roll, a stationary suction box may be guided outward through the drive mechanism to be coupled with a suction device. An external gear ring may be rigidly coupled to a driven or gear end of the roll to mesh with a driven pinion. The driven pinion may be driven via a drive shaft coupled to the driven pinion through a pair of enmeshed gears. The driven pinion and an end of the drive shaft coupled to the pinion may each include a self-adjusting bearing, each self-adjusting bearing being adjacently positioned and supported on a bearing journal. The self-adjusting bearing associated with the end of the drive shaft may exhibit radial play with respect to one of an inside diameter of the drive shaft or an outside diameter of the bearing journal, which may permit tilting of the pinion with respect to the bearing journal.

Abstract: A meat flattening machine having two vertically stacked rows of non-sharpened edge stainless steel rollers adjacent to one another in an aluminum frame. Each row has at least two and preferably six rollers wherein the top row is spaced further apart from the bottom rows The plural stacked rows allow for the meat to be pulled and stretched between the rollers for flattening the meat. Four screws connect each corner of the stacked rollers to an adjacent corner of the other stacked rollers to allow for the spacing between the stacked rows to be adjustable. Each roller has parallel rows of rectangular ridges having non-sharpened edges. The bottom roller of each stack can have grooves approximately 1/16 inch deep, while the above rollers can have grooves approximately 1/8 inch deep between the rectangular ridges. The frame includes a removable electric motor, stainless steel sprockets and stainless steel chains for rotating the rollers.

Abstract: A precision roll stand includes a roll housing absorbing the rolling forces. In the roll housing rolls constituting a roll pair with their roll chocks are mounted so as to be rotatable and mutually adjustable by an adjustment device which changes the axial distance between the pair of rolls. A drive housing including a roll drive is connectable with the roll housing while establishing a drive connection of the roll drive with the rolls and being removable from the same while undoing the drive connection. In order to produce rolled products exhibiting extremely high measuring accuracies and to be able to exchange the rolls quickly and without difficulty, the roll housing has a frame which is open in the direction of adjustment of the rolls and contains and guides the chocks of the rolls. A crosshead for closing the frame carries the adjustment device designed as a pressure medium cylinder and is rigidly connectable with the frame. The drive housing is supported on the crosshead.

Abstract: A needle destruction device has a main frame, a lateral plate, a motor, a motor shaft extending from the motor, a drive gear connected to the motor shaft, a follower gear engaging with the drive gear, a first upper roller, a second upper roller, a first lower roller, a second lower roller, a first upper shaft extending from the first upper roller, a first upper driven gear connected to the first upper shaft, a second upper shaft extending from the second upper roller, a second upper driven gear connected to the second upper shaft, a first lower shaft extending from the first lower roller, a first lower driven gear connected to the first lower shaft, a second lower shaft extending from the second lower roller, a second lower driven gear connected to the second lower shaft, the first upper driven gear engaging with the follower gear and the second upper driven gear, the first lower driven gear engaging with the follower gear and the second lower driven gear.

Abstract: A sheeter head having a pair of counterrotating internally-driven sheeter rollers is disclosed. The sheeting rollers each include an independent internal drive motor and gear box affixed to a nonrotating shaft, along with a nonrotating idle shaft on an opposite end of the roller. The speeds of the drive motors are controlled by an external device such as an inverter speed control. The nonrotating shafts, in conjunction with the absence of any external drive mechanism, allow for sanitary operation, easy clean-up, and a simple and efficient adjustment mechanism for varying a pinch point between the rollers. The preferred adjustment mechanism includes a fixed front roller and horizontal slide plates connected to the axles of a back roller, the slide plate having pegs which slide in associated grooves. One of the grooves is preferably wider than the other to help prevent binding during an adjustment operation.

Abstract: A calender for treating both sides of a paper web includes hard rollers and soft rollers. Working nips are formed between the juncture of each hard roller and soft roller. The roller stack can be loaded from one end, and preferably includes six to eight rollers. A changeover nip is formed by the juncture of two soft rollers or at the transition between two stacks. When using two stacks, each stack preferably has three to five rollers. At least one working nip has a dwell time of at least 0.1 ms. A heatable roller adjacent to the working nip is heated to a surface temperature of at least 100.degree. C. The roller stack is loaded such that an average compressive stress in the working nip is greater than or equal to 42 N/mm.sup.2.

Abstract: A calender has at least four rollers that are located one above the other. The rollers rotate about roller bearings. The calender is located within a paper-making machine. Each of the rollers is rotatably driven by an independent driving mechanism. At least two of the rollers are heatable. At least 40% of the rollers are soft rollers. The outer coverings of the soft rollers are made of a synthetic material that is not sensitive to marking so that a doctor blade can be applied to the soft rollers. The calender includes a device that inserts a paper guide strip into the calender.

Abstract: A paper disposal and compacting apparatus capable of causing sheets of paper and other substrates to be disposed, to fold in a compact accordion like manner. The apparatus includes a first roller and a second roller adjacent and parallel to one another to force the sheets to pass between the rollers and a first roller driving device for rotating the first roller. The apparatus further includes a paper waste container for receiving the sheets after passing between the rollers. The container dimensions sized to match the sheets to be disposed to cause the folding in the compact accordion like manner of the sheets.

Abstract: A paperboard carton piercing-crushing and recycle system and apparatus which includes a safety operated door which controls motor operated carton piercing and crushing rolls in order to crush paperboard cartons for disposal. The safety operated door is provided with a magnetic switch which controls two different timed electrical circuits. One circuit controls an electronic safety latch mechanism which prevents the carton disposal door from opening during operation of motor driven carton crushing rolls and one timed circuit operates the motor during the time that the electronic safety latch mechanism prevents the door from operating. When the motor circuit stops, the timer to the electronic safety latch mechanism releases the safety latch so that the door can be opened. Thus, the system is safe and will not operate if the carton disposal door is open.

Abstract: A calender includes at least one roller stack. The upper roller and lower roller of the roller stacks are deflection compensation rollers. The upper roller and/or the lower roller have an outer covering made of a flexible plastic and is designed to bend easily. The roller adjacent to the upper and lower roller is a hard roller.

Abstract: A roller bearing apparatus for supporting a compensation roller that is disposed adjacent to a roller of a roller stack. The compensation roller has an axis. The roller stack has an axis. A plane is defined by the compensation roller axis and the roller stack roller axis. A bearing support is disposed in a frame. The bearing support receives a ball joint. The bearing support is movable relative to the frame to act as a lever. The bearing support pivots about a pivot point. A pressure transducer is disposed between the frame and the bearing support. The pressure transducer acts in a direction that is disposed exterior to the ball joint. The pressure transducer extends on both sides of the plane and acts perpendicularly to the plane.

Abstract: A calender for the two-sided treatment of a paper web has two similar stacks each of which has at least two soft rollers and two hard rollers. Working nips are formed between each hard and soft roller. The calender has at least one working nip wherein the dwell time (t) is at least 0.1 ms, the surface temperature (T) is at least 100.degree.C., and the load (P) on the stack creates an average compressive stress in the working nip of more than 42 N/mm.sup.2. This provides a calender that is smaller and less expensive to manufacture and operate than super-calenders of the prior art but that also affords excellent finishing results.

Abstract: In a nip roller apparatus, a drive roller and an idler roller are arranged for conveying an object. The rollers include shafts having toothed wheels mounted thereon for transmitting rotation of the drive roller to the idler roller. A pressing device is provided for biasing the idler roller against the drive roller. The idler roller is mounted in a bearing support which includes guide slots for permitting sliding movement of the idler roller relative to the drive roller. The guide slots are positioned at an angle relative to a line which extends through the centers of the shafts and includes a point of contact between the toothed drive wheel and the toothed idler wheel.

Abstract: A paper calendering apparatus comprises a nip section for advancing paper sheets formed by at least a pair of rollers, one of which is a metal roller and the other of which is a resilient roller or a metal roller, wherein a gap of equal spacing is formed along the entire width of the roller face at the nip section of the pair of rollers, and is set to less than the thickness of the paper sheet to be finished.

Abstract: A tube restoring apparatus includes a tube insertion passage through which a connected flexible tube having a deformed cross-sectional portion at a joint portion thereof can be passed, at least a pair of press members defining at least a part of the tube insertion passage and formed with press surfaces for pinching the deformed cross-sectional portion of the flexible tube therebetween, and driving mechanism for moving the press surfaces at least in opposite directions relative to each other under the condition that the deformed cross-sectional portion is pressed between the press surfaces.

Abstract: The printing products (33) to be pressed run through in an imbricated formation (S), in which the fold edges (33a) of the printing products (33) lie at the top, between the pressing rollers (3, 4, 5, 6) of two pairs of pressing rollers (1, 2) arranged one behind the other. The upper pressing rollers (3, 5) of each pair of pressing rollers (1, 2), which come directly into contact with the fold edges (33a), are fixedly mounted. On the other hand, the other pressing rollers (4, 6) of each pair of pressing rollers (1, 2) are mounted on each side in a common mounting (15), with the sides being resiliently mounted on pneumatic springs (16). The pressing rollers (3, 4, 5, 6) are driven individually by means of flexible drive belts (17, 18, 19, 20). By this arrangement, the printing products (33) can be pressed satisfactorily and gently even at high conveying speed.

Abstract: The car mat presser device of the invention includes a unitary housing having a plurality of pairs of cooperating rolls, with each of the rolls defining a nip therebetween, wherein an entrance slot directed into the housing is oriented in alignment with the nip of each pair of rolls, with an exit opening directed through a bottom wall of the housing to receive a car mat therethrough subsequent to its projection through the roller pairs.

Abstract: Apparatus for reconfiguring at least three finishing rolls in a plastic sheet fabricating sheetline includes a base, a pair of spaced upright support structures, and pairs of first and second spaced support assemblies. The upright support structures are mounted on the base and support a center one of the rolls in a stationary position therebetween and for rotation about a first axis. The first support assemblies support a first outer one of the rolls therebetween for rotation about a second axis and are mounted to the support structures for permitting angularly adjustable movement of the first outer roll relative to the center roll about the first axis to reconfigure the angular position of the first outer roll relative to the center roll.

Abstract: An improved sugar cane juice extractor has removable crushing rollers. The juice extractor preferably includes a housing with a juice extracting compartment and a closure for accessing the compartment. The closure is preferably a clear plate which permits viewing of the compartment during operation and, when removed, allows access to the compartment for removal of the crushing rollers and cleaning of the rollers and the compartment. A safety switch can be provided to prevent rotation of the rollers when the closure is displaced. A guide into the compartment is preferably provided to direct the sugar cane and any flavorings into the crushing rollers. A waste channel is provided for the exit of crushed cane pulp.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus including pairs of rollers for supporting pressure rolls in a laminating apparatus. The rollers provide the pressure rolls with a uniform pressure distribution across the width of the pressure roll nip.

Abstract: The invention concerns an adjustable-crown roll having a stationary roll axle which is supported on the machine frame by means of articulated bearings, and a roll mantle which is arranged to revolve on the axle. Hydrostatic loading members or an equivalent pressure fluid chamber or series of chambers are arranged in the space between the axle and the roll mantle. By means of the loading members or equivalent, the profile of a nip formed with a counter-roll of the roll is regulated. A support bushing arranged concentrically with the roll mantle is attached to one end of the roll mantle and revolves along with the roll mantle. A bearing is installed on the support bushing. The bearing receives axial forces from the roll mantle and transfers the same to the machine frame through the non-revolving bearing bock or housing of the bearing. The bearing is arranged, in the axial direction, outside the roll, whereby the roll is suitable for use as a hot roll.

Abstract: A beverage can crusher has a pair of rollers which rotate toward one another to crush a can between them. The crusher has a deposit window and chute which place the cans above the rollers and ensure that the cans are flattened from the sides rather than smashed from the top. This provides for a repeatable, baleable crushed can. An actuator placed less than one can length above the rollers in the chute energizes the drive motor to rotate the rollers and continues to have the rollers rotating as long as there is a can engaging the actuator The rollers have a special receiving surface and engaging surfaces which grip the sides of the can to minimize slipping so that the can will be pulled down between the rollers. In addition, pins extend radially outward from the outer surface of the rollers to further grip the can.

Abstract: A calender for producing packing sheets has a heated cylinder of large diameter and an unheated pressure cylinder of smaller diameter which is movable toward and away from the heated cylinder to vary the width of a gap between the cylinders. A plastic mixture plasticized by a solvent is fed to the gap between the cylinders and is formed into a sheet on the heated cylinder, where it is vulcanized. Two temperature sensors on a common support are positioned to measure the temperature of the outer surface of such sheet and transmit the temperature measurement to a procesor which is programmed to control operations of the calender. A further sensor measures the thickness of the sheet on the heated cylinder and the thickness measurement is transmitted to the processor as a further parameter in control of operation of the calender.

Abstract: A container crusher for crushing aluminum beverage cans, two-liter plastic beverage bottles, and the like uses a motor-driven rotatable drum in a housing. Mounted on the periphery of the drum are a plurality of angled crusher arms which contact containers introduced into the housing and crush them between the rotating crusher arms and the walls of the housing. Mounted on top of the housing is a circular tray into which containers to be crushed are placed. The tray has a feed opening into the crusher housing which is covered by a safety cover which, in turn, has an inlet opening displaced from the feed opening. Containers are introduced into the feed opening of the safety cover which is sized and positioned so as to prevent an operator's hand from entering the crusher housing. The crusher unit can be directly attached to a conventional 40-gallon trash can, or, alternatively, can be placed inside a conventional 55-gallon drum.

Abstract: A device for the drive of driving rollers of a calendar for the pressing of laminated glazings 49 has at least one series of pressing rollers 1, 2 mounted on a mobile frame 3, at least one of these pressing rollers being driven by a driving motor 9 to which it is connected by a transmission system. Stationary and nondeformable drive shaft 11 is mounted on a mobile frame 3 and connected to driving motor 9 by a chain 10 or belt and to each driven roller 6 by the transmission system including a bevel gear 14 and a deformable, jointed unit 16 extending in an essentially vertical direction. The calendar equipped with this device can be used for the assembly of glazings of complex shapes.

Abstract: A control assembly to control the rate at which a food material is conducted to die cavities of a rotary press. The control assembly includes a roller subassembly, a first roller rotatably supported by the roller support assembly, and a second roller rotatably supported by the roller support assembly and located adjacent the first roller. The first and second rollers form a feed gap therebetween to receive the food material, and the second roller is also supported for movement toward and away from the first roller. The control assembly further includes an adjusting subassembly connected to the roller support subassembly to move the second roller toward and away from the first roller to vary the size of the feed gap, and a roller drive subassembly connected to the first and second rollers to rotate those rollers to pull the food material through the feed gap and to direct the food material to the die plate.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising a frame, a pair of generally parallel rolls each having trunnions at its ends journaled for rotation in bearings in the frame with a gap between the rolls, and means for driving the rolls. The rotation of each trunnion in its bearing tending to generate heat which tends to raise the temperature of the trunnions and frame above the ambient temperature. The apparatus includes a cooling system, having a coolant supply manifold and a coolant return manifold, each with a branch for each bearing, and a pump for circulating coolant through each bearing. The cooling system also includes a device for controlling the temperature of the coolant.

Abstract: A method for controlling rotation of a fixing roller, the fixing roller being rotated by a first motor and a second motor, the first motor being driven at a high speed, the second motor being driven at a low speed, the torques of the first motor and the second motor being transmitted to a rotary shaft of the fixing roller through respective one-way clutches, the method includes steps of starting the driving of the second motor immediately before the driving of the first motor is stopped, and keeping the driving of the second motor at least until the driving of the first motor is started.

Abstract: A driving device drives an elongate second rotary body which is movable toward and away from an elongate first rotary body that is mounted on a machine body, while maintaining the former in contact with the latter in a uniform pressure distribution. Both of the first and second rotary bodies have a cylindrical or columnar configuration, for example. The device transmits a rotating force from a drive source to the second rotary body at one end of the second rotary body. The second rotary body is unmovably mounted on a carrier or base integrally with the drive source and is movable toward and away from the first rotary body. Biasing means constantly urges the second rotary body against the first rotary body.

Abstract: A wringer for squeezing liquid from a wet cloth comprising:a housing formed to support a first roller and a second roller;with the first roller being formed as a hollow cylinder and having an electric motor disposed therewithin for providing rotational power to the first roller;a power communication arrangement formed within the first roller and the housing, and disposed to communicate rotational power from the electric motor to the second roller; the power communication arrangement functioning such that if one of the first or second rollers is held in fixed position the other of the first or second rollers will continue to rotate through power supplied by the electric motor.

Abstract: A press roll of adjustable sag has a roll shell which is rotatable around a stationary yoke that is supported on a pedestal. Each end of the roll shell terminates in a journal that is supported by a self aligning bearing disposed within a bearing housing. The bearing housing and the supported end of the roll shell is displaceable relative to the yoke transversely to the axis of the press roll and in the press plane of the press roll and the mating roll. Hydraulic support pistons on the yoke supply support for the press roll shell against the mating roll. The distances between the bearings of the roll shell and of the mating roll are approximately equal. To exert additional bending forces on the ends of the roll shell, a double acting hydraulic force producing piston is supported in the pedestal and is connected with the guide part in which the self aligning bearings are supported for displacing the guide part, for displacing the bearings, for displacing the end of the roll shell, generally in the press plane.

Abstract: An improved wringer device is provided for squeezing water from a cloth or chamois when fed between a pair of adjacent rollers. Each roller is made from thermoformed plastic, or molded elastomeric material with an outer surface defining a plurality of axially aligned curvilinear hill and valley surfaces. The hill surface of one roller meshes with a valley surface of the adjacent roller to assist in feeding the cloth through the rollers and to maximize efficiency by minimizing required cranking force. The device includes a first support member for mounting to a wall, a second roller support member selectably connected to the first member, and a third roller support member fixedly secured to the second member, a pair of rollers with substantially parallel axes and each supported between the second and third support members, and a crank interconnected with one of the rollers to drive that roller, which then drives the other roller.

Abstract: A packet-type laminating machine for laminating a flat object between two sheets of protective plastic film, comprising a pair of closely spaced heating platens with a flared opening at one end designed to accept the insertion of a packet-type laminable plastic pouch and a pair of manually driven outlet compression rollers at the other end of the heating platens designed to compress and withdraw the heated laminable plastic pouch wherein all components are adapted to readily insert through openings in or drop into recesses in the tope edges of sidewalls during assembly of the laminator. Such a laminator is extremely efficient to operate and is readily assembled and repaired, leading to reduced operating, maintenance and capital investment costs.

Abstract: An elastic rotatable member includes a base member, an elastic layer on the base member, the elastic layer defining a plurality of opening extending in a longitudinal direction of the elastic rotatable member, wherein the openings are arranged such that any radial line in a cross-section of the elastic rotatable member in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, crosses at least two of such openings.

Abstract: A setting device for adjusting the position of a roll with respect to a mating roll, as in the press section of a paper machine, or the like. A roll trunnion or journal at the end of the roll is received in a bearing which is supported in a bearing housing that is axially outward of the roll. The outer part of the bearing is in turn supported to an actuator which is shiftable to move the roll transversely of its axis with respect to the mating roll. A base plate hydraulically supports and raises the actuator for the bearing housing. A guide plate supported to the base plate extends past the roll trunnion or journal. Linear motion guide elements for guiding the motion of the bearing housing under the influence of the actuator are provided. They are guide claws on the bearing housing which wrap around the guide plate and move along it. An additional actuator piston operates on the roll trunnion or journal to move it in the opposite direction from the actuator.

Abstract: A drive for a variable crown shell roll in which a driven pinion provides rotary motion to the shell roll through the teeth of a first ring gear which is loosely mounted so as to be rockable about the pinion to accommodate deflection of a second ring gear flexibly carried by the roll shell and which meshes with the second ring gear.

Abstract: A drive device for relatively moving a fixing roller and a pressing roller of a copier employs a one-way clutch to brake the rotation of a cam shaft in moving the pressing roller from the fixing roller so as to avoid abrupt rotation of the cam shaft and the attendant noise and possible damage.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for delivering twine to a baler knotter. The baler (10) which performs the method includes a bale chamber (16) having a forward inlet end. A knotter (64) is disposed to one side of the bale chamber and the baler is of the type having feeding means including a pair of rollers (36) which are moved back and forth across the inlet end of the bale chamber. A portion (90) of the twine is supported on the lower feed roller as the rollers are moved back and forth across the inlet end of the bale chamber. A pickup needle (110 or 302) is associated with the knotter, and at the initiation of the tying cycle moves from an at rest position towards the lower roller to pick up the twine and then to a position above the twine disks (140) of the knotter to deliver the twine to the knotter and then returns to its at rest position. The twine is tensioned by a twine drag (144) and a pigtail type tensioning mechanism (146) both during the formation of a bale and during tying.

Abstract: A fire hose retracting and flattening apparatus has a first endless belt having a width at least as great as that of the hose to be retracted which is mounted in a main frame so as to have a generally planar run thereof on which the hose can be lain. The belt is mounted so as to be operatively connected to a motor to effect the driving thereof in a retracting direction. First and second pairs of rollers are provided which co-act with the planar run of the belt to retract and flatten the hose disposed thereon. The first and second roller pairs are mounted above the planar run, with the first roller pair downstream of the second roller pair, for pivotal movement between a first position wherein the first roller pair is adjacent to the run and the second roller pair is spaced apart therefrom and a second position wherein the first roller pair is spaced apart from the run and the second roller means is adjacent thereto.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for high pressure sizing, including sizing squeeze apparatus which effectively utilizes high pressure squeeze loading to remove excess sizing from the warp yarns, and thus to reduce the water evaporation requirement of the yarn. The high pressure sizing squeeze apparatus includes positive drive of the rubber-surface roll as well as the steel roll to prevent slippage which could strain the warp, and maintains a substantially invariant squeeze loading irrespective of variable tension in the roll drive. The surface speed of the rubber-covered squeeze roll may be slightly less than the surface speed of the steel roll, to reduce the torque required to drive the rubber-covered roll at relatively high squeeze pressures where substantial slippage is encountered. A torque limiter controls maximum axial drive torque supplied to the rubber-surface roll, in response to the magnitude of squeeze loading.

Abstract: A cold pressure fusing apparatus for use in a xerographic copying machine for fixing a developed toner image to a copy sheet has the combination of elements including a first roller rotatably-mounted in the copying machine; a mechanism for driving the first roller; a second rotatably mounted roller in pressure contact with the first roller whereby a nip is formed through which copy sheets being fused pass; and a braking device operatively connected to the second roller for applying a controlled braking torque to the second roller, the torque being of such magnitude sufficient to facilitate the fusing of toner particles into the copy sheet without producing substantially any smudging of these particles, but of a magnitude insufficient to cause skidding of the second roller relative to the first roller.

Abstract: A container closed by a lid for receiving and compacting waste paper includes a volume-occupying lid (3, 14) which fits inside the container (1, 13). The container (1, 13) defines a chamber large enough to accomodate individual pieces of waste to be deposited and compacted. The lid (3, 14) is retained in the container-closing position.

Abstract: Crushing apparatus employs a pair of rotatable crusher drums mounted to rotate about vertical axes to crush material such as mineral ore, fed through a gap between the drums by means such as scraper-chain conveyor. The drums are mounted on pivoting rocker arms which are adjustable to vary the crushing gap. The drums are hollow and are driven in opposite directions by hydraulic drive motors located inside the drums. Conveniently, the hydraulic motors have rotors connected to radial flanges inside the drums and stators fixed to the rocker arms.

Abstract: Continuously running web material is transferred from a dryer, or the like, to a proximate calender, or the like, along flutter suppressing foils. The web may be calendered in a nip between a rotary calender roll and a reel drum with which a reel core is in nip relation for winding the web on the core. The calender may comprise a single roll or a plurality of rolls. A split torque arrangement is provided for the reel drum and the reel core. Especially useful for handling creped tissue paper web.

Abstract: Laminated safety glass panels comprising sheets of rigid transparent material, such as glass, polycarbonate, acrylic plastic, polyester and the like, alternating with interlayer materials, such as polyvinyl butyral, polyurethane and the like, are prepressed to remove entrapped air at the interfacial surfaces to prepare the assemblies for final lamination. When the relatively rigid plies to be laminated have unsmooth surfaces, such as wavy surfaces, or surfaces having imperfections due to the penetration of the sheet during thermal treatment by tongs or other solid members that engage the rigid transparent sheet during its heat treatment prior to assembly for lamination, the preliminary pressing performed by the prior art techniques is insufficient to prevent oil from an oil autoclave used in the final laminating step from penetrating into the interfacial surfaces between adjacent rigid and relatively flexible layers of the assembly to be laminated.

Abstract: The invention comprises a feed roller mechanism for use with forage harvesters adapted for picking up cut forage material from the ground and thereafter moving said forage material up a conveyor to a feed roller mechanism which grips and compresses the forage materials sufficiently for it to be passed to a cutter whereafter the forage material may be cut into small pieces and moved to a storage container for transportation and/or processing.

Abstract: In a continuous casting apparatus for slabs, the driven guide rollers of two closely adjacent casting guide tracks are driven from the outside of one and the same guide track so that the outside of the other guide track is free of driving motors, and at least a third guide track can be added thereto while maintaining the smallest possible width of the whole apparatus in order to deliver melt from a single distributor groove to the moulds of the individual guide tracks.

Abstract: An apparatus for crushing materials such as cans into flat plate-like forms. The crushing apparatus comprises a hopper for receiving material-to-be-crushed, a feeder, and a symmetrical array of vertically stacked pairs of parallelly aligned, opposed counter-rotating rollers. The feeder includes a rotating element having an axis of rotation parallel to the rotational axes of the rollers, and further having two opposed elongated feed members, each being disposed with a corresponding longitudinal axis substantially parallel to and displaced a predetermined distance from the rotating element axis of rotation. The rotating element is pivotally mounted on a pair of spring loaded lever arms in a manner permitting displacement of its rotational axis between predetermined limits along a cylindrical surface of rotation having an axis of revolution parallel to the roller axes.