Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus is provided to manufacture a sheet-like member by joining a non-woven fabric to another member of an absorbent article. This apparatus includes a bulk restoring device that restores bulk of the non-woven fabric through heating the non-woven fabric by blowing hot wind onto the non-woven fabric while conveying the non-woven fabric along a conveying direction, the non-woven fabric being continuous in the conveying direction, and a joining device that joins the non-woven fabric whose bulk has been restored with the hot wind to the other member using an adhesive, the non-woven fabric being at a higher temperature than a temperature before being heated with the hot wind.

Abstract: A rimfire reloading tool for making rimfire cartridges is disclosed. The tool includes first and second handles connected by a hinge. A bullet mold is formed by two bullet mold heads located opposite each other on the first and second handles. The bullet mold is formed when the first and second handles are brought together. First and second clipping portions are located opposite of each other on the first and second handles and clip excess metal from the formed bullet. First and second crimping portions are located opposite each other and crimp a case onto the formed bullet when the first and second handles are brought together, thereby providing a rimfire cartridge.

Abstract: A reverse break stamp hook assembly and method for breaking a biscuit from a casting. The reverse break stamp hook assembly is mounted to an upper trim die of conventional stamping equipment, and includes a leg that hangs from a pivot attached to a mounting bracket and a counterweight arm that extends from the pivot. The hook includes an angled front portion and a catch portion. As the upper trim die moves toward a lower trim die during the downstroke, the angled front portion of the hook contacts an edge of the biscuit. The contact between the edge of the biscuit and the angled front portion of the hook causes the hook to pivot away from the biscuit until the catch portion passes below the biscuit. The counterweight causes the hook to pivot back toward the biscuit, positioning the catch portion under the biscuit. During the upstroke, the catch portion engages the bottom side of the biscuit and causes the biscuit to break from the part as the upper trim die is raised.

Abstract: A hand-held casting device for molding a hollow pointed, grooved, and twice throughbored bullet including a pair of handles, a pair of jaws, a mold, a pin, and a bracket. The mold includes first and second halves and two rods passing at different elevations and orthogonally into the mold for providing the two throughbores in the bullet. The length of the bracket is such that upon opening the mold, the pin moves in contact with the mold first half until such time as the bracket contacts the mold second half forcing the pin to leave the mold first half and move towards the mold second half until such time as the bracket contacts the mold first half causing the mold to no longer be able to separate and positioning the pin equidistantly between the mold first and second halves.

Abstract: A static pour, gravity feed permanent mold machine for molding a casting from molten metal heated in a furnace, consisting of a chassis, a die holder adapted to receive a reusable die, a reusable open-face die for insertion in the die holder, a vertically-oriented die ejection system for ejecting the casting from the die, an ejector pin lubrication system, horizontal mobile gating blocks which together form a gating system when brought together over the die opening, a horizontally-mounted degater for severing the gating system from the casting while the gating system and casting are still hot, a mobile casting receiver for removing the casting from machine, and a mobile robot arm for dipping molten metal from the furnace and for returning the gating system to the furnace for remelting.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises first and second mold blocks, each having a pair of matching mold half cavities and being adapted to be held in assembled relationship with the half cavities in abutting register, to define, a pair of full cavities. The apparatus further includes a sprue cutter plate pivotally mounted on the upper surface of one of the blocks. The sprue plate also has (i) a pair of orifice holes in a lower planar surface spaced so as to be aligned with the tops of the full cavities, (ii) a pair of spaced apart countersinks recessed into an upper planar surface and in respective connecting register with the pair of orifice holes, and (iii) a trough in the upper planar surface connecting the pair of countersinks.

Abstract: A die casting apparatus for forming rotors for electric motors. The apparatus includes a frame having at least two opposed stationary pressure plates and a rotating turret rotatively mounted betewen these stationary plates. The turret includes three apertures at three equally spaced locations around the turret. Tooling is arranged at each of the respective locations for forming a rotor. Compensating and casting tooling is located at a first station, pin pressing and trimming tooling is located at the second station and unloading and loading tooling is located at the third station. The operations at the respective stations proceed simultaneously. The operations are selected so that the combined operations of each of the stations will take approximately equal amounts of time.

Abstract: A mold for a grooved hollow point bullet having a pair of separable mold halves which are mounted in a bullet molding apparatus for movement between a closed position and an open position. Each mold half has a flat parting surface which has a bullet shaped groove and an elongated shallow groove which extends from the bullet shaped groove to one end of the mold half. When the mold halves are in the closed position so that the parting surfaces of the mold halves abut, the bullet shaped grooves of the mold halves combine to form a bullet shaped cavity and the elongated shallow grooves combine to form a bore which leads from the bullet shaped cavity to the end of the mold. An elongated pin for forming a hollow point bullet is mounted on one of the mold halves so that it extends through the bore and into the bullet cavity.

Abstract: A breaker pad which is formed with a star-shaped orifice, with inwardly extending formations, which, when viewed from the side, are tapered, reducing in dimension towards the center of the orifice.

Abstract: High casting rates and consistently precise dimensions of lead and lead alloy projectiles are obtained with an ingot mold comprising two like ingot mold halves having abutting sides and upper and lower sides extending outwardly therefrom, the abutting mold half sides defining like cavity halves open towards the upper sides of the mold halves and forming a mold cavity for casting the projectile. Each mold half consists essentially of a first part of a metal having a high wettability for the lead or lead alloy being cast, the first metal parts of the mold halves defining the mold cavity, and a second part of a metal having a higher thermal conductivity than the first metal part, the second metal part being in heat conducting contact with the first part.

Abstract: An ingot casting apparatus having an open top ingot moulds hinged to an endless hauling chain of a conveyer. The conveyer is inclined so that the upper descending branch of the endless chain with the ingot moulds placed thereon is inclined to the horizontal at an angle of 30.degree.-60.degree. . Each ingot mould is formed by a bottom, two longitudinal walls and a single transverse wall. The transverse wall of each ingot mould is provided with an opening for passage of the molten metal. With such an arrangement the cavities of the ingot moulds communicate with one another by means of openings provided in the transverse wall of each ingot mould. Mounted above the ingot moulds arranged on the upper descending branch of the endless chain of the conveyer, below the zone where the molten metal is poured into the ingot moulds, is a water-cooled plate adjoining tightly to the top ribs of the walls of the ingot moulds passing under the plate after the molten metal has been poured into them.

Abstract: A mold having a bottom section hinged to a side section and the side section pivotally attached to a second side section can be assembled using a pin in the bottom section engaging the side section and a pin in the second side section engaging the first side section to form a rigid structure held together by a handle, the assembled mold forms a sprue through which a casting material can be poured and a gate carrying the casting material into a mold formed in the rifle pellet casting mold to form pellets of various types such as the round headed type the pointed type the flat face type and the rifle type.

Abstract: Die casting apparatus for casting parts such as rotors or the like comprises a three tie bar horizontally disposed die casting machine, with an indexing mechanism mounted on one of the tie bars for rotating the parts through six separate radially spaced work stations. The work stations include loading, casting, cooling, skew pin ejection, and unloading stations. The casting station includes a four plate die assembly comprising a runner plate, cover die, carrier plate, and ejector die. The die assembly employs pin-point gating and is formed such that the cast part is removed from the die and the runner system, and the runner system is ejected from the apparatus, while the part is at the casting station. A movable runner ejector plate having ejector pins ejects the runner from the runner plate. A compensating cylinder is provided for adjustment for variance in stack height.