Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for making a food product (2), said product having a solid outer shell (3) with top (4), bottom (5) and side (6) walls, and optionally an inner core (7) filled with liquid, semi-solid and/or solid filling, characterized in that said apparatus comprises: (i) a support frame (8) holding at least one matrix (9) that goes through said support frame (8) and has opposed openings, (ii) two punches (11a, 11b) disposed respectively each side of said matrix (9) and facing said openings, said punches having a cross section that corresponds to the cross section of said openings, and being movable along a common axis that corresponds to the longitudinal axis of said matrix, said matrix and said pair of punches defining respectively the side and the end walls of a mold (12), (iii) filling means for filling the mold (12), with a predetermined quantity of food product in a liquid or semi-solid form, (iv) actuating means for moving said punches (11a, 11b) and exerting a longitudin

Abstract: A machine and method to produce structural elements for the building trade made of cement material with one or more inserts made of polymer material. The machine comprises at least a molding member, a loading unit for loading the inserts and a depositing member to deposit the cement material. The molding member is open at the upper part and the loading unit and the depositing member are selectively positionable above the molding member in order to load and deposit from above, respectively, the inserts and the cement material into the molding member, in order to achieve the structural elements.

Abstract: An automatic gathering pre-shape machine has a main body and a gathering device. The main body can make plastic films formed into a circular shape with an annular flange formed around a top edge of the film. The gathering device allows a pre-shaped plastic film be blown toward an outer end of the barrel to hit a block wall and drop and mount around a tip portion of corresponding shelf to be gathered. Consequently, the plastic film may easily and automatically be gathered from the main body. Therefore, the plastic films can be kept from being damaged and the pre-shaping process is accelerated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary pelleting machine comprising a driveable die block provided with a defined number of dies distributed over the periphery thereof, bottom rams and top rams which are associated with the dies and rotate about a common rotational axis, synchronously with the die block, along a bottom ram guide and a top ram guide, at least one filler device for filling the dies with a material to be compressed, and a compression device for acting on the rams with a compression force. According to the invention, the filler device (18) comprises at least two independently chargeable filling chambers (24) which can be successively brought into a defined filling position. The invention also relates to a method for producing a multi-layer pellet by means of a rotary pelleting machine.

Abstract: A tablet press with a rotary turret that is driven by a direct drive is described. The rotary turret can be driven by a simple, inexpensive drive having low vibrations, which reduces the stress on the mechanical components and the drive train of the press.

Abstract: A block ramming machine is provided that includes: (a) a ramming chamber structure having a longitudinal axis, an input end, an output end, and a ramming chamber located between the input and output ends, (b) a headgate assembly located near the output end of the ramming chamber, wherein the assembly comprises a headgate that can have at least an open position and a closed position, (c) a fill chamber structure positioned along the longitudinal axis and having a first end, a second end, and a fill chamber located between the first and second ends, the input end and the second end being coupled so that the material can be transferred from the fill chamber to the ramming chamber, (d) a ramming plate for pushing the material from the fill chamber to the ramming chamber, and (e) an actuator for moving the ramming plate along the longitudinal axis from a position in the fill chamber to a position in the ramming chamber, thereby transferring the material from the fill chamber to the ramming chamber to form a block.

Abstract: A rotating carrousel having four mould cavities equally spaced at ninety degrees from each other. The moulds are open vertically to the sky and in the opposite direction. The mould cavities are on the same pitch circle from the center of the axis. The rotary table is positively locked at each ninety degree turn. When the table is locked in position each station is in its position. The hopper containing pre-granulated soil is mounted stationary above the number one station. The hopper is fed by a screw conveyor from a hammer mill which breaks up the dug-out soil into a uniform granulate. This is most important for the manufacture of high quality adobe bricks. When the hopper has filled the mould cavity the carousel is turned ninety degrees and the filling process is repeated. At the same time the ram at number two station compresses the soil into a high density adobe block.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a green compact includes a circuit that circulates die assemblies, each of which contains a rubber mold having rubber in at least its side portion. The apparatus also includes a high density filling device that has a feeder for feeding powder into the rubber molds; a pusher or a vibrator or both a vibrator and a pusher; a die press machine configured to impart a compaction force sufficient to produce the green compact to each of the circulating die assemblies in succession; and a device for removing the green compact from each rubber mold. The high-density filling device, the die-press machine and the removing device are successively arranged along the circuit. Each of the circulating die assemblies has sufficient structural integrity to withstand the compaction force because all structure necessary to withstand the compaction force is present in the circulating die assemblies.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for manufacturing tablets of moist powder which is produced by adding an additive agent such as an excipient or a binder to medical ingredients, further adding a solvent such as water, ethanol or the like, and kneading the mixture.

Abstract: A triturate tablet machine for molding wet powder tablets which has five processing stations which respectively supply wet powder, mold the wet powder into openings in a mold plate, lubricate both ends of the tablets, bevel each end of the tablets and eject the tablets so as to continuously and automatically manufacture wet powder tablets.

Abstract: Partially formed products (2) are placed in molds (8) and a fluid such as air or an edible filler is injected into the partially formed products (2), e.g. by needles 17[see FIG. 6], so as to cause expansion and thereby produce final products (2) having the shape of the molds (8). Each mold (8) may comprise an upper mold part (14) and a lower mold part (11). The lower mold parts (11) may be mounted on a chain conveyor (9, 9b, 9c) [see FIG. 1] or a rotating cylinder (28) [see FIG. 12] so that the partially formed products (2) are moved towards and the final products (2) are moved away from a reciprocating assembly (12, 13) which carries the upper mold parts (14). Preferably, the final products (2) are retained in the upper mold parts (14) and then ejected by a blast of air. The invention enables complicated shapes to be formed at high production rates while using an economical amount of chocolate or the like.

Abstract: Portable brick manufacturing apparatus (20) mounted on a skid pad (21) includes two brick making systems. Each system includes a ring (25, 65) with three open-ended mold boxes (23, 70) mounted to the ring in equiangular spacing thereabout. Drive means (30,32,30',31') and an indexing controls mechanism (51) operate to rotate the ring in steps such that the mold boxes come to rest at a fill station, a compacting station and a brick ejection station, respectively. The two systems share a compacting station and a slide plate (60) provides a bottom for the mold boxes at the fill and compacting stations and in movement therebetween for each systems. In one system, hoppers (52,56) conveyors (54,49) a blender (58) and a spray nozzle (59) deliver soil and additives to a mold box at the fill station. Similar components are included in the second system. The indexing mechanism (51) responds to a sensor signal to control the weight of depost in a mold box.

Abstract: An endless conveyor having a plurality of molding tray supports is mounted on an intermittently indexing turntable. A press of the type adapted to form the clay into lumps deposits these lumps into molding trays on the conveyor, and thereafter the trays pass successively through a series of stations where the loaded trays are trimmed, where the loaded trays are tilted, and where the moldings are dropped onto carrying pallets and stations for washing, drying, and sanding of the empty trays and a station for tilting the molding trays back to the filling position. The tray supports are tiltably mounted about radial axes to enable tilting of the trays and a device for supplying the pallets for the empty trays and for the discharge of the pallets loaded with moldings extends diametrically underneath the turntable adjacent the unloading station.

Abstract: A molding machine which includes a rotary-table system having at least two tables supported on the frame, which system has a lifting device in the area of each table, and a compressing device constructed on the frame.

Abstract: Device for retaining crown caps, which can be particularly applied in machines for forming the sealing gaskets inside caps of the type having carousels which have disks which rotate about vertical axes and which further have in the peripheral region thereof semicircular and angularly equidistant seats for the support and transfer of the caps, has a rocker-like lever mounted on the disks, at each semicircular seat, which oscillates within a radial median plane of the seat. The lever has one arm controlled by an actuation cam and can, with the beak-shaped end of the other arm, internally engage the dentellated edge of the cap, so as to retain it in its seat during a preset angle of rotation of the disks.

Abstract: A die apparatus for molding and forming a cake of soap with an adapter. Peripheral obturation cleanly and securely attaches the generally horizontal adapter to the upper surface of a body of soap of a size to be manipulated by a hand. The die also includes an ejector for separating the soap adapter combination from the die. Attachment of the adapter to the soap can be accomplished with several types of soap dies such as matrix dies, pin dies, box dies and variations thereof.

Abstract: A compression molding apparatus includes a rotatable supporting member and circumferentially spaced molds mounted on the rotatable supporting member. The molds are conveyed successively through a plastic material feed zone, a compression molding zone and a discharge zone by the rotation of the rotatable supporting member. A plastic material in a heat softened state is fed into the molds which are disposed within the plastic material feed zone. Each of the molds include a first mold portion and a second mold portion which defines a mold cavity. The mold is opened and closed by moving the mold portions relative to each other in a predetermined direction. A conduit hole extending from the mold cavity is formed in the second mold portion. Each mold includes a compression rod which slides in the conduit hole. The conduit hole has a plastic receiving portion opened frontwardly in the rotating direction of the rotatable supporting member.

Abstract: Apparatus for converting thermoplastic blanks into shaped articles has a wheel-shaped conveyor which carries an outwardly extending link for a coupling which can engage successive blanks of a series of blanks during advancement along a first portion of its endless path. The blank is transported through a heating unit and thereupon enters the cavity of a mold to be converted into a shaped article which is removed from the mold and is delivered to an article receiving unit. The blank heating unit, the mold and the article receiving unit are respectively adjacent to second, third and fourth portions of the endless path. The conveyor can be driven at a variable speed and in stepwise fashion to be decelerated during advancement of a blank through the heating unit and to come to a halt while the blank is being converted into a shaped article. Alternatively, the link can be pivoted in and counter to the direction of rotation of the conveyor to thus accelerate or decelerate the coupling relative to the conveyor.

Abstract: A compression molding apparatus for forming a plastic grip ring and simultaneously linking it integrally to a linking protruding piece of a container closure body. The apparatus includes a mold composed of a first mold portion and a second mold portion adapted to be opened or closed by being moved relative to each other in a predetermined direction. The first mold portion has an accommodating space for receiving the closure body and a first mold cavity extending in a ring-like shape. At least the free end portion of the linking protruding piece of the closure body to be received in the accommodating space is projected into the first mold cavity. The second mold portion has a main part consisting of a second mold cavity extending in a ring-like shape and a conduit hole extending in said predetermining direction from the second mold cavity and a compression rod to be slidably inserted into the conduit hole.

Abstract: In an installation for producing packaging containers such as tubes, from prefabricated tube bodies and end portions of thermoplastic material, which are connected to the tube bodies, a plurality of moulds which are moved on a circulatory path each include an upwardly directed female mould portion and a mandrel which is pivotable about a horizontal axis between a downwardly directed working position and a loading position. A tube body loading station, a material feed station having a nozzle, and a container unloading station are arranged at spacings from each other along the circulatory path, while the female mould portion and the mandrel of each mould are displaced relative to each other on a common working axis. In a plurality of working units including support frames which are moved on the circulatory path, each support frame supports at least the female mould portion and the mandrel of a mould and the actuating mechanism thereof.

Abstract: Concrete elements, such as blocks or bricks, are molded or cast by forming in a primary mold cavity a secondary mold made of a portion of a thermoplastic film which has been contacted with a flat heater surface to assure a uniformly heated film portion which is then sucked into the primary mold cavity without wrinkles and filled with concrete mix. The secondary mold with the concrete mix in it is withdrawn, for example, sucked out of the primary mold cavity well before any effective hardening of the concrete mix, so that curing and hardening takes place in the secondary mold outside the primary mold cavity. This early withdrawing is important because it avoids expansion of the curing mix in the primary mold, whereby removal from the primary mold is facilitated. Additionally, the early removal with the aid of the secondary mold assures a more efficient use of the primary molds which are used again while the hardening is still going on in the secondary mold.

Abstract: A machine for making bricks and paving blocks, including a turntable having four moulds; a drive unit for rotating the turntable between work stations; a mixing chamber for raw materials; a hopper to receive mixed raw materials and to deliver them to each mould in turn; a hydraulic press to compress materials in a filled mould; and a ram for ejecting the resulting masonry product from the mould.

Abstract: A plant for the continuous and agglomerated manufacturing of articles obtained at least in part by compression of material. The plant comprises a carousel of working sectors equal to a number of fixed sectors with which the carousel operates. A frame supports the entire plant to allow the movement of the transfer elements for the mold and the products with respect to the working units.

Abstract: A machine for making concrete pipe in which multiple-form sets can be coupled into one module so as to increase production output of the machine without an increase in machine manpower. The multiple-form modules are provided with adapters that make them compatible with conventional single-mode form sets and all cycles of production so that multiple-form modules can be used simultaneously with single-mode form sets. The multiple-form sets also utilize core vibration throughout the fill cycle, but unlike conventional core vibration systems, the amplitude and direction of vibration are continuously varied to distribute the vibration uniformly throughout the length of the pipe being formed.

Abstract: A portable apparatus for handling cheese, including a base and a turntable mounted on the base. The turntable has cutout recesses in the periphery thereof for moving molds in a circular locus. A platform is provided on the base for supporting the molds as they are being moved in a circular locus. The base includes stations. A filling and weighing station is provided on the base whereby curd is filled into the molds and weighed to a predetermined level. A compacting station is also provided on the base whereby the curd in the molds will be pressed to remove the air therefrom and packs the cheese within the molds. The recesses and the turntable are in registry with the stations on the base.

Abstract: A three station turret-type apparatus is provided with a first station including structure for receiving a quantity of soil to be compressed into a building block, a second station for compressing the soil into the desired building block and a third station for ejecting a formed building block from the apparatus. A rotary table is equipped with peripherally spaced sleeves for successive registry with the three station positions and each sleeve comprises a mold in which the desired block is to be formed. The sleeves are removable and replaceable and one form of sleeve is constructed to have an auxiliary smaller plan area sleeve removably mounted therein. Further in the second station position, a stationary bottom plate closes the lower end of the sleeve registered therewith and the bottom plate faced with a urethane elastomer material. A pressure head opposes and is movably toward and away from the stationary plate and is faced with a similar urethane elastomer material.

Abstract: A compression molding apparatus comprising a rotary compression molding means, a material feed means and an article carrying means.

Abstract: A rotary table is provided defining at least three peripherally spaced open-ended vertically extending sleeve-type cavities spaced equally radially outwardly from and about the axis of rotation of the table and a soil receiving chamber is stationarily supported and opens downwardly in a location with which the upper portions of the cavities are successively closely registrable from beneath upon angular displacement of the table. The chamber is disposed at a first stationary station and second and third stationary stations are also defined about the axis in position for registry with second and third cavities of the table when the first cavity thereof is registered with the soil receiving chamber.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for the continuous and relatively labor-free fabrication of adobe bricks and the forcing of well casings into the earth. With regard to forming adobe bricks, a rotating table carries the bricks being processed from one station to the next and a novel means for applying unusually high forming pressures permits immediate forming and ejection of the bricks from the forms while at the same time producing adobe bricks of improved quality and hardness characteristics.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for making diamonds. In one form, a plurality of shock waves are generated and are directed or focused against carbon particles retained in a cavity of a die such that the heat and pressure of the shock waves will heat and compress the particles of carbon to form one or more diamonds thereof. In another form, diamonds or particles of diamond dust are disposed in a cavity containing carbon particles and serve as substrates or nuclei on which carbon is converted to diamond forming larger diamonds thereof. Each of the diamonds disposed in the mold or die cavity is completely surrounded by carbon. A magnetic jack hammer of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,632,242 having a focusing horn attached thereto is employed to generate and transmit the trains of intermittent shock waves to the diamonds and carbon disposed in the mold.

Abstract: An improved molding apparatus is provided for forming patties from an agglomerable edible material, particularly meat in frozen flake cut form. The apparatus includes a rotating turret with a plurality of mold cavities and reciprocable pistons. The turret rotates between a feed station where the edible material is fed upwardly under pressure into the mold cavities and a discharge station where the formed patties are ejected and separated by a continuous cut-off band. An improved cut-off band is also provided in which the band is disposed at a slight angle to facilitate its entry into the interfaces between the bottom surfaces of the pistons and the formed patties. The leading corners of the pistons are chamfered to receive the blade. The band is looped between a pair of pulleys on adjustable supports for providing the desired inclination of the band. Scrapers and spray nozzles are provided to maintain the cleanliness of the band and the pulley grooves.

Abstract: Articles are moulded from paraffin wax by melting the wax and then allowing the wax to solidify in a mould, the mould being refrigerated. The invention includes a machine for moulding the articles, and wax treated by the method.

Abstract: Apparatus for the manufacture of pressed bodies of depolarizing material for galvanic cells, comprising an elongated mold of uniform cross section having an open end, a pre-mold having an internal volume which is a multiple of the internal volume of said mold, and consisting of a first part and a second part, said first part being elongated and of uniform cross section larger than said cross section of the mold, said second part extending from said first part to an outlet opening and diminishing in cross section from said first part to said outlet opening, said oulet opening being of approximately the same size and shape as said cross section of said mold, a press plunger movable with clearance in said first part of the pre-mold, a first device for refilling said pre-mold prior to each stroke of said press plunger into said first part, a second device for bringing said open end of the mold into alignment with said outlet opening and for moving said open end out of alignment with said outlet opening and thereb

Abstract: A device is disclosed for forming blanks from pulverulent porcelain mater which blanks have a foot piece and sloping sides. The device has an upper mould which acts against a lower mould, the upper face of which lower mould is formed by a distendable, elastic membrane closing the upper end of a liquid filled chamber. Within the chamber, a central member provides resilient support for the center of the membrane. The parts are so arranged that upon closing of the mould portions a layer of pulverulent porcelain composition is gradually shaped and compressed between the upper mould and the membrane into a concave article blank including a foot piece, and where necessary a relief design, which blank is of uniform thickness and density.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with machinery for handling and forming or molding sticky materials such as uncooked foods into patties or shaped cakes.