Abstract: In a method for the production of a fiber-reinforced thermosetting resin molding material by a procedure of leading a mixture of a liquid thermosetting resin composition with reinforcing fibers to an impregnation apparatus and deaerating the mixture and impregnating the reinforcing fibers with the resin composition, apparatus including at least one pair of vertically opposed endless belts adapted to be driven in the directions of taking in and nipping the mixture and at least one pair of vertically opposed rollers adapted to depress the mixture across the endless belts, at least one of the opposed rollers being a flexible roller possessing elasticity.

Abstract: A method of continuously manufacturing chip and fiberboard webs having uniform thickness across their width in a press comprising a centrally disposed press cylinder journalled to rotate in bearings in uprights and at least one pressure roller, and preferably three pressure rollers, disposed adjacent the periphery of the press cylinder. An endless steel band carrying the material for forming the web is subjected to tensile stress and is guided around the press cylinder and through the nip defined between the press cylinder and the pressure roller. The material is pressed between the endless steel band and the surface of the press cylinder. The pressure roller is journalled for rotation in bearings at each of its ends. When the press is in its loaded state, the bearing body at one end of the pressure roller is displaced by the application of a preselected pressure towards the axis of rotation of the press cylinder.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing batter materials, such as food batter, including sausage batter for wieners and the like, without incorporating the use of any casing for the batter. The apparatus forms a blank having a proteinaceous skin made by congealing surface batter materials with a treatment fluid. Each thus formed blank is ejected onto a conveyor that includes a device for completing the formation of congealed skin on the blank. The thus shaped items can then be packaged and cooked within the package in order to provide an aseptic product. If desired, the items can be cooked and then packaged in order to provide a product having an acceptable shelf-life.

Abstract: An apparatus for stretching dough is provided, by which bread dough or confectionery dough is continuously and smoothly stretched by linearly reciprocating a roller over the surface of dough which is continuously coveyed by a series of conveyors, while the roller is rotated by a drive means, and by which method and apparatus the dough can be smoothly stretched without the accumulation of the dough in front of the entrance of the apparatus, thereby obtaining the desired thickness of dough in one operation from the continuously supplied dough material.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a dental root canal filling point is provided, wherein provision is made of a rotary member having its outer processing surface in the form of a curved plane in parallel with its axial direction and adapted to be rotated at a predetermined speed and a moving member in which at least its processing surface is located in parallel with the processing surface of the rotary member and adapted to move at a speed substantially identical with a peripheral speed of the rotary member in the same direction as the rotational direction of the rotary member in a gap portion in which a minimum distance is defined between the processing surfaces of the rotary member and moving member.

Abstract: A kneading rocker for proofed dough balls has a convex, generally spherical, bottom surface to engage dough balls passing on a conveyor. A frame extends above the conveyor and a first carriage is mounted on the frame for reciprocal movement in one horizontal axis. A second carriage is mounted on the frame for reciprocal movement in the other horizontal axis and a stem extending upward from the dished spherical rocker is connected by a ball and socket joint to an impeller driven by both carriages. Hence, the upward end of the stem is moved both longitudinally and transversely to rock the spherical dish. Small spherical protrusions on the disk press "dimples" into a dough ball moving beneath it.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing batter materials, such as food batter, including sausage batter for wieners and the like, without incorporating the use of any casing for the batter. The apparatus forms a blank having a proteinaceous skin made by congealing surface batter materials. Each thus formed blank is ejected onto a conveyor that includes a device for completing the formation of congealed skin on the blank. The thus shaped items can then be packaged and cooked within the package in order to provide an aseptic product. If desired, the items can be cooked and then packaged in order to provide a product having an acceptable shelf-like.

Abstract: An apparatus for stretching dough comprising two pairs of rollers and means for imparting vibrations to the dough positioned between the pairs of rollers is provided. In this apparatus, vibrations are imparted to dough, which causes the thixotropic effect in the dough. Such dough can be readily stretched by being subjected to a tensile stress caused by the difference in the peripheral speed of the pairs of rollers. Therefore, dough can be stretched without subjecting it to high pressure during the stretching process.

Abstract: The pivoting of a guide roller (20) together with a conveyor belt (19) running around it, as well as a pressing roller (25), from a standby position (A) into a resting position (B) is optimized both for thick dough and for thin dough. The pivoting operation takes place in the case of thick dough after one turn has been wound on the dough reel (18). For thin dough, the pivoting operation takes place after about two turns of the dough are on the reel.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing silicone gel sheet comprising a material supplying means which supplies kneaded silicone gel material to a nozzle, a nozzle which admits to flow silicone gel material supplied from said material supplying means and is provided with a discharging port which is open to be narrow and long, at least one movable receiving means which receives a sheet-formed strip made of silicone gel material discharged from said nozzle and moves in accordance with the discharging speed of the sheet-formed strip, and a heating section for heating and gelling the sheet-formed strip made of silicone gel material on said movable receiving means.

Abstract: A method for the continuous production of chip board in which a mixture of cellulose chips and resin binder is compressed against a heated rotating drum by a steel band. A first pressure of 250-325 kilopond per centimeter (1 kp=1 kgf) is applied to the mixture at a first position on the heated drum. A second pressure of 400-475 kp/cm is applied at a second position to compress the mixture to the final thickness as the binder hardens and binds the chips.

Abstract: A rotating-drum heat treatment apparatus for carrying out cooling or heating of a material to a desired temperature. The apparatus includes two drums arranged in a casing adjacent to each other for continuously cooling or heating the material to be heat-treated, to thereby increase a time required for the heat treatment of the material.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing rolled pieces of pastry includes at least four adjacent rollers having parallel axes, being capable of defining a substantially cylindrical cavity, being adapted to rotate in the same direction and being adapted to rotate at a same peripheral speed. Means are provided for forming and then closing an admitting gap between two of the rollers for admitting pieces to be rolled into the cavity for rolling. Means are provided also for forming a releasing gap between two of the rollers for releasing rolled pieces from the cavity.

Abstract: Apparatus for making tiles or slabs such as roofing tiles or paving slabs from castable material, comprises a sequence of platens on an endless conveyor which affords a substantially continuous surface onto which are laid plates and from which dividers are extensible between those plates to sever or at least partially sever a layer of castable material charged and compacted onto the plate. Improvements include selective operation of dividers and their additional provision medially of the platens, selectively operable multiple drill head, charging roller, special plates for tiles to be bent, interlocked drive system.

Abstract: Polymerized foam material in flat billet form is enclosed in a heat-retaining envelope and heated to forming temperature then promptly loaded into an innovative unheated forming press and accurately formed before cooling below forming temperature. The heat-retaining envelope has an expansive skin on one side and a contractive skin on the other side to facilitate bending without wrinkling or other distortion. The forming press utilizes a rigid male form punch and a spring-tensioned elastic belt, supported on a pair of variably-spaced rollers, initially presenting a flat compliant surface upon which the heated workpiece is placed. Pressure from the form punch progressively deflects the workpiece and the belt, which becomes a compliant mold member conforming itself and the workpiece progressively around the form punch to yield an article of required carved shape, free of wrinkles or tool creep distortions.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously producing a dough strip of substantially uniform dimensions is provided. The apparatus (2) comprises a hopper (4) having a divider (8) at its bottom, a conveyor (10) with a weighing device (12), a transfer conveyor (13), a thickness defining device (24) mounted on the transfer conveyor (13) and the width defining members (26) between the transfer conveyor (13) and the thickness defining device (24). In this apparatus, the dough portions supplied from the hopper (4) are weighed and supplied onto the transfer conveyor (13) one after another. By regulating the width and thickness of the dough, the length of the dough is made to be proportional to its weight. Thus the dough portion is supplied onto the transfer conveyor when it has conveyed the preceding dough portion a distance proportional to the weight thereof. The dough portions are connected to each other to make a dough strip when they pass through the thickness defining device (24) and the width defining members (26).

Abstract: An arcuate mold element for use in a rotary dough molder having a plurality of depressions with perimeters defining the outlines of foodstuffs. The bottoms of each of the depressions having an arcuate surface with at least one raised ridge which lies entirely within the depression.

Abstract: A method of processing a mass of dough for bakery products, buns, and rolls is provided wherein lumps of dough are conveyed along a conveyance path and subjected to rolling and beating action. The dough is intermittently driven along the conveyance path and is intermittently beaten when the dough being conveyed is at rest so that the dough is compressed into a continuous strip of reduced thickness. The dough is beaten with a beating member which is mounted vertically above the conveyance path so as to define a gap between the beating member and conveyance path which decreases in the direction of conveyance.

Abstract: An improved multi-channel transparent jacket to accommodate film strips is disclosed. The jacket is constituted of top and bottom rectangular panels of flexible plastic material and ribs formed of plastic or other adhering material in situ along parallel lines between the panels and integrally bonded thereto to maintain the panels in spaced relation and to define open-ended channels whose width is substantially equal to the width of the strips. The thickness of the ribs is substantially equal to that of the strips. Improved bonding of the ribs to the panels is accomplished by striating the panels to increase the surface area within a given width available for bonding. In one embodiment, an ultrasound hammer is used in conjuction with a specialized anvil to striate the panels.

Abstract: An apparatus and process are provided for rolling a sheet of baked pastry material for forming a layered roll of the pastry material which may include layers of filling material in between the rolled layers of the pastry material. A sheet of pastry material is advanced on an upper surface of a conveyor belt and is contacted by a roller which has a longitudinal axis diagonal to the direction of travel of the belt and which has a diameter which diminishes from its upstream end to its downstream end with respect to the direction of travel of the belt. The rolled material is discharged from the conveyor at the narrower downstream end of the roller and then may be cut into discrete rolled pieces.

Abstract: Pastry material is rolled by admitting partially folded pastry material into a substantially cylindrical cavity enclosed by at least four rollers which rotate in the same direction at the same peripheral speed. A gap is formed between rollers for admitting the pastry material into the cavity where it is then rolled by the rollers rotating at the same peripheral speed at a speed sufficient for rolling. After rolling, the rolled pastry material is released from the cavity from a gap between rollers.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a self-supporting web includes a rotatable mandrel and a stationary block member which defines a recess adjacent the mandrel. The recess is shaped to form a converging chamber between the mandrel and the block member, which converges in the direction of motion of the self-supporting web. A belt is mounted for movement through the chamber and is positioned between the self-supporting web and the block member. The chamber is sized to compress the self-supporting web between the block member and the mandrel, thereby reducing the thickness of the self-supporting web as it passes through the chamber. This apparatus can be used for laminating, liquid removal, or caliper reduction operations on the self-supporting web.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for moulding pieces of dough into long thin cylinders. To avoid an irregular shape of the final product and/or a non-uniform interior dough structure, the pieces of dough are rolled over a working surface while pressure is exerted on each half thereof, distributed over a plurality of adjoining transverse zones, by elements of the working surface. Each of the elements is laterally movable substantially in proportion to the local dough migration. For this purpose the invention provides a compression bed for use in an extender over a movable carrier. The side of the compression bed which faces the carrier is constituted by elements symmetrically arranged relatively to the longitudinal median plane of the compression bed and journalled for lateral movement.

Abstract: A procedure and a means for correcting the transversal profile of a chip, fibre or equivalent mat being formed on a conveyor belt, said chip mat being formed with the aid of one or several rolls, most appropriately rake rolls, provided above the conveyor belt, in which procedure the free space for the chip mat between the last roll and the conveyor belt is adjusted transversally to the conveyor belt. In the procedure of the invention, substantially at the last roll the height level of the conveyor belt is raised and lowered stripwise transversally to the conveyor belt in order to regulate the transversal profile of the chip mat.

Abstract: A layer of granules is deposited onto a conveyor belt and then heated and pressed to form a final product (e.g., floor covering). The layer is deposited from a funnel having a bottom outlet. Disposed across the outlet are a rotary sizing roll which forms a first gap with the belt, and an inclined guide plate which forms a second gap with the sizing roll. Granules flow through the second and first gaps, and then onto the belt. The second gap is larger than the first gap so that excess granules are supplied to the first gap, thereby assuring that no voids are created in the deposited layer. The guide plate is oscillated to facilitate a back-flow of excess granules to resist the possibility of excess granules being forced through by the sizing roll.

Abstract: Apparatus for making a reconstituted food product such as pepper, tomato, arian, anchovies and the like including a feed hopper level control, conveyor and a calcium chloride bath for gelling the food material.

Abstract: An apparatus for making an embossed gypsum panel on a conveyor including an embossing device mounted on a movable device such that the embossing device can be moved to the optimum location for embossing.

Abstract: In manufacturing concrete tiles a stiff concrete mass is molded and heavily compacted by means of a rapidly rotating pressing roller on sheet metal molding trays, which during the molding operation are supported by carriers having relief-like supporting surfaces which are generally complementary to the bottom sides of the tiles. The tray carriers form parts of an endless conveyor passing a concrete extruding station, in which the pressing roller is included, the tray carriers being formed as platforms placed freely between a pair of driving chains, to which each platform is connected by one pair of coaxial pivots only. Each platform is composed of two segments, which are hingedly interconnected independently of the chains. When passing the concrete extruding station the tray carrying platforms rest on an endless intermediate belt moving over a stationary supporting bed, through the top side of which pressurized air is supplied in order to reduce the friction.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous manufacture of an endless strip of thin chipboard includes means for depositing wood chips mixed with a bonding agent onto a horizontally-disposed section of a continuously revolving pretensioned conveyor belt. This apparatus is further provided with a heated compression drum adjacent the discharge end of the conveyor belt. An endless steel belt partially encircles the compression drum surface to provide a compression gap between the steel belt and the drum surface. The improvement comprises a first deflector roller mounted adjacent the point where the chips enter the gap; a second deflector roller beneath said depositing means; and the conveyor belt being endless, made from textile material and trained around the first and second deflector rollers to convey the chips to the gap.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously stretching confectionary dough, bread dough, and the like, is provided.The apparatus comprises a conveyor mechanism including an entrance belt conveyor, an intermediate belt conveyor, and an exit belt conveyor, and a roller mechanism to roll out a strip of dough cooperatively with the conveyor mechanism.The angles between the upper flights of the entrance and intermediate belt conveyors and the straight portion of the roller mechanism can be adjusted in response to the change in the dough thickness and properties.A first variable speed drive device moves the entrance belt conveyor, and a second variable speed drive device moves the intermediate and exit belt conveyors. A control device adjusts the speed ratio between the first variable speed drive device and the second variable speed drive device, in response to the change in the thickness of the dough supplied onto the apparatus and to the change in the production amount.

Abstract: A thin tough glossy surface may be applied to a flexible substrate in a one step process comprising: applying an aqueous thin film of a compound of a polymer to an endless carrier belt made of a material having a low adhesion to said polymer, contacting the flexible substrate and coated carrier belt and keeping them together while they pass around a hot drum laminator at a temperature of from about 100.degree. to about 150.degree. C.The process is suitable for applying impermeable surfaces to non wovens, and foam backed carpet.

Abstract: A continuously operable press for the manufacture of laminates and similar products has a heated press roll, two guide rolls, and at least one tensioning roll. One end of the rolls is journaled in bearings at a fixed support wall and the other end of each roll is removably journaled in bearings of a movable support wall. A pressure belt is passing over the rolls, but a decorating roll sleeve can be slid on and of from the press roll, and this provides a decoration on the adjacent laminate surface. The press has a device for lifting the relaxed pressure belt so as to remove the decorating roll sleeve. The lifter device has at least two transverse lift bars with suction heads, and the lift bars are distributed about the upper circumferential region of the press roll. Compressed air can be introduced between the press roll and the decorating roll sleeve when taking the decorating roll sleeve from the press roll.

Abstract: A continuous vulcanized assembly process for producing an anti-fouling material comprises cleaning the surface of a sheet of copper alloy anti-fouling material by shotblasting, use of a rotary abrasive member or by a chemical treatment. A layer of elastomeric material is extruded onto the metallic material and the elastomeric material is then cured at an elevated temperature using a rotary press. The material thus produced can be stored on reels for subsequent attachmnent to appropriate structures.

Abstract: An apparatus for stretching plastic dough is provided. A plurality of conveyors arranged in series and a plurality of rollers disposed above the conveyors cooperatively act to stretch dough fed therebetween. The plurality of rollers are freely rotatable and the shafts thereof are fixed to connecting arms which can reciprocate above the conveyors to make the dough less thick.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously producing a strip of dough which is quantified in its flow rate and controlled in its dimensions while the dough is conveyed. The apparatus comprises a dough feed conveyor having a weighing device, a constant speed conveyor provided thereon a dough defining means, and a roller mechanism disposed over both the two conveyors and having an endless roller pass with a straight portion facing the conveyors. The dough fed between the roller mechanism and the two conveyors is thickened or stretched in response to the speed difference of the two conveyors, so as to be made a dough strip of uniform thickness and width, without imparting the stirring force to the dough.

Abstract: A dry-formed web is transferred at speeds in excess of 300 feet per minute onto a stable, porous, endless belt and both the dry-formed web and the belt are conveyed through the embossing nip. The combination of the dry-formed web and the belt are guided into the embossing nip so that the web and belt partially wraps the embossing roll before entering the embossing nip. As the embossing roll contacts the web, some of the air in the web is forced through the porous belt.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for calendering of thermoplastic material are disclosed. An endless belt is interposed between the calendered material and the last calender roll which belt conveys the thermoplastic calendered sheet around the last calender roll and toward the stripper roll. The thermoplastic calendered sheet does not come into contact with the final calender roll surface. After cooling the film should strip easily off the endless belt. Consequently, problems originating in sheet adhesion to the final calender roll will be reduced if not eliminated.

Abstract: An apparatus for stretching a plastic raw material having viscoelasticity, such as bread dough or confectionery dough. A linear motor or built-in motor is provided relative to rollers which pass around an endless roller path. A drive power of the motors for the advancement of the rollers is effectively transmitted by the friction of the rollers with the raw material or rails so as to simply rotate the rollers around their axes and along an endless roller path, thereby performing effective stretching of the plastic raw material.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a square tile with a domed configuration. The tile passes over a bowed roller which presses upon the center region of the tile while restraining belts hold the four corners of the tile in a depressed condition and the apparatus imparts a domed configuration to the tile.

Abstract: A method of rolling a plastically deformable material which behaves as a single phase and which is deformed plastically when subject to deformation forces, which material comprises from 40% to 70% by weight of hydraulic cement and/or fly-ash particles A of from 0.5 to 100 .mu.m, silica particles B of from 50 .ANG. to 0.5 .mu.m (which are at least one order of magnitude smaller than the cement/fly-ash particles A), a surface-active dispersing system present in an amount sufficient to impart to the composite material a plastic consistency in a stress field of up to 200 kg/cm sq., and from 7% to 20% by weight water; the silica particles B being homogeneously arranged in the voids between the densely packed cement/fly-ash particles A, and the amount of water substantially corresponding to the amount necessary to fill the voids between the solid particles of the composite material.

Abstract: Apparatus for slitting and folding dough for cross-panning of the dough piece. One or more incisions are made in the dough piece so that it can be folded, and according to the method of the invention, after the incisions have been formed, the dough piece travels to the dough folding station between a moving element and a stationary control member (which may be a spring loaded control plate) so that the dough piece is forced to turn about its longitudinal axis. The length of this control movement is so arranged that the angular displacement of the dough piece causes the dough hinge or hinges to be in a desired orientation when the dough piece arrives at the folding station. In W-folding the center dough hinge is displaced from the side dough hinges by 180.degree., and the method and apparatus ensures that the dough piece is presented to the dough folding arrangement with the side dough hinges on the leading side of the dough piece.

Abstract: An apparatus for rolling plastic dough is provided. Two conveyors and one roller between them are serially arranged and driven at different speeds. A circular endless roller mechanism is disposed above the conveyors and adapted to be displaced along the conveyance path to adjust the thickness of a dough sheet to be obtained. The roller between the conveyors can move vertically to adjust the vertical distance from it to the endless roller path of the roller mechanism.The combination of these devices make possible an effective rolling and stretching of the dough while the thickness of the dough to be flattened is easily adjusted.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an improved method and apparatus for continuously embossing a repeating pattern of precise detail, in particular, cube-corner type reflector elements, on one surface of a single sheet or on one surface of a laminate of transparent thermoplastic materials, to form retroreflective sheeting. A continuous embossing tool in the form of a flexible thin metal belt or cylinder has on its outer surface an embossing pattern which is the reverse of the precision optical pattern to be formed. The embossing tool is continously moved at a predetermined speed along a closed course through a heating station where the temperature of a portion of the embossing tool is raised to be above the glass transition temperature of the sheeting or laminate and a cooling station where the heated portion of the embossing tool is cooled while in a relatively planar condition to be below that glass transition temperature.

Abstract: Synchronous conveying belts are formed by modifying teeth grooves of a molding gear used in a molding device employing the gear. A groove plate is configured to fixedly mount in a bottom land of selected teeth of the molding gear for reducing the depth of the selected teeth of the belt to be molded. Sleeves for fixedly attaching the groove plate to the bottom land serve as molding post for forming passageways in the modified teeth extending from a backing of the belt to a top land of the modified teeth. Upon forming the reinforced elastomeric belt using the modified molding gear, transporting devices can be fastened to the backing of the belt using attachment fixtures.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for continuously producing at a constant flow rate a strip of dough of constant dimensions by controlling the speed of a feed conveyor assembly when the dough is transferred from it onto a constant-speed conveyor. Dough is weighed and fed at speeds inversely proportional to the weighed measurements and the transferred dough is defined by a cooperative action of two constant-speed conveyors, defining members and a roller mechanism to define the dimensions of the dough strip.

Abstract: Method for reproducing relief structures onto a substrate, whereby between a die surface comprising holes or protuberances corresponding to the negative shape of the relief to be reproduced, and a substrate a hardenable liquid is deposited. After depositing the die surface and the substrate are at least locally forced together whereby the respective section of the die surface does not move in relation to the substrate in any other direction than perpendicular to the contact surface. During the following hardening of said liquid there is no mutual movement between the die surface and the substrate both of which remain forced together with a pressure which is smaller than the pressure during the initial pressing stage. The substrate and the die surface are separated after the liquid is hardened.

Abstract: A fleecy confectionery producing machine for extruding confectionery material into continuous viscous fibers which comprises a confectionery extruding mechanism including a rotary extruding cylindrical member having extruding through holes and a melting chamber and an integral cylindrical portion formed therein, a stationary cylindrical member positioned within said cylindrical portion in coaxial therewith and an exciting coil interposed between said cylindrical portion and stationary cylindrical member; a confectionery receiving chamber for receiving extruded confectionery from said extruding mechanism; a gaseous body suction chamber positioned below said receiving chamber, conveyer means for carrying said extruded confectionery, rolling means for levelling said extruded confectionery and a cutter for cutting said extruded confectionery to a predetermined size.

Abstract: A method for controlling the density distribution of bulk material in the manufacture of pressed wood panels includes the step of eliminating the irregularities in the bulk material stream as it flows to the forming station. Apparatus for accomplishing this result includes a pair of spaced apart parallel rollers that define an adjustable slotted opening through which the material passes. Rotation and oscillation of the rollers function to render uniform the density distribution of the bulk material stream.

Abstract: An automatic machine for pressing bricks at high speeds is provided with a pressure wheel and pressing tongues attached to the circumference of the wheel through an axle which permits the tongues to rotate or swing about the axle. Clay material is fed to an endless belt comprising a plurality of moulds, pressed by the pressure wheel, and then conveyed to a release station. The railing for the endless belt has an expanded portion so that the end walls of the moulds are released outwardly as they pass this portion, allowing the pressed brick to drop to another belt to be sent to an oven.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for increasing the density of thermoplastic resin foam waste material having apparent density as low as 5 kg/m.sup.3. The waste material in particle form is uniformly dispersed onto at least one vibrating plate of a furnace, and then heated to a temperature ranging between about 120.degree. C. and about 210.degree. C. The waste material is then compacted at the outlet end of the furnace and ground into particles of uniform size to be reused as thermoplastic resin material.