Abstract: Gasket for refrigerator cabinets of the kind including a soft bellows-type portion used for sealing the area between the cabinet and the door and extending from a base portion able to match the outer door and/or inner door of the refrigerator cabinet. The base portion is substantially rigid and has at one end, a sealing portion made of substantially soft material extending toward the inner door. The soft material portion has good flexible and spring back features when exposed to refrigerator and freezer temperatures. These features make the gasket able to further seal, preferably by compression, the space located between the cabinet and inner door in a more internal area of the refrigerator cabinet. Furthermore, the soft sealing portion is independent and free from constraints with respect to the soft bellows-type portion.

Abstract: Gasket for a refrigerator cabinet having a base portion and a soft bellows portion. The base portion of the gasket is designed to couple with an outer door portion and an inner door portion of a door of the refrigerator cabinet before final filling of the shell defined by the outer door portion and inner door portion with a heat insulating material. The base portion has an inverted U shape, delimited by essentially vertical sections and a horizontal section. The vertical sections each terminate with a foot for resting on the door.

Abstract: A sealing assembly for a refrigerator which comprises a bellows-seal gasket and a profile as a single piece or as multiple pieces where the profile has a base having at opposite ends, sealing strips and has a groove for replacement of the bellows-seal gasket. The profile is provided with a side branch that terminates in a grooved seat having a C-shaped cross-section for receiving an edge of an inner door panel and having a sealing strip that is provided at the end of the grooved seat. The inner door panel is bent to ensure optimal contact with the sealing strip of the side branch.

Abstract: A gasket for forming a seal between an outer door member and an inner door member, as well as a cabinet of a refrigeration unit. The gasket is adapted to seal the inner door edge of the inner door member to the outer door member, as well as between the outer door member and the cabinet. The gasket includes a semi-rigid profile portion joined to a bellows seal portion. The profile includes a base with a substantially C-shaped cross-section having upper and lower sections and a vertical or oblique section therebetween. An elbow piece formed at the lower section acts as a hinge for allowing elastic splaying of the lower section to snap-engage the edge of the inner door member. The lower section includes a projection that interfaces with an entire perimeter of the inner door member and that is directed toward the upper section to engage with a corresponding grooved seat formed on the inner door member. The bellows portion forms a seal with the cabinet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for assembling in an automated manner a sealing profile on an inner door for refrigerators. The method comprises the stages of: a) providing said profile (1) in the form of a frame welded at the corners, b) stably resting said frame on a support (10), c) gripping said section (4) along all the sides of said frame using engaging means (12) so as to perform said elastic splaying, d) retaining said sections (4) in the splayed position, e) positioning said inner door (31) on said sections (2) of said profile base, f) releasing said sections (4) so as to allow the elastic return of the profile base onto the edge of the inner door, g) extracting inner door and profile thus assembled from said support.

Abstract: A slush-moulding method combined with cross-linking, including the filling of a tank with a suitable quantity of ground polymer blend and the coupling of said tank with a heated mold is provided. The closed system thus obtained is moved in order to transfer the powder onto the mold, so as to carry out on the latter a layer of completely or partially melted powder. Before and after a stage of stripping of the leather off the mold, said leather is cross-linked by means of radiations.

Abstract: A process for preparing a molding element for car bodies comprising the steps of: manufacturing a main body (2) of elongated conformation and manufacturing a continuous support element (7) carrying attachment projections (9) which are then connected with the main body (2) for engaging a corresponding anchoring region (5a) formed on a car body (5); the attachment projections (9) are rigidly in engagement with the continuous support element (7) which is fitted by sliding in a longitudinal housing (10) formed in the main body (2)and then axially fixed to this latter.

Abstract: A gasket made of a plastic material for refrigerator chests, including an inner door and an outer door, rigidly connected to each other by a foamed material injected in the hollow space between them for insulating purposes, in which the inner door is profiled along one or more sides with a groove is profiled alone one or more sides with a groove next to an extremity thereof overlaying the outer door, wherein the groove functions as a seat to receive an appropriate fastener for the gasket and the latter is fitted with a bellows-type section made of a soft plastic material capable of providing a closing seal between the inner door and the chest, and a base from which the fastener extends to the inner door, the gasket base being made of a rigid plastic material shaped by co-extrusion with the soft plastic material of the bellows-type portion and presents a substantially horizontal, flat or slightly curved configuration in the portion where the base overlays the extremity of the inner door, while presenting a sub

Abstract: A method for forming products such as simulated leather including one or more layers from thermoplastic, thermosetting or elastomer materials all formed by slush-moulding, comprising: forming in a slush-moulding mould a first layer of compacted material representing the exposed layer of the finished product, on said first layer forming a second layer of expandable material by further slush-moulding, completing with heat the consolidation of said layers by gelling and expansion of said second layer, the free face of which has an irregular shape. To the layered material thus formed is coupled a support of rigid material without discontinuity points or regions between them by filling every possible interspace.

Abstract: A weather strip in particular for window and door frames having a base portion (2) arranged to be engaged in a respective anchoring area (3) of a first bearing frame (4). A head portion (5) of the weather strip is arranged to act against an abutment area (6) associated with the a second bearing frame (7). A band of magnetic material (8) is associated with the head portion, and there is an intermediate connecting portion (9) formed, in transverse section, by a single fillet element connecting the head portion with the base portion.

Abstract: A thermal-insulation element for window and door frames, which has a main body adapted to be operatively interposed between an inner half and an outer half of the framework of the door or window frame. There is an abutment portion projecting in a transverse direction from the main body and adapted to receive a head portion of a weather strip coming into abutment against it. A magnetic material is operatively associated with the abutment portion and an axial stop is operatively associated with the magnetic material to prevent expansions/contractions of the magnetic means.

Abstract: A molding element for car bodies is provided which comprises a main body (2) of elongated conformation and attachment projections (9) operatively associated with the main body (2) and adapted to engage a corresponding anchoring region (5a) formed on a car body (5). The attachment projections (9) are rigidly in engagement with a continuous support element (7) to be fitted in a longitudinal housing (10) formed in the main body (2).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for heat-welding corners lengths of profiles together, for sealing gaskets, where the profiles include at least one extendible or compressible air chamber and are cut at their ends at an angle. The method includes positioning two profiles, with one of the cut ends of each profile opposite each other inside a suitable device including clamps which make the positioning possible, heating the positioned ends until the positioned ends reach a softened state, choking the profiles so as to completely occlude the air chambers along choking sections, closing the clamps in order to cause the profiles to come into mutual mating contact at the heated ends, injecting air into the air chambers by perforating the air chambers in a region between the choking sections and the heated ends so as to apply pressure to walls of the profiles in that region, pressing the walls against walls of the clamps to join the heated ends by heat-welding under pressure, and opening the occluded sections.

Abstract: A plastic material profile (1) for refrigerators and freezers include a door (30) and an inner door (31) having a bellows gasket (20) portion which provides a seal between the door and the cabinet (32).

Abstract: Gaskets especially for refrigerators are made from a polymeric material consisting of a mixture comprising a-olefin copolymers. The gaskets obtained therefrom are lighter, thinner and have better mechanical characteristics than those of the known art.

Abstract: The invention provides a plastics structural shape for refrigerator cabinets provided with a door and a door liner comprising a bellows gasket portion forming a seal between the door and the cabinet box part, the structural shape and the gasket portion being joined together or being integral with each other by being co-extruded from two materials having different rigidities so that the gasket portion can be easily detached from the structural shape when necessary along the region in which they are joined together, said structural shape having a channel arranged to receive a replacement bellows gasket portion, and at least one elastically yieldable lateral flange acting as a spring clip for snap-fitting the structural shape to the door liner, characterised in that within said structural shape said channel is defined by a pair of walls which extend vertically or obliquely from a base which when in its coupled operating position overlies the door and door liner along their joining line.

Abstract: A process for forming such manufactured items as imitation leather, or the like, from thermoplastic materials, thermosetting materials or elastomers, having at least one foamed layer, characterized in that said process comprises the following steps: a) forming, inside a mold for slush molding, a first layer of material which will constitute the top (i.e.

Abstract: An apparatus including of a mold for slush molding articles of a least two colors; a tank; a separation wall disposed in the tank and dividing the tank into two spaces; a gasket mounted on a free edge of the separation wall which faces the mold, the gasket having a plurality of rigid inserts disposed therein in a predetermined distribution; and an actuator device which expands and retracts the rigid inserts thereby correspondingly expanding and retracting the gasket. A method for slush molding utilizes the apparatus.

Abstract: This invention relates to a magnetic gasket particularly suitable for forming a seal between a fixed part and an openable part including in regions of curvilinear extension, for example between the body and door of a vehicle, of the type comprising an element for fixing to one of said parts and a seat housing a magnetized bar (11) of substantially rectangular cross-section in which said fixing element and said seat (8) for the magnetized bar are connected together by an extendable deformable tubular chamber, characterised in that said bar (11) is magnetized along at least one of the two shorter opposing sides (19, 19') of its substantially rectangular cross-section, said magnetized side facing when in its operating position the part with which contact is to be made for sealing purposes.

Abstract: An apparatus including of a mold for slush molding articles of a least two colors; a tank; a separation wall disposed in the tank and dividing the tank into two spaces; a gasket mounted on a free edge of the separation wall which faces the mold, the gasket having a plurality of rigid inserts disposed therein in a predetermined distribution; and an actuator device which expands and retracts the rigid inserts thereby correspondingly expanding and retracting the gasket. A method for slush molding utilizes the apparatus.