Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing flat articles which are moulded in any desired shaped in dry moulds from defibrated components of wood. In this process, the moisture required to give good felting remains a constituent of the wood fibres until the moulding stage. These wood fibres are mixed with fibre- and/or moisture-reactive binders and, if appropriate, auxiliaries, are metered by means of a gravity-compensating air stream onto a preform sieve, and are then compression-moulded without a cooling cycle in sieve-free moulds between two surfaces which are smooth or embossed in any desired pattern.

Abstract: The invention relates to continuous processes for preparing dimethylformamide-insoluble acrylic filaments and fibers which incur a weight loss of at most 20, preferably 15% on being heated up to 400.degree. C., by spinning appropriate polymer solutions, treating the filament bundles obtained before the first drying or heating stage in a continuous manner with an aqueous solution containing copper(I) ions, thermally fixing the copper content, and heating the bundles to 200.degree. to 350.degree. C.

Abstract: A molded article is formed by a reaction injection molding method wherein a starting material, e.g., an .omega.-lactam, is injected into a mold, the inner pressure of which is maintained at 0.5 to 20 kg/cm.sup.2 .multidot.G with an inert gas; and the inner pressure of the mold is maintained at a level higher than the pressure increased by injection of the starting material until the polymerization molding of the starting material is completed.

Abstract: A group of monolithic ceramic capacitors are made by repeatedly passing a substrate under a falling curtain of a ceramic slurry, drying each layer and screen printing an electroding ink pattern on successive of the dried ceramic layers to provide a green cake containing buried electrode patterns. The cake is diced using a razor blade. It is then removed from the supporting substrate and flooded with liquid nitrogen. The chilled cake is then mechanically stressed to provide near perfectly separated green bodies along the cutting planes.

Abstract: A device for use with a runner block and a multi-polymer co-injection nozzle having separate rear entrance ports for separate polymer streams, in a multi-coinjection nozzle, multi-polymer injection molding machine, for receiving from the runner block a plurality of separate polymer flow streams and for redirecting them to flow axially out of the forward end of the device into the nozzle rear entrance ports. The device has inlets cut radially into its periphery, each for receiving a polymer flow stream, and has feed channels, each in communication with an inlet and having an inward portion cut toward the device's central axis, and an axial portion communicating with the inward portion, running axially forward and terminating at an exit hole in the device's forward end, the exit holes being in a spaced pattern for feeding the separate polymer flow streams in spaced relation into the nozzle rear entrance ports.

Abstract: Disclosed are nucleating agents for polyethylene terephthalate molding compositions comprised of alkali metal salts of carboxylic acid-containing polymeric microgel particles which are prepared by polymerizing in aqueous emulsion a monomer mixture containing about 5 to 50 percent by weight of polymerizable carboxylic acid monomers, up to 10 percent of a multifunctional crosslinking monomer and one or more carboxylfree relatively water insoluble polymerizable vinyl monomers.

Abstract: An improved, essentially scrap-free, solid-phase process for making thermoplastic articles directly from resinous powder. The process can be particularly advantageous to forming large parts from thermoplastic resinous powders. The method essentially comprises taking resinous powder, briquetting the powder, sintering the briquette, repressing the powder in a warm state and then shaping the briquette into a preform or a blank which can then be thermoformed into a resulting container or other product, assuming the blank itself is not the desired end product. Alternatively, sintering can take place after repressing with preheating of the briquette prior to the repressing step.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial process for producing acrylic fibers having non-circular cross-sections which are excellent in gloss, softness, etc. In this process, which is a wet-spinning method using an inorganic solvent, a particular acrylonitrile polymer solution is spun through a spinnerette having circular spinning orifices. The steps of spinning, coagulation, water-washing and wet-heat stretching are carried out in integral combination and under specific conditions.

Abstract: A method for controlling the dimensions of a hollow plastics product injection molded within the cooling cavity of a mold having a core section and a cavity section defining the cooling cavity therebetween and separated by a parting line comprising stabilizing the core section in the cooling cavity and comprising the steps of:1. Injecting a first plastics material into the cooling cavity so that only a part of the cooling cavity is filled.2. Cooling the injected first plastics material in the cooling cavity;3. Injecting subsequent to injecting the first plastics material a second plastics material into the cooling cavity so that the cooled injected first plastics material in said part of the cooling cavity stabilizes the core section by impeding movement of the core section caused by injecting the second plastics material and whereby the injected second plastics material fills the cooling cavity and fuses with the cooled previously injected plastics material.

Abstract: Ready-for-dispatch highly shrinkable filaments and fibers made of acrylonitrile copolymers can be prepared in a continuous dry-spinning method in which:(a) the spinning solution spun has a viscosity at 100.degree. C. of 10 to 60 falling-ball seconds,(b) the evaporation of the solvent in the spinning cell is controlled in such a way that on leaving the spinning cell the solvent contact of the filaments is at most 10% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fiber,(c) before the stretch the filaments are treated with a spin-finish which contains a lubricant and an antistat and gives the filaments a moisture content of at most 10% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fiber, and(d) before or during the stretch the filaments have no contact with any other extraction liquid for the spinning solvent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing wet- or dry-spun filaments and fibers of polymers which consist to more than 50% by weight of acrylonitrile units and which are continually treated with an aqueous solution containing copper(I) ions during the fiber production process but before a first heat treatment above 100.degree. C. and the copper content in the fibrous material is fixed by heating to above 60.degree. C., preferably to above 100.degree. C. The filaments and fibers thus obtained can be dyed with acid dyestuffs, have bactericidal properties, and can be subjected to accelerated pre-oxidation.

Abstract: Polyacrylonitrile filaments having a residual solvent content of less than 5% by weight and a total linear density of over 100,000 dtex can be prepared without contact with an extracting agent for the spinning solvent by a process in which(a) the spinning solution spun has a viscosity at 100.degree. C. of 10 to 60 falling-ball seconds,(b) the filaments are treated while still hot, directly at the end of the spinning cell, inside it or immediately outside the end of the cell, with a spin-finish which contains a lubricant and an antistat and which gives the filaments a moisture content of at most 10% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fibre, and(c) the filaments are immediately exposed to a heat treatment without cooling down first.

Abstract: A mold clamping device for an injection molding machine wherein a movable table which supports a movable mold is moved in directions approaching and moving away from a fixed table which supports a fixed mold to thereby bring the molds into open and closed states, and wherein mold clamping is effected in a closed state of the molds by mold clamping cylinders. The mold clamping device includes tie rods for guiding the movement of the movable table, the tie rods projecting upward from the fixed table and being each provided with an engaging groove such as threads or the like formed on the outer peripheral surface of its portion projecting from the movable table to the side opposite to the fixed table in the closed state of the molds; and split mold-like locking members capable of engaging with and disengaging from the tie rods each through each engaging groove in the closed state of the molds, the locking members being slidable in the axial direction of the tie rods.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus particularly useful in carbon black pelleting has two parallel pinned shafts. The pins on each shaft are arranged in a double helix fashion with the pins interdigitating. The pins of each double helix are composed of two subsets of pins arranged in a single helix which single helices are, however, axially offset from each other. Thereby at any given axial location alternatingly opposite pin action is provided in the interdigitating zone, while surging of power is avoided.

Abstract: A continuous molding apparatus and method is disclosed as providing a sliding seal chamber in which moving molding surfaces form and can provide means for the induction of such temperature changes required to produce finished products from the chosen raw material.

Abstract: Dry-spun synthetic fibers and filaments having an individual as-spun denier of 3 dtex are obtained by dry spinning a viscosity-stable spinning solution with a draft of at least 20.

Abstract: This invention relates to reaction injection molding of a mixture of lactams in presence of a catalyst and a promotor which is carried out by mixing at least two lactams in a liquid state with the catalyst and promoter before injecting the mixture into a preheated mold. The use of a mixture of lactams results in a supercooled mixture which remains liquid at ambient temperature for at least 2 hours.

Abstract: A process for producing high precision apertures in plastic components comprises the steps of: injection molding the component from a crystalline or semicrystalline thermoplastic material wherein at least one aperture is formed in the component during the molding step; inserting an annealing rod having an oversized diameter with respect to the aperture into the aperture; placing the component, with the annealing rod inserted into the aperture, into an oven at an elevated temperature for a period of time; allowing the component to cool; and withdrawing the annealing rod from the aperture of the component.

Abstract: A manufacturing technique for producing a monolithic concrete base for a manhole, wet well, junction chamber in an upright position that includes a jacket having a removable pallet that forms the bottom wall thereof. A core is suspended inside the jacket upon two sets of horizontally aligned spacer pins. The first set of pins is situated below the level to which the concrete is to be poured while the second set is situated above the pouring level. After the molding unit has been filled to the required level, the upper set of pins is removed and a contoured forming header placed over the top surface of the concrete before it has a chance to set in order to create a joint for receiving another section thereon.

Abstract: A sheet-like structure is produced from a vinyl alcohol polymer by a method wherein, in a self-cleaning multi-screw extruder, the polymer is mixed with a small amount of water, the mixture is melted, homogenized, devolatilized and finally extruded as a melt, and the extrudate is shaped in a conventional manner into the sheet-like structure.