Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automatic, rapid and continuous preparation of generally friable or fragile ready-to-eat food product bacon analog strips of predetermined configuration, simulating natural, cooked bacon, wherein a slab or bulk material of the food product is sliced by a cutting device into individual strips basically having the dimensions of sliced natural bacon strips, and conducted by means of a first endless conveyor arrangement from the cutting device towards a cooking installation. Ahead of the cooking installation, a second endless conveyor mounts a series of strip-engaging members adapted to sequentially contact the sliced strips and to conduct the strips from the first endless conveyor arrangement onto and along guide rod members which extend into and through the cooking installation.

Abstract: An improved method and machine for reclaiming in an on-line configuration both oriented and unoriented film produced on an extrusion line, in general, and an improved means within an on-line reclaim system for transferring both virgin resin and chopped reclaim to an in-line extruder, in particular, are disclosed.

Abstract: A blank is formed out of plasticizable, heated plastic by means of an extruding-type material supply head. A somewhat lenticular profiling of the blank is obtained by appropriately controlling a closing member of the material supply head, which is built as a valve cone. When the closing member is closed off against the lower edge of a tube part of the material supply head, the blank is pinched off from the material supply. A flow of air emerging from a ring nozzle serves to ensure complete severance of the blank from the material supply head. After that has been accomplished, the blank enters an open shaping cavity of a die by free fall. By further movement of the die, which is located on a rotary table, the die removes itself from the permanently located material supply head, so that the blank lying in the cavity can be pressed into a molded article by a stamp. Cooling off too much in certain locations on the blank is prevented by the free fall of the blank into the shaping cavity.

Abstract: A pourable scouring cleanser composition contains:(1) an anionic surfactant preferably in an amount of 0.1 to 0.5 moles/kg;(2) a water-soluble polar nonionic/zwitterionic surfactant in the form of an amine oxide or a betaine;(3) an electrolyte such as sodium chloride or sodium carbonate;(4) a chlorine-releasing bleaching agent, preferably sodium hypochlorite solution;(5) a suspended particulate abrasive, preferably calcite.

Abstract: A reusable plugging dam for bowling balls is provided for retaining suitable filling compound until set or hard in and somewhat above a finger hole of the ball to be filled such that sufficient filling compound is present to allow for shrinkage during curing or hardening, and be ground and polished to conform to the spherical shape of the ball. The dam includes a body and a suction structure for securing the body to the ball and prevent seepage of the filling compound between the ball and the dam. The body has a port therethrough so as to allow filling of the finger hole with filling compound. Dams are provided for single or multiple finger holes. In addition a dam is provided for use in conjunction with another dam and in particular for filling horizontally aligned holes, this dam having a cover to retain the filling compound in the dam.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for centrifugal casting of thermosetting plastic and the like in a vacuum chamber including a vacuum chamber for enclosing a rotating spinner journaled in a stationary base, a dividing hub removably engaging the spinner, a reservoir for holding the casting material within the dividing hub, the dividing hub additionally adapted to equally distribute the casting material to a plurality of nozzles extending outwardly from the dividing hub, a plurality of casting molds removably engaging the nozzles, a sleeve within a mouth of the casting mold forming a seal between the casting mold and the nozzle while reducing mold wear, a removable clamp for retaining the plurality of casting molds to the dividing hub during the spinning cycle, the plurality of casting molds additionally adapted for removal from the apparatus for transfer to a remote curing station.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for intimately blending two liquid phases, such as is required, for example, in the plastics materials industry, the method including causing the two liquids to flow under throttled conditions through a nozzle after having been pressurized. The admixture is intimate and is obtained quickly, premature cross-linking and incrustation formation being thus effectively prevented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to abrasive articles such as grinding wheels which employ organic binders and are improved by the use of certain oils or with the use of long chain aliphalic monhydroxy alcohols or long chain alkylated phenols alone or mixed with particular oils as dust depressants or dampening agents used with the conventional plasticizers. These dampening agents prevent "balling", minimize dusting and produce a more durable abrasive article.

Abstract: A method of forging spinel into complex shapes in which a spinel plate is placed in a mold while the spinel plate is heated, in an atmosphere of helium, to a temperature below its melting point and above its solid two phases transition point that allows plastic deformation to take place. Forging stresses well above the yield point of the spinel are applied to the plate by the mold to reduce the forging time.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for rapidly removing fuzz from about the edges of sheets of material and apertures within those sheets without damaging the sheet material performed by passing the sheet quickly through a flame.

Abstract: Plastic molding apparatus is disclosed for forming a series of molded connector bodies along a molded strip segment. By repeating the molding cycle, an additional strip segment is simultaneously molded and joined to a previously made strip segment, so that repeated cycling of the molding machine provides a molded continuous strip interconnecting a series of molded bodies.

Abstract: A barytes-containing wood filler is prepared from essential ingredients including, on weight percent basis, 6-14% acrylic resin, 3-10% platy talc, 3-10% barytes filler, 3-12% clay filler, 40-65% calcium carbonate filler and 13-35% water. A barytes-free wood filler is prepared from the same proportions of acrylic resin, calcium carbonate filler and water, together with 5-18% platy talc and 0-15% clay filler. Desirably the average particle size of the talc is about 9 microns and the average particle size of the clay is about 5 microns.

Abstract: A process for producing glass fiber-reinforced, transparent cast sheets comprising impregnating glass fibers with a resin syrup comprising 10 to 50 parts by weight of a copolymer (A) consisting essentially of 20 to 95% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound and 5 to 80% by weight of other polymerizable monomer, 1 to 40 parts by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound (B), 50 to 90 parts by weight of other polymerizable monomer (C) and optionally 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of maleic anhydride, and casting the resulting mixture.

Abstract: A synthetic onyx material and method of preparation having veined coloring marks, within a matrix, in a smoothly flowing, variegated pattern resembling the flow of colored contaminants in natural onyx; the patterns are in juxtaposed portions revealing an optical boundary.

Abstract: By fluorinating diamond grit, the grit may be readily bonded into a fluorocarbon resin matrix. The matrix is formed by simple hot pressing techniques. Diamond grinding wheels may advantageously be manufactured using such a matrix. Teflon fluorocarbon resins are particularly well suited for using in forming the matrix.

Abstract: Method for making extruded bricks having a textured handmade appearing face designed to form on outer building wall surface, comprising the steps of feeding a column of brick-forming clay mix into a progressively narrowing inlet funnel portion of a brick extruding die, progressively constricting the clay mix column while feeding the same from said inlet funnel portion through a die throat section of the extruding die of horizontally elongated rectangular cross-section defined by downstream converging upper, lower and side boundary surfaces to shape the clay mix column to a rectangular cross-section whose width dimension perpendicular to said face slightly exceeds the desired ultimate brick width, disrupting the clay column in said die throat section at a subsurface location space near and below the uppermost boundary surface of the die throat section along a plane substantially spanning the transverse extent of the die throat section by pressurized downsteam-directed liquid jets internally disrupting the clay

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for forming indicia on the outside of a roto-molded plastic container during the roto-molding process wherein a template bearing a mirror image of the indicia is removably affixed to the interior wall surface of a mold.

Abstract: Sulfur or peroxy cured compositions prepared from epoxidized diene rubbers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus provided for manufacturing elastomer gloves having percentage elongation of at least 300%. In order to prevent excess deposits of the polymer latex in the areas of the tips of the fingers and the webs between the fingers when the hand-shaped molds are coated, by dipping, with the polymer, the surfaces of the mold in these areas are formed as non-rounded, non-horizontal inclined surfaces which join at an apex and define an included angle therebetween. This arrangement prevents the pooling of the polymer latex in the areas in question, this pooling being the cause of the excess deposits and being characteristic of prior molds of this general type. In order to provide sufficient coagulant around the sharp corners formed in the areas of the tips of the fingers and the webs between the fingers so as to provide sufficient coating in those areas, it is necessary to use a heated mold and to provide sufficient dwell time and withdrawal time for the mold from the coating baths during the process.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel method for obtaining a shaped article of a vinyl chloride-based resin which is markedly insusceptible to the undesirable phenomenon of exudation or bleeding of the plasticizer and other additive ingredients contained therein on to the surface of the article. The method comprises formulating the resin composition for the fabrication of the shaped article with an epoxy compound containing, preferably, at least 2% by weight of the oxirane oxygen in the molecule in an amount of at least 0.05% by weight based on the vinyl chloride-based resin and irradiating the shaped article with ultraviolet light having a substantial energy distribution in the wavelength region of 200 nm or shorter. The shaped article obtained by the inventive method is remarkably insusceptible to the plasticizer bleeding even after prolonged outdoor exposure or irradiation with ultraviolet light having wavelengths longer than 290 nm.