Patents Examined by Jeffery R. Thurlow
  • Patent number: 4472126
    Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing reinforced hoses, a reinforced layer forming device is arranged concentric with material efflux port of an outer tube extruder and an inner tube extruder so that inner tube formation, the reinforcing layer formation and the outer tube extruding can be performed continuously and nearly at the same time on a torpedo projected beyond the top end of an inner die (2) of the inner tube extruder (1). In order to obtain the reinforcing layer of uniform spiral structure stably, a spiral device (21) as a reinforcing layer forming device has an inner spinner (25) and an outer spinner (26), each having conical frustum form, and top end portions of the inner and outer spinners are provided with a plurality of thread holes (G1, G2) and inserted in a gap between the intermediate die (12) and the inner die (2), and the inner and outer spinners can be rotated integrally with inner and outer bobbin carriers respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Mitsui, Shoji Murakawa
  • Patent number: 4472129
    Abstract: Improved extrusion head for use in forming plastic containers or tubular films (optionally with multi-ply walls) by the extrusion-blowing process. The typical extrusion head used in this process has flat compensating rings bounding a portion of the frustoconical flow passages which ultimately feed the extrusion orifice. These are replaced by spherical segmental rings having a beveled surface in the form of a spherical, conical, toric or ogival shape which bounds said flow passage and thus eliminates stagnating recesses (of the type encountered through use of the prior art flat rings).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Compagnie Francaise de Raffinage
    Inventor: Michel Siard
  • Patent number: 4472343
    Abstract: A tubular film process wherein molten resin is extruded from an extrusion die into a tubular resin, blown by an internal pressure, cooling air is discharged at least at a point between the vicinity of the extrusion die and the vicinity of a bubble expansion ending point in a direction of the extrusion of the resin and in a direction opposite to the extrusion of the resin to, thereby cool the tubular resin, and the tubular resin is continuously taken up upon being cooled and solidified. The cooling air has higher flow rate in the extrusion direction. The cooling air is discharged not only in the direction of the extrusion of the resin but also in the direction opposite to the extrusion of the resin, whereby hot air stream is prevented from accompanying the flow of the resin, thus enabling to effectively cool the tubular resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kawamura, Masato Doi
  • Patent number: 4470942
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an equipment to obtain a plate provided with holes directly by extruding plastic materials. The process consists in submitting the material coming out of an extruder head to expansion stresses according to more than one direction and in executing a plurality of perforations in said material submitted to expansion by means of perforating means; the equipment consists of a plurality of perforating devices provided with a reciprocating motion so that they can reach an interference position with respect to the material coming out of the extruder head and of means which, acting at the same time as the perforating devices, are suitable to produce an expansion of the extruded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: R.D.B. Plastotecnica S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mario Beretta
  • Patent number: 4470937
    Abstract: In a screw-type cold feed extrusion molding apparatus is provided a size control device adapted to control the sizes of extrusion molded articles through detection of the load current of the motor for driving the feed screw and take-off conveyor of the extrusion molding apparatus at speeds which vary in such a manner as to enable a molding material to be fed smoothly from the inlet toward the extrusion die of the apparatus so that fluctuations which would otherwise be caused in the sizes of the extrusion molded articles due to the presence of a molding material stagnant in the inlet of the apparatus are precluded reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Bridgestone Tire Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masakazu Sugimoto, Shuji Kuhara, Takeshi Kusaba
  • Patent number: 4468366
    Abstract: Method and apparatus is set forth for extruding honeycomb structures having cohesive cellular walls from an extrusion die. A baffle member is provided within the flow passageways of the die so as to provide impedance to longitudinal batch flow through certain of the discharge slots such that the impedance to flow in all of the slots is substantially equal, thus improving product quality and knitting or cohesiveness of the batch material prior to discharge from the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Corning Glass Works
    Inventor: Louis S. Socha, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4468365
    Abstract: Method and apparatus is set forth for extruding honeycomb structures having cohesive cellular walls from an extrusion die. Deflector means are provided within flow passageways of the die, wherein the deflector means has a secondary feed system such that the batch flow from the main feed system is broken up into a multi-channel stream system which improves the flow of the batch material into the discharge slots, thus improving product quality and knitting or cohesiveness of the material prior to discharge from the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Corning Glass Works
    Inventors: Daniel W. Corbett, George M. Cunningham, Louis S. Socha, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4468360
    Abstract: A porous diaphragm for an electrolytic cell for the electrolysis of alkali metal halides is comprised of a thermoplastic support fabric impregnated with particles of a siliceous composition. The thermoplastic support fabric has an anode side, a cathode side opposite the anode side, and a thickness of at least 0.3 millimeters. The cathode side has a greater hydrophobicity than the anode side. To provide greater hydrophobicity which results in controlled, reduced cell voltages, for example, the cathode side of the support fabric is treated with an oxidizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventor: Igor V. Kadija
  • Patent number: 4466931
    Abstract: The starting materials for the practice of the present invention are (1) one or more organic monomers or oligomers which upon irradiation very rapidly undergo a polymerization reaction to form a solid polymer; and (2) a liquid vehicle in which the one or more organic monomers or oligomers are soluble but in which the polymer formed is insoluble. For the manufacture of microporous membrane in accordance with the invention the monomers or oligomers are dissolved in the liquid vehicle, the resulting solution is formed into a thin layer, and the thin layer of the solution is then irradiated as with ultraviolet or electron beam radiation whereupon the rapid polymerization reaction immediately ensues and the polymer formed immediately segregates from the vehicle thereby resulting in microporous membrane from which the vehicle can be removed as by evaporation or washing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Gelman Sciences Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald B. Tanny
  • Patent number: 4465454
    Abstract: In an extrusion die, restricted flow of material from large to small feed holes is relieved by the formation of a transition zone within the die. The transition zone is formed by extending either or both of the large and small feed holes so that they axially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Corning Glass Works
    Inventors: Francis R. Duerr, Leonard W. Pokallus
  • Patent number: 4465451
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling extrusion back-pressure in a face cutting apparatus having an extrudate feed means, a die and a cutter is provided. The apparatus consists of a pair of nested dies, one upstream and one downstream, each die having a plurality of areas, each of the areas having a plurality of extrusion orifices. The nested dies are movable relative to another. In one relative position, the orifices of the upstream die exactly aligned with the orifices of the downstream die. Means are provided for relative movement of the dies in response to a change in the pressure adjacent the extrudate delivery end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Welding Engineers, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Adderley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4465449
    Abstract: Coextrusion feedblock apparatus for making multilayer, lightweight pipe wherein means are provided to convert thermoplastic material into pipe or tubing having a plurality of layers. Means are provided for adjusting the feedblock apparatus to assure thickness uniformity of the inner layer of the pipe or tubing and further, means are provided for adjusting overall wall thickness of the multilayer pipe or tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Hornbeck
  • Patent number: 4464104
    Abstract: A ring nozzle for use with an extruder to continuously form a synthetic-resin tube has a substantially stationary back nozzle part having an axially forwardly directed front face and formed with an axially centered passage opening at the face. This part is typically bolted over the outlet of the extruder. An axially centered core rod is substantially fixed in the passage and extends axially forward past the front face. This rod is also fixed in the extruder so that same can emit a hot and thick tubular strand of a plastified synthetic resin. An annular and movable front nozzle part fits with spacing around the core forward of the front face and forms therewith an axially centered and forwardly open annular gap. The thick tubular strand formed by the extruder becomes a thin-walled strand that emerges from the annular gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Inventor: Detlef Gneuss
  • Patent number: 4464319
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for the formation of synthetic resin foil coils. The angular velocity of the flaw propagating member is reduced as the coil increases for at least a multiplicity of turns to impart to the coil the configuration of a right circular cylinder with a high degree of precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Hartmut Halter, Willi Schnell
  • Patent number: 4464318
    Abstract: A nozzle ring of an extruder for blowing tubular plastics film is divided into cooling sectors provided with adjusting elements. The thicknesses of the blown film are measured over the circumference thereof and a number of film sectors of equal circumferential length corresponding to the number of cooling sectors is established from the measured thicknesses. Assuming that the film sector of maximum or minimum thickness has been extruded in the correct position for the purpose of determining the cooling sector associated with the film sector, the subsequent film sectors are in turn allocated to successive cooling sectors. From the measurements, the mean thickness distributions are determined over the individual film sectors. These values of mean thickness distribution define a measure for the correcting command for the adjusting elements of the cooling sectors that are associated with the respective film sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Hartmut Upmeier, Gerd Klinge, Gerhard Winkler
  • Patent number: 4462778
    Abstract: The extrusion head comprises a first extrusion outlet surrounding an aperture wherethrough a metal section can be fed and a second extrusion outlet located externally to the first extrusion outlet, the latter being communicated to a first feed branched channel for the plastics material to be extruded, extending substantially perpendicularly to the feed direction of the metal section, while the second extrusion outlet is in turn communicated to a second plastics material branched channel also perpendicularly extending to the feed direction of the metal section and substantially juxtaposed to the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Inventor: Mario Calcagni
  • Patent number: 4462777
    Abstract: A blow-moulding machine comprises a mixer for mixing refractory particles with a binder and a hardener or the like, a main tank for transporting moulding sand, a booster provided subsequently to said tank, a blast hose, and a blowing nozzle mounted at the tip end of said hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teishiro Watanabe, Makoto Tsunoi, Toshio Kai, Hiroshi Shiota, Hiroshi Nakabayashi, Tadayoshi Tsutsumi, Ryuichi Sakai
  • Patent number: 4462779
    Abstract: To maintain an air or gas bubble forming in a moving tube of plastics material between pairs of squeeze rollers, an air or gas injecting needle is mounted to pivot substantially in a plane containing the centerline of the tube. The needle pierces the tube wall of the bubble when in one rotary position, moves with the tube while pivoting through an arc depending on the depth of needle penetration and is withdrawn from the bubble in a second rotary position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Friedhelm Brinkmeier, Heinrich Frommeyer
  • Patent number: 4461734
    Abstract: Process for the plasticization and pumping of low bulk density synthetic thermoplastic materials through extrusion die means employing a mixer type extruder, the extrudate from said extruder is passed through a rotary melt pump and the molten material is discharged therefrom through a die member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: David N. Jones, Urho S. Haapala, Leonard S. Scarola
  • Patent number: 4459094
    Abstract: A plodder outlet assembly for producing a bicolored detergent bar comprising a first plodder outlet for delivering a first mass of detergent material to a compaction chamber. Four pipes are provided for delivering a second detergent material to the compaction chamber. These pipes extend into the compaction chamber and abut the inner walls thereof leaving a cruciform space for the first detergent material. The compaction chamber is slightly conical in configuration for compaction purposes and so that material flowing beyond the ends of the pipes will envelope the second detergent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Jose A. Sanabria