Abstract: Device for spraying a pulverulent lubricant or release agent dispersed in an air stream onto the pressing tools in a tableting press, having at least one spray nozzle for applying the powder-containing air stream to the pressing tools, a suction system for sucking the excess residues of lubricant off the pressing tools and an air-jet injector for reproducibly loading the air stream with lubricant, wherein the pressing tools are connected to a sensor, which generates an output signal characteristic of the extent to which the lubricant is covering the surfaces of the pressing tools and controls the amount of air sucked off at the suction system, the loading of the air stream with the powder, or both.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing head surfaces of dies cooperating with cylindrical press rolls for rotary presses. To avoid the high Hertzian stresses occurring dies for rotary presses during the interaction of the die head and the press roll, the present invention provides for designing instantaneous surface lines of the press roll extending through the instantaneous contact points between the head surface of the die head and the press roll under the action of the press roll on the die head as a set of continuously consecutive contact lines on the head surface of the die head by a tool.

Abstract: A mold for shaping a skin sheet has a three-dimensional body including a top surface and side surfaces that work as a shaping surface, respectively. The top surface and the side surfaces have a plurality of small holes communicating with a suction unit for drawing the skin sheet thereon by suction force generated by the suction unit. Each of the side surfaces has a product portion and a non-product portion parted at a trimming line, the portions corresponding to those of the skin sheet that are used as a product and not used as the product, respectively. The body has a plurality of guidance plates, each projecting outside at an edge line of the body. An upper edge of each of the guidance plates forms a ridge line in a shape of a wave. The ridge line descends from a position in the vicinity of an intersection point of the edge line and the trimming line to a direction of the bottom of the body so as to form a valley and thereafter ascends to an opposite direction so as to form a mountain.

Abstract: A rotary tablet press has a rotating mold table and top and bottom plungers, which can move reciprocally in plunger guides, coaxially with the molds. The reciprocating motion of at least the bottom plungers is cam-controlled and these plungers are acted upon by a damping element to prevent an overshoot of their movement. To ensure an action which is as free from wear and is as maintenance-free as possible whilst maintaining constant damping of the bottom plungers, it is proposed according to the invention that the damping element consists of at least one magnetic element which acts on the plungers.

Abstract: A windshield repair apparatus includes a fixture for holding an injector wherein the fixture includes plastic legs for slideably engaging a windshield during sliding movement of the fixture. A suction cup mechanism enables selective mounting of the apparatus to the windshield. The suction cup mechanism selectively positions the suction cup so as to not interfere with sliding movement of the windshield repair apparatus across the windshield, and allows for deployment of the suction cup against the windshield at the desired time. The fixture has a engagement surfaces for the user's hand during handling of the windshield repair apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for the prefabrication of glass blocks panel is provided. Glass blocks are spaced on a spacing rack such that upper and lower slots are formed between adjacent blocks and ajoint cavity defined therebetween. A pair of moving manifolds disposed at right angles to each other communicate with the glass blocks assembled on the spacing rack to internally caulk and seal the blocks together. The moving manifolds include vertically disposed feed tube devices, each including a pair of elongated feed tubes which are in a spring-like relation. The feed tubes include an aperture disposed on opposing surfaces proximate to the distal ends for simultaneous dispensing sealant into the upper and lower slots of adjacent glass blocks and a protruding distal end portion for simultaneously compressing the sealant into the lower and upper and lower slots of adjacent glass blocks as the sealant is released. The sealant used may be silicone, or any other adhesive that adheres naturally to glass.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming thermoplastic containers having a male locking member. The apparatus includes a cavity defining a shape of the container, a stripper movable in a longitudinal direction relative to said cavity, and a retractable lock adjacent to an edge of the cavity. The retractable lock is movable in a transverse direction relative to the cavity between a retracted position and an unretracted position and movable in a longitudinal direction between a first position and a second position. The containers are formed through a process in which the apparatus is sequentially placed in a ready mode, lift mode, disengage mode, and back to the ready mode. In the ready mode, the retractable lock is placed in the unretracted position and first position in order to receive a sheet of plastic material and form a locking member thereon.

Abstract: An apparatus for drawing a pattern plate (1) upward from a carrier plate (2), which pattern plate is held in the carrier plate and transferred along a transport path, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a first lifting cylinder (5) having an upwardly extendable piston rod (5A) and that is fixedly disposed below the transport path, a mount table (7) secured to the tip end of the first lifting cylinder piston rod (5), and second and third lifting cylinders mounted on the mount table in a spaced-apart relationship, the second and third lifting cylinders each having an upwardly extendable piston rod (9, 9A), a mount plate (10, 10A) secured to the tip end of the piston rod (9, 9A), and a plurality of draw pins (11, 11A) mounted upright on the mount plate.

Abstract: A machine for pressing and forming food products has a die including an inner die plate surrounded by an outer die ring. The inner die plate is axially movable relative the outer die ring, between an extended state and a compressed state. A circumferential flexible seal connects the inner die to the outer die ring. During operation, when the inner die moves from the extended state to the compressed state, the seal creates a groove for the formation of a ridge, or crust of pizza dough. The die is more easily manufactured, has a longer useful life, improves the reliability of the machine, and allows for making rising crust pizzas.

Abstract: A composite molded product has a main body molded of a base material of a thermoplastic resin and defining at least one through opening. A porous skin material is integrated with the main body by thermal fusing. At least one rib is formed on the surface of the skin material at a position corresponding to the position of at least one through opening. At least one rib is integrated with the main body through porous structure of the skin material.

Abstract: The apparatus and process to compensate for variations in thickness of molding tools and of moldable materials used in an embossing process to be carried out under a vacuum, while ensuring high dimensional stability, and to ensure different molding depths. For achieving this object, a chamber is employed having a pair of oppositely lying chamber parts, of which one is fixed to the framework and the other is adjustable, having side walls which comprise an inner part and an outer part. The inner part is fastened to the fixed chamber part and the outer part, on the outwardly facing end face to of which the adjustable chamber part comes to bear against the force of a spring during the closing of the chamber, is displaceable along guide elements on the fixed chamber part between two stops.

Abstract: A tube handling machine for loading and unloading tube workpieces, such as hoses, from mandrels is disclosed. The machine includes a mandrel support which mounts a plurality of mandrels. First and second pluralities of driven rollers have outer surfaces for engaging the tube workpieces for urging them along the mandrels. A pivotal magazine holds a supply of tubular workpieces and directs them to the rollers. In a preferred embodiment, a mandrel support includes a gripper for engaging a predetermined mandrel support and moving it toward a position where the mandrels are between the first and second pluralities of driven rollers.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing and stacking deep-drawn articles of thermoplastic synthetic material or the like includes a heating unit, an intermittent foil transporting unit, a rigid upper tool, and a raisable and lowerable as well as pivotable lower tool, wherein the movements of the lower tool are determined by cam discs mounted on a drive shaft and by cam rollers for the cam discs, and a stacking device. The lower tool is arranged linearly movably guided in a pivoted bracket.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous production, processing and packaging of a final chewing gum product. The product is extruded as a continuous tape or ribbon of material, the material is flattened into a approximate final cross-sectional size and shape, and then inserted into a final sizing apparatus. The sizing apparatus maintains the gum product in its final cross-sectional size and shape. Thereafter, the continuous strip of final chewing gum product is scored, cut into individual pieces, and individually wrapped by a standard packaging machine. The individually wrapped pieces of gum can then be assembled into sets and packaged into packs of gum.

Abstract: A device for manufacturing brake pads includes a base board with three flanges extending from the upper side thereof and each of the flanges has a plurality of notches defined in the sides thereof, a first mold and a second mold respectively received in the first recess defined between the first and the second flange, and the second recess defined between the second and the third flange, and cover mold mounted to the first and the second mold. The first mold has a plurality of slots and the second mold has a plurality of concavities, which are respectively located in alignment with the slots. The cover mold has a plurality of elongated recesses which communicate with the aligned slots, the concavities and the notches so that the brake pads are formed between the base board, the two molds and the cover mold.

Abstract: An injection plug device for injecting concrete repairing agent into a concrete structure and a connector to be connected to such an injection plug device are provided. The injection plug device has a small diameter, a simple structure, and low manufacturing cost to be appropriate to be used as a disposable device.

Abstract: A molding system includes a bottom die having a bottom blind hole, an upper die controlled to mold a molding with the bottom die, and a water circulation system connected to the bottom die at a bottom side and having a T-hole disposed in communication with the blind hole on the bottom die for circulation of cooling water to cool down the bottom die and the molding molded in between the bottom die and the upper die, a leakage sealing device mounted between the water circulation system and the bottom die to seal the gap and to divide the T-hole into a water inlet and a water outlet, and a spiral water guide mounted on the bottom die and pressed against the leakage sealing device, the spiral water guide defining a spiral water circulation passage in the blind hole in bottom die for guiding cooling water from the water inlet to the water outlet through the blind hole in a spiral manner to evenly and quickly cool down the bottom die.

Abstract: A mold box assembly includes a rectangular mold box frame having a substantially vertical divider plate mounted on the frame and extended part-way into it from an the upper side of the frame. A pair of rectangular restrictor plates are disposed vertically in the mold box from side to side and extend to the same depth as the divider plate. Wet product mix is dropped onto the box and is thereafter compressed with a shoe assembly. The shoe assembly includes a pair of shoes that extend from one side of the mold box to the other and have a thickness that allows them to be interleaved with the restrictor plates. The shoes are lowered to the lower edge of the restrictor plates. Simultaneously, another shoe mounted on the head plate compresses product on the other side of the divider plate so a higher level thus forming a header block having a first lower height formed beneath the restrictor plates and a second higher height formed on the other side of the divider plate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the forming of artificial leaves and flower petals, especially for use as a craft item, includes a male form for forming an armature for the leaf or petal and a female mold for generating the leaf or petal body. A flexible wire is wrapped about the male form to form an armature with an extending stem. The armature is removed from the form and placed in the mold. The mold is then filled with a film-forming casting material, such as a polyvinyl acetate. Upon cure, the artificial leaf or petal is removed from the mold. The leaf or petal may be combined with other leaves or petals similarly formed to form an artificial floral arrangement.