Abstract: Method of agglomerating powders and non-flowing fine particle minerals such as clay, silicas, and silicates including the steps of establishing a minimum level of wetting agent content in the material to be agglomerated, tumbling the material to be agglomerated over itself within a rotatably mounted drum, adding additional wetting agent to the material within the drum, and removing the agglomerated powder, which is now formed into pellets of an advantageous pellet size distribution, from the drum. The wetting agent may be added by strategically positioned nozzles within the drum. The establishing of a minimum level of wetting agent content in the powder, preferably in the range of 11/2 to 5%, is achieved either by incomplete drying of the material during wet processing or by the application of a wetting agent prior to introduction into the drum.

Abstract: A process for preparing reinforced plastic plates comprising molding a thermosetting resin in a mold to form a plate-like body, forming spaced-apart slits extending in the longitudinal direction of the plate-like body with a spacing distance of 1 m at the most just after setting of the resin, suspending the plate-like body from one longitudinal end thereof, fixing a weight to the lower portion of the plate-like body, confining the plate-like body in the horizontal direction by at least one pair of fixing boards, heat-curing the plate-1ike body in the said state, and embedding an elastic resin in said slit portions of the plate-like body.