Abstract: In a method and apparatus for casting or molding cages for rolling elements, two slides are provided for each pocket. The slides have an engaging, inclined surface, and are shaped to permit one of the slides to be removed by initially sliding it along the inclined surface. The other slide may thereby be moved laterally in the formed pocket, and withdrawn from the pocket. Facing slides of adjacent pockets may be joined together, with limited movement possible therein, to form a complete ring serving as a mold member.

Abstract: Aqueous latex base binder of a synthetic polymer for manufacturing nonwoven fabrics, and specifically webs for sanitary use having improved breaking strength. The content in the latex of hydrosoluble compounds dissolved in the aqueous phase is less than 0.5% by weight in relation to the polymer.

Abstract: An improved process for preparing friction clutch facings comprising continuous fiber strand or filament wherein the continuous strand is extrusion-coated with an uncured or partially-cured friction resin composition, wound into a preform, then thermally cured under pressure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus (10) is disclosed which provides automatic control of the temperature of a fluid cooled plastic mold (12) during successive injections of liquid plastic into the mold. The temperature of the mold (12) is sensed by a probe (18) which provides a signal indicative of the temperature of the mold. The signal from the probe (12) is compared by the apparatus with a selected control temperature signal indicative of the proper operating temperature of the mold. When the sensed temperature is above the control temperature, a solenoid operated control valve (50) is activated so that cooling fluid, such as ordinary tap water, is passed through cooling channels (13) in the mold. Flow of cooling fluid is shut off when the sensed temperature drops below the selected operating temperature.

Abstract: While a portion of a blank made of molecularly orientable plastic resin, which is to be formed into the flange portion of a cup-shaped container, and another portion of the blank, which is to be formed into the bottom wall portion of the container are individually compressed at the molecularly orientable temperature, the portion to be formed into the bottom wall portion is introduced into a die cavity, to form the side wall portion of the container with the material extended by the compressing operation, thereby to form a cup-shaped container with a flange portion.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a composite fiber component having a high rface quality wherein a glass mold having a smooth surface is coated with a separating layer which can be loosened from the surface, and then this layer is coated with a hardenable composite fiber material. This material is hardened and then separated from the mold and the separating layer. Products obtained by the process are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for pressure forming plastic pipe bells utilizing external air pressure is disclosed. The apparatus includes a horizontally oriented, shaped mandrel, which may or may not have expanding segments for forming an internal groove in the pipe bell, mounted within a pressure chamber. A natural rubber circular gasket is positioned at the front end of the pressure chamber and the end of the pipe is pushed through the rubber gasket and over the mandrel. A pair of cooperating upper and lower front plates are oppositely vertically reciprocal relative to the bell end of the pipe and act to retain the gasket when pressure is built up within the pressure chamber. Suitable air and water spray inlet and outlet connections are provided.

Abstract: A lower punch assembly for use in a rotary table, powdered metal compacting press includes a punch shank defining a cam follower, a core rod disposed within the shank, and a mounting assembly for mounting the shank to the press and permitting the shank to rotate with respect to a vertical axis of the shank. In one embodiment, the mounting assembly includes a bearing member from which a plurality of hanger rods extend. The shank is slidably mounted on the hanger rods. The core rod is engaged by a spring and is connected to the shank so that it will withdraw or extend during an ejection stroke to reduce ejection loading.

Abstract: A device for exercising a living hinge of an article and/or closing a lid of a cap while the article or cap is in a mold for forming the article or cap. The device includes a finger which slides between the mold sections, and, in the process, engages a portion of the article or the lid, rotates the portion or lid about the hinge, and in the case of the cap, snaps the lid shut. In an alternate preferred embodiment, when the finger reaches predetermined point it pivots toward the female mold section to snap the lid tightly shut.

Abstract: Cigarette filters having grooves therein are prepared by subjecting cigarette filters to a groove-making device which includes heated groove-making elements therein, the grooves being formed by the use of heat and pressure as the cigarette filters come in contact with the groove-making elements.

Abstract: Resistor elements made by co-molding of film-resistors comprising conductive powder and polyimide resin and a diallyl isophthalate substrate containing more than 500 ppm inhibitors have good thermal stability and smooth surfaces, and are especially suitable for long life potentiometers for high temperature uses.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of finely divided polyolefin molding materials from 100 parts by weight of a polyolefin and from 0.01 to 30 parts by weight of an electrically conductive additive, with or without other additives, wherein the mixture of the finely divided polyolefin particles and the electrically conductive additives is brought to the crystallite melting point of the polyolefin by the heating effect of the mixing action, and is then brought to a temperature which is from 3.degree. to 40.degree. C. above the said crystallite melting point while being subjected to a defined mixing intensity, after which the mixture is either cooled within 120 seconds or is directly compression-molded.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing modulated disc records (i.e. video or audio records) including bonding a plastics material foil to the unmodulated face of a stamper plate before the stamper plate is secured between the rams of the record press. This method obviates the necessity for backsanding the stamper plate, as hitherto adopted procedure which was time consuming, unreliable and often hazardous.

Abstract: A process for producing injection moulded parts having markedly improved mechanical strength properties is described wherein a blend of high molecular polyethylene having high density with a matrix material which consists of a polymeric material with which the high molecular polyethylene has a limited compatibility is injection moulded at high injection moulding pressures exceeding 250 MPa, whereby a fibre reinforced injection moulded article having improved mechanical properties is produced.

Abstract: An injection molding machine, comprises, an injection piston which is hydraulically actuated during programmed injection and dwell pressure phases. During a speed-controlled injection phase I, the pressure in a tool or mold cavity is measured and monitored. As soon as the pressure reaches an initial desired value, a pressure surge-free switching to the dwell pressure phase II is effected. During the dwell pressure phase, the pressure in the tool cavity is controlled and a pressure in a hydraulic cylinder for moving the injection piston is measured and monitored. A switch signal is produced from the tool pressure and the hydraulic pressure, by means of which a switching to a solidification phase III is effected without causing pressure surges. The actual pressure value at the instant of switching serves as the initial desired value for the solidification phase III. The hydraulic pressure is controlled during this phase.

Abstract: Fabrication of unoriented phase I crystalline PVF.sub.2 is described wherein commercially available PVF.sub.2 phase II (crystalline form) is placed in a high pressure cell and its temperature is raised slightly over its melting point. The sample is then subjected to abrupt changes in high pressure and the temperature is dropped thereafter. The pressure is then reduced resulting in a product which contains both phase I and phase II forms of PVF.sub.2. The phase I content of the product varies from a few percent and up depending upon the pressure applied during the quenching step.

Abstract: At an injection-molding machine, an assembly for clamping a mold half to a platen comprises a bore therein and a projection on a substantially planar face of the mold half. The projection includes an annular flange insertable into the platen bore and an annular groove defined in part by an inclined or beveled surface of the flange. A pair of sliding plates are reciprocatably mounted in the platen for shifting from withdrawn positions inwardly to locking positions, the plates having beveled inner edges for coacting with the inclined flange surface to clamp the mold half to the platen. The bore is advantageously formed with a conical extension for accepting the head or nozzle of an injection device or extruder. Another mold half may be clamped in an analogous manner to another platen provided with a bore and reciprocatably mounted locking plates, the two platens being shiftable relatively towards each other.

Abstract: A temperature sensitive element comprises fine grain powders which consist of a spin reorientation type ferromagnetic material having a transition temperature range, below which transition temperature range the easy direction of magnetization of the spin reorientation type ferromagnetic material is predetermined in one crystallographic direction thereof and above which transition temperature range the easy direction of magnetization is a predetermined other direction perpendicular to the predetermined one crystallographic direction. The temperature sensitive element is produced by compacting the fine grain powders of a spin reorientation type ferromagnetic material at a temperature higher than the transition temperature range. A polycrystalline rare earth cobalt alloy material made in accordance with the invention can now be used in the field where low Curie point ferrite or where bimetals have been used previously for a thermal valve or a temperature controlling device.

Abstract: Molding apparatus including an upper and lower mold half and having a plurality of mold cavities is improved by eliminating runners and gates. An open bore adjacent each mold cavity serves as a separate pot for each cavity. A plunger moveable in each bore is used to inject plastics material directly from the bore into the mold cavity into which the bore opens. A molding method is similarly improved by injecting the plastics material directly from the separate bores into the individual mold cavities into which the bores open.

Abstract: A process for setting in a desired shape a product at least a portion of which comprises electrostatically spun fibres is disclosed. The process comprises maintaining the product in the desired shape at a temperature below the melding temperature of the electrostatically spun fibres. The desired shape may be the as-spun shape of the product or a shape obtained by deformation of the product, i.e. the product is reshaped. The fibres preferably comprise a polyurethane and reshaping is preferably effected on a former. The reshaped product may be employed as a vascular prosthesis.