Abstract: A molding machine for the production of polygonal structural elements, e.g. concrete squares, comprises an assembly of vertical plates disposed between a pair of end members of a support and defining generally flat mold cavities of the shape desired with respective bottom members and lateral gates. The lateral gates are hinged to the rectangular bottom members at the ends thereof and are interconnected by respective bars so that all of the lateral gates along each side of molded cavities can be swung outward into release position and indeed into mold-closing positions by laterally shiftable carriers on the end members of the support.

Abstract: Multi-cavity molds, comparatively small in size and stick-like in shape, are passed through mold inspection station, mold locking station, preheating station, a first orientation station, a molding station, a second orientation station, a curing station, an unlocking station, a molded product ejection station, an insert loading station, and to the inspection station again. The molding station provides means for temperature control of a runner and shothead, facilitating use of thermoset materials, with provision for easy cleaning thereof. Insert loading apparatus is employed where the molded product is to include an insert or inserts.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for changing and setting a peeled, warm or hot hard-boiled egg into a desired shape, for example a cubic shape. This apparatus comprises a tubular chamber having a required inner cross sectional shape and having a threaded neck portion, a bottom plate for closing one end of the chamber, a pressing member for progressively pressing the boiled egg contained in the chamber, and a threaded cap for progressively threadably pressing the pressing member. By putting an unshelled hot egg soon after being boiled, then inserting the pressing member through an open inlet of the neck of the chamber and progressively pressing this egg thereby, and keeping this pressed state of the egg for some time while leaving it to be cooled, it is possible to obtain a boiled egg which has been changed into a shape defined by the chamber and the pressing member.

Abstract: A dough frame comprising in combination a discoid bottom plate; a first member removable thin sheet of plastic material sufficient in size to be mounted smoothly over and folded under said discoid plate; an annular rim element, having a rim height greater than the thickness of said discoid plate, the latter covered by said first member plastic sheet, and said rim element having a diameter adjusting means and supporting means cooperates with the said discoid plate covered with said first member plastic sheet to form a cavity or mold for accepting a pie dough mixture; a second member thin sheet of plastic material sufficient in size to enclose said dough within said cavity and to provide an interface between the said dough and a rolling pin and between the upper edges of the said rim element surrounding the said dough and a rolling pin.

Abstract: A container for storing liquids is injection molded of thermoplastic material in apparatus which includes a plurality of central die members intermittently movable in succession along a given direction and a pair of side die members flanking said central die members and movable into and out of operative engagement therewith. The container is injection molded within a die cavity formed between the central die members and the side die members with two sheets of a base material being fed from opposite sides of said central die members into said die cavity to form a base member for said container. The container base member formed from said sheets of base material is engaged about the central die members and when the side die members are brought into operative engagement with the central die members thermoplastic material is injected into the die cavity formed therebetween and the container is produced by injection molding the thermoplastic material integrally with the base member within the die cavity.

Abstract: A mold and method for injection molding a plastic strip having living hinges. The mold includes a plurality of inlets through which liquid plastic is forced so as to partially fill the cavity within the mold. A push bar is movable into the cavity for simultaneously forming a living hinge in the molded product and for occupying a volume within the mold equal to the volume of the mold not filled initially by the liquid plastic. The product produced by the mold is in the form of a flat strip having a plurality of living hinges. The panels may be folded into a variety of final configurations with decorative leaves attached to the outwardly-facing exterior surface of the panels. Light may be shown through the panels in those areas not covered by the decorative leaves. One embodiment of the final configured panels is in the form of a light fixture having the configuration of a lamp shade or a box enclosing the lamp.

Abstract: An automatic noodle making machine combining the operations of mixing the flour, pressing the flour into strips and cutting the strips. Multiple flour blenders are arranged in timed mechanical sequence to release the dough mixtures into the primary pressing roll set which forms a primary thick flour slice. The slice is cutting into multiple strips which are divided and fed to the next set of pressing rolls. The multiple pressing and cutting steps are followed by a combining pressing in which several courses of strips are recombined into one whereupon the final cutting is performed and the noodles are conveyed away.

Abstract: The invention provides improvements over such a conventional shoe-injection molding machine for molding a sole and attaching same to a prefabricated instep. It includes a stationary base plate, a machine frame made rigid therewith, a slide vertically movable on and along the machine frame, at least a head rotatable on the slide, a plurality of last supporting units adjustably mounted on the head and at least a sole mold assembly mounted on the base plate. According to the invention, the head is fitted with a liquid cooling system for cooling the latter from inside thereof. Further, an insulating sheet is provided between each of the last supporting units and the head for interrupting heat transmission from the unit to the head.

Abstract: A confectionery moulding machine comprising an endless mould conveyor which traverses moulds in continuous procession in an upper run in which the cavities in the moulds face upwardly and in a lower run in which the mould cavities face downwardly, a depositor for depositing liquid confectionery into the moulds in succession as they travel along the upper run, a conveyor band which travels continuously beneath the lower run of the mould conveyor, and a demoulding unit for discharging the fillings of the cavities of each mould in succession onto the conveyor band, the moulds having projections which contact the upper surface of the band on the lower run of the mould conveyor and project from the downwardly facing surfaces of the moulds on the lower run by an amount less than the depth of the mould cavities and constrain the band to run at the same speed as the mould conveyor.

Abstract: An endless belt conveyor extends from below a rolling part formed of each roller clearance of a series of linearly arranged rolling roller devices. The conveyor is either fixed or elevatably adjustable. Each roller device is driven by one common motor to the rolling part of the next rolling roller device so that a wheat flour band advancing while being rolled, in series, by each rolling roller device may be automatically introduced into the next rolling roller device. The band may be supported in case it becomes loose while being rolled and may be automatically introduced into the rolling part of the next rolling roller device even if it breaks.

Abstract: In a pressure moulding machine, particularly a die casting machine, detection of locking together of the die parts by the applied pressure is effected by detecting the resulting mechanical stretch in the machine frame; the die parts are opened and closed together by an air motor associated with a hydraulic motor that damps the opening and closing movement of the dies, the die parts being locked together by the hydraulic motor; full closing of the die parts is determined by applying pressurized air to bores therein and to a controlling pressure switch, the pressure switch not being operable if air is leaking from the bores.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing an ignition key or lock cylinder containing a shaft. A collet assembly which can grasp an ignition key cylinder or lock cylinder is also mounted on the shaft. An annulus is mounted on the collet assembly for maintaining a secure engagement on the ignition key cylinder and a casing is mounted over the collet assembly shaft and annulus.

Abstract: A chuck with key tightening, for a machine such as an electric drilling machine, comprising gripping means for gripping a tool such as jaws, which are guided in a translatory movement in grooves which are inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the chuck and which are machined in the chuck body, the chuck being characterized in that it comprises a toothed ring to which a tightening nut is connected, the nut cooperating with the threads of the gripping means, the toothed ring being provided in the region of its teeth with at least one retaining region whose internal diameter is smaller than the external diameter of the tightening nut, at least one component or at least one group of components having the same function, movable with respect to the chuck body, that is to say, the jaws and/or the nut and/or the toothed ring, being of sintered metal.

Abstract: A support is provided including a lower stationary horizontal plate and a generally horizontal support arm is spaced above and extends over the lower plate. The portion of the support arm disposed in vertical registry with the lower plate has an upper plate supported therefrom closely overlying the lower plate and a first end portion of the support arm is pivotally supported from the support for oscillation about a horizontal axis extending transversely of the support arm. Structures for heating the upper and lower plates are operatively associated therewith and a motor having a rotatable output shaft is mounted on the support and a pitman arm is removably operably connected between the rotatable output shaft and an extension of the pivoted end portion of the support arm for oscillation of the arm and swinging movement of the upper plate about the axis of oscillation of the support arm toward and away from the lower plate in response to rotation of the shaft.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a combined same cycle and subsequent cycle control of an injection molding machine. Mold cavity pressure readings are accumulated and averaged during an initial cycle portion to generate a sensed average value which is compared to a setpoint reference to test for an error. The error signal so generated is used to immediately vary the hydraulic pressure driving the injection ram during the same cycle of machine operation to cause the sensed pressure profile to be corrected to a reference pressure profile. A further correction to the hydraulic pressure is enabled as cavity pressure readings are continued to a later event, averaged, and the resulting sensed value compared to a setpoint reference to enable a further correction to be implemented during the same cycle although its effect on the process is principally effective in the next subsequent cycle.

Abstract: A mechanism for controllably driving a plunger in a dough forming apparatus of the type that has a chamber in which the plunger resides to move dough in incremental steps toward one end of the chamber. Spanning the one end of the chamber is a plurality of parallely spaced apart elongate members, the spacing between the elongate members corresponding to the thickness of a french fry shaped piece, e.g. 1/4 inch. The plunger is advanced by increments of a similar distance, the distance corresponding to the width of the french fry piece and when a plurality of dough bodies protrude through the spaces between the elongate members a single wire cutter is reciprocated across the exterior of the elongate members to sever the protruding bodies thus to form french fry shaped pieces.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for the production of injection molded products from synthetic resinous materials, such as nylon, which tend to be degraded when exposed to oxygen while they are heated to the temperatures required for injection molding. The apparatus includes a barrel having a discharge opening, a screw receiving bore and a vent opening between the feed opening and the discharge opening. A two stage rotatable reciprocable screw is mounted in the bore and includes a vented portion in registry with the vent opening. Water vapor and volatiles are generated during plasticization in the first stage of the screw, and evolve as the material enters the vent section of the second stage. The vapors are exhausted through the vent opening. The vent opening is provided with a check valve which readily permits the exhaust products to pass from the screw receiving bore. However, the check valve effectively prohibits the entrance of atmospheric air through the vent opening to the vent section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mold opening and locking mechanism in an injection molding machine or the like.

Abstract: The proposed device for producing polymer articles from monomers is characterized in that the means for preparing the polymer melt is made in the form of at least one chamber of elastic material, the height of which is several times less than its width and length. Said chamber is placed inside a heated housing filled with a medium intended to exert the required pressure on the chamber walls.

Abstract: A machine for molding confectionery masses into chocolate centers which includes a feed hopper which feeds a molding cylinder having molding recesses, a single intake cylinder between the feed hopper and the molding cylinder for pressing the mass into the recesses, and a suction belt embracing part of the circumference of the molding cylinder for the removal of the finished moldings.