Abstract: This disclosure relates to a rib-rolling mechanism for processing tobacco ribs and includes a pair of relatively rotatable rollers having peripheral surfaces defining therebetween a throat through which it is adapted to pass tobacco, the rollers having shafts, the shafts of the first of the rollers being journaled for rotation in fixed bearings and the shafts of the second of the rollers being journaled for rotation in movable bearings, a device for resiliently urging the second roller toward the first roller, the latter device including a rod connected to each of the movable bearings, a sleeve in external telescopic relationship to each of the rods, springs coupled between each of the sleeves and the second roller for urging the latter toward the first roller, and elements for axially shifting the rods to vary the force exerted by the springs in a direction to urge the second roller toward the first roller.

Abstract: An improved method of coating glass bottles by flame spraying with pulverulent copolyamides which uses a copolyamide containing at least 30% by weight of laurolactam. The copolyamides, obtained by the hydrolytic polycondensation process are first subjected to a molecule-orienting treatment, then ground into powders at low temperatures, and these powders are sifted to a particle size distribution so that the proportion of powder having a particle size of between 30 and 100 microns is greater than 70 to 100%, and the proportion of powder having a particle size of less than 30 microns is 0 to 30%.

Abstract: Improved apparatus for treating a web of fibrous material, usually paper, to render it particularly suitable for making filter plugs for cigarettes, including at least one first pair of meshing rotating rolls provided with longitudinal grooves alternating with longitudinal ribs, which engage the paper and stretch it longitudinally in closely spaced successive narrow transverse areas to loosen and expose fibers without impairing the longitudinal continuity of the paper, and at least one second pair of meshing rotating rolls provided with circumferential grooves alternating with circumferential ribs, which engage the paper and groove it in a direction parallel to its travel while also stretching it transversely to further loosen and expose fibers without impairing the transverse continuity of the web. Preferably the apparatus also includes means for moistening the paper in advance of its passage through the rolls and for drying it after its passage therethrough.

Abstract: Polyamide base powder coating material from a polyamide having an average of about 8 - 11 aliphatic carbon atoms per carbonamide group and containing about 0.2 to 5 percent by weight of carbonamide groups having n-alkoxymethyl groups based on the total number of carbonamide groups and about 0.01 - 2 percent by weight of acid catalysts.

Abstract: Longitudinal shear for rolled sheet metal, particularly heavy plate, which operates perpendicular to the plane of the sheet, whereby the sheet can be gradually divided into two parallel strips by the action of successive partial cuts of a certain length; the sheet is made to move forwardly intermittently by means of drivers located before and after the shears and at least during each cutting stroke kept from shifting by the action of at least one pair of holding rollers located across the cut line.

Abstract: An elongated web of paper is treated to render it especially suitable for being gathered transversely and wrapped to make cigarette filters. The treatment includes passing the web through the bight between a pair of rotating rolls provided with intermeshing ribs that do not contact one another and which are arranged generally in planes parallel to their axis of rotation so that the paper is stretched longitudinally in successive transverse areas whereby the paper fibers are loosened and exposed in such areas without complete destruction of the longitudinal continuity of the web.