Abstract: A system for forming a pressware product comprises rollers, a scoring tool, a scoring station actuator, a forming tool, and a forming station actuator. The rollers pull the web along a path having an angle. The scoring tool receives the material from the rollers and includes a vertically shiftable scoring punch with an edge that extends about an outline of the pressware product and a striker plate. The scoring station actuator shifts the scoring tool to form a slot in the web. The forming tool receives the scored web and includes a vertically shiftable positive mold assembly and negative mold assembly. The forming station actuator shifts the positive mold assembly to press against the web and form the pressware product.

Abstract: A method and system for a ticket lock implementation using a dynamically reconfigurable distributed polling area is described. The method includes polling a memory location for a value to indicate whether one of a plurality of threads may have exclusive access to a section of code, periodically checking a mapping of values to polling locations to determine whether the mapping is to be changed, and locking the memory location when the value indicates that the thread may have exclusive access to the section of code.