Abstract: In a method and apparatus for making an article with a microstructure or nanostructure, an injection molding process or an injection-compression molding process is used to produce a substrate and to apply a microstructure or nanostructure upon a surface of the substrate. Subsequently, the substrate is inundated with a cross-linking, curing material.

Abstract: A heatable tool for a device processing plastic melt or metal melt includes a tool body having a tool surface intended for contacting a melt, with the tool body including a tool carrier having a receptacle. An electrically conducting ceramic is constructed as insert for placement in the receptacle for heating at least an area of the tool surface and includes cooling channels for passage of a coolant. The electrically conducting ceramic is arranged on at least one electrically conducting surface for feeding electric energy to the electrically conducting ceramic, wherein electric feed lines to the electrically conducting surface and the cooling channels are constructed for detachable connection such that the electrically conducting ceramic is replaceable with another electrically conducting ceramic for providing a cavity of different configuration.

Abstract: To produce multicomponent molded plastic articles by injection molding, at least one component is manufactured using an injection molding compounder. A swivel platen machine with two working zones is used to produce multicomponent parts having cores or layers of fiber material or non-woven material. Fiber material may be shaped into a preform in a mold cavity in one working zone, and a preform that has been produced in a previous cycle is simultaneously encapsulated in or injected with plastic in the other working zone. The swivel platen is then rotated about its axis, transporting the preform from the one working zone into the other working zone, while the finished plastic article is removed.

Abstract: A plastics injection molding machine includes a heatable plasticizing cylinder having an inlet side for incoming plastic material and a machine drive, and an injection mold receiving the plastic material from the plasticizing cylinder for making an injection molded article. Acting between the machine drive and the inlet side of the plasticizing cylinder is a heat transport system for preheating the incoming plastic material with waste heat generated by the machine drive to thereby realize a recovery of energy.

Abstract: An injection molding device includes a continuously operating extruder and a discontinuously operating injection unit receiving plastic material from the extruder. The extruder has an extruder barrel which includes a plasticizing zone and a discharge zone, whereby the discharge zone is configured to provide an intermediate storage space and has a cross sectional area which is greater than a cross sectional area of the plasticizing zone. In this way, the discharge zone provides a buffer volume which is filled during the injection process and then emptied again.

Abstract: In a method of making formed bodies with active ingredients, in particular for the pharmaceutical and chemical fields, active ingredients and optional additives are mixed and advanced in a screw and cylinder unit. The resultant material is then injected into a closed mold cavity of a molding tool and injection-molded in the molding tool to finished formed bodies.

Abstract: In a method of making impact-resistant modified thermoplastic materials, thermoplastic material is introduced in a continuously operating twin-screw extruder having two screws rotating in a same direction and plasticized. Admixed to the thermoplastic material in the extruder at a location well downstream of the feed area of the thermoplastic material is an additive, e.g. impact-resistant modification agent, reinforcing agent, or alloying agent, to produce an extrudate which is conveyed for injection into an injection mold alternately via two injection cylinders or via a storage cylinder and one injection cylinder.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing semi-finished products and molded articles of metallic materials includes an extruder for producing a flow of the metals, with appliances being connected thereafter for shaping the semi-finished products and the molded articles. The extruder has a screw system consisting of two or more meshing screws. This design has an improved functionality and can produce components with reproducible quality.

Abstract: A plastics injection molding machine includes a heatable plasticizing cylinder, having an inlet side for incoming plastic material and a machine drive, and an injection mold receiving the plastic material from the plasticizing cylinder for making an injection molded article. Acting between the machine drive and the inlet side of the plasticizing cylinder is a heat transport system for preheating the incoming plastic material with waste heat generated by the machine drive to thereby realize a recovery of energy.

Abstract: The apparatus is described for manufacturing semi-finished products and molded articles of metallic materials. The device incorporates an extruder for producing a flow of the metals, with appliances being connected thereafter for shaping the semi-finished products and the molded articles. The extruder has a screw system consisting of two or more meshing screws. This design has an improved functionality and can produce components with reproducible quality.

Abstract: A laminate is made by first forming a substantially closed mold cavity between a pair of mold halves, then injecting a plastified synthetic resin into the cavity under pressure to substantially fill the cavity and at least partially curing the resin in the cavity to form a base body. The mold halves are then separated to leave the partially cured body in one of the mold halves with a face of the body exposed and a deformable sheet is laid over the face of the body in the one mold half. A die having a face conforming at least generally to the shape of the body face is then laid down against the sheet onto the body to press the sheet into intimate contact with the body face and bond the sheet and body together.

Abstract: A resin article is made between an outer concave mold part and an inner convex mold part that can fit together so that respective surfaces form a substantially closed mold cavity. This is done by first lining the surface of the outer mold part with a liner sheet and then fitting the lined outer mold part to the inner mold part to form the substantially closed mold cavity. A portion of the surface of the inner mold part is positioned to form a pocket open inward into the cavity and this pocket is filled with a mass of fluent synthetic resin. The surface portion is then pressed inward while the parts are fitted together and without otherwise relatively moving the mold parts to force the resin mass from the pocket into the cavity until the inner-part surface portion lies substantially flush with the rest of the inner-part surface.

Abstract: A synthetic-resin article is molded by plastifying a virgin granulate into a fluent stream and plastifying a recycle granulate into another fluent stream. The recycle stream is then filtered while still plastified to removing particulate impurities from it. Then the filtered recycle stream while still plastified is combined with the virgin stream to form a combined stream and the combined stream is fed into a mold. The stream is mechanically filtered.

Abstract: A check valve at the end of a plastifying worm for an extrusion or injection molding machine comprises a valve ring whose inner diameter is greater than that of a tip at the end of the head of the worm and which surrounds the neck connecting this tip with the valve seat of the worm. Spacers, preferably balls, are disposed between the ring and the tip and the surfaces of the ring and the tip flanking the balls are oriented to allow radial removal of the balls when the valve projects from the cylinder.

Abstract: A backflow preventer on the end of a plastifying screw for an injection molding apparatus has a housing provided with radial bores which are axially and angularly offset. A pin accessible from the exterior of the housing passes through a radial hole but traversing in a valve member with clearance to permit the stroke of the valve member to be adjusted by selective insertion of the pin in the bores.

Abstract: A backflow preventer at the end of an injection molding worm has a pressure ring which abuts directly upon the worm and serves a shank of the valvehead which also bottoms in a bore upon the worm so that force transmission to the worm is over its entire cross section. The shank is surrounded by a blocking ring which can shift in its axial stroke between a position in which it abuts the head and a position in which it abuts the pressure ring, the axial stroke being adjustable by shims forming the floor against which the shank abuts within the bore of the worm.