Abstract: Machine for the manufacture of a fiber material web that includes a shoe pressing unit, a cylinder including one of a drying and tissue cylinder, in which shoe pressing unit and the cylinder are arranged to form at least one press nip, and a water absorbent carrier band. A water-impermeable pressing band is provided, in which the water absorbent carrier band and the water-impermeable pressing band are guided through the at least one press nip, and the fiber material web is adapted to pass through the at least one press nip with the water absorbent carrier band and the water-impermeable pressing band. The at least one press nip has a length in a web travel direction of less than or equal to approximately 60 mm. A pressure profile which results over the press nip length has a maximum pressing pressure which is greater than or equal to approximately 3.3 Mpa.

Abstract: A pressure sensor of a pressure-sensor module is connected to a wet space in a vehicle door by a through-passage channel of a sealing cushion and a connecting branch, which is guided with sealing action through a partition. A housing of the sensor module is located in a dry space. An interior of the housing and the dry space are sealed in relation to the interior of the connecting branch, with the result that a water-tightness of the housing, in which a printed circuit board and electronic components are accommodated, does not have to meet high requirements.

Abstract: Machine and process for producing a fibrous material web. The machine includes at least one shoe press having at least one drying cylinder and a shoe press unit which are arranged to form a pressing nip elongated in a web travel direction. At least one suctioned apparatus is arranged before the at least one shoe press relative to the web travel direction, and a water-permeable continuous carrying belt is arranged to guide the fibrous material web over the at least one suctioned apparatus and through the elongated pressing nip. A hood subjected to an overpressure is assigned to the suctioned apparatus and is arranged to support an underpressure effect of the at least one suctioned apparatus. The process includes guiding the fibrous material web and the carrying belt through the elongated pressing nip, and supporting an underpressure effect of the suctioned apparatus by creating an overpressure in the hood.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a machine and process for producing a tissue web. The machine includes a forming area including at least one rotating continuous dewatering wire with zonally varied wire permeability, and at least one shoe press. The process includes dewatering the tissue web with at least the at least one continuous dewatering wire with zonally varied wire permeability, and pressing the tissue web in the at least one shoe press.

Abstract: Thermoplastic starch compositions formed by converting native starch or starch derivatives into thermoplastic starch by at least one hydrophobic biodegradable polymer that functions as a plasticizer for starch. The hydrophobic biodegradable polymer may be a polymer selected from the following list: an aliphatic polyester, a copolyester with aliphatic and aromatic blocks, a polyester amide, a polyester urethane, a polyethylene oxide polymer and/or a polyglycol, and/or mixtures of these. When the starch, such as in particular native starch or derivatives thereof, is mixed in the melt with the hydrophobic biodegradable polymer as a plasticizer or swelling agent, to homogenize the mixture, the water content is reduced to less than about 5% by weight based on the weight of the mixture.

Abstract: Pressing arrangement of a machine and process for producing a web. The pressing arrangement includes a shoe press unit and an opposing roll arranged to form at least one press nip. The shoe press unit includes at least one press shoe arranged opposite the opposing roll and a flexible, liquid-impermeable press belt arranged to be guided over the press shoe. The opposing roll includes a smooth surface. At least one press felt is arranged to be guided through the press nip along with the press belt and the web. The at least one felt is deflected away from the web, which is picked up by the smooth surface of the opposing roll, such that the at least one felt is guided out of the press nip at an angle greater than or equal to about 10° to a tangent to the opposing roll at an end of the press nip.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compostable adhesive, to a method of producing the same, and to the use of the adhesive for the adhesive bonding of materials.

Abstract: A former for producing a tissue web and a process of making a tissue web using the former. The former includes a forming element, an inner dewatering belt, and an outer dewatering belt. The inner and outer belts converge to form a stock inlet nip. The inner and outer belts are guided over the forming element and thereafter separating from one another in the area of a separation point. At least one suction element is positioned adjacent the inner belt on a side which is opposite the outer belt. Alternatively, a conditioning device is positioned adjacent the outer belt. The process includes forming the tissue web in the area of the forming element, guiding the inner and outer belts around the forming element, and separating the inner and outer belts in the area of the separation point. Alternatively, the process includes conditioning the outer belt.

Abstract: A machine for producing a tissue web is provided, including a former having a forming region which includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability. Furthermore, a process for producing the tissue web in a tissue machine is provided. The process includes forming the tissue web in a forming region of a former, wherein the forming region includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability.

Abstract: An injection molding machine is provided that includes a manifold for distributing plastic melt flow to one or more mold cavities. The manifold has a flow channel having an output orifice surrounded by a lower outside surface, and is expandable upon heating. The injection molding machine also includes a nozzle comprising a body mounted in a receiving aperture in a stationary housing aligned with a gate to a mold cavity, the body having a central bore for delivering plastic melt flow from the channel in the manifold to the mold cavity, the body having an upper surface for engaging with the lower surface of the manifold. The body has a lip member comprising an outer leg circumferentially spaced from an inner body section of the body, the outer leg having a surface mounted against a mounting surface of a stationary housing.

Abstract: A unit fuel injector of the type with an open injector comprises an injector body (1) with an axial space (4), which ends in an injector cap (3), an injection plunger (15) guided in the axial space and serving as a closing-off element, which injection plunger forms in the axial space a pressure space (23) from which the injection bores (60, 61) of an upper row (60) and a lower row (61) extend.

Abstract: For converting native starch or starch derivatives into thermoplastic starch, added to the starch is at least one hydrophobic biodegradable polymer. This hydrophobic biodegradable polymer, which serves as a plasticizer or swelling agent, may be a polymer selected from the following list: an aliphatic polyester, a copolyester with aliphatic and aromatic blocks, a polyester amide, a polyester urethane, a polyethylene oxide polymer and/or a polyglycol, and/or mixtures of these. When the starch, such as in particular native starch or derivatives thereof, is mixed in the melt with the hydrophobic biodegradable polymer as a plasticizer or swelling agent, to homogenize the mixture, the water content is reduced to <1% by weight based on the weight of the mixture.

Abstract: A biologically degradable polymer mixture containing at least one biopolymer made from renewable raw materials and a polymer selected from the following materials: an aromatic polyester; a polyester-copolymer with both aliphatic and aromatic blocks; a polyesteramide; a polyglycol; a polyester urethane; and/or mixtures of these components. The preferred renewable raw material is starch, more preferably native starch, most preferably native starch that has been predried.

Abstract: Machine and process for producing a fiber material web that includes at least one press device having a shoe press unit and a drying drum, such that the shoe press unit and the drying drum are positioned to form an elongated press nip. The machine also includes at least one belt that is water-permeable and water-absorbent and that is adapted to guide the fiber material web through the press nip, and at least one suction device located ahead of the elongated press nip, relative to a belt travel direction. The at least one belt is guided over the at least one suction device. The process includes guiding the at least one belt over the at least one suction device and suctioning the at least one belt, such that moisture is removed from the at least one belt, and guiding the fiber material web and the suctioned at least one belt through the extended press nip.

Abstract: In a method of hot-galvanizing ferrous materials, in order to improve results, there is provision, during the course of the galvanizing, for a step for the introduction of various suitable metals, preferably selected from aluminum, potassium, nickel, magnesium and manganese, which are introduced in the form of their salts.

Abstract: Articles of manufacture which comprise biodegradable fibers and fabrics made therefrom. The fibers are made from starch-based biodegradable thermoplastic polymers, which preferably include a an additional biodegradable thermoplastic polymer blended with thermoplastic starch for improved chemical and physical properties. Threads or fibers for the manufacture of these articles are drawn in a process that improves their mechanical properties, particularly their strength. These threads or fibers can be used in the manufacture of articles that have open, semi-densely packed or densely packed structures.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing thermoplastic starch based on renewable raw materials and, if required, for further processing it into a granulate. A low viscosity starch is modified under a low shearing stress during the extrusion process and leaves the extruder with an increased viscosity in the form of a strip, threads or in other geometrical shapes. The advantages of the invention mainly lie in the improved quality of the starch products, the preservation of the mechanical parts of the extruder installation and the increase of the nominal output of the extruder.

Abstract: An injector unit consists of a housing (1), of a controllable piston pump (5) and of an injection nozzle (4) adjoining the latter and having a nozzle chamber (25), the housing (1) possessing a fuel supply chamber (23) fed from outside and a return orifice (24) leading outward, the piston pump (5) possessing a pump piston bush (6) which is guided on a pin (20) fixed relative to the housing and which has control orifices (17), and the pin (20) containing a first longitudinal bore (39) leading from the interior (18) of the pump piston bush (6) to the injection nozzle (4). In order to improve sealing and through flow, the pump piston bush (6) is surrounded by a sealing sleeve (50), the pin (20) has a second longitudinal bore (57) and the sealing space (53) is flow-connected to the return orifice via a second transverse bore (58) and a third longitudinal bore (59) in the pin (20).

Abstract: A biologically degradable polymer mixture contains at least one starch biopolymer made from renewable raw materials, a plasticizer, and a polymer selected from the following materials: an aromatic polyester; a polyester-copolymer with both aliphatic and aromatic blocks; a polyesteramide; a polyglycol; a polyester urethane; and/or mixtures of these components.

Abstract: A pipe fitting (1) for connecting a metallic pipe line (10), including a pipe union (4), which contains a receiving opening (8) for the pipe line (10), a swivel nut (6), which can be threadedly connected with the pipe union (4), as well as metallic cutting ring (18), which is disposed between the pipe union (4) and the swivel nut (6). The cutting ring (18) with an outer cone (30) acts jointly with an inner cone (28) of the pipe union (4) in such a manner, that, when the swivel nut (6) is tightened, it cuts into the material of the pipe line (10) with at least one cutting edge (32) and generates a form-fitting junction. The cutting ring (18) includes--where it joins an outer cone (30)--an essentially radial contact surface (38) for the purpose of limiting the tightening force, when it comes into contact with a face surface (40) of the pipe union (4).