Abstract: Shaped, foam plastic parts are made in a lightweight shaped, open trough-like mold having a coherent sheet metal interior comovable insert and related comovable floating lid, wherein said insert is positioned and adapted to slidably elevate within the interior surface of said trough coincident with the expansion of an internally housed and expandable foamable reaction mixture. As the reaction mixture expands, the foam freely expands upwardly during a first stage of the method to at least a height of approximately 50% of that desired for the plastic part. At that point the expanding foam engages an inwardly projecting flange portion of the comovable insert upon which is seated a comovable floating lid.

Abstract: Method for the production of cement-bonded molded articles, particularly lightweight boards of wood fiber, wood chips or other lignocelluloses, of mineral fibers, glass fibers, plastic chips and fibers or various lightweight materials, like expanded silicates, expanded clay or expanded glass or granules of foamed plastics as a base material and portland cement as a binder, characterized in that the molded articles are produced in a heated molding duct formed of endless moving belts, for example, steel belts, using a portland cement as a binder in the molding compound which contains 1 to 30% by weight, perferably 15 to 25% by weight, of a calcium-halogen aluminate of the composition 11CaO.7Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.CaX.sub. 2 wherein X is any halogen. The cement with added calcium-halogen aluminate has such a short setting time, which is further accelerated by heating during molding, that boards may be successfully made on a continuous basis using a belt-molding machine.