Abstract: A method for producing fiber-reinforced plate material on the basis of a fiber web that contains at least one planar fiber structure and is impregnated with a thermoplastic plastic matrix. The one or more fiber structures are impregnated or coated with a reactive starting material, containing cyclic or macrocylic oligomers of the polyester, and in that the fiber web which contains one or more combined, impregnated or coated fiber structures is coated on one or both sides with a surface layer that contains a polymerized polyester. The fiber web that is coated with said surface layer is pressed in a pressing device to give a plate material, thereby polymerizing the reactive starting material into a plastic matrix that surrounds the fiber structure and that is permanently joined to the surface layer.

Abstract: A method for the continuous production of a thermoplastic plate material which is reinforced with a flat-shaped fibrous structure. The method is characterized in that a first web-shaped fibrous structure is guided to a fibre laying device, and one or several additional web-shaped fibrous structures are arranged inline over the first fibrous structure by means of fibre guiding units. One or several matrix guiding units, which are mounted upstream of or downstream from the fibre guiding units, are used to guide a matrix starting material to free layers of the fibrous structure, in particular, a reactive starting material such as cyclic oligomers of PBT, and the multi-layered fibrous web, which is covered one or several times with intermediate layers of matrix starting material, exiting from the fibre laying device, is guided to a through press wherein the matrix starting material is transformed into a low-viscous liquid under the effects of heat and/or pressure.

Abstract: A device for folding a shirt includes a stiffening panel about which the shirt is adapted to be folded. The stiffening panel has a slit for insertably receiving a sleeve of the shirt such that the slit is operable to clampingly fasten the shirt to the stiffening panel and thereby obviate the need for pins.