Abstract: A pasta extruder for forming strand-like pasta. The extruder housing has a feed hopper and gears for feeding the pasta mixture to be extruded into the apparatus. An extrusion die plate having a plurality of extrusion orifices is mounted in the housing adjacent to a pressure chamber and axially of said gears.

Abstract: A word processor system comprising a typewriter, a data storage unit, a tab stop register for storing signals representative of tab stops set on the typewriter and means for controlling the tab stop register to keep it aligned with the typewriter carrier during the course of typing including backspacing, carrier return and tabbing actions. Additional means responsive to tab command and tab stop signals is provided for recording a tab action in the data storage unit as a succession of encoded space signals equal to the number of typing positions to the next tab stop from the carrier position at the instant of the tab command.