Abstract: Wood meal comprises wood meal granules formed by crushing raw material wood into treated wood meal and pulverizing the treated wood meal under the frictional forces of a plurality of balls such that the bulking density of the treated wood meal is increased; and a plurality of particles fixed on the surfaces of the wood meal granules by an external pressing force. The particles are smaller than the wood meal granules such that the wood meal granules are coated with the particles. The particles are also harder than the wood meal granules such that the particles are pressed into the wood meal granules surfaces from the application of the external pressing force.

Abstract: A method for recycling a photographic film is provided. The method comprises shredding the photographic film into a plurality of fragments to be processed; swelling the fragments to be processed formed in the shredding step by dipping each of these fragments to be processed into hot water; and drying the fragments to be processed swollen in the swelling step by applying an impact frictional striking force to each of these fragments to be processed, peeling layers other than a resin material base of the photographic film, i.e., a protective coat, an emulsion layer, and a base coat layer, from each fragment to be processed and classifying these layers, and grading the resin material base so as to be resin material to be recovered.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a pattern on a synthetic wood board to form, on a surface of the synthetic wood board, a pattern such as wooden grain and the like which is close to natural wood, to enhance the reality of woody like appearance. The synthetic wood board is formed by mixing 35-80 wt % of thermoplastic resin material and 20-65 wt %. By a first grinding process, the synthetic wood board is formed at its entire surface of at least one side thereof with a large number of wound stripes in one direction. By a colorant coating process, a colorant is coated on the surface on which said wound stripes are formed, the colorant impregnates in wood meal on the surface to generate blur. And some colorant remain in recess portion of the wound stripes to form recess pigment layer.

Abstract: The thermoplastic resin waste containers are crushed into coarsely crushed pieces, an impact-grinding force and a centrifugal force are applied on the coarsely crushed pieces so that oily foreign objects be separated; i.e., the oily foreign objects are separated by the impact force and the grinding force. The difference in the centrifugal force separates the resin from the foreign object, the centrifugal force on the resin pieces being controlled by the impact-grinding force, while the centrifugal force on the oily foreign object is free from it. In the course of this process, the crushed pieces to be treated are formed into granules by the impact-grinding force, and the granulated granules are reused as a resin material. Foreign objects other than oils can be separated and removed more easily than oils.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for individually collecting layers from a laminated film containing many layers made of different materials by peeling or separating the layers one from the other. The laminated film having a plurality of layers made of different materials is shredded into a plurality of fragments to be processed; and the fragments to be processed are peeled or separated according to the type of layer by applying an impact frictional striking force to each of the fragments to be processed. Subsequently, the peeled or separated layers obtained in the peeling and separating step are subjected to a wind force classifying step. The collected layers in the mixed state are separated from one another, and they are individually collected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a pattern on a synthetic wood board to form, on a surface of the synthetic wood board, a pattern such as wooden grain and the like which is close to natural wood, to enhance the reality of woody like appearance. The synthetic wood board is formed by mixing 35-80 wt % of thermoplastic resin material and 20-65 wt %. By a first grinding process, the synthetic wood board is formed at its entire surface of at least one side thereof with a large number of wound stripes in one direction. By a colorant coating process, a colorant is coated on the surface on which said wound stripes are formed, the colorant impregnates in wood meal on the surface to generate blur. And some colorant remain in recess portion of the wound stripes to form recess pigment layer.

Abstract: Provided are a reprocessed resin which decreases volume of a thermoset resin foamed material recovered from waste of various resin products and moldably form said thermoset resin foamed material into various molded articles to thereby effectively recover and reprocess the thermoset resin foamed material, a reprocessing method therefor and a method for molding a molded article formed of said reprocessed resin. A pulverized resin to be processed formed of a thermoset resin foamed material along with a thermoplastic resin molding material are applied with a stirring impact force to produce shearing heat generation based on the stirring impact force and are gelled and blended by the shearing heat generation. In this process, the thermoplastic resin molding material is adhered so as to cover the whole surface of the individual pulverized resin to be processed and cooled and granulated to have 15 mm or less of particle diameter to thereby decrease volume by 0.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to, from thermoplastic molded resin articles composed by a variety of laminating thermoplastic resin materials, separate, classify, select and recover the thermoplastic resin materials with classification in terms of type for reusing these materials.

Abstract: A resin material is recovered for recycling from industrial waste of plastic film, unlike conventional methods, without requiring washing and drying the steps for removing foreign objects adhering thereto such as agricultural chemicals. A method for recovering a resin material from industrial waste film according to the invention comprises the steps of crushing waste film into crushed small pieces to be treated, applying a scraping impact force to the crushed small pieces to remove any adherent foreign objects and separate them from each other. Then, the separated crushed small pieces are size-regulated and for regeneration.

Abstract: A synthetic wood meal in which a thermoplastic resin material of 25 to 80 wt % is mixed with a cellulose crushed material of 20 to 75 wt % that lies in the moisture content of within 15 wt % and the mean particle diameter of 20 mesh or less, the mixed material is kneaded so as to be set to gel, and the kneaded material is cooled and pulverized and regulated to a size that lies in a particle diameter of 10 mm or less. Then, the synthetic wood meal as the cellulose crushed material is mixed in at the rate of 20 to 75 wt % to the resin material, the mixed material is kneaded by heating and squeezed by a screw or screws of an extruding die 78 in an extruder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to wood meal prepared by crushing raw material wood to obtain treated wood meal, pulverizing the treated wood meal under frictional forces of pulverizer balls to obtain wood meal granules with increased bulking density, preparing particles that are finer and harder than said granules, and fixing said finer particles onto the surface of the granules by external pressing force. Said finer particles may also be fixed on said treated wood meal in the process of pulverization to increase the bulking density or on said granules that have been increased of the bulking density. The finer particles may include one or more kinds selected from pigments, electroconductive substances, inorganic substances, plastic materials, and metallic materials.

Abstract: The materials to be treated, for instance, molded resin articles with resin films coated thereon are treated by relatively simple means to separate and remove the resin film coatings from the surfaces thereof, and are further treated to recover them as a raw-form of resin material or a resin material regulated such that its particle diameter lies within a given particle diameter range, or the materials to be treated, for instance, powder materials are pulverized and granulated. A molded resin article is crushed to small pieces, to which compression impacts based on fine vibrations are in turn applied for squeezing, and resin film coatings separated off the small pieces are removed. The thus treated small pieces are further re-pulverized, and frictional crushing impacts are applied to the thus pulverized pieces as well for polishing and size-regulation.

Abstract: Fine particles of gelatin and amino acid used in the present invention are particularly suitable for use in combination with resins.Gelatin particles used in the present invention have the number-average molecular weight of 8,500 or less, and amino acid particles with the number-average molecular weight of 200 or less, so that efficient pulverization becomes possible and that gelatin and amino acid particles maintain their intrinsic properties as they are not subject to denaturation during pulverization. Resultant particles are neither too large nor too small but are uniform in size and are particularly suitable for use in combination with resins.

Abstract: Method of producing a paint or other plastic resinous material or product which on application to a surface imparts the surface with a tanned skin or leather-like appearance. The method includes incorporating into a paint or a plastic resin fluid a granular non-flocculating resin-plastic-compatible leather powder having a specific gravity of about 0.38 to about 0.5 g/cc. The leather powder is produced from tanned skin and/or leather chips and/or strips which have been steam heated a period of time sufficient to permit the chips and/or strips to swell and simultaneously cause the naturally occurring twisted and tangled collagen fibers therein to shrinkk and to automatically loosen and become less twisted and less tangled which upon pulverization produces a powder including relatively smooth granules having lubricity and relatively non-fibrous.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and articles manufactured from scrap treated skin and/or leather which has been finely pulverized and mixed with synthetic resin. It further includes a method for the manufacture of improved leather products made from animal skin and/or leather and/or animal gelatin including the products derived therefrom and the method of producing skin and/or leather powder by use of steam and pulverization for combining with a fluid plastic material or resin in which the powder is uniformally dispersed in the plastic resin material for molding, extruding or manufacture of sheet material or for incorporation into coatings, paint or other plastic resinous products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and articles manufactured from scrap treated skin and/or leather which has been finely pulverized and mixed with synthetic resin. It further includes a method for the manufacture of improved leather products made from animal skin and/or leather and/or animal gelatin including the products derived therefrom and the method of producing skin and/or leather powder by use of steam and pulverization for combining with a fluid plastic material or resin in which the powder is uniformally dispersed in the plastic resin material for molding, extruding or manufacture of sheet material or for incorporation into coatings, paint or other plastic resinous products.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for pulverizing gelatin and to products in which pulverized gelatin is used. The present invention relates to a method for pulverizing hydrophilic and water-soluble dry gelatin with relatively high jelly strength using as a medium hydrophilic organic solvent dimethylformamide or organic solvent admixed with dimethylformamide in an atmosphere where moisture is shut out. It further relates to paints containing synthetic resin solutions in dimethylformamide or the organic solvent admixed with dimethylformamide which contains gelatin particles pulverized into 30 microns or smaller in size by the invention method. It provides paint layers, coating layers, films and finished cloths that are formed by using said paints and synthetic resin solutions. By eluting gelatin particles with hot water, paint layers, coating layers, film and finished cloths with excellent moisture permeability can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and articles manufactured from scrap treated skin and/or leather which has been finely pulverized and mixed with synthetic resin. It further includes a method for the manufacture of improved leather products made from animal skin and/or leather and/or animal gelatin including the products derived therefrom and the method of producing skin and/or leather powder by use of steam and pulverization for combining with a fluid plastic material or resin in which the powder is uniformally dispersed in the plastic resin material for molding, extruding or manufacture of sheet material or for incorporation into coatings, paint or other plastic resinous products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to wood-like molded products of synthetic resin which are manufactured by mixing a synthetic resin material with a fine aggregate of cellulose base such as wood meal, chaffs, begasse and in which the internal residual stress which may cause deformation (for example, warping and twisting) of the products at the time or after molding is eliminated in advance to prevent chronological deformation. More particularly, it relates to a method of eliminating said residual stress by subjecting the molded products containing cellulose-base aggregate, especially the resinous skin layer thereof, to re-heating, curing and sanding or jetting treatments (sand blasting, shot peening, grit blasting) under predetermined conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing wood-like molded products comprising the steps of preparing a fine powder of wood material solidified by a thermosetting resin and mixing the same with a resin. More particularly, it relates to a method for manufacturing a molded product having improved quality, and especially the advantages of both wood and plastic by eliminating water and wood vinegar contained in the wood chip aggregate to be mixed and by imparting a surface smoothness.