Abstract: A process for the production of patterned tiles from thermoplastic synthetic resins includes the steps of forming a length of crude sheet stock by compressing unicolored and/or differently colored or multicolored particulate material of thermoplastic synthetic resin; cutting off crude sheets from the sheet stock; punching segments out of the crude sheets; combining the segments from at least two crude sheets of differing colors into a panel so that the segments complement one another, and thereafter press-molding the segments to form an intarsia tile with the use of pressure and heat so that the segments are welded together along joints formed therebetween.

Abstract: A process for the continuous manufacture of sheeting from thermoplastic synthetic resins includes the steps of applying thermoplastic synthetic resin, in the form of particles, such as shreds, crumbs, cuttings, pieces, chips, or the like, continuously as a sheet-like layer of raw material to a moving support; passing the raw material layer through a heating zone to thereby preheat the material layer to a temperature approximately in the range from 100.degree. to 140.degree. C.; pressing the preheated material layer continuously over its full area during travel through a treatment zone so that, in a first phase, the raw material layer is compacted and welded under the effect of a pressure of from about 10 to 60 kp/cm.sup.2 and at the same time the material layer is heated to a temperature in the range from about 160.degree. to 220.degree.

Abstract: A process for extruding a film having small variations in thickness by regulating the quantities fed to a worm press and by regulating the extrusion process. Marginal strips and waste products of extruded film are re-processed by returning these materials, slicing them and directly weighing them before being fed to the filling bin of the screw press. In order to regulate the quantities fed to the screw press, the weighed material per unit of time is continually subtracted from a nominal value set by a volume regulator associated with the raw material seeder devices. The filling degree of the screw press is measured as the mass pressure between the screw press and a constant volume pump such that the filling degree is maintained constant during the extrusion process.