Abstract: Self-supporting scrim or web structure, which is readily thermopleated, is provided for use in filter applications. The self-supporting scrim has very high porosity. When pleated and deployed for filter applications, the scrim or web structure retains the shape of pleats and contributes minimally to airflow resistance. The scrim or web structure is fabricated from synthetic fibers and latex binders using a wet laid process.

Abstract: A method of moulding an article having a relatively small thickness in relation to its dimensions in plan including providing a mould for the article, locating or forming one or more inserts on a mould face which will define a part of the surface of the moulded article, introducing the material to be moulded into the mould, providing attachment means with an irregular surface in contact with the material, maintaining the mould in such an orientation while the material hardens and mechanically bonds to the attachment means, such that the said mould face is inclined to the horizontal at an angle at which the or each insert is retained on the said face against slipping by friction during the hardening of the material, and providing gas-outlet means from an upper part of the mould in the said orientation to allow the escape of gases during the moulding process. The attachment means is treated on one face or provided with knit loops so as to adhere to the material of the article during curing.

Abstract: The method manufactures a substrate, and comprises the steps of: preparing a first member having side faces in which recess parts are formed, and a second member having flat surfaces; causing the flat surfaces of the second member to abut against the side faces of the first member in which the recess parts are formed so that one end of each of the recess parts is open to form an open end, and in this state, filling conductive paste into the recess parts from the open ends of the recess parts; curing the conductive paste filled in the recess parts; and separating the second member from the first member on which conducting parts are formed from the cured conductive paste, wherein portions of exposed surfaces of the conducting parts that are exposed at the side faces of the first member are used as first electrodes, and end parts of the conducting parts that correspond to the open ends used for filling the conductive paste, are used as second electrodes.

Abstract: A method for making a lens retainer for a dive mask has multiple steps comprising preparing a frame, mounting a mold on the frame, filling the mold with liquid plastic, curing the liquid plastic and removing the mold from the frame. A first step is preparing a frame having at least one opening and multiple interface holes. The at least one opening is formed through the frame. The holes are formed through the frame. A second step is mounting a mold on the frame. Then the mold and the interface holes are filled with liquid plastic to form a crown on the frame. The plastic is cured, and the mold is removed from the frame. The plastic in the interface holes form multiple rods that hold the crown on the frame.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a transversely curved or formed strip of material which can be cut to length for use in a fabric for coverings for architectural opening includes a supply role of a flexible fabric strip material that is sequentially passed through a heating chamber with an elongated upwardly convex extrusion across which the strip material is drawn and a cooling station before being wrapped on a take-up drum. The apparatus includes driven rollers about which the strip material passes and the strip material is exposed to tension detectors and controlled temperatures such that the strip material formed in the apparatus is uniform along its length.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for loading a tread press are provided. More specifically, the present invention provides for loading a tread band onto a tread press while suspending the tread band above the mold elements as the tread band is moved into the proper longitudinal position within the tread press. Lateral positioning can also be provided using the present invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing objects, for example lipsticks, that are molded from paste-like materials, while using an elastic mold part (28), into which the paste-like material is introduced by means of a filling device, is hardened, and from which the at least largely hardened object is removed by a removing device while said mold part is elastically stretched. It is provided a dimensionally stable housing element (12) for housing said mold part, wherein said housing element is held inside a stationary or moveable support of said device, wherein said mold part (28) is placed in a housing space of said housing element at least during the filling and removal process, and wherein said housing space can be enlarged for removing the object and/or a thin fluid layer is placed between said mold part and said housing element, which is removable from said housing element for the removal process.

Abstract: A process of molding a container closure comprises depositing a gob of thermoplastics material in a mold cavity and then moving mold plates in an upper mold portion relative to an opposing lower mold portion to form the container closure in the mold cavity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a machine for handing tires to remove potential anomalies that can occur to a green tire bead portion during pre-cure handling or storing. The tire bead stretcher orients the bead portions of the green tire parallel to one another. The bead portions of the tire maintain the parallel position as the tire is loaded into a tire mold.

Abstract: A cooling device (230) for a core (N) composed of plural elements which may be dismantled and forming in the configuration used for the assembly a stable surface of revolution having a continuous form, close to the final form of manufacture of a tire, the core being used as a reference surface for the manufacture of the tires from the start of assembly through to vulcanization. The cooling device includes members for grasping and holding the core and members for setting the core in rotation about its axis rr? placed in a horizontal position. A tub (233) is provided which contains refrigerated water, in which part of the surface of the core can be immersed.

Abstract: Latent hydraulic materials are activated as residue from thermal processes by mechanochemical and/or tribomechanical reactions in a method for the production of an organic based binding agent. The lattice structures of the material mixture are altered by means of kinetic impingement, and the interaction of pulse and pulse interruption associated therewith, resulting in plasmoid particle states, the particle structure is altered by shock waves and/or by pent-up energy induced by the pulse and/or the pulse interruption. The particles are altered to form amorphous structured by the occurring pulses and pulse interruptions or reflections. The alterations occur by means of a device comprising an activator provided with a stator and a rotor arranged on a machine platform. The stator and the rotor define an annular chamber or annular gap as a transportation path for the material. Tools are associated with the annular gap of the stator and/or the rotor and are at least partially covered by a layer of the mixture.

Abstract: The invention involves the real-time, NIR-spectroscopic, closed-loop control of the blowing-agent-content of polymer beads used to make lost foam casting patterns.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a La—Co based ferrite magnet by using a polyhydric alcohol as a dispersant, the method capable of suppressing the composition deviation.

Abstract: A method for sintering ceramic materials using a microwave hybrid heating system includes the steps of providing a ceramic member to be sintered, providing a microwave furnace, providing a thermal containment box comprising a material that is virtually transparent to microwave energy, providing at least one susceptor comprising a material that directly couples to microwave energy at room temperature substantially immediately within the thermal containment box, positioning the ceramic member within the thermal containment chamber proximate the susceptor, and irradiating the thermal containment box with microwave energy. The susceptor couples to the microwave energy and generates heat within the thermal containment box and the temperature of the ceramic member increases to the microwave coupling-trigger temperature, at which time the ceramic member couples directly to the microwave energy and is directly sintered by the microwave energy in cooperation with radiant energy from the one susceptor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for equalising the orientation of fillers and/or distribution of fillers in a moulding compound comprising filled plastic material of an injection moulded part. A method of this type is required in particular during injection moulding. The method according to the invention is characterised in that the injection mould and the moulding compound are supplied with sound during injection moulding in the injection mould. The sound has a frequency in the range of the spectrum of the first ten natural frequencies of the filler-matrix system. By supplying with this sound, the fillers, for example fibres, are distributed within the injection moulding compound in a more isotropic manner with respect to their orientation and distribution so that significantly better mechanical and optical properties of the injection moulded part are produced.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solid-state extrusion-orientation process. The process produces a polymer-oriented profile by compressing a billet through an extrusion die, in which the billet comprises crystalline or semi-crystalline polymers or a composite containing the polymers and an organic or inorganic filler. The process comprises the steps of preheating a pressure chamber to a temperature of a polymer's melting point or less, applying ultrasound to the extrusion die positioned next to the pressure chamber and having a smaller cross-sectional area that the pressure chamber, and extruding the billet through the pressure chamber and the extrusion die to produce the polymer-oriented profile. This process eliminates the step of heating the extrusion die, thereby ensuring convenient and rapid operation while providing a polymer profile having a smooth surface without any defects.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneously polishing the inner and outer surfaces of an unpolished polymeric stent using a heat process. The unpolished stent can be mounted, for example, on a “spiral-mandrel,” a tubular helical structure with gaps in between a series of coils of the structure. Heat from a heat source can then applied to the spiral-mandrel at a range between the glass transition temperature and melting temperature of the polymer of the stent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of making fiber-reinforced molded articles and fiber mats, wherein the methods use, inter alia, anaerobic binders.

Abstract: A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that has an imprint template and a substrate table configured to hold a substrate, the imprint template having a patterned surface, a layer of heat absorbing material provided on the patterned surface of the imprint template.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate sheet for the application of at least one layer of a laying-up material (57), for the production of a three-dimensional moulded body (52), by the serial attachment of layers of a powder laying-up material (57), hardened by means of electromagnetic, or particle radiation in the positions corresponding to a cross-section of the moulded body (52) and provided for positioning on a support (43) in a process chamber (21, 24), whereby a mounting section (186) is provided with a mounting surface (188) for the mounting of layers and a support section (181) is provided which comprises a support surface (185), facing the support and with at least one recess (182), running from the support surface (185) of the support section (181), at least in a direction towards the mounting section (186).

Abstract: An extrusion blow molded container is provided comprising a closed base, a body portion extending from the closed base having a surface finish that is substantially free of striations, and an open neck portion extending from the body portion. In an embodiment, the container is comprised of polyethylene terephthalate (PET); the base portion includes a support portion and a substantially elevated portion having a center and a major diameter; and the center is disposed an elevated distance above said surface that is less than about 0.05 the major diameter. A method and apparatus for extrusion blow molding an article is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of semiconductor granules comprising a step in which semiconductor powders are sintered and/or melted.

Abstract: A method of pest control which includes heating the affected area to a temperature which is lethal for the pests being exterminated, and maintaining this elevated temperature in the zone for a predetermined period of time. The treatment is undertaken after determining the air flow parameters for the treatment zone, so as to be able to determine the CFM requirements for achieving a requisite air flow rate of between 0.5 and 70 air changes per hour in the treatment zone. Heated air is introduced to the treatment zone at the requisite air flow rate and at an initial temperature of at least about 240° F., with the temperature in the treatment zone being elevated at a predetermined rate until the air temperature reaches a predetermined set point.

Abstract: In a gas spring system for wheel suspensions including a tubular rolling bellows which is arranged between a wheel-carrying element and the vehicle superstructure and is mounted between a support element and a roll-on piston which includes a pressure-tight hollow space, the supporting element and the roll-on piston being guided on one another via a central thrust member, a control tube is arranged on the support element and provided with cross-over flow passages and the hollow space of the roll-on piston has a control collar which engages, with control play, the control tube at least in regions of the stroke for controlling the gas flow between the bellow interior and the hollow space as a function of the suspension stroke.

Abstract: An end member assembly includes a first end member and a second end member. An air spring assembly can be formed using an end member assembly on one end thereof. A method is also described.

Abstract: Mounting assembly for a vibration damper, comprising at least one aligning surface on the vibration damper side, which is in working connection with an opposing surface on the vehicle side at least during the installation of the vibration damper in a receiving opening in the vehicle. The at least one aligning surface and the opposing surface rotationally align the mounting side with the vehicle side. The aligning surface is arranged on a mounting cap with torque-transmitting element, and with at least one axial support surface for cooperation with the opposing surface on the vehicle side. The mounting cap prevents the vibration damper from falling out of the mounting assembly through the use of a carrier on the mounting side, to which the vibration damper is attached, this carrier having a retaining element in the form of a tongue which engages an opening in the mounting cap.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a link device for connecting two parts together, the link device being deformable in substantially one direction only. The device comprises: two substantially identical elastically deformable plates, each plate having two opposite ends; and two spacer-forming elements for interconnecting the corresponding ends of the two plates and for keeping the plates substantially parallel when at rest, no other mechanical link existing between the two plates, and each part being suitable for being fastened to a respective one of the plates; whereby the two parts may be subjected to significant relative displacement along the direction orthogonal to the two plates while relative displacements between them are very limited along the other two directions of a Cartesian frame of reference.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sleeve, in particular outer sleeve for an elastomer bearing (3), with an annular sleeve part (1) comprising a slit (S1), the sleeve part (1) forming a first, outer sleeve part (1) and being arranged coaxially with a second, inner sleeve part (2), which likewise comprises a slit (S2). The outer sleeve part (1) is, on its inner peripheral surface (I1), and the inner sleeve part (2) is, on its inner peripheral surface (I2) and on its outer peripheral surface (O2), provided in each case with a bonding-agent layer (HS1, HS2). The slits (S1, S2) of the sleeve parts (1, 2) are staggered in relation to one another.

Abstract: A holder for fabricating an organic light emitting display comprises: a holder main body; and a plurality of supporters provided on opposite sides of the holder main body; wherein each supporter has a ‘?’-shape and comprises a side wall having a predetermined height, and a supporting plate bent from the side wall. The supporting plate is formed with a plurality of stepped parts to support a substrate, a film tray and a mask, to hold the substrate, the film tray and the mask while the substrate, the film tray and the mask are being transported, and to prevent a pattern from being distorted, thereby transporting and processing a substrate, a film tray and a mask in a single chamber at the same time.

Abstract: A method for providing folded sheet structures comprising selecting an aspect surface, applying a shaping function to said aspect surface to yield a shaped surface, applying a floating point method to obtain a floated surface, and calculating a corresponding fold pattern on a unfolded sheet. The floating point method can be applied reiteratively to calculate the corresponding fold pattern. Machines for folding multifold structures, laminate structures, and micro- and nano-structures are disclosed.

Abstract: Paper sheets or the like inserted in a bundled state from the outside are conveyed in that state to an advancing section. Then, the paper sheets or the like, advanced on sheet by sheet basis from the advancing section, are conveyed to temporary holding section and received there. The reception of the paper sheets or the like, received in the temporary holding section in a stacked manner, is made by conveying them in a bundled state from the advancing section and advancing them on sheet by sheet basis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for automated, continuous singling of loose sheet material, by the steps of feeding a stack of loose sheet material to be singled located on a first feeding element from a deposit position to a position in which the uppermost sheet of the stack can be grasped by the singling unit, sheet-by-sheet singling of the fed stack by the singling unit, the stack being fed by the feeding element such that the particular uppermost sheet of the stack can be grasped by the singling unit, feeding a further stack of loose sheet material to be fed located on a second feeding element from the deposit position to a position in which the uppermost sheet of the stack to be fed is located below the first feeding element, and uniting the stack to be singled and the fed stack by drawing the first feeding element out of the feeding path.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating printing plates which are separated from one another in a stack, preferably individually by intermediate layers, has a lifting device for raising a printing plate or an intermediate layer from the stack. The apparatus further has a separating device for the intermediate layers, in particular as a constituent part of a loading device of a unit for setting images on printing plates. The separating device is configured as a rocker which can be pivoted onto the lifting device and can be pivoted away from the lifting device and contains suction elements and one drivable transport roller. An adhering intermediate layer is pulled off from the printing plate with the suction elements, and the intermediate layer is transported away with the transport roller.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a device for gathering sheets (3) with feeder stations (15) that are arranged in a row and consist of a magazine (20) for respectively accommodating a stack (4) of identical sheets, a separating device (50) that tilts an exposed edge region (3b) of the respective bottom sheet away from the stack (4) and a transport device (30) that withdraws the sheet from the stack parallel to the longitudinal direction of the edge region, and with a collecting conveyor (10) that features pushers (13) for the gathered stacks (2).

Abstract: A card processing unit may include a card processing part for performing predetermined processing to a card, a card stack part in which a plurality of cards are stacked and stored, and a card feeding part for carrying a card between the card processing part and the card stack part. The card stack part may be structured such that the card stack part is capable of being separated from the card feeding part as a module and mounted on a main body base as a module. A plurality of card stack parts and a plurality of card processing parts may be mounted on the main body base as modules.

Abstract: During the gathering process, an individual signature is respectively withdrawn from several collections of identical signatures, wherein the various decollated signatures are delivered to a collecting conveyor in order to form stacks. In this case, the sheets need to be reliably and carefully decollated. The invention proposes that the sheets (3) of a collection are made available in the form of a stack (4), wherein the stack (4) is essentially supported by an air cushion (LP), that the bottom sheet (3) is at least regionally lifted off the stack (4) with the aid of a separating tool (30), that the air cushion (LP) is produced between the bottom sheet (3) and the residual stack (4), and that the sheet (3) is delivered to the collecting conveyor (10). The lifted-off sheet is completely separated from the stack by the air cushion such that the sheet can be transported out of the magazine with absolutely no friction relative to the stack 4 situated above the separated sheet.

Abstract: Embodiments herein measure current/voltage levels of a drive motor when media is in contact with a drive roller so as to determine the drive force imparted by the drive rollers on the media. Then, embodiments herein can reference the predetermined relationship between roller drive force and media/drive roller velocity ratios to determine a difference between the velocity of the drive roller and the velocity the media based on the drive force. Once this velocity difference is determined, embodiments herein can change the current/voltage levels being applied to the drive motor if the actual velocity of the media is different than the intended velocity of the media so as to correct the velocity of the media. Thus, when referencing the predetermined relationship, embodiments herein produce a velocity ratio correction factor.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet to an image forming portion has a first aligning member for effecting the alignment of the sheet with one of the opposite side edges of the sheet parallel to a sheet conveying direction as a reference, a second aligning member for effecting the alignment of the sheet with the leading edge of the sheet orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction as a reference, and an aligning operation controlling device for selectively operating one of the first aligning member and the second aligning member on the basis of at least one of image information, sheet information and sheet processing information.

Abstract: A double feed detection method for detecting whether sheet materials are double fed or not, which has an external force application member for applying an external force to a sheet material by bringing external force applicator into contact with the sheet material and a detector for detecting the external force applied to the sheet material by bringing itself into contact with the sheet material and determining whether the sheet materials are double fed or not using a signal obtained from the detector.

Abstract: A system and method for optically detecting media feeding malfunctions in an image forming apparatus captures images of a surface of a sheet of media as image signals to detect positional changes of the sheet of media. The detected positional changes are used to determine that a media feeding malfunction has occurred when the positional changes satisfy a predefined condition.

Abstract: During the gathering process, an individual signature is respectively withdrawn from several collections of identical signatures, wherein the various decollated signatures are delivered to a collecting conveyor in order to form stacks.

Abstract: A compact micro-manipulator with low energy consumption accurately and quickly positions a micro-material in a visual field of a microscope. A micro-manipulator operable to grip micro-material by bringing leading ends of the gripping fingers in close proximity includes an XY drive unit that drives a handling unit in X and Y directions, a drive unit that changes a positional direction of the handling unit in order to swing the gripping fingers around leading ends of the gripping fingers, and a Z drive unit that drives the handling unit in the Z direction.

Abstract: A post-processing apparatus is for applying a specified post-processing to sheets supplied from an image forming apparatus and includes an apparatus main body, a first tray disposed in the apparatus main body for applying the specified post-processing to a bunch of sheets formed by storing a specified number of sheets supplied from the image forming apparatus one over another and then discharging the processed bunch of sheets, and a second tray disposed in the apparatus main body for directing the sheets supplied from the image forming apparatus toward the first tray after detouring the sheets. The first and second trays are integrally insertable into and withdrawable from the apparatus main body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for playing a game in which values of a game piece are gradually revealed. In one embodiment, a housing receives a game piece. The housing includes an opaque portion covering markings on the game piece. The opaque portion is movable for gradually revealing at least one marking on the game piece. The opaque portion can include a pair of movable doors. The doors are moved laterally toward one another to reveal markings on outer columns of the game piece. The doors are moved vertically for revealing markings on an inner column of the game piece.

Abstract: A system and method are provided wherein a player of a casino game or an online casino game is provided one or more additional opportunities to place bets, or to consume information or content, or perform a variety of tasks, without the need to leave the casino game (or online casino game), and with minimal disruption of the casino game, thus potentially increasing the revenue to the casino.

Abstract: An otherwise conventional craps table is provided with one or more unique wagering opportunities each comprising odds which are more favorable to the craps player as compare with the odds associated with traditional craps wagers. Utilization of the wager opportunities comprising the present invention attracts more players to the craps table and thereby ultimately benefits the craps table operator.

Abstract: A multi-functional phone card has a front side with a means for winning a prize and a primary advertising message and a back side with a plurality of advertising messages. Also disclosed is a multi-functional phone card having a front side with a means for winning a prize and a plurality of advertising messages and a back side with at least one advertising message. Additionally disclosed is a method of advertising to the Hispanic community, the method including placing a primary advertiser on the front of a phone card along with a scratch-off area, placing on the back of the phone card a plurality of advertising messages from a plurality of advertisers, and providing the phone cards in locations frequented by Hispanic consumers.

Abstract: A casino game utilizes at least one deck of playing cards, the game comprising: each player placing at least one wager to participate in the casino game; dealing a first number of cards to a dealer, the first number of cards being greater than the number of cards to be used in determination of a poker rank hand for the dealer; dealing a second number of cards to each player, the second number of cards being greater than the number of cards to be used in determination of a poker rank hand for each player; the dealer discarding at least one card to form a resulting single dealer hand; each player discarding at least one card to form a resulting player's hand for each player, wherein the number of cards in resulting player's hands and the resulting dealer's hand are equal; and resolving each player hand against the dealer's hand according to predetermined game rules. The initial player's wagers must be at least matched with a Game Bet (or play bet) to remain in the game after players have received their cards.

Abstract: An improved drop/turn target is easier to construct and operate than existing drop/turn targets. The drop/turn target may be adjusted for wear, and may easily be configured to operate in a variety of different modes. The drop/turn target may also be raised or lowered during operation and may be automatically reset for subsequent use.

Abstract: A seal ring 10 for sealing between first and second members 12, 14 each having an outer groove surface 16, 126 and inner groove surface 18, 127 includes a metal seal body 26, 42, 52, 60, 70, 80, 92, 110, 122, 140 for engagement with the outer groove surface on the first and second members, and a metal flexible flange 30, 32, 44, 46, 54, 56, 62, 64, 76, 78, 88, 90, 94, 96, 112, 114, 128, 144, 146 with a cantilevered end of a flexible flange providing substantially line contact sealing engagement with the inner groove surface on respective first and second member. The metal flexible flange is configured for being fluid pressure energized, and is deformed beyond its elastic limit when securing members secure the first member to the second member.