Abstract: A forceps, in particular surgical forceps, having at least one handle and a pressure lever which is mounted in a pivotal manner relative to the handle and further having a jaw consisting of two jaw parts, one of which is provided on the handle. A lever arm is to be arranged between the handle and the pressure lever, wherein the lever arm has the second jaw part and pressure can be applied to the lever arm by the pressure lever.

Abstract: Head (30) of electric shaver (1) includes blade unit (40), head case (31) supporting blade unit (40), and rotary member (80) rotatably supported by head case (31). Blade unit (40) includes outer blades (51 and 61) that contact with a target area and inner blades (52 and 62) provided corresponding to outer blades (51 and 61) and configured to make a reciprocating move relative to outer blades (51 and 61). Blade unit (40) and rotary member (80) are coupled so as to move together relative to head case (31) in a height direction of head case (31). This embodiment enables the head of the electric shaver to move smoothly on the skin.

Abstract: The present application relates to a system for treating a part of a body to be treated. In particular, the present invention relates to a system (10) for cutting hair on a part of a body to be treated. The system (10) has a hand-held treating device (20) having a treating unit (24). The system also has an imaging module (30) configured to generate information indicative of the position of the treating device (20) relative to the part of the body to be treated based on an image of a part of the body and the treating device (20). The system also has a guide face (26) configured to space the treating unit (24) from the part of the body to be treated during use of the system. A controller (40) is configured to change a distance between the treating unit and the guide face in dependence on the information generated by the imaging module (30). The present application also relates to a method for treating a part of a body to be treated.

Abstract: Guide blades for use with oscillating and reciprocating power tools and provide improved speed and safety, as well as protection against the cutting blades protruding outside of a desired area or beyond a specified surface depth are disclosed. The guide blades include a blade portion with a cutting edge, an adapter corresponding to a particular type oscillating power tool, an attachment base for attaching the guide blade to the oscillating power tool, the attachment base including an offset portion for attachment of the blade portion to the attachment base, and an accessory attachment portion with an opening for securing the adapter to the attachment base, and a rounded guide affixed to the blade portion between the cutting edge and the offset portion, the rounded guide extending from side-to-side and curved away from the offset portion and toward the cutting edge, wherein the rounded guide provides for variable cutting depth.

Abstract: A method for forming a cutting tool includes masking a metal base with one or more masks, the one or more masks including at least one variable permeability mask, and chemically etching the masked metal base to form a blade of the cutting tool.

Abstract: A slicer is provided. The slicer comprises a body (1), a food mounting device (3), a food cutting device (4), and a cover (2). The cover (2) is removably mounted to the body (1). The food mounting device (3) is adapted for mounting food on the food cutting device (4). The food cutting device (4) is adapted for cutting the food mounted by the food mounting device (3). The body (1) comprises a first receiving portion (51) adapted for receiving the food cutting device (4) inside the body (1).

Abstract: The device has a crank assembly for retaining and rotating the fruit or vegetable being cut and a removeably mounted blade assembly for cutting the retained fruit or vegetable as it is rotated. A single, large diameter suction cup is attached to the bottom of the device engage the surface upon which the device is situated. A lever controls the operation of the suction cup. The crank assembly is moveable along rails to adjust the distance between the crank and blade. The rails form outwardly open channels with the top surface of the base. An inclined surface is situated beneath the blade assembly which is adapted to guide the cuttings toward the end of the base an into an adjacent bowl. The inclined surface is situated on a ramp located on the top surface of the base.

Abstract: A device for cutting a preferably thick-walled, extruded pipe to length, has at least one cutting tool and a receiving unit for the cutting tool. The cutting tool is radially movable in relation to the extrusion axis, is rotatable via a further component about the pipe to be cut to length, in order to cut the pipe to length, and is in operative connection with a ring element, which ring element can be moved via an axial drive, and the depth of penetration of the cutting tool and the path of movement can be defined using an adjustment unit. The depth of penetration of the cutting tool and the path of movement can be defined via the axial drive, wherein toothed rails can be moved more or less in order to achieve the desired depth of penetration.

Abstract: A chopping device for cutting foodstuffs such as garlic comprises a first housing part including a cutting grid, a second housing part including a pressing ram, and a threaded mechanism which moves the pressing ram relative to the cutting grid upon rotation of the first housing part in one direction relative to the second housing part. The chopping device has a changeover device which automatically switches the threads of the threaded mechanism into engagement irrespective of the axial position of the first housing part relative to the second housing part when the first housing part is rotated in the direction of rotation relative to the second housing part, and/or which automatically switches the threads out of engagement irrespective of the axial position of the first housing part relative to the second housing part when the first housing part is rotated in the counter direction relative to the second housing part.

Abstract: The device pertains to providing side shift force control using load cell force feedback in the web slitting industry. Further included is a removable means of providing the load cell force feedback without integrating the load cell with the side shift mechanism. This provides for easy maintenance of the blade cartridge and specifically the cutting blade.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for trimming elastomeric gasket squeeze-out from between a removable workpiece and a static base, when there is compression between the workpiece and the base. The elastomeric gasket is deformable and compression causes squeeze-out along the edge. The method comprises using a tack release agent to remove the tackiness from the elastomeric squeeze-out and, following wetting of the squeeze-out, applying a thin blade adjacent the workpiece and trimming the excess squeeze-out by moving the blade along the workpiece.

Abstract: In a web cutting device, a web held by pads has a section between mutually adjacent pads that is sandwiched between an anvil and a blade edge of a cutter and cut. A stop member is fixed in a rotating member. The cutter is biased by a biasing member and comes in contact with the stop member. The stop member obstructs travel by the cutter towards the outside in the radial direction of the rotating member, when the cutter comes in contact with the stop member. The biasing member biases the cutter to the outside in the radial direction of the rotating member and causes the cutter to come in contact with the stop member, by using a predetermined biasing force, and allows the cutter to retreat when the reaction force acting on the cutter is greater than the predetermined biasing force.

Abstract: A method for machining a flat substrate having at least one layer passes the substrate in the form of a strip, web or sheet through at least one machining tool together with a strip-like, web-like or sheet-like filler material on different levels; the substrate is positioned and held, more particularly in the vicinity of the machining tool; at least one punch-type component of the machining tool creates an opening, more particularly a window, at a predeterminable point on the substrate; the component is then moved to an area outside the opening; and in another stroke an element that matches the cross-section of the opening is punched out of the filler material by the component of the machining tool, is moved by the component towards the opening in the clamped substrate, and is placed by the component in the opening in the substrate.

Abstract: Provided are a trunnion edger and a method of edging lumber using the trunnion edger.

Abstract: A head saw machine includes a head saw body, a self-contained docking arrangement to perform a handhold position and a self-stand position to the head saw machine, a motor having an output line, a cutting blade rotatably connected with an output link of the motor, a front handle attached adjacent a front end of the head saw body, and a rear handle integrally extended from a position adjacent to a rear end of the head saw body, which allow the user holding thereon.

Abstract: A bamboo shoot squeezing apparatus is provided underground and includes a case, a pressure generation element, and a fixing beam. The case includes a bottom wall, a sidewall, a support piece, and a pressing board. The sidewall and the bottom wall are connected to form a column-shaped cavity, the support piece is fixed on the sidewall and is located above the bottom wall, the pressing board is inside the column-shaped cavity and is located above the support piece, the pressing board, the support piece, and the sidewall together form a squeezing cavity, the fixing beam is located above the pressing board and is fixed on the ground, and the pressure generation element is clamped between the pressing board and the fixing beam. The bamboo shoot squeezing apparatus has an advantage of extending a storage period of bamboo shoots and an advantage of a long service life.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a log splitter with an extendable, or otherwise movable, work zone to increase the accessibility of the work zone for a user and improve movability of the log splitter. The log splitter may be configurable to be in an extended position, a compact position, a vertical position, or a moving position. In the extended position, the log splitter may split logs in a horizontal direction, and in the vertical position the log splitter may split logs in a vertical direction. When the log splitter is in the moving position and/or the compact position an operator of the log splitter may manually move the log splitter to a new position and/or location, or tow the log splitter with a vehicle.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an imprinting mold is provided. The method includes steps of providing a supporting substrate; forming a conductive metal layer on the supporting substrate; polishing the conductive metal layer to form a polished surface; and treating the polished surface to form a plurality of microstructures.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and to a method for artificially ageing stone blocks, in particular concrete blocks, clinker bricks and natural stone blocks. Provided is an ageing duct which comprises a base, an upper boundary and lateral boundaries. In addition, a vibration device is provided in order to make at least the base of the ageing duct vibrate. In addition, a feed device is provided in order to push at least two rows of stone blocks, which are arranged side by side in the feed direction and are formed in each case by several stone blocks placed one behind the other, through the ageing duct, wherein the stone blocks of the rows of stone blocks are placed in such a manner on the base of the ageing duct that the stone block surface of the stone blocks to be treated is aligned transversely with respect to the feed direction.

Abstract: A power tool has a guide bar with clamping area to secure the guide bar to a power tool housing and with guide groove guiding a chain. The guide bar has side elements delimiting a main fluid channel and an auxiliary fluid channel. The main fluid channel has a main fluid inlet at the first side element in the clamping area, a first main fluid outlet at the deflection area of the guide bar, and a second main fluid outlet that opens into the guide groove at a first longitudinal side of the guide bar. A fluid quantity flowing in operation through the main fluid channel is greater than a fluid quantity flowing through the auxiliary fluid channel. The auxiliary fluid channel has a first auxiliary fluid outlet at the deflection area and a second auxiliary fluid outlet that opens at a second longitudinal side into the guide groove.

Abstract: A screw extruder for industrially mass-producing a cellulose-containing composition having a high saccharification performance by continuously conducting pretreatment of cellulose-containing biomass to pretreatment, which screw extruder is characterized as including a raw-material feed portion, a pulverization section, a heating section and a cooling section, and having a plurality of seal rings arranged in the heating section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing free-flowing, agglomeration resistant amorphous poly-alpha-olefin based adhesive pellets. The process includes (a) extruding the adhesive through an orifice of a die plate immersed in a cooling fluid; (b) cutting the adhesive into a plurality of pellets in the cooling fluid; (c) solidifying the pellets at a temperature range of about 25° C. to about 40° C. for at least 30 minutes; and (d) separating the pellets from the recrystallization fluid and drying the pellets. The pellets harden at least three folds faster than conventionally formed pellets.

Abstract: A preform configured to form a container by stretch blow molding. A finish portion is at a first end of the preform, and is a container finish. A tip portion is at a second end of the preform opposite to the first end, and is configured to form a container base and a container heel. The shoulder portion is adjacent to the finish portion and is between the finish portion and the tip portion. The shoulder portion is configured to form a container shoulder. The body portion is between the shoulder portion and the tip portion, and is configured to form a container body. The outer surface includes a first flat portion and a second flat portion at the tip portion. The first flat portion extends at a first angle and the second flat portion extends at a second angle that is different than the first angle.

Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. The vessel includes an inner layer arranged to define the interior region and an outer layer. The vessel is formed using a blow-molding process in which a multi-layer parison is blow molded to form the vessel. The multi-layer parison is formed in an extrusion process in which a number of extruders are arranged to co-extrude associated inner and outer parisons to establish the multi-layer parison.

Abstract: A method of molding a product includes receiving into a cavity of a mold a core having a plurality of parts that are unconnected and that together form the core, situating a first part of a plurality of parts adjacent a second part of the plurality parts, receiving a material in an uncured state into a space between the mold and the core, forming with the first part a first portion of the interior region, forming with the second part a second portion of the interior region that is contiguous the first portion, removing the first part from within the first portion of the interior region, through a hole, and subsequent to the removing of the first part, removing the second part from within the second portion of the interior region, through a hole.

Abstract: A method is for manufacturing a plurality of hollow reinforcement structures for panels (P) or aerostructures. The method includes the following consecutive steps: a) positioning at least one mandrel on the surface of a panel (P) in correspondence to each hollow structure to be manufactured; b) laminating at least one composite material layer on top of each mandrel; c) polymerizing the panel (P) on which the at least one composite material layer is applied; d) removing the at least one mandrel from the hollow structures. At least two of the hollow reinforcement structures intersect one another. A single polymerization step b) is provided for all the hollow reinforcement structures.

Abstract: A three-dimensional part is printed using an additive manufacturing technique. The three-dimensional part includes an outer wall having an outer surface defining a shape of a part and in interior surface defining an interior cavity. The part includes a plurality of first sections having a plurality of printed layers, each printed layer of the first section having a plurality of wall segments that form triangle shaped cells wherein each of the plurality of first sections are attached to the interior surface of the outer wall.

Abstract: An enclosure for heating a three dimensional structure. The enclosure comprising a body defining a cavity therein. The cavity sized to receive a three dimensional structure. A plurality of heating blankets configured to heat the three dimensional structure to a substantially uniform temperature. At least one of the plurality of heating blankets comprises a conductor for receiving current and generating a magnetic field in response thereto, a first susceptor wire comprising an alloy having a first Curie temperature point and a second susceptor wire. The second susceptor wire comprising a second Curie temperature point that is different than the first Curie temperature point of the first susceptor wire.

Abstract: A method for developing a polymer membrane of a polymer membrane electrode intended for the potentiometric detection of at least one analyte present in a solution to be analysed, the method including: depositing a solution, in the liquid phase, including the constituents of the polymer membrane at the surface of an internal electrolyte solution, the latter being in the liquid phase and occupying the internal cavity of an electrode body; drying the solution including the constituents of the polymer membrane, resulting in the polymer membrane at the surface of the internal electrolyte solution.

Abstract: In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to porous polymer membranes, structures including porous polymer membranes, devices including porous polymer membranes, methods of using porous polymer membranes, methods of making porous polymer membranes, and the like.

Abstract: A method of decorating a cake or similar confection having an icing layer or the like. A tool having interchangeable heated styluses is pressed into the icing layer, thereby melting or ablating the icing, or both melting and ablating. The stylus may be drawn along the icing layer to impart pictorial elements, such as decorative lines, patterns, recesses, shapes, and indicia. The amount of heat of the stylus may be adjusted. The cake or confection may be conventionally adorned before or after stylus treatment, for example with pigments, incorporation of simulated objects such as flowers, addition of extruded icing, etc.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a foil or a film (1), comprising the following steps a) applying at least one material (2) for producing the foil or the film (1) to a moving belt (3), b) at least partially curing and/or partially drying the poured material (2), during which step b) the properties of the material and/or thermal state variables of a defined area around the belt (3) are recorded by means of at least one non-invasive spectroscopic method.

Abstract: First passages are formed, so as to be continuous with bottom portions of first concave portions for vertical rib molding, at a concave portion for rib molding of a first molding die. A suction section that sucks interiors of the first passages is connected to the first passages. Further, second passages that dead-end are formed, so as to be continuous with bottom portions of second concave portions for rib molding, at the concave portion for rib molding of the first molding die. In a molding step, the first molding die and a second molding die are closed, and interiors of the first passages are sucked by the suction section, and some of a thermoplastic resin material is made to flow-in to as far as the first passages and the second passages, and the thermoplastic resin material is molded.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a blow-molded foam which has homogeneous foamed cells in size, is light in weight, and is excellent in surface smoothness, and a process for producing the same. The invention is directed to a blow-molded foam 1 having a wall portion formed in such a manner that a thermoplastic resin containing a foaming agent mixed therewith is subjected to blow molding. Herein, the wall portion has a closed cell structure in which a plurality of foamed cells are contained. The wall portion has an expansion ratio of not less than 2.0 times. The wall portion has an outer face having a center-line average surface roughness Ra of less than 9.0 ?m. The foamed cell has a cell diameter having a standard deviation of less than 40 ?m in a thickness direction of the wall portion.

Abstract: In a cartridge provided with an electrode portion for connecting a main assembly contact and process means by injecting an electroconductive resin into a frame, in order to simplify structures of the frame and the electrode portion and to improve an assembling property of the cartridge and an electrode property of the electrode portion, the cartridge electrode integrally molded by injecting the electroconductive resin into the frame includes a first contact portion, exposed toward an outside of the frame, contacted to a main assembly contact provided in the apparatus main assembly; a second contact portion provided for being electrically connected to the process means; and an injection receiving portion into which the resin is injected when the cartridge electrode is molded into the frame, and, the electroconductive resin injected from the injection receiving portion is branched to mold the first contact portion and the second contact portion so that an electroconductive path for electrically connecting the m

Abstract: A method of molding a collapsible, foam plastic container; the method employs two half-molds defining a molding chamber negatively reproducing the container in an erect work configuration, and forms a hinge for each lateral wall of the container when molding the container; each hinge being formed by a parting member which is inserted through the molding chamber at the hinge to be formed, and by a compression member opposite the parting member and which is moved towards the parting member to form, on the lateral wall, a small-section, higher-density portion defining the respective hinge.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a detecting sensor is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: positioning a magnet in a mold having a plurality of terminal receiving holes; positioning in the mold a plurality of magnetic field detecting sensor elements, each having a body and a terminal projecting from body; inserting the terminals into the terminal receiving holes; injecting molten resin into the mold; and curing the molten resin to form a housing having the magnet and the sensor elements embedded.

Abstract: A profile section (10) for a motor vehicle comprises a decorating portion (40), which is composed of a fiber composite material. The fiber composite material comprises an elastomer matrix made of a first elastomer and flock fibers (50). The flock fibers (50) each have a fiber length which is comprised of a first length and a second length. In addition, the flock fibers have one matrix portion embedded in the elastomer matrix and one exposed portion protruding from the elastomer matrix. The matrix portion has the first length and the exposed portion has the second length.

Abstract: An injection molding machine with an injection system and a clamping system. The injection system may include a removable injection module defining a portion of the material flow path. The injection module may include all of parts that come in contact with the material between the material source and the mold. The injection module may include a valve arrangement movable between a fill position to load the injection module with material and an inject position to eject material from the injection module into the mold. The actuators for the injection module may be supported on the machine rather than the injection module. The clamping system may include a platen linear actuator to open and close the mold, and a hydraulic clamping system to apply clamping force to the closed mold. The hydraulic clamping system may include a free-float valve manifold assembly that selectively places the hydraulic cylinders in free-float mode.

Abstract: An acceleration distance for acceleration at a set acceleration rate, required for an ejection start position passing speed in an ejection start position, is obtained, and a position behind the ejection start position by the acceleration distance is set as an advance start position of an ejector. Thus, an ejector plate can start to move at an optimal speed.

Abstract: A pressure controller for an injection molding machine capable of reducing variations of pressure in a mold in molding cycles and providing molded articles of stable quality is provided. The pressure controller includes an in-mold pressure estimation unit for estimating a pressure in the mold based on an injection pressure detected with an injection pressure detection unit, and an amount of movement of a screw detected with a screw movement amount detection unit, and an in-mold pressure control unit for controlling such that the estimated in-mold pressure becomes a set in-mold pressure after the pressure control is performed in a dwell step with an injection pressure control unit.

Abstract: A method of molding a composition comprising a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (TLCP) comprising mesogens; providing a mold having a mold cavity, with a feature cavity comprising a fine feature chamber; heating the composition to form molten composition; filling the fine feature chamber with molten composition moving at a flow velocity that causes flow alignment of at least a portion of the mesogens in the molten TLCP filling the fine feature chamber, relative to a flow direction of the moving molten composition; and solidifying the molten composition such that mesogens of at least the solidified TLCP in the fine feature chamber maintain their flow alignment. A molded article comprising a body and a 3-dimensional structural feature protruding out from the body and comprising a fine feature element having a minor dimension, with TLCP mesogens across the minor dimension being in a flow aligned state.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a device for biaxially-oriented stretching polytetrafluoroethylene hollow fiber membranes and the method thereof. The device may include a lubricant removing oven and a tube blank heating oven mounted at the outlet end of the push-compression mould, a core extension extending from the core into the lubricant removing oven and the tube blank heating oven, and a speed regulating guide wheel mounted at the outlet of the tube blank heating oven. A tube blank is extruded from a push-compression machine, inserted on the core extension for removal of lubricant in the lubricant removing oven, heated in the tube blank heating oven, transversely stretched by means of the bulked core, and then wound onto the speed regulating guide wheel for longitudinal stretching. Both transverse and longitudinal stretching can be realized for polytetrafluoroethylene tube blanks, overcoming disadvantages of traditional processing devices that can merely perform longitudinal stretching.

Abstract: Puck and collar alignment device embodiments facilitate simultaneous insertion of free end portions of screw shafts into open end portions of complementary drive couplings. The embodiments have alignment keys that correct deviations in alignment and rotation introduced while moving the screw shafts though a barrel of an extruder. Tapered front faces of the alignment keys incrementally adjust coaxial alignment, and tapered side faces of the alignment keys incrementally adjust rotational position cooperatively between the alignment devices and drive couplings. The coaxial and rotational position adjustments cooperate to simultaneously guide multiple alignment keys to fit within corresponding keyway sections while providing alignment of external splines on the screw shafts to interlock in a timed relationship with internal splines on the drive couplings during the simultaneous insertion.

Abstract: An extrusion head of an extruder is configured to move along a feedpath independently from a heating element so that the extrusion head can yield to extrusion-related forces. Specifically, the extruder may include an extrusion head movably coupled to a thermal core to permit axial displacement of the extrusion head relative to the thermal core. In use, the extrusion head may be displaced within the thermal core when the extruder is subject to extrusion-related forces (e.g., an upward force created by a refraction of build material or a downward force created by an advance of build material). This motion can facilitate better transitions by the extruder between different layers or z-axis positions in a model during fabrication.

Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. The vessel includes an inner layer arranged to define the interior region and an outer layer. The vessel is formed using a blow-molding process in which a multiple layer parison is blow molded to form the vessel. The multiple layer parison is formed in an extrusion process in which a number of extruders are arranged to co-extrude the multi-layer parison.

Abstract: Plastic containers exhibiting reduced plastic resin usage, while maintaining a specific gravity of below 1.0, so as to allow their quick and easy separation using floatation techniques during recycling. Within a layer or portion some of the plastic resin of the container body may be replaced with an inorganic mineral filler material, while within another layer or portion of the plastic container, the plastic material (e.g., polyethylene, polypropylene) may be foamed. The fraction of mineral filler material that may be included within the polyethylene may thus be increased beyond that previously possible while maintaining the specific gravity below 1.0, by also foaming a layer or portion of the polymeric material, so as to create voids therein. This allows significantly less resin material to be employed, while maintaining strength characteristics of the plastic container so as to be at least comparable to existing plastic containers not including such mineral filler materials.

Abstract: A method of sterilizing a bottle includes steps of: sterilizing bacteria adhering to a preform (1) made of resin by gasifying a sterilizer, discharging a sterilized gas (G) from a nozzle (6) toward a preform, now traveling, so as to adhere to the preform (1); activating the sterilizer adhering to the preform by blasting hot air (P) to the preform; sterilizing the bacteria adhering to the preform, and removing the sterilizer adhering to the preform (1); heating the preform to a temperature suitable for blow-molding treatment; and blow-molding the preform within a mold (4) to mold the preform into a bottle (2), wherein the above steps are performed sequentially in order. According to the above-mentioned steps, the sterilizer does not enter a blow-molding machine.

Abstract: A step of letting a preform (1) made of resin adsorb a sterilizer, a step of sterilizing the preform (1) by heating the preform (1) having adsorbed the sterilizer to a temperature suitable for a blow-molding treatment to activate the sterilizer adsorbed by the preform (1) and a step of shaping the preform (1) into a bottle (2) by blowing aseptic air into the preform (1) in a mold (4) are performed sequentially. According to the above-mentioned steps, the sterilizer does not enter a blow-molding machine.

Abstract: The formation of paraffin condensate on an inner cooling body of a blown film extruder can be either avoided or allowed in a controlled manner and then removed, thereby reducing damages to the film tube or even avoiding them. In an inner cooling body for a blown film extrusion line, the inner cooling body includes a shell around which a blown film tube, coming from the annular die, can ascend against gravity or can descend with gravity when the blown film extrusion line is running. The shell has a fraction condensate diverter for keeping paraffin condensate or any other condensate away from potential contact points of the blown film tube on the shell.