Abstract: A polishing device for polishing curved lens faces of optical lenses has a workpiece holder for receiving an optical lens and a polishing tool. The polishing tool has a support element, an elastic substructure and a curved polishing surface on the elastic substructure. The polishing tool, with the polishing surface, is driven in a rotating manner about a rotation axis, the workpiece holder being driven in a rotating manner about a first axis, in order to rotate the optical lens. A distance between the workpiece holder and the polishing tool is adjustable along a second axis. An offset between the workpiece holder and the polishing device is adjustable along a third axis, which is aligned transversely in relation to the first axis. A pitch angle between the rotation axis and the first axis is adjustable by tilting about a fourth axis. A method of operating the device is also disclosed.

Abstract: Various particular embodiments include a method for controlling chemical mechanical polishing, including: polishing a semiconductor wafer in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) tool; measuring a resistance of a resistive pathway through the semiconductor wafer while the semiconductor wafer is undergoing polishing in the CMP tool; and terminating the polishing of the semiconductor wafer when the measured resistance reaches a target resistance.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a polishing head includes an elastic film configured to form pressure rooms to which a pressure fluid is fed, and configured to press a substrate onto a polishing surface with a fluid pressure of the pressure fluid. The head further includes a first magnetic generator provided above a partition wall that separates the pressure rooms. The head further includes a second magnetic generator configured to form at least a portion of the partition wall or provided below the partition wall.

Abstract: An abrasive grindstone that includes diamond abrasive grains and a boron compound and that is for grinding a workpiece, wherein the average particle diameter X of the diamond abrasive grains is in the range of 3 ?m?X?10 ?m, and the average particle diameter ratio Z of the boron compound to the diamond abrasive grains is 0.8?Z?3.0. Preferably, the workpiece is an SiC wafer, and the average particle diameter ratio Z is in the range of 1.2?Z?2.0.

Abstract: A deep hole drill head support pad whose edge chamfers are formed in a continuous grinding operation so that there are no discontinuities in the angled side surface leading up to the outer surface thereof. A method of manufacturing the support pad includes generating a virtual guide metric including a curved travel path for a grinding surface around a support pad blank, and a plurality of control surfaces intersecting with the curved path at separate locations along its length, each control surface defining an angle of orientation of the grinding surface. A CNC grinding machine can interpret the virtual guide metric to change the angle of orientation of a grinding surface relative to a support pad blank as it moves between adjacent control surfaces in a continuous manner.

Abstract: A nozzle ejecting liquid and nozzle device ejecting a liquid upon mixing an abrasive into a liquid jet stream, obtains a converged jet stream. A nozzle includes: a main body; a buffer chamber in the body, whose central axis is an axis line being the liquid jet stream central line; a constrictor part ejecting the liquid, in a buffer chamber plane on a buffer chamber front side and whose central axis is the axis line; a disk plate inside the buffer chamber, facing the plane on the buffer chamber front side and whose central axis is the axis line; a supporting member supporting the disk plate within the buffer chamber; a supply opening in the body supplying the liquid; and an inflow channel along a direction different from the axis line extending direction, opened on a disk plate rear side and the buffer chamber and communicating with the opening.

Abstract: A conditioning device complements a silencer with higher sound attenuation and also allows the silencer to better withstand abrasion of grit entrained exhaust air flow from decompressing an airblast pot. The device is configured to achieve four functions. First is to control and direct the exhaust air flow. Second is to absorb the impact of the entrained particles. Third is to diffuse and slow down the exhaust air velocity. Fourth is to direct and deflect the sound waves to the sound absorption surfaces located downstream.

Abstract: A sanding sponge having an adhesive and/or a method for assembling the same may be used with a tool to sand a surface. The sanding sponge may have a body constructed of a resilient material and/or an abrasive may be secured to the the sanding sponge. The adhesive may be on a top surface of the sanding sponge and/or may be a pressure sensitive adhesive. The adhesive may attach a label, the tool and/or the like to the sanding sponge and/or may allow the label, the tool and/or the like to be removable from the sanding sponge.

Abstract: An elastomeric sanding block conformable to curved or flat surfaces includes a Shore A hardness ranging from about 30 to about 90, and is made from ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, low-density polyethylene or an admixture thereof. The polymer or admixture ranges from about 35 to about 70 percent of the sanding block composition by weight. A blowing agent is present in an amount that ranges from about 1.5 to about 4.5 percent of the composition by weight. The elastomeric sanding block may be formed by combining the polymer or admixture and other components under heat to yield a feedstock, thermoforming the feedstock in a mold to yield a foamed material sheet, and cutting the foamed material sheet.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide an ergonomic quick release mechanism for hand-held clamping toggle lock tools where a fixed jaw and handle have another jaw movably attached. A moving handle assembly comprises a front handle section and a rear handle section held rigid to one another by a movable release trigger mounted on one of the two sections engaging a catch on the other section. The front handle section connects to the movable jaw and a toggle link. Squeezing the moving handle causes the jaws to close and a toggle pivot to go past toggle over center, locking the jaws. To unlock them, the release trigger is disengaged and the rear handle section is then squeezed causing it to rotate and contact an element of the fixed handle assembly at a release fulcrum point, causing the front handle section to rotate outward, releasing the toggle lock.

Abstract: A device for screwing and/or unscrewing a threaded flange to/from the threaded end of a corresponding tubular element includes: a plate provided with four slotted holes and a counterplate concentrically facing and abutting against the plate, provided with two shaped seats each one of which intersects a pair of slotted holes of the plate; a pair of cursors slidingly associated with each shaped seat and each comprising a pin configured so that it can be fitted through a corresponding slotted hole at the level of the area of intersection between each shaped seat and the corresponding slotted hole; counteracting elements associated with the pins and placed in contact with a spindle configured so as to move the counteracting elements radially with respect to the pins; a lock suited to lock the plate and the counterplate to each other.

Abstract: A braking structure of a ratchet wrench comprises: a wrench head, having an operating portion, a rear end thereof being a head pivoting portion, a peripheral of the head pivoting portion having plural urging grooves; a wrench handle, a front end thereof having a handle pivoting portion pivotally connected with the head pivoting portion, the handle pivoting portion having a pivoting room, an acting through hole at a rear end of the pivoting room and extending toward the wrench handle, a positioning device being neighbor to a rear end of the handle pivoting portion and having a slim acting slot, a hole being in the acting slot and being perpendicular to an extension direction of the wrench handle; an urging device, having an urging rod; an operation device, having a pushing member that has an inserting rod, the inserting rod having a positioning through hole vertical to the inserting rod.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool having dual flex heads. The tool may have a flex head having a ratchet head and a flex head having a bit driver head. The flex heads may include a locking mechanism.

Abstract: A quick detachable wrench braking structure comprises: a wrench head, having an operation accommodation room, an acting hole is horizontally disposed in the operation accommodation room, a control hole is vertically disposed behind the operation accommodation room and is connected with the acting hole; a wrench handle, connected with and behind the wrench head; an operation device, having a pushing member and an inserting rod, the inserting rod is inserted into the control hole, the inserting rod has a positioning hole; and an urging device, having an urging rod and a flexible member, the urging rod is firmly inserted into the positioning hole, a front end of the urging rod is an urging head corresponding to the acting hole, the flexible member is in the control hole, so that an urging force is provided to the urging rod or the inserting rod.

Abstract: An angled rod for a hand tool comprising a driving part having a driving end for driving a screw, an angled connection part, and a tool-mounting part for connecting to a driving tool. The tool-mounting part is angularly extended to the driving part such that the tool-mounting part and the driving part are non-parallel to each other.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention relates to a mechanical winch. The mechanical winch includes a body and a spool axle. The spool axle is slidably disposed within the body and coupled to the body by at least one spring. A spool is disposed about the spool axle. A non-electrically-conductive tether is coupled to the spool. A brake axle is slidably disposed within the frame and located a fixed distance from the spool axle. Actuation of the spool applies increasing tension to non-electrically-conductive tether and causes compression of the at least one spring.

Abstract: The present invention involves a manipulator tool for use with a seed firmer having an extender attachment capable of engagement with a groove of the seed firmer. The tool facilitates the engagement and removal of the extender attachment by rotation of a rod in a bracket, which may be manual or with a power tool. The manipulator tool may be used on seed firmers which have been removed from a planting machine or are still attached to a planting machine.

Abstract: A retaining-ring-attaching tool includes a holding portion having a notch in which a retaining ring is held; a body supporting the holding portion such that the holding portion is movable in one direction; a link mechanism including an operation portion supported by the body and being operable with a finger of a hand holding the body, the link mechanism being configured to move, when the operation portion is operated, the holding portion between a first position and a second position where the retaining ring held in the notch is ready to be attached to a shaft member, the link mechanism further including a force-applying portion applying an external force to the holding portion such that the holding portion moves to the second position; and a feeding portion supported by the body and, when the holding portion is moved to the first position, feeding the retaining ring to the notch.

Abstract: A device for automatically offsetting pronged fasteners, or staples, in successively fastened sets of sheet material is provided. The assembly may be disposed within any manual or power driven stapler. It may comprise a manually or electrically rotatable drive gear which, when rotated, pushes a means for setting the depth at which such fasteners may be delivered into such sheet material respective to an edge thereof. In use, stacked sheets of material, such as paper, may be placed within a stapler. Then, when the stapler is activated to fasten the set, the drive gear may automatically rotate to push the means for setting the depth forward so that a subsequently delivered fastener may be delivered into a following set of sheet material at a different depth from the edge of the prior set.

Abstract: An impact tool includes a mechanism part, a main-body housing and a grip housing. The mechanism part strikes a tool bit. The main-body housing holds the mechanism part therein. The grip housing is continuously provided to a rear portion of the main-body housing. One end portion of the grip housing is displaceably connected to the main-body housing through an elastic member, and the other end portion of the grip housing is rotatably connected to the main-body housing through a rotary joint. A center of the rotary joint is disposed on a leading end side of the impact tool with respect to a center of the elastic member, when viewed in a strike direction of the impact tool.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a pair of loop-handled pliers includes a first lever arm and a second lever arm and a pivot. The first and second lever arms may be connected to each other via the pivot. The pliers may include an upper jaw disposed on a distal end of the first lever arm. The upper jaw may include a first grasping surface. The pliers may include a lower jaw disposed on a distal end of the second lever arm. The lower jaw may include a second grasping surface. The second grasping surface may oppose the first grasping surface. The pliers may include a first loop handle disposed at a proximal end of the first lever arm. The first loop handle may curve back and connect with itself. The pliers may include a second loop handle disposed at a proximal end of the second lever arm. The second loop handle may curve back and connect with itself.

Abstract: A robotic turntable assembly for servicing an item includes a support station for supporting the item on a first support region of the support station. The first support region is movable between an operational zone and a non-operational zone. The robotic turntable assembly includes an operational assembly that services the item when the first support region supports the item and the first support region is within the operational zone. The operational assembly engages the support station and moves the first support region between the operational zone and the non-operational zone.

Abstract: The invention comprises a tetherable multi tool with an adaptive tethering system for attachment to a user or other secure anchor. The multi tool comprises a first tool that includes a shaft with first and second shaft ends, a second tool having a body with first and second body ends and a tether attachment point. The invention further comprises a tether attachment point affixed to the body and a tether having a first tether coupling that engages with the tether attachment point and/or an anchor point.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of robot technology, and in particularly to a screw-free assembled modular robot, including a steering gear, a contour structural member, a controller and a power module, where the steering gear, the contour structural member, the controller and the power module are snap-connected by connecting members, so that the screw-free assembly of the robot can be achieved, thus the efficiency of establishing the robot can be improved and the process of establishing the robot can be simplified, thereby improving the use convenience and interestingness of the robot.

Abstract: A robot tendon system having a robot arm having an exterior surface, and further rigid elements, each of which is moveably attached to the robot arm or to another of the further rigid elements. Further, a tendon retaining element defines a set of closed channels, and has a major exterior surface that is attached to the major surface of the robot arm. Finally, tendons extend through the closed channels and are attached to the rigid elements.

Abstract: A robot (10) has a command predicting section (11) and a command determining section (12). The command predicting section (11) predicts the next second command based on the content of the first command issued from the remote control terminal (101). The command determining section (12) determines whether or not an operation result according to the second command should be transmitted to the remote control terminal (101), based on a comparison result between the second command and a third command issued from the remote control terminal (101) after the first command.

Abstract: In this link actuation device, arms of a plurality of link mechanisms are driven to be rotated by actuators, whereby the posture of a distal end side link hub is changed. A divided section setter divides a trajectory on a work surface on which an end effector works, into a plurality of sections at pass points and sets the sections. An arm rotation speed calculator calculates a rotation speed at which each arm performs constant speed rotation in each section on the basis of: a time period of movement in the section which is determined from a target moving speed and the distance of the section; and a rotation-angular movement amount of the arm in the section. A posture change controller performs positioning control on each actuator so as to cause its corresponding arm to continuously rotate at the corresponding rotation speed without acceleration/deceleration.

Abstract: A robot capable of substituting a plurality of parameter candidates in a point by a single-kind instruction sequence in accordance with the point is provided. A robot stores a main program, a sub program referred when the main program is executed, and a plurality of parameters. The sub program contains an instruction sequence containing a variable, and defines control details. The parameters are substitution candidates for the single kind of variable. The parameter to be substituted in the single kind of variable is determined, and one of the memory areas where the parameter is stored is interlinked with the variable in accordance with a determination result.

Abstract: A controller of a robot includes a storage that stores a main program, a point sequence containing statements arranged in sequence and containing kind information identifying control details to a work tool and coordinate information on a point on a work-piece, a point kind definition describing the control details identified by the kind information, and containing reference information to refer adjustment information for each work tool, and the adjustment information for each work tool prepared so as to correspond to the reference information, an executing unit executing the main program, and a referring unit referring the adjustment information based on the reference information when the point kind definition in the point sequence is inherited during the execution by the executing unit, and applying the adjustment information to the control details.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a manipulator including a joint portion, a drive unit that generates a driving force for driving the joint portion, and a driving force transmission member that is inserted into a tubular member and transmits the driving force generated from the drive unit to the joint portion includes: an arrangement step of arranging the manipulator in a usable state; a load-measuring step of issuing an operation command based on a predetermined calibrating drive pattern to the drive unit and measuring a load generated in the manipulator at that time; and a control parameter-setting step of setting a main-driving control parameter based on the load measured in the load-measuring step.

Abstract: A system includes a glove, sensors, actuator assemblies, and controller. The sensors include load sensors which measure an actual grasping force and attitude sensors which determine a glove attitude. The actuator assembly provides a grasp assist force to the glove. Respective locations of work cells in the work environment and permitted work tasks for each work cell are programmed into the controller. The controller detects the glove location and attitude. A work task is selected by the controller for the location. The controller calculates a required grasp assist force using measured actual grasping forces from the load sensors. The required grasp assist force is applied via the glove using the actuator assembly to thereby assist the operator in performing the identified work task.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide modular robotic systems that allow one or more operation parameters of a robotic actuator, or group of actuators, to be dynamically configured or reconfigured. The operation parameters may be, for example, the X, Y, and/or Z position of the actuator or group of actuators with respect to other actuators, the arrangement of the actuator(s) into an array or matrix, the rotation or pitch of an actuator, the distance between actuators, the grip strength or grip surface of an actuator, etc. Accordingly, the same robotic manipulator(s) may be used for multiple purposes in multiple different contexts, manipulators can be swapped out on-the-fly, and robotic systems may be dynamically reconfigured to perform new tasks.

Abstract: An attachment for a torch includes a combustion cone mounted on a fuel delivery tube. The combustion cone bounds a combustion chamber and has an inlet through which fuel from the tube enters the chamber to create a flame when the torch ignites the fuel. The cone diverges away from the inlet and to an outlet to enable the flame to diverge and spread within the chamber. The chamber substantially contains the flame therein. At least one apertured radiator, and preferably, a pair of apertured radiators, is mounted in the chamber in direct contact with the flame, and heated by the flame to a temperature sufficient to cause each radiator to radiate infrared radiation through and past the outlet. A tipping-resistant holder holds a fuel canister of the torch upright when placed on a support surface.

Abstract: Articulating gripper tooling for gripping an object, the articulating gripper tooling comprising: an articulating finger jaw including a slot; a gripping element including a shaft and at least one finger attached to the shaft, the shaft having a longitudinal axis; and a locking pin disposed through the slot and coupling the shaft to the articulating finger jaw; wherein the gripping element is free to rotate a predetermined amount about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, limited by the locking pin contacting a surface of the articulating finger jaw and/or an adjustment element.

Abstract: Provided is a gripper device to pick up items, such as sausages, from a first position with the items in a side by side arrangement, to a second position where the items are released. Provided are a plurality of side by side and spaced apart item holders each adapted to the shape of the items configured for picking up the side by side items and having a pitch distance between adjacent item holders substantially the same as the pitch distance between adjacent items at the first position. A pitch distance adjustment mechanism is provided to adjust the pitch distance between adjacent spaced apart item holders to arrange the received items into a group of items, before release at the second position.

Abstract: A joint for constructions includes a first element having a first coupling interface, a second element having a second coupling interface, and an interface element configured for coupling to the first coupling interface and the second coupling interface to impose a desired relative angular position on the first element and the second element of the joint. The interface element includes a first positioning structure configured for engaging with the first coupling interface, and includes a second positioning structure configured for engaging with the second coupling interface. The first positioning structure and the second positioning structure of the interface element are angularly staggered with respect to one another.

Abstract: A hair clipper includes a cutter head having a reciprocating blade for cutting hair. The blade has two lateral edges and a blade edge extending between the lateral edges. The lateral edges define a blade width. The hair clipper also includes an intake adjacent the cutter head. The intake has a front edge and two side edges together forming an opening for receiving hair clippings. The side edges define an opening width that is approximately equal to the blade width. The front edge is spaced from the blade edge a first distance between about 15 mm and 30 mm. The hair clipper further includes a vacuum system for creating an airflow to draw hair clippings into the intake.

Abstract: The invention provides a razor cartridge with multiple blades and peg(s) or pegged support members that aid in the control of the blades by restricting fore and aft blade movement, which in turn, reduces the amplitude of blade deflection and/or vibration during shaving. This reduction provided by the pegs improves shaving performance. Blades rest between pegs which are rounded or shaped such that the blade bottom portion contacts the peg at one point, forming a single line of contact. The pegs may be in a slalom-like, linear (with one or more peg columns), or offset arrangement. Pegs or pegged support members may be at any location of the razor blade assembly; for instance, at the center and/or at blade slot ends. Pegs may each be of different shapes and may or may not be equidistant or at the same heights as each other, depending on blade spans and exposures.

Abstract: The present invention provides a razor blade steel and method of forming a razor blade from a steel which has a high hardness but is also ductile after being subjected to a heat treatment and bending process. The novel razor blade steel has Molybdenum (Mo) content of between about 1.6% to about 5% in weight percent of composition. The razor blade comprises substantially no tempered carbide, tempered carbide of about 0.1 ?m or smaller, and substantially no cracks in a bent portion. One embodiment of the novel razor blade steel has a composition comprising, in weight percent, about 0.45% to about 0.55% of C, about 0.4% to about 1.0% of Si, about 0.5% to about 1.0% of Mn, and about 12% to about 14% of Cr, and further includes Mo in an amount of about 2.1% to about 2.8%.

Abstract: A cutter, such as a tubing cutter or a swing cutter. The cutter may include a cutting wheel; a roller; a housing assembly including a first housing portion supporting the cutting wheel and a second housing portion supporting the roller; a shaft connecting the housing portions, rotation of the shaft causing relative movement of the housing portions along a shaft axis; and a knob connected to the shaft and engageable by a user to rotate the shaft, the knob having, in a plane perpendicular to the shaft axis, a non-symmetrical shape defined by opposite circular sector portions and opposite lever portions, each lever portion being engageable by a user to apply a force to the knob in a direction of rotation. The cutter may include a shaft with a radial shoulder preventing movement of the shaft from the cavity through an opening in the housing portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a slitter which comprises: a plurality of slitter heads arranged along and positionally adjustably in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a corrugated paperboard, wherein each of the plurality of slitter heads includes a circular slitter blade and a drive motor for rotating the slitter blade; a blade radius acquisition unit operable to acquire respective radii of the plurality of slitter blades; and a control unit operable, based on the radii of the plurality of slitter blades acquired by the blade radius acquisition unit, to control respective rotational speeds of the plurality of drive motors so as to allow respective blade edges of the plurality of slitter blades to have the same circumferential speed.

Abstract: Machines and methods for cutting products. Such a machine includes an annular-shaped cutting head and at least one knife that is oriented axially at an inner circumference of the cutting head and extends radially inward into an interior of the cutting head. An impeller is coaxially mounted within the cutting head and has a base, a ring spaced axially from the base, an entrance to an interior of the impeller defined by the ring, and a unit for delivering products within the interior of the impeller toward the inner circumference of the cutting head as the impeller rotates within the cutting head. The delivering unit includes paddles that are circumferentially spaced within the interior of the impeller between the base and the ring. The outer circumference of the impeller has a diameter of greater than 35 centimeters.

Abstract: A power cutting tool for automatically cutting out a vent opening in a substrate such as a floor and the like according to a prescribed pattern is disclosed. The power cutting tool includes a base assembly adapted for support on a surface of said substrate. A track assembly having a track is carried by the base assembly for automatically guiding the movement of the cutting tool. A power cutting tool includes a cutting blade which penetrates the substrate to cut out the vent opening. A drive assembly includes a first drive for operating the cutting blade, and a second drive engaging the track for automatically moving the power cutting tool along the track while simultaneously operating the cutting blade to cut out the vent opening pattern in the substrate.

Abstract: Radio-frequency methods for engineered wood products (EWPs), such as thick EWP products and plywood having higher moisture contents are disclosed. For thick EWP products, intermittent RF is used as the sole energy source to heat the thick EWPs. This method for thick EWPs yields a higher panel MC of 9-12% compared to 5-8% from conventional hot pressing. The RF heating process facilitates manufacturing of structural composite lumber (SCL) products including LVL, oriented strand lumber (OSL) and veneer strand lumber (VSL) in addition to sawn lumber. For plywood products, a method of using RF in pre-pressing of stack of veneer layers for preparation of plywood is developed. In a preferred embodiment a conventional cold pre-press is retrofitted with a radio-frequency (RF) generator that pre-heats the stack of veneer layers to 60-80° C. under pressure. The pre-heating allows for a final hot press at lower press temperature and higher MC within the stack.

Abstract: This invention is in the field of automated 3D printing of buildings or structures and method of its operation. A 3D printer having an extendable boom arm with an extruder for extruding a concrete-based chemical solution moves with translational and rotational motion in an XOY plane. The extendable boom arm is mounted such that it is capable of height adjustment in a XOZ plane. The invention also regards a method for automated 3D printing of a building or structure using the 3D printer.

Abstract: A system for determining the rotational direction of a ready mix concrete truck drum can be used to accurately determine the time interval between when a batch of concrete is loaded into a ready mix truck and when it is discharged. This time interval is critical to the overall quality of the concrete. The present invention comprises a camera, a computing platform, and software that runs on the computing platform that can interpret the visual data captured by the camera and determine the rotational direction of the ready mix drum. This rotational direction data can then be used to determine the time interval from when the concrete is loaded on the truck and when the concrete is discharged. This time interval directly relates to the quality of the concrete.

Abstract: The present application discloses a ceramic preform, a method of making a ceramic preform and a metal matrix composite comprising a ceramic preform. In one exemplary embodiment, the ceramic preform comprises a ceramic compound compressed into the shape of a cylinder by rotational compression molding. The cylinder has an inner surface and an outer surface. A first liner may be attached to the inner surface of the cylinder and a second liner may attached to the outer surface of the cylinder. The metal matrix composite of the present application may be formed as a brake drum or a brake disc.

Abstract: A method of forming a decorative article comprising placing a decorative cover sheet comprising an untextured skin layer, a cushion foam layer and an adhesive layer in a mold space between a front mold half and a rear mold half, placing a substrate on the rear mold half, heating a textured front mold surface and the skin layer with a first heater arrangement between the front mold half and the cover sheet, heating the cover sheet and the substrate with a second heater arrangement between the cover sheet and the rear mold half, forming the skin layer of the decorative cover sheet into contact with the textured front mold surface, forming into the skin layer a textured surface from the textured front mold surface, pressing the substrate against the adhesive layer of the decorative cover sheet, and bonding the cover sheet to the substrate with the adhesive layer.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing plastic containers is provided, comprising a heating device that heats plastic preforms, and including a shaping device provided downstream of this heating device in the transport direction of the plastic preforms, which shaping device shapes the plastic preforms into the plastic containers, wherein a tempering device for tempering the plastic preforms heated by the heating device is provided in the transport direction of the plastic preforms between the heating device and the shaping device, which tempering device has at least one tempering unit provided on a carrier rotatable about a predetermined rotary axis, and which tempering unit has at least two contacting devices, between which at least one section of the plastic preform can be received, which contacting devices can be moved in relation to one another along a predetermined direction.

Abstract: A tool for impregnating a reinforcing fiber material with plastic comprising a support element supporting face facing and spaced from a cover element covering face. A receiving space, between the supporting and covering faces, is connected to an injection channel for supplying the plastic into the space and comprises an inlet opening for continuously feeding the fiber material into the space, as well as an outlet opening for continuously removing plastic impregnated fiber material. The distance between the supporting and covering faces is constant, perpendicular to a feed direction of the fiber material and parallel to a plane defined by at least one of the supporting and covering faces. The support and cover elements are movable relative to one another such that the distance between the supporting and covering faces in the feed direction is adaptable to a varying thickness of the fiber material fed through the receiving space.