Abstract: A powdery-material feeding device includes a hopper configured to reserve a powdery material, a transfer member configured to deliver and to discharge the powdery material fed from the hopper, a motor configured to drive the transfer member, a measuring instrument configured to measure a discharge amount of a powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member, and a controller configured to control, while control according to the discharge amount of the powdery material measured by the measuring instrument is not conducted, a current applied to a coil of the motor to have a substantially constant amount, to control the discharge amount of the powdery material delivered to be discharged by the transfer member to have a required amount.

Abstract: A universal pressurized spray nozzle replaces a standard trigger spray nozzle on a bottle having liquid content, the universal pressurized spray bottle providing a pneumatic pump to pressurize the contents of the bottle wherein the trigger release on the pressurized spray bottle releases a steady stream of liquid under pressure from the bottle, with the spray nozzle providing an assortment of different length nozzle tubes which are adapted to bottles of various depths and interchangeable bottle caps which are provided for bottles having various diameter bottle openings and thread patterns.

Abstract: An e-liquid bottle includes a main body for receiving e-liquid therein, and an e-liquid injecting member mounted on a bottleneck of the main body. The e-liquid injecting member includes a sleeve, a chamber formed inside the sleeve for storing e-liquid therein, a single valve connected between the bottleneck and an e-liquid suction portion of the chamber for controlling the e-liquid flow to the chamber, a piston installed in an e-liquid feeding portion of the chamber, an e-liquid guiding pipe formed on the piston and extending into the sleeve, a base mounted on the sleeve to engage with the e-liquid pipe and driven by the piston move back and forth along the chamber to control the pressure in the chamber, an e-liquid feeding tube connected to an e-liquid outlet of the e-liquid guiding pipe.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing system and apparatus may comprise a container having a neck portion and a chamber portion, wherein the chamber portion is configured to retain a liquid and has at least one tapered portion. The system and apparatus may further comprise a base configured to secure the container and a dispensing member configured to securably mate with the neck portion and dispense liquid from the chamber portion. The base may removably secure the container or the container and the base may form one contiguous body. The dispensing member may have at least one dispenser head, at least one pump, and at least one dip tube configured to extend to the lowest point. In some embodiments, the tapered portion may be configured as an inverted hollow cone with the lowest point being the point of the cone.

Abstract: An article includes an adapter having a flow channel extending through it, where the adapter includes a base, a neck, a bendable segment attached to the base and neck and positioned between the base and neck, and a plunger attached to the neck or bendable segment and extending within the flow channel in the bendable segment.

Abstract: A dispenser includes a housing and a discharge opening provided at the distal end of the housing. The dispenser includes a liquid reservoir and a control device having a pump or a switching valve, which control device is connected by a first line to the liquid reservoir and by a second line to the discharge opening, and via which control device liquid is conducted from the liquid reservoir to the discharge opening. The dispenser includes a push button provided laterally in a cutout of a circumferential face of the housing and connected to the control device such that pressing the push button actuates the control device so that liquid is conducted to the discharge opening. Measures for securing the dispenser include a rotatable sleeve over the push button, a secured cap, a securing arrangement on the push button, an interaction of the push button with an opposite side of the dispenser, and a receiving sleeve for the dispenser.

Abstract: A control unit for an aerosol generating device includes: a sensor that outputs a value related to a temperature of a power source capable of being charged and discharged to a load for atomizing an aerosol source; and a controller configured to execute one or more functions of operating the power source when an output value of the sensor is within a first range having at least one of a first upper limit and a first lower limit. The first upper limit or the first lower limit is smaller or larger than a second upper limit or a second lower limit of a second range that is a range of a value related to a temperature at which the one or more functions can be executed, a range of a value related to a temperature at which deterioration of the power source is suppressed, a range of a value related to a temperature at which the power source deteriorates due only to a factor that is the same as normal temperature, or a range corresponding to an operating temperature of the power source.

Abstract: A sticking elimination method and structure for the water control valve of a water spraying timer. The methodology includes: open/closed state sensing step: detect the open/closed mode of the water control valve and generate and send a signal to the electronically controlled processing unit; stuck state judging step: the detecting and computing module of the processing unit judges if the state of the component has gone beyond the preset abnormal value; reverse control step: if a stuck state is judged, the valve is driven to reverse; reverse state sensing step: detect if the valve has successfully reversed and returned to the open/closed mode; repeated reverse step: if the stuck state is not eliminated, repeat the reverse till set times; automatic shutdown step: if the reverse times reach the set times and it is judged that the valve is still in the stuck state, shut down the water spraying timer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for applying a hot-melt to a web of material. The device includes a driven roller and a nozzle with a nozzle channel arranged adjacent the driven roller for supplying a hot melt through the nozzle channel to the surface of the roller. The invention also relates to a combination of a device according to the invention and a web of material, which web of material is guided along the driven roller and wherein the nozzle channel exits in front of the nip of the web of material and the driven roller.

Abstract: A liquid ejection device (1) comprising: a first tank (2) for retaining a liquid composition; a head (3) for ejecting the liquid composition; a first heater (4) for heating the liquid composition; a first channel (5); a second heater (6) for heating the liquid composition passing through the first channel (5) at a heating temperature higher than that of the first heater (4); a second channel (7); a second pump (8); and a first pump (9), wherein the temperature difference between the heating temperature of the second heater (6) and the heating temperature of the first heater (4) is 65° C. or less.

Abstract: A defect may occur in which as the amount of fluid discharged by a fluid discharge device decreases, a mask is not filled with the fluid even when the fluid is discharged. In order to fill a workpiece with the fluid, it is necessary to replace air in the workpiece corresponding to a discharge part with the fluid. The air in the workpiece is removed in advance, thereby filling the workpiece with the discharged fluid. A fluid discharge device in which, at one end of a discharge head, a suction port for sucking air in the mask on the workpiece, and a fluid discharge device having a discharge nozzle formed thereon for discharging the fluid are formed is used.

Abstract: An applicator for applying adhesive to a moving web has a housing with an interior chamber, an inlet and a discharge port. The inlet and discharge port are in fluid communication with the interior chamber. A rotor is disposed within the interior chamber of the housing. The rotor has a body and a nonlinear channel extending about at least a portion of the body. The nonlinear channel is selectively positionable for fluid communication with the inlet and the discharge port of the housing such that adhesive flowing into the housing through the inlet flows through and is directed by the nonlinear channel to the discharge port in the housing. The rotor is rotatable relative to the housing to change the position of the nonlinear channel relative to the discharge port and thereby change the location from which adhesive flows from the discharge port.

Abstract: An adaptive hot melt feed system includes a melt system, a feed system, a gas control device, a sensor, and a controller. The melt system includes a heated vessel. The feed system is configured to deliver a solid material to the vessel of the melt system for melting. The gas control device is configured to control a supply of gas provided to the feed system to drive the solid material from the feed system to the melt system. The sensor can be configured to detect an amount of material in the vessel of the melt system. The controller is in electronic communication with the gas control device and is programmed to signal the gas control device to vary the supply of gas to the feed system based on a fill metric determined by the controller.

Abstract: An extension paint spray-roller system includes a hydraulic paint spray extension system to which is mounted a paint roller system for use in combination. The hydraulic paint spray extension system includes an on-off control valve/handle communicating with a source of high pressure paint and connected via a straight-through swivel joint to a pole extension having a spray tip mounted at the oppositive end. A paint roller system is mounted to the paint spray extension system by a mounting system which permits a commercially available off-the-shelf paint roller to be utilized with the system.

Abstract: A method of applying a non-homogenous catalyst coating to a surface is provided. The method may include partially masking the surface with a first template; applying a first washcoat slurry to those parts of the surface not masked by the first template; partially masking the surface with a second template; and applying a second washcoat slurry to those parts of the surface not masked by the second template.

Abstract: A dried latex emulsion coating on a surface of a metal member is used as a thin bond layer on well tubular joints, on tubular strings in wells, and on other metal members. The bond layer promotes adhesion to cement members formed from hardening a cement slurry in contact with the bond layer. The bond layer can be used in bonded cement structures, on well tubular joints, on tubular strings in a well, on tubular strings cemented in a well, in methods of making the cement structures and the tubular strings, and in methods of placing and cementing a tubular string in a well.

Abstract: A method of forming a multilayer film including an intermediate forming an uncured intermediate coating film by applying an intermediate coat containing a photoluminescent pigment directly on top of an electrodeposited coating film formed on an object to be coated, forming an uncured base coating film by applying a base coating composition containing a colored pigment on the uncured intermediate coating film, forming an uncured clear coating film by applying a clear coating composition on the uncured base coating film, and simultaneously baking and curing the uncured intermediate coating film, uncured base coating film, and uncured clear coating film. The photoluminescent pigment in the intermediate coat is a thin-film shape having a volume-average particle diameter (D50) of 5-20 ?m and an average thickness of 0.01-0.3 ?m.

Abstract: Transducers are provided including a piezoelectric block having first and second opposing surfaces; a first non-piezoelectric layer on the first surface of the piezoelectric block, the first layer including a low density material having a first thickness; and a second non-piezoelectric layer on the second surface of the piezoelectric block, the second layer including a high density material having a second thickness, the second thickness being different from the first thickness and being at least two times the first thickness. Related devices and methods are also provided.

Abstract: A Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (PMUT) device includes a substrate, an edge support structure connected to the substrate, and a membrane connected to the edge support structure such that a cavity is defined between the membrane and the substrate, the membrane configured to allow movement at ultrasonic frequencies, the membrane having non-uniform stiffness. The membrane includes a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode and a second electrode coupled to opposing sides of the piezoelectric layer, and a mechanical support layer coupled to one of the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A screen drive for a mobile material processing screen which can be at a travel width without having to fold or disable the screen drive. The screen drive system includes a drive motor, which is tucked at least partially under the vibrating screen; a sheave, having a double row ball bearing being supported by a shaft; a belt, coupling sheave and drive motor; a drive shaft coupled to a first universal joint, and a second universal joint, which is coupled to an opposing end of the drive shaft and to sheave.

Abstract: A grizzly screen member assembly with a replaceable tip end. The grizzly screen member assembly comprises an elongate base member and a replaceable tip member coupled removably coupled to the replaceable tip member. The elongate base member may be coupled to a panel and assembled into a grizzly feeder system or coupled to the grizzly feeder system itself.

Abstract: A classifying device may be used to classify a granular material flow. The classifying device may comprise a first inlet that allows a first material flow into the classifying device, a second inlet that allows a second material flow into the classifying device, a static classifier, and a dynamic classifier. The static classifier may be positioned such that the static classifier at least partially surrounds the dynamic classifier. The classifying device may comprise a distributing device that is designed in such a manner that it supplies the material flow of the first inlet to the static classifier and the material flow of the second inlet to the dynamic classifier.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for sorting mechanisms at a POS terminal. A POS terminal in a secondary mode of operation, receives input of categories. Information of items received by the POS terminal is used to sort the items into the categories.

Abstract: A system and method for cleaning a sintered filter includes a cleaning fluid source and a cleaning nozzle. The cleaning nozzle includes an inlet end coupled to the cleaning fluid source and at least one outlet port for outputting the cleaning fluid injected through the cleaning nozzle. The outlet port is disposed proximate to an outlet end of the cleaning nozzle. The cleaning nozzle has an external width less than an internal width of the sintered filter to be cleaned. The cleaning nozzle has a nozzle length greater than a full depth of the sintered filter to be cleaned. The outlet port can be disposed in a side of the cleaning nozzle proximate to the outlet end of the cleaning nozzle. The outlet port can include more than one outlet ports.

Abstract: Provided are a cleaning method and cleaning device for cleaning with micro/nano-bubbles, with which a simple method of spraying a treatment solution containing micro/nano-bubbles onto a substrate to be processed makes it possible to efficiently and reliably peel off residual resist or remove contaminants from the substrate, while reducing an environmental load. This cleaning method is characterized in that, with respect to a substrate to be treated to which a resist film has adhered onto the substrate or a substrate to be treated to which the surface thereof has been contaminated with a metal or metal compounds, the resist film is peeled off or the metals or metal compounds are removed by spraying onto the substrate to be treated a treatment solution containing gaseous micro/nano-bubbles and having a temperature maintained at 30° C. to 90° C.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure address problems presented by contaminants, such as dirt and debris, by providing an optical apparatus with techniques and methodologies for self-cleaning. In that regard, embodiments of the present disclosure employ techniques and methodologies for maintaining a very thin (e.g., few microns thick) layer of liquid, such as a non-stick liquid, on an optical window of an optical body that shields or protects an optical device.

Abstract: A micro-irrigation system cleaning method adds a formulation which contains a water-soluble organic acid which has a pK(1)a of less than about 4.0, and optionally a water-soluble phosphonate dispersant. The cleaning continues for a time period of from three to twenty-four hours in a static environment.

Abstract: A charged particle beam system is disclosed, comprising: a charged particle beam generator for generating a beam of charged particles; a charged particle optical column arranged in a vacuum chamber, wherein the charged particle optical column is arranged for projecting the beam of charged particles onto a target, and wherein the charged particle optical column comprises a charged particle optical element for influencing the beam of charged particles; a source for providing a cleaning agent; a conduit connected to the source and arranged for introducing the cleaning agent towards the charged particle optical element; wherein the charged particle optical element comprises: a charged particle transmitting aperture for transmitting and/or influencing the beam of charged particles, and at least one vent hole for providing a flow path between a first side and a second side of the charged particle optical element, wherein the vent hole has a cross section which is larger than a cross section of the charged par

Abstract: A cleaning method allows reliable cleaning of thread roots of a female screw. A cleaning method for a female screw includes producing a jet of a cleaning liquid from a nozzle in a direction tilted from an axis of the female screw without inserting the nozzle in the female screw, and directing the jet to impinge on a thread of the female screw while rotating the jet about the axis.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for cleaning a cylindrical container, such as a bucket. The device includes a drive shaft having a first end and a second end. The device also includes a frame including a horizontal component, a first vertical component, and a second vertical component, where each of the horizontal component, the first vertical component, and the second vertical component have a first surface and a second surface, and where the second end of the drive shaft is centrally coupled to the frame. Further, the device includes a cleaning component coupled to the second surface of each of the horizontal component, the first vertical component, and the second vertical component of the frame.

Abstract: A cleaning system includes a cleaning apparatus that is positionable in a cleaning environment and a cleaning processing device. The cleaning apparatus includes a sensor and a cleaning device. The sensor is configured to measure a depth of a target material on a surface of the vessel, and the cleaning device is configured to generate a cleaning force. The cleaning processing device is configured to receive a plurality of depth measurements of the target material on the surface, determine a cleaning protocol for the cleaning device on the surface based on the plurality of depth measurements, and control the cleaning apparatus to cause the cleaning device to apply the cleaning force to the surface pursuant to the cleaning protocol.

Abstract: A rotational extrusion molding die and a slender metal workpiece made with same are introduced. The rotational extrusion molding die includes a female mold device, a male mold device, and a rotation driving device. The female mold device is symmetric about an axis to define a cavity corresponding in shape to the slender metal workpiece. The male mold device is movable controllably along the axis relative to the female mold device, allowing the metal blank to pass through the cavity and thereby turn into the slender metal workpiece. The rotation driving device drives the female mold device to rotate about the axis relative to the male mold device. The slender metal workpiece thus manufactured has continuous metal flow lines which extend continually along the axis and along an arc defined by the axis, thereby improving the slender metal workpiece in mechanical properties, mechanical strength, and damping capacity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing a pipe (1) from a hollow block (2) which has an opening (3). The device has a rolling mill (30) for rolling the hollow block (2) via a rolling rod (21) introduced into the opening (3) of the hollow block (2), whereby the pipe (1) is produced. A retaining device (70) for retaining the pipe (1) is provided behind the rolling mill (30), and the device is further designed such that the rolling rod (21) can be drawn out of the pipe (1) after the rolling process while the pipe (1) is retained by the retaining device (70).

Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a tool that is used to prepare a squished C channel (Drive Cleat) segment for installation on HVAC duct work. In various embodiments, the tool includes a blade at one end of the tool that is configured to fit within the channel of the drive cleat, to open the channel a predetermined amount. Additionally, the tool can include a pocket portion on the other end of the tool that includes an opening for inserting a drive cleat portion into, for bending the drive cleat portion.

Abstract: Provided is a joint component manufacturing method for reducing occurrence of burrs upon bonding between a first member having a hole and a second member having a shaft portion and firmly bonding both members. In the method for manufacturing a joint component 100, a hole-side weak press-fit portion 112 is formed at a hole 111 of a flat plate ring-shaped first member 110. Moreover, each of a shaft-side weak press-fit portion 122 and a shaft-side strong press-fit portion 124 is formed at a shaft portion 121 of a cylindrical second member 120. The hole-side weak press-fit portion 112 and the shaft-side weak press-fit portion 122 are defined by a first weak press-fit interference Lw1 formed thinner than a first strong press-fit interference Ls1. The shaft-side strong press-fit portion 124 is defined by a first strong press-fit interference Ls1 as the minimum necessary press-fit interference for electric resistance welding upon electric resistance welding between the hole 111 and the shaft portion 121.

Abstract: Provided is a crimp structure in which an inner member and an outer member that is arranged outside the inner member are joined to each other. The inner member includes: an insertion portion having a columnar surface-like outer circumferential surface; and a recessed portion provided in the outer circumferential surface. The outer member includes: a cylindrical portion that forms an opening into which the insertion portion is inserted; a reduced-diameter portion that is formed in the cylindrical portion, and has a plastically deformed shape such that a diameter of the cylindrical portion is reduced annularly inward in a radial direction; and a protruding portion that has a plastically deformed shape such that a part, in a circumferential direction, of the reduced-diameter portion has entered the recessed portion. Relative rotation of the inner member and the outer member can be suppressed.

Abstract: Methods for forming a pipe end for a pipe having an inner surface lined with a liner are provided, wherein the pipe is cut at an axial location to provide a first end having an initial inner diameter defined by an inner surface of the pipe; and a length of the pipe is expanded from the first end to form an upset, bell end where an inner diameter of the upset, bell end is larger than the initial diameter, thereby defining an annulus between the inner surface of the pipe and the liner. A clamp for limiting a pipe's movement during various operations is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus for an USB interface metal casing. The manufacturing method for an USB interface metal casing includes: feeding a flat-shaped pipe blank to a lower mold (S100); closing a first upper mold and the lower mold, and performing pipe-expansion forming to a bottom of the pipe blank (S110); closing a second upper mold and the lower mold, and performing necking and chamfering to a top port of the pipe blank (S120); and closing a third upper mold and the lower mold, and modifying the pipe blank to obtain a final finished product of the USB interface metal casing (S130).

Abstract: An end closure for food and beverage containers is provided. The end closure comprises a central panel with a large opening defined by a score line and a safety fold positioned proximate at least a portion of said score line. The end closure further comprises a ring pull tab operably interconnected to the central panel proximate to a peripheral edge of the central panel. Prior to opening the end closure, a tail end of the ring pull tab is positioned over the tear panel. In some embodiments, the tear panel may completely detach from the end closure upon opening.

Abstract: The production method for producing a rifled tube, which includes a plurality of first helical ribs on its inner surface, includes: a steps of: preparing a steel tube; and producing a rifled tube by performing cold drawing on a steel tube by using a plug which includes a plurality of second helical ribs, the plug satisfying Formulae and: 0.08 <W×(A?B)×N/(2?×A)<0.26??(1) 0.83<S×(A?B)×N/(2×M)<2.0??(2) where, W is a width of a groove bottom surface of the helical groove; A is a maximum diameter of the plug; B is a minimum diameter of the plug; N is a number of the second helical ribs; S is the width of the groove bottom surface; and M is a pitch of adjacent second helical ribs.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a preliminary formed body includes an ironing step and a thickening step. In the ironing step, a predetermined range of a plate is formed into a tapered shape in such a manner that while rotating the plate, a transform target portion of the plate is locally heated by induction heating, and a processing tool is pressed against the transform target portion. In the thickening step, a peripheral portion that is a distal end of the tapered shape of the plate is expanded inward in such a manner that while rotating the plate, the peripheral portion is locally heated, and a forming roller is pressed against the peripheral portion to push the peripheral portion in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the peripheral portion.

Abstract: A self-piercing riveting die for a setting device, by which a self-piercing riveting connection in a plurality of components is establishable by forming a closing head. This self-piercing riveting die may include a main body with an upper side and a recess arranged rotationally symmetrically to the central axis of the self-piercing riveting die formed therein. In the cross-section of the self-piercing riveting die, the recess has a demolding inclination of the demolding section, which radially transitions via a step into a circular arc-shaped lowering of the annular channel section, wherein the circular arc-shaped lowering radially inwardly rises straight-lined or circular arc-shaped or curvilinearally to the die bottom.

Abstract: A near-net shape forming method for fabricating the precise bearing ring forging is invented. The processing method is composed of following three procedures. (1) the precise ring-like billet with chamfer angle is manufactured by the machining method. (2) The billet is heated by the less oxidation or non-oxidation heating method before ring rolling. (3) The bearing ring forging integrating with the raceway is formed in one pass of the rolling process by the ring rolling method.

Abstract: A method for forming a monolithic bypass includes pouring a molten metal into a monolithic bypass mold cavity of a mold, the monolithic bypass mold cavity shaped complimentary to a shape of the monolithic bypass; forming the monolithic bypass, the monolithic bypass comprising a bypass valve body disposed between an upstream conduit and a downstream conduit, an inlet opening defined by the upstream conduit, an outlet opening defined by the downstream conduit, a bypass bore extending through the upstream conduit, the bypass valve body, and the downstream conduit from the inlet opening to the outlet opening, the inlet opening and the outlet opening configured to attach to a primary valve body, the monolithic bypass defining a U-shape, the monolithic bypass and the bypass bore each being seamless; and removing the monolithic bypass from the mold.

Abstract: The primary object of the present invention is to provide a mold for continuous casting including a temperature detection unit which can detect the temperature of a copper plate of the mold with high precision, and can be easily inserted into and pulled out of the copper plate. The present invention includes: a main body; and a temperature detection unit which is inserted in an insertion hole in the main body, and detects temperature inside the mold. The temperature detection unit includes: an FBG sensor inserted in a protection tube which can be deformed in a radial direction; and a support member which supports the FBG sensor along the longitudinal direction. At a temperature detection point, the protection tube in which the FBG sensor is inserted is held between a stretched member in the support member and an inner surface of the insertion hole.

Abstract: A tundish, in particular a tundish for continuous steel casting for placement between a steel casting ladle and a continuous casting mold, with an inlet region and an outlet region, wherein in the inlet region, molten steel can be supplied in particular through a ladle shroud and in the outlet region, the molten steel can be drained from the tundish in particular by means of a plug and an outlet opening; in the vicinity of the inlet region in the tundish, a threshold or ramp is provided, which forms a region of the tundish bottom into a cup or tundish; the threshold or ramp has at least one channel at the side, which locally reduces the height of the threshold or ramp or breaks through the threshold.

Abstract: Automated processes and systems dynamically control the delivery rate of molten metal to a mold during a casting process. Such automated processes and systems can include automatically controlling a flow control device (such as a control pin) during a first phase of casting to modulate molten metal flow or flow rate, moving the flow control device in a transition time between the first phase and a second phase toward a substitute flow control device position determined based on a difference between a first projected flow rate of the first phase and a second projected flow rate of the second phase, and resuming automatic control of the flow control device during the second phase based on the detected metal level and the metal level setpoint. Overshoot and/or undershoot can additionally or alternatively be mitigated by translating the mold or altering the cast speed.

Abstract: A rapid discharge heating and forming apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a source of electrical energy and at least two electrodes configured to interconnect the source of electrical energy to a metallic glass sample. The apparatus also includes a shaping tool disposed in forming relation to the metallic glass sample. The source of electrical energy and the at least two electrodes are configured to deliver a quantum of electrical energy to the metallic glass sample to heat the metallic glass sample. The shaping tool is configured to apply a deformational force to shape the heated sample to an article. The at least two electrodes have a yield strength of at least 200 MPa, a Young's modulus that is at least 25% higher than the metallic glass sample, and an electrical resistivity that is lower than the metallic glass sample by a factor of at least 3.

Abstract: There is provided an injection molding machine that includes a melting device in which a molding material melts to generate a molten material; an injection device from which the molten material supplied from the melting device is injected; and a connecting member including a communication path communicating with the melting device and the injection device. The melting device includes a material supply port to which the molding material is supplied, a partition plate that partitions the inside excluding at least both ends of the melting device and extends from the side of the material supply port to the side of the communication path, and a stirrer configured to stir the molten material in a manner of circulating around the partition plate.

Abstract: A knockout method for knocking out a cluster (30) of lost-pattern metal castings (32), the cluster of castings being formed in a shell (1), wherein at least one knife is moved by means of a machine without making contact with the cluster in such a manner that the knife engages the shell, breaks it into a plurality of fragments, and detaches at least a portion of the shell from the cluster; a machine for performing the method.