Abstract: A transfer apparatus for transferring a dough piece from a first processing station to the next, especially from a dough portioning device to a dough kneading device, includes a rotating dropping roller and a scraper. The rotating dropping roller is configured to release the dough piece from the first processing station. The scraper is associated with the dropping roller and is configured to support the dough piece released from the dropping roller. An oiling device is associated with the dropping roller and is configured to apply oil onto an outside surface of the dropping roller.

Abstract: In one embodiment, bale density door system of a baler, comprising: plural bale density doors defining a chamber, the chamber comprising a front end and a rear end; and plural tracking surfaces associated with a portion of the plural bale density doors, the plural tracking surfaces moveable in a direction from the front end to the rear end.

Abstract: An apparatus stacks, compresses and packages compressible batts. The batts, once at least partially compressed, remain under compression during the stacking, compressing and packaging.

Abstract: A system for grinding hot coke includes feeding the hot coke into the system, while maintaining the system under less than atmospheric pressure, wetting the coke during this feeding step to assure constant flow of the coke into a grinding mill where the coke is reduced to a slurry and forwarded to a holding tank. The system includes apparatus to recover and treat vapors derived from the grinding of the coke and to feed the slurry to gasification means.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus that is continuously automatically operative in an in-line system is described for applying under heat, vacuum and mechanical pressure a photoresist-forming layer to printed circuit boards that already have been prelaminated by the loose application thereto of dry film as discrete cut sheets within the confines of the surface of the boards whereby a laminate without entrapped air bubbles and closely conforming to the surface contours such as circuit traces of the printed circuit board is obtained. Featured is a two-part conveyorized vacuum applicator comprising as one part two input conveyors in end-to-end relation and as the other part a belt conveyor and vacuum laminator.

Abstract: An improvement in a dough ball pressing apparatus in which the continuous conveyor belt is provided with metal strips at predetermined spaced locations along each edge of the conveyor belt and a pair of proximity switches are positioned on the apparatus adjacent the edges of the conveyor belt for detecting the metal strips. The proximity switches cause the belt driving mechanism to stop upon detecting a metal strip for precisely locating the belt and controlling the distance of travel in each cycle. The conveyor belt is provided as a flat length with ends that are realeasably connected by a pin for allowing easy installation of the belt without disassembling the belt drive mechanism.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming fins along a web of metallic material utilizing first and second opposed endless chains, and with the first chain adapted to support the web of metallic material thereon, and comprising a plurality of spaced-apart anvil links. The upper chain includes a plurality of spaced-apart links operating in registry with the base chain and including work-engaging, fin-forming lugs which enter the gap between mutually adjacent anvil links. The apparatus further includes a chain-deflecting idler roll which deflects the base chain arcuately away from its normal plane so as to effectively reduce the spacing between adjacent anvil links and create a web back-breaking zone for achieving a firm and solid crimping of that portion of the web forced thereinto by the fin-forming lugs.

Abstract: A high-frequency welding installation for welding particularly plastic material parts includes at least two work stations and one feed station arranged in linear succession and trays on which work pieces are conducted through the stations by means of a transport system in a single direction and are returned into the initial station in the opposite direction outside of the stations in an essentially vertically offset plane, wherein the trays are arranged during the transport in both directions always with the working side facing upwardly. Four essentially straight-line transport units are provided. The first unit is a feed unit, the third unit is a return unit, and the second and fourth units are each vertical elevators. The return unit is arranged essentially parallel to the work unit and at least the return unit operates at a higher transport speed than the feed unit.

Abstract: A machine for manufacture of products formed by welding of plastic film sheets is disclosed comprising a welding station, a cutting station, and a conveying apparatus which serves to guide the plastic sheets through the stations. The conveying apparatus consists of a moving carriage with grasping devices for grasping the plastic sheets. The carriage comprises a cam slot extending perpendicular to its direction of motion. A driven cam follower engaged in the cam slot drives the carriage from a first position, in which the grasping devices grasp the sheets, into a second position at the end of the feed carriage travel, at which the sheets are released. A conveyor belt supports the film sheets between the various stations. A lift mechanism activates the welding press during the reverse motion of the carriage; it is driven by the drive shaft driving the crank arm. The speed of the motor driving the drive shaft may be varied during each machine cycle to optimize its operation.

Abstract: Apparatus for the separation of the liquid phase of a solid-liquid suspension, in which the suspension previously thickened is disposed between two endless filtration bands and is subjected to pressure by a presser module to which is imparted a reciprocating motion, includes at least two tight enclosures, juxtaposed and disposed parallel with respect to each other. Each enclosure is provided with an inflatable membrane providing filtration pressure.

Abstract: A process and apparatus are provided for making substantially disk-shaped meat patties having substantially uniform weight from substantially cylindrical masses of ground meat. The cylindrical masses of ground meat are placed upon a conveyor and while the conveyor is continuously advancing, they are flattened by at least one flattening means, such as a piston press, to form patties which look like, taste like and have the texture of homemade patties.

Abstract: Fruit press comprising an endless conveyor belt for transporting the fruit or other material to be dewatered or dejuiced, the belt being driven in a horizontal direction, one or more hydraulic platens for compressing the fruit or other liquid-containing compressable material for dejuicing, dewatering, or deoiling the same, as the case may be, movable, permeable sides associated with each platen to contain the sides of the cake being pressed by the platen and vertically movable gates upstream and downstream of each platen to contain the cake being pressed.

Abstract: A succession of rectangular mats, consisting essentially of asbestos fibers or other filamentary material held together by a wet hydraulic binder such as cement, are conveyed by a series of trays through the gap between a pair of horizontal platens of a press. The upper platen carries a die for trimming the edges of a mat to be compacted, with the tray acting as an anvil. The trays are linked near their leading ends with two parallel, endless conveyor chains and have their trailing ends supported by rollers on rails which parallel the upper and lower runs of the chains and which form ramps for guiding these rollers onto the lower level downstream of the press and onto the upper level upstream of the press whereby each tray runs horizontally through the press between a loading and an unloading station.