Abstract: An extraction assembly for use in an automatic brewer. The extraction assembly controllably extracts espresso beverage from a quantity of brewing substance. A brew chamber of the extraction assembly is removable for exchange with another brew chamber of different brew volume, having enhanced structures, or for replacement and repair. A heating element may be in close proximity to the brew chamber. Heat from the heating element can be brought directly to the area in which the coffee is brewed to help maintain a more consistent, tighter tolerance temperature and faster recovery between brew cycles.

Abstract: A glasses holder including: a clamping unit for securing the glasses; a connection unit connected with the clamping unit and an optical device respectively, so that an eyeglass of the glasses secured by the clamping unit is parallel to an incident surface of optical lens of the optical device. The glasses holder is used for testing of related specs on TV performances, and can improve accuracy of test results.

Abstract: Waste objects, for example used oil barrels, are crushed using a device having a frame which supports first and second press plates so as to be movable towards one another in a crushing direction. A plurality of ball screw assemblies which are connected between the press plates each include a lead screw and a follower nut with roller elements in rolling engagement with the threads of the lead screw such that there is little or no static friction which must be overcome in order to release the press plate from the crushed object once the crushing operation is complete. A motor coupled to the ball screw assemblies applies a continuous torque throughout a full range of crushing movement of the second press plate relative to the first press plate to overcome the back pressure from the object being crushed.

Abstract: An electromechanical, modular, single-column, trash compactor with a particularly small size and low weight. In particular, a trash compaction device which can be used on-board aircraft, trains, ships and/or for civil applications and generally in all the locations and/or transportation means where the auxiliary service equipment must occupy as little space as possible. The compaction device is formed by a system of hollow telescopic screws (5,6), for example of the recirculating ball type, operated by a motor (2) housed inside the said screws (5,6). The compactor may be conveniently installed in compartments, which are fixed or movable on wheels, such as a trolley, so as to allow easy displacement thereof within the transportation means and insertion within the appropriate working spaces.

Abstract: A packaging machine having a lifting unit comprises at least a spindle and a spindle nut. It is the object of the present invention to provide a packaging machine having a lifting unit which can substantially receive the same forces in any lift position and which exhibits shorter moving times. For this reason, the spindle is motor-drivable and stationary relative to a frame (2).

Abstract: A press specially adapted to compress a stack which includes one or more pressure sensitive based fastening layers which are actuated by application of substantial pressure. A lower press plate includes a receiving surface upon which the stack is positioned and first and second guide members, with the receiving surface being tilted with respect to a level plane such that the stack tends to move on the receiving surface towards the two guide members. An upper press plate is provided which includes a compressing surface which is substantially parallel with respect to the receiving surface when the press is in a first operating mode. A drive mechanism is provided for driving the lower and upper press plates towards one another so as to applying a compressing force to the stack.

Abstract: A pressing apparatus using a motor, in which a driving device for fast feed, which lowers a upper die to a position immediately before pressing, and a motor for pressing, which performs a pressing operation, are used to cause the driving device for fast feed and the motor for pressing to operate cooperatively, and only one position detector, which detects a present position of a slider, is provided for a set of the driving device for fast feed and the motor for pressing. A lock device is provided so as to lock the slider and the screw shaft while the motor for pressing is operating for pressing a work piece.

Abstract: A stack fastening device includes a base, on an upper surface of which a stack is loaded, a compression plate, which has a flat configuration and is placed over the stack to press the stack, and a plurality of vertical beams, which are installed on the base to extend vertically so that the upper end portion of the beams projects out through the edge of the compression plate, A thread is formed in an upper end portion of each vertical beam, nuts are threadedly coupled to the thread such that the nuts can be tightened against upper and lower surfaces of the compression plate, and engagement grooves are defined in the upper surface of the compression plate so that a head of a hydraulic cylinder can be coupled to the compression plate.

Abstract: A slide of a press machine is driven by composite thrust of thrust of an electric (servo) motor SM (via a screw/nut mechanism from the electric motor) and thrust of hydraulic cylinders SYL1, SYL2 to which pressure oil is supplied from a constant, high pressure source. A slide control device controls the electric motor SM and the hydraulic cylinders SYL1, SYL2, based on a slide position signal and a motor angular velocity signal, and at the same time, makes the hydraulic cylinder SYL1 work as a pump during a period when slide load is small, charging pressure oil to the constant, high pressure source by using the thrust transferred from the electric motor to the hydraulic cylinder SYL1 through the screw/nut mechanism and the slide.

Abstract: A pressing apparatus using a motor, in which a fast feed drive lowers an upper die to a position immediately before pressing, and a motor for pressing performs a pressing operation. The fast feed drive and the motor for pressing operate cooperatively, and only one position detector, which detects a present position of a slider, is provided for a set of the fast feed drive and the motor for pressing.

Abstract: A hydraulic cut-off press includes a base, a body vertically movable along vertical tracks at the base, a plurality of raisers provided at the body in four corners, each raiser having a holder base, a raiser screw vertically mounted in the holder base and fixedly connected to the base, a transmission gear set mounted inside the holder base and meshed with the raiser screw, and an axle extended out of the holder base, a transmission system formed of transmission shafts and couplings for coupling the axles of the raisers to one another for synchronous rotation, and a motor for rotating the axle of the first raiser to move the raiser screws of the raisers to move the body to the desired elevation relative to the base.

Abstract: A compressing device is provided that is suitable for crushing cans. A compressing device is provided that includes a plurality of linear drive actuators located along side a compression chamber to both reduce height/size of the compressing device, and provide a more uniform compression force to the can. A compressing device is provided that includes a workpiece receptacle that collects liquid or other debris, increases the safety of the compressing device by shielding sharp edges of the crushed workpiece, and provides for easy cleaning due to it's removability and dishwasher safe construction. A compressing device is provided that includes crimping portions that provide more controlled easier crushing of work pieces such as aluminum cans.

Abstract: A rigid container for transporting flexible sachets of bio-pharmaceutical fluid having a volume of 50 liters or more has a bottom wall and one or more lateral walls. At the top it has a contention plate for the sachet adjustable in height to compress the sachet.

Abstract: An apparatus for gluing together first and second pieces of a foam pattern to be used in a lost foam casting process, the apparatus comprising a frame, a glue tank adapted to contain glue, a glue platen supported by the frame for vertical movement relative thereto, the glue platen being movable relative to the frame between a lower position submerged in the glue and an upper position raised above the glue, a center platen located above the glue platen to hold the first pattern piece, the center platen being supported by the frame for pivotal movement relative thereto about a generally horizontal axis, and a top platen for holding the second pattern piece located above the center platen, the top platen being supported by the frame for vertical movement relative thereto between upper and lower positions. While in one pivotable position, the foam piece held by the center platen faces downward and, in the other position, it faces upward.

Abstract: An apparatus for moving upper and lower molds toward and apart from each other and giving additionally increased clamping force to the engaged molds.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving upper and lower tool parts for punching, cutting and stamping, and more particular to such an apparatus using a rotary screw rod and a nut member threadedly engaging with the screw rod so as to move up or down therealong.

Abstract: A carousel trash compactor for selectively sorting and recycling multi-component refuse. The carousel includes a turntable mounted in the lower portion of the housing and supporting refuse bins rotatable with the turntable to position a selected bin in a refuse receiving position or a refuse compaction position. In the housing upper portion, a stationary compactor mechanism is positioned for compacting refuse in a bin therebeneath. A lid closes an opening in the top of the housing over the refuse-receiving position. A receptacle retrieving subassembly mounted in the upper portion of the housing facilitates removal of a full receptacle from the housing. Automatic control devices are provided for selectively rotating the turntable and bins, for weighing each bin, for compacting the refuse and for extricating the filled bins from the housing.

Abstract: A residential trash compactor with two compartments suitable for separating recyclable from non-recyclable trash.

Abstract: Molds are mounted on a front platen and a moving platen. A plurality of ball screws are mounted between the front platen and the rear platen at equal distances from centers of the molds and at predetermined angular intervals. Ball nuts threadedly engaged with the plurality of ball screws, respectively, are mounted on the moving platen. A servo motor drives to move the moving platen in the axial direction of the ball screws through the ball screws and the ball nuts. A mold clamping force is generated by a stress occurring in the ball screws when the molds are closed.

Abstract: A mold-closing and holding mechanism, especially for a deep drawing apparatus making hollow articles from a thermoplastic web provides force-storing elements between the mold halves and the drive so that when the drive which can use a check motor is cut off, the force-storing elements can continue to exert a uniform closure force at least upon the regions at which a weld is to be formed from the shaped parts.

Abstract: An upper portion of each power screw of a refuse compactor is covered by a protective sleeve to insulate the threads of the screw from refuse. The upper end of the sleeve is loosely retained to the ram to move longitudinally with the ram while yielding to any pivoting of the ram during its downstroke under load. The protective sleeve additionally tends to distribute lubrication along the threads of the power screw during cycling of the ram. A protective skirt mounted to the frame of the compactor insulates a lower portion of the power screw from refuse.

Abstract: A portable hot-press for thermowelding marked and/or printed foils of thermoplastic synthetic material, particularly PVC, to produce single-sheet identification cards. There are provided a press drive, two heating plates, one fixed and one sliding cross bar on the press and a fan for cooling the heating plates and thermowelded foils. Two screw elevating gears, driven by a gearmotor are provided to guide and move the cross bar of the press. The gearmotor may have a retaining brake.

Abstract: A clamping device for conveyor belts has a pair of crossbars disposed on opposite sides of the conveyor belt and clamping bars each disposed between a respective crossbar and the conveyor belt. The device is mounted through the clamping bars and a hydraulic unit such as deformable hoses or an array of piston-and-cylinder units is braced between one of the clamping bars and the respective crossbar.

Abstract: An improved baling press with a vertical operating direction and with a press plate guided within a press case by means of rollers and cooperating coordinated guides, and with the press plate being solidly connected to spindle nuts, which in each case are crossed through by a driven press spindle; the baling press permitting the guiding of the press plate of the press case only along one wall thereof, while the other walls with the exception of the wall disposed above or below the drive are available for other use, such as corresponding feed openings. Thus, the guiding of the press plate of the press case is only along one wall of the press case, preferably the rear wall thereof.

Abstract: A belt press has a plurality of upper and a plurality of lower traverses respectively having lower and upper traverse faces, upper and lower press platens carried on and between these traverses and having respective upper and lower platen faces respectively confronting the lower and upper traverse faces, and mechanically actuated bolts engaged between the traverses for displacing them toward each other and thereby pressing the platens against a belt engaged between them. The belt press also has at least one bend-compensating element having a pair of nonparallel upper and lower surfaces and engaged between one of the platen faces and the confronting traverse faces, and a hydraulic force transmitter engaged between this bend-compensating element and one of the respective press and platen faces.

Abstract: A belt press comprises a plurality of upper and a plurality of lower traverses respectively having lower and upper traverse faces, upper and lower press platens carried on and between these traverses and having respective upper and lower platen faces respectively confronting the lower and upper traverse faces, and a hydraulic actuator for displacing these traverses toward each other and thereby pressing the platens against a belt engaged therebetween. The hydraulic actuator is engaged between one of the platen faces and the confronting traverse face and has a pressure plate bearing on the one platen face, a plurality of diametrally compressible but circumferentially unstretchable hydraulic hoses forming at least one substantially closed chamber and bearing in one direction in surface contact on the pressure plate and in the opposite direction in surface contact at least indirectly on the confronting traverse face, and a system for pressurizing this chamber.

Abstract: A belt press has at least one upper and at least one lower traverse respectively having lower and upper traverse faces, connectors extending vertically between the upper and lower traverses and securing the lower traverse to the upper traverse, upper and lower press platens carried on and between the traverses and having respective upper and lower platen faces respectively confronting the lower and upper traverse faces, and a hydraulic actuator for displacing the platens toward each other and thereby pressing the platens against a belt engaged therebetween. At least one of the traverses is formed of box section.

Abstract: A machine tool comprising a portal stand having a number of, preferably four, screw pillars and a moveable yoke driven and guided along the screw pillars by means of nuts preferably roller nuts, in the yoke. Tools, machining devices or the like can be attached to the yoke. The nuts are driven simultaneously by a drive motor through a drive shaft extending therefrom. A very good parallel guiding of the yoke is achieved despite uneven loads. When the power demand is high, for example during heavy pressings, an auxiliary cylinder is provided, the piston rod of which is fixed to the yoke.

Abstract: A device for baling cut crop, comprising a baling chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port and a compression member adapted to move in the baling chamber, the compressing stroke of the compression member extends along the inlet port to near the outlet port and is equal to or slightly larger than the distance between the inlet and outlet ports; a construction of the device according to the invention is suitable for making bundles having a materially higher "specific weight" than the generally known "straw bales".

Abstract: A can crushing apparatus is disclosed comprising a reciprocating head which reciprocates between two fixed walls whereby on each stroke of the head, two crushing operations are performed. Automatic can feeding means, having safety switch prime mover activation capability mounted thereon, is provided. A trash container closure base for said apparatus is also disclosed.

Abstract: An improved structure for movably mounting a ram to a support in a refuse compactor. The mounting structure includes a plurality of threaded force transfer elements fixed to the ram and connecting structure fixedly associated with the driven sprocket of the motor drive. The connecting devices are threadedly associated one each with the force transfer elements and are mounted to the support structure of the compactor in such a manner as to dispose the driven sprockets in accurate spaced center-to-center relationship corresponding accurately to the center-to-center relationship of the force transfer elements as carried by the ram. A structural arrangement provides a binding-free drive of the force transfer elements by the drive mechanism of the compactor.

Abstract: A bottomless container for household dry refuse such as garbage and rubbish is positioned within a bag having its upper edge folded firstly inwardly and then outwardly of the container edge, so that the refuse can be compacted and the bag removed when the bottomless container is raised off the bag. The system for filling the container comprises a box-shaped trap pivotally mounted to an external wall of the house, at the bottom of an aperture adapted to be closed by a double seal device operatively connected to the trap, so that when the trap is shut the aperture is closed by the bottom of the trap and by one of a pair of parallel vertical spaced curtains of the double seal device, and when the trap is open the aperture is closed by the pair of curtains. The aperture leads into a rubbish chute which receives the container in its bottom and which has means in its upper portion for compacting the refuse.

Abstract: A support assembly including elongated upper and lower parallel plates. A plurality of column supports separate and interconnect the parallel plates. A clamping assembly is supported by the plates, the clamping assembly having vertical and horizontal pressure screw assemblies. A vertical pressure screw assembly is mounted upon the upper plate adjacent each end thereof, and a horizontal pressure screw assembly is mounted upon the lower plate at each end thereof. Both vertical and horizontal pressure screw assemblies project into the space between the upper and lower plates. An annular flexible platform is attached to the lower plate adjacent each end thereof, beneath each vertical pressure screw assembly, and projects into the space between the plates. Lenses, which are to be fixed together by adhesive means to form a combination lens, are received upon a flexible platform, aligned by action of a horizontal pressure screw assembly, and pressed together by action of a vertical pressure screw assembly.

Abstract: A trash compactor has trash compacting means attached to a chassis that is supported in the upper end of the housing for limited movement relative to its side walls and is detachable in a manner facilitating servicing of the trash compacting means. The chassis moves upwardly in response to reaction force developing on the application of compacting pressures to the trash by the compacting means and, at its upper limit of travel, it transfers the reaction forces to the side walls of the housing.

Abstract: A domestic trash compactor is provided with electromechanical means operable on a predetermined stroke of its compacting head to control a circuit, in the disclosed embodiment, a signal circuit providing a warning that the compacted trash in the receiver should be inspected.

Abstract: A trash compactor has a compacting head supported by two sets of links, each set having a pair of links pivotally interconnected by a member common to both pairs and spacing the two sets of links apart. Corresponding ends of the links are pivotally connected to the head and means connect the other ends of the links to the compactor in a manner enabling the linkage to be unfolded to extend the head into a compacting position or retracted therefrom. Vertical screws, rotated by a reversible drive are threaded through the pivot member to effect such folding and unfolding of the linkage. The ends of the pivot member are within vertical guides and the linkage includes stabilizing links connected to the head.

Abstract: A household compactor mechanical press structure for refuse provided with a screw with a relatively large pitch having a piston attached to one end thereof. The screw runs through a threaded hole in a vertically movable structure that is supported by a pair of threaded rods. The latter are rotatably journalled at one end in a support plate and at the other end pass through threaded holes in the vertically movable structure.

Abstract: The trash compactor has a throat above the chamber in which the trash receiving unit is located. The trash receiving unit consists of a pan and a container, both dimensioned so that their walls are shielded by the throat. The pan fits the chamber with its walls spaced from the walls of the housing and receives a trash bag within it. The container is open at the top and bottom with its walls upwardly and inwardly tapering with its lower end fitting within the bag and holding it bottomed against the pan. Both the pan and the container are of a plastic having a good memory and they are detachably interconnected. A carrying strap enables the unit or the pan with the bag therein and with the container removed, to be carried to a pick-up or disposal site.

Abstract: A portable, rollable container unit is adapted to be removably received in a power unit. The units have means for positively guiding the container unit into the power unit and a ram in the power unit is operable to compact material in the container unit. The apparatus includes means responsive to the container unit being fully received in the power unit for enabling the ram unit and for inhibiting operation of the ram unit when the container unit is not fully received in the power unit. The container has an openable wall door section and means is provided for inhibiting opening of the door section of the container when the container unit is received in the power unit.

Abstract: An object compacting device having a housing with a bearing plate and an entrance opening; a wall, having an object receiving passage, mounted in the housing to divide the housing into an object discharge compartment between the wall and plate and an object receiving compartment communicating with the entrance opening; a workbed secured in the receiving compartment of the housing in endward alignment with the receiving passage and in alignment with the entrance opening; a compression member; and a mechanism mounting the compression member for movement across the workbed to and from the receiving passage in response to the insertion of an object through the entrance opening and on to the workbed.

Abstract: Apparatus for compacting discarded wastepaper, cardboard boxes and the like into bale form comprising a container having a floor, a platen movable downwardly toward the floor for compacting the material, and a drive means for pulling the platen downwardly. The drive means includes a pair of upright screws drivingly connected to opposite ends of the platen, a pair of pulleys engaged with the lower ends of the screws, and a pair of drive belts which connect the pulleys to a motor, which is positioned on the back wall of the container at substantially equal distances from each screw. Turning of the pulleys by the motor additionally rotates the screws thereby driving the platen up or down. A pair of circuit interrupting switches are electrically associated with the motor and engage the drive belts. The switches are operable to shut off the motor in response to belt breakage.