Abstract: An electrically insulating formed channel member is made of a sheet of an electrically insulating material capable of being press formed that is cut to provide radially projecting portions. Thereafter, the sheet is press-formed to form a formed channel member including the channel portion and the projection portions and bent to extend along the inner corner of a rectangular pancake coil with the web located at the inner side of the corner curvature. The sheet material may preferably be a dray paper press board. Ripples may be provided in the sheet material prior to the step of press-forming. The moisture in the sheet material may also be adjusted prior to the step of press-forming.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cosmetic puff for liquid foundation includes forming a latex film coating on one side of a crimp pattern plate by applying a latex film compound thereon. The latex film coated plates are set in a manufacturing framework. The foamed latex foam compound is injected into the manufacturing framework while adding a coagulant and an activator therein to hereby produce a gelled latex foam covered with latex films on both sides. The latex foam and the latex films are simultaneously vulcanized to thereby bond the latex films onto the latex foam. A manufacturing framework for a cosmetic puff is also disclosed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for forming a web of uncut thermoplastic articles from a sheet of material and severing the uncut articles from the web of unseparated articles by precisely locating the unseparated articles with respect to a cutting tool and, once located, cutting the product from the web. Male locating pins included as part of the trimmer and spaced a known distance from the cutting edge move forward to engage web deformations. The forward movement of the male locating pin delivers sufficient force to the deformations to center them on the male locating pin. Continued forward movement forces the other side of the deformation into contact with a female locating pin included as part of the die and spaced the same known distance from the die edge. The female locating pin grabs the deformation to place the sheet in the desired location.

Abstract: A moulded plastics article, such as a container, having a blank of a plastics film material, as a label or diffusion barrier, at a surface thereof is manufactured by a method including the steps of cutting blanks individually from a strip of the plastics film material for each moulding operation, and feeding each cut blank to and introducing it into the mould ready for the respective moulding operation to be performed in which the blank becomes incorporated in the moulded article. The blank may be located in the mould by suction and/or blown air applied at the mould, or by electrostatically charging the blank to cause it to be attracted to a surface in the mould. The cut blanks are taken individually to the mould by a transfer arm which holds them by suction.

Abstract: This invention encompasses a process for making containers from multiple stacked billets which comprises the steps of preparing thermoplastic sheet, cutting or punching billets from the sheet, stacking two or more of the billets together, heating the stacked billets or the mating surfaces of the billets to or above the fusion temperature of the mating surfaces, where the billets adhere to each other, and thermoforming the stacked billets into containers.

Abstract: A method of making a ballistic helmet and a helmet made by the method in which each of the plies making up the body is formed from a hexagonal blank cut from ballistic cloth and provided with slits extending from the apices thereof toward the center to form a central area and segments extending from the central area. As the blanks are laid up in a mold cavity the segments overlap to provide first portions which overlap and second portions which do not. As successive blanks are laid up they are rotated slightly to stagger the portions of adjacent plies. As the laying up operation proceeds, progressively smaller blanks are laid up between adjacent relatively larger blanks.

Abstract: This invention encompasses a process for making multilayer containers by conventional roll fed sheet method, with minimal scrap loss, which comprises the steps of preparing a monolayer sheet of a first thermoplastic material by conventional roll fed sheet methods, cutting or punching billets from a second thermoplastic material sheet, heating the monolayer sheet and the billets to a temperature where both the sheet and the billets become tacky, placing the billets at a position on the sheet so that the billets are in a position over forming cavities in a forming mold at the time of forming, while maintaining the billets and sheet at a temperature where the sheet and billets are tacky and weld together, and forming containers from the welded billets and sheet so that the web scrap left after forming is pure monolayer sheet.

Abstract: A non-crosslinked foam of a composition comprising:(A) 72 to 98% by weight of a 1-butene polymer; and(B) 28 to 2% by weight of a propylene polymer, the percentages being based on the total weight of the 1-butene polymer and the propylene polymer.

Abstract: A process for the production of relief images, especially of postcards, greeting cards or the like, wherein a relief is embossed into a polystyrene foam substrate by pressing a heated embossing die against the substrate. A pictorial and/or graphic illustration is applied to the substrate on at least one side thereof, preferably by screen printing. The illustration can be on paper which is applied to the foam sheet. The embossing die is heated to a temperature between 100.degree. and 130.degree. C., preferably 110.degree.-120.degree. C., and is applied agianst the foam with a pressure of at least 0.5 kg/cm.sup.2 while flatly supporting the foam sheet from the opposite side. The foam sheet has a thickness of 1-3 mm, preferably 1.5-2.0 mm. The substrate can be coated with a clear varnish after the imprinting step and before the embossing step. After the embossing step, the relief thus produced can be separated from a larger portion of the plastic foam sheet.

Abstract: A multilayered container comprising a wall portion consisting of thermoplastic gas barrier resin (resin B) layers and thermoplastic resin (resin A) layers, with the terminal portion of the mouth opening being of a thermoplastic resin (resin A), said wall portion being a multilayered structure formed by alternately laminating the resin A layers and the resin B layers in such a manner that there are at least two resin B layers, with the proviso that there is one more of the resin A layer than the number of the resin B layers, said structure having been biaxially oriented.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for manufacturing, by injection of synthetic material, objects comprising a film forming an integral part thereof, by means of an injection machine incorporating a mould comprising a punch and a die, and at least one nozzle for injecting synthetic material, wherein a web of the film material is advanced step by step towards the mould and, after advance of said web by a step corresponding to a certain dimension of the film to be cut out, a film is cut out from said web in the desired format, with the result that the film cut out to the chosen format lies between the punch and the die at the instant when the mould is closed.

Abstract: A two part closure for a container is comprised of a flexible foil sealing disk together with a flanged linerless screw threaded closure cap. During the process of applying the closure to a container, the flexible foil sealing disk is formed, heated, and is tack adhered to the rim of the container. A closure cap having downwardly extending spaced sealing flanges is then screwed onto the container. The cap's sealing flanges contact the flexible foil sealing disk on opposite edges of the container's mouth rim and, as the cap is screwed down, these flanges bring the flexible foil sealing disk into continuous, intimate sealing contact with the container rim. Additionally, the inner closure flange draws the portion of the flexible foil sealing disk situated within the container mouth tight to eliminate creases and wrinkles in the foil sealing disk.

Abstract: A method of forming a cover sheet over an opening of a rotary electric device such as a trimmer capacitor or a variable resistor. The rotary device includes a rotor located in a housing or case which is accessible through the opening and adjustable by a screwdriver or similar tool. To form the cover sheet, pliable resin is extended while in an unhardened state to form a film. The case is pressed against the film to introduce a part of the film into the opening. Then the resin material forming the film is allowed to partially harden before the case is separated from the film. As a result, part of the film remains in the opening of the case to form the cover sheet. As the film is completely hardened a functional cover sheet over the opening is produced.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a garment which is three dimensionally molded. The garment in the form of opposing sheets of fabric are fed from bolts of fabric to a molding station wherein a male mold section is provided in the shape of the three dimensional garment desired. A pair of opposing female mold sections close onto the male mold section sandwiching the sheets of fabric into the mold cavities. Heat is applied to mold the fabric sheets into the three dimensional garment. Simultaneously, an ultrasonic seamer cuts and bonds the periphery of the material around the mold. The mold cavity is then opened, portions of the mold are separated and the garment is then lifted off the male mold section.

Abstract: A system for producing generally concavo-convex synthetic plastic containers and like articles, such as picnic plates wherein a mold station has a stationary intermediate mold with projecting male mold parts on one side and directly opposite recessed female mold cavities in alignment therewith on the other side. A first movable mold, on the side of the intermediate mold having the male mold parts is provided with recessed mating female mold cavities of the same dimensions as the said cavities in the intermediate mold and a second movable mold on the other side of the intermediate mold has aligned projecting male mold parts mating with the cavities in the intermediate mold. A pair of heated, moldable synthetic plastic webs are advanced in unison to opposite sides of the intermediate mold and are later removed in unison from the mold station. The heated sections of the webs are moved in unison to opposite sides of the intermediate mold when the said first and second movable molds are separated therefrom.

Abstract: An oriented continuous strand mat of glass fiber filaments is formed by interleaved layers of generally circular or random loops and elongated elliptical loops having their longitudinal axes positioned in the direction of travel of an endless conveyor upon which the glass fibers are deployed to form a mat useable in a stampable glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet having increased tensile strength in the length of the sheet. An elongated deflector plate having a planar deflecting surface whose length is aligned with the direction of conveyor travel, and whose face plane is generally perpendicular thereto receives pulled strands which have passed through an air flow nozzle and forms the strands into the elongated elliptical loops used to make the mat.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fistula consisting of a needle mounted on a plastic handle or wing. The plastic wings are formed by continuously extruding a plastic strip having the wing cross section. The outer end of the extruded plastic is blanked to partially shape and outline an individual wing. Thereafter, a needle is inserted into a hollow core on the endmost partially blanked wing and a needle guard is positioned over the needle. Finally, the completed fistula is removed from the end of the extruded strip by a final cut or punching for producing a finished fistula.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for permanently and rapidly imparting surface characteristics, such as texture or graining, to decorative coverings for substrates, such as wall coverings in the absence of any degradation thereof, so that when the coverings are subsequently applied to the substrate, such as an aircraft bulkhead, by heat application, the texture previously imparted will remain intact. The process and apparatus uses magnetic attraction in tenter frames to carry and expose continuous webs of thermoplastic to high temperature embossing with simultaneous and subsequent rapid cooling. The arrangements and process avoid lengthy press application at high temperature which has the effect of degrading color and other characteristics of the material being treated.

Abstract: Improvements in differential pressure, thermoforming machinery for molding articles in thermoplastic material wherein a mold station incorporates female mold mechanism and opposed mold mechanism, a web advancing mechanism indexes a plastic web in which products are to be formed between said mold mechanisms, a drive moves the female and opposed mold mechanisms between open and closed positions on opposite sides of the plastic web, severing knife means is cooperable with a final increment of said relative movement to dispose said mechanism in closed position to sever the products formed from the web, and ejector mechanism is operable after severing is accomplished and there has been relative movement of said mold mechanisms toward open position to eject the product.

Abstract: A shoe-innersole material for use in providing cushioning and support in footwear, and a method of manufacturing the shoe-innersole material, the shoe innersole comprising a heel and an arch section composed of a molded, elastomeric polyurethane foam material of low compression set, the heel and arch sections directly bonded in the molding process to a full-sole material composed either of foam or a solid, flexible sheet material.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing articles by stretch-forming or pressure-forming of thermoplastics in the solid crystalline phase which permits forming from a billet of given thickness articles of greater wall thickness than would be formed by stretch-forming or pressure-forming the clamped billets.

Abstract: After arranging on dual pans two thick strips of a deformable fiber-reinforced spongeous material and covering them with a liner made of an elastic cloth, a fluid polymer is poured into said pans which reacts to set and foam in a conveniently short time. During the setting time, the user keeps his/her feet fixedly inside the pans, to thus leave an impression which accurately reproduces the shape thereof. After setting, the deformable strips is bonded to the liner and retains the exact impression left by the foot.Successive trimming operations provide an insole taylored to fit the user's feet.

Abstract: This invention relates to plastic sheet material, and in particular concerns the production of a plastics sheet material which has a wide range of uses, because of the properties thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for cutting the web remaining from a plastic sheet containing thermoformed articles into strips, loosely indexing and aligning a plurality of thermoformed articles in each strip with article punches, sequentially isolating the articles from each other so that they have complete freedom of movement in both across-machine and machine directions, exactly registering the articles with the article punches in a selected sequence, precisely trimming the articles from the plastic web, and ejecting them from the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a thin-walled article comprising a frame providing a forming station for positioning a preheated sheet of thermoplastic material, first and second mold sections mounted on the frame in opposed relation with the forming station disposed therebetween, the first mold section having a forming cavity therein, the second mold section having a forming portion insertable in the forming cavity of the first mold section when the mold sections are displaced toward each other, the forming portion of the second mold section having at least one wall cooperable with at least one wall of the forming cavity of the first mold section when a preheated sheet of thermoplastic material is positioned at the forming station and the mold sections are displaced toward each other for sequentially shearing a blank from the preheated sheet of thermoplastic material and compressing the blank between the mold sections to cause the blank material to flow and form the article, means for ejecting the formed article fr

Abstract: The present invention is carried out in combination with the injection molding of a closure cap or container, wherein a continuous sealing strip having a thermoplastic resin layer on the inner surface thereof is supplied intermittently. Then a reciprocable molding member having a sharp edge at the tip thereof is advanced through the sealing strip to a position where a molding cavity in the injection mold defining a pour-out hole of a closure cap or container is closed by a sealing piece punched out from the sealing strip, and thereafter a thermoplastic resin is injected into the molding cavity.

Abstract: A method of forming a plurality of composite paperboard and plastic packages from a single blank of foldable paperboard. Each of the packages includes paperboard panels having at one end thereof an integral pocket for holding a packaged article. The pockets consist of shells which are formed integrally with the panels and have injected plastic therein covering the shells to form plastic liners.

Abstract: A method of forming plastic sheet material into articles. The sheet is heated and is formed into the article in a mould. The mould parts severe the portion of the sheet which is to be formed into the article and at the peripheral edge of the said portion the mould parts squeeze the plastics material to cause it to flow outwardly into a bead cavity in which the material forms into a thickened bead.

Abstract: A process for the production of patterned tiles from thermoplastic synthetic resins includes the steps of forming a length of crude sheet stock by compressing unicolored and/or differently colored or multicolored particulate material of thermoplastic synthetic resin; cutting off crude sheets from the sheet stock; punching segments out of the crude sheets; combining the segments from at least two crude sheets of differing colors into a panel so that the segments complement one another, and thereafter press-molding the segments to form an intarsia tile with the use of pressure and heat so that the segments are welded together along joints formed therebetween.

Abstract: A fluorocarbon polymer gasket is disclosed which has been compression formed from a fluorocarbon polymer sheet heated to its gel state, cooled in its compressed state, and shaped into a gasket. The gasket so manufactured has a "living memory" thus enabling it to tend to return to its pre-compression form when exposed to elevated temperatures.

Abstract: A method for preforming magnetic drum material involves the use of a hydraulic press and sleeve which in turn compresses the material and then cuts the material into a specific shape. This process is repeated until the material builds up in the sleeve to the required charge thickness. This method has improved the molding process by eliminating air and gas voids in the molded magnetic drum.

Abstract: A rubber sheet for a turntable characterized by being a cured molding of a rubber composition, the cured molding having a hardness within the range from 30.degree. as measured with an A-type rubber hardness tester to 15.degree. as measured with an F-type rubber hardness tester and an impact resilience of not less than 40%. This rubber sheet effectively prevents the tone quality of reproduced sounds from deteriorating due to howling or external vibrations and permits reproducing source sounds faithfully.

Abstract: The manufacture of perforated vinyl strips by feeding the strip material continuously without interruption to a punching apparatus that has two pairs of cooperative rotary dies that punch out closely spaced perforations with the first pair of dies scoring the perforations and the second pair punching out the perforations.

Abstract: A method of cutting and shaping a sheet or slab of soft, tearable and scalable paste, constituted for example by agglomerated solid or plastic particles, based in particular on clays, for the manufacture of ceramic objects or pieces, said objects being cut out of a slab portion constituting a blank by means of suitably contoured cutters which are caused to penetrate into the said paste laid on a bearing support having the desired shape, after which the trimmings are removed.In order to allow the objects cut out of the said blank to be recovered, the said cutting is performed on a supple film or hand laid on the said support, for example a plastic film or sheet, which is apt to conform in shape to the objects cut out, which does not adhere to the said objects and which is not cut by the said cutters, the objects thus cut out being thereafter separated from the said supple band.

Abstract: An arrangement for fabricating planar elements which may be stacked for producing predetermined surfaces and bodies. The planar elements have cross-sections corresponding to respective cross-sections of the surface to be constructed. The planar elements are formed by cutting them from plate-shaped material or sheet metal, and the cut-out elements are held to the parent sheet or plate material by tabs. The planar elements are cut successively from the sheet or plate-shaped material at spaced intervals. The cutting action is such as to leave the tabs for holding the planar elements in place. Registration holes are punched about the planar element, so that these may be readily stacked relative to each other, as required to form the surface to be constructed. Sprocket holes are also punched in the sheet material to advance the material along a processing path at which the various processing stations are located.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting elastomeric material into volumetric elastomer samples is disclosed. These volumetric samples may be reproduced at identical mass for precision testing purposes. The volumetric samples are reproducible for such precision purposes by the use of a volumetric adjustment mechanism which determines the volume of the cavity into which elastomeric material is compressed before cutting. The apparatus also has a moving cutting mechanism with a contoured cutting area, which in combination with the volumetric adjustment apparatus, removes deleterious air bubbles and other deformities prior to cutting the elastomeric material. The volumetric adjustment apparatus is housed within a die apparatus, which has a damping mechanism to permit complete manipulation of the elastomer prior to cutting the elastomer into the volumetric plug. After the cutting of the plug has occurred, the ejection apparatus pushes the volumetric plug from the cavity whereupon another cycle is begun.

Abstract: A method of working ceramic green sheet is disclosed. The ceramic green sheet is worked by pushing a spacer having at its edge a given profile to the surface of the sheet and then forcing a cylindrical knife heated at a given temperature and provided with an edge having a form substantially equal to the profile of the spacer along the periphery of the spacer to the surface of the sheet.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for making a phase insulator for a desired core size from a phase insulator of a smaller size. The insulator may be severed from a sheet of insulating material or fabricated from planar insulation pieces alone or from a combination of planar insulation pieces and one or more filamentary pieces. Details of different methods, insulators, and apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: Cable seals of the type employed in sealed electrical connectors are maintained in a predetermined orientation throughout manufacture and handling of same whereby the cable seals may be presented in a usable form to automatic assembly equipment for manufacture in cable lead terminations employed in such connectors. According to the method of the invention, the cable seals are integrally molded in a belt which provides a handleable product with the seals being maintained by the belt in a predetermined condition. The cable seals then are punched from the belt and simultaneously inserted into a carrier for subsequent handling while still maintaining the cable seals oriented for use such as in automatic assembly equipment.

Abstract: Shaped and self-supporting stratiform laminates, such as inner door panels for automobiles, are produced from a thermoplastic substrate and a flexible sheet material in a one-stroke molding, laminating, and cutting operation; laminated products obtained have protruding free edge portions of the flexible coating sheet so that cut edge portions of substrate can be covered subsequently with the protruding free portions.Apparatus for producing such laminates is a molding press having two molding plates, each of which includes one component of a pair of cutting means; the other two components of the pair of cutting means are provided by a generally annular element that is movable relative to the molding plates; the annular element includes a surface for cooperation with a peripheral knife around the surface of the upper molding plate to form one cutting means, and a cutting edge for cooperation with a shearing edge of the lower molding plate to form the second cutting means.

Abstract: A process of forming a decorative jewelry stone wherein a photographic film image, created by photographing positive artwork and being essentially transparent except for the image thereon, is utilized as the mold for receiving an uncured plastic resin in substantially liquid form. The resin is permitted to cure, the resultant partially formed article with the film portion attached thereto reversed in position such that a second amount of similar resin can be applied thereto to essentially embed the film portion therein. Since the film portion is essentially transparent except for the image thereon, the remaining portions of the film visually merges with the resin segments on either side thereof such that only the image is readily observable.

Abstract: The effect of earth gravity on the self assembly of tropocollagen molecules into collagen fibrils and on the aggregation of fibrils into collagen gels has been found to be surprisingly detrimental to the preparation of desirable biomaterials. Chemically and physically uniform biomaterials for use in repair or replacement of damaged or diseased human tissue and organs are prepared by otherwise conventional reconstitution of soluble tropocollagen carried out, however, under less than one gravity, preferably under zero gravity. Surprisingly better properties of the collagen aggregate suggest that improved biomaterials may be prepared from the uniform gels.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing thin-walled articles by thermoforming from crystalline thermoplastic sheet or web material wherein the sheet or web is rapidly precooled from extrusion temperature, and the outer surface layers reheated prior to thermoforming.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing thin-walled articles from crystalline thermoplastic material comprising the steps of extruding a continuous web of hot crystalline thermoplastic material at an extrusion temperature above the crystalline melting temperature range of the material, substantially immediately rapidly precooling the opposite surfaces of the web to form therealong thin supportive layers having a temperature in the range wherein the said material is not further plastically deformable and wherein further growth of crystals is essentially avoided, while the hotter core material between said layers is cooled to a temperature adjacent to but above the crystalline melting temperature range and is held in a substantially crystal free condition, transporting the so precooled web into a thermoforming station within a sufficiently short time period to essentially maintain over the web thickness the above mentioned temperature profile produced by precooling, and then thermally forming at a rapid cooling rate said we

Abstract: A method for lining the interior of a container with plastic sheet material. An open topped container is elevated upon a support through a passage in a lower die member into contact with the under surface of a sheet of heated thermoplastic material overlying the upper end of the passage. A plug assist member is then employed to deform the sheet into conformation with the interior of the container. Upon withdrawal of the plug assist member, an upper die member is lowered into shearing relationship with the lower die member to shear the sheet around the upper periphery of the container. The support, with the lined container in place, is then further elevated to raise the lined container upwardly through the opening thus sheared in the sheet and through a passage extending vertically through the upper die member. The plastic lined container is discharged from the apparatus by pushing it transversely across the flat upper surface of the upper die member.

Abstract: A sealing, packing, caulking and protective shielding composition comprising a mixture of at least one synthetic thermoplastic compound to which may be added at least one elastomer having thermoplastic properties with a carbonaceous material obtained by the liquefaction of coal which material has a boiling point above 350.degree. C. at atmospheric pressure. The composition is useful, particularly for sealing and protective purposes in the building and installation industries, for instance in the form of foils for water-proofing various articles, as sealing compounds for pipes and as protective coating for containers, pipes, electric cables and so on.

Abstract: A half-section of a cassette casing having an embedded transparent wafer serving as a viewing window. The cassette casing section is formed by shearing the wafer from an elongated strip of transparent material, disposing and supporting the wafer within a cavity, and forcing a plasticized material into the cavity where it solidifies. The cavity is defined in an injection mold comprising a pair of relatively movable cavity plate assemblies with which are associated means for shearing and supporting the wafer.

Abstract: Containers are formed with latch openings and a reinforced region adjacent to each opening, molded in one operation from a softened sheet of organic polymer material. The latch opening is formed by vertical shearing of the sheet from a predetermined area of one of the mold dies during the closure of the molds. The sheared-off material is compressed against adjacent portions of the sheet to define a reinforced edge of the aperture. Accretion of sheet material adjacent the aperture region adds strength and rigidity to the container wall and eliminates removal of waste material separated during formation of the latch opening.

Abstract: A system for the production of hollow finished objects, formed from a strip of plastic material by heat moulding, utilizing a process comprising the phases of feeding the strip, heating the strip, heat moulding from the strip and cutting therefrom the hollow objects in only one station, extraction of the finished hollow objects with stacking thereof, and arrangement of the remaining strip material from the process, in which the inoperative time of the heat moulding cycle is slightly greater than the cutting time added to the feed time of the strip in the heat moulding station.

Abstract: Method of making a molded container for potted plants from a sheet of organic polymer, is molded in one piece from a sheet of organic polymer material. Rigidity is provided by a peripheral solid lip formed with a horizontally extending lower surface and convexly curved upper surface. One or more drainage apertures are formed through the bottom wall of the container by limited vertical shearing eliminating waste and permitting adjacent portions to be strengthened and raised to dispose the aperture above a supporting surface. In molding the container, a strap of serrated steel is used to cut through the sheet material to define the outer edge of the container lip.