Abstract: Method for applying an elastic band around the cuff of an elastic glove which includes extruding a stripe of elastomeric material around the cuff of the glove while on a glove form and curing the stripe. A tray carrying a row of glove forms, each having a glove thereon, is stopped to position one of the forms at a band applying station. A mast having an extruder nozzle adjacent the cuff edge is moved circumferentially about the cuff in a generally elliptical path to avoid engagement with adjacent forms while allowing the forms to be closely spaced for economical manufacturing.

Abstract: An ornamental plastic article having a smooth rear exterior surface and a rough, randomly arranged layer of plastic particles or pellets forming the front outer surface is produced by placing a layer of plastic powder on one surface of a first mold form containing an outer wall having the configuration of the article, heating the powder until the powder becomes tacky in the form of a strip, placing this form on top of a mating second mold form having an outer wall containing various pockets of different colored plastic pellets of a compatible plastic material located in predetermined locations within the outer wall, rotating the two forms until the tacky powder form is on the bottom and the pockets of colored plastic pellets are on top, reversing the position of the two forms, and removing the first form which has a layer of plastic pellets affixed to the tacky layer in predetermined color arrangement corresponding to the pocket location on the second mold form, heating the pellets until they become soft, and

Abstract: A method for extruding synthetic resinous materials including introducing a mixture of softened variously or similarly colored or clear resinous chips into an extruder, coating the chips with a coating agent such as a lubricant in the barrel of the extruder, extruding the mixture through an extrusion die thereby to produce a finished product of fused resinous chips maintaining good color definition between the chips.

Abstract: A method of producing a moulded article from concrete or the like comprising; having at least a portion of a mould formed of expanded polystyrene; treating the moulding face of the expanded polystyrene to form a textured and/or patterned surface; applying a colored composition to the moulding face of the expanded polystyrene; filling the mould with concrete or the like; upon the solidification of the concrete or the like, applying an organic solvent to the expanded polystyrene, wherein a portion of the solution of the solvent and polystyrene is caused to remain on the moulded article, the amount of solution remaining upon the moulded article being controlled by the amount of solvent applied to the expanded polystyrene; permitting the solvent to evaporate from the solution remaining on the moulded article to form a colored glazed finish upon the moulded product.

Abstract: A method for producing glass fiber reinforced plastic molded articles with decorative patterns thereon is provided, which method includes the steps of placing at least two kinds of differently colored sheet molding compound (SMC) mat layers on a stationary mold, each of the SMC mats including glass fibers impregnated with resin, the resin in each of the SMC mats including different colorants, the area of each SMC mat layer occupying less than the total effective molding surface area of the stationary mold surface, disposing a movable mold in engagement with the stationary mold with the SMC mat layers interposed between such molds, and applying heat and pressure to the molds so as to fluidize and polymerize and cure the resin in the SMC mats. When fluidized, the two kinds of differently colored mats are mingled with each other to form flow patterns comprised of the distinct colors of each of the mats.

Abstract: A process for producing a decorative surface covering wherein granular dryblend is deposited on a releasable carrier and heated to form a porous cohesive layer. Settable resinous inks are then applied to selected surface portions of the dryblend to form design areas which may overlap at the points of application. The inked areas extend partially or completely through the layer so that they are visible from the bottom surface of the sheet which ultimately becomes the face of the surface covering, after final fusion of all of the resinous materials. The ink may optionally be set by heat prior to or simultaneously with the subsequent application and gelling of a resinous back coating, if one is used. The back coating may be reinforced by included or attached material to form a permanent carrier. Depending on the backing used, heat may be applied to fuse the composite structure before or after the release carrier is removed.

Abstract: An injection molding process by which the characteristics of a product may be controlled by molding the product of two or more dissimilar melts by simultaneous injection of the dissimilar melts into the mold in such a manner that the dissimilar melts intermix at transitional zones to provide a one-piece construction with strong chemical and/or mechanical bonds at the transitional zones.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for forming decorated articles of acrylic resins, more particularly acrylic sheets bearing figures and inscriptions, according to which a molding cell, having one of its inner faces coated with a coloured paint reproducing the desired inscriptions or decorations, is filled with an acrylic prepolymer in admixture with a polymerization catalysts, the polymerization is carried out in a controlled temperature environment until the polymer is still ductile, and then the polymer mass incorporating the coloured paint coating is placed in a second molding cell of greater inner size, the space remaining between the outer surfaces of the polymer mass and the inner faces of said second cell is filled with additional mixture of acrylic prepolymer and catalysts, and then the polymerization process is completed under controlled temperature, whereby the required figures or inscriptions are incorporated in the acrylic body.

Abstract: A process for producing a decorative surface covering wherein granular dryblend is deposited on a releasable carrier and heated to form a porous cohesive layer. Settable resinous inks are then applied to selected areas of the dryblend to form a design which may extend partially or completely through the layer to the bottom surface thereof which ultimately becomes the face of the surface covering. The ink may optionally be set by heat prior to or simultaneously with the subsequent application and gelling of a resinous back coating which may be reinforced by included or attached material to form a permanent carrier. The release carrier is then removed. A multi-level wear surface is achieved on the surface covering by removing the non-ink-containing portions of the dryblend either before or after the composite structure is turned over and heat is applied to fuse the remaining resinous material.

Abstract: Processes for coating concrete bricks with exposed surfaces having sharply delineated portions of contrasting color and/or texture by periodically and regularly forming atomized particles of a viscous cementitious slurry and directing same on to portions of surfaces of each of a plurality of green concrete bricks in groups located stationary in regular fashion for a brief period and thereafter firing the thus coated uncured brick. The processes include steps for rapidly and/or sequentially varying the colors applied to the different groups of bricks during successive cycles of coating the successively treated different groups of such brick.