Abstract: A freezer includes one or more cooling plates arranged into a table surface, wherein the freezer is configured to run either a closed loop film or a disposable film one at a time over the cooling plates; the closed loop film is provided on the freezer; and a disposable film of finite length is provided on the freezer while the closed loop film is on the freezer. The disposable film can be an alternate or backup to keep the freezer operating when the closed loop film needs repair.

Abstract: Stabilized precursor solutions can be used to form radiation inorganic coating materials. The precursor solutions generally comprise metal suboxide cations, peroxide-based ligands and polyatomic anions. Design of the precursor solutions can be performed to achieve a high level of stability of the precursor solutions. The resulting coating materials can be designed for patterning with a selected radiation, such as ultraviolet light, x-ray radiation or electron beam radiation. The radiation patterned coating material can have a high contrast with respect to material properties, such that development of a latent image can be successful to form lines with very low line-width roughness and adjacent structures with a very small pitch.

Abstract: The invention provides a new method and apparatus for making multicolor gelatin ribbons and softgel capsules is provided which uses a modification of the gelatin spreader boxes by incorporating especially designed pipelines that are bifurcated with a tee.

Abstract: An apparatus for UV marking a substrate comprises: an ink jet apparatus having UV sensitive ink, the ink jet apparatus being configured to eject the UV sensitive ink; and an extruder producing a wire and insulation in a processing direction. The ink jet apparatus is configured in relation to the processing direction so as to eject UV sensitive ink in a pattern onto a surface of the wire and insulation. Additionally, an apparatus for forming a UV marked product comprises: first and second injection devices; and a two layer mold injection unit at the output of the first and second injection devices. The first injection device uses a first mixture of a polymer, a color masterbatch, and a UV sensitive masterbatch, and the second injection device uses a second mixture of the polymer and the color masterbatch, and the first mixture and the second mixture are injected into the two layer mold to form a UV marked product having a UV sensitive section and a non-UV sensitive section.

Abstract: A patterning apparatus for an electroluminescent display includes a molding plate provided with a plurality of convex portions and concave portions; a polymer supplying roller adjacent to the molding plate to apply an electroluminescent material to the molding plate via rotational movement; and a molding roller attached to the molding plate to apply the electroluminescent material on the molding plate to an adjacent substrate via rotational movement.

Abstract: Systems to control an atmosphere about a substrate are described. The systems include a wall coupled to the substrate to create a resistance of the flow between different regions of the substrate.

Abstract: The invention is the provision of an elongated imitation wood product or component which has a plastic core and a plastic coating on at least one surface with the coating, which is of two different colours and which has a randomly swirled pattern, giving a realistic appearance of the wood grain of natural wood to the product. The invention further is in the method and equipment for producing such a realistic imitation wood product or component made of plastic.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing imitation grill marks on food items without applying heat to the items in forming the grill marks. The apparatus has a sprayer that applies a colorized solution to the items and a press that forms indentations on the items, impregnating the solution into the indentations and permitting the solution to collect in the indentations.

Abstract: Extrusion apparatus and method includes a chamber of alterable volume having an outlet and a vent in a movable wall of the chamber to facilitate sealing the chamber upon application of force to the movable wall to displace viscous, fluid composition from within the chamber through the outlet and along a desired path. After displacement of a volume of the composition from the chamber, the vent is relieved to promote expansion of the composition within the chamber through the vent rather than through the outlet. The composition may be cured to substantially non-fluid condition along the desired path in response to applied thermal and/or ultraviolet radiant energy to provide traces of selected electrical properties on a work surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus for making printed foods such as cookies, crackers, and snacks at high production speeds on a continuous basis. The apparatus includes a rotary printer which is synchronized with dough forming apparatus such as a rotary cutter or rotary molder.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying marking to the outside surface of an outer jacket of a cable assembly including a cable having flat cable sections and sections where the conductors are not held. The apparatus includes a supply station for providing a length of the cable, a take up station for taking up the completed cable assembly, and a driver for moving the cable toward the take up station. The apparatus also includes a flat cable section detector adjacent the supply station for marking a flat cable section with an implant, and an extruder positioned downstream of the flat cable section detector for providing the outer jacket about the cable and the implant. The apparatus further includes an implant detector disposed downstream of the extruder for detecting the passage of the implant, and a printer located between the implant detector and the take up station and which is responsive to the implant detector for marking the location of a flat cable section on the outside surface of the outer jacket.

Abstract: An apparatus is presented for printing material on an extruded plastic tubing. An extruder forms the plastic tubing of the desired diameter and thickness. The tubing is then drawn through a cooling bath by a pulling mechanism, and cut into desired lengths. The tubing may be dried after the cooling process, and an ink jet printer is utilized to print on the tubing as it is being drawn to be cut. A computer controls the printing process in correlation with the tubing cutter to provide a print signal to the printer in accordance with the desired lengths of tubing. The print heads of the printer are also three-dimensionally adjustable so as to center the printed material on the desired size and length of tubing to be cut.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying hot melt adhesive to the parting surfaces of sections of a foam pattern employed in the lost foam metal casting process includes an adhesive applicator operable to dispense a layer of adhesive in a desired pattern onto a transfer surface. The parting surface of a section of a foam pattern is then brought into engagement with the transfer surface so that at least a portion of the adhesive adheres to the parting surface for assembly with a mating section of the foam pattern. The adhesive remaining on the transfer surface after engagement with the parting surface is scraped off and a new layer of adhesive applied in preparation for another section of the foam pattern.

Abstract: A device for adjusting the height of building blocks or similar, which operates to form inside a mold blocks the height of which varies between a predetermined height and a height which is lower than the predetermined height, laying over the blocks an amount of material the height of which is higher than the height difference between the predetermined height and the actual height of the blocks, and levelling the material amount until the total height of the blocks as formed by the sum of the actual block height and the height of the material amount substantially corresponds to the predetermined height.

Abstract: A blow-moulding machine comprises a mixer for mixing refractory particles with a binder and a hardener or the like, a main tank for transporting moulding sand, a booster provided subsequently to said tank, a blast hose, and a blowing nozzle mounted at the tip end of said hose.

Abstract: Molten thermoplastic, such as polyethylene, and a hot melt adhesive are coextruded through a channel shaped profile die. While still molten, the channel shaped strip, having adhesive between the ribs thereof, is brought into contact with a moving web of a thermoplastic, e.g. polyethylene film, which is backed up by a roll at a controlled temperature. The temperature differential between the roll and the molten thermoplastic is maintained so that the thermoplastic adheres to the moving web upon contact and thereafter cools to set the thermoplastic in the channel shaped profile. The web is under tension so that contraction of the film upon release compensates for the contraction of the channel shaped strip as it cools.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacture of milk chocolate-coated toffee candy pieces that comprises a toffee header with means connected to the header for heating a mass of toffee to a softened temperature sufficient to permit portions of it to be pulled from the mass. The header has spaced orifices for the toffee to exit as strands. A rotary toffee forming device is mounted beneath the orifices. Means is provided for reciprocating the header back and forth with the fine toffee strands being drawn from the orifices by the rotary movement of the rotary toffee forming device. Means is provided for transversely severing outer ends of the axially moving lengths of cores with consecutive cuts to form successive toffee pieces of toffee cores. A chocolate coating bath is provided for first immersing the bottoms of the toffee cores in a bath of milk chocolate and then for flooding chocolate over the tops of the cores to completely coat the cores.

Abstract: For producing rod-shaped tobacco-smoke filter components each having one or more annular tobacco-smoke barriers, annular grooves open at their peripheries are formed in rod-shaped bodies of smoke-filtration material, the grooved bodies are conveyed in a direction transverse to their longitudinal axes along an arcuate path, and settable barrier material is deposited in the grooves during the conveyance along said path, the bodies being rotated about their said axes during the deposition of the barrier material.