Abstract: This document discloses apparatus for applying an insulating jacket to an advancing electrical conductor and includes a tubular enclosure for suspending said jacketed conductor in the presence of a treatment agent. The enclosure includes a stationary chamber and a telescoping tube to allow opening and closing of the upstream end of it. The telescoping tube is pressed axially against a pivotally supported extruder head.

Abstract: Continuous apparatus for impression molding products containing thermoplastic material and having three-dimensional patterns on one or both surfaces, similar or dissimilar, with or without continuously changing profile or shaped edges. The thermoplastic material to be formed may or not contain foamants, fillers, strata or plys of differing composition to reinforce, decorate or protect, and is heated above its glass transition temperature before introduction between revolving flexible belt molds, which revolve in opposed relationship, being cooled, forming a travelling mold channel, at least one having a flexible three-dimensional pattern form on its front face. Opposed nip rolls press the revolving belt molds against the entering thermoplastic material. At least one belt mold travels partially around the nip roll impressing its three-dimensional pattern form in the heated material in a progressive localized rolling squeezing action in the nip region.

Abstract: A method of coating a fibre in which a sleeve of polymer is extruded, fibre is fed into the sleeve as it is formed, and the diameter of the sleeve is reduced by a drawing process to produce a sleeve of polymer which loosely envelops the fibre. We also provide a fibre having a tubular sleeve of polymer, the sleeve having its molecules orientated to lie longitudinally with respect to the axis of the fibre. The sleeve has relative strength in a longitudinal plane and relative weakness in a transverse plane.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously coating a thread or core with a thermoplastic is disclosed wherein a flowing stream of the plastic, in the form of a melt or liquid monomer is used to convey the core from one or more elongated and heated guide tubes into and through one or more elongated and cooled molding tubes axially aligned with each guide tube whereby the thread or core is automatically centered in the tubes and a uniform outer coating of hardened plastic is applied. The liquid monomer can be treated with a suitable activator or catalyst before entry into the mold tubes or at an intermediate mixing zone located between the exit part of the guide tubes and the inlet part of the cooling tubes. The mixing zone is larger in volume than the tubes and provides an off-center convolution about the exit ports of the guide tubes and coaxial conical exit ports converging into the entry ports of the molding tubes.

Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing lengths of rubber hose of curved shape comprises means for feeding a sequence of flexible mandrels in end-to-end relation to and through a first extruder which extrudes a continuous rubber hose onto the string of mandrels. Downstream of the extruder there is means for wrapping reinforcing thread around the hose and a second extruder for extending a second layer of rubber onto the reinforced hose. Downstream of the second extruder the hose is cut at locations between successive mandrels to form separate lengths of hose each with a flexible mandrel therein. Clamping means engages opposite ends of each mandrel with a hose length thereon and forces the ends toward one another to bend the mandrel and hose to curved form. While thus held in curved form, the hose lengths are vulcanized. The mandrels are then removed while evacuating the interior of the mandrel to contract it and forcing pressure fluid between the mandrel and the curved hose length to facilitate the removal.

Abstract: This invention contemplates an apparatus for affixing to a papermaking felt a plurality of beads comprising means for supporting a papermaking felt having a working surface and means for applying beads of plastic backing, said beads extending away from said working surface and having top portions which are spaced from each other along said working surface to form channels for liquid flow.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed which reduces the complexity of the apparatus needed to accomplish the cross linking reaction in the process of coating a synthetic resin material onto a conducting wire. A rotary orifice is provided just down stream of the extruder and just upstream of the forming die. The rotary orifice imparts a compressive and a shearing stress to the resin to thereby increase the temperature uniformly. The increase in temperature assists in bringing about the cross linking reaction.

Abstract: In accordance with a preferred embodiment of this invention there is provided a method and apparatus for coating a wire or cable with a thermosetting polymer formed from a "liquid polymer" system such as a two-component polysiloxane. This system may be characterized as having two components each having a low viscosity and which when mixed react quickly to form the cross-linked polysiloxane rubber.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a flexible non-skid strip of flattened semi-circular cross-section.

Abstract: This invention is a single die by which thermoplastic insulating compounds can be co-extruded without any die for the first layer. It makes possible the extrusion of a high-density solid polyethylene skin layer over a cellular polyethylene primary insulation. Such a combination is difficult or impossible to make with a conventional co-extrusion die having a wire guide tip, one combination tip/die and a secondary extrusion die.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for edging reinforced elastomeric fabric and a preferred method for the operation thereof. One embodiment of apparatus includes a frame, a table for support of the elastomeric fabric, at least one extruder assembly adjacent the table for the application of a suitable elastomeric material directly onto an edge of the elastomeric fabric and means for moving the elastomeric fabric over the table. In an alternate embodiment, the apparatus includes a frame, means for support of the elastomeric fabric and at least one extruder assembly adjacent the means for support for the application of a suitable elastomeric material directly onto an edge of the elastomeric fabric.

Abstract: Electric cables insulated with a cured polyolefin and having high electrical breakdown strength are produced, in each instance, by applying, an insulating layer of polyolefin containing a curing agent onto a conductor by means of an extruder, forming and hot-curing said layer by means of a long-land die, simultaneously applying a specific forming coagent to a tapered portion of the long-land die, and cooling the resulting hot-cured insulating layer formed on the conductor in a cooling zone.

Abstract: In the manufacture of submarine coaxial cable, the dielectric sizing process is performed immediately after and in tandem with dielectric extrusion and cooling processes so that a portion of the water-rich surface layer of the dielectric resulting from the cooling process will be removed before the water has time to permeate into the inner regions of the dielectric.

Abstract: Apparatus for ascertaining the concentricity of the core of an elongated cable with its coating includes a means for establishing a predetermined axial position of the core with respect to the apparatus, as by sensing the intensity of a magnetic field produced by a current induced in the core. With the core in the established position, a second means ascertains the position of the lateral or transverse cross sectional dimension of the cable. Such means may comprise a photoelectric device responsive to the shadow of the cable. Any deviation in the position of the cross sectional dimension results from eccentricity and may be used as an indication of such.

Abstract: An insulation comprising a polyether polyester thermoplastic copolymer obtained by reacting 1, 4 butane diol terephthalate with terepthalate esters of polytetramethylene glycol is coated over an irregularly configured conductor, such as for example, a tinsel conductor, suitable for use in telecommunications cordage by moving the copolymer through an extruder and along a flow path formed between a core tube and wall of a die cavity. The die cavity adjacent to the throat of the die has a frustoconical portion formed with an approach angle of sufficient magnitude to minimize the pressure drop through the extruder to extrude the copolymer at a temperature slightly above the melting point of the copolymer.

Abstract: A fixed center extruder die assembly is disclosed which serves to apply concentric layers of coating materials on an advancing core wire. The assembly which includes three concentrically arranged and interconnected components comprises an outer die block having a centered first passage with a first axis therethrough; a guiding die with a cylindrical tubing top concentrically disposed with the first passage and second passage therethrough with an axis coincident to the first; and an inner guide having a cylindrical tubing tip and thread passage therethrough which has an axis substantially coincident to the first axis. An improved hand tool is envisioned.

Abstract: This invention makes extruded, vulcanized, high voltage cables insulated with thermosetting compounds at much higher rates of production and with superior insulation of reduced thickness and with reduced cavities or voids in the insulation. As the cable comes from an extruder, it passes into a curing chamber with a heat booster that quickly raises the insulation to a temperature at which it is cured much more quickly than with steam heating of the prior art. A high temperature liquid in contact with the insulation maintains the high temperature; and because of the greater curing heat, the cable can travel through the curing chamber at a faster rate and into a cooling tube where it contacts with a cooling liquid under high pressure. The insulation compound is treated to reduce the size of cavities; and the high pressure maintained by the curing and cooling mediums prevent expansion of cavities before the insulation is set.

Abstract: A control is provided for a wire coating line which includes means for driving wire along a path at controllable speed while coating it with plastic extruded at a controlled rate and temperature, and cooling means are located at a controllable distance from the coating means to solidify the plastic. The controllable factors affect both the capacitance and diameter of the wire produced. The control allows the line to be run in accord with stored digital values for the matters to be controlled. Closed loop control is provided because the relevant factors of line operation are measured, the analogue measurements converted to digital values and compared with the stored values to produce a control signal which has the effect of reducing the differences between a desired and measured line condition as represented by the digital values compared. Closed loop control is also provided for control of the line to produce desired capacitance or diameter values in the coated wire.

Abstract: A method of continuously and rapidly effecting a heat induced cure in curable polymeric compositions, such as by cross-linking or vulcanization, by means of directly contacting a surface of the heat curable polymeric composition with a stream of hot gas traveling at very high velocities, and under elevated pressures.

Abstract: A method of producing in a continuous process an endless driving belt of any desired circumferential length of an extrudable synthetic material with a pull-resistant reinforcing insert extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt to be produced, according to which a mold chamber is formed between a rotatable molding wheel and an endless molding belt moving along a portion of the circumference of the molding wheel together with the latter. Liquid synthetic material is in a continuous manner and under pressure introduced into the sealed start of the mold chamber. The reinforcing insert is in a sealed manner likewise continuously introduced into the mold chamber while the reinforcing insert during the embedding thereof in the liquid synthetic material is up to the solidification of the synthetic material and prior to leaving the mold chamber supported at a radial distance from the surface of the molding wheel.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a composite tape having a foraminous fiberglass core includes the step of treating a continuous strip of foraminous material with adhesion promoting and stiffening material. The treated strip is preheated to a temperature approximately equal to the extruding temperature of two ribbons of flexible vinyl thermoplastic material which are simultaneously formed in a subsequent step and coated under pressure on each side of the heated fiberglass core material through a suitably dimensioned die opening. Application of pressure forces at least portions of the extruded two ribbons into the interstices of the foraminous core material to cause the opposing ribbons to fuse to each other by penetrating and filling the interstices to form a unitary mass and to provide a textured surface or "intaglio" effect which has an appearance which is dimensionally related to the surface finish of the core material.

Abstract: A die for impregnating yarn is provided with a die insert having a minimum inside diameter. An inlet duct opening into the die has walls with length L, the walls sloping at an angle within the range of from about 5 degrees to about 25 degrees. The length of the inlet duct is within the range of from about 10 to about 25 times the minimum inside diameter of the die insert. The maximum diameter of the inlet duct is within the range of from about 15 to about 35 times the minimum inside diameter of the die insert.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of heat curing elastomeric electrical insulation on a central electrical conductor of an electrical cable is provided and the apparatus includes an outer housing which is adapted to contain means for curing the exterior portion of the insulation from its outer portion inwardly and an electrical induction coil for curing the insulation from its inner portion outwardly. The coil is supported concentrically within the housing with the coil being adapted to receive the conductor therethrough with its insulation thereon and the coil serves to heat the conductor which in turn transmits heat to the inner portion of the insulation to provide the heat curing thereof from the inner portion radially outwardly. A magnetic flux shield is provided between the housing and the coil and serves to provide a path of least resistance for the lines of magnetic flux generated by the coil to thereby assure efficient operation of the induction coil yet without detrimental heating of the outer housing.

Abstract: In producing a composite yarn which includes a carrier strand and a layer of tacky polymer, provision is made for adjusting the position of a tube through which the carrier strand passes in relation to a polymer extrusion orifice to vary the annular thickness of the polymer layer.

Abstract: A plant for carrying out a process of continuous vulcanization of articles of elastomeric material comprises a vulcanization apparatus comprising a circuit for a heat exchange liquid. The circuit comprises a vulcanization chamber arranged to receive the heat exchange liquid, means for heating the liquid to a predetermined temperature, and means for generating a predetermined pressure in the circuit. The circuit has at least one inlet and one outlet to allow passage of articles through the chamber, seals disposed at the inlet and outlet to ensure tightness of the passage of articles through the inlet and outlet and means to prevent contact between the seals and the high temperature liquid contained under pressure within the circuit.

Abstract: To cover at least one face of an extruded, hollow, plastic body, the front face of the extruder die is formed with a recess in which a cylindrical roller is rotatably mounted contiguously adjacent the die orifice. The roller defines a first portion of a feed channel for a foil with the die wall in the recess and a second channel portion, tangential to the first, with the mandrel which defines an extrusion gap in the die orifice. The foil may be draped about side faces of the mandrel by pressure rollers if the extrudate is backed by mandrel portions extending to the pressure rollers.

Abstract: The capacitance and diameter-over-dielectric of successive sections of a conductor having a layer of cellular plastic insulation extruded thereon are monitored continuously. The monitoring provides a continuous indication of the capacitance and the diameter with respect to the percent expansion of the cellular plastic insulation and the weight of the insulation per unit length of the conductor. This facilitates the regulation of process variables to maintain the capacitance and diameter-over-dielectric within acceptable ranges of values.

Abstract: An improvement in a method of applying plastic to a planar surface which comprises extruding the plastic through an annular orifice as a ring onto the planar surface. The improvement is particularly helpful in the manufacture of push button ends for beverage cans.

Abstract: This invention relates to a downstream closure device for apparatus used in treating large-diameter insulated electrical conductors, the device comprising a main exit gasket, a movable plug, an auxiliary exit gasket borne by the plug, and means for controlling the movement of the plug.

Abstract: A device for producing gilled pipes of plastic or other extrudable material, the device comprising two sets of mold jaw halves arranged on an endless line, one set running in a clockwise direction and the other set running in a counterclockwise direction, said mold jaw halves being brought to run close one to the other between a fixed groove shaped guiding rail and a parallel spring-biased guiding rail to define an entrance and an outlet, a nozzle is provided at the entrance and is capable of feeding material to be extruded thereto.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for economically molding extruded products containing reinforcement in desired shapes and in large quantities. The operation of the apparatus comprises inserting a reinforcement such as reinforcing bars into extruding materials such as cement, gypsum, plastics or the like during the extrusion molding stage and encasing them under pressure in a body in order to produce extruded articles containing reinforcement which are most suitable for use as construction or structural materials having high rigidity and which are light in weight. Moreover, the above-mentioned extrusion molding can be performed no matter how complicated the shape and structure of the reinforcement may be.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming concrete articles in which augers convey "no-slump" concrete mix to a molding station with sufficient force to consolidate the mix. Friction is reduced at form surfaces of the molding station by high frequency vibration, greater than 22,000 vibrations per minute. Core-forming mandrels are disposed axially lateral of the line of flight of the augers. The concrete can be prestressed utilizing pre-tensioning or post-tensioning mechanisms and provision is made for transverse reinforcement of the concrete.

Abstract: An improvement in an extruder head for extruding an outer tubular extrusion or sheath about an inner tube or cable which extrusion head has a means for passing an inner tube or cable through the extruder head which extruder head also terminates in a generally annular passage disposed about said inner tube or cable, the improvement residing in means for feeding molten material through an introducing passage at an angle to said extruder head and then into said annular passage, dividing means in said introducing passage for dividing said molten material into a stream of U-shaped cross-section, said dividing means including a leading parting edge; a method of producing a carrier ring which carries the dividing means by passing a machining tool into the introducing passage and passing the tool along paths having progressively larger U-shaped loops.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating wire including a coating composition dispensing means and a feed means extending therefrom and to at least one positive displacement delivery unit associated with at least one wire coating die. The die has an outlet for extruding coating composition around a wire and a haul off device is provided for the coated wire. Means are also provided between the wire coating die and the haul off device and arranged positively to cool, cure or set the coating composition applied to the wire at the coating die. Means synchronize each the positive displacement delivery unit and its associated haul off device.

Abstract: Non-crystalline sugary materials are made from sugar and glucose syrup by heating an undissolved mixture of undiluted crystallized sugar and liquid glucose in an extrusion machine having meshing screws within a casing with means for heating the casing to heat the mixture to about 130.degree.C and to knead the mixture as it passes through the machine. The material leaving the machine is non-crystalline sugary matter suitable for confectionery use.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous extrusion molding of a curable polymeric material about an elongated conductor. The apparatus includes electrical induction heating means for the precise and isolated application of heat to a limited portion of a progressively advancing mass of curable polymeric material immediately prior to its continuous entry into and passage through a forming die and its molding therein to shape.

Abstract: A product comprising a cellular plastic material is extruded from a modified conventional extrusion head by injecting a gaseous expanding medium into advancing fluent plastic material through porous material forming at least a portion of a section of the core tube in an extrusion chamber. By controlling the interrelationship between various process parameters such as the speed and pressure of the advancing fluent plastic material, the rate of injection of expanding medium into the advancing plastic material, the place where the expanding medium is injected, and the amount the extruded product is allowed to expand before cooling, it is possible to extrude, from a single source of fluent plastic material, a product comprising many different configurations of cellular and solid plastic material such as a uniform cellular structure throughout, or a cellular plastic inner section with a more dense outer covering.

Abstract: A method for embedding a reinforcing element within a molded thermoplastic body and a device for accomplishing said method which comprises a single extrusion head, having a duct for feeding thermoplastic material to a sizing run. The axis of the duct is at an acute angle to the axis of the sizing run and the said sizing run communicates in its portion opening into said duct with a co-axial chamber through which a reinforcing element is fed to said sizing run. The cross-section of the sizing run is greater than that of the chamber whereby the reinforcing element will be located intermediate the opposed sides of said sizing run.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for coating a fabric with elastomeric stock, wherein improved impregnation of the interstices of the fabric is achieved, the method comprising concomitantly feeding both elastomeric stock and a fabric in pressurized contact with one another between mutually confronting stationary and movable surfaces. The mutually confronting surfaces converge toward one another and cooperatively define a pressure chamber terminating in a restriction orifice. The movable surface is driven in a direction of feed of both the stock and fabric to frictionally carry and wedge both into and through the pressure chamber, thereby causing the interstices of the fabric to be increasingly impregnated by the stock.

Abstract: Flow conditions in an extrusion head in a cross head type extrusion apparatus for applying a concentric plastic insulating covering uniformly around a longitudinally advancing filamentary core advancing axially through a die concentrically disposed in an extrusion chamber in the head, are improved by providing channeled tooling within the chamber which bends and divides an initial stream of plastic material forced into the chamber into a plurality of equal streams which combine symmetrically around the core. With respect to certain channels, the ratio of the length of the channel to its effective cross-sectional diameter exceeds a predetermined critical number to achieve the development of steady state fluid flow therein.

Abstract: First and second concentric insulating sheaths of plastic materials are formed continuously around a filamentary core advancing longitudinally through an extrusion chamber. The core is passed axially through a tapered entrance portion and a coaxially aligned tapered throat portion formed in a separable die disposed in the chamber. Fluent plastic material for the first sheath is delivered from a main extrusion bore, impinging on the core circumferentially at the entrance portion of the die, the flow thereof being developed as it passes into the throat portion thereof. Fluent plastic material for the second sheath is delivered from an auxiliary extrusion bore flowing through a plurality of dividing channels formed in the die and radially inward at a plurality of circumferentially spaced points around the die axis into an annular manifold or reservoir where the fluid pressure of the plastic achieves a steady state condition.

Abstract: This is an apparatus for continuously applying a reinforced insulated coating to a conductor. The apparatus includes a die which provides means of directing a first coating, a reinforced fabric and a second coating to the conductor continuously in the proper sequence.

Abstract: The provision of a durable, slick sliding surface on metal faces of plastic forming extrusion apparatus such as extruder nozzles and dies. The durable, slick sliding metal surface is provided by burnishing and heat treating a polysiloxane fluid on the face of the metal. The burnishing comprises vigorous rubbing of the polysiloxane fluid treated metal face with a material relatively softer than the metal face being treated, effectively over the entire surface treated.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for making resin tubes or pipes, the apparatus comprising a supporting structure having a cylindrical surface and a carrier strip mounted thereon and fed in a plurality of adjacent helical turns to provide a moving cylindrical surface on which the resin articles are formed. Friction reducing means is associated with the interface between the cylindrical supporting surface and the inner surface of the helical turns of the carrier strip. Provision is also made for forming articles by extruding resin material onto the moving cylindrical surface provided by the helical turns of the carrier strip.

Abstract: A foamable synthetic plastic composition such as a polyurethane is foamed in place around a pipe within a tubular former disposed concentrically about the pipe while the former moves longitudinally along the pipe. Conditions are regulated to form an external skin on the foam. A hot melt glue or similar composition is applied as an outer sealer onto the foam within the tubular former. Preferably a spiral wrapping of polyethylene film or the like is applied while the sealer is still hot and adhesive, and an aluminum jacket may be applied on top of the spiral wrapping.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for replacing a portion of the insulating sheath of a submarine electric cable when the ends are inaccessible in which a split extrusion mold is placed around the cable and secured to the head of an extruder which is mounted on a carriage movable axially of the cable. The cable is held in a fixed position and as new insulating material is injected into the mold and extruded over the portion of the cable from which the old insulation has been removed, the carriage is moved at a rate dependent upon the extrusion rate. The interior of the mold may be subjected to vacuum. Alternatively, the mold may be held stationary and the cable moved axially thereof.

Abstract: An automated system for fabricating a lead pencil in which the lead is securely bonded to a sheath formed of foam plastic material and having a smooth skin. In the system, individual pieces of lead which are pre-treated with a heat-activatable adhesive layer, are sequentially fed into an extrusion die in which the lead is ensheathed by molten foam plastic material whose heat serves to activate the adhesive. The string of ensheathed lead pieces emerging from the die are advanced through a sizing jig in a cooling station wherein the diameter of the sheath is rendered uniform and the surface thereof is formed into a smooth skin, the sheath being rigidified in the station and the activated adhesive being set to strongly bond the lead to the sheath. The resultant rod is fed to a cut-off station which serves to sever the rod into individual pencils.

Abstract: In a process for extruding thermoplastic film means are provided for maintaining substantially free from deposit a wire electrode which is used to deposit an electrostatic charge on to the upper surface of the film. In a preferred embodiment the wire electrode is continuously unwound from a first reel on to a second reel. The wire electrode is kept substantially free of deposit by means of either a scraper plate or a current of air which is passed between the film and the wire electrode to prevent deposits from forming.