Abstract: The disclosed apparatus defines a soap press component and a grinding component, operatively associated with one another. The grinding component has an inlet for receiving small soap bars or end pieces, and means for grinding them up to even finer pieces or shavings. The soap press component has wall structure defining a chamber having open top and bottom ends; a removable bottom wall is used to close the open bottom end, and a movable upper shaping form is used to close the open top end. A rotatable screw connected to the upper shaping form provides for moving such form from an elevated position spaced above the open top chamber end, to a lowered position extended into and through the chamber. The grinding component outlet discharges the soap pieces or shavings to above the open top chamber end; whereby they drop then into the chamber from the open top end thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus for preparing extrudable food products prior to cooking includes depositing portions of food product onto a horizontal surface, coating the food portions with flour, vacuuming away excess flour, and incrementally flattening the food portions to a desired thickness. An apparatus for performing this process includes a first flour depositor, a food depositor, a second flour depositor, and a food flattener, all mounted above a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is mounted atop a supporting chassis which, in addition to providing a mounting base for the components named above, houses the electrical and hydraulic control means for the apparatus. The food depositor comprises conventional extruding means suitable for use with raw dough or ground meat, and a duality of hydraulically activated, high-speed cutter blades. The uniquely designed cutter blades have flattened, essentially planar cutting edge portions which create an aerodynamic shock wave along the line of impact between the blades.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for dispensing frozen food products is based upon the frozen food product, e.g. ice cream, being packaged in a coiled tubular casing and providing means for cutting off incremental lengths after removing the casing and then forming a scoop of the food product with a scoop which transfers the charge to a dumping position where the charge is released into a suitable food container.

Abstract: A machine for producing small dumplings having the shape of helically-grooved spindles, so-called "troffiette", comprising a feeding unit designed to produce roundish raw dumplings from a pre-worked dough and to feed them sequentially to a co-operating forming unit which, first, turns them into plain dough-spindles and, then, into "troffiette" proper, characterized in that said feeding unit comprises a dough-receiving hopper including therein a screw-feeder designed to progressively advance said dough to at least one extruder funnel communicating with the body of said hopper and adapted to expel said dough in the shape of a continuous rod which is cut into pieces by a rotary cutter member arranged at the outlet of said extruder funnel, said pieces constituting the raw dumplings which are sequentially fed through a suitable chute to a conveyor belt exactly at the inlet of the forming tunnel.

Abstract: A brick setting machine is disclosed which is operable to face set, stack without inverting or flat set. The machine is also operable to laterally space each brick from the next adjacent brick so that the faces and edges of the brick can be separately textured. The stacking, face setting and flat setting of the brick is performed by a plurality of elongated trays or turners which are operable to simultaneously rotate substantial numbers of brick through 90.degree. so that they rest on their sides and then when stacking or face setting is required to rotate adjacent rows of brick through an additional 90.degree. to form pairs of vertically aligned brick one resting on the other. The stacking is provided without gripping the brick so as to avoid damage to the brick.

Abstract: The tubular body is laid in a horizontal position on a tapered suction drum and pivoted thereby into a vertical axis which is in coaxial relationship with the axis of a mandrel with a punch. The tubular body is then pushed from the surface of the suction drum on to the mandrel by a thrust member. The mandrel and/or the die is mounted displaceably in a vertical direction, which permits particularly stable and precise guidance. A plurality of dies with mandrels and punches associated therewith is disposed on a rotary member. In the course of a revolution of the rotary member, the tubular body on the mandrel is connected to a squeeze moulding in the die.

Abstract: In the production of ceramic plates, the wet uncured extruded clay substrate is cut into plate shaped pieces by vertically reciprocating punching knives disposed about at least a portion of a plate shaped area. A pressure plate is mounted within the punching knives and vertically movable against spring forces therewithin so as to maintain downward pressure against the substrate material during the plate cutting operation. Chamfered plate edges are formed by special chamfering knives adjustably mounted at the edge of the pressure plate. The chamfering knives depend from the pressure plate and extend outwardly into contact with and inside wall surface of the punching knives so as to avoid undesirable burrs at the plate edge and also to permit convenient adjustment of the chamfering knives to compensate for wear.

Abstract: Apparatus for making flexible plastic bags with integral pressure interlocking rib and groove elements on the confronting top edges, comprises an extruder for extruding a continuous tube with pairs of closely spaced interlocking elements on the surface of the tube, the total pairs being a multiple of 2 with at least 4 pairs on the tube, a slitter for slitting the tube lengthwise between profiles of alternate pairs, and a folder for folding the tube between each adjacent pair and for bringing the profile adjacent the slit over onto the closest profile of the pair which has not been slit.

Abstract: The invention provides pastry machinery for forming a multi-layered pastry comprising a dough extruder which forms dough into sheet form, a pre-cooking station for the sheet of dough, a moisturizing station, a cutting station and means for transporting a cut leaf of dough onto a folding device. The folding device folds the pastry through a series of folds once a charge of filling has been deposited on the leaf of dough.

Abstract: A compression molding apparatus comprising a rotary compression molding means, a material feed means and an article carrying means.

Abstract: An apparatus for making buns has a bun forming unit which includes a housing receiving a rotatable plate having a central circular opening, and die pieces of elongate shape provided on the plate substantially in a radial direction. The die pieces are pivoted at their intermediate portions to the top inner side of the housing, and engage at their outer ends with the plate. The inner portions of the die pieces extend into the opening of the plate and each of them are provided with a cutting edge and a forming face at their inner tapered end. The die pieces can move to and from a forming position upon an intermittent motion of the plate within a limited angle.

Abstract: Rollers each having a plurality of radially extending vanes are arranged in pairs to define a downwardly extending path therebetween which progressively reduces in width from the top to the bottom, so that a material of a foodstuff is compressed while being fed downwardly by the roller pairs through the path. A horizontal conveyor belt lies below the path and is indexed to transfer a predetermined cut length of the material to a shaping station where the material is pushed up into a shaped cavity of a flexible cup member. The flexible cup member is embraced by presser members to shape the material under a preselected adjustable table pressure. The resulting block of material attains hardness and shape which would be provided by hand-shaping.

Abstract: A tranparent thin bottle-shaped container is produced by means of a technology for biaxial orientation blow molding a cylindrical piece with a bottom from polyethylene terephthalate material. The pieces are molded in large number in each injection molding process of an injection molding machine. The pieces thus formed immediately after the injection molding are held simultaneously in large number at the gates integrally projected therefrom by a base plate moved forward at the front of the mold in the injection molding machine. They are then conveyed to a gate cutting unit provided near the injection molding machine. The gates are cut from the pieces sequentially by the gate cutting unit and are conveyed onto a conveyor. The pieces are gradually cooled from the hot molded temperature during the conveyance and are additionally cooled while being conveyed on an oblique conveyor installed with a cooler to room temperature or lower predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A plant for the manufacture of chipboard, fibreboard or similar boards is described wherein mat sections coming from a stationary scattering section are supplied via an intermediate conveyor to a cyclically operating press with a loading and unloading device, and wherein an arrangement is provided for returning mat carriers separated at the press outlet from the compressed mat sections. The mat sections are supplied to the intermediate conveyor from a forming band via a transfer table which variably overlaps the intermediate conveyor. This intermediate conveyor simultaneously serves as a supply unit for the mat carriers which are provided with laterally engageable head strips. The loading and unloading device of the press includes transport devices which extend on both sides of the press and cooperate with the head strips of the mat carriers. The transport devices extend, over a part of their length, parallel to and alongside the corresponding transport devices of the intermediate conveyor.

Abstract: A texturing system for brick fabrication comprising a plurality of slapping members mounted to at least one transmission belt for engaging individual edges of bricks within an array of bricks. The bricks are positioned beneath the slapping members while in a deformable state. An array of staggered lifting plates are positioned beneath the bricks for exposing opposite edge portions thereof to the slapping elements. The transmission belt is driven transversely to the movement of the bricks array for imparting the texturing force of the slapping elements to the underlying bricks along upstanding edge portions thereof. A series of three transmission belts are preferably used above a staggered pattern of two plate rows for treating the longitudinal sides of all bricks within an array. In this manner, an improved rough, used brick appearance may be imparted to individual brick elements while disposed in a common fabrication array.

Abstract: A food shaping apparatus is disclosed which is capable of automatically forming boiled rice into a shaped food such as oval-shaped sushi or the like with good repeatability and reliability. The apparatus comprises a transfer mechanism capable of forcedly downwardly carrying boiled rice while compressing, a dividing mechanism capable of dividing boiled rice to form rice blocks of a fixed quantity and allowing the rice blocks to be received in forming cylinders without deflecting, a turntable capable of readily forming a shaped food different in size and/or configuration and easily cleaning the forming cylinders incorporated therein, a pressing mechanism capable of forming the rice block into a finsihed shaped food, and a control mechanism capable of controlling the linked actions among the transfer mechanism, dividing mechanism and turntable.

Abstract: A pair of endless belts define a downwardly extending path therebetween which progressively reduces in width from the top to the bottom, so that a material of a foodstuff is compressed while being fed downwardly by the belts through the path. A horizontal conveyor belt lies below the path and is indexed to transfer a predetermined cut length of the material to a shaping station where the material is pushed up into a shaped cavity of a flexible cup member. The flexible cup member is embraced by presser members to shape the material under a preselected adjustable pressure. The resulting block of material attains hardness and shape which would be provided by hand-shaping. Regardless of the hardness of the material in the downward path between the belts, the material can always be cut by each predetermined amount by adjusting the width of the path and, therefore, the degree of compression of the material.

Abstract: A method of making imprints on the walls of portions of a tube obtained by the continuous molding of a ceramics-based paste and the cutting up of the tube, wherein immediately after the tube portions have been molded and are still deformable, they are placed on means parallel with the axis of the tube portions for rotating them around their axes of revolution, means are applied to the rotary means for exerting a pressure on at least a portion of the tubes so that such portions are clamped between the rotary means and the pressure-exerting means, the pressure-exerting means or the rotary means are provided with at least one imprint-making tool, the or each tool having a main direction which does not coincide with the direction of the axes of revolution of the tube portions, and means are applied to create a second relative movement between the tube portion and the or each tool, so that there is substantially no sliding between the tube portion and the or each tool.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing croquettes from a source of elastic food mass continuously discharged from a nozzle assembly having a reciprocating chopper controlled by sensors for severing the mass into croquettes, a plurality of conveyors for moving said croquettes through tunnel assemblies for compressing said croquettes into a desired shape and a shaker assembly for breading said croquettes and providing a frictional means for rolling said croquettes through said tunnels.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for trimming flash from the outer edge of thermoplastic molded records and then finishing the outer edge. A molded record having flash on its outer edge is supported on a turntable and then rotated about its center. The flash and the outer edge of the record immediately adjacent the flash are selectively heated, preferably by using a focused infrared lamp, to a temperature above the glass transition temperature. A cutter is then advanced tangentially through the flash to remove the heat-softened flash from the record. The trimmed outer edge is then finished by bringing a shaped surface into contact with the softened edge and holding it there while rotating the record until the outer edge has the desired finished configuration. The heating is discontinued and the trimmed and finished outer edge is allowed to solidify.

Abstract: A blank is formed out of plasticizable, heated plastic by means of an extruding-type material supply head. A somewhat lenticular profiling of the blank is obtained by appropriately controlling a closing member of the material supply head, which is built as a valve cone. When the closing member is closed off against the lower edge of a tube part of the material supply head, the blank is pinched off from the material supply. A flow of air emerging from the ring nozzle serves to ensure complete severance of the blank from the material supply head. After that has been accomplished, the blank enters an open shaping cavity of a die by free fall. By further movement of the die, which is located on a rotary table, the die removes itself from the permanently located material supply head, so that the blank lying in the cavity can be pressed into a molded article by a stamp. Cooling off too much in certain locations on the blank is prevented by the free fall of the blank into the shaping cavity.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a generally spherical laminate dough preform that has a first inner dough substantially uniformly encapsulated by one or more outer doughs. If the preform contains morsels such as flavored chips, the appparatus will distribute and optimize the visibility of the morsels in the final baked product.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing tag pin assemblies in which individual tag pins each comprising a head and a crossbar integrally connected by a filament are integrally but severably connected in the thickness direction, which method comprises the steps of continuously molding block tag-pin blanks of a sectional configuration corresponding to the individual tag pins, and of cutting the block tag-pin blank into slices having the prescribed thickness and altogether connected with an uncut portion respectively thereof. Apparatus for practising the method is also disclosed, which comprises an extruder provided with a die for continuously extruding block tag-pin blanks, and a cutter device for cutting the block tag-pin blank into slices having the prescribed thickness and altogether connected with an uncut portion respectively thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously forming pizza crusts, particularly deep dish pizza crusts having substantially vertical sidewalls, in pizza pans of corresponding shape. A ribbon of deep dish pizza dough is formed and superimposed on a conveyor comprising flights including upstanding cutting rings within which pizza pans to be filled are disposed. A roller passing over the cutting rings severs dough disks disposed within each cutting ring; the dough disks drop into each pizza pan. Each pan is then registered with a diaphragm which is inflated to urge each dough disk into intimate conformity with the pan, then the diaphragm is withdrawn from the pan, leaving a finished crust. A carriage periodically moves the diaphragm in the contra-machine direction to engage the following flight. The pans are then removed from the conveyor flights to recover pan and pizza crust assemblies.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating the edges of pre-fired brick includes an extruder for extruding a column of clay and a wire cutter assembly for severing the column into individual bricks having their longitudinal axes substantially perpendicular to the direction of extrusion. The bricks are transported to a first conveyor where they are turned and directed to a side conveyor. As the pre-fired bricks move on the side conveyor, they move in a single file arrangement with their longitudinal axes substantially parallel to the direction of movement. The upper longitudinal edges of the pre-fired brick are treated by engagement with a pair of canted rollers to give the edges of the brick an irregular appearance. The bricks are then reoriented by a pair of rotating tables which direct the bricks onto a third conveyor with the axes of the brick being substantially perpendicular to their direction of travel.

Abstract: Apparatus for molding curd in calibrated portions, a mixture of curds and whey, introduced into a hopper, fills perforated tubes in which the whey is separated from the curd and becomes compact. A plate closing off the base of the tubes retracts periodically and the curd drops abruptly by a predetermined height onto a subjacent plate, which is sliced by the first plate returning to its original position. The slices of curd are then transferred into one of the molds with a plurality of cells. This is applicable to the manufacture of cheeses of small size.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing edible food products having a filling therein, the filling being introduced into the center of the food product by an injection nozzle that is contiguous with a nozzle from which the food product is discharged. A conveyor having a descending gradient is associated with the nozzles and advances the food product downwardly to a feeder apparatus which severs product to length. A sensor is positioned between the conveyor and the feeder apparatus to control the speed of the feeder apparatus.

Abstract: A briquet sheet from a briquetting machine is subjected to shearing forces to sever the longitudinal webs of the sheet and subsequently, to bending forces to fracture the remaining transverse webs. The separator apparatus includes a pair of shear rolls with alternate shear lands and smaller diameter idler rolls. The shear rolls are followed by a pair of lobed separator rolls.

Abstract: A pair of endless belts define a downwardly extending path therebetween which progressively reduces in width from the top to the bottom, so that a material of a foodstuff is compressed while being fed downwardly by the belts through the path. A horizontal conveyor belt lies below the path and is indexed to transfer a predetermined cut length of the material to a shaping station where the material is pushed up into a shaped cavity of a flexible cup member. The flexible cup member is embraced by presser members to shape the material under a preselected adjustable pressure. The resulting block of material attains hardness and shape which would be provided by hand-shaping. Regardless of the hardness of the material in the downward path between the belts, the material can always be cut by each predetermined amount by adjusting the width of the path and, therefore, the degree of compression of the material.

Abstract: Apparatus for severing thermoplastic sheet continuously produced from an extruder and successively feeding a length of plastic web to an intermittently operated forming machine. The extruded and cooled sheet drops from a roller down on a belt conveyor running at the same speed as the extrusion rate and is transferred towards the forming machine by a pair of clamp chains. The chains extend from sprocket wheels located in the range of the belt conveyor and are adapted to run intermittently at a speed higher than the extrusion rate and in accordance with the operation of the forming operation. The running speed of the conveyor belt can be increased to the higher speed when the falling sheet has been severed thereabove in the suspended position so that the severed plastic web is grasped by the clamp chains to be fed to the shaping station of the forming machine.

Abstract: In apparatus for making transverse-flow cigarette filters, a rod of cellulose acetate impregnated with a plasticizing agent and having a porous covering is cut into sections each having a length of several filters. From the cutting station, the rod sections are fed longitudinally into longitudinal grooves in the periphery of a first revolving drum. The rod sections are then transferred into longitudinal grooves in the periphery of a second revolving drum having in such grooves projections for forming indentations in one side of the rod sections. While carried by the second revolving drum, the rod sections are engaged by a third revolving drum having on its periphery projections for forming longitudinally offset indentations in the opposite side of the rod sections. In another embodiment of the apparatus, the rod sections are received in transverse grooves in a conveyor belt, and are transferred in groups between opposed punches which form indentations in opposite sides of the rod sections.

Abstract: A blank is formed out of plasticizable, heated plastic by means of an extruding-type material supply head. A somewhat lenticular profiling of the blank is obtained by appropriately controlling a closing member of the material supply head, which is built as a valve cone. When the closing member is closed off against the lower edge of a tube part of the material supply head, the blank is pinched off from the material supply. A flow of air emerging from a ring nozzle serves to ensure complete severance of the blank from the material supply head. After that has been accomplished, the blank enters an open shaping cavity of a die by free fall. By further movement of the die, which is located on a rotary table, the die removes itself from the permanently located material supply head, so that the blank lying in the cavity can be pressed into a molded article by a stamp. Cooling off too much in certain locations on the blank is prevented by the free fall of the blank into the shaping cavity.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for shaping of mats composed of loose fibers with a thermosetting resin interspersed throughout. The apparatus compresses the mat and exposes its laterally extending surfaces to elevated temperatures to obtain partial curing thereof. Slits are made in the surface regions adjacent areas where extra shaping will occur in forming the final product. These slits enable more precise shapes to be impressed upon the mat and eliminate the tendency of the partially cured areas to spring back to a position of lesser compression.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for forming soft and sticky food material such as kneaded mixture of water and rice flour, wheat flour, etc., into globular shape in formation chambers in the form of pipe. Four crossing members constitute one group and create a formation chamber in the form of pipe. The crossing members on one side of the formation chambers are made to reciprocate in the opposite directions to those on the other side thereof, while touching, whereby the material is kneaded into globular shape,.

Abstract: An improvement in the apparatus for the production of air laid fiberglass mat is provided. Fiberglass strands from bobbins, rovings or other sources are fed into a chopper assembly for chopping into smaller in length strands. The smaller in length strands then drop by gravity from the chopper assembly and are picked up by an air stream created by a fan or blower located below the chopper assembly. This air stream directs these smaller in length strands into the inlet of the fan or blower. In an alternative, already chopped strands could be fed directly into the inlet of the fan or blower eliminating the need for the chopper assembly. Fan or blower blades then work on these smaller in length fiberglass strands as they pass from the inlet to the exit of the fan or blower to open or fluff said smaller in length fiberglass strands into partially opened strands. The partially opened strands are then directed by the air stream caused by the air stream caused by the fan or blower through an expanding duct.

Abstract: A machine for the production of tubular casings of alimentary dough includes a support structure carrying a continuous belt conveyor with an associated feed conveyor unit for feeding a continuous sheet of dough to the said conveyor. A punching device is provided above the conveyor for successively cutting out a series of spaced-apart pieces of dough from the said sheet, the part of the dough sheet remaining after cutting being taken up from the conveyor by a recovery elevator. Downstream of the recovery elevator, a dispensing unit operates to deposit cylindrical support cores on the conveyor between successive pieces of dough, the dough piece and cores being thereafter transported by the conveyor to a rolling-up unit where the pieces of dough are rolled up around the cylindrical support cores. A collecting conveyor unit receives the support cores, with the pieces of dough rolled therearound, from the rolling-up unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically making egg rolls comprises an intermittently moving transmitting device and a plurality of forming assemblies on the transmitting device. Each forming assembly includes folding devices for folding three side portions of an egg roll dough and a mold device for receiving a part of the egg roll dough and an egg roll stuffing therein. The apparatus further comprises a device for feeding the egg roll dough successively on each forming assembly, a device for supplying the egg roll stuffing on the egg roll dough, a device for actuating the folding means of the forming assembly to fold three side portions of the egg roll dough over the stuffing in the mold device to thereby form a partially folded egg roll, and a device for wrapping the partially folded egg roll to form a cylindrical egg roll product.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for treating cheese, preferably cheese offcuts, to form a reconstituted block of cheese. The offcuts are first cut into small chips and then repressed in an evacuated environment to form the reconstituted block of cheese which may then be cut to commercially saleable sizes and packaged.

Abstract: A device for cutting off a sprue of a parison with a bottom is capable of cutting off the sprue in a heating furnace. Cutter plates for cutting the sprue and an outlet for discharging the cut sprue are disposed at the bottom of the heating furnace. Cutting off the sprue may thus be performed without changing the usual molding cycle of the hot parison molding method. The device may alternatively be applied to the cold parison molding method.

Abstract: A machine for automatically forming croissants, brioches and the like comprises a pastry flattening out stage, a cutting stage, a cut triangle spacing and orienting stage, a triangle aligning stage and a forming stage, the sheet pastry triangle spacing and orienting stage include, substantially a mechanism, effective to reciprocate on two wheels, in such a way as to take up the sheet pastry triangles and release the sheet pastry triangles at the forming machine, the reciprocating movement being transmitted to the mechanism by two side tie-rods, pivoted at one end to a cam and, at the other end, to an intermediate point of a lever supporting the mechanism at the rear portion, the mechanism comprising a plurality of cams and transmitting elements acting on catching movable elements effective, during the advancing stroke, to spread apart and rotate through a 90.degree. angle.

Abstract: Apparatus for preparing bread dough comprises a hopper for bulk dough, a rotary pump communicating with the hopper, a die through which dough is extruded by the pump in a continuous ribbon, conveyor means for receiving and conducting the ribbon of dough in succession through proofing means, guide rolls, means for cutting the ribbon of dough into individual pieces, means to roll the individual pieces into cylindrical shapes, and means to divide the cylindrical shapes into at least two further pieces. High production is achieved with a minimum of labor, and excessive working and kneading of the dough are avoided.

Abstract: A dough receiving, shaping, dividing and forming machine for making dough bodies of predetermined size and configuration from an initially unshaped batch of dough in a continuous manner in a single machine frame has an infeed conveyor for receiving a batch of unshaped dough and conveying it to a preshaping location, a pair of laterally spaced dough batch side roller shaping rollers at said preshaping side bath into a uniform width, a pair of verticaly shaped top and bottom roller preshaping and dough advancing rollers for preshaping said batch into a uniform height and advancing said batch from between said side shaping means to a divider location, dough divider means at the divider location for receiving the dough batch in a preshaped configuration, shaping it to two generally rectangular cross section strips of dough and advancing the strips to a cut-off location, dough cut-off knives at the cut-off location for dividing the two strips alternately into parts of determinable size, separating such parts in se

Abstract: A food preparation machine primarily designed for the production of the Italian potato based delicacy gnocchi and characterized by an inclined flouring ramp, a motor driven roller located under the lower end of the ramp, a deflection plate located proximate the roller, and a dough extruder for depositing dough plugs near the top of the ramp so that they roll and slide down the ramp into abutment with the deflection plate and the roller. As the roller is rotated the dough plugs are squeezed through a gap between the roller and the lower edge of the deflection plate to take on the characteristic form of gnocchi. A flouring mechanism is provided to flour the parts of the machine that come into contact with the dough, including the ramp and a rotating knife blade which cuts the extruded dough into the plugs. The roller is threaded from both ends with opposing threads so that the plugs are urged towards the center of the roller as it is rotated.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for preparing a tubular parison, which is continuously extruded in an extrusion direction from an extrusion head, and for subsequently transferring the parison to a blow molding machine. The apparatus provides improved control of the wall thickness of the parison and can be used with particular advantage in making articles requiring parisons of large diameter and length. The apparatus includes a parison stretching mechanism that grasps and seals the parison at one location along its length and stretches the parison at a controlled rate while being extruded in the extrusion direction. The apparatus also sequentially severs sections of the parison from the remaining continuously extruded portion and transfers each section to a stationary blow molding machine out of the path of this remaining portion.

Abstract: A novel method and apparatus for making elastomer sheet utilizing a novel extruder in combination with novel calendering apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous forming of high density, seamless candies from a strand of confectionary material provided with a viscous filling. Candy blanks are first cut from an incoming soft strand and then pressed into candy pieces of the desired shape. The apparatus includes cooperative complementally formed pairs of separating teeth as well as pairs of members for shaping the candy and stamping chambers arranged in a rotating rotor.

Abstract: A method of affecting the tail end of a roll of plastic film to render it readily identifiable and easy to grasp and start without tearing the film web into strips. The tail end of the film is embossed on-line as it is separated and about to be wound up on a roll core. The method is accomplished by securing the tail end between a heated surface on the upstream side of a knife on a cut-off roll and a lifting and embossment mechanism to provide a wide embossment across the tail end of the film at about the time it is severed from the film stock. The method produces a novel puckered tail, particularly for highly oriented films where tension is relieved while the tail end is still heated.

Abstract: An extrusion device for forming and shaping food product to a chosen cross section area and shape such as the filling for Chinese egg rolls, the product requiring mild compressive action for proper binding, and wherein mild shear forces acting on the product are effective to cause separation, breakup and damage. The apparatus comprises a housing with means for forcing the food product through the housing and in which the housing contains means defining a first section receiving a flow of the food product which initially shapes the flow into a predetermined shape and cross section, followed by a stabilizing section smoothly continuously transitioning from the first section and which has an outlet whose dimensions transverse to the longitudinal direction of movement of the product do not increase. By combining the first section with the stabilizing section food product is first shaped and then gently handled so that it binds together properly.

Abstract: A thermoplastic web of indeterminate length is provided by forming a tubular thermoplastic web having interconnected filaments. The web is rotated about its axis while being advanced along its axis and is slit so as to provide a web having substantially parallel filament alignment at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the web. The web may be formed into a multiply structure having a plurality of webs wherein the filament alignment of at least one of the webs of the structure is at an angle to the filament alignment of at least one of the other webs of the structure.

Abstract: Method of producing chipboards includes conveying elongated cauls end-to-end sequentially past a material-dispensing device, forming a mat of the dispensed material on the cauls, severing the mat transversely to chipboard lengths, feeding the severed mat lengths together with the cauls into a heating press and beating and compressing the same to form chipboards, withdrawing the chipboards and cauls together from the heating press and separating them from one another, and continuously reconveying the cauls past the material-dispensing device.In apparatus for carrying out the method, an endless conveyor for conveying the cauls end-to-end has entrainer dogs engageable with abutment rods on the cauls for advancing the cauls in a substantially horizontal conveying direction along an upper run of the conveyor located below the material-dispesing device.