Abstract: A wide area forming device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a mold unit in which an object to be formed is received, and a main chamber having an upper block press the mold unit to form the object to be formed, and a lower block supporting the mold unit.

Abstract: This invention relates to a machine for shaping three-dimensional portions of food product, in particular meat, in particular for shaping portions of minced meat, provided with an interleaving paper applying device, as well as a corresponding paper applying device. The machine comprises a shaping device (1) with shaping cells (2) wherein are shaped portions (S) of food product, and a paper applying device (3) comprising an applying drum (4) provided with on its peripheral cylindrical surface (41) at least one paper applying system (5) in order to take and maintain papers (9) on its peripheral surface and apply them on the portions placed in the shaping cells. The machine also has drives the cells and applying drum in synchronism.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for molding breast cups in a seamless circularly-knitted brassiere having a breast-covering portion and a torso encircling band, the apparatus comprising a base, a rear wall extending upwardly from the base, an upper mold plate extending outwardly and substantially horizontally from the rear wall, the upper plate having a pair of spaced openings formed therethrough, the openings spaced and dimensioned to correspond to a pair of breast cups, and a plate intermediate to the base and the upper mold plate, and being vertically moveable between a first, upper position and a second, lower position for securing a brassiere blank in position against the upper plate for the molding of breast cups therein.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing baked goods in a predefined shape are described, wherein a piece of dough is baked in a closed mold cavity (5) after a rising in direct succession with heat supply, wherein the piece of dough completely fills up the mold cavity (5) with a gas displacement during the baking. To ensure advantageous baked products, it is proposed that the piece of dough, with implementation of a finely-structured crust, be applied to the gas-tight mold wall which delimits the mold cavity (5), and the gas be discharged from the mold cavity (5) in the region of depressions (8) provided in the mold wall (7), which define protrusions of the baked good projecting beyond a surface region and into which the gas is displaced by the oven rising of the piece of dough.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and molding devices for molding three-dimensional products from a mass of foodstuff. The molding device includes a rotatable drum provided with mold cavities that are filled with the mass of foodstuff to form the three-dimensional products. The method includes use of the molding device to continuously fill mold cavities in filling operations without a time gap between successive filling operations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite component molding metal mold including a first metal mold for molding a first molded product, and a second metal mold for molding a second molded product. Each of the first and second metal molds includes a movable mold and a stationary mold. Each of the stationary molds includes a male mold and a female mold, and each of the movable molds includes a male mold and a female mold. A cavity for molding the first molded product is formed by a combination of the female mold of the stationary mold and the male mold of the movable mold, and another cavity for molding the second molded product is formed by another combination. A space which is in communication with the cavity and the other cavity is provided. When an insertion member is inserted into the space, the cavity and the other cavity are isolated.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes the following stations juxtaposed in the following sequence: a parison forming station for forming a parison; a built-in part attachment station where opposite sides of a center die provided with a built-in part are held between a pair of molding dies to locate the center die in the molding dies with the parison between the center die and the molding dies, and the built-in part being attached to the parison transferred to the molding dies; a molding station where the molding dies are closed to mold the hollow molded product; and a conveyance station for taking the hollow molded product out of the molding dies and conveying the hollow molded product. The center die is fixed at the built-in part attachment station, and the molding dies are configured to be movable back and forth between the built-in part attachment station and the molding station.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and machine for pressing molds in a horizontal manner. More particularly, the disclosure relates to a machine and method for turning molds over from a vertical to a horizontal position before placing in the press device, such that the molds may be pressed while in a horizontal position, even if the molds were previously filled in a vertical position.

Abstract: A press molding apparatus (2) may include pairs of upper and lower dies (50, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60) arranged in series in a same direction as a die-closing/die-opening direction. Each lower die (52, 56, 60) is slidable via a bearing (42e) to a position deviated from a die-closing/die-opening position with respect to a plate (42, 44, 46) to which the lower dire is fixed in position. A portion of each lower die (52, 54, 60) contacting with the bearing (42e) may include a detachable insert (42f).

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for lyophilizing particles comprising frozen liquid having a pharmaceutical compound contained therein, comprising providing a heat conducting container having a bottom and side walls, filling the container with a bed of the particles, the bed comprising multiple layers of the particles and having an aspect ratio of not less than 1, providing a heat source above a top layer of the particles, the heat source having a surface directed to a top layer of the bed, which surface has an emissivity coefficient of at least 0.4, subjecting the particles filled in the container to a reduced pressure, heating at least the bottom of the container and the said surface to provide heat to the particles to support sublimation of the frozen liquid at the reduced pressure, and after the frozen liquid is sublimated, stopping the provision of heat to the particles.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a dual action gyratory thermoforming press. The dual action gyratory thermoforming press can include a multiposition gyratory head. The multiposition gyratory head can include multiple forming vessels that can include a mold platform. The multiposition gyratory head can also be connected to a bottom platform. The dual action gyratory thermoforming press can be brought into configuration for forming by rotating the multiposition gyratory head such that a forming vessel is in a forming position, displacing the bottom platform to bring the multiposition gyratory head into a forming position, and displacing the mold platform into a forming position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for forming and baking an edible cone-shaped container, the container being of a bread dough provided with a light, flaky texture by the inclusion of solid flaked fat pieces in the dough mixture and the cone formed by an initial forming and cooking step followed by multiple baking steps.

Abstract: A sandwich bun mold device and method for use are provided for creating sandwich buns having hollow interior regions. The device comprises a bread mold pan having a plurality of mold recesses disposed along its surface, a pan cover, and a plurality of inserts of varying size and shape. To make the buns, a user places yeast bread dough in the mold recesses and then selects a desired insert size that will correspond to the size of the hollow interior region after the bun has cooked. The insert is then placed on the bread dough and the pan cover is placed onto the pan. A user bakes the assembly until the buns are cooked, removes the cover and inserts, and inverts the device to remove the freshly prepared buns.

Abstract: A lens array includes a plurality of lenses having respective optical axes that are approximately parallel to each other, wherein the plurality of lenses are configured in a direction approximately perpendicular to the optical axes and are formed integrally with each other, and a maximum inclination angle of a lens surface on each of a predetermined number of the plurality of lenses is less than or equal 50.8 degrees or less, the maximum inclination angle being defined as a maximum value of an angle formed by an optical axis and a normal line of a lens surface of one of the predetermined number of the plurality of lenses.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for the preparation of a fast-disintegrating tablet (30) containing a medicinal substance, comprising the steps of providing a fluid formulation comprising the medicinal substance, providing a solid element (100) having formed therein at least one cavity, (101) cooling the solid element (100) to a temperature below a freezing temperature of the formulation, filling the cavity with the fluid formulation, solidifying the formulation while present in the cavity (101) to form a solid pellet comprising the medicinal substance without actively shaping the entire surface of the pellet, taking the pellet out of the cavity and drying the pellet in a vacuum to obtain the tablet. The invention also pertains to a system for performing such a process and a package containing the resulting tablet.

Abstract: A master model of a lens array and a method of manufacturing the same are provided, which can make it possible to manufacture the master model in a relatively short time with a simple construction of an apparatus. In a master model of a lens array on which a plurality of lens portions is arranged, a plurality of members corresponding to lenses having curved surfaces formed in the same shape as lens surfaces of the lens portions is arranged in the same lines as those of the plurality of lens portions in the lens array and is connected in a body.

Abstract: A die assembly includes a barrel die (4) having a tubular inner face, a sleeve (5) covering an outer peripheral surface of the barrel die, and a pair of core dies (1, 2) for pressing a preform inside the tubular inner surface of the barrel die. At least one of the paired core dies (1, 2) is slidable and guided along the tubular inner surface of the barrel die (4). The sleeve (5) does not transmit light having a wavelength of 5 ?m or shorter and has a thermal conductivity of 70 W/m·K or greater.

Abstract: A mold 2 includes a pair of mold halves (upper mold half 4 and lower mold half 6). A spherical cavity is formed by mating upper mold half 4 and lower mold half 6. A large number of pimples 10 are provided on the cavity face of the upper mold half 4 and lower mold half 6. The upper mold half 4 and the lower mold half 6 have flat plane 14, protrusions 16 and recesses 18, respectively. Each protrusion 16 projects from the equator Eq. Each recess 18 is depressed from the equator Eq. The protrusion 16 includes a part of the pimple 10. A central angle ? between a protrusion (a) and a protrusion (b) adjacent to the protrusion (a) is different from the central angle ? between the protrusion (a) and a protrusion (c) adjacent to the protrusion (a). The absolute value of a difference (???) is equal to or greater than 10°.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for the continuous production of center-filled confectionery products. The apparatus may include an extruder for forming a continuous extrudate having a plurality of center-filled confectionery ropes. The apparatus may also include a forming device for forming individual confectionery pieces, and sealed center-filled confectionery pieces in particular. The forming device provides improved coordination and control of extrudate formation and extrudate feed into the forming device. The apparatus and method of the present disclosure increases product output and reduces the amount of unacceptable product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for manufacturing a multi-layer compression moulded element and to a compression moulded element which is embodied as a multi-layer carbon brush and has at least a first and a second moulding layer, in which, in order to carry out the method, a multi-component mould which comprises a moulding element and a mould slide arrangement interacts with a moulding die, and in which a mould which is defined by the selected configuration of the moulding slide arrangement in the moulding element is filled by filling moulding segments which are formed one next to the other with moulding material in chronological succession in a transverse direction with respect to the axis of the moulding die, and by the compression moulded element being subsequently formed by moving the moulding die and moulding slide arrangement relative to one another in the mould.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and moulding devices for moulding three-dimensional productions from a mass of foodstuff which is suitable for human consumption, in particular from a mass of meat, in particular chicken. The method comprises filling a mould cavity with a portion of the mass and for a filling period via a filling opening associated with the mould cavity, closing the filling opening of the mould cavity and holding the mass in the mould cavity for a fixing period. Then, the mould cavity is opened and the moulded product is removed from the mould cavity. The method uses fixing-pressure-exerting mechanism designed to exert a fixing pressure which acts on the mass in the mould cavity after the filled mould cavity has been closed.

Abstract: A mold includes a plurality of inserts, a molding board, a base board, a plurality of fastening members, and a plurality of washers. The inserts each has a molding surface. The molding board includes a plurality of cavities for accommodating of the respective inserts. The base board for mounting the molding board thereto has a plurality of receiving holes. The fastening members are respectively received in the corresponding receiving holes for securing the corresponding inserts in the corresponding cavities of the molding board. The washers are sandwiched between the respective fastening members and an opposite ends of the inserts to the molding surfaces.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for manufacturing dental aligners. The system includes a workpiece introduction system having at least one workpiece preparation chamber. The system further has a mold manipulation system, having a mold introduction chamber, where a series of different molds may be introduced one after the other; a mold preparation chamber; a workpiece operation chamber; and a mold manipulator to move the mold between the mold introduction chamber, the mold preparation chamber, and the workpiece operation chamber; and a workpiece manipulator to move the workpiece between the workpiece preparation chamber and the workpiece operation chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for molding optical element, which pressurizes top and bottom molds in a state that they are always maintained to be parallel and their axes are aligned into a single line, and which can mold a product having a predetermined dimension precisely even if it pressurizes a plurality of molds at the same time.

Abstract: A resin coated piston manufacturing apparatus for a shock absorber is provided with a means for pressing a piston raw material to a resin sheet until the resin sheet is locked to a resin sheet locking annular groove of the piston raw material in such a manner as to be capable of reciprocating on a center axis of a set mold. The apparatus having an aligning guide mateable with an inner diameter of the piston raw material set to a piston set hole of the set mold. The aligning guide presses the piston raw material to the resin sheet so as to lock the resin sheet to the resin sheet locking annular groove of the piston raw material, and can press the piston raw material to which the resin sheet is locked, to a heating and cooling cylinder apparatus.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and moulding devices for moulding three-dimensional products from a mass of foodstuff which is suitable for human consumption, in particular from a mass of meat, in particular chicken. The method comprises filling a mould cavity with a portion of the mass under the influence of a filling pressure exerted on the mass and for a filling period via a filling opening associated with the mould cavity, closing the filling opening of the mould cavity and holding the mass in the mould cavity for a fixing period. Then, the mould cavity is opened and the moulded product is removed from the mould cavity. The method uses fixing-pressure-exerting means which are designed to exert a fixing pressure which acts on the mass in the mould cavity after the filled mould cavity has been closed.

Abstract: This invention is to provide a mold for a fuel cell separator with which a flash, even if it occurs, does not cause a thickness unevenness.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for compression molding arrays optical elements which may be later singulated. The apparatus includes first and second mold halves with the second mold half having a central nest and a plurality of predetermined negative optical surface features therein. A glass preform is placed in the central nest and the first and second mold halves and the glass preform are heated to at least the glass transition temperature of the glass preform. The glass preform is then pressed between the first and second mold halves to thereby form an integral array of optical elements with each of the optical elements being a positive of the predetermined negative optical surface features. The integrally formed array of optical elements is then cooled to below the glass transition temperature and removed from the first and second mold halves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mould container for an apparatus for manufacturing green bricks from clay for the brick manufacturing industry, wherein mould containers are arranged on a circulating conveyor, which mould containers comprise a number of mould cavities open to the top,

Abstract: To provide a friction component of a multilayer structure in which each layer can be formed so as to have a specified thickness, as well as its manufacturing apparatus and method. A side plate 3 having a void 3a of a specified depth formed therein is provided between a plunger 2 and a fixed mold 5 so as to move in the horizontal direction. A hopper 6 for adhesive-layer materials is provided near a molding box 1. An output port 6a in the hopper is located so as to contact slide plate 3. When the side plate 3 is moved in the lateral direction in the figure so that the void 3a is located under the hopper 6, the lower end surface 6b of the hopper acts as a leveling plate to feed an adhesive-layer material 8 into the void. The adhesive-layer material is moved to the lower part of the molding box 1, a specified amount of friction material 9 is fed in such a way that its thickness becomes uniform, and the plunger is then used to pressurize and mold the materials.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for manufacturing green bricks from clay for the brick manufacturing industry. The apparatus includes a circulating conveyor carrying mould containers combined to mould container parts, a reservoir for clay arranged above the mould containers, a mechanism for carrying clay out of the reservoir into the mould containers, a mechanism for pressing and trimming clay in the mould containers, a mechanism for supplying and placing take-off plates for the green bricks and a mechanism for discharging green bricks released from the mould containers. The apparatus further includes a mechanism for moving the mould container parts filled with green bricks such that a protruding edge is formed on at least one side of the green bricks.

Abstract: An electrochemical charge storage device (10) includes first and second electrodes (16) (22) with first and second current collectors (18) (24) respectively attached, an electrolyte (20) disposed between the electrodes and first and second metal foils (14) (26) to separate the electrodes (16) (22) from a packaging material. The packaging material consists of multilayered first and second polymeric packaging films (12) (28) which enclose the other components of the device (10), and are sealed to each other.

Abstract: An impact resistant film suitable for medical solution pouches and the packaging of parenteral materials generally includes an interior layer of an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer and outer layers of a propylene homopolymer or copolymer blended with a styrene ethylene butylene styrene copolymer. In some cases, a flexible copolyester may be substituted for one of the outer blend materials. Sacrificial layers may be optionally be included on one or both outer surfaces of the film to improve processing.

Abstract: A pill press (2), allowing the user to personally press pills (78) of a desired dose, includes a housing (4) having an interior (14) within which a supply of powdered pharmaceutical (36) is contained and a pill cavity form (22) mounted to the housing. Powdered pharmaceutical is transferred to the pill forming cavity (46) of the pill cavity form according to the dose desired. A manually operated pill ram (48) is used to compress the powdered pharmaceutical within pill forming cavity to create the pill. The pill ram is then withdrawn from the pill forming cavity and the pill is automatically ejected from the pill press through a pill outlet (82) formed in the housing by an ejector rod (56).

Abstract: A process for manufacturing moldings of plastic material includes successive cycles of conveying a succession of mobile molding tool parts independently of each other along lateral and vertical guideways of a conveyor to a work station holding a basic molding tool part.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a building block which imitates a pile of dry stones. According to the method, the stones (10) are placed side-by-side on the bottom of a mold whose inside shape corresponds to the desired block shape, said bottom being constituted by a grating. Cement is then cast inside the mold. The cement (11) is compressed in order to force it to spread out uniformly inside the mold and to creep between the stones (10). While the cement is kept under pressure, water is projected through the bottom grating against the outside face of the block (1), so as to remove any cement which may be found thereon. Pressure is then removed from the cement and it is allowed to set. Finally the block (1) is extracted from the mold.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for filling notches in a notched workpiece with a soft filler material having a viscosity similar to glasses. The apparatus has a bottom portion which receives the notched workpiece and a top portion. The top portion has a lower surface adapted to apply a concentrated pressure in the direction of the bottom portion to enhance flow of the soft filler material into the notches when that material is inserted between the assembled top and bottom portions.

Abstract: In an anvil powder compacting press, wherein the anvil, mounted on a work station positioner arcuately or longitudinally movable over a die plate in which is disposed a die cavity in which powder material is compacted between the face of a punch reciprocably disposed in the die cavity and the face of the anvil, is coarsely positioned over the die cavity by the work station positioner, an anvil indexing and locating mechanism for finely locating the anvil over the die cavity prior to compacting an article. The anvil fine indexing and locating mechanism is in the form of a plunger disposed in the anvil normally retracted and caused to project into a bore in the die plate. The locating plunger or pin is mechanically operated by the clamp clamping the anvil in position over the die cavity, or operated independently from the clamp.

Abstract: In presses such as hydraulic presses used for forming tiles or bricks from ceramic or other materials, a mold box is mounted in alignment with the upper and lower dies. To hold the mold box without keying it to the mold case, a wedging assembly comprises an outer wedge releasably fixed to a wall of the opening and having a vertically angled surface facing inwardly. Next to it is an inner wedge having a vertically angled surface which is brought into contact with the angled surface of the outer wedge. Adjustable securing means such as vertical bolts pass through a vertical passageway in the inner wedge and are screwed into an aligned, threaded passageway in the outer wedge for moving the inner wedge vertically until its translation laterally secures the key-less mold box fast by friction alone against downward thrusts of the upper die.

Abstract: This invention provides a high output machine for effecting the production of organic thermoplastic articles by the compression molding technique. A plurality of molding members having open top molding cavities are movable around a horizontal closed loop path. A plurality of horizontally moving plungers are provided which are respectively co-operable with the molding members in a portion of their path to close the open top of the molding cavities. Successive gobs of heated organic thermoplastic material are deposited in the open top molding cavities at a point prior to the molding members moving into vertical alignment with the plungers. A relative vertical displacement between the plunger and the molding members is then effected to bring each plunger into engagement with the respective molding member and effect the compression molding of the inserted gob to conform to the molding cavity.

Abstract: A provolone cheese molding apparatus constituted by a fixed, horizontal table having a single circular hole within the table, a chute depending from the table and aligned with the circular hole, and means for pressing warm cheese upwardly within the chute. A slide on the upper face of the table reciprocates horizontally and includes spaced circular holes within the slide for selective alignment with the table holes. Cylindrical provolone cheese loaf forming tubes are vertically mounted to the slide coaxial with the holes and receive the cheese when aligned with the chute to form cylindrical provolone cheese loaves. The tubes are formed of lightweight light transmitting plastic, and each bears a plunger disc of a light contrasting color which moves with the cheese as it rises internally of the tube to indicate the extent of filling of the tube.

Abstract: Apparatus for the manufacture of pressed bodies of depolarizing material for galvanic cells, comprising an elongated mold of uniform cross section having an open end, a pre-mold having an internal volume which is a multiple of the internal volume of said mold, and consisting of a first part and a second part, said first part being elongated and of uniform cross section larger than said cross section of the mold, said second part extending from said first part to an outlet opening and diminishing in cross section from said first part to said outlet opening, said oulet opening being of approximately the same size and shape as said cross section of said mold, a press plunger movable with clearance in said first part of the pre-mold, a first device for refilling said pre-mold prior to each stroke of said press plunger into said first part, a second device for bringing said open end of the mold into alignment with said outlet opening and for moving said open end out of alignment with said outlet opening and thereb

Abstract: A multiple mold assembly is disclosed for molding articles in an injection molding apparatus. The assembly includes two molding sections that are alternatively shuttled from positions wherein one of the molding sections is in position for a molding operation, and the other molding section is in position for loading of inserts, performing preparatory or finishing operations, or removal of molded articles, to the reverse positions. The shuttle assembly of this invention is particularly adapted for use in a horizontal injection molding apparatus and for insert molding.

Abstract: A mixture of fibrous material and a thermosetting binder is pressed in unheated state at a working station to convert it into a semi-finished body having approximately the shape and size of the desired shaped article, and thereupon the semi-finished body is pressed at the same working station but under application of heat, in order to convert it into the desired shaped article while setting the thermosetting binder.