Abstract: Provided is an embossed product on which a deep bumpy design is formed and which is also excellent in terms of a bumpy design shape-imparting property and cushioning performance and durability thereof. A composite material for embossing is a composite material in which a flexible polyurethane foam sheet is laminated on one surface of a skin material, in which the flexible polyurethane foam sheet has a thickness of 3 to 15 mm and a compression percentage of 5% to 40% in a temperature range of 100° C. to 150° C. In addition, an embossed product is obtained by embossing a surface of the skin material of the composite material for embossing.

Abstract: A wrinkle mitigation system includes at least one tooling rod disposed against a tool surface at a location on the tool where a composite ply is configured to overlap the tooling rod. The tooling rod may has an elongated shape and is generally oriented along a direction of wrinkle formation in the composite ply. The tooling rod has a rod width that results in the composite ply assuming a corrugated shape when compaction pressure is applied to the composite ply.

Abstract: [Object] An apparatus and a method for producing optical sheeting with which increased productivity can be achieved while maintaining the accuracy of produced optical sheeting.

Abstract: A plant for manufacturing a continuous latex foam layer (2) to form mattresses (6) provided with cells (5). The plant comprises a plurality of laying planes (7) provided with a plurality of separate tables (13) separately arranged side by side to form a surface for the foam deposit. Each table comprises protuberances (14) and the arrangement of the protuberances on a table can differ from that of the juxtaposed tables in order to create supporting areas for the different body parts of the user. Preferably the tables (13) with their protuberances (14) are slidably fitted onto the laying planes (7) and can be easily and quickly replaced with separately provided tables having protuberances (14) differently arranged in order to meet the support capacity values required by different users.

Abstract: A system and method for extrusion replication of microstructures to make microreplicated optical films. The system includes press roll and a replicating member. The replicating member includes a low thermal diffusivity material having a microreplicated outer surface or an organic material having a microreplicated outer surface. An inorganic conformal coating is disposed over the patterned outer surface of the organic or low thermal diffusivity material.

Abstract: A continuous forming apparatus for molding foam material into foam products that includes a first endless belt and a second endless belt that cooperates with the first endless belt to mold the foam material. The continuous forming apparatus may also include a first plurality of cleats and a second plurality of cleats opposed to the first plurality of cleats that support the first endless belt and the second endless belt respectively. The first plurality of cleats may include a three-dimensional abutment surface that provides transverse and lateral support to the first endless belt. Additionally, the continuous forming apparatus may include a first frame disposed to support the first plurality of cleats, a second frame disposed to support the second plurality of cleats, and a drive mechanism for imparting motion to the first endless belt, the second endless belt, the first plurality of cleats, and the second plurality of cleats.

Abstract: Process for continuous manufacture of latex foam rest articles such as mattresses, cushions and the like comprising a part able to participate to the manufacture steps and to remain embedded in the article with consequent improvements of final performances. A flexible perforated band, preferably a flat polymeric material net with longitudinal and cross reinforcement members, is placed over a foam laying surface provided with protuberances and in continuous advancement between a foam laying station and an unlimited length article extraction station. The latex foam passes through net holes forming an upper portion and a lower portion relative to said net. The net continuously opposes contraction forces and weight force exerted from upper portion on lower portion. The unlimited length article is subjected to successive cross cuts originating rest articles wherein a foam embedded net is arranged on ends of recesses originated by the protuberances.

Abstract: A corrugated web having tapered flutes is usable in straight-through flow filter elements. The corrugated web can be made by passage between a pair of corrugated rollers having tapered teeth. Methods of making usable corrugated rollers include methods for generating the tapered teeth at the end points and the extension between the end points. Corrugated webs may be made from a variety of media, including certain media that stretches in the machine direction. Methods of forming the corrugated web into filter elements (e.g., air filter elements) includes forming filter media by securing a flat sheet to the corrugated web. The filter media may then be wound into a filter element, including application of sealant during the winding process to close selected flutes.

Abstract: A device for manufacturing formed parts by internal high pressure deformation. The device includes a housing composed of two tubular members which are placed one into the other and are connected by shrinkage, wherein the tool support unit is mounted in the concentric bore of the inner tubular member.

Abstract: A sheet of plastics material is continuously extruded onto the upper run of an endless conveyor which carries aluminum vacuum mold plates each defining a cavity with a shingle pattern. The sheet is progressively vacuum-formed into the mold plate cavities, and opposite longitudinal upper and lower portions of the sheet are progressively vacuum-formed, with traveling plug assist in one embodiment, to define shingle panels with hook-shaped lower portions and upper portions defining grooves for receiving the lower portions. The upper portion of the sheet is punched with longitudinally spaced slots to form a nailing flange, and the sheet is then cut laterally at longitudinally spaced intervals to produce elongated siding panels each having integrally connected shingle panels. The shingle panels may have different bottom configurations or profiles and are interchangeable.

Abstract: A patterned element for use in an embossing and adhesive application process. The patterened element comprises a material having an pattern disposed thereon, wherein the material comprises a polymer and has a Shore A hardness of greater than about 70, and has a critical surface energy of less than about 30 dynes/cm.

Abstract: A molding machine including a plurality of carriages for carrying mold blocks in an axial direction. The carriages each include wheels on opposite sides which follow a guide track along an endless path including a molding section extending in the axial direction. Two wings are secured to the carriages for pivoting about an axis extending in the axial direction whereby in one pivotal position the mold blocks are together in a molding position and in another pivotal position the mold blocks are separated in a releasing position. Each of the wings is adapted to carry one of the mold blocks and has a flat axially extending surface and guide wheels. A wing guide track engages the wing guide wheels and is adapted to place the wings in the molding position when the carriage is in the molding section. A first set of track rollers along the molding section engages the flat axially extending surface of one of the wings of carriages in the molding section along a first rolling plane extending in the axial direction.

Abstract: A molding machine including a plurality of carriages for carrying mold blocks in an axial direction and a track for the carriages including a molding section, the track including spaced apart channels receiving the carriage wheels for guiding the carriages along the track. The carriages each include wheels on opposite sides of the carriage, a first set of oppositely facing and axially extending flat surfaces on one side of the carriage, a second set of oppositely facing and axially extending flat surfaces on the other side of the carriage, and centering rollers having facing rolling surfaces spaced apart a distance X. The track includes first and second sets of track rollers associated with one of the channels, the first and second track roller sets defining a first pair of axially extending, parallel facing rolling planes whereby the first and second roller sets engage the first set of flat surfaces of carriages in the molding section.

Abstract: The invention consists of a corrugating machine comprising a plurality of corrugating bars (6) fixed to an endless chain (5) rotatably driven and a plurality of support bars (13) for the material to be corrugated (10) driven in translation and perpendicular to their direction of movement, a part (42) of the endless chain being opposite the plane of said support bars, the corrugating bars and the corresponding support bars interpenetrating one another, wherein the corrugating bars (6) are movable in translation with respect to the endless chain (5), their movements being made approximately perpendicular to the plane of the support bars, when they are opposite said plane.

Abstract: In a stuck sheet material manufacturing system for manufacturing a stuck sheet material, which has a sticking device for sticking together a front sheet member and a rear sheet member, the sticking device includes a heating member for heating a sheet member and a pressure device provided oppositely to the heating member for pressing a stuck sheet material to the heating member, and the pressure device includes a supporting member arranged so as to be extended in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a traveling direction, a plurality of weight blocks suspended from the supporting member via elastic members and arranged side by side and vertical movement driving means for driving the vertical movement of the supporting member.

Abstract: The invention consists of a machine for continuously reprofiling a corrugated material comprising:support bars (7) for the corrugated material, driven in translation and perpendicular to their direction of displacement,reprofiling bars (2) fixed to an endless chain (11) rotatably driven and movable in translation with respect to said chain (11),counter-forming bars (6) fixed to another endless chain (16), also rotatably driven, and movable in translation with respect to said chain (16),the profile of the counter-forming bars being complementary to that of the reprofiling bars, the reprofiling bars (2) and counter-forming bars (6) being positioned on either side of the plane of the support bars (7) in such a way that parts of said bars are opposite one another and the translation movements of the reprofiling and counter-forming bars opposite one another are made approximately perpendicular to the plane of the support bars.

Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of corrugated tubing of thermoplastic including a shaping path adjoining the head of an extruder, composed of a guide arranged in a frame structure, along which guide mold halves closed together in pairs as annular molds are advanced in close succession, said mold halves being provided on a lower side thereof with racks, at least one drive pinion arranged in the initial part of the shaping path for meshing with the racks of the mold halves as the same are pushed along the path, and an outlet, following the shaping path, in which the mold halves are separated from one another and are transferred to mutually separate return paths, on which they are shunted back by a conveyor to the inlet.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for the manufacture of films, in particular thin or very thin films, with a rotating roller with which a plastically deformable film preferably supplied by a slot extruder is conveyed and stretched, wherein between the roller and a metal belt arranged parallel and at a short distance from the roller is applied a voltage by which the film supplied is applied to the roller. In order to develop this apparatus in such a way that manufacture of films, in particular thin or very thin films, is possible with increased productivity and film quality, with the invention it is proposed that the metal belt comprises a sharp longitudinal edge which is arranged closest to the roller and directed onto it.

Abstract: A travelling mold has mold block sections which are driven around an endless track. The mold has a drive system including a first drive component which drives the mold block sections in abutting positions with one another to a second component in the drive system which accelerates and separates the mold block sections and which then decelerates and regroups the mold block sections in their abutting positions before the mold block sections are returned to the first drive component. This separation and regrouping of the mold block sections eliminates the necessity of having a complete chain of abutting mold block sections completely around the mold.

Abstract: A machine for making plastic tubing including a plurality of separate carriages for carrying mold blocks about the continuous path. First and second wheel pairs on opposite sides of each carriage ride on first and second tracks respectively through a molding section of the path. An offset wheel is disposed between the wheels of each pair and rides on guide tracks associated with and facing oppositely to the first and second tracks respectively through the molding section.

Abstract: A pleating machine for dual fluted shades consisting of a pair of cooperating sets of pleating conveyors closely adjacent and flanking a sealing device that joins the two resulting pleated webs together by transversely fed attaching sheets.

Abstract: A corrugated mold block for a vacuum machine for molding corrugated tubes is formed of a plurality of sub-blocks rigidly secured end to end. Each sub-block has an arcuate face which is corrugated with not more than one complete wavelength of circumferential grooves and lands, and two longitudinally spaced end surfaces. A vacuum channel is provided about one of the end surfaces of each sub-block, and openings in each sub-block connect the channel and the face. When the sub-blocks are secured together into a mold block (and when mold blocks abut during molding), the vacuum channels and openings together define vacuum passages for each of the corrugation grooves, which passages are all connected to a vacuum source for drawing a vacuum during molding.

Abstract: Pyrogenically prepared silicic acid is compressed by a rotary filter equipped with a pressing band.

Abstract: Apparatus for making multiple hook-fastener media in which many protruding hooks are formed at relatively high speed from suitable bendable and settable plastic material which may be different from the substrate to which these pre-formed hooks are subsequently bonded. Many rows of hooks are formed simultaneously, each row from a strand, for example, a monofilament of longitudinally oriented polymeric material. The formed strands are "set" into their multiple hook row configuration, and then these pre-formed rows of hooks are simultaneously bonded to the substrate. Thus, an attractive substrate of any reasonable width, for example, of three inches, six inches, a foot or a yard, may be used. The production apparatus enables the number of hooks per square inch, either longitudinally or laterally or both, to be adjusted while running.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for the production of double-walled helically wound thermoplastic pipe. The apparatus includes an endless former (10) of the axially advancing and rotating type for forming a band of thermoplastic material (24) into a corrugated outer wall (26). An internal extruding device (28) extends along the core of the former and extrudes a second band (34) of thermoplastic material onto the interior of the outer wall. A cold shoe (36) presses the inner wall against the outer wall to form a smooth inner wall (42) of the double-walled pipe. It is also possible to provide for the insertion of a reinforcing profile in the corrugations of the outer wall.

Abstract: An apparatus for molding externally ribbed and corrugated thermoplastic pipes, including a pipe die for extruding a parison of a thermoplastic material; moldblock halves circulating in endless paths and cooperating with each other to form a travelling mold; and a means withstanding the hydraulic pressure of molding. The means is represented by yokes having shanks for engagement with complimentary recesses made in the halves. The yokes are provided with rollers guided in parallel paths ensuring that the shanks are driven toward and away from the recesses in a progressive motion without changing their orientation.

Abstract: In a process of making sheet material comprising a substrate web of synthetic thermoplastic material and an adhesive layer consisting of a non-crosslinkable elastomer the elastomeric material is heated above its devolatilization temperature by a feed screw of a screw extruder and is devolatilized through venting means (vent opening and vacuum pump 21) and is subsequently pressurized by a booster 7 to a pressure which is sufficient to overcome the backpressure applied by the succeeding blow head.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a corrugated tube having a smooth inner wall surface and a corrugated outer wall are provided. A first strip of resin material is wrapped around first portions of rollers arranged in a circular array and is helically wrapped around the first portions of the rollers each having equally spaced ridges therearound to form the corrugated outer wall. A second strip of resin material is fed from the interior of second portions of rollers arranged in a circular array onto the inner surface of the outer wall being manufactured and bonded thereto. The second strip bonded to the outer wall is wrapped around the second portions of the rollers each having a smooth surface to form the smooth inner wall.

Abstract: A machine and process for continuously thermoforming molten thermoplastic sheet are provided requiring precise synchronism in the interaction between opposed successions of circulatable tooling steps. A single motor for all the driving mechanisms achieves the desired synchronism and a driven succession of tooling steps itself drives the opposed succession.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for preparing a flat, formable product, such as a piece of milled corn-based product, having a soft, moist, and substantially fiberless consistency, with a corrugated shape. The apparatus comprises a pair of lower rollers, a pair of upper rollers and upper and lower forming elements extending in endless loops between the lower and upper rollers, respectively. The upper runs of the lower forming elements and the lower runs of the upper forming elements are staggered laterally and converge towards one another. Adjacent loops on the lower rollers and adjacent loops on the upper rollers converge towards one another. When the rollers are rotated the upper runs of the lower forming elements and the lower runs of the upper forming elements move forward synchronously. The piece is engaged between the opposed runs and in moving forward with the forming elements is pressed by the forming elements into a corrugated shape.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for attaching a continuously moving elastic ribbon to a continuously moving web such that only selected discrete areas of a finished conformable garment fabricated from the web are elasticized. The web is moved into engagement with a continuously moving first conveyor means having a plurality of spaced apart gaps in its surface and the first conveyor means travels along an inclined guide means toward a second conveyor means traveling opposite to and in the same direction as the first conveyor means. The second conveyor means carries a plurality of spaced apart web tucking means which are moved by the second conveyor means into registry with the gaps in the first conveyor means. As each of the web tuck means move in registry with the gaps, the web tuck means are inserted into the gaps to form tucks in the web due to the movement of the first conveyor means toward the second conveyor means.

Abstract: An electrical cable for very high voltage underground power transmission comprises two or more inner conductors (2) which are twisted together and are supported within the gas-filled void of a hollow extruded plastic cable sheath (4) by means of a plurality of spacers (3) which are positioned along the length of the cable, each spacer (3) being formed of solid dielectric material with a number of angularly spaced radial webs equal to the number of conductors in the cable and being engaged with the twisted conductors with the webs extending from the cable axis radially outwardly between the conductors into contact with the inner wall of the cable sheath (4) where the outermost ends of the webs engage with complementarily shaped portions (5) of the sheath (4) providing for reduction of the electrical stresses at the spacer ends.

Abstract: Apparatus for making profiled plastic tube and comprising two circulating endless chains, each making a plurality of mold halves move along with a tube coming from an extruder, these mold halves pairwise constituting a mold cavity in which the tube is being given its profile. According to the invention the molds are movable relative to the chain links in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the links. The machine frame is provided with guides for the mold halves, some located interiorly, others exteriorly, with respect to the chain loop, such that once closed, the cavity formed by the pairs of mold halves will remain closed and undisturbed up to the end.Preferably the transitions between curved portions and the operative portion of the path of the mold halves at the entrance and the exit ends are bending points of mathematically calculated paths and the operative straight path tangentially joins said transitional portions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for attaching a continuously moving elastic ribbon to a continuously moving web such that only selected discrete areas of a finished conformable garment fabricated from the web are elasticized. A continuously moving belt formed of plate members hinged together and engaging the continuously moving web is guided by cam means to cause adjacent plate members to fold and thereby form folds in the web. After folding of the web, the continuously moving elastic ribbon is moved into contact with areas of the web between the folds and is adhered to the web at these areas. The elastic is cut opposite the folded areas of the web corresponding to areas in the finished diaper in which it is desired not to provide elasticization. The belt means is then guided so that the plate members unfold to thereby unfold the web.

Abstract: A hose construction and apparatus for and method of making such hose construction are provided wherein the hose construction comprises a corrugated outer tube made of polymeric material and having alternating projections and recesses with the recesses having inwardly facing convex surfaces and an inner tube made primarily of polymeric material and having smooth inside and outside surfaces with the outside surface being bonded against the convex surfaces and wherein the inner tube has at least one longitudinally extending polymeric portion comprising same which has electrically conductive particles embedded therein in which the polymeric portion serves as a matrix for the particles and with the polymeric portion being heat fused to the convex surfaces.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a corrugated sheet from a web of deformable material, for use in cooling towers and the like, includes an endless conveyor which is adapted to move along a predetermined path of travel and on which are mounted a plurality of web molding trays. The trays have a plurality of corrugations formed therein extending generally transversely of the path of travel and means are provided for selectively locking the trays on the conveyor with the corrugations located at predetermined acute angles with respect to the path of travel of the conveyor so that the angle of the corrugations formed in the web can be varied. An air knife arrangement is provided for urging the web against the corrugations in the trays to form the corrugations in the web.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for corrugating a web of sheet material in a continuous process by means of an elongated mold movable in an endless closed path and composed of plate elements disposed in a row the one behind the other and in one straight portion together constituting a forming table having preferably diagonally extending, mutually parallel, grooves.The plate elements are by means of journals supported on and mounted in driving members disposed on either side of the path and equipped with turning wheels, the individual plate elements following the driving members with the same side facing upwards during the whole trave along the closed path.The primary field of application of the product manufactured in the apparatus are corrugated sheet pieces intended to form the fill in contact or exchanger bodies for two fluids, of which one may be a liquid, such as water, and the other a gas, such as air.

Abstract: A horizontal brick feed conveyor continuously feeds green undried moist clay bricks along a path beneath a lower horizontal flight of an elastic hold-down belt member mounted above and moving in the same direction as the conveyor to engage the upper surface of the conveyed brick; a relatively large motor-driven irregularly spaced impression roller is adjustably mounted adjacent the upper surface of the horizontal flight of the hold-down belt to engage the horizontal flight so that a number of protrusions on the roller deflect portions of the elastic hold-down belt downwardly into the green brick immediately beneath the hold-down belt so that the bricks are distorted and misshaped to give an antique or handmade effect.

Abstract: A mobile plant for manufacturing corrugated drain pipe includes an extrusion apparatus, a pipe molding means and a coiling machine for coiling up the extruded pipe. The apparatus may conveniently be mounted in a trailer for transport.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming diagonally corrugated paperboard having a longitudinally elongated frame upon which is laterally mounted at least one corrugating unit. Each corrugating unit consists of a conveyor mechanism having a continuous loop belt with parallel grooves formed in its outer surface and a mechanism to force the web of paper being passed through the corrugating unit down into the grooves of the continuous loop belt. The parallel grooves in the outer surface of the continuous loop belt are oriented diagonally with respect to the direction of travel of the conveyor mechanism. The mechanism to force the web of paper down into the grooves of the belt comprises a plurality of rods that extend in a corresponding diagonal direction across the width of the belt and whose opposite ends are not secured to any structure but which are floatingly carried around a closed loop path structure.

Abstract: Apparatus for deforming a sheet of thermoplastic material by sequentially pressing against one face of the hot sheet of material the cold tips of projections set in and extending normally from a first series of separately moveable combs and sequentially pressing against the second face of the material the cold tips of projections set in and extending normally from a second series of separately moveable combs so that the projections in the first series of combs interpenetrate with the projections on the second series of combs in such a manner that the projections of the first series are spaced from the projections of the second series by a distance greater than the thickness of the sheet; the interpenetrated projections are substantially parallel during the act of interpenetration; and the combs of any one series form a block pressing against the sheet of thermoplastic material, wherein the block so formed by the combs of any one series has two straight parallel sides, parallel with the sides of the thermoplas

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous forming of molded plastic sheet from granular thermoplastic materials directly from granular thermoplastic material by plasticizing the granular material through a blender and an extruder, thence passing such material through a pair of roller dies to form a sheet of material that is fed directly to a continuously moving conveyor belt where the sheet is vacuum formed, thence trimmed and cut to size.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for making toothed belts of rubber or rubber-like elastic synthetic materials with an enveloping fabric covering, the belt teeth, according to which an enveloping fabric strip is folded into successive folds corresponding to the belt teeth to be formed, and the cavities defining folded portions on the inside of said fabric strip are filled with elastomeric material of the type of which the belt teeth are to be made, whereupon layers of elastomeric material and straight members making up the remainder of the belt to be made are placed upon each other to build up the belt, whereafter the thus obtained assembly is vulcanized.