Abstract: A system for die casting of concrete goods such as block stones comprises a cellular casting mould having a plurality of cells and a device for supplying concrete for filling the cells. A dolly including a common base member with protruding pistion portions having load plates of a shape corresponding to that of the cells, is used for compressing the concrete in the cells. Each of the piston portions includes a resilient compressible material arranged between the load plates and the common base member for obtaining uniform density and strength in the goods in the respective cells.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously or intermittently molding fiber-reinforced plastic structural components includes a continuous passage or pathway having a series of stations thereon for charging a multiple part mold with a charge of chopped fiber reinforced resin or plastic, closing the mold parts to effect compaction of the charge, curing said charge into a molded article, opening the mold, ejecting the molded article and return the open mold to charging point, movement of said mold parts from open to closed position being controlled by spacing between vertical spaced set of rails supporting male and female parts of the mold, said spacing being controlled to effect indexing of said male and said female part in the curing station in a closed portion and to effect unindexing of the male and female part to open the mold and a method of using said apparatus to yield said molded article.

Abstract: A motor-operated, direct-pressure type mold clamping mechanism capable of high-speed mold closing and opening operations and of producing a required mold clamping force, without the use of a large-sized motor. In the mold opening and closing operations, a ball screw, in engagement with a ball nut which is movable in unison with a moving platen, is rotated at high speed by a coarse-adjustment motor through gears, so that a die is opened and closed at high speed. In the mold clamping operation, the ball screw is driven by a fine-adjustment motor through a clutch and gears which, having a high reduction ratio, serve to enhance the rotatory force and provide greater clamping force.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for forming a flange on the wall portion of a hollow body of thermoplastic material with an opening at one end provides that the end part of the wall portion which defines the opening is heated and contracted by means of a force acting on the end portion from the outside thereof over the periphery thereof, whereupon the contracted end part is subjected to a pressing operation to form a flange extending around the contracted end part.

Abstract: A mold clamping device is disclosed. The device includes a clamping ram, whose front end is connected to a moveable board of an injection molding machine, slidably fitted in a clamping cylinder, and a support cylinder provided in parallel to the clamping cylinder. A support piston is slidably positioned in the support cylinder, and the front end of the rod of the support piston is connected to the moveable board of the injection molding machine. A front chamber and a rear chamber of the clamping cylinder, divided by the piston section of the clamping ram, and a front chamber of the support cylinder are connected by an oil path. There is provided a valve for opening or closing the connection between the rear chamber of the clamping cylinder and the front chamber of the clamping cylinder and the front chamber of the support cylinder.

Abstract: Shaped pieces of insulation having non-uniform thickness but substantially uniform density are formed by simultaneously compacting and consolidating at least first and second portions of a particulate insulation material in an independent manner so as to form a shaped piece of insulation in which the first and second portions have different thicknesses in the direction of compaction. The degree of compaction of the first portion is the same as the degree of compaction of the second portion so that the shaped piece of insulation has substantially uniform density.

Abstract: A compaction evaluation apparatus for determining powder plug and compaction force parameters to produce a desired plug for encapsulation. A tamping pin is operated by a piston, and the force applied by the pin as well as its dwell on the powder plug can be accurately controlled. The powder plug may be released into an actual capsule body.

Abstract: In a conventional multiplunger transfer molding die apparatus having plungers for pressurizing molding material put in plural material supply pots formed in each mated surface of upper and lower chase blocks, when the pitch of the material supply pots is required to change, the whole die apparatus has been exchanged, thus a complicated adjustment work of the plunger pitch, a broad die storage space, an uneconomical die apparatus preparation being required. To overcome these problems, only the upper and lower chase blocks are exchanged and the pitch of plungers is adjusted according to the replaced chase blocks by means of locating means.

Abstract: A number of distributed springs, fabricated from memory metal alloy, are connected to a die in a molding assembly. When heat is applied to the springs, they expand with sufficient force to mold a resin-impregnated composite material over a contoured mold form. The heat may be simultaneously applied to the composite material for achieving curing while molding occurs. Upon removal of the heat, the springs contract thereby allowing removal of a finished molded product.

Abstract: A press for forming sheet material into a shaped article comprising a frame, first and second complementary dies, a cam supported by the frame for reciprocally moving the first die along an axis between a first position axially spaced from the second die and a second position fully mated with the second die, the cam including a dwell period when the first die is in the second position. The press includes a bolster supporting the second die for axial movement between upper and lower limits, the bolster being axially spaced from the upper limit by movement of the first die to the second position. The press also includes a hydraulic power circuit responsive to the position of the cam for normally biasing the bolster toward its upper limit under a first hydraulic pressure and for biasing the bolster toward the upper limit under a second hydraulic pressure during the dwell period, the second hydraulic pressure being greater than the first hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing moldings (48) from concrete et cetera, particularly concrete paving stones, the top side of which exhibits partial surfaces of different vertical level, comprises a molding table (46), a molding frame (30, 31) and a stamp fitting in the latter. For better consolidation and in order to facilitate clean removal from the mold, it is provided that the stamp consists of two separate partial stamps (33, 42) guided in each other, the end cross-sectional surfaces of which are dimensioned so that the one (33) molds the lower-lying and the other (42) the higher-lying top partial surfaces of the molding (48) and that the stroke distance of the partial stamp (42) for the higher-lying partial surfaces is limited in an upper consolidation position, in which both partial stamps conjointly reproduce the top side of the molding, and in a lower mold-removal position, by stops.

Abstract: A press is described for manufacturing plates, etc., having a press die which can be moved against a countermold for pressing, the press die being molded in accordance with the inner shape of the plate, etc., to be pressed, and having an elastic membrane closing a cavity in the countermold and mounted at its edge which is adapted to the dimensions of the edge of the finished plate. The membrane is provided with an annular slot corresponding to the base of the plate and is capable of having porcelain body in powder form distributed over it in the limits set by the mounting, when the press die is moved a distance away from the membrane, the cavity covered by the membrane being capable of being filled with a pressure medium which can be pressurized when the press die has been moved onto the porcelain body in powder form distributed over the membrane. The press die has a coating which is provided at the edge with a torus bulging towards the membrane.

Abstract: A hand-operated thermal press for installing metal inserts in a workpiece of a thermoplastics material comprises a frame (12) including an upright post (16) on which is slidably mounted a support bracket (24) carrying an insert driver (18). Movement of the bracket (24) along the post (16) is limited by adjustable clamps (20, 22) and the bracket (24) is biassed into a starting position by a coil spring (28). A hand-operable mechanism (34) is provided for moving the insert driver (18) along the post (16). The insert driver (18) incorporates a heating unit movable relatively to the insert driver (18) against a biassing spring (100). The heating unit includes a core (70) heated by the unit and which supports a bit (92) adapted to receive the metal insert to be installed. The clamps (20, 22) are adjusted to provide a required movement of the insert driver and the spring bias (100) ensures a consistent driving force for installing the insert.

Abstract: A process and apparatus are provided for pressing fibrous, particulate or laminar materials to provide laminated products of low to medium density. The system is characterized by the use of lightweight pressing plates which have horizontal and vertical permeability, by the sealing of the press to provide a closed environment, and by heating substantially entirely by the use of a fluid heat carrier which heats the materials by convection.

Abstract: A control circuit for controlling either the position and the speed of travel of a press table or the hydraulic pressure acting on the press table, or both, in a hydraulic press, in particular a press for wood-based boards, comprising an actual-value transmitter for the position of the press table, a pressure transmitter for the hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic press cylinder, a set point transmitter, and a control valve, actuated by the deviation of the actual value from the set point value, for the hydraulic cylinder by means of which the press table is moved. In order to produce a simple and inexpensive control circuit compared with conventional control circuits, in which the control valve is a complicated and expensive servo valve, the control valve is a pressure controlling proportional valve and the circuit can be designed to provide an arbitrary, e.g.

Abstract: Two mold sections of a mold for compressing a ceramic or refractory material into tile preforms are mounted on respective platens of a pressing machine for displacement toward and away from one another. One of the platens is a part of a frame which further includes upright beams and a support stationarily mounted on the upper ends of the beams. A plurality of cylinder-and-piston units the pistons of which are accommodated in bores of the movable platen and the piston rods of which extend outwardly of the bores and toward the support, is distributed over the movable platen and so acts thereon as to avoid bending of the movable platen.

Abstract: A hydraulic press for the shaping and pressing of hollow ceramic articles, comprising a bedplate fitted with a horizontal table, on which top a die is fitted, wherein the negative outer shape of the article to be shaped and pressed is reproduced in at least one cavity thereof, being a special pressing member, consisting of a bowl made of an elastically flexible and extensible material, and having at least partly, the negative inner shape of the article to be shaped and pressed, fitted within said cavity, coaxially thereto, and being the possibility given to have said bowl uniformly inflated by introducing a pressure fluid therein; means being also provided to have said die temporarily closed while the ceramic powder or paste, previously introduced therein, is pressed, and to have the duly shaped and pressed ceramic article ejected therefrom.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling cheese hoops with curd and for compressing the curd to form a finished cheese. The invention includes a hoop cart for supporting a plurality of generally cylindrical cheese hoops in closely spaced aligned arrangement and positioned such that they can each be filled from the top. The apparatus also includes filler trays which are receivable on the aligned cheese hoops to permit curds to be poured therein. Finally, the apparatus includes a vertically oriented press having a plurality of aligned downwardly movable plungers. The press is designed to receive the hoop cart and filler trays such that the plungers of the press are vertically aligned with the cheese hoops whereby the plungers may be forced downwardly into the cheese hoops to pack and to compress the curds therein. The plungers may then be removed from the hoops and the cart pulled from under the press such that the filler trays may be removed from the hoops.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a sinterable compact of a powder comprises a pair of respective shafts displaceable toward one another by the action of respective cams and serving to displace opposing ram members to compact a powder between them. Respective plates carrying the ram members are entrained with the shafts and are displaced in the opposite direction by respective pairs of pneumatic cylinders. The rams are thereupon displaced at high rate against the precompacted powder by energizing a disk-shaped coil which repels electrodynamically the plate carrying the rams.