Abstract: A device (26) for softening the insulation of a wire (21) having a pair of opposed rollers (28, 30) and means (22) for mounting the rollers. The rollers (28, 30) are mounted in such a manner as to be movable away from one another to enable an insulated wire (21), to be wire wrapped on a terminal, to be passed therebetween. The rollers (28, 30) are also movable towards each other for engaging and softening the wire insulation.

Abstract: A method of heating a parison neck by stretching blow molding, wherein an injection molded synthetic resin parison is adjusted in temperature while holding a parison neck, by a neck mold for molding a parison neck, after which the parison is stretched and expanded to form a container such as a bottle, the method comprising at the time of adjusting temperature of said parison, heating a lower end of the neck mold and applying heat enough to prevent formation of an annular constriction in a molded product, to a border between a parison neck covered by the neck mold through the end of said neck mold and a body.

Abstract: Sheets of organic thermoplastic polymeric film are contacted with processing rolls having a microgrooved surface to reduce the air layer therebetween, thereby aiding heat transfer between film and roll and consequently increasing processing speed.

Abstract: A device for fabricating multi-layer tubing has a reservoir for tubing solution and discharges such solution from an opening in the reservoir bottom. The reservoir is suspended so as to remain level. Extending through the opening is a vertical rod of smaller diameter but itself suspended by a flexible wire so as to remain vertical. Material in the reservoir extrudes as an annulus even in cross-section by passing between the edge of the reservoir opening and the rod. Such extruded material hardens into one layer of the tubing. There is a repetition with a larger reservoir opening and so depositing a larger tube that is dried on and over the first tube. This is repeated as often as desired to get a finished tube of the proper inside and outside diameter.The method is following in succession the steps described above.

Abstract: A basin for simultaneous or consecutive dewaxing and curing of denture molds is disclosed. The basin is generally box-shaped and is provided with three vertically-shaped trays of which the topmost remains above the high fluid level. The upper rear portion of the basin has a pivotally-secured frame-arm provided with a plurality of nozzles adapted to spray over the entire area of the topmost tray. The fluid from the nozzles drains back into the basin; a recirculating pump recirculates the fluid back into the nozzles. A separate fluid inlet is provided to fill the basin for curing. The basin is further provided with an upper and lower fluid level-limiting means, a heating element, a thermostat and, preferably, an automatic timer.

Abstract: In apparatus for manufacturing an elongated cheese product, the extrusion of a heated mass of cheese is followed by a subsequent pulling or tensing of the extruded strand which develops a fibrous texture in the product and reduces the size of the strand. The pulling is carried out on a continuous basis by a tension applying device, downstream of the extruder, which may comprise a pair of drums around which the cheese strand is wrapped. The strand then passes down a cooling vat under tension from a second tension applying device which retains the properties of the strand as it cools. The second tension applying means may include pairs of driven rollers through which the cheese strand passes. After the pulling and cooling, the strand is cut in lengths suitable for packaging.

Abstract: The wrapped insulation on the straight parallel sections of coils for larger rotary electric machines is treated under heat and pressure in a preferably double-sided coil press in which pressure is applied first to the center of the heated sections then also to the outer parts thereof to enable excess resin impregnating the insulation to flow away from the center parts and achieve a more uniformly and accurately dimensioned coil.

Abstract: This invention relates to stress control cones for terminations of high-voltage power transmission cables. Such cones are used beyond the end of the cable insulation shielding, and for the purpose of providing thicker insulation for reducing the stress at and beyond the unshielded insulation on a high-voltage power cable. This invention builds up greater thickness of insulation beyond the end of the cable insulation shield, preferably by wrapping the cable with layers of insulating tapes that are then heated and fused to one another and to the outside surface of the cable insulation. The hot build-up of additional insulation is fused, or brought to incipient fusion, to merge the build-up to the cable insulation and the build-up layers to one another, instead of using preformed stress relief cones which are unsuitable for very high voltage.

Abstract: A machine and method of operation are disclosed for continuously molding solid pellets from a mud composition. In a specific application, the machine is useful for producing an oxidation catalyst in pellet form. The machine includes a rotatable disk having small openings therein, which provide mold cavities. As the disk is rotated, the mud composition is injected into the mold openings through an injection head, which rides against the front face of the disk. The mud is retained in each mold opening by a backing plate, which rides against the back face of the disk. Ambient air is passed through a heater located at the top of a housing which partially encloses the disk. The heated air is circulated downwardly on both sides of the disk to dry the mud in the mold openings. An ejection head is positioned such that it rides against the front face of the rotating disk at a point behind the injection head. Pressurized air is forced through air passages in the ejection head, which register with the mold openings.

Abstract: A method of drying articles of ceramic flatware supported on a mould comprises passing heated air over an exposed surface of the article, the air flow being directed such that it flows from the periphery towards the center of the article.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for heat treatment of fibrous mats, especially mats formed of mineral fibers such as glass and carrying a heat hardenable binder material, such as a thermosetting resin. The method and the equipment disclosed provide for continuous feed of the mat through a curing or treating oven having a plurality of heat treatment zones or areas. In one form of the method and equipment, the heat treatment in at least one zone is effected by circulation of a heated gas, such as air, through the mat in said zone, and the mat is also subjected to heat treatment in a localized area lying within said zone by passage of a second heated gas through the mat, the second heated gas having a pressure higher than that in the surrounding portions of said zone.

Abstract: A composite ski is made by bonding a metal ski top to a molded ski body during the molding and curing of the body. The ski body is placed in the mold cavity of a two-part mold, and the metal top is movably supported on the other mold part. One end of the metal top is held by a spring-biased holding pin which permits the metal top to expand and contract relative to the mold part as the mold is heated and cooled while maintaining the metal top in alignment with the cavity.

Abstract: A machine for treatment of board material with gaseous substances under the influence of negative pressure in which the upper zone of treatment applying the treating gas has a greater surface area applied to the board than the surface area of the lower negative pressure zone applied to the board opposite to the upper zone.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for developing a strain crystallized morphology in blowbottles of thermoplastic material by a heat treatment process subsequent to a blow molding operation. In a first embodiment, the blow mold itself includes means for differentially heating the blown article along its length so that only those portions which have been significantly molecularly oriented are heat treated. In a second embodiment, separate mold-shaped members are mounted adjacent the blow mold to receive the blown articles to apply the desired heat treatment process. In the method, an essentially amorphous thermoplastic parison is expanded in a blow molding operation at a temperature conducive to molecular orientation and strain induced crystallization. Then, the highly molecularly oriented bottle portions are heat treated to develop crystalline growth, while other non-molecularly oriented bottle portions may be simultaneously cooled.

Abstract: The wrapped insulation of coils of large electric machines--motors or generators--is set by heat and pressure in a press that extends the length of both wrapped legs of the coil and supports the coil so that it is substantially free from stress. The coil may be supported with its wrapped legs level and horizontal, and the press can be adjustable for different coil sizes and configurations. The heat and pressure cycle is operable automatically to suit the requirements of the insulating material.

Abstract: An apparatus for operation in the temperature range above 1000 degrees Centigrade and at pressures above 50 kilobars, for making industrial diamonds or the like, includes arrangements for more reliably maintaining uniform temperature while compressing the charge. The high pressure cavity includes the usual insulating cylindrical liner made of a salt, or other insulating material, to facilitate the application of electricity to heat the charge, and the liner stops short of the end of the cylindrical high pressure cavity to avoid deformation as the main piston moves into the end of the high pressure cavity. A ring or rings of zinc and/or lead and/or a zinc-lead alloy, may be located immediately adjacent the end of the insulating liner, and a thin layer of lead may extend across the main piston, to insure confinement within the cavity. Heating arrangements are provided to compensate for the cooling which occurs along and at the ends of the high pressure cavity to thereby achieve more uniform temperature.

Abstract: A method of curing a polymeric hose are provided wherein a hose to be cured is confined within a tubular preformed spiral confining wall of a mold structure to thereby provide optimum support for the exterior surface of such hose during curing which assures provision of a precision outside surface yet enables curing of a substantial length of hose in a comparatively compact volume.

Abstract: A method and system for cooling an injection molded plastic article by forming a portion of a mold cavity of fluid permeable porous material that communicates with a cooling liquid passageway and subjecting the cooling liquid to different pressures to vary the flow of fluid through the porous plug.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for rapidly distributing a first gas throughout a chamber that contains both the first gas and a second gas. The invention is particularly useful in the pressurizing of tennis ball centers with a low permeability gas, where the diffusion rate between the low permeability gas and air is very slow. By this invention, the distribution of the low permeability gas throughout the mold can be accomplished in a much shorter period of time by a mechanical mixing method and apparatus that involves circulating the mixture of gases inside the mold through a conduit and pump located outside the mold.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the continuous production of fiber reinforced plastic grating articles is provided wherein continuous strands of fibers are coated with a thermosetting plastic resin material and woven into a grate pattern defined by upper and lower molding teeth arranged on continuous upper and lower molding tracks. The molding tracks rotate and cause the molding teeth to mesh, forming a molding cavity, wherein heat is applied to set the plastic resin. The fiber reinforced plastic grating articles formed by this process and apparatus have a unique cross-sectional configuration and arrangement of fibers providing for increased strength and reduced resin usage.

Abstract: A curing apparatus for continuously producing shaped articles of cross-linked polymeric material in which a curing tube is adapted to be heated by the direct passage of electric current in the tube. One terminal of a power supply is connected to the opposite ends of the voltage applying section to be heated, while the other terminal of the power supply is connected to the tube at a position where the voltage applying section is divided into two so that one portion on the inlet side of the tube is lower in electric resistance than the other portion on the outlet side thereof. The increased heat generation resulting from the lower electric resistance of the inlet-side portion maintains the tube inlet portion at a high temperature, despite its tendency toward a lower temperature due to continuous introduction of the low-temperature polymeric material to be cured, to thereby achieve an improved production efficiency.

Abstract: A method of stretching a high molecular film by nipping the film through rubber-like resilient members and applying pressure thereto and an apparatus adapted to carry the method into practice, which apparatus is especially adapted to effect cold stretching of a high molecular film.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for the continuous manufacture of structural shapes are disclosed. Mineral fiber material in the form of continuous strands, webs, or mats, impregnated with a heat-hardenable resin, is passed through a dielectric heater. The material is shaped as it passes through metallic dies that are disposed within the dielectric heater. The electric field between the electrodes of the heater is reduced or shunted at the location of the dies. The heater is arranged so that the maximum electrical field occurs adjacent the entrance to the heater.

Abstract: Apparatus for curing concrete of a type having a mold or plurality of molds disposed on a frame is characterized by having a forced air heating system which includes a mechanism for evenly distributing heat along the length of a concrete bed. The concrete bed has a plurality of molds thereon and an opening under the molds for receiving a heat distributing mechanism. A heater is attached to the heat distributing mechanism and an air circulating mechanism is provided for causing the heat from the heater to flow to the heat distributing mechanism. The heat distributing mechanism includes a first conduit attached at one end thereof to and in communication with the heater. The first conduit has side walls which are impervious to the flow of the heated gases and the other end of the first conduit is open. A second conduit is sealingly disposed around the first conduit and encompasses the other opened end of the first conduit.

Abstract: A record disc dewarping device presses the disc between planar members and applies heat while pressing the disc.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a structural panel of prestressed and reinforced cementitious material includes a hinged box form or, alternatively, a reusable adjustable metal form having telescopic, slidably adjustable brace members, said forms also having stackable modules to provide selectively variable heights of the form walls, a resilient mold, side form members dividing the adjustable forms into a plurality of individual panel forms, a header for dividing each individual panel form into a shallow and a deep portion and which serves as a nailing strip in the finished panel, and steam curing apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus for processing extruded thermoplastic material by advancing a hollow extrudate from the die member of an extruder through auxiliary equipment followed by stress relieving the extrudate through a mesh guide means, wherein the initial portion is heated while the subsequent portion is cooled by passing it through the mesh guide which may be contained in a temperature controlled water bath.

Abstract: Apparatus for vulcanizing a continuous length of flexible material comprising a closed chamber having material receiving input and exit ports while maintaining vulcanization pressure and temperature within the chamber, and a pair of rolls mounted on parallel spaced-apart horizontal axes within the chamber such that a portion of the material passing into the chamber and carried by the rolls is self-supporting and free of any contact with either roll surface, the surface of at least one of the rolls being contoured such as to position helical convolutions of the material thereon and cause the material to move in a substantially helical path from the entry port to the exit port while it is being vulcanized within the chamber. A drive motor is connected to one of the rolls to effect rotation of the roll and movement of the material through the chamber.

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

Abstract: A machine for the production of articles of foamed plastics material in a two-stage process has a first work station for a hot preforming stage and a second work station for a following cold forming stage. Each station has a two-part mould, the second mould part of each mould being movable towards and away from its first mould part by means of a fluid cylinder, and the first mould parts are connected together and mounted so as to be movable in unison in a direction at right angles to the direction of movement of the second mould parts.

Abstract: A die for cooling, sizing and smoothing an extrudate includes a mounting plate having an orifice for receiving the extrudate, and a plurality of die members each having an aperture. The die members are mounted on the mounting plate in cascade relationship so that the members are axially spaced and the apertures are in alignment with the orifice in the mounting plate. The die members may be unitary flat metallic discs each having an aperture, or the die members may be a composite of a pair of overlying metallic discs each disc of the pair having an elongated slot extending inwardly from a peripheral edge, with the discs oriented so that the closed end of each slot defines a portion of the aperture.

Abstract: A device for the production of corrugated, protective separators for batteries which are made of woven polyester material. The device is provided with two alternating sets of shaping rods and two sets of clamping jaws which are movable in both the vertical and lateral direction. A third set of jaws is movable only in the vertical direction. The shaping rods are inserted into alternating channels in the material while the material is securely held by the clamping jaws and the material is hardened by means of a furnace. Once the channels are heat set, the shaping rods are withdrawn and the separator is severed by means of a cutting unit. A new piece of material is then positioned for similar fabrication.

Abstract: For casting large concrete articles, a wheel-mounted main frame supports a mould assembly which can be rotated about a horizontal axis, and also raised and lowered. This assembly has two main mould sections oppositely arranged so that when one faces upwards the other faces downwards. A removable mould section fitted to each main mould section forms a complete mould capable, when uppermost, of receiving concrete to be cast. The mould assembly may then be inverted and lowered to a support, and the removable mould section disconnected to serve as a pallet for the cast article. The mould assembly may be raised, concrete may be cast in the other mould, which is uppermost, and the main frame may be moved clear of the deposited cast article.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating the ends of elongated rod-like synthetic resin articles comprising a rotatable disk having circumferentially spaced slits in its periphery for receiving the articles at a feed station, moving them through a treating station and discharging them at a discharge station. A tool is located at said treating station for treating corresponding ends of said articles.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for splicing thermoplastic monofilament material by high frequency vibratory energy use a support having both forming means and an adjoining flash receiving cavity. Monofilaments to be spliced are disposed in the forming means in overlapping relationship. High frequency vibratory energy is applied to the overlap region softening the monofilaments while the excess thermoplastic material created during the splicing is extruded into the adjoining flash receiving cavity. The vibratory energy is removed and the softened material remaining in the forming means solidifies into a continuous monofilament having a predetermined cross sectional area.

Abstract: A moulding apparatus including a pair of mould cavities with locking spue grooves, means to form moulded rubber article parts in the cavities, means to prework the rubber without substantial curing before it is formed, means to pressurize the mould with gas and means to bring the mould cavities together to join the article parts. The arrangement for pressurizing the mould includes a retractable casing which is movable between a position in which the mould cavities are enclosed to permit their pressurization and a position in which the cavities are accessible outside the casing.

Abstract: A mat formed of a mixture of board particles and a bonding agent is conveyed to oppositely rotating rollers which compress said mat to a desired thickness as the mat passes therethrough. A conveyor associated with the rollers is provided for carrying the compressed mat between a pair of platens mounted in a fixed relationship with respect to the continuously moving mat. As it passes between the platens, the mat is supported by a fluid bearing and is exposed to heat to cure the bonding agent. The platens are internally divided into separate subcompartments. The pressure in these subcompartments is regulated such that the mat is subjected to controlled pressures as it moves past the platens.

Abstract: A dual-belt system for solidifying products such as hot-melt resins by passing a product layer through a treatment zone formed by two endless steel belts. The product layer is precooled so that the product strip has substantially the desired cross-sectional shape prior to entering the treatment zone. During the precooling step the product spreads by the action of gravity, and the rates of precooling and movement are such as to insure that the product strip has dimensions within acceptable tolerances.

Abstract: A mat formed of a mixture of board particles and a bonding agent is conveyed to oppositely rotating rollers which compress said mat to a desired thickness as the mat passes therethrough. A conveyor associated with the rollers is provided for carrying the compressed mat between a pair of platens mounted in a fixed relationship with respect to the continuously moving mat. As it passes between the platens, the mat is supported by a fluid bearing and is exposed to heat to cure the bonding agent.

Abstract: A mat formed of a mixture of board particles and a bonding agent is conveyed to oppositely rotating rollers which compress said mat to a desired thickness as the mat passes therethrough. A conveyor associated with the rollers is provided for carrying the compressed mat between a pair of platens mounted in a fixed relationship with respect to the continuously moving mat. As it passes between the platens, the mat is supported by a fluid bearing and is exposed to heat to cure the bonding agent.