Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus inventions 09/08

20080233224 - Device for manufacturing a granular product by extrusion and cutting: The invention relates to a device for manufacturing a granular product by extrusion and cutting, comprising an extruder provided with at least one extrusion die exhibiting an extruder face in which extrusion orifices open, a rotationally driven cutting head comprising at least two cutter blades designed to move past the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080233225 - Steel alloy and tools or components manufacture out of the steel alloy: The invention relates to a powder metallurgically manufactured steel with a chemical composition containing, in % by weight: 0.01-2 C, 0.6-10 N, 0.01-3.0 Si, 0.01-10.0 Mn, 16-30 Cr, 0.01-5 Ni, 0.01-5.0 (Mo+W/2), 0.01-9 Co, max. 0.5 S and 0.5-14 (V+Nb/2), where the contents of N on the one hand and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080233226 - Machine enclosure sealing and hygiene features of a food patty molding machine: A patty-forming machine using linear displacement sensors to sense and report the position of hydraulic cylinder rods. The machine enclosure includes double sealed door openings. Mold cover lift rods are cylindrical and utilize annular seals on a top skin of the mechanical compartment. The machine comprises removable floor panels and... Agent: The Law Office Of Randall T. Erickson, P.C.

20080233227 - Drive unit of molding machine and injection molding machine: An injection molding machine has a motor (31) provided with a brake unit (34). The brake unit (34) generates a braking torque greater than or equal to a maximum torque that the motor (31) is capable of generating. Thereby, the rotation of an output shaft (32) of the motor (31)... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080233228 - Food molding mechanism for a food patty molding machine: A food molding mechanism for a patty-forming machine that uses a servomotor to drive a crank arrangement. The crank arrangement drives a mold plate. The mechanism uses a reducer with a replaceable output shaft. The reducer engages a servomotor utilizing a double enveloping worm gear providing gear enmeshment across an... Agent: The Law Office Of Randall T. Erickson, P.C.

20080233229 - Apparatus and method for producing containers: Method and apparatus for the production of containers are disclosed. A container blow molding element can concurrently produce a plurality of containers. Two adjacent containers are disposed a first distance apart. A container conveying element can receive the plurality of containers at predetermined container locations. The predetermined container locations corresponding... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080233230 - Adapter system for mold plate attachment to patty-forming machine: Apparatus and methods of modify a reciprocating mold plate patty-forming machine such that a mold plate for a smaller machine can be fit into a larger forming machine. A tooling set for the modification includes a dedicated drawbar configured to mount the smaller mold plate and modified wider spacers to... Agent: The Law Office Of Randall T. Erickson, P.C.

20080233231 - Injection mold assembly: A method and assembly for molding golf balls is disclosed herein. The invention includes an injection mold assembly (20) with a first mold half (22a) having a plurality of cavities and at least one locating pin (92) and a second mold half (22b) having a plurality of cavities and at... Agent: Michael A. Catania Callaway Golf Company

20080226761 - Foil balloon for enabling customized design to print on either side and method of manufacturing same: The present invention is to provide a foil balloon for enabling a user to print a customized design on each of both sides, which comprises a carrier (e.g. paper) comprising a central opening, and an upper second foil and a lower first foil releasably attached onto top and bottom surfaces... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080226762 - Injection control apparatus: An injection control apparatus includes an injection member; a drive section for injection; an injection-speed detection processing section which detects injection speed; an injection-pressure detection processing section which detects injection pressure; and a drive control processing section which drives the drive section for injection on the basis of the injection... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080226763 - Preform-supply device comprising a device for the selective removal of incorrectly-positioned longitudinal preforms: The invention proposes a system (20) of feeding preforms, particularly designed to feed a machine for blow moulding receptacles such as bottles, of the type comprising, from upstream to downstream in the longitudinal direction of travel of the preforms (10), at least one sorting and alignment device (28) whose top... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080226764 - Injection molding nozzle: A nozzle 10 used in injection molding comprises at least one runner 30 within a nozzle casing 20 to convey injection material to be processed. At its lower end, the runner 30 communicates, in flow-transmitting manner, through a nozzle orifice element 40 and an insert 50, with an injection mold... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080226765 - Injection system: Injection system with closing rod (2) provided with a cleaning device (6, 7, 8) suitable for removing the powder of molten plastic that builds up in the movement areas of the closing rod (2) , in particular in the thrust bearing (3), during the normal operation of a molding machine.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080220109 - Molding tool: A molding tool has a base surface hard to be roughened by an etching process for removing a worn DLC film. The molding tool is provided with an intermediate film coating a base surface of the molding tool, and a diamondlike carbon film coating the intermediate film. The intermediate film... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080220110 - Gypsum board forming device with improved slurry spread: Disclosed is a gypsum board forming device which provides improved slurry spread. The device includes a forming table with an arcuate or angled profile that promotes a uniform slurry spread. An arcuate or angled hinge plate can also be included to further promote the uniform distribution of slurry prior to... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP Attn: Stefan V. Stein/ Ip Dept.

20080220111 - Method and apparatus for producing free-form products: A method and apparatus for producing products from a powered base material, by means of so-called free form fabrication, wherein the powder granules are bound together into a solid product.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080220112 - Double bag vacuum infusion process and system for low cost, advanced composite fabrication: Boeing is actively engaged in the production of lightweight composite airframes for both military and commercial applications. The double bag vacuum infusion process of the present invention provides a low cost, method for producing complex composite assemblies without an autoclave. It also enables the production of highly innovative structures. The... Agent: Intellectual Property Management Boeing Management Company

20080220113 - Insert molding article and method for making the same: An exemplary insert molding article includes a plastic element and an insert element. The insert element includes a main portion, an extension portion extending out from one side surface of the main portion, and a cutout defined at an outer corner of the extension portion adjacent to a center of... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080220114 - Method and apparatus for conditioning preforms in an injection stretch blow mold machine: The conditioning station of an injection stretch blow mold machine is provided with a heater ring for each hot, soft preform presented to the station. The heater ring emits infrared light waves that are confined to the transition region of the preform between the neck and main body portions to... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080220115 - Variable-pitch moulding units and moulding machine: An assembly including units for molding polymer materials, the units being arranged successively in a mobile line, each of the molding units including a mold, the mold including two parts mutually mobile about a pivot pin, the movement of the two parts relative to each other being produced upon opening... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080220116 - Apparatus for forming hand-formed style patty using a patty-forming machine: A system includes a high speed reciprocating mold plate patty-forming machine and a downstream patty presser. The high speed patty forming machine provides patties at a high production speed onto an output conveyor portion. The patty presser includes an upper conveyor having an upper endless belt. The upper conveyor is... Agent: The Law Office Of Randall T. Erickson, P.c.

20080220117 - Injection moulding device: An injection molding apparatus (10) comprises at least one manifold and at least one injection molding nozzle (30), each nozzle (30) being affixable by means of a fastener (40) to the manifold (20). To allow rapid assembly and durable sealing of all nozzles at the manifold, the fastener (40) is... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080213417 - Electroblowing web formation: An improved electroblowing process is provided for forming a fibrous web of nanofibers wherein polymer stream is issued from a spinning nozzle in a spinneret with the aid of a forwarding gas stream, passes an electrode and a resulting nanofiber web is collected on a collector. The process includes applying... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080213418 - Align-transfer-imprint system for imprint lithogrphy: An imprint system for imprint lithography comprises an alignment subsystem and an imprint subsystem. The mask (mold) and the wafer for imprinting (substrate) are align on the alignment subsystem and contacted to each other to form a mask/wafer set. The mask/wafer set is then transferred onto the imprint subsystem while... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080213419 - Viscosity pump for extrusion-based deposition systems: A pump system comprising a delivery assembly configured to feed a solid material under operational power of a first drive motor, and a screw pump comprising a housing that at least partially defines a barrel of the screw pump, an extrusion tip secured to the housing at a first end... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080213420 - Stamper and method of manufacturing the same: A stamper includes a stamper body including a nickel having a patterned surface by artificial drawing method, and a surface layer of a nickel-vanadium alloy having a vanadium content of less than 3 atomic percent formed on the patterned surface.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080213421 - Centrifugal casting die, method for manufacturing thereof as well as casting material, blade obtained therefrom and method for manufacturing thereof: A centrifugal casting die according to the present invention includes a cylindrical die body, a backup layer releasably bonded to the inner surface 12b of the die body, and a top layer bonded to be integral to the inner surface of the backup layer, for holding a centrifugally casting material... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080213422 - Transfer apparatus and molding production apparatus having the transfer apparatus: The present invention is to provide a transfer apparatus and a molded article production apparatus having the transfer apparatus. These apparatus can improve the working efficiency and control cost and space for arranging. A molded article production apparatus has a transfer apparatus and an injection molding apparatus. The transfer apparatus... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213423 - Fluid flow control assembly for a container blowing machine and machine comprising one such assembly: The invention relates to a fluid flow control assembly for a container blowing machine, comprising: a blow pin (1); a plurality of pipes for the circulation of a blowing fluid, which enable the blowing fluid to flow between at least one blowing fluid source, at least one fluid discharge outlet... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080213424 - Injection compression moulding apparatus: An injection compression moulding apparatus comprises two mould parts which define a mould cavity and are mounted on two relatively movable platens of an injection moulding press. An actuator is arranged in series with the platen action on at least one of the mould parts and is controlled in synchronism... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.