Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus inventions 02/09

20090053343 - Kits and methods for assessing leptin-mediated lipid metabolism: The invention relates to kits and methods for assessing susceptibility of a human to abnormal lipid metabolism and disorders associated therewith, such as obesity and diabetes. The methods involve assessing occurrence in the human's genome of one or more polymorphisms (e.g., single nucleotide polymorphisms) that occur in one or more... Agent: Brandy C Hill

20090053344 - Method for curing tires and a self-locking tire mold: A segmented mold 2 for molding a tire 100 is described which has a central axis; plurality of radially movable tread forming segments; two sidewall forming plates, a top sidewall forming plate 8, and a bottom sidewall forming plate 6; a top locking ring 10 having a plurality of circumferentially... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20090053345 - Concrete slip forming device: The present invention is an improved slip forming device for forming a concrete curb having a desired profile. The device consists of a hopper portion and a removeable extruder portion, the extruder portion being adapted and configured to extrude the concrete curb having the desired profile. The hopper portion of... Agent: Elias C. Borges

20090053346 - Preventing mold use by disabling molding cycle components: Presented herein is a system for preventing the unauthorized use of a mold, said system comprising a mold comprising at least two cooperating mold sections that are required by a mold cycle; and a lock assembly operatively associated with said mold; wherein, when the mold is mounted on a molding... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090053347 - Molding machine system: Provided is a molding machine system enabling a free setting of execution timings of respective steps in a molding cycle of heating of a mold, injection and pressure holding of a molding material, cooling of the mold, etc. The molding machine system repeating a series of molding cycle comprises three... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090053348 - Injection apparatus: In an injection apparatus of a molding machine, a bad influence given to a molded product due to a water component contained in a resin is eliminated by maintaining the resin immediately before being melted in a dry state. The injection apparatus has a cylinder (11) to which a molding... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090053349 - Injection molding machine having function for monitoring screw rotating torques: Screw rotation speeds and screw rotating torques are measured at predetermined time intervals during metering and substituted into a previously-assumed function to determine a maximum screw rotating torque at each screw rotation speed. An allowable upper limit of screw rotating torque is set for each screw rotation speed on the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090053350 - Pressure compensating molding system: A pressure compensating molding system with die faces of thin sheets. A thin die sheet separates a mold cavity from a heating/cooling cavity. A heating system causes a heated fluid to flow through the heating/cooling cavity, thereby preheating the thin sheet. The injection material is forced through a sprue into... Agent: Knox Patents

20090053351 - Apparatus for formation of an ophthalmic lens precursor and lens: This invention discloses apparatus for generating an ophthalmic lens with at least a portion of one surface free-formed from a Reactive Mixture. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is formed on a substrate with an arcuate optical quality surface via a source of actinic radiation controllable to cure a definable... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090053352 - Taper fitted conduits for molten polymer: A system for conveying fluids, particularly molten polymer in an extrusion melt train. The system has a first element having a first fluid passage. The first element also has a first interface surface thereon, such that the first interface surface is non-orthogonal to the axis of the first fluid passage.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090053353 - Device for forming optical lenses: A device for forming optical lenses includes a base, a driving mechanism mounted on the base, a controller connected to the driving mechanism and a roll forming die. The controller is configured for controlling the driving mechanism. The roll forming die includes a roller, a number of mold cores attached... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090053355 - Gas extraction method from mold cavity: A gas extraction method including: providing an injection mold apparatus (100) including a mold cavity (300), a gas vent (490) and a gas vent pin (49), the mold cavity including an end portion of a material injection path (210), the gas vent communicating with the end portion, the gas vent... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090053354 - Venting valve to be used in venting bores of vulcanization molds: Vent valve for venting bores of vulcanization moulds, especially for the tread profile area, consisting of a valve sleeve (5), in which a valve insert (4) and a wound spring (6) are movably located, wherein the valve insert (4) consists of a valve shank (4-3), which is at one end... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20090047373 - Bridge runner system: Disclosed herein is a stationary platen of a mold clamp for use with a molding system. The stationary platen includes a platen base configured to accept a first mold assembly of a mold, the platen base also defines a receptacle for embedding, in use, a bridge runner system. The bridge... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090047374 - Mold module: Disclosed herein is a mold module from a set of substantially structurally independent mold modules of at least one of a first mold assembly or a second mold assembly. The first mold assembly and the second mold assembly for accepting, in use, a plurality of first mold inserts and second... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090047375 - Mold tool for the production of extrusion blow molded products: The invention concerns a mold tool for the production of extrusion blow molded products, comprising at least three mold portions (2a, 2b, 3) which define a mold cavity (4) and of which two are in the form of outer molds (2a, 2b) and one is in the form of a... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090047376 - Melt distribution apparatus: Disclosed herein is a melt distribution apparatus for a molding system having a geometrically balanced network of runners for distributing a melt of molding material from a melt inlet to a rectangular array of melt outlets having a first number of melt outlets in a first reference direction and a... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090041879 - Self-raising form control system and method: A self-raising form control system and method is provided that that may be used to form elevator shafts and other vertical building structures. The apparatus includes one or more form elements for defining an area to receive a formable material, such as concrete. Each element is attached to the form... Agent: The Law Office Of Randall T. Erickson, P.C.

20090041880 - Device for melt spinning, treating and winding synthetic threads: A device for melt spinning, treating and winding synthetic threads includes a spinning unit, a treatment unit and a winding unit. The spinning unit, the treatment unit and the winding unit are arranged in tiers one above the other and form a plurality of single-thread or multi-thread production positions along... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090041881 - Mold device and mirror plate: An object is to prevent internal stress from remaining in a molded product to thereby improve the quality of the molded product. A mold apparatus (10) includes a first plate and a second plate which is disposed to face the first plate and is made of the same material as... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090041882 - Elastomeric seal sizer: An apparatus and a method for changing the shape of seals is provided. The apparatus includes an elastomer member that applies force onto the seal to change the size of the seal. An embodiment of the invention includes returning the seal to its original diameter by deforming the elastomer that... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins LLC

20090041883 - Apparatus for fabricating flat panel display: This invention relates to a flat panel display and a fabricating method thereof that are adaptive for conducting a patterning process without using a photo process to thereby reduce its process time and minimize pattern defects. A fabricating method and device of a flat panel display according to an embodiment... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090041884 - Cover for closing a moulding mould using closure mould technology, especially resin infusion or injection: Cover for closing a moulding mould using closure mould technology such as resin infusion or injection including a form-maintaining frame, having a plurality of inflatable wedges, which are arranged on at least part of the circumference thereof, and mounted in a removable manner.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090041885 - Insulating spacer for an injection mould: The present invention relates to an insulating spacer (7) arranged between at least two parts of an injection mould (1), which at least two injection mould parts will have different temperatures during operation. The insulating spacer (7) is formed by an insulating element (14) and a dimension adaption element (15)... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP

20090041886 - Cross-over nozzle system for stack molds: A crossover nozzle system for transferring molten plastic from an inlet at the center of the stationary platen of an injection machine to the main manifold of the molding chambers of the stack molds of the injection molding machine. The crossover nozzle system relies on molten plastic pressure within the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090035404 - Tire mold and pneumatic tire using the same: In a tire mold 10, in which a tread molding section 12 for molding of a tread comprises a plurality of segments 18 divided in a tire circumferential direction and the respective segments are provided movably in a tire radial direction, ridges 20 for molding of transverse grooves T2 on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090035405 - Extrusion head for use in extrusion-based layered deposition modeling: An extrusion head comprising at least one mounting structure, a first liquefier pump secured to the at least one mounting structure, a second liquefier pump disposed adjacent to the first liquefier pump, a toggle mechanism supported by the at least one mounting structure and configured to move the second liquefier... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090035407 - Apparatus for placing mold charges into a compression molding machine: An apparatus for placing mold charges into a mold of a compression molding machine includes a carrier, an arm pivotally mounted on the carrier and a mold charge pick-up cup on the arm at a position spaced from the carrier. The arm is pivotal on the carrier between a first... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090035406 - Coefficient of thermal expansion control structure: The present invention is directed to the incorporation of a substructure into tooling for constructing composite structures in order to control thermal expansion of the tooling during aerospace manufacturing processes. Substructure, such as headers and/or gussets is added to the tooling to constrain the growth of the laminate expansion and/or... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090035408 - Machine for compression molding plastic articles: A machine for compression molding plastic articles includes a turret constructed for rotation around a vertical axis. A first array of compression molds and a second array of compression molds are mounted on the turret for movement through respective first and second mold paths as the turret rotates around the... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090035409 - Automatic block making machine: The invention provides block forming apparatus with a compression chamber having upper and lower opposed ends, and defining a common inlet and outlet at the upper end of the compression chamber, via which the compression chamber can be charged with block forming material, and via which a formed block can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090035410 - Multilayered film/sheet molding die: For the purpose of molding a multilayered film/sheet having a highly precise thickness of each layer, movable choker bars (31, 32) are movably arranged in the middle of molten resin channels (111, 112), and a plurality of choker adjustment bolts (35, 36) are arranged at a predetermined pitch in the... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090035411 - Solid free-form fabrication apparatus and method: Apparatuses and methods are described for supplying powder for solid free-form fabrication from a powder supply reservoir (2) that is movable from a servicing position to a dispensing position. The powder supply reservoir may be supported by a horizontally retractable support arm (4). It may also be supported by a... Agent: Ip & Internet Law North, LLC

20090035412 - Hybrid lay-up tool: The present invention relates to a hybrid lay-up tool comprising a thin metallic working surface and a composite back structure. The working surface may be an Invar working surface, and the working surface and the back structure may be coupled using a self-locking connection mechanism. The present invention also relates... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090035413 - Stand for a rotary tablet press: A stand for a rotary tablet press, which supports a rotor with electric drive motor on a horizontal carrying element, with damping means between the stand and an underframe supporting itself on the ground for the purpose of vibration uncoupling between stand and underframe, wherein a first horizontal carrying element... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.