A resin roller (10) is produced by disposing a core body (21) in a forming metal mold (1) having a cylindrical metal mold (13) and core supporting members (14) furnished at both edge parts of the cylindrical metal mold (13) as well as causing the core supporting members (14) to hold said both edge parts, and pouring a forming resin into the metal mold and solidifying it. The resin roller (10) has the core body (21) of the same outer diameter over a full length and a cylindrical resin-formed body...

The present invention involves a method and system for manufacturing a multiple density substrate for impact energy absorption with a mold having a mold cavity of a predetermined shape. The substrate is integrally formed by the method comprising providing a first set of unbonded pre-expanded beads having a first density and a second set of unbonded pre-expanded beads having a second density, loading a portion of the mold with the first set of unbonded beads at a predetermined location in the mol...

An injection molding machine for simultaneously injection molding a plurality of articles each made of plural polymeric materials. The injection molding machine includes a source of a first polymeric material and a source of a second polymeric material. The injection molding machine also includes a plurality of co-injection nozzles, each of the nozzles has an associated injection cavity mold. Each of the nozzles also has a first flow channel for providing a stream of said first polymeric materia...

An injection nozzle device including multi-polymer injection nozzles comprising an assembly of shells, and having fixed, tapered passageways communicating with annular orifices close to a nozzle gate and to each other, and polymer flow balancing and directing means in the passageways in the form of concentric and eccentric chokes.

A process and apparatus for insertion of a stuffer plug (18) within a hollow section of a automotive weatherseal extrudate (10) is provided which operates by insertion of a needlelike section (20) of a dispenser unit through a wall of the extrudate into the hollow section. A stuffer plug precursor is then injected or inserted into the hollow section and the needle-like section of the dispenser is removed. The stuffer plug precursor (22) then forms a stuffer plug (18) within the hollow section. P...

Center filled confections, such as gummy or jelly candies or fruit snacks are continuously produced by co-deposition into a mold without candy tailing to obtain products with substantially uniform side walls and little, if any, shell breakage and filler leakage or bleed-out problems. Decentering of the filler and its accompanying production of thin or weak shell walls is avoided by at least substantially preventing excessive flow of a fluid or liquid shell component along a single side of shell ...

Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for combining two or more streams of a polymeric material to form a plastic object. The method and apparatus are capable of ending an interior layer of the plastic object at a desired length to avoid the need to clean selected surfaces of components used to form the plastic object. The method and apparatus increase the velocity of the polymeric material used to form the plastic object in certain components used to form the plastic object. The increase ...

Button rods are made of different colored resins containing thixotropic agents and having catalyst and promoter agents added to separated portions of each resin so that when the resins are combined their gel time is accelerated. The combined resins are mixed both for mixing purposes and to lower the apparent viscosity, and the resins are fed through nozzles and into an inclined trough. The nozzles are reciprocated in arcs to lay the resins in a zig zag pattern in the trough, and the resins flow ...

An apparatus for introducing a pressurized gas includes a pressurized-gas supply-source, a plurality of measuring tanks, a first pressurized-gas supply-line, pressurized-gas supply valves in the first pressurized-gas supply-line, second pressurized-gas supply-lines and pressurized-gas discharge-control valves disposed in the second pressurized-gas supply-lines. A combination of the measuring tanks is determined on the basis of the amount of a pressurized gas required for forming a hollow portion...

A gas venting needle for use in gas injection moulding the open end having a flow valve with no moving parts; the flow valve being provided by a plurality of individual flow channels sized such that in use gas may freely flow through these channels but liquid moulding material may not freely flow through.