Snow making in which ice nucleating microorganisms are incorporated into the water to initiate crystallization when the water is introduced as fine droplets into the atmosphere which is at a temperature below freezing.

A container for drawing or ironing dies is particularly useful but is not limited to can making. It includes an outer ring having an inwardly extending flange at one end and a disc secured to its other end so as to provide a peripheral space for receiving at least three segments which are resiliently urged against a die ring. The radial length of the slot is greater than the radial length of the segments so that the die ring can be displaced from the normal axis of the die pack. Means co-axial w...

Alkali metal salts of organic acids are prepared by saponifying the corresponding organic acid ester with an alkali metal hydroxide in a liquid reaction medium comprising a substantially water-free alkyl nitrile.

Books are produced by feeding juxtaposed webs of printed matter, obtained from rolls, past a glue applying means which applies glue between the webs; the webs joined by glue are cut to provide juxtaposed sheets in paginated relation which are then folded to signature form and delivered to a conveyor; preferably the conveyor in a saddle conveyor and the fold is so made as to produce signatures with a lap margin.

A vertical form fill and seal continuous pouch machine includes a forming tube having a cross section area of CA is disclosed. A film tube is continuously formed about the forming tube and fed downward. A horizontal sealing assembly includes at least one pair of opposing sealing bars that make horizontal seals on the film, thereby forming pouches. The horizontal seals are formed in a horizontal sealing zone, and the vertical distance from a lower end of the forming tube to the center of the hori...

In an ice making plate where a plurality of ice making regions are formed in the vertical direction, a projecting portion having a lateral width B smaller than a lateral width A of the ice making regions is formed between adjacent ice making regions. At least one non-projecting portion or area is defined at least one side of the projecting portion and located between adjacent ice making regions. Most of the ice growth is restricted by an upper surface portion and a lower surface portion of the p...

Floorboards for installation of floors in herringbone pattern are formed with two opposite sides inverted relative to each other. The invention further comprises methods for producing and making floorings comprising such floorboards, as well as fitting pieces and sets of parts for such floorings.

An ice-making water tank 54 capable of improving ice-making efficiency by suppressing increases in concentrations of the impurities contained in ice-making water is divided into a circulating tank section 58 and a retention tank section 60 by a partition plate 62. The ice-making water stored within the circulating tank section 58 and the ice-making water stored within the retention tank section 60 are made movable between each other by a communication hole 64. A capacity of the retention tank se...

A dunnage platform is in the general shape of a rectangular slab with legs extending form one side. The dunnage platform is made from an expanded polystyrene core. A chemical combination process is used to chemically combine portion of the core proximal to its surface with high impact polystyrene. In a first of two parts of the combination process, the core is placed in a forming mold with one of its two sides and two thirds of its thickness extending therefrom. A heated sheet of high impact pol...

A golf tee for supporting a golf ball has a generally conical, essentially hollow body in which a conoidal wall extends in an axial direction along a prescribed axial length between a ball support at an upper end of the body and a basal tip at a lower end of the body. The wall includes overlapping conoid layers of synthetic polymeric material, preferably located along a common spiral, with adjacent layers in sliding engagement with one-another, all of the layers having upper and lower edges at c...