A system including an injector, a press, and a robotic conveyance is used to form a physically foamed article of footwear component from a single-phase solution of a polymeric composition and a supercritical fluid. The parameters and features of the system are configured for the formation of the footwear component in an automated manner with enhanced throughput by the system.

A method for forming a cushioning element comprises molding a first cushioning element on a first side of a fabric and molding a second cushioning element on a second side of the fabric. The first cushioning element and second cushioning element may be superimposed. The fabric may include a first layer and a second layer that are superimposed, with the first cushioning element secured to and protruding from the first layer and the second cushioning element secured to and protruding from the second layer. Each of the first cushioning element and second cushioning element may include a plurality of interconnected walls formed from an elastomeric gel material. The walls of the first cushioning element and second cushioning element may be aligned or offset.

One or more embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for applying a mixture of a first compound and a second compound, the apparatus comprising a first extruder for processing a first compound and a second extruder for processing a second compound, wherein the outlet from the first extruder is in fluid communication with a first channel of a housing, and the outlet from the second extruder is in fluid communication with a second channel of the housing, wherein a gear pump is positioned in each channel, wherein a nozzle is in fluid communication with an outlet of the first channel and an outlet of the second channel, and a coextruded continuous strip is produced. The ratio of the first compound to the second compound may be adjusted instantaneously.

The present disclosure provides a composition for improving the bonding of an elastomer to a metal surface for use in wellbore operations, the composition comprising polymers, including phenolic and acrylic based polymers, one or more fillers, one or more additives, one ore more curative agents, and an epoxide promotor. The method can include single or multilayer addition to a metal surface to promote the bonding of the thermoset rubber elastomer to the metal surface. The resultant bonding can provide a good sealing performance, including at moderate or low temperature to high temperature, and exhibit good chemical compatibility and resistance when exposed to common wellbore environments.

A three-dimensional printing kit for forming lens elements can include a build material including from about 80 wt % to 100 wt % thermoplastic polyamide elastomeric particles having a D50 particle size from about 10 m to about 150 m, and a fusing agent including a liquid vehicle and from about 0.5 wt % to about 20 wt % of a UV radiation absorber.

Tooling and components of an injection-molding system may be used to mold a foam article. The tooling and components may include features that control parameters of the injection-molding and foaming process, such as temperature, pressure, shot size, shot placement, and the like.

The present invention relates to a tubular film intended to form a stretch hood. The tubular film has a core layer and at least one skin layer. The core layer comprises, by weight of the core layer: 30-80% of recycled polyethylene; 10-35% of a polymer booster selected from a thermoplastic elastomer and a polyolefin plastomer; and 0-40% of virgin ethylene polymer and/or virgin ethylene based copolymer.

A thermoplastic resin composition including an alkyl (meth)acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A) including a polymer seed including 70 to 85% by weight of an alkyl (meth)acrylate and 15 to 30% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound, a rubber core surrounding the polymer seed and including 78 to 90% by weight of an alkyl acrylate and 10 to 22% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound, and a graft shell surrounding the rubber core and including 65 to 80% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound, 14 to 25% by weight of a vinyl cyanide compound, and 3 to 15% by weight of an alkyl (meth)acrylate; and a non-graft copolymer (B) including an alkyl (meth)acrylate, an aromatic vinyl compound, and a vinyl cyanide compound. The present disclosure also relates to a preparation method and a molded article.

To provide a rubber extruder, a rubber extrusion system and a rubber material feeding method, in which a strip-shaped rubber material can be safely fed with a simple structure. It is a rubber extruder 2 into which a strip-shaped rubber material G is fed. It comprises a circular cylindrical cylinder 5, a screw 6 disposed inside the cylinder 5, and a feeding section 7 located on an upstream side of the cylinder 5 in the extrusion direction D. The feeding section 7 comprises a feeding port 7b penetrating, in a radial direction of the cylinder 5, from the outermost outer surface 7a to an inner surface 5b of the cylinder 5. At the position of the feeding section 7 in the extrusion direction D, the screw 6 has a biting section 6a into which the fore-end portion Ga of the rubber material G to be fed is bitten. The distance L 1 from the outer surface 7a of the feeding section 7 to the biting section 6a is smaller than the opening width W of the feeding port 7b in the extrusion direction D at the outer surface 7a.

A thermoplastic resin composition resin composition contains: 1 to 50 parts by mass of a specific polycarbonate resin (A) containing an isosorbide structure; 10 to 45 parts by mass of a graft copolymer (B) obtained by graft polymerizing a rubbery polymer (a) with a monomer (b) containing an aromatic vinyl-based monomer and a vinyl cyanide-based monomer; 5 to 49 parts by mass of an aromatic vinyl-vinyl cyanide-based copolymer (C) obtained by copolymerizing a monomer (c) containing an aromatic vinyl-based monomer and a vinyl cyanide-based monomer; and 0 to 40 parts by mass of an aromatic polycarbonate resin (D). (A total of the polycarbonate resin (A), the graft copolymer (B), the aromatic vinyl-vinyl cyanide-based copolymer (C), and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (D) is 100 parts by mass.) A molded article obtained by molding this thermoplastic resin composition.