Apparatus (200) for sorting mixed waste materials, comprising: a housing (260) configured to be vibrated to assist sorting; a screen (210) supported by the housing (260) and having an inlet end (212) for receiving waste materials and an outlet end (214) for discharging at least some waste received at the inlet end (212), the screen (210) comprising at least one portion (220) pivotally coupled adjacent the inlet end (212) to a substantially horizontal axle (222) mounted in the housing (260); and drive means (224,228) configured to pivot the at least one portion (222) of the screen (210) about the axle (222) with a controlled reciprocating action.

Apparatus (200) for sorting mixed waste materials, comprising: a housing (260) configured to be vibrated to assist sorting; a screen (210) supported by the housing (260) and having an inlet end (212) for receiving waste materials and an outlet end (214) for discharging at least some waste received at the inlet end (212), the screen (210) comprising at least one portion (220) pivotally coupled adjacent the inlet end (212) to a substantially horizontal axle (222) mounted in the housing (260); and drive means (224,228) configured to pivot the at least one portion (222) of the screen (210) about the axle (222) with a controlled reciprocating action.

An apparatus includes a first roll and a second roll on each of which a pattern is formed, a first motor and a second motor to rotate the respective rolls, a shaft direction supporting mechanism to support the second roll along a shaft direction and an axial position adjusting mechanism configured to move the shaft direction supporting mechanism along the shaft direction. The posture of the rotating shaft of the second motor is maintained constant at all times, and the second roll is moved in the shaft direction along the first roll, thereby adjusting the positions of both patterns on the first roll and the second roll along the shaft direction.

A device having at least one pair of free-running cooling rollers for the continuous production of a fibre strip impregnated with polymer, wherein the fibres are continuous fibres and the fibres in the impregnated fibre strip are aligned unidirectionally in the direction of travel of the impregnated fibre strip. Preferably, at least one of the two rollers is equipped with a pair of sealing rings preferably of the same type. Also disclosed is a polymer-impregnated fiber strip, a process for producing a polymer-impregnated fiber strip, and a multilayer composite.

The invention relates to an apparatus for processing solid waste, which comprises a base provided with linear rails (10) on which a carriage (20) moves, said carriage being held on the rails by castors and supported by a hydraulic cylinder; a collection unit arranged at the head end of the rails (10) and provided with an upper opening (30) that receives the waste and transfers it by gravity to a processing unit (40) comprising conical elements (not depicted) in the inner region thereof, and, centrally, a shaft with a helicoid (41) surface, said shaft (41) being rotated by a motor with a motor-reduction unit (42); and an extrusion unit (50) that receives the triturated waste from the collection unit, said extrusion unit (50) comprising a base provided with holes and a conical opening opposite the area of inflow of the waste from the processing unit (40).

The invention relates to an apparatus for processing solid waste, which comprises a base provided with linear rails (10) on which a carriage (20) moves, said carriage being held on the rails by castors and supported by a hydraulic cylinder; a collection unit arranged at the head end of the rails (10) and provided with an upper opening (30) that receives the waste and transfers it by gravity to a processing unit (40) comprising conical elements (not depicted) in the inner region thereof, and, centrally, a shaft with a helicoid (41) surface, said shaft (41) being rotated by a motor with a motor-reduction unit (42); and an extrusion unit (50) that receives the triturated waste from the collection unit, said extrusion unit (50) comprising a base provided with holes and a conical opening opposite the area of inflow of the waste from the processing unit (40).

A roll press apparatus forms a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a strip-shaped electrode plate including an active material portion and an active material absent portion and including a tensile-force-ratio adjustment mechanism adjusting a tensile force ratio of an upstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to an upstream side and a downstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to a downstream side of an inter-roll active material absent portion held in a non-compressed state between a pair of press rolls in an active material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode plate.

Container compressing arrangement, mountable in a reverse vending machine, for compacting empty containers, in particular beverage bottles or cans which are preferably made of plastic or metallic material, such as PET or tinned metal, the container compressing arrangement including: a first and a second rotatable roller, each of the rollers having a working surface arranged between two oppositely arranged ends, wherein the rollers are arranged adjacent to each other to rotate in opposite directions around a respective rotation axis in a common geometrical xz-plane; and wherein the working surface includes a plurality of ridges extending across the working surface, in an axial direction of the roller, and distributed in the circumferential direction of the working surface, each ridge having a longitudinal extension in the axial direction.

This manufacturing method is a method of manufacturing a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate. The method includes: a preliminary compression step of forming a pre-compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing an uncompressed strip-shaped electrode plate in which an uncompressed active material layer that is not yet compressed is formed on a current collector foil; an attraction and removal step of attracting and removing fine particles of active material particles from near a surface of a pre-compressed active material layer by an attracting magnet that is disposed so as to be separated from the pre-compressed active material layer in a thickness direction; and a main compression step of obtaining the compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a particle-removed strip-shaped electrode plate from which the fine particles have been removed.

Compositions including a polyamide, and compaction rollers for an automated fiber placement machine incorporating the composition are provided. The polyamide may be a reaction product of at least one diamine and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, a hydroxy benzoic acid, or their respective ester or acyl halide derivatives. The at least one diamine may include an amino terminated perfluorinated alkyl ether polymer or oligomer. The composition may have a thermal conductivity of from about 0.2 to about 50 Watts per meter Kelvin (Wm.sup.−1K.sup.−1).