A folding table and a manufacturing method of the folding table. The folding table includes a tabletop and a support bracket, the tabletop includes a flat plate and a vertical plate arranged below the peripheral edge of the flat plate. The upper part of the vertical plate protrudes towards the peripheral side of the flat plate to form the clamping part which is clamped with the support bracket. The manufacturing method includes producing a hollow part through a blow molding process, the middle portion of the part concaves inwards; cutting the concave inward part to form two tabletops; and clasping the tabletop on the support bracket.

Provided is a lightweight mesh nonwoven fabric having excellent adhesiveness between uniaxially oriented bodies, excellent low-temperature heat sealability, and high strength. A mesh structure 1 includes two or more uniaxially oriented bodies 2, 3; which include a thermoplastic resin layer and a linear low-density polyethylene layer laminated on at least one side of the thermoplastic resin layer; the mesh structure is produced by laminating or weaving the uniaxially oriented bodies through the linear low-density polyethylene layer in such a way that orientation axes L, T of the uniaxially oriented bodies cross; and the mesh structure has properties of: (1) a fiber weight per unit area of 5 to 70 g/m.sup.2, (2) a thickness of the linear low-density polyethylene layer of 2 to 10 m, (3) an adhesive force between the uniaxially oriented bodies of 10 to 60 N, and (4) a tensile strength of 20 to 600 N/50mm.

The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced composite material including a first fiber-reinforced sheet in which first prepregs including reinforcing fibers arranged in one direction and a first thermoplastic resin are woven to cross each other, a second fiber-reinforced sheet in which the first prepreg, and a second prepreg including reinforcing fibers arranged in one direction and a second thermoplastic resin are woven to cross each other, and a third fiber-reinforced sheet in which the second prepregs are woven to cross each other, wherein the second fiber-reinforced sheet is disposed between the first fiber-reinforced sheet and the third fiber-reinforced sheet.

Methods of making containers are provided, including providing a material sheet having at least two barrier layers and at least two polymer layers, forming the material sheet into a tube, sealing the tube at a seal area, and blow molding the tube to form a container in which the at least two barrier layers form a substantially continuous barrier at the seal area.

The present invention is directed to a method of incrementally stretching polymeric film formed from a blown film extrusion process. The present invention is further directed to a polymeric bag formed from an incrementally stretched polymeric film. The incremental stretching is performed on a collapsed polymeric bubble via a pair of intermeshing rollers. The incrementally stretched polymeric film may be stretched only along a portion of its width. The polymeric bag may be a drawstring trash bag with an extended hem where only the extended hem of the bag or the body of the bag comprises incrementally stretched polymeric film.

Some embodiments are directed to a system for detecting foreign matter in a parison discharged successively from a discharge device, the system comprising: infrared cameras that detect infrared beams emitted from the parison; and a determination unit that determines whether foreign matter is present in the parison on the basis of the infrared beams detected by the infrared cameras. A determination area is set in the parison in a discharge direction of the parison, a storage unit is provided that stores an infrared threshold set for the determination area, and the determination unit compares the detected values from the infrared cameras with the threshold.

A highly flexible thermoformed stand-up dispensing package for a flowable material that is produced from one or more highly flexible heat-sealable polymeric sheets is formed with a trapezoidal front wall and opposing back wall and is dimensional and configured so that the corner of the package formed by the intersection of the top and the projecting side wall, or walls, that extend at an obtuse angle from the base is removable along a weakened tear line that is positioned upon removal to provide an integral pour spout for the controlled dispensing of the flowable material; and the container portion of the package is dimensioned to (1) maintain the center of gravity of the flowable material in the package over the base wall when the base wall of the filled package is in contact with a horizontal surface, and (2) to maintain the level of flowable material in the opened package is below the opened integral pour spout.

A method for patterning a foam pad includes transversely cutting the foam pad so that the foam pad has a cut surface; covering the cut surface with a dye paper on which a predetermined pattern is formed using a dye, performing a first hot press process on the dye paper so that the dye on the dye paper is vaporized and transferred to the cut surface, and removing the dye paper; applying a transparent PU resin onto the cut surface that has been dyed, and curing the PU resin; and performing a second hot press process on the PU resin on the cut surface, so that the cut surface is increased in density and the PU resin encloses the dye, thereby making the dye firmly attached to the cut surface.

Methods and apparatus for manufacturing a thermoplastic structure include laying a first plurality of braided plies on a mandrel, and laying one or more unidirectional plies on the plurality of braided plies. A second plurality of braided plies is laid on the one or more unidirectional plies. The layup thereby forms a thermoplastic structure having combined braided and unidirectional plies.

Co-extruded and extruded high-altitude balloons and apparatus and methods for manufacture. A high-altitude balloon has a plurality of layers of coextruded balloon panel extrudate, a first one of the layers extrusion-bonded to a second one of the layers along a first edge, the second one of the layers extrusion-bonded to a third one of the layers along a strip spaced apart from the first edge, extrusion-bonding of successive layers alternating between the first edge and the strip, the first one of the layers and the last one of the layers extrusion-bonded together along a second edge.