A method for manufacturing a tool including assembling a stack-up that includes a plurality of precured composite laminates, the stack-up having an engagement surface, wherein each precured composite laminate of the plurality of precured composite laminates is flexible, and wherein an adhesive is positioned between adjacent precured composite laminates of the plurality of precured composite laminates, and placing the engagement surface of the stack-up onto a target surface of a substrate.

A method for using an injection mold for manufacturing plastic components, in particular components of power tools, the injection mold containing a sprue plate, a push-in device and an ejector plate. A cavity is between the sprue plate and the ejector plate when the sprue plate and the ejector plate are in an assembled state, and the ejector plate containing a fiber channel, through which a fiber bundle having a thermoplastic matrix is transportable to the cavity, via the push-in device, along at least part of the sprue plate. The method includes assembling the sprue plate and the ejector plate; heating the fiber bundle together with the thermoplastic matrix; positioning the fiber bundle at the cavity via the push-in device; introducing a liquid plastic into the cavity through a channel of the sprue plate; and introducing the fiber bundle into the cavity so that the fiber bundle is positioned in the cavity by the stream of liquid plastic.

A method is provided for forming one or more gripper heads to be used with a gripping apparatus. The method includes obtaining 3D data based on a geometry of a component. The method also includes forming one gripper head comprising 3D printing the gripper head based on the obtained 3D data. The forming step includes forming one or more openings in the gripper head and forming a nest of the gripper head to locate and releasably hold the component based on suction being applied through the one or more openings.

An abrasive product with a concave-convex structure includes laminated three planar layers and an abrasive layer with a concave-convex structures located on an upper surface of the three planar layers. The abrasive layer with a concave-convex structure is an array of abrasive blocks, and a groove serving as chips discharging groove is formed between each two adjacent abrasive blocks. The abrasive block includes a binder and abrasive grains distributed in the binder.

Hardfacing materials include a polymer matrix material and particles of hard material embedded within and dispersed throughout the polymer matrix material. Earth-boring tools include a tool body and a hardfacing material on at least a portion of a surface of the body, wherein the hardfacing material includes a polymer matrix material and particles of hard material embedded within and dispersed throughout the polymer matrix material. Methods of applying hardfacing material to an earth-boring tool comprise mixing hard particles with a polymer precursor material to form a paste, applying the paste to a surface of an earth-boring tool, and curing the polymer precursor material to form a hardfacing material on the surface of the earth-boring tool.

A composite lay up tool comprising a metal faceplate (12) on a support member (13), wherein the faceplate has been formed by cold-gas dynamic spraying of particles of the metal onto a substrate and wherein the support member is compatible with the faceplate and comprises a casting of a ceramic composition. A process for forming the tool is disclosed. In one aspect, a castable ceramic composition comprises a binder and an aggregate component mixable with water to form a slurry ready for casting, wherein the aggregate component is one of, or a mixture of, fused silica and a particulate metal alloy, and the binder and aggregate component are present in the proportions 10-50 wt % and 90-50 wt % based on the dry weight of the composition. Also disclosed is a process for producing a faceplate for a lay up tool, which process comprises cold-gas dynamic spraying of particles of a nickel-iron alloy onto a substrate to form a faceplate of the nickel-iron alloy on the substrate, the faceplate being of a thickness in the range 2 to 10 mm. Further disclosed is a process for depositing a metal on a faceplate of a lay up tool in which the faceplate is formed of a nickel-iron alloy, which process comprises preparing an area of a surface of the faceplate to effect cleaning and conditioning of the area to accept and adhere to cold-gas dynamic sprayed particles, and cold-gas dynamic spraying particles of the metal onto the cleaned and conditioned area, wherein the metal is a nickel-iron alloy selected to be compatible with the faceplate.

A method may include coiling a fiber line around an exterior side of a casing section. A mold may be temporarily secured to at least a portion of the exterior side of the casing section. An epoxy material may be injected into the mold to form a cover. The cover may extend over the fiber line and the exterior of the casing section. The cover may have a substantially equal thickness for centralizing the casing section when the casing section is positioned downhole. The mold may be removed from the exterior side of the casing section after the epoxy material has cured.

According to the invention, a vehicle component is provided that is formed as a trim part or body part or bumper as well. The vehicle component forms at least one housing part for a light emitter.

The invention relates to a device for inserting an interleaving paper between a first and a second food slice, or a second and third food slice, a third and fourth food slice, etc., wherein the interleaving paper is guided in a channel and, in a time interval between the slicing of the first food slice and the slicing of the second food slice, exits the channel and enters a slicing region, wherein the channel is designed in such a way that the channel shapes the flat cross-section of the interleaving paper. The invention further relates to a slicing device and an interleaving paper.

According to the invention, a vehicle component is provided that is formed as a trim part or body part or bumper as well. The vehicle component forms at least one housing part for a light emitter.