A trash compacting apparatus including a container, an air pump, two or more inflatable air bladders, an air distributor, a load plate, a load sensor, a pressure sensor, a controller unit, and an interface unit is disclosed herein. The apparatus may operate as a standard trash container and may further include a lid. The apparatus may be operated by the user or by a programmable controller unit to inflate the air bladders, thereby compressing trash contained within the apparatus and reducing the total volume of the trash.

A machine can form a work piece into a bowl subcomponent of a steel pan musical instrument. The machine includes a pressure lid and a die mold. The die mold may be formed of non-metal layers stacked between metal layers. In example operation, a blank or work piece is inserted between the lid and die mold. The lid is pressed down (e.g., by a hydraulic ram), forcing a portion of the blank into a face groove of the die mold for sealing. Pressurized water or other fluid introduced between the lid and the blank exerts pressure on the sealed portion of the blank and stretches the blank to conform to a bowl shape of the die mold. Note regions can be introduced by this machine-performed shaping and/or by subsequent manual operations to further prepare the work piece for incorporation into a steel pan musical instrument.

A bonding device and a bonding method for an irregular-shaped curved cover plate and a flexible screen are disclosed. The bonding device includes: a support body supporting the flexible screen; and a bonding body supporting the flexible screen together with the support body and pressing the flexible screen. The bonding body has a cylindrical shape. A cross-sectional shape of the bonding body along an axial direction matches with a cross-sectional shape of the irregular-shaped curved cover plate. The support body is located at a radial end of the bonding body. The bonding body can be expanded along the axial direction, to have opposite sides thereof abutted against the arc hook areas.

The invention relates to a device for laminating a laminating foil element onto a component having a profiled lamination plane using a lamination tool, by means of which tool the laminating foil element is laminated onto the component, the lamination tool comprising a first tool half and a second tool half, and the device comprising a deflection arrangement for deflecting portions of the laminating foil element out of the profiled lamination plane.

The invention relates to a device for laminating a laminating foil element onto a component having a profiled lamination plane using a lamination tool, by means of which tool the laminating foil element is laminated onto the component, the lamination tool comprising a first tool half and a second tool half, and the device comprising a deflection arrangement for deflecting portions of the laminating foil element out of the profiled lamination plane.

A device for compacting a contoured elongate composite layup includes flexible first and second fiber reinforced resin flexible sections flexible along their lengths. The first section is flexible within a first plane and the second section is flexible within the first plane as well as within a second plane.

Provided is a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) device that improves the heat uniformity of a hot zone during a pressurization process of an object being processed. This HIP device (100) is provided with: an outer casing (4) having an open outer opening part (4H); an inner casing (5) having an open inn opening part (5H); a heat-insulating body (R) disposed between the outer casing (4) and the inner casing (5); a gas flow generation part (30); and a plurality of first gas conduits (12), A hot zone (P) in which a pressurization process is performed is formed inside the inner casing (5). During the pressurization process, a low-temperature pressurization medium gas which has been generated by the gas flow generation part (30) and has passed through the first gas conduits (12) moves upward in an inner flow passage (L1) between the casings, and then flows into the hot zone (P) from the inner opening part (5H), Even when the pressurization medium gas leaks from the vicinity of a bottom all part (20) and flows into the hot zone (P), the heat uniformity of the hot zone (P) is maintained.

A composite laminate reinforcing tool may be used to form a reinforced joint at a bond line of a composite laminate structure. The tool may hold one or more clips having posts, and the tool may be positioned along the bond line between at least two composite laminate elements. Joint sections of the clip may be heated to increase a pliability of the joint section, and the tool may be actuated to drive the post through the at least two composite laminate elements. The posts may be deflected toward a base of the clip, thereby to seat the clip. The reinforced composite laminate structure may then be cured.

This disclosure includes platens for use in static presses, static presses including the same, and related methods. Some platens include a body (120) configured to be coupled to an actuator of a press and a plate (110) configured to be coupled to the body such that the plate defines at least a first portion of a pressing surface (140) of the platen, the pressing surface (140) configured to contact an object when the object is pressed by the platen, the plate and the body (120) cooperate to define a cavity (130) underlying the first portion of the pressing surface, at least one of the body and the plate define an inlet (190) in fluid communication with the cavity, and the first portion of the pressing surface is configured to deflect in response to pressure changes within the cavity (130).

This disclosure includes platens for use in static presses, static presses including the same, and related methods. Some platens include a body (120) configured to be coupled to an actuator of a press and a plate (110) configured to be coupled to the body such that the plate defines at least a first portion of a pressing surface (140) of the platen, the pressing surface (140) configured to contact an object when the object is pressed by the platen, the plate and the body (120) cooperate to define a cavity (130) underlying the first portion of the pressing surface, at least one of the body and the plate define an inlet (190) in fluid communication with the cavity, and the first portion of the pressing surface is configured to deflect in response to pressure changes within the cavity (130).