A conveyance device includes a plurality of holding mechanisms and one or more pressing mechanisms, the holding mechanisms each include a holder that holds a molding material and a holder movement mechanism that moves the holder, and the pressing mechanisms each include a pusher that comes into contact with and pushes the molding material and a pusher movement mechanism that moves the pusher.

A method for manufacturing a plastic composition, comprising: mixing thermoplastic polymer material particles and thermoset composition particles comprising cured thermoset polymer, the mixing comprising rising the temperature of the composition and at least partly melting the surface of thermoplastic polymer material particles, and simultaneously mixing the particles allowing thermoset composition particles adhere to the thermoplastic polymer material particles, and cooling the composition.

A method and system for controlling a level of molten material received in a reservoir of a melt system from a melt grid is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first level of the molten material from a sensor in the reservoir at a first time, receiving a second level of the molten material from the sensor at a second time subsequent to the first time, and comparing the second level of the molten material to a desired operating level to determine a difference between the second level and the desired operating level. The method also includes determining a temperature set point for the melt grid based on at least the difference between the second level and the desired operating level, and adjusting an operating temperature of the melt grid to match the temperature set point.

A melting unit melts a solid material into a molten material. The melt unit includes a reservoir, a hopper, and a melt grid disposed between the hopper and the reservoir. The melt grid heats the solid material into the molten material such that the molten material flows from the hopper to the reservoir. The melt unit includes a plurality of guide members, where the molten material flows through plurality of flow channels defined by the melt grid and along the plurality of guide members as the molten material flows from the hopper to the reservoir.

The invention relates to a device (1) for melting a hot-melt adhesive (3), comprising a heating plate (5), a plunger (7), the plunger (7) comprising a plunger end face (9), and a mounting (11), wherein the mounting (11) is suitable for receiving a storage container (13), which has a rigid lateral wall (15) and two opposite side faces (17, 19) and contains the hot-melt adhesive (3), in such a manner that the hot-melt adhesive (3) is arranged between the plunger (7) and the to heating plate (5), and the plunger end face (9) and the heating plate (5) are arranged opposite one another, wherein the heating plate (5), the plunger (7) and the mounting (11) are so dimensioned that the storage container (13) having an inner volume (21) of more than 50 L can be received. The invention relates further to a method for melting a hot-melt adhesive.

A device and method for dispensing a flowable medium which is an adhesive, a hot glue or a hot melt adhesive. The device has a housing with an interior space and a rod mounted in the housing, wherein the rod is movable by means of an actuator between a first end position and a second end position in an axial direction. The device comprises a diaphragm, wherein the rod passes through the diaphragm, wherein the diaphragm is mounted in a sealed manner in the housing radially on the outside and is mounted in a sealed manner in the rod radially on the inside, wherein the diaphragm divides the interior space into a first cavity and a second cavity and separates the first cavity from the second cavity in a fluid tight manner, and wherein the first cavity serves to hold the flowable medium. The device has at least one channel which opens into the first cavity and through which the flowable medium can flow into the first cavity, and a dispensing opening into the first cavity for dispensing the flowable medium, wherein the rod has a sealing section, and wherein the sealing section closes the dispensing opening in the first end position and is arranged at a distance from the dispensing opening in the second end position. A pressure medium acting on the diaphragm is arranged in the second cavity.

A device for dispensing a flowable medium, includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the flowable medium, a rod mounted in a bearing section of the housing, wherein the rod is movable by means of an actuator between a first end position and a second end position in an axial direction, a dispensing opening, opening into the cavity, for dispensing the flowable medium, wherein the rod has a sealing section, wherein the sealing section closes the dispensing opening in the first end position and is arranged at a distance from the dispensing opening in the second end position, a bellows seal for sealing off the bearing section from the cavity, wherein the rod passes through the bellows seal, wherein the bellows seal is mounted in a sealed manner on the rod and in a sealed manner on the housing, wherein a first section of the bellows seal is connected to the rod in a manner fixed relative to the rod, and a second section of the bellows seal is connected to the housing in a manner fixed relative to the housing, wherein the bellows seal has at least one compensating section for compensating an axial compression or extension of the bellows seal, wherein the compensating section projects radially relative to adjoining regions of the bellows seal, and having at least one channel, opening into the cavity, through which the flowable medium can flow into the cavity, wherein a projection of a center line of a channel section of the at least one channel, said channel section opening into the cavity, onto a projection plane formed perpendicularly to the axial direction forms a circle tangent of a circle formed concentrically with the rod.

A modeling apparatus is configured to laminate a modeling material to model a three-dimensional modeled object. The modeling apparatus includes a local heating unit, a local cooling unit, and an annealing unit. The local heating unit is configured to locally heat the modeling material during lamination of the modeling material is being laminated. The local cooling unit is configured to locally cool the modeling material during the lamination. The annealing unit is configured to anneal the resultant three-dimensional modeled object at a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.

The present invention is an apparatus and method for volumetric reduction of polymeric material and in particular synthetic polymeric textile materials. Such materials are typically used in hospital operating rooms and have material memory meaning that they re-expand after compression. Consequently they are difficult to process as waste material. The present invention is a method and apparatus for thermally compacting a polymer comprising a first and second heated surface inclined downwardly towards each other and providing with a passage at their lower ends through which melted polymeric material may pass.

A delivery unit for dispensing adhesive having a housing, a melting apparatus arranged within the housing for melting the adhesive, a distributing device for dispensing molten adhesive in at least one line connectable to the distributing device, and a pump for conveying the molten adhesive through the distributing device, wherein the housing has a plurality of outer side faces, two of the outer side faces are of a flat configuration and arranged perpendicular to a support plane of the delivery unit on a base and substantially at a right angle to each other, and wherein the distributing device, in a region in which the line is connectable to a connector of the distributing device, has a boundary surface of a flat configuration. The two outer side faces are arranged at a distance apart with the boundary surface therebetween forming an obtuse angle with each of the two outer side faces.