A method for manufacturing a mechanoreception fabric for incorporation into a garment or item of apparel sets a liquid substrate to a fabric weave to produce a plurality of protuberances in graticulate array and spaced apart across a surface of the fabric. The plurality of protuberances includes pyramidal nodes, each independent and separate from other nodes, not less than 1 mm apart at the base and not more than 5 mm apart at each apex and 1.5 mm in height. Because the nodes are separated and not in contact with each other, the fabric produced is still stretchable and wearable when incorporated into an item of apparel despite the nodes having a hardness of between Shore A 60 and 80.

The invention relates to a casting apparatus (1) for the production of a cast sheet (10) of homogenized tobacco material, said casting system comprising: ⋅a casting box (4) adapted to contain a slurry of the homogenized tobacco material; ⋅a movable support (7); ⋅a casting system adapted to deposit the slurry contained in the casting box (4) onto the movable support (7) so as to form the cast sheet (10); ⋅a sensor (30) to detect a thickness of the cast sheet (10); ⋅wherein the sensor (30) includes a slider (33) comprising a planar surface (36) adapted to be in contact to a top surface of the cast sheet and a height detector (38) adapted to measure the height of the planar surface (36) so as to derive the thickness of the cast sheet (10). The invention also relates to a method to measure the thickness of a homogenized tobacco sheet (10).

The invention relates to a casting apparatus (1) for the production of a cast sheet (10) of homogenized tobacco material, said casting system comprising: ⋅a casting box (4) adapted to contain a slurry of the homogenized tobacco material; ⋅a movable support (7); ⋅a casting system adapted to deposit the slurry contained in the casting box (4) onto the movable support (7) so as to form the cast sheet (10); ⋅a sensor (30) to detect a thickness of the cast sheet (10); ⋅wherein the sensor (30) includes a slider (33) comprising a planar surface (36) adapted to be in contact to a top surface of the cast sheet and a height detector (38) adapted to measure the height of the planar surface (36) so as to derive the thickness of the cast sheet (10). The invention also relates to a method to measure the thickness of a homogenized tobacco sheet (10).

The invention relates to a method for operating a rotational molding apparatus that comprises a rotatably mounted rotational-molding mold holder having a rotational-molding mold. The method is characterised in that a trajectory of a reference point of a component for a rotation process, in particular a component of the rotational-molding mold holder or the rotational-molding mold, which component rotates during a rotation process, is selected from one of a plurality of possible trajectories that can be achieved by the rotational molding apparatus, and in that a rotation process is subsequently performed in which rotational-molding material introduced into the rotational-molding mold accumulates on the inner face of the rotational-molding mold and in which the reference point moves along the determined trajectory.

The invention relates to a method for operating a rotational molding apparatus that comprises a rotatably mounted rotational-molding mold holder having a rotational-molding mold. The method is characterised in that a trajectory of a reference point of a component for a rotation process, in particular a component of the rotational-molding mold holder or the rotational-molding mold, which component rotates during a rotation process, is selected from one of a plurality of possible trajectories that can be achieved by the rotational molding apparatus, and in that a rotation process is subsequently performed in which rotational-molding material introduced into the rotational-molding mold accumulates on the inner face of the rotational-molding mold and in which the reference point moves along the determined trajectory.

A cavity mold comprises two or more sub-molds; and one or more gasket disposed between two adjacent sub-molds; wherein the gasket seals heating and cooling mediums when the cavity mold is assembled; wherein each of the two or more sub-molds comprises an outer casing; an inner casing on which a molded item is formed, wherein the cavity mold is assembled, a cavity is formed in the space between the outer casing and the inner casing; at least one heating/cooling mediums input pipe that is fluidly coupled with heating and cooling medium sources and the cavity, wherein heating and cooling mediums are pumped or compressed via the at least one heating/cooling mediums input pipe into the cavity, thereby the heating and cooling mediums pass through the cavity of the cavity mold; and at least one heating/cooling mediums return pipe that is fluidly coupled with the heating and cooling medium sources and the cavity, wherein the heating and cooling mediums are pumped via the at least one heating/cooling mediums return pipe out of the cavity; and wherein at least one of the two or more sub-molds further comprises a feed channel being through the outer casing and the inner casing; wherein the feed channel allows molding materials to be fed into the inside of the inner casing. A cavity mold system employs the cavity mold.

The present disclosure provides device having a reaction vessel with one or more permeable membranes disposed therein that separate the reaction vessel into at least a first portion and a second portion. The one or more membranes permit first reactants from a first solution in the first portion or reactants from a second solution in the second portion to seep or percolate to a reaction zone proximate a surface of the one or more membranes. A reaction of the first and second reactants forms a two-dimensional polymer film material. A roller located inside of the reaction vessel draws the two-dimensional polymer film material reaction out of the reaction zone.

The present disclosure provides device having a reaction vessel with one or more permeable membranes disposed therein that separate the reaction vessel into at least a first portion and a second portion. The one or more membranes permit first reactants from a first solution in the first portion or reactants from a second solution in the second portion to seep or percolate to a reaction zone proximate a surface of the one or more membranes. A reaction of the first and second reactants forms a two-dimensional polymer film material. A roller located inside of the reaction vessel draws the two-dimensional polymer film material reaction out of the reaction zone.

Rotational moulding system configured for determining at least one suitable temperature-time program and at least one suitable motion-time program for the rotational moulding of an object by means of the rotational moulding system on the basis of a predetermined rotational moulding thermal characteristic of a raw material to be used for the rotational moulding of the object. Computer-implemented method for using the rotational moulding system.

Rotational moulding system configured for determining at least one suitable temperature-time program and at least one suitable motion-time program for the rotational moulding of an object by means of the rotational moulding system on the basis of a predetermined rotational moulding thermal characteristic of a raw material to be used for the rotational moulding of the object. Computer-implemented method for using the rotational moulding system.