Textile hose for encasing elongated objects, characterised by having a radially elastic outer layer made from wear-resistant material and at least one inner layer made from thermally insulating material.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a self-molding composite system for insulation and covering operations. The self-molding composite system may be cured to form any desired shaped for insulation and covering operations. The composite system comprises one or more layers that may create a rigid layered composite when cured. The one or more layers of the composite system may include a base layer that is a braided, knit, or non-woven fiber based substrate, an interstitial matrix layer, and customizable top coat. The customizable top coat may be a solvent based polymer solution that includes various additives that may include color pigments, additives for additional abrasion protection, additives for thermal protection, and/or additives for creating various textures or visible appearances to the composite system.

Thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making thermally laminated foam boards, apparatus for making thermally laminated foam boards, smaller foam pieces made from thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making smaller foam pieces from thermally laminated foam boards, parts made from thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making parts from thermally laminated foam boards, and tools for making parts from thermally laminated foam boards are disclosed. The thermally laminated foam boards are made by thermally bonding at least two polystyrene boards together.

An injection molding apparatus has a mold tool that is positioned around a field joint of a pipeline to define a mold cavity. Two or more pumping chambers communicate with the mold tool. Each chamber is expansible to draw in molten polymer and contractible to drive the polymer into the mold cavity. Expansion of one chamber is synchronized with contraction of another chamber. The operation of supply and injection valves associated with the chambers is also synchronized, both with each other and with expansion and contraction of the chambers. In the embodiment described, two pumping chambers are defined within a common pressurizing cylinder, in which the chambers are separated by a piston. The piston is movable within the cylinder to determine and to synchronize expansion and contraction of the chambers.

An epoxy-based insulation material and a method of thermally insulating a subsea production apparatus are disclosed. The epoxy-based insulation material has an amine-cured epoxy elastomer matrix and a plurality of non-metallic beads suspended in the matrix. The epoxy-based insulation material is located on the subsea production apparatus to thermally insulate a hydrocarbon fluid from sea water.

For manufacturing composite parts (1) having an inner hollow moulded body (2) with openings (3), which are accessible from outside, the moulded body is introduced into a moulding tool on the mould walls on which a shell layer (11) was applied. The hollow space between the moulded body (2) and the shell layer (11) is filled with a thermally insulating plastic foam (12) which is foamed in the moulding tool and bonds to the moulded body and the shell layer. After removal, a moulded body is provided, which has a qualitatively good surface formed by the shell layer. Such a composite part is preferably used for connecting thermally insulating pipes.

The present invention provides a method for producing a container for foods which can suppress occurrences of wrinkles and blisters, and can produce a container for foods having depth and being excellent in heat insulating properties, with the use of a supercritical injection molding method. The method for producing the container for foods according to the present invention is a method for producing the container having depth, by injection molding a molten resin that contains a supercritical fluid and a resin composition, into a cavity in a metal mold, wherein the cavity includes a first region that forms an underside portion of the container for foods having depth, a second region that forms a curved side portion, and a third region that forms a lateral side portion, from a resin injection port toward a flow end, and wherein the mold surfaces that face the cavity of the second region and the third region have an arithmetic mean roughness of 0.5 m or larger and 10 m or smaller, and a ten-point mean roughness of 2 m or larger and 60 m or smaller.

A method for producing a molded product in which the resin F is dispersed in the resin P, the method comprising: melting a composition comprising a polyimide-type thermoplastic resin P and a fluorine-type thermoplastic resin F having a glass transition temperature lower than that of the resin P, the composition having a difference Tg between a glass transition temperature Tgp of the resin P and a glass transition temperature Tgf of resin F of 75 to 175 C. at a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the resin P or the melting point of resin F, whichever is higher, to obtain a molten product; and starting to cool the molten product at a cooling rate of 10 C./min or more to obtain a molded product.

The invention relates to a chamber for steam moulding expanded or cellular materials or foams comprising an enclosure comprising at least two parts (3a, 3b), at least one part being movable to allow it to be opened and closed, and the surfaces of which are partially covered with an insulating coating, in particular the inner surface of the enclosure or the outer surface of the steam inlets.

A household appliance includes a functional compartment, and an insulation arrangement provided on an outer side of the functional compartment for thermal and/or acoustic insulation of the functional compartment. The insulation arrangement includes an insulation element which is made in one piece from a plastic material selected such that a surface of the insulation element in facing relation to the functional compartment adheres to the functional compartment and is separable therefrom in a non-destructive manner. A component arranged outside the functional compartment is at least substantially encapsulated in the insulation element.