A method for manufacturing a deflection member is disclosed. The method may include the steps of providing an additive manufacturing apparatus that includes at least one and/or two radiation sources and photopolymer resin, providing a reinforcing member, contacting a surface of the reinforcing member with the photopolymer resin, and directing radiation from the radiation source(s) towards a surface of the reinforcing member to at least partially cure photopolymer resin in contact with the surface of the reinforcing member.

A tool composed of silicone to apply cosmetics to the skin is disclosed. The invention described here reduces waste and the effort required to re-use a foam or foam-like cosmetic tool by being composed of silicone material that does not absorb cosmetics and is resistant to stains from most liquid, gel, or cream cosmetics. This results in decreased effort, decreased waste, increased cleanliness and longer use of the cosmetic tool.

A sheet sponge (10) of polyvinyl alcohol is anhydrously compressively transformed from an original shape, size, and thickness (FIGS. 1 and 2) into a second shape, size, and thickness (42) by curling (FIG. 3) or coiling (FIG. 4) buckling (FIG. 7), crumpling (FIG. 12), and layering crumpled portions (FIG. 12), on upon another, anhydrously compressively fusing the transformed sponge in the transformed shape, size, and thickness (FIG. FIGS. 7 and 8), and subsequently hydrating the transformed sponge back into its original shape, size, and thickness (FIGS. 1 and 2.

According to some embodiments, a system and a method of creating a multifunctional viscoelastic compressive applicator comprising: obtaining a mold, the mold having a plurality of appendages protruding from the interior surfaces of the mold towards the interior of the mold cavity and the plurality of appendages capable of creating a plurality of slices, indentations, cavities, hollows, voids or augmentations in a finished product; filling the mold with a predetermined amount of viscoelastic material; closing the mold cover to create a fixed mold cavity volume inside the mold; and allowing the predetermined amount of viscoelastic material to expand and cure inside the fixed volume of the mold whereby the expanding and curing of the predetermined amount of viscoelastic material inside the mold fills the mold and creates a compressive force that acts on the viscoelastic material to create the finished product is presented.

The invention relates to a device for a vacuum cleaner filter bag comprising a holding device with a passage opening and a closure device for closing the passage opening of the holding device, wherein the closure device comprises a closure flap and an elastic element made of a cross-linked silicone elastomer, and the elastic element is pretensioned in a state in which the closure flap closes the passage opening of the holding device.

A modified silicone resin foam is obtained by curing a foamable liquid resin composition including: 100 parts by weight of a base material resin (A) composed of 65 to 95 parts by weight of a polymer (a) and 5 to 35 parts by weight of a reactive plasticizer (b); 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of a silanol condensation catalyst (B); and 2 to 40 parts by weight of a chemical foaming agent (C). The polymer (a) contains 1.0 to 2.0 reactive silicon groups in a molecular chain and has a main chain comprising oxyalkylene-based units. The reactive plasticizer (b) is a polymer containing 1.0 or fewer reactive silicon groups at one terminal end of a molecular chain and has a main chain comprising oxyalkylene-based units. A percent elongation of the foam is 300 to 1000% in a 25 C. atmosphere.

A method for manufacturing a synthetic resin scouring pad includes hot extruding a polymer by thermally melting a synthetic resin, along a T die having a straight extrusion port, to form a full width film sheet; cold-curing the film sheet by impregnating and quenching the extruded full width film sheet with cooling water of a cooling bath; forming flat film filaments by passing the full width film sheet lengthwise through a cutting part in which cutting blades are arranged at a predetermined width so as to dividingly-cut the full width film sheet into a predetermined width; passing the flat film filaments in the longitudinal direction through a coiling forming part to plastic-deform the flat film filaments into coil-shaped film filaments; and inputting the coil-shaped film filaments into an annular winding part so that the film filaments are wound in an annular shape to form a synthetic resin scouring pad.

A surface cleaning apparatus, which in one embodiment is a hand held vacuum cleaner, comprises a cyclone and a suction motor wherein the cyclone air outlet and the suction motor inlet are positioned towards the same end of the surface cleaning apparatus whereby air exiting the cyclone travels laterally and then axially to the suction motor inlet. A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a cyclone and a suction motor wherein the suction motor is positioned rearward of the cyclone and the cyclone air outlet is positioned at a lower end of the cyclone whereby air exiting the cyclone travels laterally and then axially towards the suction motor inlet.

A wet wipe pad designed to be connected or attached to floor mop heads or other cleaning tool handle that utilize a hook-and-loop mechanism for attaching the wipe pad thereto. The wipe pad can be made of multi layers of material that may include a cleaning layer ultrasonically welded to an attachment layer having an absorption layer disposed between the cleaning layer and the attachment layer. Alternatively, the wipe pad can be made from a single layer of material that can attach on one side thereof to the mop head or other cleaning tool handle, which also provides a cleaning surface on the other side of the single layer of material. The wipe pad of the invention may also be constructed from two layers of material that include a cleaning layer ultrasonically welded to an attachment layer. Regardless of the number of layers used in the wipe pad of the invention, the wipe pad is configured with at least one linking ribbon or tape strip of non-looped straight-line fibers extending along the length of the attachment layer and which forms the means or mechanism for releasably securing to hooks disposed on the mop head. The wipe pad, including its layer(s) and the linking ribbon or tape strip is constructed of materials that are compostable and biodegradable, making it an environmentally friendly product.

A device for covering a head lamp washer of a vehicle is mounted on a bumper cover so as to be opened and closed, and thus covers the head lamp washer. The device, which includes a protruding open-type washer cover connected to a head unit of a telescope, may move forward so as to be opened when the head lamp washer moves forward, absorb assembly tolerance, and accurately match an opening of the bumper cover.