A roller assembly for forming adjacent curved surfaces in a composite gap filler member includes a first roller supported by a first support member wherein the first roller rotates relative to the first support member about a first axis of rotation. A second roller is supported by a second support member wherein the second roller rotates relative to the second support member about a second axis of rotation. First support member is rotatable about a third axis of rotation and the third axis of rotation extends in a direction transverse to the first axis of rotation. Second support member is rotatable about a fourth axis of rotation. The fourth axis of rotation extends in a direction transverse to the second axis of rotation.

Roller assembly for forming adjacent curved surfaces in a composite gap filler member includes a first roller supported by a first support member, a second roller supported by a second support member and a support including a surface. First roller and the second roller are in contact with one another and in contact with the surface. With rotation of the first roller about a third axis and with at least one of the first roller or second roller moved relative to the other such that the first roller maintains contact with the second roller and the first roller and the second roller maintain contact with the surface, such that the first roller, second roller and the surface form an aperture having a first curved side having a first radius adjacent to a second curved side having a second radius wherein the first radius and second radius are unequal.

The invention describes a method for manufacturing a plastic drain sheet, and a plastic drain sheet. For the purpose of manufacture, a sheet-like main body having a first surface and a second surface, spaced apart therefrom by a base sheet thickness, is provided. Grooves are introduced into the first surface and mating grooves are introduced into the second surface. The mating grooves and the grooves cross one another at crossing points. Through-openings between the grooves and the mating grooves are formed at the crossing points.

A thermoregulation system of rotating metal cylinders in plants for the extrusion and conversion/transformation of plastic films includes heating elements applied to each rotating cylinder, wherein the heating elements are infrared heating elements, and wherein the rotating cylinder includes a metal tube rotating around a fixed shaft, which is rigidly connected to two side plates.

An ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer sheet obtained by extrusion, has R.sub.0/d, wherein R.sub.0 is an in-plane phase difference [unit: nm]and d is a thickness, [unit: nm], of at most 3.0?10.sup.?3, and a thickness of more than 300 ?m. The ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer sheet preferably has a thickness of from 305 to 3,000 ?m . A process for producing an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer sheet includes melting an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer to obtain a melt, continuously extruding the melt through a die for shaping the melt to a sheet, and letting the sheet pass between two rolls. One of the two rolls is a rigid roll, and the other is an elastic roll. The two rolls are pressed under a linear pressure of from 0.1 to 1,000 N/cm.

A method for manufacturing a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet support that can be used to obtain a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet that maintains its gloss and that has excellent handleability and high condition uniformity while preventing the formation of air bubbles in an adhesive layer. A resin is supplied to one side of a substrate, which is passed between a cooling roller A and a rubber roller A. A porous film is stacked on another side of the substrate through a resin, and the substrate is passed between a cooling roller B and a rubber roller B. The cooling rollers A and B have surfaces with a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of 5 to 30 m and 0 to 20 m, respectively. The rubber rollers A and B have a rubber hardness (durometer (Type A)) of 60 to 95 and 50 to 80, respectively.

To provide an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer sheet excellent in the mechanical strength and the outer appearance, continuously produced by extrusion, and a process for producing it.

An ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer sheet obtained by extrusion, which is characterized by having R.sub.0/d (wherein R.sub.0 is an in-plane phase difference [unit: nm], and d is a thickness [unit: nm]) of at most 3.010.sup.3, and a thickness of more than 300 m, and a process for producing it.

A plant produces plastic films subjected to stretching. The plant includes a flat extrusion head made of polyethylene-based plastic material, first and second rollers forming a rolling press, and a third cooling/stabilizing roller. Molten plastic material/melt exiting the flat head passes through the first and second rollers before being directed onto the third cooling/stabilizing roller. The extrusion head has a width of 1,000-5,000 mm, the first and second rollers each have a diameter of 200-800 mm. The third roller has a diameter of 400-1,000 mm. The first and second rollers are made of ferrous material, with a conductive heat transfer coefficient of at least 15 W/(mK). The ferrous material is a construction steel with a chrome-plated and mirror-polished surface, having a roughness (Ra)<1 m, copper coatings, or coatings having thermal-conductivity and surface-roughness values corresponding to the rollers. The first and/or second roller has a deformable and non-stick coating.