A dust solidification apparatus that prevents dust from scattering with a simple structure and that can accurately perform solidification of dust. A dust solidification apparatus comprising: an apparatus body; a hopper for storing dust D, the hopper being provided on the apparatus body; a forming member provided within the hopper, the forming member having a forming hole; and a pressurizing rod that is configured to freely advance and withdraw with respect to the forming hole, wherein the pressurizing rod advances into the forming hole to solidify dust loaded therein, thereby obtaining a solidified substance K, and openings of the forming hole are open within the hopper.

A tablet press for producing tablets including: a press chamber, a receiving chamber, a first material container having the first active substance with a first dosing device, a controller, and an input device. The press chamber has an extendable upper punch, an extendable lower punch, and a die. The input device inputs a target indicating a number of produced tablets and a target mass indicating a quantity of the first active substance and transmits the target number and the target mass to the controller. The controller actuates the first dosing device, the upper punch, and the lower punch such that a quantity of the first active substance that corresponds to the target mass is filled into a central opening of the die and pressed by the punches to form a tablet, and to repeat until the target number of tablets are produced.

A method of manufacturing compacts and an arrangement for manufacturing compacts, in which the disadvantages of the state of the art are overcome and an efficient method and at the same time a simple construction and a simple implementation are achieved. This involves a method for manufacturing compacts, wherein after feeding the feedstock, pre-pressing into a pre-agglomerate using at least one pre-pressing punch or at least one stuffing screw and subsequently main pressing of the pre-agglomerate into a compact in at least one pressing die using at least one main pressing punch and subsequently ejection of the compact from the at least one pressing die are performed, pre-pressing, main pressing and ejection being performed in a mutually parallel working direction. This also involves an arrangement for manufacturing compacts, wherein at least one pressing die is provided in die tool receptacle with a feed for feedstock.

A dust solidification apparatus that prevents dust from scattering with a simple structure and that can accurately perform solidification of dust. A dust solidification apparatus comprising: an apparatus body; a hopper for storing dust D, the hopper being provided on the apparatus body; a forming member provided within the hopper, the forming member having a forming hole; and a pressurizing rod that is configured to freely advance and withdraw with respect to the forming hole, wherein the pressurizing rod advances into the forming hole to solidify dust loaded therein, thereby obtaining a solidified substance K, and openings of the forming hole are open within the hopper.

Apparatuses for forming blocks of compactable material such as snow, having a hollow upper body with a compression chamber within for containing and subsequently compressing the compactable material to form a block that can be used in connection with recreational activities. A lower body having a flat compression plate attached to a top end, is configured to slide within the compression chamber, the compression plate being capable of pushing the compactable material into a hinged lid that is attached to a top end of the upper body and acts to cover a top opening of the upper body. Ferromagnetic materials attached to the underside of the compression plate are configured to contact other ferromagnetic materials attached to the interior walls of the compression chamber, which at least temporarily arrests sliding movement of the upper and lower bodies, and allows a user to fill the apparatus with compactable material.

A portable biomass compactor has a frame. A mold is coupled to the frame. The mold is formed of a tubular member having a first open end and a second open end. The first open end is formed on a side opposite of the second open end and aligned with the second open end. A loading opening is formed on a top surface of the mold, wherein biomass is loaded into the mold through the loading opening. A compression mechanism is coupled to the frame. The compression mechanism has a moving mechanism. A rod having a proximate end is coupled to the moving mechanism. A rammer is coupled to a distal end of the rod. The rod and rammer are aligned with the first open end acid the second open end. The moving mechanism moves the rod and the rammer within the mold compressing the biomass in the mold.

A portable biomass compactor has a frame. A mold is coupled to the frame. The mold is formed of a tubular member having a first open end and a second open end. The first open end is formed on a side opposite of the second open end and aligned with the second open end. A loading opening is formed on a top surface of the mold, wherein biomass is loaded into the mold through the loading opening. A compression mechanism is coupled to the frame. The compression mechanism has a moving mechanism. A rod having a proximate end is coupled to the moving mechanism. A rammer is coupled to a distal end of the rod. The rod and rammer are aligned with the first open end acid the second open end. The moving mechanism moves the rod and the rammer within the mold compressing the biomass in the mold. A gate is movably coupled to the frame, wherein the gate closes the second open end during compressing of the biomass and opens the second open end to eject a biomass log formed. A gate lifter is coupled to the gate raising and lowering the gate.

The invention concerns a tablet press (10) which is typically portable and comprises a base (12) and a press member (24) held relative to the base by a spacer (20). The base (12) comprises a die (38B) for receiving a powder in use, wherein the spacer (20) depends from the base and is moveable relative thereto under the control of an actuator (28) such that the press member (24) is reversibly actuable between an at-rest condition in which the press member is spaced from the die and an actuated condition in which the press member is located in the die so as to apply a load to a powder therein so as to compact the powder into a tablet. The actuator is operated under the control of an electronic controller, typically in response to desired tablet parameters input by a user. A table-top tablet press of this kind is particularly beneficial for individual or small-batch tablet production, for example for research purposes.

A dust compaction system includes a compaction device including a hopper with an input port into which a dust is input and a discharge port from which the dust is discharged, and a compaction unit configured to form pellets by compressing the dust supplied from the discharge port of the hopper, and the dust compaction system further includes a suction device configured to suck in the hopper of the compaction device.

The invention relates to a method for production of a sintered component (2), comprising the steps: making available an iron-based powder having chromium; filling the powder into a powder press; pressing the powder to form a green compact; sintering the green compact to form the sintered component (2); post-compacting the sintered component (2); hardening the sintered component (2). Sintering is carried out in a decarburizing atmosphere, and the sintered component (2) is moved, for surface-compacting, along an axis (3), from a first matrix opening (6) in the direction of a second matrix opening (13) of a matrix tool (1), which opening lies opposite the first matrix opening (6) along the axis (3), wherein the sintered component (2) passes through multiple matrix sections (7-11) of the matrix tool (1) during this movement, and, in this regard, a surface region of the sintered component (2) is compacted, for which purpose an inside diameter (17) of the matrix sections (7-11) that follow one another becomes smaller in the pressing direction, and the individual matrix sections (7-11) are disposed in such a manner that a subsequent matrix section (7-11) of the multiple matrix sections (7-11) directly follows the corresponding preceding matrix section (7-11), in each instance, in the pressing direction.