272 results about "Elastic plastic material" patented technology

A brush and in particular a tooth brush comprises a brush body and a bristle carrier supporting a plurality of bristles and being preferably removably retained on the brush body. The bristle carrier, consisting of soft-elastic plastic material, is formed as a cap and can be drawn over a projection of the brush body.

An apical implantation mitral valve balloon closure plate blocking body and an implantation method, for human heart repair are disclosed. A balloon closure plate made from an elastic plastic material which may be filled with a gas or a curable liquid is implanted via a small incision on the left side of the chest, enters the left ventricle via the apex, and is placed and fixed at a backflow hole position of a front and rear leaflet closure point of the mitral valve. The present disclosure treats diseases such as functional mitral valve regurgitation, and the success rate for repairing functional mitral valve backflow is more than 90%.

A disposable toothbrush system that includes a toothbrush and a one use supply of toothpaste that is easily carried in a pocket or the like and discarded after use. The disposable toothbrush system is packaged suitable for sale through vending machines and that includes a tubular, plastic film, outer package, a disposable toothbrush, and a toothpaste dispensing bladder assembly. The toothpaste dispensing bladder assembly includes a seamless, non-elastic, plastic film bladder member filled with toothpaste and has a dispensing end thereof adhesively attached to an interior surface of the tubular film outer package and heat sealed and crimped between two edge sections of the first end of the tubular, plastic film, outer package.

A connecting device for a plug-in connection of at least one pipeline having a housing part having at least one receiving opening for the insertion of the pipeline. A clamping ring is arranged in the receiving opening and, in order to lock the pipeline in place, interacts with an inner cone of the housing part. The housing part is made in two parts including a base part and an insert part, which is connected to the base part via a snap-in action forming-fitting connection. The insert part has a direct seal for resting on the circumference of the inserted pipeline. The insert part is formed of a first relatively hard and dimensionally stable plastic material, and has a dirt seal which consists of a second, relatively soft and elastic plastic material and is molded directly into the first material as a single piece with a cohesive material joint therebetween.

A clamp device for connecting a high-temperature elongated component to a support comprises a first clamp mountable to the support and a second clamp for holding the elongated component. The first clamp includes a clamp holder for holding the second clamp and is made of a non-heat-resistant hard plastic material. The second clamp includes a holder for holding the elongated component and is made of a heat-resistant hard plastic material. Preferably, the outer peripheral surface of the second clamp is covered by a layer of vibration-resistant elastic plastic material that prevents transmission of vibrations between an elongated component, such as a heater pipe, and a support, such as an under floor of an automobile.

A generally horseshoe shaped clear flexible resilient plastic wire-imbedded orthodontic appliance is made with a plastic portion with contours on the lingual side and on the labial side, wherein the contours snugly cover the patient's teeth so that the appliance remains in place. One or more flexible wires are imbedded within the lingual side of the plastic portion from the left molar area to the right molar area of the plastic portion, whereby the wires apply force on the lingual side of the patient's bite. The appliance is formed by obtaining a plaster cast of the patient's teeth and gums, removing plaster teeth from the plaster cast of the gums, reattaching the plaster teeth to the plaster cast of the gums to form a cast of proper bite alignment, attaching one or more wires to the labial surface of the aligned plaster teeth so the wires become imbedded within thermosetting plastic placed over the cast, putting the cast in a thermosetting plastic molding machine, inserting thermosetting plastic in the machine, and heating the thermosetting plastic around the cast of the proper bite alignment, so the wires are imbedded within the formed appliance after the thermosetting plastic cools. A series of appliances may be used to shift a patient's bite to proper bite orientation.

A surgical instrument support is provided having an elongated body portion and a series of slots located in the upper portion of the support adapted to receive a series of surgical instruments. The support may be made of hard plastic, resilient plastic or metal such as stainlees steel, aluminum or aluminum alloy. In one embodiment the slots are sized to receive the surgical instruments with an easily removable interference fit. In another embodiment elastomeric inserts are provided in the slots to provide a yieldable interference fit for instrument removal.

A fiber-composite rotor blade, especially of a rotary-wing aircraft, with a predefined rotor blade profile that has a predefined outer contour of the profile, comprising a fiber-composite rotor blade structure having an upper and a lower cover skin and a profile core situated between them, and at least one highly extensible cable integrated into the fiber-composite rotor blade structure in the direction of the span of the rotor blade, whereby said cable can be connected to a functional device that can be attached onto or into the fiber-composite rotor blade structure. The cable is a highly extensible power and / or signal transmission cable, comprising at least one cable strand with at least one first cable core made of an electrically insulating, elastic plastic material, and at least one first cable wire that is wound around the first cable core at a predefined pitch angle, like a spiral and free of crossovers.

Printing rollers, in particular ink rollers, dampening rollers or varnishing rollers for web-fed offset printing machines and sheet-fed offset printing machines, with a rigid roller core and a roller cover with an outside layer from elastomeric or elastic plastic material are constructed that way that the roller cover is connected with the roller core detachable. In this way for inking units, dampening units and varnishing units of printing machines rollers are made available, whose roller cover is exchangeable and can be used in a one-way method.

An inlay for reinforcing a bra cup is a pliably resilient plastics material part having the basic shape of a crescent with inner and outer edges that are curved and that have a spacing that increases continuously between a minimum value at one end and a maximum value at an opposite end. A rigidity of the inlay decreases from the outer edge to the inner edge. The inlay is manufactured flat such that a central face running between wide delimiting faces lies in a plane. The inlay is made of a material that is plastically deformable under the action of temperature for form-fitting or material-to-material connection to the textile material layers of the cups.

A sign holder for a retail display comprises a resilient plastic molded body. The body includes two or more resilient clasps projecting from a common base to resiliently hold a retail display sign therebetween.

A scrub brush with a handle by which the user grips the brush, a two-part scrubber portion which provides the scrubbing action, and a connecting staff between the handle and the scrubber. The scrubber may be of bristles, springy plastic mesh, rag-like or sponge material. The scrubber is designed so that a portion of the scrubber furthest from the handle can be compressed into a small diameter cylindrical shape of such dimension that a suitably sized ring of solid cleaning agent can pass over the compressed scrubber portion. When the compressed scrubber portion is released from its restraint, it expands to the original shape and size, thereby confining the ring of solid cleaning agent between the two scrubber portions.

A reusable coin holder, counter and sorter, known as COINSMETER™ utilizes inexpensive semi-disposable packaging technology. In each half of a semi-elastic plastic material, at least one grove is provided in the shape of half cylinder. When the two halves are closed, a cylinder or a number of cylinders are created. Each cylinder has a scaled line(s) for indicating the amount of coins vertically stacked in the cylindrical columns. Coins may be inserted through a slot at the top of each cylinder. The diameter of the cylindrical columns may be slightly bigger than the diameter of the coins. The two meeting sections may be connected from a solid base portion of the article. The present invention also includes a handle and stand for supporting the coin holder. In another embodiment, a carrying case for multiple coin holders may be provided to store and carry coins in a secure manner.

An optical fiber organizing device is provided. The inventive fiber organizer includes a bracket preferably fittable inside an optical fiber duct of a telecommunications device and a plurality of retaining arms extending from the bracket dividing the main internal space into a plurality of internal sub-spaces. Each of the sub-spaces is adapted to retain bundles of optic fibers. The optical fiber organizer may be made from a single piece, for example, a single piece of stamped sheet metal. Alternatively, the retaining arms may be separate pieces made from resilient plastic. In either event, the retaining arms are preferably resilient and bendable to allow for intentional insertion and extraction of optical fibers while not allowing for the unintentional egress of fibers.

A device for converting thermal power into electric power including a plurality of bimetallic strips disposed between a rigid support and a plate of a resilient plastic material; and on the side of the plate of a resilient plastic material opposite to the strips, a layer of a piezoelectric material connected to output terminals, wherein the rigid support is capable of being in contact with a hot source, and the plate of a resilient plastic material is capable of transmitting to the piezoelectric layer the mechanical stress due to the deformations of the bimetallic strips.

The invention comprises an item of footwear, comprising: a) an upper sole, shaped to receive a user's foot, and including a toe cap portion, a heel portion, and a sole portion, which is formed from a lightweight, thermally insulative plastics material; b) a lower sole, formed from a resilient plastics material, the lower sole attached to and at least partially covering the sole portion of the upper sole and operative to protect the upper sole from direct physical contact with the ground and to minimize wear on the upper sole; and c) an upper attached to the upper sole.

A sign holder for a retail display comprises a resilient plastic molded body. The body includes two or more resilient clasps projecting from a common base to resiliently hold a retail display sign therebetween.

A holder (42) with retaining device for organizing compact disc cases and other such substantially rectangular media cases. The retaining device allows deposited items to be placed solitarily or adjacently in any available location, to be relocated simply by sliding them sideways, saves the vacant spaces left by withdrawn items, and will accommodate a variety of media case types, including compact disc cases of the single, multiple and slip-cased variety. A preferred embodiment of the holder has a substantially rectangular storage area (34) defined in part by opposed upper and lower shelves (36 & 40) located adjacent to an access opening (32) on the front side of the holder through which compact disc cases (50) and other such items are deposited in a side-by-side, book-like manner, coming to rest on and perpendicular to the interior surface of the lower shelf (40). The back wall (38) serves to stop deposited items from exiting out the rear side of the holder. The retaining device has two specialized components, an engagement member (18) and a guide (10) (which in a preferred embodiment of the invention are simultaneously formed as a unified device,) which are located on the interior side of the upper shelf (36), running parallel to the access opening (32) along the entire length of the storage area (34) so as to oppose the upper, proximate sides of deposited items. The engagement member (18) is an elongated resilient plastic structure with a retention face (24) orientated to frictionally hold compact disc cases (50) or other deposited items in place. The guide (10) is located adjacent to the engagement member (18) and has a low frictional guide surface (14) that is situated between the engagement member (18) and the access opening of the holder (30). The guide surface (14) serves to align the proximate sides of incoming items with the retention face (24) for subsequent frictional engagement. Other preferred embodiments of the invention have: the guide and engagement member formed as separate components; the guide made integral to the holder; alternate forms of the retaining device, and; holders with arched or angled storage areas.

A forming simulation method of an elastic-plastic material, which includes: calculating an element equivalent nodal force vector from stress tensor using a finite element method for one or a plurality of finite elements of a target configuration of the elastic-plastic material; and calculating the total equivalent nodal force vector of areas by integrating the element equivalent nodal force vector for the calculated one or more finite elements over all the areas or specified areas of the elastic-plastic material.

A connecting device for a plug-in connection of at least one pipeline having a housing part having at least one receiving opening for the insertion of the pipeline. A clamping ring is arranged in the receiving opening and, in order to lock the pipeline in place, interacts with an inner one of the housing part. The housing part is made in two parts including a base part and an insert part, which is connected to the base part via a snap-in action forming-fitting connection. The insert part has a direct seal for resting on the circumference of the inserted pipeline. The insert part is formed of a first relatively hard and dimensionally stable plastic material, and has a dirt seal consists of a second, relatively soft and elastic plastic material and is molded directly into the first material as a single piece with a cohesive material joint therebetween.

The invention relates to a pressure device for locking a mould. The pressure device comprises a pushing plate, wherein the pushing plate is arranged between a mould plate of a mould assembling mechanism and a corresponding mould; a clearance is reserved between the pushing plate and the mould plate; a pressure bag is arranged in the clearance; the pressure bag is made of elastic plastic material; and a metal connector, which is connected with a hydraulic device for filling a pressure medium into the pressure bag, is formed on a side wall of the pressure bag. Compared with the prior art, the pressure device for locking the mould provided by the invention can be used together with the mould assembling mechanism of related equipment, the defects of a hydraulic mould assembling mechanism, such as complex structure, high cost, low efficiency and high oil linkage probability, can be overcome. Meanwhile, the defects that a crank shaft type mould assembling mechanism is difficult to be controlled, can be easily abraded and has low precision and short service life are also overcome. In the pressure device for locking mould, the pushing plate and the pressure bag arranged between the mould plate and the mould of the mould assembling mechanism are used for replacing a traditional oil cylinder to realize a mould locking function of the mould assembling mechanism for an industrial machine, therefore the effects of high pressure rise speed and no need of lubrication can be achieved. Besides, the pressure device has the advantages of low manufacturing cost, convenience in use, low energy consumption and long service life.

This invention relates to a novel device for small, extremely flexible thin film plastic bags having short flat dispenser outlets, thereby making it possible to easily grasp and squeeze it open while shearing off a tack-welded sealed outlet, and when up-ended, can, for some easy-flow products, regulate its flow; all done using only one hand; said device may be inserted within, and bonded therein to the thin film chamber walls of plastic bags having conventional simple reclosable outlets; or incorporated during the original fabrication of the thin film plastic bag, particularly those having “Zip-Loc” or equal interlocking closure joints, with the usual alignment problems; said simple device consists of a pair of nested flexible and resilient plastic curved quadrant clamps with novel guide mouth attachments which makes it possible to squeeze the thin gauge film chamber walls manually for opening and for dispensing when up-ended, which upon release of the squeeze effort, automatically self closes to form a dust tight seal; said nested clamps may be tack-welded at its outlet for protection against pilfering of contents which, upon the initial squeeze-to-open operation by the customer shears for dispensing; novel improvements for making the curved clamps more than dust tight are offered, along with closure outlets that do not require scissor cutting or so-called easy tear sealed closures.

A calender roll including a cylindrical base body, a cover composed of elastic plastic material, and a support cylinder composed of a light metal that carries the cover and is supported by the base body. The support cylinder may include a plurality of coolant conduits.

The invention provides a method for determining an edge drop control regulation efficacy coefficient of cold-rolled silicon steel. By means of the method, a five-rack cold-rolled silicon steel single-taper work roller shifting rolling mill is used as a target, a minimum strip steel edge drop serves as a target function, a finite element analysis method for a silicon steel material is adopted, and by setting an elastic plastic material, arranging a contact boundary, dividing model grids, setting boundary conditions and working out N-R iteration nonlinearly, the edge drop control regulation efficacy coefficient for effectively and accurately calculating the roller shifting adjustment quantity is obtained. By adopting the method, the accuracy of the insertion adjustment quantity of a conical section of a work roller can be improved, the defect that the edge portion of strip steel is thinned is quickly and effectively controlled, the quality of finished cold-rolled silicon steel is improved, the rate of the average edge thinning value, smaller than or equal to 10[u]m, of silicon steel products can reach 100%, and the rate of the average edge thinning value which is smaller than or equal to 8 microns can reach 98.5%. According to the method, original control equipment can be used, maintenance is easy, and investment of technology import funds is reduced.

The invention discloses a horn elastic wave with different hardness and a manufacturing method thereof. The horn elastic wave comprises a body and at least one glue coating, wherein the glue coating is made of a high-elastic plastic material and is arranged on the predefined area of the surface of the body, so the horn elastic wave has at least two types of different hardness. The method comprises a resin impregnation step, a glue-coating setting step and a coining and forming step. By adopting the horn elastic wave with different hardness and the manufacturing method disclosed by the invention, the glue-coating arranged on the body can form a horn elastic wave with different hardness, thus reducing the horn noise, improving resilience capacity and the low frequency output effect of the horn, and further objectively adjusting on the basis of user preferences.

A pressing apparatus having a pressure plate (6) for the hot pressing of materials (5) of the following group: laminates, wood materials, wood-plastic materials, chip and flake boards, wood, paper, film and pulp combinations for floors, walls and ceilings, has at least one heated platen (3), and at least one resilient lining (10) is situated between the platen (3) and the pressure plate (6). In order to achieve short cycling time, uniform pressing action, high and uniform thermal gradients, avoidance of air inclusions and cold spots, and long useful life, with low numbers of rejects, the following solution is proposed:a) The pressure plate (6) has on the side facing the platen (3) at least one lining (10) firmly adhering to the pressure plate (6) and made of a thermally conductive, resilient plastic, andb) the pressure plate (6) is in contact with its lining (10) against the platen without any air gap.With it, material up to a size of 6 m×9 m and over can be hot-pressed perfectly.

An elastic deformable cushion comprises: an elastoplastic curved piece made of elastoplastic material, and at least two elastoplastic ribs. At least two grooves are formed in an outer surface of the elastoplastic curved piece, and the grooves are separated from and not in communication with and one another. In an inner surface of the elastoplastic curved piece is formed a groove opening in an opposite direction to and located between the at least two grooves in the outer surface of the elastoplastic curved piece. The at least two elastoplastic ribs are formed in the at least two grooves in the outer surface of the elastoplastic curved piece, the elastoplastic ribs are integral with the elastoplastic curved piece, and each of the two elastoplastic ribs have a curved portion.

A deflector (10) for collecting and guiding harvested tree-fruit is implemented for resilient recovery from collisions with obstacles in the field. The deflector is coupled in cantilever to a boom harvester (4) mounted on a vehicle (2). The harvester has a telescopic boom (8) with a mobile portion (14) terminated by a clamp (6) able to move in horizontal and in vertical translation towards and along a tree trunk (T). The deflector is coupled to the mobile portion for slaved translation with the clamp. Implemented as an array of separate ribs (32) flexibly coupled together and made of flexible elastic plastic material such as fiberglass, the deflector is lightweight and flexes upon collision to resiliently recover shape after the collision. Being lightweight, the cantilever does not destabilize the vehicle. The structure and the materials of construction of the deflector prevent transmission of vibrations generated by the vibrator (12) used to shake the trunk when harvesting.