Patent ID: 8714959
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B28B,B29C

Abstract:
1. A mold for producing molded blocks with at least one lateral face which has a texture, the mold comprising: a mold lower part which comprises a mold cavity which has openings at its-opposite ends of the mold cavity in order to receive a material for producing a molded block through an upper opening of the mold cavity and to discharge through a lower opening of the mold cavity the molded block formed in the mold cavity from the material; at least one flexible belt, wherein the flexible belt surrounding at least one mold wall of the mold lower part that delimits the mold cavity in order to act on the material for producing the molded block that is received in the mold cavity, and in order in so doing to impress a texture on at least one of the lateral faces of the molded block, the flexible belt being moveable relative to the mold lower part, and being mounted in such a way that the flexible belt moves around the mold wall when the molded block is ejected from the mold cavity; an active auxiliary device by means of which a rolling resistance of the flexible belt can be varied; the active auxiliary device comprising: