Abstract: This invention involves an indicator assembly and method for locating the position of the axis of a cylindrical workpiece in a roll turning lathe in order to allow accurate adjustment of the workpiece axis position into alignment with the turning axis of the lathe. The assembly is removably mounted on the tool slide of the lathe for radial movement into engagement with the workpiece, and is constructed to locate the relative position of the workpiece and machine axes in horizontal and vertical coordinates. This apparatus is used in the method to compare the position of the cylindrical surface of the faceplate of the lathe with the position of the surface of the journal of the roll in the horizontal coordinate and to compare the position of the axis of the faceplate with the position of the axis of the journal in the vertical coordinate.

Abstract: A machine for pulling and lasting a shoe upper has a mechanism for adjusting the amount of rotational travel of lasting wipers on a wiper head which move toward and rotate against the shoe during the lasting operation. The mechanism comprises a rotatably adjustable knob connected to a correspondingly adjustable threaded shaft arranged in the movable wiper head. The threaded shaft contacts the frame of the machine at the lowermost position of the wiper head, and prevents further advance of the head and further rotational advance of the wipers. The machine operator may preset the degrees of the wiper's rotational stroke by adjustment of the threaded shaft with respect to the wiper head, for the particular size shoe being lasted. Rotation of the adjustable knob also provides an indication of the size of each of the wiper's rotational stroke on a gage behind the knob.

Abstract: An extruder machine for processing thermoplastic materials such as low density polyethylene, the extruder incorporating a body having a bore therethrough with a rotor or screw journalled therein. The rotor has several successive mixing and pumping sections. The mixing sections on the rotor are multiple flighted defining primary and secondary channels having their discharge and entrances respectively blocked or restricted by annular dam arrangements. The rotor includes a plurality of adjustable dams, arranged across the channels, permitting a variation in the degree of homogenization which may be performed upon the extrudite. The dams may be radially displaceable to vary the distance between the radially outer surface of the dam and the surface of the bore.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying pressure and a high frequency electric field to material, comprising a cavity for containing the electric field which encloses platens relatively movable to apply pressure to material placed between the platens. The cavity electrically communicates with the platens for supplying the contained electric field to the platens which, in turn, cooperate with each other to apply the field to the material between the platens. The cavity and the platens are also directly coupled into the means for generating the electric field as a resonant circuit. The apparatus includes a triode tube having means for preventing excessive current therethrough as voltage is first applied, and means for operating the triode under optimum conditions utilizing an automatically variable capacitor to maintain a predetermined grid current for a workpiece placed within the apparatus after full voltage has been applied.

Abstract: A leather press in which two wedges are synchronously driven to raise a lower platen in the press from an open condition to a position adjacent an upper platen of the press. The lower platen is movably mounted on a support. The support and the wedges are in slidable engagement with one another to effect a preliminary closing of the press. A pressurizable expandable member such as a flexible diaphragm may be mounted between the movable platen and the support so that the platens are secondarily urged together by the application of hydraulic pressure, to apply the required working pressure, to a leather workpiece disposed between the platens. The diaphragm is preferably provided by a wall portion of an inflatable sac.

Abstract: A control system for a shoe upper conforming machine, more especially a pulling over and toe lasting machine, includes a computer control which supplies control signals sequentially, according to a programmed instruction, to actuating means for the various operating elements of the machine. In particular, the release of the grippers is controlled in relation to the movement of the wiper means.Furthermore, the power supply to the actuating means for effecting gripping and pulling is independent of that for the actuating means for wiping over and securing the lasting margin to the insole, the arrangement being such that the power supply to the latter is operatively connected only after the operation of the former is completed.

Abstract: A high intensity internal mixer for plasticizing material, having a mixing chamber comprising a plurality of interconnected mixing bores. Each bore contains a rotor for mixing material therewithin. Each rotor has at least one blade or wing with a sharp edge on its outer extremity adjacent the leading edge of the wing. The sharp edge is formed by a groove being cut along the extremity of the leading edge of the wing of the rotor blade. Each blade has a slight helical twist, and is configured to provide efficient material breakup.

Abstract: A roll grinding machine having a neckrest which comprises a pair of roll supporting gibs functioning as independent load carrying members as well as having means for adjusting both the supporting gibs permitting accurate axial alignment of the roll in the machine.

Abstract: A machine for the continuous manufacture of a multilayer toxicogenic web material, such as asbestos. The machine includes a series of controlled feed units sequentially arranged above a continuous conveyor belt to serially deposit incremental layers of asbestos and oil products on the conveyor belt to form a thick, continuous sheet which is removed after proper curing, from the downstream end of the conveyor belt by a doctor blade. The machine is housed in an environmentally safe containment enclosure to prevent escape of potentially harmful material therefrom.

Abstract: A seal arrangement for the shaft of a high intensity mixer rotor comprises a block housing a plurality of pistons which together urge a collar axially of the shaft into engagement with a sealing surface of the rotor. The pistons are mounted in chambers in the block, and are all connected to a common pressurizable fluid inlet in the block. The block may be U-shaped to facilitate removal of the block from the shaft.

Abstract: A sugar mill utilizing an arrangement of rolls journalled between a pair of frame members, having a driven anvil roll as the lowermost roll. An adjustment cane roll is disposed between the frame members above the anvil roll. Intermediate and to one side of the cane and anvil rolls is a crusher/feed roll, and to the other side of the cane and anvil rolls there is a bagasse roll. The three uppermost rolls are adjustable with respect to one another, the side rolls may each be mounted in an eccentric or screw adjustable bearing support arrangement. A generally vertically disposed chute drops chopped sugar cane between the feed and cane rolls to permit gravity to aid in feeding of the chopped cane to the sugar mill. This arrangement of the rolls permits a higher sugar mill output per revolution of the rolls, than that of the prior art.

Abstract: An extruder machine for processing thermoplastic materials such as low density polyethylene, the extruder incorporating a body having a bore therethrough with a rotor journalled therein and having several mixing and cooling sections set thereon in succession. The mixing sections on the rotor are multiple flighted defining primary and secondary channels having their discharge and entrances respectively blocked or restricted by annular dam arrangements. The bore includes a plurality of annular grooves of symmetrical or non-symmetrical cross-sectional configurations along the axis of the bore which grooves are slightly displaced in the bore with respect to the annular restrictions disposed on the rotor. The rotor, however, is axially displaceable to permit variations in the mixing intensity upon the extrudite being worked, by allowing the annular restrictions on the rotor to be controllably juxtaposed with the annular grooves in the bore of the extruder machine.

Abstract: A machine for producing points on the pilot end of a rotary fastener, the machine comprising a rotating dial for supporting an array of blank fasteners above a pair of dies. The blank fasteners are sequentially fed between the dies for pointing thereof. The dial is notched on its periphery to hold the blanks therein. The notches on the dial are acutely angled with respect to the axis of the dial and are secured thereagainst during the die pinching operation to prevent bending of the fasteners as they are pointed.

Abstract: An automatic shoe bottom roughing machine has tool supports mounted on movable carrier arms to permit movement of the arms widthwise across the shoe bottom, the tool support being pivotable heightwise, both the tool supports and the arms being light in weight to reduce unnecessary movement or bounce in the tools, the machine including a one-way hydraulic damping arrangement effective to resist upward movement of the tools.

Abstract: A dust extraction hood is mounted for pivotal movement with its associated tool on an automatic shoe bottom roughing machine. A parallel linkage is arranged to permit the hood to be spaced equidistantly from the shoe bottom throughout the operation of the machine, or in a way in which the tool becomes retracted into the hood during upward movement thereof. The retraction can be so arranged where maximum clearance is required, that the tool can protrude from the hood, and as the clearance requirements decrease, the hood member can shroud a greater area of the operating surface of the tool.

Abstract: An extruder machine for processing of plastic materials, rubber or polymers in which a stationary casing is provided with a generally tubular bore having an inlet opening near one end thereof, and a discharge opening at the other end thereof. A generally cylindrical rotor is rotatably mounted in the bore of the casing. The casing is comprised of a pair of generally coaxially aligned spaced apart cylindrical members, having a length substantially longer than their diameters. A heating or a cooling fluid is passed in the spacing between the cylindrical members in a heat transfer relationship. Each pair of cylindrical members is provided with expansion/contraction joints to permit longitudinal expansion or contraction of the components with respect to one another.

Abstract: A system for treating rubber tires which reduces the tires to a particulate agglomeration wherein cord and rubber matter therein can be separated. A further treating of those rubber particles reduces them to screen size. The system requires the steps of: (a) initially debeading the tire; (b) cutting the tire into chunks; (c) regulating the quantity of chunks as they pass through the system; (d) grinding the tire in a high intensity mixer; (e) passing the grind to a hammer mill to loosen the rubber and the cord from one another; (f) separating the rubber particles out in a separator, and (g) then grinding the rubber particles to a size of about 30 to 100 mesh as a final product. Oversized pieces of rubber discharged from the separator near the end of the system would be returned to the high intensity mixer.

Abstract: The invention comprises a machine for the continuous processing of leather hides using a table board which is fed lengthways through at least one pair of processing tools lying parallel and opposite to each other. The leather hide to be processed is placed with its middle part around the front edge of a table board. The machine includes means for displacing with respect to the table board, the unprocessed middle strip of hide on the front edge of the table board, to permit it to be processed.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting the journal of a mill roll in a journal box carrying a bearing assembly in which the journal is disposed. The bearing assembly comprises a hydrostatic bearing interacting with a bearing sleeve which perform the dual function of retaining an arrangement of roller bearings during mill operation, and provide radial support for the roll during a resurfacing operation.

Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus for moistening and conditioning sheet materials for example leathers and similar materials. The apparatus comprises two endless moisture-absorbent conveyor belts which come together, in the operation of the apparatus, between a pair of opposed flat presser surfaces. The apparatus comprises means for moistening the conveyor belts and for heating at least one of the flat surfaces. The apparatus also comprises means for moving the flat surfaces apart to permit introduction of material carried between the conveyor belts into the region between the flat surfaces and together to press the material on the belt. By reason of this pressure an intensive heat transfer occurs from the flat surfaces to the conveyor belt whereby the water in the conveyor belt is evaporated and transferred into the leather. The apparatus further comprises drive means whereby the belts are moved to transport the leather or other sheet material only while the flat surfaces are spaced apart.