Abstract: A wiener stick applicator composed of a drum or magazine rotatable about its horizontal longitudinal axis and having parallel grooves extending longitudinally of its exterior for supporting handle sticks and wieners or wieners/half wieners, in axial aligned relationship, fed to the grooves from chute or hopper means. One end portion or generally one-half of each groove is relatively narrow for snugly receiving one of the sticks, while the remainder of each groove is relatively wide and generally equal to the diameter of the wieners. A coaxial casing circumscribes the drum in spaced relationship and coacts with the grooves to confine the sticks and wieners against displacement. The casing has an inlet opening extending longitudinally of the drum for admitting an axially aligned stick and wiener to each groove. A outlet opening, extending longitudinally of the drum, is provided in the casing in spaced relation to the inlet opening for the ejection of wieners impaled on sticks.

Abstract: A shock absorber from an oil well drill string mounted therein adjacent its drill bit to cushion drill bit impacts in hard formations and having an elongate tubular mandrel, for connection with said bit, slidably mounted in and drivingly connected to an elongate tubular housing coupled in the drill string. Tubular housing is composed of upper, intermediate and lower tubular sections, preferably; the uppermost has a bore complementary to and slidably engaged by upper packing means on upper end of mandrel, intermediate section has a bore complementary to and in slidable engagement with the mandrel and the lowermost has an upper bore complementary to and slidably engaged by downwardly biased lower packing means slidably confined upon mandrel and a lower bore complementary to mandrel with slidable drive connection between mandrel and housing therein.

Abstract: Method of and means for accurately measuring the calorific value of combustible gases wherein a mixture of combustible gas and combustion-supporting gas is burned in a pair of flames, the temperatures of the burned gases in both flames being monitored and the volume ratios of the combustion-supporting gas to the combustible gas fed to both burners being adjusted so as to maintain the average of said temperatures at substantially maximum; the volume ratio of said gases which produces said maximum average temperatures varying substantially directly with the calorific value of said combustible gas; the aforesaid calorific value being proportional to said volume ratio of said gases which maximizes said average temperatures; the flow rates of said gases being measured by a single flow sensing system, preferably, of the turbine flowmeter types, or the volumetric flow rate of said combustion-supporting gas being maintained at a constant value while the volumetric flow rate of said combustible gas is being measured;

Abstract: Method of and means for accurately measuring the calorific value of combustible gases wherein a mixture of combustible gas and combustion-supporting gas is burned in a pair of flames, the temperatures of the burned gases in both flames being monitored and the volume ratios of the combustion-supporting gas to the combustible gas fed to both burners being adjusted so as to maintain the average of said temperatures at substantially maximum; the volume ratio of said gases which produces said maximum average temperatures varying substantially directly with the calorific value of said combustible gas; the aforesaid calorific value being proportional to said volume ratio of said gases which maximizes said average temperatures; the flow rates of said gases being measured by a single flow sensing system, preferably, of the turbine flowmeter types, or the volumetric flow rate of said combustion-supporting gas being maintained at a constant value while the volumetric flow rate of said combustible gas is being measured;

Abstract: Disclosed is a safety closure apparatus for a pressure vessel, particularly for a vessel such as a pump stabilizer which has a gas compartment and a liquid compartment therein, both of which are normally pressurized. The apparatus includes a safety head configured to cover the closure means of the vessel to prevent its actuation; a liquid pressure bleed valve which must be removed before the safety hood can be moved off of the closure means, thereby insuring depressurization of the liquid compartment prior to opening; and gas pressure bleed means automatically operable upon movement of the safety hood off of the closure means, thereby also insuring depressurization of the gas compartment before access can be had to the closure means to actuate it to open the vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for increasing the effectiveness of hammer-type pile drivers by making possible the use of higher hammer velocities without damaging the pile or the equipment. The apparatus includes a pair of aligned cylinders of unequal diameter, the smaller of which contains an anvil piston and the larger of which contains a driving piston, connected to a pile cap engageable with a pile. Means are provided for applying a deadweight load to the apparatus and for maintaining the space lying between the pistons full of liquid. In addition to enabling use of higher hammer velocities, the apparatus effectively incorporates the deadweight load into driving force when the hammer strikes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a shower head dispenser for bath oil and the like which includes a body member with an axial bore adapted for insertion between a shower line and a shower head. The body member has two longitudinally spaced apertures in its side wall which communicate between the bore and a detachable oil container. A plug is rotatably mounted in the bore of the body. It has an axial venturi bore therethrough, and a pair of transverse bores, one of which intercepts the axial bore at the venturi throat, and the other of which intercepts the axial bore upstream of the throat. The transverse bores of the plug are registrable with the apertures of the body upon rotation of the plug. When water passes through the venturi bore of the plug with the transverse bores aligned with the apertures, the greater pressure at the upstream bore and aperture forces oil out of the container through the downstream bore and aperture into the venturi throat, where it mixes with water enroute to the shower head.

Abstract: Novel quick opening removable tray sections or deck plates for trays of fluid contact vessels having foldable closures or covers adapted to rest upon frame members which coact to form perimeters of one or more polygonal, preferably quadrangular, complementary openings in each tray. Each cover has at least a pair of closure panels hingedly connected at their adjacent inner margins. Opposed outer lateral or side margins of closure panels, which overlie complementary lateral or side frame members in spaced relationship, extend in the same general direction as their adjacent inner margins. At least one of opposed outer lateral margins is slidably confined whereby cover is removable upon elevating closure panels at their hinged inner margins and simultaneously sliding said outer lateral panel margins toward each other and out of confinement so as to permit folding of said cover.

Abstract: Disclosed is a channel shaped building panel especially adapted for installation on the underside of a roofing framework. The panel has opposed upstanding webs, one of which is provided with outwardly oriented generally L-shaped female locking and mounting means, and the other of which is provided with an inwardly oriented male locking means, both locking means terminating in detent ribs. At the juncture of the female locking means with its web, an integral inwardly oriented scabbard is formed, and a complementary outwardly oriented integral blade is formed at the juncture of the male locking member with its web. Upon upward insertion of the male locking member into the female locking member, the detent ribs interact in snap fashion, and the blade seats in the scabbard. The female locking and mounting member provides a surface for attachment of a fastener to the roofing framework.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high pressure intensifier for liquids which includes a housing having a pair of interconnected intensifying chambers with a pair of orifice effect valves, one located in each chamber, but carried on a single stem. The valves are arranged to alternately block the flow of liquid from each chamber to a low pressure exhaust port. Each intensifying chamber is provided with a high pressure exhaust port having a check valve therein. Liquid is fed to each chamber through ram tubes arranged in a trombone configuration. When flow from one intensifying chamber to the low pressure exhaust is blocked, the inertia of the decelerating liquid in the ram tube for that chamber forces a stream of high pressure liquid out through the high pressure exhaust port for that chamber.

Abstract: A hydraulic junk retriever having a tubular mandrel for connection and communication with a drill pipe and rotatably suspending an elongate cylindrical housing within a well bore. A flow passage in the upper end of the housing communicates with bore of the mandrel and has one or more ports extending outwardly at a tangent to the cylindrical interior of the passage for discharging or jetting drilling fluid under pressure tangentially into the well bore so as to impart rotation to said housing and centrifugal force to the drilling fluid. Preferably, the tangential discharge ports are downwardly inclined whereby the circular motion of the fluid becomes helical so as to direct said fluid to the bottom of the well bore at which the lower end of the housing is disposed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automatically variable transmission of the planetary type in which the planet gears of the main or power gear train are carried on a rotatable power cage but are not bounded by an internally toothed ring gear. The transmitted torque and speed (relative to input speed) are functions of the rate of rotation of the power cage. Power cage rotation is controlled by driving it through a second or control planetary gear train having a similar rotatable control cage, the source of power being the input shaft of the transmission. The speed ratio of the main gear train decreases from input to output, while that of the control gear train increases. In operation, the rotational speeds of the power cage and the control cage adjust automatically upon variations in load to values appropriate for delivery of the amount of torque required at the required speed.

Abstract: A fastener of the nail type adapted to be made in one piece from a narrow strip of sheet metal and composed of a quadrilateral, preferably, generally square, flat head with a single pair of prongs integrally projecting generally perpendicularly from the underside of the head and struck therefrom so as to form a single pair of elongated spaced generally parallel slots in said head, which slots are staggered longitudinally relative to each other and have relatively adjacent lineally offset inner end portions at the medial portion of said head and relatively remote outer end portions adjacent a pair of diagonally opposed corner portions of said head and which extend at acute angles to adjacent sides of said head.

Abstract: A novel method of and means for forming puffs for floral arrangements from relatively small sheets of gossamer or net-like, flexible or pliable, very thin, fine mesh fabric or tulle gathered at their medial portions into fluffy butterfly shape, secured by an end portion of a fine wire of extremely small gauge looped around the gathered medial portion of each sheet and twisted upon itself, and having a mechanism for twisting the wire end portion looped around said gathered medial portion of said pliable fine mesh sheet, composed of a helically twisted spindle mounted for axial reciprocation and resiliently biased or restrained in retracted position, guide means for rotating the twisted spindle upon reciprocation thereof, and hook means at the outer end of said spindle for detachably connecting said looped wire end portion and said gathered medial sheet portion thereto whereby said wire portion is twisted upon itself when said wire is gripped and pulled longitudinally outward of said spindle.

Abstract: An auxiliary dual battery terminal having conventional tapered post and screwthreaded stud upstanding from a generally flat generally triangular or T-shaped body in spaced relation to its mounting collar for connecting an electrical conductor, having a clamp collar type or an apertured flat lug type of end terminal, to the positive or negative terminal post of a storage battery in spaced relation to said battery and its post whereby either type of conductor terminal may be fastened to the aforesaid auxiliary dual battery terminal and access to said attached conductor terminal is facilitated.

Abstract: Method of and means for accurately measuring the calorific value of combustible gases wherein a mixture of combustible gas and combustion-supporting gas is burned in a pair of flames, the temperatures of the burned gases in both flames being monitored and the volume ratios of the combustion-supporting gas to the combustible gas fed to both burners being adjusted so as to maintain the average of said temperatures at substantially maximum; the volume ratio of said gases which produces said maximum average temperatures varying substantially directly with the calorific value of said combustible gas; the aforesaid calorific value being proportional to said volume ratio of said gases which maximizes said average temperatures; the flow rates of said gases being measured by a single flow sensing system, preferably, of the turbine flowmeter types, or the volumetric flow rate of said combustion-supporting gas being maintained at a constant value while the volumetric flow rate of said combustible gas is being measured;

Abstract: Disclosed are cell-type ignition devices for Otto cycle internal combustion engines, said devices having cylindrical cells with end orifices communicating with the engine combustion chamber. The devices include housing and mounting means for thermally isolating the cell from the cooled engine wall and the ambient atmosphere. Critical ratios for cell dimensions are disclosed. Some embodiments are equipped with supplementary glow or spark ignition means for starting and warm-up. In some embodiments, sleeves or external protubances on the cell wall are employed to regulate ignition timing by controlling heat transfer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wall framing system having vertical and horizontal mullions each formed of an interior piece and an exterior piece connected together by internal plastic clips. Water diverters are mounted internally of the horizontal mullions for diverting intruded water to exit points on the exterior sides of the mullions. At the crossings of vertical and horizontal mullions, internal water diverter bridge pieces connect through the vertical mullions from the water diverter in one horizontal mullion to the water diverter in the other. The vertical mullion faces each have a height substantially equal to a coextensive with the panels they grip to facilitate glazing and reglazing. A special open channel horizontal mullion with joint forming flanges therein is disclosed, together with a novel snap lock cover system therefor. Installation of the wall system is facilitated by deep glazing pocket vertical jambs, the two piece vertical mullions, and assymetrical glazing gaskets.

Abstract: Substantially rectangular veneer sheets of random lengths and widths are fastened in edge-to-edge relationship by raising integral fluke-like hooks or teeth in each sheet, abutting the edges of adjacent sheets, engaging continual strings or threads beneath the raised hooks, and depressing said hooks into planar relation with the sheets to provide a composite strip of veneer.