Abstract: A method of attaching a lead to a metal end cap of an otherwise complete miniature-type safety fuse having a fuse element secured to the interior of said end caps by connecting means, is characterized in that the attaching is effected by a soldering operation which comprises holding one end of said lead against said end cap, wherein the region where attachment is to take place there is a given amount of solder, and supplying to said region a metered amount of energy in the form of one or more energy pulses producing over a given period enough total energy to melt said quantity of solder, but of insufficient total energy to penetrate through said end cap and adversely affect the bonding of said fuse element thereto.

Abstract: A laundry folding unit comprises a transfer conveyor on to which laundry articles are fed by a bridge mechanism from a feed conveyor. At the appropriate time the transfer conveyor is braked momentarily to allow a fold line of the article to be caught in the nip between the feed conveyor and a fold roller. Bypass is effected either by failure to operate the bridging mechanism or by failure to stop the transfer conveyor, which leads the article back to the feed path of the machine.

Abstract: A packaged camera assembly comprises an outer box having a top wall with an uncovered aperture and an inner sealed package containing a camera and camera accessories. The inner sealed package comprises transparent top and bottom telescoping container sections sealed together at their peripheries at the bottom of the container through which the camera and accessories are visible. The transparent top wall of the top clam shell container section has portions projecting through the aperture in the top wall of the box which retain the inner sealed assembly in place within the box. The bottom container section has a pouch-receiving recess positioned to one side of said the camera. A double-tiered recessed section is provided in the bottom container section which includes an upper shallow recess designed to receive a camera instruction tape cassette.

Abstract: A core assembly having a flexible insulating material core and a spirally wound inner fuse wire engages with one or more elongate bodies of the flexible insulating material to sandwich and compress the inner fuse wire therebetween. An arc burning between the blown ends of the inner fuse wire will be blocked and quenched by the core and body insulating materials expanding or moving into the space where the arc subsists and is burning away a portion of the inner fuse wire. An outer fuse wire, an outer wrapper of shrinkable tubing or twisting together the core assembly and the elongated body or bodies retains the core assembly and insulating body or bodies engaged along their length and forms a fuse wire assembly.

Abstract: The rear surfaces of sign component pieces carry printed alignment indicating direction indicia in the form of arrowheads that are of a dark color and have a glossy surface luster while the front surfaces of the pieces carry a printed background of the same color but having a flat surface luster. The direction indicia serve to indicate the alignment of the pieces for proper insertion into a changeable sign and for proper shearing from a large sheet during manufacture. The dark color and glossy surface luster reduce eye strain during the shearing of manufacture.

Abstract: A microprocessor-controlled exposure control system for a camera uses a modified analogue-to-digital ramp-type converter to trigger an amplitive comparator after a time lapse proportional to the scene brightness as sensed by a photosensor. The comparator output is interrogated at a rate algorithmically governed according to filmspeed sensings to provide an interrogation rate proportional to the filmspeed. A running tally of the number of interrogations until the comparator triggers is kept in memory storage, the resulting number being a digital representation of the filmspeed-scene brightness product. The need for algorithmic multiplication of the digital representations of these two numbers is eliminated.

Abstract: A laundry feeding machine features a conveyor moving through a suction induction tunnel. Articles are held at their upper edges by an automatically releasing clamp to hang in front of the induction tunnel. Upon release of the clamp, a valving system is immediately actuated to apply suction to suck the article in to lie flat on the conveyor to be transported thereby. In one version of the invention, a nip roller based at the outlet of the system engages the leading edge of each article as it passes through, whereupon the valving system is actuated to suck the remainder of the article into a suction chamber having a smoothing blade at the entrance port thereof, so that as the article is drawn out of the suction chamber by the nip roller, a smoothing action occurs. A system of computer-controlled valve actuators responsive to properly laced photosensors governs all valving operations automatically.

Abstract: Sheet feeding apparatus includes a relatively small number of horizontally adjustable suction cups distributed over the length of a feed opening. The suction cups are raisable to grasp the bottommost sheet in the stack at the most ideal position to assure removal of the sheet from the feed opening. Adjustable guide members align the corners of a stack of sheets above the feed opening. Each suction cup is fed from a separate pneumatic tube extending from a manually switchable control panel where a source of low suction pressure is selectively connectible to the suction cups in various connection combinations.

Abstract: An electrically operated camera is operated automatically from between far-focus and near-focus lens settings responsively to ambient light sensings. The far-focus lens setting is less than infinity. Under strong lighting conditions, the aperture is automatically set between a range of values, the largest of which is no greater than the hyperfocal aperture value corresponding to the far-focus setting of the lens, thereby setting the outer boundary of the depth of field at infinity. In weak light, a flash system is automatically enabled, the lens is set to a near-focus position, and the aperture is automatically set at its maximum value. Timed energization of a single electrically operated solenoid is used to establish all settings in both modes.

Abstract: A method for assembling terminal cup-shaped end caps over the ends of cartridge-type electrical subminiature fuses during the assembly thereof has for its novel feature the provision of a centered axially extending handling wire attached to the outer face of each end cap prior to the assembly process. By configuring the lengths of the handling wires substantially longer than the dimensions of the cap itself, the use of an alignment fixture employing the wires for handling and alignment purposes allows for precise orientation of the end caps during the press-on assembly process over the ends of the fuse body. After assembly the wires are removed from their respective end caps. A shearing station suitable for mass production lead removal has upwardly extending sheraing blades with the fuses passed sequentially past the blades with their leads extending slightly over the top of the blade cutting edges.

Abstract: The invention relates to an orientable architectural structure which is habitable. This revolving structure comprises an external generally spherical enclosure (1) which can rotate about its vertical axis V, and a fixed skeleton (2,3,4) housed in the space inside the enclosure. The enclosure is mounted in such a way that it is able to rotate, whereas the skeleton is fixed.

Abstract: A gear driving mechanism for driving a power cam, etc. for a tape recorder, in which a power cam driving working elements by its normal rotation is driven by a motor and the rotation direction of the motor is reversed for the purpose of loading, eject, etc. The mechanism is so constructed that a pivoting gear pivoting depending on the rotation direction of the motor is disposed at the motor side; a normal and a reverse rotation gear engaging with each other is disposed at the gear side; the pivoting gear at the motor side is engaged with one of the normal and the reverse rotation gear when the motor rotates in the normal direction, and with the other when it is pivoted by the reverse of the rotation of the motor.

Abstract: An intermittent gear wheel lock mechanism includes major engaging portions and secondary engaging portions formed on one surface of an intermittent gear wheel and spaced by a predetermined distance. When an unlock lever is inserted, and a lock member is detached from the major engaging portion, the lock member is moved to the movement path of the secondary engaging portion while the unlock member remains in the inserted position, so that the lock member engages the secondary engaging portion which reaches there as the intermittent gear wheel rotates, and locks the intermittent gear wheel unrotatable. When the unlock lever returns to its original position, the lock member moves from the secondary engaging portion to the movement path of the major engaging portion and engages same to lock the intermittent gear wheel unrotatable.

Abstract: Sheet feeding apparatus comprises suction cups which initially engages the bottom surface of a bottommost sheet in a stack of sheets, with the suction plane thereof parallel to the sheet. The suction cups are then raised a small distance where the cups are tilted in a direction away from a support ledge without any substantial horizontal movement thereof, and following which the suction cups are lowered to pull the front end of the bottommost sheet past the support ledge with a wiping contact and down upon the top and front portions of a drive roller. Adjustable suction cup position control apparatus is provided including a manually progressively adjustable member for varying the peak elevation reached by the suction cups. A stationary cam is provided against which a pivotable follower portion of a suction cup mounting member rides, to vary the inclination of the mounting member and the suctoin cups carried thereby as the elevation of the suction cups is varied.

Abstract: Sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheet material one at a time from the bottom of a stack including a horizontal support for a stack of sheets, the horizontal support retaining a vertical stack of sheet material and terminating short of the front end of the stack providing a feed opening which exposes the front end portion of the bottom sheet in the stack. A support ledge for supporting the weight of the front end of the stack of sheets, confronts the feed opening. Suction cups engage the bottom surface of the exposed end portion of the bottommost sheet in the stack and pull the sheet downwardly from the stack through the feed opening. An upstanding front wall engages the front end of the stack of sheets. A movable ledge support has a resilient, flexible and adjustable lip projecting rearwardly into the feed opening from the front wall so that the degree to which the lip projects into the feed opening varies.

Abstract: The magnetic tape guiding cylinder device includes a rotatable upper cylinder; a fixed lower cylinder opposed to the upper cylinder and having a cylindrical member integrally formed with and penetrating through a bottom plate at one end of the lower cylinder which is remoter from the upper cylinder, the cylindrical member being provided with bearings at both axial end portions; a drive shaft rotatably supported by the lower cylinder via the bearings to drive the upper cylinder, the cylindrical member being grasped by a chuck during finishing operation of the lower cylinder. The device is particularly characterized in that the cylindrical member is formed with a circular groove along the outer circumference between the bottom plate and one of the axial end portions which is remoter from the upper cylinder.

Abstract: An automatic focusing camera is operated between daylight and flash modes automatically responsively to ambient light photosensings. The lens is operable between a near-focus setting and a far-focus setting, taking the far-focus setting automatically in the daylight mode. In flash mode the aperture is automatically set to its maximum value, whereas in daylight mode the aperture is automatically set to one of at least two reduced aperture settings. The largest aperture setting in daylight mode is the hyperfocal aperture setting corresponding to the far-focus lens setting. A further reduction in aperture below the hyperfocal value is governed by a filmspeed entry system and ambient light sensings. The changeover threshold between daylight and flash mode is also governed by the filmspeed entry system.

Abstract: A control circuit in an FM radio receiver includes a current mirror circuit which extracts a ripple component caused by a multipath disturbance and superposed on an S-meter output voltage from an intermediate frequency amplifier/detector of the FM radio receiver, and decreases the S-meter output voltage in response to the degree of the ripple component to use the decreased S-meter output voltage as a control voltage for control of separation and high-cut operations of a stereo demodulating stage of the FM radio receiver.

Abstract: A color converter circuit particularly suited for use with computer-steered multi-color display units accepts at its input terminals a plurality of color commands from the associated computer or other signal source, and includes manual selection means for selecting a corresponding plurality of different output color commands to be actuated selectively upon response of each different input color command to provide manual control of the colors of the generated pattern, without requiring software modification. Associated indicator lights adjacent each of the color-selecting switches indicate which colors in the form of color commands are being sent from the computer. A simplified version of the converter accepts monochrome commands capable of giving only dark and bright commands from the computer, and selectively provides optionally chosen different color commands to the display unit to correspond to each of the two input signal conditions.

Abstract: An electrically driven automatic film advance camera with automatic transition to rewind without external actuation is described. Film advance after each exposure occurs automatically after release of the shutter actuating button by means of an integral electric drive motor preferably contained within the film take-up spool. The end of film condition during film advance is signalled by a sudden onset in film tension, which actuates a switching system to reverse motor drive polarity and power the motor until the film is completely rewound into the cassette, whereupon motor actuation ceases. A take-up spool gear drive train remains fully engaged at all times. During the rewind operation both the take-up spool and the drive spool are driven simultaneously by the drive motor to facilitate film disengagement. A film engaging sprocket serves to govern film advance for framing purposes, the sprocket being principally in an idling state throughout the film advance operation.