Abstract: A weigh scale has a load receiving deck. Load cells support the deck during weighing. A frame, below the load receiving deck carries the load cells. There are housings formed on the deck or the frame. A retractable extension on the other of the deck and the frame is positioned to extend into each housing to prevent, when the extensions are engaged in the housing, relative lateral movement of the deck and the first frame.

Abstract: A portable tool is disclosed in which hydraulically a two-arm lever is operated to move a staking head towards the grooved outer race of a bearing, which is supported by a staking foot towards each other. Staking head and staking foot are mounted in the legs of a U-shaped tool attachment, being keyed into and releasably bolted to the holder for the hydraulic drive.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dedusting and absorption of contaminating gases in exhaust gases of waste-incinerating devices and hot-air cupola furnaces. In the essence, mud-containing circulation water is atomized in the exhaust gas, whereby dry waste mud is produced. After dust precipitation, the gas is fed to a scrubber which removes the contamination gases. The scrubbing liquid is neutralized and, possibly, mixed with ash and fed back into the circulation.

Abstract: A hollow blank, such as a tube, is inserted in between two dies and is also received by two retractable die members. The interior of the blank is closed off, but working fluid is admitted to widen the blank. Widening is at first restricted to a central portion established by conical front faces of the die members. These members are retracted while continued application of fluid pressure progressively widens the blank, urging blank material into continued abutment with the front faces of the receding die members.

Abstract: A fixture for holding upright a plastic bag of the type used by grocery stores in packaging moist items, having a substantially rectangular base with two arms extending vertically from either side of the base. The plastic bag is placed so that its mouth folds back over the arms of the fixture. The bag may be used for disposal of wet garbage.

Abstract: A post pocket tie-down for use in pick-up trucks and other vehicles which are equipped with post pockets of the type into which vertical stakes may be inserted includes an elongated stake-like portion that is removably affixed in the post pocket and has an attachment mounting at its top end for removably affixing to the top end alternatively a tie-down anchor, such as an eye, for use in tying down cargo, or an arm inclined downwardly from the top of the stake-like portion and outwardly from the side wall of the truck for use in securing a camper body to the pick-up truck.

Abstract: A buckle of the type used to connect belts used for tying down cargo in vehicles. The buckle is formed of flat plate stock and has a structure adapted to withstand high compressive forces such as are applied to it when it is run over by loaded vehicles. The buckle operates on an overcenter principle, so that once it is locked further tension on the belts tends to keep the buckle locked. In using the buckle, initially the free end of one belt is threaded through the buckle and pulled to take up slack. The free end is jammed between the standing end of the belt and a portion of the buckle, preventing slippage. Next, the handle of the buckle is rotated approximately 180 degrees, which causes the standing part of the belt to be wound around the buckle, thereby placing the belt in tension. Towards the end of its throw, the handle of the buckle passes to an overcenter position, in which further tension in the belt locks the buckle more securely.

Abstract: A hollow, tubular blank is provided with annular, radially inwardly and/or outwardly extending protrusions by means of rolling or upsetting. These protrusions are provided with gearing teeth by means of an annular drawing die and a plug, one of these or both being provided with a gearing-forming profile.

Abstract: A small weapon, such as a short-bladed defensive knife can be innocently concealed in an article of ordinary apparel, such as a belt, according to the present invention in such a manner as to both be securely retained within the article of apparel and be quickly and simply withdrawn by a simple, single motion when needed in instances of self-defense. The weapon is retained within the article of apparel by frictional engagement between the article and the weapon, which is primarily achieved by different curvatures of the holster, which is combined with the article of apparel, and of the weapon. The frictional engagement between the weapon and the holster can be increased by providing additional end clips, protrusions, or other attachments between the weapon and its holster.

Abstract: Individual cables are provided with lateral ridges to be snapped behind noses of cutouts in rails by means of which the winding is assembled and retained. The rope-ladder-like assembly is installed by placing the cable portions, resembling the rungs, into grooves of the stator core, also having noses behind which the cable ridges are lodged.

Abstract: A process for preparing ceric sulphate in solution. A saturated solution of cerous sulphate is electrolyzed at high anodic current density, high cathode current density and with vigorous agitation in the presence of dilute sulphuric acid. The process permits the production of concentrated ceric sulphate solutions at commercially viable current densities and efficiencies.

Abstract: A device for shielding a heated surface from infra-red detection through an opening adjacent to the heated surface. The device includes a gas-conducting member, which is adapted to receive heated gases, and has an exterior surface, an interior surface, an inlet for receipt of heated gases from the opening, and an outlet for the discharge of gases. The gas-conducting member has a configuration which blocks the inlet to the member from line-of-sight view through the outlet to the member. Additionally, the device draws cooling air over the exterior surface of the gas-conducting member. The cooling air may then be mixed with the heated gases within the gas conducting member. This provides cooling of the gas-conducting member to prevent the member from being visible to infra-red detection and may also provide cooling of the gases which are discharged from the outlet of the gas-conducting member by mixing of the heated gases with the cooling air.

Abstract: An electrolytic process for converting cerous ion to ceric iron in an electrolytic cell including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte. Cobalt is incorporated into the electrolyte in addition to the cerous ion.

Abstract: A bundling device for rods having a hollow mandrel through which the rods are passed and which mandrel has prongs that are provided with steps. The steps carry elastic rings which are removed from the prongs onto the rods by a stripper. The stripper consists of a tubular member that surrounds the prongs and which has protrusions for engaging the rings and stepwise moving the rings along and off the steps of the mandrel as relative movement is created between the stripper and the prongs.

Abstract: Four corrosion-proof steel tubes are arranged in a circle, two of the steel tubes serving as reference chamber, the other two being serially flown through by a measuring gas. Each cell contains centrally a heating coil of nickel on a PTFE mandrel held by an electrode which is fed through a brazed on ceramic insulation in the top portion of the respective chamber. The other electrode is fed through off center; each electrode is hollow in the feed-through.

Abstract: A high-speed drive shaft is connected to dredge pump shaft by a planetary gear, upon which a controlled speed is superposed, by branching power off the high-speed shaft for driving an auxiliary adjustable pump which, in turn, runs a hydrostatic motor whose rotary output is connected to the ring gear of the planetary gear via a transmission which includes two brakes and a speed-responsive clutch; one brake is also speed-responsive, the other one is responsive to motor pressure, to provide a possibly redundant system for preventing torque transmission to the motor, e.g., in case of dredge pump blockage.

Abstract: The requisite process chambers for field desorption ionization are annularly arranged and cooperate with electrodes on the inside. Individual electrodes are cyclically and in steps juxtaposed to the process chambers so that the various steps are simultaneously carried out on different electrodes. After a cycle, all electrodes have faced all of the chambers. Alternatively, a single wire is segmentwise placed adjacent to the chambers. The process steps are, in each instance: activating the electrode (or a wire segment); depositing an analyzing substance; ionization; and cleaning.

Abstract: A long stator for a linear motor is assembled from many individual core elements provided with transverse grooves into which one places cable to be retained in the grooves so that they physically interconnect the stator elements and establish a chain-like assembly which can be, e.g., wound on drums and hauled to an installation site where the assembly is affixed to carriers along or on the track on which the movable part of the motor runs.

Abstract: Two separately operable turbines are regularly connected individually to two propellers, via reducing gears in each instance, whereby an intermediate shaft is included in each such power train. These intermediate shafts are interconnected via an interconnecting transmission gear with clutches at either end, so that this transmission is completely removed when both turbines drive the propellers while either turbine can drive both propellers when the clutches are operated. Details of the mounting and of the gears and their configuration are disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for X-ray testing of pipes following ultrasonic testing includes a reversible roller track for telescoping a pipe upon a cantilever arm which can be moved up and down on a stand and carrying an endless belt with resilient U-shaped holders for supporting film strips to be moved into the pipe and adjacent to suspected defects. Reversal of the belt drive permits removal of the exposed film strips as the pipe is moved out.