Abstract: A sausage link handling and packaging machine which comprises a feed conveyor for receiving individual sausage links from a link forming machine and for transferring them onto a main conveyor. These sausage links are transferred in a guided manner whereby to orient them on a predetermined ejecting path. When the sausage links arrive at the receiving end of the main conveyor, they are oriented in a side-by-side transverse alignment relationship. A transfer device is provided at a transfer station along the main conveyor to transfer a predetermined number of the transversely aligned sausage links off the conveyor and onto a package support element. The package support element with the predetermined number of sausage links thereon are then conveyed downstream of the transfer station for further handling.

Abstract: A header and tube assembly for use in a shell-and-tube type heat exchanger formed of a header plate having a plurality of spaced apart openings therethrough, each opening having a large cross-sectional area in the portion adjacent the header outer surface than the cross-sectional area adjacent the inner surface, a tube received in each of the openings, each tube having an outer end extending at least even with the header outer surface, and a sealer filling each of the openings in the header and surrounding the tube in the openings to thereby secure each tube in a leak-proof arrangement. In one embodiment, each opening in the header is of conical cross-sectional configuration, and in another embodiment, each opening in the header has a smaller cross-sectional portion adjacent the header inner surface dimensioned to snugly receive the tube and a larger cross-sectional portion adjacent the header outer surface to receive the sealer therein.

Abstract: A heat pipe for providing enhanced thermal conductivity for transfering heat from a heat sink, such as the earth, to a separate medium, including an elongated, generally vertical, tube closed at each end and having a heat absorption portion adjacent the lower end and a heat dissipation portion adjacent the upper end, the wall of the tube having an integral spiraled groove therein forming internal spiraled valleys and ridges, a refrigerant within the tube having a liquid and a vapor phase wherein the refrigerant is converted to vapor in the heat absorption portion and the vapor is converted to liquid in the heat dissipation portion, the vapor being free to rise within the interior of the tube, the condensed liquid refrigerant flowing downwardly in the tube interior spiraled valleys.

Abstract: A half-round bearing including a locating tab for establishing the positioning of the bearing shell when being mounted within a bearing housing. Generating tabs according to the prior art leave a radially outwardly projecting channel in the bearing crown surface which has been found to create slivers during finishing of the bearing shell wall thickness which can adversely influence bearing life. According to this invention, the bearing material is upset by coining in a manner such that the excess material is removed during the parting line broaching operation without causing a burr to be formed on the tab. The burr can prevent proper seating of the bearing shell in the bearing housing which reduces bearing life.

Abstract: A clamp for a posting board having a clamp arm and hinge which provides the desired clamping force to retain papers on the board, as desired, and also providing a continuous opening force when rotated beyond a fulcrum position defined by a pivoting extension tab of the hinge and a cantilevered leaf spring.

Abstract: A mixing valve adapted for proportioning hot and cold water and for initiating and terminating flow. The valve body has fluid passages terminating in spaced apart hot and cold water inlet ports and an outlet port to a circular valve seat. A generally cylindrical closure member is rotatable about its axis within the valve body with one end overlying the valve seat so as to cover and seal the inlet ports in a closed position. The closure member has a particularly configured recess such that upon rotation of the closure member from the closed position the recess progressively overlies and seals the inlet ports to initiate and provide a mixing of flow. A sequence of flow from cold to warm to hot is assured by a stop which is adjustable to preset a maximum temperature of outlet flow. The closure member can be easily modified for installations where the hot and cold water inlet pipes are reversed from their conventional relative positions.

Abstract: The method comprises gripping the edges of a sheet of thermoplastic resin in a drawing frame, heating the sheet to a drawing temperature, drawing the sheet within the frame against a mold to a spheroidlike hemisphere, drawing an outstanding double-walled ridge about the transverse equator of the spheroidlike hemisphere and forming a central groove in the crest of the ridge. The spheroidlike hemisphere is divided, as by sawing or routing, along the groove at the crest of the ridge and across the undrawn material, thereby forming a pair of window well covers with the undrawn material at the frame providing a first flange of each, and the two walls of the ridge providing a second flange of the respective covers. The portion of the groove remaining with each separated ridge wall provides reinforcing curl along the edge of each second flange, while excess undrawn material may be removed to trim the first flange of each cover.

Abstract: A novel fastening means of a highly corrosion resistant nature and presenting a bright chrome-like outer appearance.

Abstract: A novel fastening means of a highly corrosion resistant nature and presenting a bright chrome-like outer appearance.

Abstract: A method of electroplating tin - cobalt, tin - nickel or tin - cobalt - nickel alloys as a substitute for chrome plating. An electroplating barrel having dangler members of a length sufficient to contact and partially overlay the inner surface of said barrel is disclosed for performing said method.

Abstract: A novel product means of a corrosion resistant nature, and having a plastic substrate, and presenting a shiny or lustrous, or satin-like outer appearance.

Abstract: A bottle handling apparatus for placing a bottle of water, or the like into a water cooler or water dispensing stand. The bottle is lifted from floor level then rotated in order that the neck of the bottle may engage the water inlet of the cooler.

Abstract: A strip of sheet metal moves horizontally between upper and lower felt rollers, turning them in opposite directions so that the lower roller continuously picks up oil from an oil bath. Oil is dripped down onto the upper roller from a device which is continuously provided with oil from a reservoir. The distribution device provides for an excess of oil to be bypassed and deposited into the oil bath below, and the level of the oil in the bath is used to control the flow of oil to the distribution device. The device comprises a tension spring so supported above the upper roll that oil from the reservoir flows into one end, and depending upon the spacing between the spring convolutions, a portion flows out through these convolutions, and the remainder is bypassed through the other end into the oil bath. A uniform distribution of oil along the axial extent of the upper roller is made possible by the spring type distribution device.

Abstract: A machine for mixing a resinous binder compound with aggregates on a continuous flow basis to produce a building material or the like, without the use of cement or water. Aggregate is fed into a first mixing chamber where a metered amount of resin binder composition is added thereto. The mixture is then passed into a first rotating mixing tube having a rotating mixing screw conveyor therein with triangular teeth between the convolutions of the screw. The outer tube rotates contra to the direction of the inner screw which produces a thorough mixing action, coating each particle of the aggregate with the resin binder composition. This mixture is then fed into a second mixing chamber where a metered amount of a second resin binder composition is mixed with the aggregate. A second mixing tube, also having a rotating mixing screw conveyor and triangular teeth, then thoroughly mixes the blend. The resultant aggregate product is then conveyed to a discharge spout.