Abstract: A wheelchair lift device including a platform located in the stepwell of a motorcoach for raising and lowering a wheelchair between a first position wherein the platform is in horizontal alignment with an elevated floor formed with the motorcoach and a second position wherein the platform is at ground level. The device includes foldable hinged sections that are positioned through a linkage and a rotatable arm to form steps for use by able-bodied persons and are extendible laterally outwardly relative to the stepwell so as to align the hinged sections along a horizontal plane and thereby form the platform for supporting the wheelchair.

Abstract: A detachable structure for mounting a cover over the bed of a pickup truck, for quick attachment without bolting. A pair of mounting brackets are provided, each including surfaces which interlock with the pickup bed side walls when placed thereon. These mounting brackets releasably engage the cover in a manner to allow pivotal movement thereof. Coil springs extend between the cover and the mounting brackets to retain the brackets on the bed side walls and hold the cover in the open or closed position.

Abstract: A feeder transfer chute lying in a vertical plane is adapted to convey elongated ammunition cartridges by gravity, each cartridge having a projectile at a first end and an extractor groove at a second end. The chute includes parallel spaced apart ribs which cooperate with the extractor groove to confine the second end of the cartridge proximate an end wall of the chute while not appreciably restricting the free fall acceleration of said second cartridge end. A descent restricter in the chute acts upon the first end of the cartridge, continuously retarding its downward progress to hold the acceleration of the second cartridge end to less than free fall acceleration.

Abstract: An apparatus for decelerating descending bodies includes a tubular arrangement vertically disposed or steeply inclined secured at its upper-end to an elevated location. The bodies to be transported are guided down through the tube which retards their movement. Within the wall of the tubular arrangement there is at least one extensible chamber filled with pressurized fluid and having associated with it pressure regulating means, which chamber serves to apply a retarding force to a descending body. The walls of the tubular arrangement are flexible and include a sleeve whereof the wall is non-extensible in the longitudinal and/or axial direction.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for moving an object which is floatable on a cushion of gas from a first station to a second station. A porous table over which the object is moved is divided into a plurality of zones of gas flow. Contiguous gas zones can have the same amount of gas flowing therethrough thereby to define areas of gas flow. The areas of gas flow are never larger than the object being moved thereover. The areas of gas flow have different amounts of gas flow with the largest occuring at the first station and the lowest at the second station. When an object is placed at the first station, it is supported on areas having two different amounts of gas flow. This causes the object to tip front end downwardly in the area of lowest gas flow and thereby be moved over the porous table member eventually to the second station. The specification also teaches a method for moving an object from any one of a plurality of first stations to a single second station.

Abstract: An apparatus for toppling conveyed articles of rectangular outline (having opposite long sides and opposite short sides) has a travel surface; a discontinuity in the travel surface; first carrier elements traveling at a distance above and along the travel surface for advancing the articles by sliding them, on one of their short sides, on the travel surface up to the discontinuity and for advancing the articles by sliding them on one of their long sides, on the travel surface downstream of the discontinuity; and at least one second carrier element which is driven in a closed path and which engages the conveyed article or article stack as the latter reaches the discontinuity in the travel surface.

Abstract: Containers are discharged from a continuously operable, closed loop container carrier, having a multiplicity of parallel longitudinally and transversely aligned rows of container baskets with each container basket being offset from adjacent container baskets in adjacent rows, by a method and apparatus in which containers in alternate transverse rows of container baskets are transferred from the container carrier to a first discharge conveyor by a first container transfer means and containers in the other alternate transverse rows of container baskets are supported in the carrier past the first container transfer means and are transferred from the container carrier to a second discharge conveyor by a second container transfer means.

Abstract: A squeeze-type container device for dispensing viscous acoustical texture material by a spraying action on a wall or ceiling surface. A spray head is attached to the container and connected with a source of air under pressure for spraying the viscous material through an orifice for repairing damaged areas of acoustic texture walls or ceilings.

Abstract: Valve assembly which mixes two components for delivery to a spraying apparatus. The assembly is comprised of a core valve mounted in a housing or body which is secured in a chamber in a manner which provides passageways between the housing and the chamber. A fluid is delivered to the core valve by a first conduitThe valve is also incorporated into a spraying apparatus with an internal fluid mixing chamber which simultaneously mixes two fluids, then delivers mixture to a nozzle for blending with another fluid component. The spraying apparatus is comprised of a gun body with an integral fluid mixing chamber, a nozzle body attached to the gun body, and a nozzle configured to blend two fluid components coming from the nozzle into a uniform spray. The nozzle body is connected to the gun body by a hollow tubular nut, having a threaded nipple as a conduit for delivery of a fluid.

Abstract: An arrangement for the pneumatic removal of bulk particulate material from the floor of a storage place is described. Pressure air conveys the stored material in a floating condition toward one end of the storage place, where it is collected and forwarded by a further material-conveying means. The arrangement not only discharges the particulate material from the storage place, but simultaneously carries out the aeration of the stored material, by hot or cold air as desired.

Abstract: A machine for weighing and sorting articles to make up packs of a pre-determined weight with the aid of a computer. The improvement is a particular drive mechanism for feeding the articles to a series of weigh heads and then on therefrom. The drive mechanism splits the motion into two components, preferably simple harmonic motions, one of which is a continuously operating vertical reciprocation and the other is a selectively actuated horizontal reciprocation.

Abstract: A spray can for resin paints under pressure incorporates a secondary container in its interior mounted to the normally provided elongated spray tube extending into the can. The secondary container holds a catalyst and is closed off at one end by a cap with cooperating plastic sealing members further functioning to hold a weight in such a manner that the weight in the secondary container can be released by shaking of the can to generate an inertial force. Releasing of the weight shatters the secondary container thereby placing the catalyst and resin in communication with each other, the mixture passing up through the tube and out the normally provided spray outlet when the spray valve is opened.

Abstract: A wear-resistant rotor wheel for use as an atomizer wheel for the atomization of slurries of highly abrasive materials or as a rotor wheel in an agigator or pump of the centrifugal type. The cylindrical side wall of the wheel is formed with ejection orifices and defines together with a body of revolution arranged around the wheel hub a bowl-shaped space which is downwardly limited by an annular plate of wear-resistant sintered material covering the wheel bottom. The annular plate is arranged to be spaced from the wheel bottom with its outer circumference sealingly joining the inner side of the side wall, so that solid particles from a slurry are not allowed to enter between the circumference of the plate and the side wall, while the side wall is allowed to follow deflection of the wheel bottom without subjecting the annular plate to deformation forces.

Abstract: The specification discloses a spring for powering a vibratory feeder or conveyor made up of a first leaf spring and a second leaf spring in closely spaced relation to each other. The ends of each of the two leaf springs are rigidly clamped to corresponding ends of one another and a spacer is rigidly clamped between the springs at said ends. The center of one spring leaf is fixed to the conveyor, while the center of the other spring leaf is fixed to a vibratory motor.

Abstract: Wheelchair lift for a van-type vehicle having a pivotable frame which may be swung from within to without the vehicle, a slide frame telescopically movable relative to the swing frame and a wheelchair supporting platform carried at the lower end of the slide frame. The platform is pivotable to and from a horizontal position in an upright folded position, generally coplanar with the swing frame so that the entire assembly is disposed within the vehicle. A hydraulic ram having a power stroke in one direction and a return stroke in the opposite direction provides means for taking up cables disposed on opposite sides of the swing frame and is operatively connected to both the side frame and the platform. The power stroke of the ram causes the slide and the platform carried thereby to be raised from the ground level to the floor level of the vehicle for transfer of a wheelchair to and from the platform of the vehicle.

Abstract: A mobile agricultural sprayer having a control system for controlling the amount of chemical additive added to a water stream from a mobile storage tank in response to a chemical additive concentration detector is disclosed. The mobile sprayer utilizes a mobile water storage tank and at least one chemical additive tank which communicates with the water to be sprayed at a point between the tank and the sprinkler heads. A pump draws water from the storage tank and directs it under pressure to the sprinkler heads. The chemical additive is typically added in liquid form, such as a solution or a slurry, at a point preferably upstream of the pump inlet while concentration is measured at a point between the point of addition of the chemicals and the sprinkler heads and preferably before the inlet of the pump. The concentration detector transmits information to a monitor which controls the amount of chemical introduced into the water to be sprayed.

Abstract: The vortex chamber (11) of a fuel injection valve is occupied by a stepped, spring biased auxiliary valve (13) disposed in a cylindrical recess (8a) in a passage member (7) at the completion of each injection cycle. This seals the nozzle opening (14) and expels any residual fuel from the vortex chamber in preparation for the next injection cycle. The auxiliary valve (13) is raised by the injection pressure acting on its downwardly facing, circular shoulder. Alternatively, the auxiliary valve may be made integral with the main needle valve (29) in the form of a truncated conical tip (27a) on the end of an axial stem portion (27), the tip extending through and occupying a vortex chamber above a valve seat (26) at the end of each injection cycle.

Abstract: A device for controlling the interval between articles on a belt conveyer which includes forming the conveyer with a plurality of spaced belts, gates beneath the belts and movable upwardly between the belts and a control device for controlling the gates to regulate the intervals between articles carried by the conveyer. gates lift the articles from the belts and periodically redeposit them on the belts in response to a signal generator resulting in the release of uniformly spaced articles. The circuit further includes an article sensor for each gate and a further emergency sensor detecting an additional article when the system is already filled to capacity causing interruption of the motion of the belts.

Abstract: A crossover dump and conveyor advancer for a main conveyor means supported by a movable pan line. The crossover dump includes a tunnel portion through which the pan line extends and entry and reentry ramps supporting portions of the main conveyor are provided for carrying the main conveyor over a secondary conveyor which extends cross-wise to and above the pan line. Material carried by the main conveyor is moved up the entry ramp where it then falls onto the secondary conveyor. A conveyor advancer is included to move the pan line relative to the crossover dump in order that the conveyor system may be advanced or retracted. The main conveyor is adapted to connect with a continuous mining machine by way of a bridge conveyor. The pan line supporting the main conveyor has limit switches near the tailpiece which when contacted by the bridge conveyor will cause the conveyor advancer to advance or retract the pan line.

Abstract: For cold temperature storage on a gravity rollerway conveyor, the parallel flights of rollers of the rollerway conveyor each have a first group of rollers engaging the pallets in their storage position with surfaces having no appreciable compression set characteristics and a second group of rollers not in engagement with the pallets in their storage position but engaging the pallets when moving from one storage position to another storage position with elastomeric surfaces having appreciable compression set. The first group of rollers may be constructed with support surfaces that are rigid, while the second group of rollers may be constructed with support surfaces that are elastomeric with substantial hysteresis properties.