Abstract: A traction machine for an elevator wherein a reduction gear for the traction machine rotatably mounts a first and second parallel spaced shafts such as an output and intermediate shafts inside the gear box by the wall of the gear box.

Abstract: The present invention provides a refractory tube through which a stream of molten metal is passed during continuous casting which includes an inner refractory member of relatively low thermal expansion and thermal conductivity characteristics and an outer refractory member of high erosion resistance. The cooperation of the inner and outer refractory members results in an end product with a prolonged useful casting life and which does not require preheating prior to use. In a preferred embodiment, the inner refractory member is formed of fused silica and the outer refractory member is formed of alumina graphite and/or zirconia graphite.

Abstract: Disclosed are closure mechanism for the open-neck of manually resiliently squeezable receptacles permitting fluids of a wide viscosity range to be dispersed through the open-neck only so long as manual pressure is being exerted against a visually indicated portion of the receptacle deflectable wall.

Abstract: A material metering device having a discrete flow rate adjustment and indicator mechanism. The indicator includes an actuator knob which is rotated to adjust the flow rate of material from the meter. The actuator knob is also operably connected to a follower wheel which is rotated by movement of the actuator knob. Indicia on both the actuator knob and follower wheel are simultaneously registerable with a reference point, such as a viewing window, and the reading of the indicia at the reference point indicates the flow rate of material from the meter.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a label peeling device for use with a label issuing machine, such as a hand labeler or a measuring printer. There is a feed unit for feeding a label web, which web comprises a plurality of labels temporarily adhered in series to a web of backing paper. A peeling unit turns and deflects the backing paper web rearwardly, as it is being fed by the feed unit, and the labels peel one by one from the backing paper at the line of deflection due to the rigidity of the labels. An auxiliary label peeling member is arranged in the vicinity of that portion of the peeling unit at which the backing paper and the labels separate. In some embodiments, the auxiliary peeling member has a label abutment portion so placed, shaped and sized that any label which might fail to peel from the backing paper merely by the reverse turning of the backing paper web is moved to abut the label abutment portion until it is forcibly peeled from the backing paper.

Abstract: A device for dispensing a selectively variable measured quantity of granular material from a container includes a cup-shaped first member and a hollow cylindrical dispensing member having a sidewall disposed concentrically within the first member. The dispensing member includes a handle, an open bottom, a closed top panel, and a pair of radially extending side panels depending from the top panel to define a measuring chamber. The volume of the measuring chamber may be varied by means of an adjustment member having a lateral panel disposed in a recess in the top of the dispensing member and a depending panel which forms a sidewall of the measuring chamber. The dispensing member is rotatable about a tubular projection extending from the first member, so that the measuring chamber may be moved from alignment with an intake port in the bottom panel of a reservoir supported above the first member to alignment with a discharge port in the bottom of the first member.

Abstract: An ice-cooled gravity beverage dispensing system in which the ice used for cooling the syrup and the water can also be used as portable ice in the drink. The syrup compartment is completely separated from the ice bin and access to the syrup compartment is provided only when the syrup compartment cover has been moved to a position covering the ice bin. A cooling syrup tube embedded in the ice bin cold plate and having a particular diameter allows flash cooling of the syrup.

Abstract: A closure mechanism includes a conical discharge nozzle and a shielding tube fitted over the exterior of the discharge nozzle. A snug conical joint is formed by closely complementary conical surfaces of the discharge nozzle and the shielding tube. At least one ring-shaped seal is provided in such joint to prevent exterior air from entering between the discharge nozzle and the shielding tube into the interior of the shielding tube. The ring-shaped seal comprises an annular recess formed in one of the conical surfaces, thereby defining an annular chamber, and an inert gas filling such chamber.

Abstract: A vented, nestable-extendable pouring spout for use with a container having an opening therein includes an annular mounting portion adapted to be secured to an annular lip encompassing the opening of the container. A generally funnel shaped flexible body portion is secured at its larger circumferential edge to the mounting portion and at its smaller circumferential edge to a tubular neck portion located inwardly of the mounting portion. The body portion has an invertible fold portion adjacent the mounting portion to which is attached a plurality of circumferentially spaced ears. In the nested orientation of the spout, the ears extend downwardly out of the way of the nested neck and body portions. As the spout is extended, causing the invertible fold portion to invert, each ear rotates inwardly about its point of attachment until the ears extend inwardly perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the spout.

Abstract: An apparatus for positioning and supporting a shroud tube in a metal teeming operation includes a boom assembly having one end pivotally mounted on a rigid structure for movement about a vertical axis and is articulated intermediate its ends to permit universal movement of its other end in a horizontal plane, and an elongated shroud tube support arm is mounted intermediate its ends on the universally movable end of the boom assembly for movement therewith, for limited pivotal movement about a horizontal axis, and for limited rotational movement about its longitudinal axis. A bifurcated yoke at one end of the support arm engages and supports a shroud tube, and power drive is provided at the other end of the support arm for rotating the support arm about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The device comprises a screw driven by a motor for raising and lowering a nut supporting a pivotally mounted arm onto which is fixed a platform able to pass through an opening of a door, and which is then placed on the vehicle floor. A load, for example a trolley, may be fixed on the platform by an anchoring device.

Abstract: Solid particulate material is moved through a hopper bottom bin in mass flow inducted by a conical surface positioned within the hopper to compensate for the shallowness thereof. Laminar mass flow movement will occur in the uppermost region of the material within the vertical bin walls. The hopper cross-section is separated into segregated flow channels by the conical surface, and by webs extending therefrom. The conical surface and webs have overall dimensions small enough for insertion through a bolt ring on the bottom of the hopper. The proportion of the material flowing through each channel is chosen to achieve a desired discharge flow pattern by varying the relative cross-sectional areas of either the inlets or the outlets of the channels. This results in changes in the velocity profile of the downwardly flowing material in a zone above and adjacent to the separate flow channels.

Abstract: Dispenser for dispensing thick liquids such as catsup, mustard, salad dressing or the like, and including a configured housing with a base for supporting a bottle with the mouth screwed into the base in upsidedown configuration, an air squeeze bulb connected through a channel in the base to an air tube extending up through the neck of the bottle and into an upper portion of the bottle, a thick liquid channel from the top of the housing to a spout in the configured housing for flow of the thick consistency of the contents, and a spring lever actuated by the air squeeze bulb so that the lever opens the spout on squeezing of the air squeeze bulb and introducing air into the bottle thereby forcing the thick consistency liquid down through the channel in the configured housing through the spout in a desired measured quantity.

Abstract: A novel apparatus for rapidly changing a submerged nozzle used to introduce molten steel from a ladle to a tundish or from a tundish to a mold. A submerged nozzle hanger having a submerged nozzle seating member at the free end thereof is raised and lowered while being rotated about a rotary sleeve to carry a submerged nozzle seated at said free end back and forth between a position at which the nozzle is mated with a teeming nozzle provided on the ladle or tundish, and a position at which submerged nozzles can be exchanged.

Abstract: A housing for a coating applicator having a pair of mating housing members which define a chamber for a portion of a coating applicator and which are supported and retained by a front and rear bulkhead, the rear bulkhead having a spring means urging at least one of the housing members against the front bulkhead.