Abstract: A water sprinkler develops any of several predetermined patterns of water coverage of regular or irregular shape and of varying sizes. The sprinkler includes first a plurality of pattern-defining apertures which are contoured to pass varying but predetermined amounts of water from a fixed sampling aperture as a sprinkler nozzle rotates in either or both angular directions about a vertical axis.Pattern size is incrementally adjustable in one embodiment by a member having tapered apertures of varying sizes interposed between the fixed sampling aperture and the pattern-defining apertures. Pattern size and shape are finely adjusted by a parallel flow line including a valve for providing small additional or slightly reduced flow volumes. Rounded patterns are effected entirely through the parallel flow line.

Abstract: An automatic document handler employing a bottom vacuum sheet separator in conjunction with an air knife, a single blower with a cyclically operated air valve being utilized to provide sub-atmospheric air for the separator and pressurized air for the air knife to provide enhanced feeder performance and automatically compensate for variable paper weights.

Abstract: Apparatus for successively presenting sheets for inspection by a keyboard operator or the like who must with a both hands otherwise occupied. A support inclined upwardly from a discharge end spaced above the work table holds a stack of sheets to be fed. A feed roller disposed across the discharge end in engagement with the upper side of the stack is energized to advance sheets successively therefrom, while a plurality of frictional retarding elements disposed across the discharge end in engagement with the lower side of the stack prevent the feeding of more than one sheet at a time. The retarding elements are urged against the stack with greater biasing force near the center of the discharge end than at the edges thereof to provide an automatic centering action.

Abstract: A vehicle hoist and towing device is positioned on the floor of a pick-up truck bed and includes a mounting frame having a hoist frame pivoted thereto for pivoting movement between lowered and elevated position. A hoist boom is mounted on the hoist frame for sliding movement between a retracted and extended position along a track secured to the hoist frame. A linkage interconnects the track and the hoist boom to a power ram for raising and lowering the hoist frame and for shifting its retracted and extended positions. A vehicle suspension mechanism is secured to the outer end of the boom for suspending the vehicle from the boom.

Abstract: A movable platform supports a stack of sheets, with at least a portion of the stack being in a predetermined feed zone where feeding apparatus engages and feeds the sheets, one-at-a-time, from the feed zone into processing machinery. Biasing means continuously urge the platform toward the feed zone and are responsive to a controller for advancing additional sheets of the stack into the feed zone as the sheets are fed therefrom. A sensor is responsive to removal of sheets from the feed zone to energize the controller for enabling the biasing means to advance the table when sheets are not present in the feed zone and to deenergize the controller for disabling the biasing means and terminating movement of the platform when sheets are present in the feed zone.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for the even distribution of liquids onto column areas which comprises distributor troughs with overflow slits and liquid guide elements, hairpin shaped guide elements having a pair of arms arranged at a distance from each other disposed in each overflow slit which is wider at the bottom and adjacent to the outside face of the trough or on lugs attached thereto, the free ends of the guide elements being led to the outside, to a level below that of the bottom of the trough.

Abstract: A bank note holding method for a counting machine which counts bank notes or the like. These bank notes are placed upon a holder and are clamped with a keep rod. The bank notes thus placed and clamped are forced into abutment contact with a plurality of suction cylinders, which are made operable to make planetary movements, so that they may be sucked and separated one by one by the suction cylinders, thus accomplishing counting operation. For this purpose, the bank notes are arranged uniformly on the holder, and then the keep rod is moved toward the holder by depressing a push button so that the bank notes may be forced into contact with and held upon the holder. The push button is then released so that the holder may be moved to its counting position thereby to start the counting operation. After this operation, the holder and the keep rod are returned to their respective initial positions.

Abstract: An injection valve which serves as part of a fuel injection system for internal combustion engines for the purpose of injecting fuel. The injection valve comprises a nozzle body having a valve seat which cooperates with a nozzle needle, which has a needle tip arranged to protrude through an ejection opening. The needle tip and the nozzle needle are embodied as independent parts firmly connected with one another. The ejection opening is embodied in a disc, which is firmly connected with the nozzle body. In order to prevent constriction of the ejection opening during operation as a result of corrosion, the needle tip and disc are manufactured of corrosion-resistant material.

Abstract: A spray irrigation apparatus including a vehicle which carries a spraying nozzle connected to a hollow shaft of a drum reel, a pipe being connected to the hollow shaft and being wound onto the drum reel. The pipe is dispensed from the reel by means of a reeling guide structure which causes the pipe to move from the reel in a curved path so that the pipe passes from a direction perpendicular to the axis of the reel to a direction parallel to the displacement of the apparatus. That end of the pipe which extends from the apparatus is connected to a water supply station so that the apparatus is supplied with water for spraying onto a field or the like. According to a further feature of the invention, the axis of rotation of the drum reel extends along the direction of movement of the apparatus.

Abstract: A manually operative atomizer in which a liquid is sucked and pressurized by an atomizer means and is then atomized through a nozzle port. A chamber for pressurizing the liquid is constituted by a cylinder, while an atomizer head is connected to communication pipe which plays also the role of a piston, and is biased in the direction reverse to the pressurizing direction, by means of a spring. The atomizer head is provided with a guiding member adapted to be pressed and moved by an inclined surface of the operation member, so that the atomizer head and the piston or the jetting pipe are moved in the pressurizing direction. As the operation member is released from the depressing force, the spring moves the member back to its original position. Portions of the periphery of the atomizer head other than the nozzle port and the operating portion of the operating member are covered by a cap.

Abstract: A transfer arm includes a magnet which can be placed in alignment with the spindle aperture of a recording disc. A spindle is mounted to a support at a stacking station for receiving the aperture of the disc on the transfer arm when the disc is released. The extended tip of the spindle includes a swivel member made of magnetic material which is placed in alignment with the disc aperture by the magnetic field produced by the magnet. The disc is then released from the arm at the stacking station and slips over the aligned swivel tip onto the spindle for stacking.

Abstract: A screw conveyor 14 is mounted on the sub-floor 11a of a chip silo 11, and rotates as a radial arm to convey the chip material into a cover 17 through an inlet opening 18 and to a central discharge shaft 12. The cover 17 rotates together with the screw conveyor, and has a spiral cross-section with its radial step or break disposed on the conveyor axis. The cover radius continually increases in the direction of rotation, to thereby prevent the column of chip material in the silo from exerting a braking force on its side wall.

Abstract: A manually operative atomizer in which a liquid is sucked and pressurized by an atomizer means and is then atomized through a nozzle port. A chamber for pressurizing the liquid is constituted by a cylinder, while an atomizer head is connected to a communication pipe which plays also the role of a piston, and is biased in the direction reverse of the pressurizing direction, by means of a spring. The atomizer head is provided with a guiding member adapted to be pressed and moved by an inclined surface of the operation member, so that the atomizer head and the piston or the jetting pipe are moved in the pressurizing direction. As the operation member is released from the depressing force, the spring moves the member back to its original position. Portions of the periphery of the atomizer head other than the nozzle port and the operating portion of the operating member are covered by a cap.

Abstract: A sheet inverter which accommodates the reversal of motion of sheets of different sizes within a curved fixed length inversion chute having a variable buckle control provided by highly flexible and low force spring members chordally intersecting the inverter chute which provide assistance in positively feeding the sheet back out of the chute, after it has been positively buckled therein against the chute end, but allows the undisturbed formation of buckles of various dimensions within the chute depending on the size of the sheet.

Abstract: Pneumatic nebulizer and method for uniformly introducing variable small amounts of flowable liquid into a gas flow to form a stable dispersion having the appearance of a natural fog and consisting essentially of microscopic liquid particles of said liquid dispersed in said gas. The nebulizer comprises a mixing element for introducing the liquid in uniformly fine amounts into the gas flow. The mixing element, which preferably is a replaceable unitary element comprises two contacting members having conforming surfaces which supportingly contact each other over a substantial portion of the surfaces of each to prevent compression therebetween. At least one shallow liquid passage is provided between the members of the mixing element said passage having an entrance in communication with a liquid supply chamber and having an exit orifice in communication with a gas passage to provide at least one stable liquid orifice for metering uniform predetermined amounts of liquid into a gas flowing through said gas passage.

Abstract: A conveyor positioner arrangement for sequentially controlling the positioning of flexible plastic film products in a substantially stationary position on a stacker input station, with gaseous discharge means being utilized to provide certain of the control for the film product, and including means for establishing a Bernoulli effect pressure reduction along a plane beneath the flexible plastic film product. The gaseous discharge means establishing a Bernoulli effect reduction comprises a plurality of generally parallelly arranged spaced apart nozzles which have their respective discharge orifices disposed generally beneath the plane of travel of the flexible plastic film products to deliver a flow of compressed gaseous fluid, such as air, along such plane.

Abstract: The disclosed stripe-applying ("striping") method and apparatus for applying a curable coating composition (preferably the two-part type) to a paved surface comprises a movable vehicle suitable for traveling over that surface. The vehicle carries a first nozzle for applying a pressurized water spray to the paved surface, a second nozzle for applying an air blast to the paved surface, and a third nozzle for applying the coating composition under pressure to the section of the paved surface previously cleaned by the water spray and air blast. In addition, a glass bead applicator drops a plurality of glass beads onto the coating composition after it has been applied to the paved surface. The two components which comprise the coating composition are heated in a system having selectively operable valves for continuously circulating these components when a striping operation is not taking place.

Abstract: Unloading apparatus for vacuum electric furnaces having a hostile environment is disclosed in which a compartment is provided to which work pieces are delivered from such a vacuum electric furnace, transferred from the furnace by movable supporting and transferrng arms which are normally in the hostile environment onto an elevator platform at a central location and then elevated for transfer to other equipment, all under vacuum. The movable arms are first raised and then turned by hudraulic actuators and the elevator platform is also positioned by a hydraulic actuator. The elevator platform and its enclosure are normally screened from radiant heat by a door which is swung from a vertical position for shielding to a horizontal position to permit access of the movable arms and the work pieces thereon to the elevator platform.

Abstract: In an electromagnetic fuel injector at least one and preferably the physically softer one of the opposed working air gap surface of the pole piece and armature of the injector solenoid assembly has a roughened surface texture thereon with an average surface roughness rating value of the order of 16 to 32 microinches.

Abstract: An adjustable drag feed device for a mobile grinder-mixer machine is mounted on the chassis of the grinder-mixer machine by a support arm which permits lateral swinging movement of the drag feed device between a transport position and selected operative positions. A short pivot arm pivotally interconnects the drag feed device with the support arm. The drag feed device may shift longitudinally a short distance about the short pivot arm to thereby permit the infeed end of the drag feed device to be optimally positioned with respect to the discharge chute of a bin from which material is discharged into the drag feed device.