Abstract: A molten metal sampler that is provided with a chamber that can be evacuated and is adapted to hold the vacuum until it is to be placed in operation. When the sampler is contacted by the molten metal, a seal holding the vacuum will disintegrate to permit passage of the molten metal into the evacuated chamber.

Abstract: A system and method for analyzing the amplitude and zero crossing portions of a signal derived from piezo-electric cells of a type used in monitoring rotary wheel/tire movements. Comparing circuits receive either an amplitude or timing signal derived from the monitored wheel. Lights coupled to the comparators change state in response to adjustments manually made to a second input in each of the comparators. The degree of adjustment serves as a measure of amplitude or angular location so as to determine the angular locus and amount of weight to be employed.

Abstract: Vibration sensing and responding apparatus which includes a concave spherical surface and a ball disposed on said surface. Spring loaded means extends through said surface and is retained in position by said ball. Should the ball be displaced by horizontal vibration of the surface or be displaced by a mechanism responding to vertical vibration, the spring loaded means will move upwardly and in so doing actuate a device coupled thereto.

Abstract: A power transmission drive belt having a plurality of equally spaced teeth of identical contour disposed along its length. The teeth include a crest with driving and trailing faces depending therefrom to a valley below. An apex is disposed on each tooth and in each valley to provide minimum engagement between the belt and a pulley, resulting in a quiet running power transmission drive system.

Abstract: An operator mechanism for translating the core of a cable having a casing guiding the core, comprising a cable wheel mounted for rotation inside a housing, the cable wheel being adapted for attachment of the core to a defined region of the periphery thereof so that the core, when so attached, will, at its attached area, be rotatably fast with the peripheral region of the cable wheel, a handle for rotating the cable wheel, the handle being positioned outside the housing and adjacent a forward end face thereof, the handle being capable of operative securement with respect to the cable wheel in any of a plurality of angular orientations relative thereto about the axis thereof.

Abstract: A control system for controlling a model vehicle on a long flexible rod which allows considerable freedom of motion of the vehicle. A hand held control unit has controls operated by both hands and by the thumbs, providing three double or two-way channels of control through cables extending along the rod. The rod is built in sections which plug together, the sections having graduated flexibility to provide the proper combination of support and freedom of movement. At the model, the cables are carried through a pivotal connection which ensures minimum change in cable length during maneuvers of the vehicle, and a spring incorporated in the connection maintains cable tension. The system is adaptable to a variety of surface travelling motorized vehicles and the rod arrangement allows competitive operation of several vehicles in close proximity.

Abstract: A choke control assembly for use in connection with dual carburetors or the like has a linearly reciprocal slide member carried by a body adapted to be secured to a mounting panel. A swingable lever is secured at one end of the slide member with a pair of control cables secured at an opposite end thereof. The lever is selectively swingable from a normal, non-choke position to either of two alternate over-center positions to shift the slide member against the bias of a spring which maintains corresponding cam surfaces of the lever in abutment with the body. The slide member includes a crossarm adapted to receive a pair of laterally disposed cables in order that two carburetors may be simultaneously controlled by the action of the single lever.

Abstract: A planetary gear transmission having three planetary gear units, two of which are simple planetary gear units and one of which is a compound planetary gear unit for use in an automotive vehicle driveline to establish five driving speed ratios and a reverse speed ratio with relatively evenly spaced ratio steps and having a minimum number of friction clutch or brake members.

Abstract: A transmission assembly for providing an infinitely variable gearing between an input and take-off shaft, the gearing ratio achieved being dependent on the load applied to the take-off shaft. The assembly comprises a first gear mounted on the input shaft, a second gear mounted on the take-off shaft, a control gear rotatable, located between the first and second gears and a first gear train providing a driving connection between the first gear and control gear and a second gear train providing a driving connection between the control gear and the second gear, the gear train being rotatably mounted in a gear carrying member rotatably carried on the input and take-off shafts. The gear trains are arranged to induce opposing torques on to the control gear and the gear sizes are such as to provide a step down from the first gear to the control gear and a greater step up from the control gear to the second gear.

Abstract: A handle having a pair of elongated arms and a band-like ring portion adapted to encircle and engage a female hose coupling. The handle functions as a permanently attached wrench to facilitate connecting a section of hose to the threaded end of a spigot or faucet, or one section of hose to another, or to a sprinkler, nozzle or other device. Preferably, the handle comprises a unitary body consisting of a pair of arms and the band-like ring, and means for providing a wrapping force of the ring around the hose coupling.

Abstract: A generally disc shaped tool shaft holder with an opening at its center adapted to accept a tool shaft, and a plurality of openings about its periphery, each of which is designed to accept a lever arm. The holder is divided into an inner and an outer section which may be detached from one another. The outer section may be used with a number of different inner sections, each of which is adapted for use with a particular tool.

Abstract: Continuously variable cutting apparatus for elongated sheet members that are continuously supplied in a longitudinal moving direction and at desired intervals of widths; comprising several first projection nozzles connected to a high-pressure liquid source, the first nozzles being disposed to form at least two rows that extend transversely relative to the moving direction; and at least one second injection nozzle connected to a high-pressure liquid supply source, arranged to be driven to move transversely relative to the moving direction, said second nozzle being provided at a downstream position of the sheet members, below the first nozzles.

Abstract: A punching device includes a fixed frame adapted to support punch means in alignment with a ram. An assembly of the punch, a guide and stripping sleeve and a stripping spring is removable as a unit and such assembly includes means by which such assembly is retained together, especially during handling away from the frame of the punching device. To this end, the punch has a radial opening, such as a circumferential groove, in which there is disposed a friction member, such as of plastic, which has an interference fit with the interior of the stripping sleeve.

Abstract: Sawing apparatus, such as a pulpwood slasher, has an upwardly inclined, log-supporting deck provided with means to carry logs of a predetermined maximum length from the lower to the upper end thereof with the logs transversely of the deck. The deck is substantially in the form of a right triangle and its side that corresponds to the hypotenuse thereof has a series of circular saws spaced equally from each other and the ends of that side so that each log, as it is carried by the conveying means, is brought successively into engagement with the saws. The saws have a lead such that when a cut is completed, a wanted length drops onto a takeaway conveyor as it is cut free and the proximate end of the remainder of that log clears that saw as it is conveyed thereby. The takeaway conveyor extends diagonally of the path of logs and the conveying means supporting the log on both sides of each saw while it is being cut.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to improvements in flying cutters, particularly shears for severing light gage sheet or strip metal. Conventional flying shear mechanisms include a severing mechanism which is accelerated up to the speed of a moving strip or sheet material and then operated to sever the strip while moving synchronously therewith. The cutter mechanism is then returned to its starting position in readiness for a further operation. The present invention is directed to a novel and unique form of conveyor support, which is arranged in a novel manner to automatically extend or contract in accordance with movements of the shear, so that the sheet or strip material remains effectively continuously supported on both sides of the shear.

Abstract: A moving web of material having a high tendency to elongation under stress, such as woven and non-woven plastic fiber or filament webs, is cut by the combined action of a cutting knife which executes its cutting stroke generally in line with and upstream of the web and a grab knife which holds the web at a station spaced closely downstream from the path of the cutting knife and thereby isolates the small length of web between the two knives while the cutting knife completes its stroke.

Abstract: An improved saw table, comprising a flat base, a pair of guides secured to the base and disposed in parallel relation above the upper surface of the base, the guides providing ways for guiding movement of a saw-support plate. The support plate may be moved along the guide-ways to perform crosscut operations, or may be shifted at right angles in a planar fashion to dispose the saw for ripping operations. Angle guides are provided and may be set to position a board at right angles to movement of the same, or to any desired angle with respect to such movement. Clamp means are provided to prevent separation of the saw-support plate from the guide-ways.

Abstract: In a steel guitar of the type having strings mounted on levers located at opposite ends of the guitar, the strings are attached to the levers by tuning pegs at alternating ends of the strings. Linkage between foot pedals and the levers includes rocker arms having adjustable stops thereon so that the ranges of the levers' movements can be selectively set. Adjustable stops are also included at the levers.

Abstract: A blind fastener system comprising a ductile sleeve having an expansion portion of small inner diameter in a thin workpiece and having a bulbing portion of larger inner diameter extending on the blind side of the workpiece, and a threaded expander member having an expander portion for expanding the sleeve expansion portion and a head portion for bulbously deforming the sleeve bulbing portion, both actions occurring on axially pulling the expander member. The expander portion has a tapered, radiused leading end followed by a configured (splined, knurled, etc.) portion for the remainder of the active length. The protrusions of the configured portion leave a void volume between them and between the minor and major diameters of the protrusions, and the volume of the sleeve expansion portion between the small inner diameter and the projection of the large inner diameter is approximately 0.5 to 0.8 of the void volume of the configured portion. The protrusions have blunt outer surfaces.

Abstract: A rocket retention assembly for use with a rocket launcher and rockets provided with outwardly extending shear rings at their rear ends. Each rocket is provided with a conducting ring extending about the periphery of its rear end. The assembly includes a first support plate for engaging the shear ring when the rocket is placed in the firing position in the rocket launcher and preventing forward displacement of the ring from the firing position. This support plate has a loading hole for each launch tube formed therein. A second support plate engages the shear ring when the rocket is in the firing position and prevents rearward displacement of the shear ring from the firing position. This second support plate has an opening formed therein for each launch tube of the rocket launcher, each opening being located at the rear end of a rocket in a launch tube.

Abstract: A gear cutting machine comprising a tool rotating about a first axis, the first axis being rotatable about a second axis at a first cone-shaped shell or cone, the second axis being rotatable about a second cone-shaped shell or cone about a third axis. There is further provided a gear drive possessing two pairs of bevel gears. The cone apex-cone angles of the bevel gears of one pair of bevel gears are of the same magnitude as the cone apex-cone angles of the bevel gears of the other pair of bevel gears, such cone angles are obtuse, and both of the pairs of bevel gears are connected with one another through the agency of a pair of spur gears.

Abstract: An axial piston machine has a control mirror body with a cylinder drum adjustable in both directions from a middle position with zero speed stroke of the pistons. An orifice in a guide surface (which at a given time is connected with a suction duct and a pressure duct) is divided into a pair of orifices connected via connecting ducts with the respective duct. The pair of orifices are symmetrical in the direction of tilt of the mirror member with its middle position in the guide surface. The orifice of each pair which at a given time is located against a momentary tilting direction and not covered by the mirror member is disconnected by a closing device from the associated suction or pressure duct.The constructively possible area of tilt of the mirror member and thereby of the cylinder drum is considerably enlarged. The control mirror member need not cover the entire pressure-side aperture of the guideway in every position of tilt.

Abstract: A hydraulic pump of the axial piston type comprising check valves each of which is adapted to open and allow the associated cylinder to discharge fluid when the pressure inside the cylinder has been raised above the discharge pressure of the pump by the piston on its compression stroke, passage means for communicating each of the cylinders with the low-pressure system including a pump suction pipe or drain tank during the period in which the piston on the compression stroke moves from a point at least short of the top dead center to a point past the center and where the cylinder communicates with the suction port, and pressure-reducing means disposed in the passage means.

Abstract: A hydraulic booster has its piston located in a normal passive position so that hydraulic fluid supplied to the cylinder through an inlet port enters the cylinder on both sides of the piston. Normally open valve means establishes communication through the piston from one side thereof to the other, and operating means is provided for closing the valve means and moving the piston past the inlet port to a position wherein hydraulic fluid flows through the inlet port into the cylinder on only one side of the piston. The normally open valve means includes an elongated valve sleeve slidably mounted in a piston bore having an enlarged intermediate portion defining a cavity surrounding the sleeve member. The sleeve member has a large external area within the cavity facing in one direction than in the other direction, and a leakage path is provided for communication of the cavity with the cylinder on one side of the piston.

Abstract: A motor vehicle fluid power circuit is provided with a constant displacement pump, a control valve, an open-center steering valve, and a hydraulic ratio type brake booster. The control valve includes a control spool which controls fluid flow between the pump and the brake booster and between the pump and the steering valve. A control spool modifying means modifies the operation of the control spool during initial actuation of the brake pedal to produce a large increase in brake booster pressure.

Abstract: A servoactuator for stopping a ram in its existing position or retracting the ram at a fixed rate to a locked position.

Abstract: Apparatus having an operating cylinder and piston rod combined with a shock-absorbing cylinder and piston. The two hydraulic devices are connected by a conduit which allows the piston rod of the operating cylinder to yield under shock loads which are absorbed by the second cylinder and piston and immediately return to an original adjusted position when any imposed load returns to normal.

Abstract: An improved crimper assembly for use in making crimped filter materials is disclosed. The improved features of the assembly include an insulated central heater block which incorporates a steam entrance housing. Also provided are side plate bearing blocks which are insulated from the heater block. Other features include means for precision alignment and interchangeability of components.

Abstract: Apparatus for reversing the running direction of a tube section in a machine for making sacks or bags comprises a turning cylinder with grippers for engaging the tube sections and pairs of rollers for conveying the tube sections in the opposite direction. At least one roller of the pair is movable and provided with a control effective to bring the rollers together with a snap action and separating them again after the tube sections have been transferred to a feed conveyor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an insulated container construction and describes more specifically an embodiment of such construction which is in the nature of a disposable hot drink cup which includes an outer member shaped generally as a frustum of a cone having an open upper end and a closed bottom end and constructed of a paper material which preferably has a thickness in the range of from about 0.305 mm. to 0.457 mm. The container construction, also, includes an inner member shaped generally as a frustum of a cone and having an open upper end and a closed bottom end and residing within the above referred to outer member. The inner member is constructed of a synthetic resin or plastic material and preferably polystyrene and preferably of a thickness in the range of from about 0.127 mm. to 0.381 mm.

Abstract: Folding blank processing apparatus with scarifying means to scar, or distort, the surface of the paper or board of the blank to produce pock marked surface scarring on the blank adjacent a score line fold for the purpose of holding adhesive at the scarified area to complete the construction of a box, or other means, out of the folded blank.

Abstract: An improved prefabricated apparatus used for occupying the space between the rafters, and bounded by the roofing material and the finish material on the outer walls of a building, the size of such space being dependent upon the vertical dimension of the rafter supporting the roofing material and the horizontal distance between rafters. The apparatus is provided with telescoping flexible snap-fit shoulders so that it may be adjusted for variations in the nominal (standard) spacing of rafters and rafter warpage. The apparatus is also provided with a tongue so that it may be adjusted to various rafter pitches and/or variations from the nominal (standard) rafter depth.

Abstract: An air register for mounting in a duct outlet of a forced air heating or ventilation system includes a frame carrying a plurality of pivotally movable horizontal and vertical louvers disposed in the stream of air from the duct. A generally cylindrical reel-type windmill is mounted on the frame for rotation by the stream of air about an axis disposed substantially perpendicular to the direction of the stream of air, and is coupled by a speed reducing gear train and a crank mechanism to a connecting rod interconnecting the vertical louvers for effecting continuous oscillatory movement thereof in response to rotation of the windmill by the stream of air for continuously varying the direction of the stream of air from the register. The entire apparatus is dimensioned and arranged to fit within the 23/4-inch depth of a standard room wall air duct outlet.

Abstract: A container of evacuated double wall construction has an open neck for receiving a beverage after the beverage has been heated to a desired temperature. A stopper member receivable in the open neck incorporates an evacuated electric light bulb covering a major portion of the cross sectional area of the neck to provide further heat insulation and also radiate heat onto beverage within the container. Regulation of the heat to maintain the beverage at a desired constant temperature is accomplished by a pressure actuated switch incorporated in the stopper member. When water is used as the beverage, the heated water can be passed from the container through an outlet spout to a cartridge housing including pay out and take up spools for a series of packets connected together to form a ribbon. Successive packets may be positioned under the spout and include coffee beans, the cartridge including a cup receiving area so that coffee can be brewed directly into a cup.

Abstract: A coffee mill comprising a vertical screw of generally cylindrical form, provided with at least one helical groove and mounted to cooperate with a truncated conical crushing chamber having a section decreasing towards a cylindrical bore at the lower end of the chamber, which section serves to guide the lower part of the said screw, said groove having a pitch which decreases progressively towards its lower end, and a depth which decreases progressively towards its lower end.

Abstract: Apples which have been oriented, peeled and cored on the machine shown in U.S. Patent 3,586,081 are further processed to remove the fibrous carpel tissue providing the seed cell in the apple. Following removal of the seed cell, the apples may be discharged whole or passed through a slicing device to cut the apples into a plurality of segments.

Abstract: A waste compacting system for use in commerical establishments is described. Refuse to be compacted is fed via a chute into a first chamber and when a given level is reached, a first hydraulically actuated ram is automatically or manually activated to push the refuse from the collecting chamber into a compacting chamber. A second hydraulically actuated ram or platen then operates to apply a high compaction force to the refuse, forcing it into a container in the bottom of the compaction chamber. An electrical control network which includes various interlocks insures safe and reliable operation of the system.

Abstract: A household compactor mechanical press structure for refuse provided with a screw with a relatively large pitch having a piston attached to one end thereof. The screw runs through a threaded hole in a vertically movable structure that is supported by a pair of threaded rods. The latter are rotatably journalled at one end in a support plate and at the other end pass through threaded holes in the vertically movable structure.

Abstract: A press mechanism that is powered by hydraulic, electrical and/or pneumatic means is provided with an improved ratchet and pawl machine which acts as a fail-safe device should any of the power means fail to lock the press parts in place. The fail-safe device includes a ratchet in the form of a circular or arcuate segment mounted with its circular center substantially coaxial with one of the turning parts of the mechanism or press, a pawl having a single tooth and a circular arcuate peripheral part that acts as a journal bearing and which in turn is supported by a pawl bearing which in turn is secured to a stationary part of the mechanism and has an arcuate journal which receives and supports the pawl therein. Tremendous load carrying capacity is thus achieved because of the large bearing area provided by the pawl bearing and the positioning of the respective ratchet and pawl teeth to employ a surface rather than point contact.

Abstract: The printing surface of the cylinder is constituted of an Epon resin on which has been mechanically provided the desired images to be printed. The printing cylinder is preferably a hollow cylinder having a cylindrical body formed of a layer of a wound fabric impregnated with a phenolic resin. The hollow cylinder and the shaft and end flanges of the cylinder are constructed to provide a sturdy printing cylinder, into the hollow interior of the body of which, the inks used in printing cannot seep.

Abstract: A tape guide for deflecting a print-receiving portion of a tape upwardly at the exit of a printing machine of the postage meter type so it can be grasped and torn by the machine operator. The guide consists of interstaggered rollers which have conical cross-sections to present a knife edge or line contact only to the adhesive backing on the tape to preclude adhesive from building up a substantial deposit on the guiding surface. The rollers may increase in diameter in the path of travel of the tape so it is deflected upwardly.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved method for the inking of an inking roller in conventional printing techniques. The method involves applying an ink film to the inking roller which is everywhere thicker than the desired thickness and applying a doctor blade, mounted at a reverse angle, to the ink to split it and apply it to the roller in the desired thickness when relative motion is provided between the roller and the doctor blade.

Abstract: An auxiliary drive system for attachment to the ink fountain roller of an offset lithographic machine for permitting continuous rotation of the ink roller within the fountain when the machine is stopped or inactive. The auxiliary drive system includes an auxiliary motor mounted on the machine and preferably activated only when the machine is stopped. The auxiliary drive motor is drivingly connected to the ink fountain roller by a one-way clutch and clutch roller adapter which permits a slow but continuous rotational drive of the ink fountain roller when the machine is stopped, and which freely overruns to permit rotation of the ink fountain roller when the machine is activated.

Abstract: In an ink jet system printer of the charge amplitude controlling type, it is required to ensure stable printing that viscosity and surface tension of ink liquid supplied to a nozzle is maintained at a constant value. To this end, there is provided an ink liquid warmer in an ink supply system. The viscosity and surface tension of the ink liquid is maintained at a constant value by holding the ink liquid at a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A multi-stage gas generator in which selective sequential initiation of cartmental propellant charges is available as a pulsing gas generator. The generator has individual gas generating compartments mounted in tandem and separated from each other by a partitioning wall, each wall having an undirectional plug in a filtering passage, an ignition propellant and an associated electric squib with a pyro-electric switch responsive to generated propellant gas in an adjacent compartment.

Abstract: Cartridge cases of the type which receive powder, a wadding and shot pellets are comprised of thermoplastic material and have a metal head. The head is joined to the plastic case body in an operation wherein heat and pressure are applied to cause the plastic material to flow both outwardly into the interior of a rim portion of the metal head and also inwardly into an annular recess defined in part by an internal reinforcing section of the case body. The reinforcing section of the case body may be either integral with or separable from the remainder of the cylindrically shaped case and the cylindrical portion of the case is provided with an extension which is deformed, by the application of heat and pressure during the manufacturing process, to form the element which locks the head to the plastic body.

Abstract: A priming arrangement in a jacket-or a caseless powder body or charge for small-bore weapons. In a caseless powder body, provision is made for the firing pin, at ignition misfire, to penetrate into the powder charge, however, being totally encompassed and screened by the cylindrical sleeve and the primer cap. In accordance therewith, the powder is protected from the hot tip of the firing pin.

Abstract: A pressure activated, timed missile flight termination system for destroy a test missile after a predetermined period of flight to shorten its hazard space so that it can be used on firing ranges having a minimum amount of area. A delayed destruct sequence is initiated by pressure in the missile combustion chamber upon ignition of the missile. A pressure driven piston is compressed by the pressure created in the combustion chamber, causing it to strike a primer which initiates a delay fuse, a detonator, and a linear-shaped charge to destroy the missile.

Abstract: A blocking mechanism for an impact fuze comprising a spring-loaded blocking sleeve lengthwise displaceable in the fuze housing and provided with at least one radially movable blocking body. The blocking body can be brought by means of a spring-loaded blocking bolt lengthwise displaceable within the blocking sleeve into a position blocking the blocking sleeve in the fuze housing. The fuze housing has a recess into which there can engage the blocking body for blocking the blocking sleeve in a first position. The fuze housing has a further substantially wedge-shaped recess which tapers towards the rear in which there can be wedged the blocking body between a wall of this recess and the blocking bolt, in a second position of the blocking sleeve, for the purpose of securing the blocking bolt against displacement towards the rear.

Abstract: A signal cartridge for displaying the location of a practice bomb during day or night operation. Upon detonation of the signal cartridge, a power charge expels both a chemical payload and a flashcube from the cartridge case. The flashcube is activated outside the cartridge case. The chemical payload, which is air/water reactive, forms a cloud which is visible during daylight. At night, the light produced by the flashcube is scattered and reflected by particles in the cloud to provide a display.