Abstract: A multifunctional control pedal and linkage arrangement includes a foot pedal mounted for pivotal movement with a lever for throttle control of the vehicle and pivotally mounted for movement with respect to the lever for forward and reverse control of the vehicle with forward and reverse functions obtained by forward and reverse linkages connected to the pedal at opposite sides of the pivotal axis thereof, the linkages each having a locked position and a collapsed position with each connected at one end to the pedal and at the opposite end to opposite sides of a rocker member for transmitting alternate motion to the rocking member upon depression of the foot pedal for transmitting the forward or reverse functional control to the transmission of the vehicle.

Abstract: A steering wheel for a motor vehicle according to the present disclosure has a flexible rim with a spring metal core. The rim core comprises a flat annular leaf spring that lies in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the steering wheel. A pair of arcuate leaf springs overlay the annular leaf spring adjacent the outer ends of each of the spokes of the wheel whereby the stresses in the annular rim core where it is attached to the spokes are reduced when the rim is deflected.

Abstract: A steering wheel for a motor vehicle made according to the present disclosure has a resiliently flexible rim core that is formed by a flat spring wire wound in a helical manner to provide a multiple leaf construction. A steering wheel rim having this core structure is resiliently deflectable in response to an impact load imposed upon the rim in a direction parallel to the axis of the wheel and resistant to deflection by a generally tangential force exerted by a vehicle operator while turning the wheel.

Abstract: A transmission having a double rotation torque converter and including a central assembly in which is mounted both a first brake for securing the torque converter guide ring against rotation and a second brake which cooperates with a planetary gear to cause rotation of the guide ring oppositely from the turbine ring of the torque converter. The two brakes and at least part of the planetary gear are mounted in the central assembly. The guide shaft extending axially from the guide ring is radially journalled in the central assembly. The transmission also includes a fluid communication system which, in cooperation with a pump, controls the mode of operation of the torque converter. The pump and most of the fluid system passageways may also be located within the central assembly. The torque converter may include a releasable torque transmitting member and the transmission may include further gearing stages downstream from the torque converter and the central assembly.

Abstract: A hand-held guide for use in combination with a file for sharpening chain saw cutting teeth, the guide holding said file in axial compression to permit mounting of said file at the axial extremes thereof and to facilitate rotation of said file relative said guide during use. A portion of said guide is designed, when said file is axially compressed in said guide, to abut the cylindrical wall of said file throughout a substantial portion of the file's length, and this same portion is formed as a guide designed to accurately locate the file relative a chain saw cutting tooth, and to provide a gage for determining the proper height of the depth gage portion of chain saw teeth.

Abstract: A flexible strap wrench that is especially adapted to aid in the insertion of one length of pipe into another such as where a threaded fitting is joined.

Abstract: A hand tool for a variety of tools such as Allen wrenches, screw drivers, Philips drivers, twist drills, taps, etc. A multiplicity of tools, or different sized tools, are mounted on a single tool handle. The cylindrical handle is provided with a central axial socket member having a central axial opening. Extending from the front edge rearwardly, the handle has a plurality of circumferentially spaced, parallel, grooves. Each tool comprises a base portion adapted to fit into the axial opening of the socket member. Various methods may be used to lock the tool against rotation, such as five or six sides, tapers, keyways, etc. The elongated tool member extends axially from the base portion. Each base portion is mounted in a loop holder which is hinged on a short wire support having elongated spaced parallel wire arms extending at right angles from the short wire portion. Each tool is mounted in its groove by inserting the elongated wire arms into the groove.

Abstract: Ply stock is delivered to a bias-cutter by a feed mechanism which moves the stock to be bias cut in measured increments of length. The present apparatus provides a smooth continuous surface of a feed pan supporting the full width of the ply stock to a forward edge which is adjustable angularly to the angle of the desired bias cut. The feed pan moves toward the shear line of the bias-cutter with the ply stock held on the surface; then with holding clamps released is drawn away from the shear line while the ply stock is held to the shear line. The feed pan is less subject to distortion or deflection and is relatively insensitive to changes in humidity. Accuracy of both bias angle cut and length of cut are improved.

Abstract: Mobile saw bench having at the front means for attachment to the three point linkage of an agricultural tractor and at the rear means for attachment to a trailer, whereby a tractor, the saw bench and a tractor can form a train of machines which can move intact, with the saw bench lifted off the ground while still between the tractor and trailer.

Abstract: Perforating blades for perforating traveling webs of material such as paper in high speed apparatus are made from cold rolled steel which is hardened in a vacuum furnace to produce a scale free surface. The height to which the blades are ground is determined by measuring the average thickness of the blade and grinding the height of the blade to a dimension and tolerance in accordance with an equation which relates blade height to blade thickness. Thus the thickness of each blade can vary. With conventional knife rolls in which the blades form an angle of 45.degree. relative to a radial line of the knife roll, the sum of the height and thickness for each blade in the knife roll is equal.

Abstract: A rhythm unit produces repetitive pulses having one of a plurality of selectable predetermined time relations to each other for use as rhythm or accompaniment signals in an electronic organ or the like. Each of the pulses triggers operation of a modulator for modulating accompaniment tones in time with pulses produced by the rhythm unit, in correspondence with a programmed pattern. The shape of the modulated envelope waveform, its amplitude, and its frequency composition are programmed in accordance with a prearranged sequence, to give the desired sound characteristic within each of a plurality of individually selectable rhythms.

Abstract: An acoustical system of magnetic pick-ups and connecting circuits are provided for an electric guitar, wherein the output of the pick-ups is amplified and fed into separate speakers. The system provides stereophonic effects in which the sound appears to move around the room.

Abstract: An arrangement for stressing a bolt by applying an axial force which acts between an element from which a portion of the bolt extends and a nut element threaded onto this portion, comprising a first and a second ring adapted to surround the portion axially spaced from one another; first means for moving the rings relative to one another in direction axially of the portion; and second means for applying to one of the elements a stressing force which acts axially upon the portion and stresses the bolt.

Abstract: An internal spline drive formation for screws is provided wherein the spline drive formation comprises a plurality of circumferentially alternating equiangularly spaced grooves and splines, said splines being defined in part by part-cylindrical surfaces and said grooves being defined in part by surfaces which, when viewed in plan, are arcuate to form a parabola-like line in that the radius of curvature is very small at the regions of intersection between the spline side surfaces and the groove bottom and increases gradually towards the center line of the groove bottoms.Also disclosed is a screw driving tool the bit end of which comprises an external spline drive formation having a surface which, when viewed in plan, comprises an outer cylinder having sunk therein a plurality of equiangularly spaced grooves, defined in part by re-entrant part-cylindrical surfaces, the regions of intersection between said grooves and said outer cylinder being sharp as contrasted to curved.

Abstract: There is provided an improved wall construction including a vertical mullion and a horizontal member. The horizontal member is provided with longitudinally extending screw splines. The members may be assembled in the known shear block method, or in a known screw spline system, or further in accordance with the present invention the members may be assembled in accordance with an improved shear pin system. The shear pin system employs a shear pin which joins the horizontal members to the vertical mullions. The vertical mullion is prepared for the attachment of a horizontal member by forming holes to receive the head of a shear pin, and the horizontal member is prepared by the insertion of the shear pins into screw splines formed in the horizontal member. The horizontal member is then installed on the vertical by installing the head of the shear pin into the hole previously drilled in the vertical mullion, and then tapping the horizontal downward until the shear pins bottom in the holes.

Abstract: A driving mechanism for controllably opening and closing the cover of an ammunition storage magazine of an armored land vehicle operates to enable the cover to be opened in an essentially vertical position by automatic hydraulic means when the ammunition, which may comprise rockets or the like, is to be loaded into a launcher located above the magazine. When it is desired to reload the magazine itself, the cover may be detached from the driving mechanism and manually opened into a horizontal position extending generally flush with the opening of the magazine itself to facilitate loading of ammunition into the magazine.

Abstract: A barrel is fixedly inserted in and protrudes from a grip and comprises a barrel chamber. A piston is provided on the outside of said barrel and rigid therewith. A breechblock comprises a cylinder surrounding said barrel and piston before said grip and defining with said barrel an annular chamber, which is sealed against said barrel. Said breechblock is movable along said barrel to and from a forward position. A counterrecoil spring urges said breechblock to said forward position. A piston is disposed in said annular chamber and rigid with said barrel and arranged to be disposed at the rear end of said annular chamber when said breechblock is in said forward position. Transverse bore means are formed in said barrel and communicate with the interior of said barrel adjacent to said barrel chamber. Longitudinal passage means are provided, which are laterally enclosed and connect said transverse bore means to said annular chamber.

Abstract: An actuator device includes a chamber partly bounded by a movable wall and connected to atmosphere through a permanently open orifice and an electromagnetic valve which is maintained in a closed position when de-energized and which controls the connection to said chamber of a volume of gas at other than atmospheric pressure when said valve is open.

Abstract: A two stroke mechanism is described which has rotary moveable piston and cylinder-piston elements. The piston and cylinder-piston elements both rotate within a stationary body forming two variable volume chambers. The first variable volume chamber formed between the piston and cylinder-piston elements may serve as a combustion or compression chamber. The second variable volume chamber formed around the piston and cylinder-piston elements and within the stationary body may serve as a precompression chamber. Methods for balancing, sealing, intake, discharge and cooling such mechanisms are disclosed. The mechanisms are especially useful as internal combustion primer movers, external combustion prime movers, pumps and compressors.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming articles such as paperboard cartons from a single piece blank, comprising a first article holding member containing a cut-out and a second article holding member adapted to mate with the cut out. A portion of the workpiece is grasped by the mating surfaces of the holding members. Article forming members are provided in which the ungrasped portions of the workpiece are cradled. The forming members are capable of mating in close fitting relationship about the holding members. As the forming members move towards the holding members, they move the ungrasped cradled portions of the workpiece against the lateral surfaces of the mated holding members, sandwiching them between the mated holding members and mated forming members. The mated holding members serve as a forming mandrel to impart the desired shape to the workpiece. By properly sizing the forming members, corner seals on items such as paperboard cartons can be formed as the forming members mate around the holding members.

Abstract: An apparatus for positioning a plurality of heads slidably disposed along a shaft on, in which said respective heads are disposed and set at any desired positions through the steps of conveying said heads either individually or in groups each consisting of two or more heads by means of a shifter, isolating each said head from said shifter to set it when it reaches a desired position, and repeating the aforementioned operations. Said shifter is constructed of a slave shifter provided with means for holding and releasing said head and a master shifter provided with means for reciprocating said slave shifter along said shaft by a predetermined distance relative to said master shifter.

Abstract: Composite filter plugs or mouthpieces for use in filter cigarette making machines are manufactured by moving rod-like filter components or elements of two or more types sideways or partly sideways and shuffling the filter elements to form a series of groups of assorted coaxial filter elements, pneumatically conveying successive groups of filter elements axially or substantially axially by directing a stream of compressed air against the last filter element of each group, converting the pneumatically conveyed groups of filter elements into a continuous line or file of filter elements, draping a continuous web of cigarette paper or the like around the line of filter elements to form a continuous filter rod, and subdividing the rod into discrete filter plugs each of which contains at least a portion of at least one filter element of each of the several types of filter elements.

Abstract: A piezoelectric transducer is positioned on a member of a power press subject to stress under dynamic conditions. A ball joint bracket means fixes and maintains the transducer on the member parallel with the direction of force and with the faces of the piezoelectric ceramic plate perpendicular thereto. The high voltage signal generated by the transducer is transmitted to a signal conditioning circuit and impressed upon the grid of a grid-controlled vacuum tube. If the conditioned signal is sufficient to overcome the biasing grid voltage, it activates an electric circuit for the performance of one or more functions, including stopping the power press in the case of an overload, counting the number of times the press is overloaded or the number of times a workpiece is produced, and measuring the press load during a work cycle.

Abstract: In a cotton packaging system including a press section, transfer section, strapping section, bagging section and shrink section in longitudinal alignment, a cotton bale is formed by successive compression of overlapping cotton layers and is thereafter tied and bagged. The press section includes a vertically movable lower platen and stationary upper platens each presenting transient compression and conveyor surfaces that are oscillated during bale formation.

Abstract: A printing device for printing cylindrical objects, such as wheels, comprises a printing stereotype having a cylindrically arcuate printing surface and which is rotatably mounted at a fixed position alongside a pivotal workpiece mounting support. A workpiece holder is rotatably mounted on the support and it may be moved toward and away from the printing stereotype in order to move the workpiece holder in directions to make it possible to engage the printing stereotype on the surface of a workpiece and to thereafter move it out of engagement therewith. The construction includes a carrier ribbon containing thermoplastic ink which is trained to run between the workpiece holder and the printing stereotype in order to effect transfer of the printed image to the article to be printed.

Abstract: Disclosed are three embodiments of a hand-held apparatus for printing and applying pressure sensitive labels. All the embodiments are disclosed as having a housing, a rigid, metal, frame plate mounted by the housing, a platen and a cooperating print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels from the web of supporting material on which the labels are carried, an applicator for applying the printed labels, a feed wheel having teeth for engaging and advancing the web, a manually operable actuator drivingly connected to the feed wheel and the print head, a brake, and an ink roll for inking the print head. Also disclosed are embodiments of means for dampening rebound of the print head.

Abstract: An ink supply and ink level control device is mounted on an ink fountain of a printing machine. The device has a control and power head and an ink supply conduit and casing assembly removably connected to the head. The head includes a reciprocable output member, a reversible drive motor connected to produce limited linear displacement in one direction or the other of the output member, a pair of limit switches mounted for operation in response to movement of said output member to the limits, respectively, of its linear displacement, and an electronic proximity detector projecting from said head toward the surface of ink in said ink fountain to sense the relative proximity of the surface of the ink. The assembly includes a conduit for receiving ink from a source of ink and is removably fastened to the output member for limited linear displacement thereby, and an elongated tube-like casing partially enclosing said supply conduit and removably fastened at one end to the head.

Abstract: A printing device is provided having one portion which is a magnetic retainer to receive and hold a plate having indicia stamped thereon and another portion which is grooved to receive printing type.

Abstract: A clamping and tensioning mechanism for mounting a thin flexible printing plate on the surface of a printing cylinder in which a mounting bar is provided having a longitudinal groove formed therein occupied by a clamping bar having upper and lower jaws which are shaped to deform and positively grip the end of the plate. The groove is of dovetail cross section so as to present opposed wedging surfaces having a shallow wedge angle, a spring being interposed in the root of the groove. As a result, when the end of the plate is inserted between the jaws and the mounting bar is subsequently moved in the plate tensioning direction, the jaws of the clamping bar are wedged together to deform the end of the plate and, upon continued movement of the mounting bar, the end of the plate is bodily drawn to tension the plate about the cylinder, thereby to provide positive lock-up.

Abstract: A dampening device supplying water or other ink repellent liquid to the printing plate of a lithographic offset rotary printing press, such device comprising a rotary cylinder, the wall of which comprises an inner coarse mesh element supporting an outer fine mesh element that picks up water from a trough into which it dips and from which the water is projected as a spray by means of air impinging on the interior surface of the cylinder at a delivery station from a series of nozzles or a tube having an axial slot, the fine mesh element having a mesh size that will ensure that each aperture is spanned by the liquid, and the coarse mesh element having apertures of a size such that they are not so spanned, and the space between the cylinder and the printing plate or transfer cylinder of the printing press being unobstructed in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A novel printing master and method for producing the same is disclosed which comprises; coating a suitable substrate with a layer of an ink releasable material selected from the group consisting of silicone elastomers and heterophase polymeric compositions having a silicone phase. A particulate image pattern is thereafter deposited on the layer and fused thereon to provide ink receptive image areas on said layer. The material used to provide the particulate image pattern comprises a heterophase polymeric composition also having a silicone phase, thereby providing a physically compatible image pattern for adherence to the silicone containing ink release layer.

Abstract: A rocket boosted and/or sustained round for launching from a firearm, recoilless rifle, mortar or any other type of closed breech launcher and an adjustable, recoiling tripod support for the firearm or other type of closed breech launcher. The tripod supports the launcher during launch of the rocket boosted and/or sustained round. The rocket boosted round, which may be launched, for example, from the conventional M-16 rifle, is aero-gyro stabilized and is provided with a tubular tailpipe that slidingly fits over the end of the firearm barrel. A rocket motor which is ignited during or after launch is coupled to the tailpipe and a warhead having a predetermined ogive configuration is coupled to the rocket motor. An ignition delay means in the round such as a pyrotechnic delay may be provided to allow a predetermined time delay between launch of the round and the ignition of the rocket motor. Other round configurations incorporate a progressive burning rocket motor grain instead of a pyrotechnic delay.

Abstract: A fuze for accurately sensing the distance to a target irrespective of the resence of a medium intermediate of the fuze and the target. The fuze includes a source of radiation which is transmitted to the target and a detector which detects the backscatter from the target and intervening media. The detector output is amplified in an amplifier connected thereto and filtered in a filter connected to the amplifier to provide an output signal which is threshold detected in a threshold device connected to the amplifier. The threshold detected signal is applied to a firing circuit to provide a signal responsive to a predetermined distance above the target.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the concept of providing fire protection for a caseless ammunition round by enveloping the round in an intumescent material. Means for stripping the intumescent material from the round, together with means for connecting a round to an adjacent round for forming a belt, are described.

Abstract: A mobile ballast cleaning machine which comprises a ballast excavating bucket chain and a ballast cleaning screen has a ballast leveling apparatus mounted behind the bucket chain to level cleaned ballast returned to the track bed from the screen. This ballast leveling apparatus consists of an arrangement of bars extending transversely of the track over the entire length of the track ties. The arrangement includes a plurality of transversely arranged rods having adjacent, pivotally joined ends attached to the bucket chain by guide rods or ropes which permit free movement of the leveling rods.

Abstract: A process and a machine for tamping railway tracks so as to obtain the same degree of compactness of the ballast under all the sleepers of the track tamped by the machine. A movable tamping machine with vibratory tamping tools tamps the ballast between and under the sleepers. A pick-up device measures the amplitude of vibrations retransmitted by the ballast across the sleepers and the rails to a part of the machine which is maintained in non-elastic connection with one rail of the track. The pick-up is rigidly fixed to this part of the machine. A computer is provided to emit a control signal to a control device for stopping the compacting operation of the tools. This signal is emitted when a predetermined value (K) of increase in amplitude of the vibrations measured by the pick-up device is reached, this value being characteristic of the approach of the maximal degree of compactness of the treated ballast.

Abstract: The invention provides a tracked air cushion vehicle comprising a vehicle body, a lift platform from which the vehicle body is suspended, end bogies provided at each end of the lift platform, the lift platform and the end bogies being adapted to run within an inverted channel section track so as to define a chamber which can be maintained at subatmospheric pressure, apparatus connected to the chamber for providing the sub-atmospheric pressure, and biasing apparatus coupled between the vehicle body and the end bogies for biasing the end bogies towards the roof of the track, the biasing apparatus exerting a force equal to at least a substantial portion of the weight of the end bogies.

Abstract: A load tie-down and anchor system for securing load binding chains or the like to a carrier vehicle such as a flat bed trailer is provided with anchor points which may be selectively positioned. Ways for the anchors are formed of a series of support plates mounted in equally spaced, parallel relation to one another. Each plate has a keyhole shaped slot and each anchor assembly includes an elongated bar slidably received in the larger portion of the slot. The bar is slightly longer than twice the spacing between adjacent support plates. An eye or other attachment member is carried by the bar at a point between one end and the midpoint thereof.

Abstract: A coke quench car having a slanted bottom and discharge opening in one wall is provided with a movable grate at the discharge opening to drain water and retain coke. A door outboard of the grate closes the discharge opening in a substantially liquid-tight condition and accumulates quench water in the car to submerge the coke. Means are provided for selectively opening the door to drain only water at the quench station and for later opening the grate to discharge the quenched coke at the coke wharf.A second embodiment provides a tilting bottom coke car with a first sealing means for sealing the car in substantially liquid-tight condition to accumulate water and submerge the coke. A second sealing means are provided to permit the floor to be tilted to a liquid discharge position to drain only water. Means are provided for tilting the floor between an open and closed and intermediate liquid discharge position.

Abstract: A tray for use in an automobile which is fitted on its underside with folding legs, of a size when extended to mount the tray on the floor inside a vehicle over the hump of the transmission shaft. The legs are each fitted with a projecting bracket which supports the ends of the tray in the extended position of the legs, with said brackets shaped to fit about the hump of a transmission shaft when the legs are folded so that the tray may rest directly on the said hump.

Abstract: A shelf bracket assembly includes a bracket having a plate and a pair of flanges defining three orthogonal mounting surfaces. A clamp assembly is slidably mounted on one of the flanges, for clamping a shelf to the top of the other flange. A shelf extends between a pair of such brackets, and may be an expansible shelf.

Abstract: A multi-shelved collapsible display assembly having an array of light weight shelves spaced longitudinally along the length of a standard comprising a lineally segmented pole structure. The standard passes through holes formed in the shelves and segments of the standard include end projections seating within sockets formed in adjacent segments, so that the shelves are accommodated within annular slots and the weight of the assembly is carried primarily by the segmented standard rather than bearing upon the light weight shelves. A cylindrical advertising display card extends between the base of the assembly and the lowermost shelf, thereby providing added structural stability.

Abstract: A self-erecting step stool comprising a top, pivoted leg structures at the ends of the top, a pivoted leg holding strut between the legs and having positive engagement therewith when the legs are extended; a strengthening rib secured or integral to the top at the underside thereof, said pivoted strut being pivoted in journals which are secured to said strengthening rib whereby sidewise thrust on the leg structures at the ends of the step stool is transferred through the pivoted strut to the strengthening rib and thence to the top.

Abstract: An apparatus for selectively delivering incremental linear motion to a reciprocably mounted tool of a machine, for example, the shifting needle bar of a carpet tufting machine, includes means for intermittently delivering rotary power to a set of oppositely rotatable shafts each having coupling means which, during each dwell period of power delivery, are coupled to driven shafts which are linked to rotate together in the same direction; program controlled latch means are provided for selectively operating one or the other of the coupling means to provide control of the direction and duration of the transmission of motion from the power source.

Abstract: An independent guide device is positionable on the supporting surface of the plate and in intermittent contact with the feeder of a sewing machine for guiding the needle of the machine in an irregular pattern. The guide device comprises a pair of complementary jig devices shaped to fit in juxtaposition with layers of material to be sewn to each other positioned between the jig devices. The jig devices have the same irregular configuration and complementary cross-sectional areas. Clamping devices releasably clamp the jig devices in juxtaposition with the material to be sewn positioned therebetween. Guide members extend from the foot device of the sewing machine for maintaining the guide device in a predetermined position relative to the needle of the machine while the guide device is moved between the foot device and the supporting surface of the feeder of the machine through the entire duration of the guide device.

Abstract: An automatic threading device for sewing machines is disclosed which can thread the needle thereon automatically. It carries with a stream of air the thread from a thread feeder through the thread take-up at standstill, guides it to the front of the needle hole, and passes it through the needle by means of a threading tool.

Abstract: An improved method of providing a sealant layer in the double seam joining a can end panel and body. A dual band of molten resinous thermoplastic hot melt material is applied to the end unit and reflowed to obtain preferred placement. After double seaming, the material may be reflowed again to improve sealant continuity and to provide an improved sealing fillet between the end panel and body.

Abstract: A buoyant body with a spherical hull having a well extending along a vertical axis. The well is open at both ends to permit flow of water therein and is such dimension as to make the period of its vertical oscillation greater than the period of vertical oscillation of any waves of significant height reasonably expected to be encountered by the body. The body is otherwise weighted so as to be tuned against roll oscillation.

Abstract: A set of plates, one rigidly mounted to the strut and the others to the craft structure. The plates are held together and are interconnected to one another by several sets of dowel pins which are sequenced to shear when an impact load at the foil rotates the strut. Thereafter, a pair of additional energy absorber devices, positioned to the left and right of the strut mounted plate, will likewise absorb energy until a rigid stop is obtained. Finally, a tang portion on the strut mounted plate will be sheared by the rigid stop at a load below which the strut will obtain damage.

Abstract: A towed device comprising two fish, carrying measuring apparatus, which m remain vertically aligned during the measurements. The device includes a carrying cable fastened to a relay fish. The fish carrying the measuring apparatus are fastened to the cable and a plurality of fins are placed over the cable to improve the drag. A diving wing pulls the cable so that the device remains vertical. The device may be used for measuring gradients of physical magnitudes at sea and in particular the vertical gradient of the magnetic field.