Abstract: A device for cooking food, such as an omelette or the like, includes a base portion for supporting the device above a suitable surface, such as a countertop or table. A heat conductive grid or surface is mounted on the base and includes one or more controllable heating elements which may be removably connected to a source of electrical energy. Two cooking pans or skillets ae positionable on the heating grid and aligned thereon by suitable guides which may be integrally molded with the grid. Each pan includes an insulated, grippable handle portion to facilitate handling thereof when the pan portion is heated by the grid. One of the pans includes a connecting flange for pivotally coupling the pan to a hinge secured generally in the center of the heating grid to allow pivoting of said pan about the hinge.

Abstract: An improved live knife assembly construction is provided based on such assemblies as are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,058,502 (FIG. 8) and 3,277,941. The aforementioned patents are owned by the assignee of this invention and this application.

Abstract: A cauliflower coring apparatus and method in which cauliflower heads are fed one-by-one into a housing by a conveyor having bowls for receiving the heads, each bowl having a number of spikes on which the heads are impaled. A shiftable beam in the housing carries a first rotary cutter and a vertically adjustable hold-down ring for engaging a head to keep it from moving out of its bowl as the first cutter rotates and removes the culls from the head by a coring effect. After its culls have been removed, the head is engaged and cut by a second rotary cutter which disintegrates the head and separates it into curds. The culls and curds drop into respective first and second chutes and onto first and second conveyors for movement away from the housing.

Abstract: To form round bales of fibrous agricultural material, windrowed material is fed into a baling zone formed within a frame. The frame is formed of a stationery front part and a rear part pivotally connected to the front part. Circumferential peripheral surface of the baling zone is lined with conveying elements, either belts, chains, drums, rollers or the like can be used. The material enters in the lower portion of the front part through an opening between two adjacent conveying elements. As it is carried along by the conveying elements, the material is turned over on itself gradually producing a round bale limited in size by the circumferential periphery of the baling zone. As the zone becomes filled, the conveying elements compress the material, wherein the inner layers fold together in a stellate manner. When the bale is completed the rear part pivots away from the front part to discharge the bale.

Abstract: A manual compactor having two handles each pivoted at one end for movement through adjacent arcs toward and away from each other, such reciprocating activation motion being translated into rotary motion in a single direction by means of ratchet and pawl arrangements about the pivot shaft of each handle, and thenceforth to rotary motion of opposing screws one each of which is driven by each handle, which in turn act through ball nut structures to forcibly draw together plates with force sufficient for compacting, the handles also having provisions for actuating push rod within the handles for the purpose of disengaging the pawls from the ratchets thereby allowing retraction through spring loading of the plates and repositioning of the apparatus for subsequent compacting.

Abstract: A transfer device for a printing machine transfers an object to be printed, for example a bottle, from a feed conveyor to a printing station. The device comprises a transfer member carried by a sleeve mounted on a shaft, and means for moving the sleeve and thereby the transfer member in a movement which is partially along the shaft and partially rotational about the axis of the shaft. The transfer device may be provided on a machine for printing a succession of objects, comprising a printing station, such as a silk-screen printing station, and a feed conveyor adapted to present the objects to be printed in sequence to the printing station. The transfer device transfers the objects one by one from the feed conveyor to the printing station.

Abstract: The printer has a plurality of printing rings each rotatably supported by a swingable layer pivoted about a pivot axis so as to be swung in an arcuate path around the pivot axis while it is rotated by a driving source about its own axis so that the printing rings are selectively swung toward and against a platen upon receipt of printing character selection command from the control circuit of the printer so as to print onto a paper held therebetween when the selected one of the characters on the respective printing ring is brought to a position for the printing during the rotation thereof.

Abstract: A type positioning mechanism for use in a printing device of a hand labeler, or the like, including a plurality of rotatable, coaxial selecting wheels, corresponding rotatable coaxial positioning members juxtaposed to and spaced from the selecting wheels and corresponding endless type bands each formed with a plurality of printing types and arranged to run over a corresponding pair of the selecting wheels and positioning members; the type positioning mechanism includes a guide block which is stationary relative to the selecting wheels and positioning members; the guide block has parallel bores therein; pins are received in the corresponding bores and are slidable back and forth; there are thrust members, each integral with the corresponding pin and having one end formed with a conically or wedge shaped projection that is engageable with a complementary depression in the corresponding positioning member for holding the corresponding type band at a particular printing orientation; biasing means urge the thrust

Abstract: A conveying system adapted for use with a screen printing machine having an endless printing blanket for supporting and indexing a work piece during a screen printing operation. The system includes transfer apparatus disposed adjacent the discharge end of the indexing printing blanket which includes removing apparatus in the form of belt strips having gripping pins to peelingly remove the work piece from the printing blanket. Elevating apparatus for first lifting the leading edge of the work piece away from the printing blanket so as to suspend the leading edge until the work piece is advanced in a position for engagement by the gripping pins is provided such that the leading edge bridges any spacing between the discharge end of the printing blanket and the removing apparatus.

Abstract: A method of making a relatively thick dry film stencil for uses such as depositing solder paste through a screen chase. A stencil consisting of four mil thick dry film photoresist is formed by passing the photoresist layers through a roller and laminating them onto a support screen. The outer protective film coatings are removed and the film photoresist developed. It is then placed in a chase with the developed film face on the bottom. The solder paste is then squeegeed through the screen and deposited on a desired part. An alternate method of making the stencil uses two layers of dry film photoresist laminated together with the protective film coating removed. The stencil is cut to the size needed and exposed. Using a hydraulic press, the stencil is then connected to a screen in a chase by applying a pressure of 250 psi at 300.degree. F. for 10 seconds.

Abstract: A label strip inserting device for use in a label printing machine; the inserting device comprises: a platen pivotally secured to the machine frame, a label guide member pivotally secured to the frame, an operating member interlocked with the platen and the guide member; rotation of the operating member moves the platen and guide member between widely spaced inoperative positions enabling insertion of a label strip and closely spaced operative positions; the operating member has a guide surface that is rotated to define part of the label strip pathway when the guide member is in its inoperative position; label guide pieces on the machine frame positioned near a label holder on the frame; the guide member aligns with the guide pieces to define an insertion pathway when the guide member is in the inoperative position.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for printing labels in spaced relation on a continuous moving web which apparatus includes a printing roller, a wick supplying ink to the roller and a spring plate member underlying the wick pressing the same against the roller, the improvement herein consisting of the plate member having a multiplicity of spring like fingers at its free end, the individual fingers engage and apply pressure against the underside of the wick for a uniform inking engagement of the wick with the non-uniform printing surface of the printing roller to print uniformly inked labels on the web.

Abstract: A lithographic printing process characterized by demulsifying an emulsion ink by the action of a cooling means and, if desired, a shearing force-giving means provided in a region of ink distributing rollers in an inking system.

Abstract: A hand-operated pyrotechnic device has a tubular handle and, slidable telescopically therein, a tubular striker supporting a firing pin. The striker is rotatable from a `Safe` position to an `Armed` position, and movable axially, by impact, from the `Armed` position to a `Fire` position. A resilient detent prevents movement from the `Armed` to the `Fire` position unless the applied impact force exceeds a predetermined value. Further resilient detents prevent unintentional arming of the device.

Abstract: A cylindrical shell for a rocket motor is prepared by rolling up a thin, high tensile strength metal sheet and an adhesive to form a multi-layer cylindrical inner metal shell, winding on said metal shell filaments having a high tensile strength and adhesive to form an outer cylindrical shell and then curing said adhesives to form a unitary structure.

Abstract: Projectiles exist with a stored electrical charge during flight and an elrically energized detonator which activates upon impact. Premature activation in flight, which can be caused by spurious voltage, is eliminated by the addition of a voltage threshold blocking device. Detonator activation will then occur, as intended, by the voltage released upon impact.

Abstract: A transportation system that uses bus-like tire vehicles that travel in an express trackway between the suburbs and the city. The bus-like vehicles also have the capability of driving on conventional roadways in the suburbs and the city for picking people up and dropping them off close to their homes and offices. The bus-like vehicles are electric motor driven so that the motor may receive electric power either from the trackway when the vehicles are on the trackway or from batteries carried by the vehicles when they are off the trackway.

Abstract: In a safe deposit apparatus of the type having a horizontally pivoted sector-shaped door with an interior pocket formed by a pivoted wall serving to eject articles from the pocket when the door is closed, the pivoted wall is normally biassed to the pocket-forming position and is displaceable therefrom to the ejecting position by a cam arrangement which becomes operable as the door is closed. Another cam arrangement maintains the pivoted wall in the ejecting position during opening the door. A locking mechanism permits opening of the door to a first position at which envelopes may be deposited, but prevents opening to a second position for the deposition of wallets except when released by a user's key.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for treating waste material in a counter-flow furnace wherein the material is introduced at one end thereof and the processed material is discharged from the other end, while air is simultaneously introduced thereto and the gases of combustion are caused to flow in counter-current direction with respect to the material being processed and are exhausted at the first end of the furnace, and wherein the furnace has a natural tendency to form zones of processing including sequentially from the first end of the furnace, a drying zone, a charring and volatile burning zone, a fixed carbon burning zone and an ash cooling zone, the method comprising the steps of bleeding secondary exhaust gases from the middle of the furnace substantially between the fixed carbon burning zone and the charring and volatile burning zone, and adding air to the furnace in the charring and volatile burning zone.

Abstract: A double-ring ceramic ferrule member insertable into a fire tube of a sulfur plant boiler or cooler, the invention comprises an article of manufacture capable of reducing damage caused by high temperature gas flow through a fire tube, thereby to protect the fire tube and the tube sheet through which the fire tube extends. The present ferrule member provides improved anchoring capability and increased resistance to fire tube erosion.

Abstract: A water jet inlet as used in a surface effect ship, cavitation free environment is provided of a fixed round or rectangular inlet geometry, within the confines of inlet velocity ratios pertaining to the ship velocity immersion design profile. An additional embodiment is disclosed that enables the instant invention to operate at a range of drop fractions, including negative drop fractions, and allows for a truly flush inlet, resulting in minimizing the drag of the ship and potential ingestion of large floating debris.

Abstract: Control forces for stabilizing semi-submersible platforms are provided outboard the platform columns, at a point approximately where the free surface of the water intersects the columns, without altering the internal arrangements or structure of the platform and employing equipment which develops pressures needed to impose control forces only. In a similar manner, control forces for stabilizing pitch and roll motions in ships and to effectively damp the oscillatory motion of the water level in a "moon pool" are provided.

Abstract: A mooring attachment for substantially permanently connecting a buoy and a storage-process vessel, wherein the mooring attachment is of smaller weight but as great a level of reliability as prior art attachments. The attachment includes a mooring arm having opposite ends coupled respectively to the buoy and vessel in pivot joints that hold them a distance apart but without restraining the vessel against yaw movement, and a pair of stop devices on either side of the mooring arm for preventing extreme yawing of the vessel. The stop devices can be formed by a pair of chains, each chain extending from an opposite side of the vessel to the buoy end of the arm, and each chain extending in a loose catenary when the vessel is in a center position but being pulled tight when the vessel yaws by a predetermined angle which is more than 10.degree., to prevent jackknifing of the vessel.

Abstract: A water jet propulsion system for moving a boat through the water includes apparatus for varying the thrust of the jet by varying the size of the stream of water being discharged from the nozzle of the jet propulsion unit. The apparatus for constricting the size of the stream of water also serves to direct the thrust of the stream upwardly or downwardly as desired as the stream discharges rearwardly of the boat so as to counteract any tendency of the boat to "porpoise". Interconnected closure members located respectively in the flow path leading directly to the nozzle and in a forwardly directed secondary flow path serve to close off the latter when the water is being passed under pressure via the nozzle and vice versa.

Abstract: An alarm system to monitor pressure in tubes or containers that normally maintain (a) a constant pressure, i.e., a fixed pressure or a pressure of some steady or unchanging magnitude, (b) a periodic pressure, i.e., a pressure which oscillates with a regular interval a recognizable period or a pressure, the magnitude of which varies from some positive value to a value close to or less than zero and then returns to its original positive value in some regular interval of time, (c) or a fluctuating pressure, i.e., a pressure similar to a periodic pressure but differing by not having any fixed period of time for an oscillation; a pressure which shifts from positive to negative uncertainly, is described. This alarm system sets an audible or other signal should pressure in a monitored line fall for a longer than acceptable period.

Abstract: A triggering device for fire and smoke alarms in which a biased pin member is held in armed position by a latch element which is releasable when a bimetallic disc senses and responds to a selected temperature condition. The response of the disc is transmitted through a ball or antifriction element to which is imparted a lateral force for moving the latch element out of engagement with the pin member. The pin member is spring biased to urge the pin member against a member serving to cause actuation of the alarm.

Abstract: A device is provided for applying a fluid surface treatment agent to a paper web that includes a container for receiving the fluid surface treatment agent to be applied. The container includes a gap which is mounted for contact with the paper web for transferring the fluid from the container to the paper web. A rotary brush is positioned opposite the gap and on the other side of the paper web, and includes fluffy surfaces for applying pressure to the paper web to press the paper web into contact with the fluid applying gap. The position and pressure of the brush are adjustable, and a casing is provided to at least partially surround the brush to produce a fan effect on the paper web as the brush rotates relative thereto.

Abstract: The edge surfaces of a terrarium floor are adhered to side walls of an aquarium tank. A terrarium compartment has a triangular cross section formed by the space above the terrarium floor and part of the side walls of the aquarium tank. The forward edge of the terrarium floor is spaced from the front or the side wall of the aquarium tank to form an opening therebetween of sufficient size for access to the body of water below the terrarium floor and movement of an amphibian between the body of water and the terrarium compartment. In a further embodiment, the terrarium compartment further includes a terrarium side wall adhered along the bottom edge to the terrarium floor to form an upwardly-extending barrier wall and thereby defines the terrarium compartment with a cross-sectional shape of a keystone.

Abstract: An assembly of pig confinement stalls that includes a first upstanding rectangularly shaped enclosure portion having an open end, and upstanding middle wall portion dividing the first enclosure portion into first and second stall portions, each of which has an open end, an upstanding V-shaped enclosure portion for each of the first stall portions having an apex end, and an open end connected to the open end of a corresponding first stall portion to form a pair of continuous pig retaining enclosures, and a second rectangularly shaped upstanding enclosure portion that has an open end connected to the apices of the V-shaped enclosure portions to form a third continuous pig retaining enclosure.

Abstract: A floor grid for use in keeping animals, comprises a plurality of juxtaposed wooden bars which are transversely spaced apart to define gaps between them, and a covering on the top of each bar. The covering has downwardly depending longitudinal edge portions that extend downwardly along opposite sides of each bar, and laterally protruding portions that are integral with the downwardly depending longitudinal edge portions and that also extend downwardly along the sides of the bars. The laterally protruding portions are spaced apart along the bars to space the bars apart laterally.

Abstract: An individual cell of a fluidized bed includes a static bed disposed immediately below the fluidization region. The static bed contains heavy ores or other suitable dense material that can be heated to a temperature above the ignition temperature of the fuel used in the fluid bed. Should the fluidized-bed temperature fall below the ignition temperature of the fuel, the lower thermal conductivity of the static bed permits it to maintain the ignition temperature and to ignite the fuel until the fluidized bed has been rekindled.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder, two- or four-stroke Diesel engine with electronic control, comprising piston-and-crank assembly, electropneumatically or electrohydraulically controlled inlet and exhaust valves, and injectors supplied with fuel under a high pressure, provided with control depending on at least one operational parameter of the engine, characterized in that with the main shaft a digital transducer of the angular velocity (5) is coupled, the transducer being further connected with the first input of the computer (6), over a shaping element (7). To the second input of the computer (6) an assembly of analog-to-digital converters (8) is connected, and to the assembly the sensors (9) of the operational parameters of the engine and of the charge exchange are connected.

Abstract: An electronic fuel injection system wherein fuel injectors are turned on by electrical pulses whose time periods are controlled in accordance with information received from various engine condition sensors. A primary pulse is transmitted for each revolution of the engine and this pulse is used to turn on the fuel injectors for the controlled time period. Auxiliary pulses for acceleration enrichment are also used to turn on the same fuel injectors for a time period that is controlled by throttle conditions. A pulse time addition circuit is provided so that the time period of an acceleration enrichment pulse is added to the time period of a primary pulse even when the acceleration enrichment pulse occurs during the period of the primary pulse thereby insuring that the desired total amount of fuel is added to the engine regardless of the sequence of occurrence of the control pulses.

Abstract: The combination of a fuel supply system, an exhaust gas oxygen concentration sensor, a feedback control circuit connected to the fuel supply system and to the exhaust gas oxygen concentration sensor, a disabling circuit connected to the feedback control circuit and a fuel increment signal generating circuit connected to the fuel supply system and the disabling circuit. The combination controls the air-fuel mixture to be supplied to the engine. The combination is speed sensitive, i.e., when a predetermined engine speed is exceeded, the disabling circuit disconnects the feedback control circuit from the fuel supply system and the fuel increment signal generating circuit generates a signal which is applied to the fuel supply system in order to increase the fuel quantity supplied by the fuel supply system.

Abstract: An electronic control circuit for the fuel injectors of an internal combustion engine is disclosed, which comprises a circuitry for detecting certain indicative parameters of the engine working conditions and of the power requirements requested by the engine operator, electronic circuitry means being provided for generating pulse train signals to be compared with the signals corresponding to the detected parameters and circuitry means for effecting a comparison with one of a series of preselected patterns of injector feed (intermittency of feed and duration of each feeding burst) thus enabling a control circuit to enter action so as to adapt the operation of the injectors to the preselected pattern. The operator has thus a comparatively wide choice among a number of typical engine operative situations. Consistent fuel savings can thus be obtained along with a more regular engine run.

Abstract: A combustion chamber for an internal combustion engine of the direct injection type formed by a cylinder head, a cylinder liner and a piston head, the piston head having formed therein a cavity in which air swirl can be produced by a known device. Fuel injection nozzles are disposed substantially in the central part of said cavity for injecting jets of fuel radially against the cavity wall. Said cavity comprises a generally toroidal cavity formed in said piston head and a plurality of corner cavities formed continuously to said toroidal cavity, each of said corner cavities being defined by a generally linear wall tangent to the inner peripheral wall of said toroidal cavity and a generally semi-circular wall interconnecting said linear wall and the inner peripheral wall of said toroidal cavity, said linear wall being formed upstream side of said air swirl.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for controlling a combustion engine, a digital computer is adapted to calculate first and second values corresponding to optimal settings of fuel injectors and spark plugs in a time sequence by detecting changes of the amount of air flowing into the engine and the rotation speed of the engine. The computer is programmed to calculate the first and second values from functions describing desired relationships among each setting of the fuel injectors and the spark plugs, the amount of air flowing into the engine and the rotation speed of the engine, thereby to eliminate a conventional negative pressure detecting element.

Abstract: The invention provides a pneumatic control system for a pneumatically operated clutch in the drive to a cooling fan of a vehicle engine. There are two thermostat valves arranged in series in the pneumatic control line. One valve is positioned in the supercharged air passage and the other valve is in the liquid coolant passage. If the temperature at either valve becomes excessive the supply line 22 is connected to relief and the fan clutch automatically engages.

Abstract: In operation of an internal combustion engine, a lamina of air is introduced into the combustion chamber to line the wall thereof, the fuel being admitted into the interior of the lamina of air. In a two-stroke engine, air entering the combustion chamber is driven by the incoming fuel mixture to form a lamina which lines the wall of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine of the Otto or Diesel type, with one or several cylinders and associated reciprocating pistons in any of the conventional cylinder arrangements. The working space of every cylinder is connected by a bore with a feed line including a valve for introducing into the cylinder during a piston suction stroke an additional fluid such as air or a liquid. The bore/valve assembly may be provided at the cylinder head and/or at the lateral wall of a cylinder. The valve includes a valve chamber of a relatively large cross-sectional area. In the valve chamber is movably guided a valve member for establishing or blocking communication between the valve chamber and the cylinder working space in dependence upon the pressure within the cylinder.

Abstract: A governor system for an engine motive fluid induction system is shown as having a solenoid operated valving assembly communicating with a source of vacuum and with a plurality of vacuum motors operatively connected to variably positionable throttle valves of the induction system; an electronic control sensitive to the speed of a monitored parameter is effective to controllably energize the solenoid valving assembly to, in turn, regulate the magnitude of vacuum directed thereby to the vacuum motors and consequently govern the then permissible amount of opening of the throttle valves.

Abstract: A fuel injection system comprising a vibrating fuel injector and a vibrating butterfly or sliding valve so positioned that it receives fuel from the injector and further vibrates it to further break it up.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine of the back pressure control type wherein a back pressure chamber formed in a recirculation passage for recirculating exhaust gases is controlled to be substantially at atmospheric pressure by co-operation of a vacuum-operated diaphragm type exhaust gas recirculation control valve and a vacuum control valve which modifies the vacuum supplied to the exhaust gas recirculation control valve, wherein the system further includes a vacuum switching valve which selectively supplies intake manifold vacuum to a second diaphragm chamber of the exhaust gas recirculation control valve so as to close the control valve temporarily when the engine is decelerated.

Abstract: Air bleeding apparatus for an exhaust emission control system comprising three plates joined face to face. The first plate has a plurality of grooves each communicating at one end with a vacuum source and at the other end with a vacuum actuator for an ignition timing control system or an exhaust gas recirculation control valve. The second plate has a plurality of orifices communicating with the grooves, respectively; the third end plate has a vent hole therethrough and grooves diverging from the vent hole and respectively communicating with the orifices. The second plate is joined abuttingly to and between the first and third plates whereby the grooves form conduits therewith, whereby the conduits of the first plate communicate with the vent hole of the third plate through the respective orifices of the second plate and the respective conduits of the third plate. The characteristics of the apparatus may be varied by changing the second plate to one having different orifices.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for mixing fuel and an oxidizing agent includes an electrically charged electrode which forms an electrostatic field through which a stream of fuel is passed so that the fuel particles become electrostatically charged and subsequently repel one another to disperse into and mix with an oxidizing agent and vaporize on contact with a heat source such as the wall surface of an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine or the walls of fuel burning apparatus, or combustion chambers of jet or rocket engines and the like. Fuel particles passing through the electrostatic field are charged by induction charging and in addition may also be electrostatically charged by direct contact with the electrode, which is provided with an open outlet end to permit a relatively unobstructed flow of intermixed fuel and oxidizing agent with a minimum of flow resistance and little possibility of ice formation.

Abstract: An EGR control system for a motor vehicle engine equipped with an electronically controlled fuel injection system is so arranged and constructed that EGR rate is controlled in accordance with the mutual action of pressure in an EGR passageway and venturi vacuum generated at a venturi in an intake passageway under urban area driving condition, whereas in accordance with the mutual action between the pressure in the EGR passageway and pressure in the intake passageway immediately downstream of an airflow meter forming part of the electronically controlled fuel injection system under suburban area driving condition.

Abstract: An evaporative emission system for an engine includes a float chamber of a carburetor connected to a charcoal canister via an inlet port and an outlet port. The emission system is characterized in that an electromagnetic opening and closing mechanism for actuating a valve which selectively opens and closes the inlet port is controlled by a temperature-sensitive switch so that evaporation of low-boiling-point components of fuel and absorption thereof by the charcoal is prevented at low temperatures even in case of long periods during which the engine is not running. The starting characteristics of the engine are thus maintained.

Abstract: A fuel injection pumping apparatus includes an injection pump to which fuel is supplied by a throttle from a feed pump. The injection pump includes a piston which is movable to adjust the timing of delivery of fuel. The throttle comprises an axially movable member which is spring loaded against the action of the pressure of fuel delivered by the feed pump and formed in the throttle is a blind drilling which communicates with a groove. A port is in constant communication with the groove and is connected to the cylinder containing the piston. A port is in variable communication with the groove and communicates with an inlet through which fuel is supplied to the injection pump. The axial setting of the member determines the amount of fuel supplied to the engine and the drilling is formed as or includes a restrictive orifice. The pressure downstream of this orifice varies in accordance with the outlet pressure of the feed pump and also the quantity of fuel which is being supplied to the engine.

Abstract: This disclosure deals with an aneroid for an internal combustion, compression-ignition engine including a turbocharger. The engine further includes a fuel supply system including a fuel supply rail connected to carry fuel to a plurality of fuel injectors and a regulator for regulating the pressure of the fuel in the supply rail. The quantity of fuel injected in each operating cycle of the engine is a function of the fuel pressure in the supply rail. The aneroid is connected in the rail between the regulator and the injectors, and it includes valve means operative to gradually increase the fuel pressure in the rail downstream of the aneroid, in response to a rise in manifold air pressure. The aneroid further includes means responsive to the downstream fuel pressure for adjusting the valve means to reduce the fuel pressure in response to a rise in the downstream fuel pressure.

Abstract: A starting control for a fuel injected diesel engine retards movement of the fuel injection control rack out of the starting position by a degree which varies with temperature to improve the starting characteristics of the engine without interfering with normal operation of the fuel injection system and its control rack. Movement of the control rack out of the starting position in response to the increasing force exerted by the governor on the control rack coupled floating lever of the fuel injection system is resisted by a damper in the form of a dashpot having a plunger coupled to the floating lever. The dashpot may be coupled to the floating lever by a pivotable crank and a pair of magnets respectively mounted on the crank and the floating lever, the magnets eventually separating to remove the starting control from the fuel injection system when the opposing forces of the governor weights and damper become great enough due to increased engine speed or when the crank reaches an adjustable limit stop.