Abstract: Apparatus is provided for collecting drippings from a wet load carried by a crane having a carriage 14, 16 to which elements 10, 12, 18, 20, 22 for lifting loads are mounted for movement up to and down from a load carrying station beneath the carriage. The apparatus comprises supports 30 mounted dependent from the crane carriage along opposite sides of the load carrying station. A cradle 61 is pivotably suspended from the crane for pivotal movement about an axis passing through the load carrying station. Elements 34, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46, 52, 60 are included for pivoting the cradle between a lowered position beneath the load carrying station and a raised position beside the load carrying station.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for the selective conditioning, wetting and coating of particles with a selective wetting agent. The apparatus includes a horizontally extending surface capable of vibration which vibration induces uniform translatory movement along the surface to particles upon the surface. A vertically extending barrier is on the surface and extends across the surface and at right angle to the direction of movement of particles upon the surface. A means for spraying the selective wetting agent onto the particles as they move along the surface and before they reach the barrier is provided. Means for removing excess wetting agent are provided on the surface along the direction of movement of the particles after the barrier. A pool of the selective wetting agent forms behind the barrier upon the surface.

Abstract: A white cap dipper apparatus for metal fence posts and a method of dipping such posts, wherein the apparatus includes a shuttle car having a tilt frame for removing posts in successive groups from horizontal flow path cables, successively elevating such posts and dipping the same, and then returning the posts to the cables in horizontal position. The car reciprocates back and forth in the dipping zone in such timed relation to the flow path and with such speed that while it creates a gap in the flow path, it does not interrupt the continuity of the flow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for the continuous enamelling of tubes. The apparatus disclosed incorporates an upender which is installed with provision for displacement along guides so as to transfer pipes from a horizontal position into a vertical one. These guides are arranged in vertical parallel planes, at least one guide in each plane, and each of the guides consists of several portions: a horizontal portion, an inclined one, and a portion running vertically so as to transfer the tubes to a trolley located on an annular splitable monorail which is made up of immovable sections and movable ones which displace in the vertical plane integrally with the tube during the process of enamelling. The apparatus also incorporates a means of applying enamelling slip and a means of heating designed to dry and fuse the slip. The apparatus disclosed displays a high capacity and allows to apply the slip to tubes of various lengths and diameters.

Abstract: A manually operable apparatus for preparing specimens to be viewed microscopically, and providing resuable parts and elements selectively employed to immerse the specimens for fixation, staining, etc. for dehydration and embedding, comprising at least one sieve cup and tube combination to be arranged in a base and oriented by a stripper plate for transport by a header, and adapted to immersion in a vessel requiring a low level of solution for specimen treatment therein.

Abstract: An automobile body is prepared for painting by suspending it roof uppermost from movable conveyor means and moving it first past spraying means which sprays the body at high energy with a phosphate solution so as to initiate a fine crystalline deposit growth on the exposed body panels. The body is then moved roof uppermost into and along a tank containing a flowing stream of phosphate solution, in which it is immersed to a level about that of the window openings. During this movement, a static head of phosphate solution is created in the body so as to generate a flow of the solution from the interior to the outside of the body by flooding the solution under pressure through the window openings. Crystalline deposit growth over the unimmersed upper portion of the body is sustained by spraying the upper portion with phosphate solution.

Abstract: An apparatus for effecting impregnation of cermet electrodes of an alkaline storage battery, according to the invention, comprises a tank with active solutions which accommodates a member from which electrode stock members are suspended. The stock members are made as a set of forms, each being used for a band stock to be reeled thereon together with a spacer element. The spacer element is adapted to form an appropriate space between the turns of the band stock.The spacer element is made of individual interconnected frames forming a chain of a specified length and provided with projections on both sides of longitudinal and transverse strips constituting a frame, so as to provide circulation of an active solution between the turns of the band stock.

Abstract: A system for the production of dipped taper candles, including an overhead conveyor system supporting mobile carrier racks for formation of the candles in suspended relation from the rack, and including a wicking station for providing rows of candle wicks in generally tensioned suspended relation from a carrier rack, a dipping station for automatically dipping said wicks on the rack through a predetermined number of dipping cycles, a cutoff station for cutting off the bases including the wick tensioning weights of the candles suspended from the carrier rack, a butt forming station for heat forming the cut butt ends of candles suspended from the carrier rack, and a cut down station for expeditiously cutting down the carrier rack rows of the candles formed on the candle wicks and for collecting the same for further processing. The invention also provides a novel method of producing physically uniform candles in mass production batches.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for producing very uniform coatings of a desired material on discrete microsized particles by electroless techniques. Agglomeration or bridging of the particles during the deposition process is prevented by imparting a sufficiently random motion to the particles that they are not in contact with each other for a time sufficient for such to occur.

Abstract: An automatic slide stainer has a hollow enclosed framework including a base and a cover, the cover having a top annular platform. A dish is mounted upon said platform for containing a stain solution. A dish of increased width is mounted upon said platform adjacent said first dish and adapted to contain another stain solution. A reservoir tank having an outlet is mounted upon said framework and adapted to contain a rinse solution. A rinse tank is connected to said reservoir and projected up through said platform adjacent said stain dish and has an inlet. A pump is mounted upon said framework having an intake and an outlet. Conduits respectively interconnect the reservoir outlet and pump inlet, and the pump outlet and rinse tank inlet. A power-rotated upright hub is journalled upon said framework centrally of said platform and projects above said cover. A disc-shaped slide retainer plate is mounted upon and centrally secured to said hub for rotation therewith radially inward of said dishes and rinse tank.

Abstract: An apparatus for edulcorating a wire coil with an edulcoration fluid is provided which has a movable cart with an upright support and a plurality of horizontal, rotatable flanged shafts for supporting and rotating the wire coil, these shafts being mounted on the upright. A hollow pipe with outlets is positioned beneath the rotatable shafts on the upright to provide edulcoration fluid against the inside of a coil on the shafts, and a plurality of hollow pipes with outlets, also connected to the upright, are positioned above the rotatable shafts for providing edulcoration fluid against the outside of the coil on the shafts. The flanges on each of the shafts are at an angle to the axis of the respective shaft and are positioned in a special spaced relationship with regard to the flanges on the adjacent rotatable shaft.

Abstract: A solder levelling machine which uses a hot gas emanating from opposed gas knives to remove excess molten solder from a printed circuit board as the board is withdrawn from a bath of molten solder contained in a self-purging solder pot. The hot gas clears the through-holes in the circuit board and allows a controllable desired thickness of solder to remain on the board and in the through holes. A pair of heaters supplies the hot gas to the knives through a manifolding arrangement.

Abstract: A tapered array of apertures are provided in a wall of a solder pot to permit passage of molten solder therethrough. Molten solder is pumped along an outside channel, perpendicular to the axes of the apertures, and through the apertures to cause the solder pot to overflow with a uniformly distributed wave. The array tapers in the direction of pumped fluid flow.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying thermoplastic coating to glass containers includes a plurality of chuck bars, from each of which a plurality of container holding chucks are suspended, each of the chucks consisting of a U-shaped member upon which a lip or projection on the container neck is supported and from which the container is suspended and a loosely fitting cap member which drops over the top of the container. The chuck bars are supported by end members adapted to be transferred along a transfer track, preferably including rollers to facilitate such transfer. Movable transfer track segments are provided, to transfer chuck bars at specific positions for container pick-up and container coating. To effect longitudinal transfer of the chuck bars, elongated pusher members are disposed parallel to the transfer tracks. The pusher members includes dogs for engaging and disengaging the end members of the plurality of chuck bars.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for dispensing a web of absorbent material selectively in a dry or wetted condition, including means for holding an indeterminate length of web material and drive rolls defining a nip therebetween through which the web is threaded for dispensing. Guide means provided intermediate the drive rolls and the web supply selectively guides the web over the surface of fluid contained in a reservoir or dips a length of the web beneath the surface of the fluid. Forward rotation of the drive rolls dispenses a length of web. In one embodiment, by reason of means interconnecting the guide and a drive roll, reverse rotation of the drive rolls causes the guide to engage the web and move a length of web into contact with the fluid contained in the reservoir. Subsequent forward rotation of the drive rolls dispenses a length of wetted web and moves the guide to a position for guiding the web above the surface of the fluid.

Abstract: In a metal surface treatment apparatus in which a work article is immersed successively in a plurality of treatment tanks disposed in a line and containing respective treatment liquors, a traveling crane handling the work article in this operation is automatically controlled to travel over the tanks with a repeated horizontal speed pattern comprising an initial period of steady acceleration from the center of each tank, a period of high speed, and a period of deceleration upon approaching the center of the succeeding tank, at which the crane is stopped, and is automatically controlled to lower and raise the work article at the center of each tank with a vertical speed pattern comprising, in sequence, an initial period of descent at low speed, a period of high speed, a period of low speed as the lower end of the article approaches and enters the surface of the treatment liquor in the tank, a period of high speed, a period of low speed as the article approaches the lower limit of its descent, an initial period

Abstract: Apparatus and method for coating workpieces in a fluidized plastic bed in which the workpieces are heated to a predetermined high temperature, then suspended from their upper ends and lowered into a container having a fluidized plastic coating material therein. A fixed support frame over the container has a vertically movable support thereon for the workpieces and a vibrator mounted adjacent the lower end of the vertically movable support vibrates the workpieces at a predetermined rate while the workpieces are supported in a suspended relation within the fluidized plastic bed.

Abstract: Surface treating apparatus comprising treating bath means; a carrier bar having devices for vertically suspending workpieces; lifting means provided at the sides of the bath means for vertically conveying the carrier bar and dipping said workpieces into and out of said bath means, the lifting means also including means for conveying the carrier bar in a substantially horizontal direction; loading means rotatable between a horizontal and a vertical position and adapted to removably receive the carrier bar having workpieces attached in the horizontal position for loading the carrier bar onto the lifting means in the vertical position; unloading means rotatable between a horizontal and a vertical position and adapted to receive the carrier bar supporting finished workpieces in the vertical position, the workpieces being released from the carrier bar when the unloading means is in a horizontal position; and returning conveyor means between the loading and unloading means so that the carrier bar moves from the loa

Abstract: A glassware coating process and apparatus including ware handling, heating, coating and transfer equipment that is continuously operable to apply a coating of thermoplastic polymer resin to the exterior surface of the ware. The apparatus, among other things, includes a clamping mechanism for gripping heated ware about the finish thereof, which mechanism is immersible in a fluidized bed of the thermoplastic polymer resin along with the ware. Means feed pressurized gas to separate reciprocable cooperating elements of the clamping member to both cool said member and to inhibit polymer deposition on the grasped portion of the wave. Similarly, the invention incorporates a ware orientation device that accurately aligns the ware immediately prior to the seizure thereof by the clamping mechanism.

Abstract: Small workpieces to be coated with plastic material are preheated and dropped onto a fluidized bed of plastic powder subjected to compound vibratory motion which causes the powder and the workpieces to move along a helical ramp onto a screen overlying the point of entry, with some of the particles fusing onto the workpiece surfaces to form a film. The remainder of the powder, on reaching the screen, drops back onto the bed as the coated workpieces move on to a receptable. Fresh workpieces are deposited on the bed through one or more chutes traversing the screen; to prevent the rise of any particles through the chutes, a downward airflow is created therein.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for applying a synthetic resin coating of predetermined thickness to various articles of different sizes and shapes from a relatively rapidly deteriorating solution of the resin in which an intermittently driven conveyor housed in a controlled atmosphere and suspending different article groups of like articles at spaced locations along the conveyor successively moves the articles from a loading station first to a cleaning station at which the articles are subjected to the action of an ultrasonic cleaner, then to a destaticizing station, then to a coating station at which a dip tank is rapidly raised to immerse the articles in the solution and is lowered at a controlled rate to provide a coating of the required thickness in a single operation, and finally through a precuring zone in which the coating dries tack-free to the loading station at which the coated precured articles can be removed.