Abstract: A feature of the present invention is that an apparatus comprises an actuator of mechanisms for pressing and moving a batching chamber with a double-action cylinder whose internal ram is connected rigidly to a pressing plunger, and an external ram, to the batching chamber formed with interconnected parts having a horizontal groove at the point of their connection, the horizontal groove accommodating an additional gate with a port operated by an independent actuator. The internal ram mounts a device for adjusting the position of the pressing plunger, whereas the top head of the actuator of the mechanisms for pressing and moving the batching chamber accommodates a device for adjusting the position of the batching chamber, the top part of the batching chamber having a port providing access to the device adjusting the position of the pressing plunger.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for filling bins with bulk material and, in particular, for filling a cooling bin with hot coke include engaging the material containing vessel with hoisting apparatus, lifting the hoisting apparatus upwardly in a vertical fixed guide and at the end of the upward movement introducing the hoisting apparatus into a vertical guide assembly, moving the vertical guide assembly and hoisting apparatus in a transverse direction over rails until the hoisting apparatus and the vessel are located vertically over the inlet opening of the bin. The hoisting apparatus and vessel are lowered until the latter is mounted on a stationary support so that upon the vessel discharge opening being opened, the contents of the vessel will be transferred to the bin.

Abstract: A measuring and transferring device for automatically metering predetermined and variable quantities of virgin plastic material, reprocessed plastic material and color concentrate to an extrusion machine. This masterbatch material blender incorporates a rotary conveyor having openings therein that receive and retain predetermined amounts of virgin plastic material and color concentrate in one position of movement of the conveyor and discharge same to the extruder in yet another position of movement thereof. Furthermore, such conveyor is adapted to control yet another reciprocable metering and transfer mechanism that similarly controls the addition of reprocessed material to the batch by way of the same measuring and transferring device.

Abstract: An arrangement for filling containers with beverages has a housing with a wall bounding a closed air chamber, a filling pipe vertically displaceable in the housing so that the filling pipe can be lifted to thereby allow the exchange of containers, and a drive for vertically displacing the filling pipe and including a shaft which cooperates with an upper end portion of the filling pipe so as to vertically displace the latter, which drive is accommodated in the closed air chamber and its shaft extends through the wall of the air chamber. The filling pipe may be provided with inlet openings arranged below the air chamber in the region of a liquid inlet in the housing. A liquid valve may control the liquid inlet and be provided with a further drive operating independently of the drive of the filling pipe.

Abstract: A device for loading a dosage layer of material, preferably concrete, at a laying-down position for manufacturing tiles and the like comprising, a conveyor for supplying a continuous layer of the material, a bell having a diaphragm and edges surrounding the diaphragm defining a dosage space for receiving a dosage layer of the material and a driving unit for driving the bell to move it into engagement with the continuous layer on the conveyor to receive a dosage layer of material in the dosage space. A suction pump is connected to the interior of the bell for establishing an underpressure therein so that the dosage layer of material is held by suction in the dosage space. A plurality of the bells may be provided on a single turret so that one dosage layer of material is being drawn up while another dosage layer of material is being laid down at another location.

Abstract: A dispenser for drawing toothpaste from a squeeze-tube container and applying it to the top of a toothbrush with a vacuum pump of piston-cylinder construction which is so operated that the pump draws the toothpaste out of the squeeze-tube container when the toothbrush is pushed into the dispenser and discharges the same when the toothbrush is withdrawn. The toothpaste is pumped through a passage which is provided with an inlet valve which operates in cooperation with an elastic adapter used for mounting and sealing the neck portion of the squeeze-tube container, an outlet valve which operates in cooperation with a port formed in the cylinder, and an elastic discharge nozzle which opens when the toothpaste is being pumped and closes by its own resiliency when the toothpaste is being drawn out of the squeeze-tube container. The amount of toothpaste supplied each time by the dispenser can be adjustably predetermined as desired.

Abstract: An offshore oil production terminal system is described which includes a transfer structure having a nonrotatable turret anchored to the sea floor and a rotatable portion fixed to a dedicated storage vessel, and also a fluid conduit extending from the seabed up through the turret to a fluid swivel and from the rotatable portion of the fluid swivel to the vessel, which facilitates use of a moderate cost fluid swivel. A choke located on the nonrotatable turret, decreases the high pressure of oil from the seabed (e.g. 2000 psi) to a moderate pressure (e.g. 200 psi) for passage through the fluid swivel, so that a moderate pressure fluid swivel can be utilized. The turret has a control deck at the same level as the vessel deck, to facilitate entry of personnel to operate controls directly connected to valves at the seabed without requiring rotational joints between the controls and the devices they operate.

Abstract: A device for detecting a gate in an automatic pouring machine for casting which is located in the vicinity of a horizontal pouring line provided thereon with a plurality of adjacently placed molds intermittently conveyed in one direction and which has a pouring trough provided with a spout for pouring molten metal into the gate of each of the molds and horizontally swingable by a vertical pivot.

Abstract: The combination of an automated hematology analyzer (21) with an input device (20) enabling closed transfer of blood to said analyzer to a sealed specimen container having a perforable closure, and the input device itself.

Abstract: Automatic dispensing apparatus for dispensing predetermined quantities of different beverages from one dispensing station, the invention comprises a housing having a water supply subsystem located therein for supplying either hot or cold water to the dispensing station for ejection into a cup, the housing further having a plurality of dry powder beverage base containers, each container having a powder metering mechanism for ejecting a predetermined quantity of powder into a delivery chute, the delivery chute directing the powder into the cup for mixing with the hot or cold water. Portions of the powder metering mechanisms remote from the containers and upper portions of the delivery chutes, one delivery chute being provided for each container to avoid cross-contamination, are disposed within a warm air enclosure to prevent moisture contamination of the dry powders.

Abstract: A developer device of an electrostatic copier has a housing provided with an upper opening for admission of toner. A toner supply container has an open side and cooperating parts on the container and housing seive to mount the container on the housing with the open side of the container facing downwardly into the opening so that toner runs from the container into the housing. A slidable closure member on the container can be moved to and fro across the open side to block and unblock the same at the will of a user.

Abstract: A mechanism and method for filling containers within a sterile chamber under aseptic conditions includes a vertically disposed nozzle (48) which forms an extension of the sterile chamber and which is arranged to have its lower outlet end inserted into an open container to be filled and which is provided with valve closure element (51) which is opened when the nozzle is at its lowermost position and which remains open during filling of the container which is accompanied by upward movement of the nozzle and of the closure element while maintained in open position so as to prevent splashing together with a drip proof seal (49, 52, and 53) for preventing dripping following closure of the valve means.

Abstract: A liquid feeder comprises a motor which drives a cam causing a vertical motion of a drive shaft which is also angularly driven by a cam groove, the drive shaft being effective to cause a three dimensional motion of the discharge port of a single liquid supply tube for injection into a pair of vessels.

Abstract: Automatic dispensing apparatus such as used in a chemical analysis system for transferring liquids from sample containers to analysis containers, including a pipet probe assembly with an elongated probe, probe drive means for inserting the probe into the sample and moving the probe assembly between the sample container and analysis container, means for aspirating and dispensing a portion of the sample from the probe into a respective analysis container, an elongated level sensing probe extending downwardly from the probe assembly, with the difference in distance between the tip of the level sensing probe and the tip of the pipet probe defining the amount of penetration of the pipet probe tip below the sample level, and control means, including means responding to the tip of the level sensing probe contacting said sample level to stop the probe drive means thereby minimizing the penetration of the pipet probe tip below the sample level.

Abstract: In an automatic tank filling installation, the duct for insertion in the filling orifice of the tank, e.g. mounted on a railway truck or road vehicle, is mounted for movement in the longitudinal direction of movement of the truck or vehicle, for movement in a direction transverse thereto and for pivotal movement about an axis parallel to the longitudinal direction to allow the axis of the pipe to be aligned with the axis of an off center filling orifice, means being provided for causing the pipe to pivot simultaneously with, and as a function of, movement of the pipe in the transverse direction.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a housing having individual compartments for separately storing an epoxy resin material and a reactive hardener for the epoxy resin, a rotatably adjustable housing having a first and second stationary position, an aperture for each compartment disposed in the first position above the level of each material and disposed in the second position below the level of each material and a syringe for each aperture for extracting and dispensing a predetermined measure of each material.

Abstract: A shipping container having powdered reagent therein is mounted atop a transition chamber disposed on suitable support structure so that the contents of the shipping container may be discharged through a valve thereon and through the transition chamber into a dispenser vessel supported by weighing means suspended from the support structure and interconnected with the transition chamber by a yieldable coupling arranged to provide a fluid-tight connection between the transition chamber and the dispenser vessel irrespective of the weight of the contents of the dispenser vessel and a pair of conduits controlled by a common valve are arranged to supply pressure fluid such as an inert gas from a source under pressure into the transition chamber and into the shipping container in coordination with the mounting of the shipping container on a part of the transition chamber.

Abstract: A material metering device and method for repetitively charging consistently accurate quantity charges of a lubricant retaining and wicking material to lubricant reservoirs of dynamoelectric machine bearings. A metering head is movably supported on a base for motion toward and away from a bearing and its support while both are held in alignment with the metering head. The metering head includes a dispensing chamber which may be sealingly coupled to the bearing support structure. The chamber receives lubricant retaining material from a source with excess material returning to the source. A valving arrangement interrupts the supply of material without substantially changing either the volume or pressure of the material in the dispensing chamber. An evacuation passage material flow path from the chamber to the bearing support structure or other workpiece is established and the material is extruded from the chamber.

Abstract: A safety mechanism for high-speed filling machines preventing accidental spilling in case of misalignment between a nozzle and the container into which it is to be lowered during filling; a safety arm which normally closes a switch is displaced by a nozzle in case the latter encounters an obstruction and moves relative to its nozzle holder after overcoming the restraining force of a releasable detent mechanism to thereby open the switch and therewith stop the filling operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing liquid or pasty substances to gelatin capsules and the like, in particular for dispensing pharmaceutical products thereto. In order to maintain the substance to be dispensed in relative motion to prevent deleterious thickening, the apparatus includes a reciprocating dispensing control plunger which periodically enters a capsule or container to be filled. If no container is present and no dispensing is to take place, the control plunger retreats into a position wherein a separate metering piston continues to transport the material but returns it to a storage container via a conrol channel in the control plunger.

Abstract: This invention pertains to an apparatus for applying layers of friable material on a belt, roller means over which the belt passes to define an upper reach for supporting the friable material to be deposited on said surface and a lower reach means for moving said roller means over the surface to be layered with the friable material, so that the belt passes over the roller means from the upper reach to the lower reach so that the belt can therefore drop friable material carried by the upper reach onto the surface to be layered.

Abstract: An apparatus has means for containing a level of flowable hardenable material therein, and means is selectively operable for carrying a predetermined amount of the hardenable material from the level thereof in the containing means to a preselected position beyond the level of the remaining hardenable material in the containing means. Means is associated with the carrying means in its preselected position for extracting therefrom another amount of the hardenable material predeterminately less than the predetermined amount.A method of operating the apparatus is also disclosed.

Abstract: There is disclosed a plant for pasting battery plates comprising a pasting machine comprising a flat conveyor belt and paste applying means for forcing paste into a grid conveyed on the conveyor past the said paste applying means, grid feeding means, and a transportable hopper and mechanical discharge means for mechanically discharging paste into the inlet to the pasting machine, paste recycling means adapted to mechanically collect paste applied to the conveyor and to convey it back to the inlet to the pasting machine, and a drying oven.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described which facilitates the filling of mushroom beds with compost and the covering of a composted and spawned mushroom bed with casing soil. A hopper means adapted to be affixed temporarily to one end of a mushroom bed is provided with means for delivering compost and casing soil from the hopper onto a flexible sheet which in turn is adapted to be pulled lengthwise of the mushroom bed. As the sheet is pulled away from the hopper a retroverted portion of the sheet continuously deposits the compost into the bed or the casing soil on the top of the compost uniformly covering the bed. The sheet is pulled by a winch operated cable, and the winch and hopper are mounted outboard of the mushroom bed so as to be suitable for use with a frame containing a plurality of vertically arranged beds.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in dispensing fluid into individual containers is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a dispensing head and a transport mechanism comprising an endless conveyor, the dispensing head being attached to the conveyor, which conveyor provides means for moving the dispensing head in a predetermined path above an array of sample containers. A drive arrangement is provided for the transport mechanism, there being a detector incorporated in the drive arrangement for indicating when the drive arrangement has driven the transport mechanism so that the conveyor has moved the dispensing head a predetermined distance along the predetermined path.

Abstract: A device for filling test containers with drops of fluid under test with the containers arranged in rows and columns while permitting automatic movement of the drop discharge device to preselected coordinate positions. The center to center distance between adjacent containers may vary from row to row. Stopping drop discharge device at a particular coordinate position (hence a particular container) until a preselected volume of fluid has been dispensed by the drop discharge or until a preselected time interval has expired.

Abstract: A bottling machine wherein a nozzle holder having a plurality of charging nozzles is installed in rotatable and vertically movable fashion above a round table devised to hold a plurality of bottles on the periphery thereof and be capable of rotating intermittently, a member for elevating said nozzle holder and a member for biasing it to rotate opposite to the direction of rotation of said round table are provided, and said nozzle holder and round table are equipped with an engagement member so that they should be engaged with or disengaged from each other when the holder descends or ascends, whereby when the nozzle holder descends and rotates together with the table, the charging of the bottles is performed by means of the nozzles, and upon completion of the charging, the foregoing working member elevates the nozzle holder.

Abstract: A volumetric feeder is supported for movement between an operative position and an maintenance position. The feeder includes a housing having a rotatable blade means adjacent its lower end for feeding granular material from the housing. The blade means is driven by a motor disposed within the housing and enclosed within a shell. Conduit means is provided for supplying cooling air to the motor within said shell.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling dough and other viscous materials comprises a support having a suction tube which opens into a container for the viscous mass, e.g. dough to be portioned for use in a bakery. A movable member, e.g. a slide or turntable, is disposed on the support and is shiftable from a position in which its cylinder communicates with the duct and into a position remote from the duct in which the cylinder is adapted to deposit the viscous material. The cylinder is provided with a piston which draws a portion of the material from the duct into the cylinder, this portion being carried along with the cylinder to its remote location in which operation of the piston is reversed to dispense the portion of the material.

Abstract: A seed sowing system and method employing photoelectric sensing equipment to detect singulated seeds and to actuate stepping equipment that ensures separate delivery of seeds to individual planting loci. The seed may come to the sensing equipment via a singulator and a low-pressure air stream. The photoelectric sensor is actuated each time the air stream carries a seed past a certain locus, and the sensor, in turn, actuates a cyclic stepping device by which each seed in a cycle is delivered into a different delivery tube and from there is deposited in a separate receptacle of a shutter. The stepping device is interconnected electronically with shutter indexing mechanism, by which the shutter is advanced and reindexed after each row of its seed-receiving openings has received its seeds, which may come from a single cycle or from a plurality of cycles.

Abstract: Apparatus for preventing an uncontrolled emission of gaseous hydrocarbons during the filling of containers, more especially tank wagons, with mineral oil products. It has an extensible fill tube so that product is discharged near the bottom of the container while vapors may be withdrawn through an annular passage surrounding the fill tube. The whole arrangement is carried on a trolley for longitudinal adjustment and there is a short lateral trolley to accommodate pivotal movement of the fill tube.

Abstract: An array of an assembly of spouts for translating comminuted dry material from a bin having a number of output openings to various railway cars, respective ones of which have hatch openings of different relative dispositions and of different heights while inhibiting pollution of the ambient atmosphere by the material, in which each assembly comprises an upper section pivotally connected to the bin outlet for movement around a vertical axis, a lower section comprising vertically telescoping members, one of which carries a shroud adapted to make a seal with the car hatch, and an intermediate section pivoted to each of the upper and lower sections, together with means for driving the upper section to pivot the entire assembly over a limited arc around a vertical axis, means for swinging the intermediate section around a horizontal axis, while positively maintaining the lower sections substantially vertical, and means for moving the lower telescopic sections relative to each other, all of these movements being de

Abstract: A device for examining a plurality of microdoses of liquids by means of a urality of reagents, said device comprising in combination a dispenser for dispensing microdoses of reagents, comprising a plurality of vertical syringes adapted to be controlled simultaneously and arranged in a fixed pattern, a means for filling said syringes with reagents, provided with a plurality of receptacles containing said reagents and arranged in a fixed pattern corresponding to the pattern of said syringes, a receptacled assembly wherein a plurality of reaction receptacles are arranged in a fixed pattern likewise corresponding to the pattern of said syringes, and a dispenser for dispensing microdoses of liquids. The invention finds application in the testing of liquids, particularly in the field of cytology and immuno-haematology.

Abstract: An apparatus for sequentially treating one or more specimens of cellular material with a plurality of treating liquids. The specimens are mounted in one or more treating chambers and the liquids in storage cylinders. Means selectively connect the storage cylinders to the treating chambers to selectively treat the specimens with the liquids.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus for delivering flux powder to the mold of a continuous casting installation for metals, especially steel, comprising two powder containers, a pneumatic conveyor means arranged between a supply container having large capacity and disposed externally of the direct servicing or operating region of the continuous casting mold and a container at the region of such mold having relatively small capacity. The pneumatic conveyor means conveys the flux powder by means of a pneumatic transport or conveying agent to the container of small capacity where the pneumatic conveying agent is expelled. A mechanical conveyor means extends from the container of relatively small capacity at the region of the mold to a location above the level of the metal bath in the continuous casting mold.

Abstract: According to the invention, electrically conductive paths are formed between the coil armor and the core laminations of dynamoelectric machines for inhibiting corona. This is achieved by injecting an uncured, semi-conducting, elastomeric material between the coil sides and the walls of the core slots by way of the air ducts in the core, and thereafter curing the material. The uncured material has a viscosity which enables it to be forced under pressure between the coil sides and slot walls. The cured material has a resistance high enough not to form eddy current paths between laminations and yet low enough to conduct charge from the coil armor to the core. It is also capable of retaining its strength, elasticity, conductivity, etc., and remaining in place between the coils and core under vibrations, coolant flow, electric stresses, repeated temperature changes, etc., for the normal operating life of the machine.

Abstract: A machine and method for filling containers with controlled volumes of chitterlings is supplied by a hopper that is loaded from its open top from a vessel filled at ground level and then elevated and dumped into the hopper. A volumetric dispenser at the bottom of the hopper employs a cut-off blade cooperating with spaced scissor end plates to separate a volume to be dispensed from the bulk quantity by scissoring off the chitterlings. Open top containers are carried beneath the dispensing end on a conveyor and then the filled containers are moved to a turn-table where they may be manually capped.

Abstract: A liquid fraction collector has a first series of containers and a second series of containers, each of the first and second series of containers being arranged in a plurality of groups with means to support each group at a different elevation. A conduit leads upwardly from each container in said first series with the upper ends of the conduits lying in a first row and a conduit leads upwardly from each container in said second series with the upper end of the conduits lying in a second row parallel to the first row. A carriage is mounted above said conduits. The carriage has means to discharge a liquid having an inverted V guide member with one trough over one row and the other trough over the other row and a discharge tube having its discharge end movable from a position over one trough of the guide member to a position over the other trough of the guide member.

Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor adapted for carrying out chemical reactions between liquids and solid particles, having a design which provides stabilized hydrodynamic conditions within the reactor zones and thereby avoids the disadvantages of blockages of grid holes and passages in the system during operation. Fluid inlet tubes are provided which are slidably supported, with fluid outlets which rest on the bottom of the reactor, sealing against reverse flow, and which lift up due to hydraulic forces upon introduction of fluid to the reactor.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for receiving material supplied to it from a source at a constant rate and conveying it at a constant rate and tension to a variable location on a material receiving means. The apparatus includes a main frame, a carriage which is movable on the frame, and means for moving the carriage back and forth relative to the frame. An endless belt having a predetermined speed is supported on the frame and engages a material drive means that is supported for movement with the carriage and preferably includes a drive wheel which engages the belt and a roller which moves linearly with the carriage and supplies the material to a variable location on the material receiving means.

Abstract: Apparatus for providing an expendable refrigerant which is emitted from a snow horn at a low velocity thereby enabling snow agglomeration at a close proximity to the horn exit and accurately delivering a charge of snow with minimum vapor loss. The desired snow is produced by introduction of the relatively warm liquid refrigerant into an insulated compartment and in heat exchange relation with a tube therein having a plurality of length/diameter ratios. The liquid refrigerant is effective to warm the tube walls and results in a slight cooling of such liquid which is then passed to a subcooler and returned to the tube inlet for expansion in several stages therein to form the snow. The product snow is emitted from this horn at a relatively low velocity and may be accurately directed into cavities of such products as eviscerated fowl.

Abstract: A charging machine of the kind comprising a structure adapted to extend transversely of a coke oven battery on the roof thereof for movement longitudinally of the battery to overlie any selected oven chamber and supporting a number of hoppers adapted to be filled with coking coal, each such hopper having means for connecting the base thereof with an aperture in the roof of an oven chamber for transfer of coking coal from the hopper to the oven chamber, wherein said means for connecting the base of each hopper with an aperture in the roof of an oven chamber comprises a downwardly directed telescopically extendible sleeve, characterized by the provision of an annular seal outwardly spaced from and surrounding the lower end of said sleeve and adapted to engage with the oven roof surrounding an aperture in an oven chamber on lowering of said sleeve, there being gas tight resilient means connecting said seal with said sleeve, and arranged to urge the seal downwardly into engagement with the roof of the oven chambe