Abstract: A method for individually setting the position of a door striker plate (20) relative to the latch body which has to engage with the striker plate. The tool (22) comprises a plate (40) which locates around the striker plate, and which can be clamped by means of vacuum to the door pillar (14) at any position. The method provides that the striker plate (20) is loosely secured to the door pillar (14), the door (10) is closed so that the latch mounted on the door moves the stalker plate to the correct position for that latch, the tool is operated to clamp the striker plate in that position, the door is opened and the striker plate tightened in that position before releasing the tool.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting the knife projection of regrindable, strip-shaped cutting tools which are each screwed releasably to a knife carrier (8) and which are releasably arranged together with the carrier, in an at least approximately radial direction, in the rotary-drivable disk (1) of a disk-type cutter.

Abstract: A device for selectively securing a stripper assembly on a punch guide assembly. A resiliently biased plunger is disposed adjacent the guide assembly, and selectively maintains the stripper assembly in a predetermined rotational position relative to the guide assembly. The stripper assembly includes at least one retaining projection, and the guide assembly includes at least one flange for selective engagement with the retaining projection to secure the stripper assembly and the guide assembly against relative axial movement. A method is disclosed including the steps of placing the stripper assembly on the guide assembly, and affecting relative movement between the stripper assembly and the guide assembly to cause the retaining projection to engage the flange, and the plunger to be received in a locator slot on the stripper assembly.

Abstract: An ink-jet head assembling apparatus assembles a nozzle head of an ink-jet head for discharging an ink in a predetermined pattern from a heater board having a plurality of heaters for heating the ink, and a top plate member having a plurality of discharge orifices for discharging the ink heated by the corresponding heaters in a jet-like manner.

Abstract: A ball bearing is balanced by orbiting the balls in the gap between the race defining members, magnetically causing the orbiting balls to assume a spaced symmetrical array about the gap, and then inserting a keeper device in the spaces between pairs of balls, to preserve the array for the finished bearing when the set of balls ceases orbiting in the gap. Earlier, the balls were inserted between the race defining members, in preparation for the balancing operation, by angularly deflecting the relatively outer race defining member from the plane of relative rotation until the balls could be inserted through an end opening of the gap, at one circumferential side thereof.

Abstract: A method for assembling an assembled shaft from a tubular or bar-shaped base member (R) and individual slid-on elements (N), especially a camshaft, with the elements being for example cams, gears or bearing bushes. In the method, the elements (N) are slid on to the base member (R) and are held in the required angular position to be fixed on the base member by magnetic forces. An apparatus for carrying out this method comprises a guiding device (13) for guiding the elements into their axial positions and magnetic holding means (5) operable to hold the elements in the required angular position.

Abstract: An extandable positioning tool with a base for mounting within the passenger compartment of a vehicle, and having an extension that can pass through a windshield opening to support a windshield to be installed thereover. The tool may be temporarily attached to the steering wheel.

Abstract: A hinge bracket is fastened to a motorcar body while the looseness or play at a hinge portion of the hinge bracket is removed, the looseness being in a direction in which a door load is applied.The apparatus for doing so includes a setting device for setting the door by moving a jig which holds the door, a fastening device for fastening a hinge bracket which is hingedly provided on the door to a motorcar body, and a play or looseness removing device for removing looseness at a hinge portion of a hinge bracket, the looseness being in a direction in which a door load is applied.The play or looseness is removed by lifting the hinge bracket at an end on the side of the hinge portion and/or by lowering the hinge bracket at an end opposite to the hinge portion.

Abstract: An alignment system and method wherein a machine module is aligned with and secured to a machine base. A plate is loosely held on the module by screws, and the base and plate have mating pin holes. A pin is inserted through the mating pin holes, and the plate moves to find its aligned position. The screws are then tightened to fix the plate on the module, and the pin is removed. Subsequent realignment can be easily accomplished by reinsertion of the alignment pin to insure registration between the preset plate and base pin holes.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting the end of a tubular body, particularly a chromatographic capillary tube, to a detection or injection device fitting comprises a holder having a ferrule for holding said tubular member and an insertion assembly to engage said device fitting. The assembly is adapted to contain the holder and force the ferrule into a seated relation with the device fitting. A method for connecting a tubular member to a device fitting is also provided.

Abstract: A motor protector having a can and internal electrical contact is hermetically sealed to a disk-shaped header of conductive material having a flattened edge for orientation during fabrication with spaced conductive pins sealed in and insulated therefrom. A heater-support with holes for fabrication is bonded to one conductive pin, a bimetallic element parallel to the axes of the pins having a contact element normally contacting the can contact. A heater without right angle bends is bonded to each of the electrically conductive pins, is spaced from the movable contact and rests parallel to the axes of the conductive pins. The motor protector is fabricated by providing a fixture having two depressions, one somewhat in the shape of the movable contact with upwardly extending pins for mating with the support apertures therein and the second for receiving the header in an upright position and adjacent the first. The support is placed on the fixture with the pins extending therethrough for support orientation.

Abstract: A device for selectively securing a stripper plate on a punch guide assembly. The device includes an annular retaining ring adapted to retain the stripper plate on the guide assembly. A resiliently biased plunger is disposed adjacent the guide assembly, and selectively maintains the retaining ring in a predetermined rotational position relative to the guide assembly. The retaining ring includes at least one retaining surface, and the guide assembly includes at least one flange for selective engagement with the retaining surface to secure the retaining ring and guide assembly against relative axial movement. A method is disclosed including the steps of placing the stripper plate on the guide assembly, placing the retaining ring on the stripper plate, and affecting relative movement between the retaining ring and the guide assembly to cause the retaining projection to engage the flange, and the plunger to be received in a locator slot on the retaining ring.

Abstract: A brake caliper mounting method inserts a disk into a gap between a pair of pads carried in an opposing spaced relationship on a caliper to assemble the disk to the caliper. The caliper is held by a holding means, a positioning means is contacted with a face of the disk to determine a fitting position of the caliper onto the disk, and the caliper held by the holding means is fit onto the disk along the position of the face of the disk determined by the positioning means.

Abstract: The clutch plate and the housing (including the cover and a diaphragm spring in the cover) of a friction clutch are centered relative to each other and are held at a selected axial distance from each other on first and second centering portions of a mounting tool which has a handle at one end and the other end of which is insertable into an axial recess of the output element of an engine. The cover is centered on and is fastened to a flywheel of the output element before the tool is extracted from the output element, thereupon the clutch plate and ultimately from the housing. The tool is provided with a movable holding portion which maintains the tips of prongs forming part of the diaphragm spring in abutment with a locating portion of the tool to thus maintian the tips in a selected axial position. The holding portion can be disengaged from and can be moved through the splined hub of the clutch plate in response to angular and/or other movement relative to at least one of the centering portions.

Abstract: A bar clamp, which is operable with one hand, includes a fixed jaw and a movable jaw. The movable jaw connects at one end to a movable slide bar. One-way drive means, by operation of a trigger handle grip, releasably engages the slide bar and advances the movable jaw toward the fixed jaw. Return motion of the movable jaw is accomplished manually when the one-way drive means is disengaged. A braking lever, biased to bind against the slide bar, prevents reverse motion of the movable jaw except when disengaged from the slide bar. The trigger handle advances the slide bar by driving a second lever which binds against a slide bar surface. The second lever returns by spring force to its original position after each stroke of the trigger handle.

Abstract: Apparatus to screw heavy lids very sensitively on thick-walled receptacles n order to avoid damaging the threads includes a stationary member centered on the receptacle and of an axially movable platform which is guided such that torques can be transmitted and the common axis always remains the same. Resilient members of adjustable length transmit mass forces in vertical direction exactly on the stationary member and prevent additional forces from acting on the flanks of the threads.

Abstract: An improved adhesive mounted nutplate assembly and related installation method are provided for secured mounting of a nutplate or the like onto a substrate, particularly at a blind side of the substrate in alignment with an access opening. The nutplate assembly includes a nut member having a resilient fixture pin received therein, with the nut member being adapted for adhesive mounting onto the blind side of the substrate with the fixture pin extending through the access opening. A pulling force applied to the fixture pin draws the nut member with a positive force against the substrate. The fixture pin is sized to bind within the access opening when released to maintain this positive force for the duration of an adhesive cure period, after which the fixture pin can be forcibly drawn through and removed from the nut member. A preferred nut member comprises a nutplate having a floating nut carried by a base which is adapted for adhesive mounting onto the substrate.

Abstract: The automated magnetic tape drive read/write head module assembly apparatus enables a worker to completely assemble and align the read/write head module in a single step process. A read/write head assembly fixture that securely holds the rectangular-shaped read/write head frame in a fixed position. A read head and write head alignment tool is pivotally attached to the read/write head assembly fixture for magnetically suspending the read head and write head in the rectanglar-shaped opening in the read/write head frame in a predetermined position. A brass shield loader apparatus automatically places a brass shield between the suspended read and write heads. The alignment tool includes an aperture such that the worker can view the transducing gaps on the read head and the write head for alignment purposes.

Abstract: A blade setting tool assembly for clamping a plurality of heat seal and cutting blades within a blade retaining channel of a three blade seal bar is disclosed. The blade setting tool assembly includes a blade positioning block having an upwardly directed blade positioining slot extending along its length to receive the exposed blade edges. A pair of mounting straps fixed to the blade positioning block extend upwardly along opposite sides of the block and include upper ends terminating above the height of the blade seal bar. The strap upper ends are each formed with a slot open to one of the vertical edges thereof to receive opposite end portions of an eccentric roller extending between the upper ends.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling electrical connector components, including headers, connectors, and terminals, to circuit bearing substrates functions to align the terminal pins of a connector or header into a preferred position and install an annular solder preform onto each terminal pin. The pin alignment apparatus includes movable jaw plates the define a variable size aperture for encompassing each of a plurality of terminal pins, including terminal pins that are bent or skewed relative to an intended position. A carrier plate overlies the jaw plates and includes a plurality of cavities for receiving solder preforms to be installed over each of the terminal pins. The jaw plates are positioned over the terminal pins and moved to a closed position to align all the terminal pins, including any bent or skewed terminal pins, to an intended alignment.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing fractional horsepower motors involves using each stator to customize the length of a rotor/shaft to match the thickness of the specific stator with which it will be used. This is accomplished by providing a fixture which receives the stator in a gauging position. The rotor/shaft, with a compressible member thereon, is placed on the fixture which is then closed over a distance fixed by the gage formed by the stator. As the fixture closes, a compressible member is compressed to exactly fit the length of the rotor/shaft assembly to the stator thickness. The compressible member is a preferably nylon or metal plug which is pushed into a metal cup and mounted at the end of the rotor as the fixture closes.

Abstract: Apparatus for insertion of an object into a close clearance hole utilizing a double taper starter system. The apparatus includes a first taper to align the object radially; a narrow section of length such that with the object tilted to the angle of the first taper, clearance in the hole is maintained; a cut-back segment of either constant diameter or reverse taper geometry; and a second taper of approximately the same size and shape as the first taper to align the object angularly. The apparatus of the invention can be advantageously used in mechanized assembly processes, the assembly of shafts into bearings, and in thermally assembled or regular interference fits.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for aligning and assembling disk-shaped works having projections on outer peripheries thereof. A vessel-shaped work is positioned and a plurality of disk-shaped works in a stacked condition are guided to a position on the opening edge of the vessel-shaped work by the work guide means, and then the pin provided for up and down movement on the rotary head is either inserted between adjacent ones of the projections of the disk-shaped works or contacted with and stopped by an upper face of one of the projections of the disk-shaped works. Also when the pin is stopped by the upper face of the one projection, as the rotary head is rotated, the pin is moved in the circumferential direction of the disk-shaped works so that it is disengaged from the upper face of the one projection and the engaged with an adjacent one of the projections of the disk-shaped work. Thus, the disk-shaped works are finally rotated in an integral relationship by the pin.

Abstract: A positive bearing housing seal is provided in which the stationary seal member, and possibly a reducer having the same peripheral shape of the stationary seal member, is employed for installing and aligning the stationary seal member and the rotary seal member with respect to the shaft. A flat surface of the stationary seal member is moved against a flat surface of the rotary seal member until the flat surface of the stationary seal member engages a machine wall or, if a reducer is used, a flat surface of the reducer. The shaft is then rotated to establish squareness. The stationary seal member is then removed from the shaft, reversed in the axial direction, and reinstalled such that a flexible extension thereof, including a peripheral bead, is inserted into engagement with the inner surface of an annular opening in the machine wall or an annular opening in the reducer.

Abstract: A method of mounting a torque converter on a transmission comprises the steps of setting the transmission to have the tubular members extending horizontally, holding the torque converter by holding means which is movable in vertical and horizontal directions, positioning the torque converter to cause an imaginary axis of a turbine runner in the torque converter to coincide with a common imaginary axis of two coaxial tubular members in the transmission, moving the torque converter toward the transmission in the horizontal direction so as to engage an engaging portion of the turbine runner with an end portion of an inner one of two coaxial tubular members of the transmission, positioning further the torque converter to cause an imaginary axis of a stator in the torque converter to coincide with the common imaginary axis of two tubular members; and moving further the torque converter toward the transmission in the horizontal direction so as to engage an engaging portion of the stator with an end portion of an ou

Abstract: A precision automatic assembly apparatus for inserting an insertable part into a hole formed in a member includes a movable hand incorporating a movable body to which the insertable part is attached, and an electromagnetic wrist mechanism having a plurality of electromagnets for supporting the movable body and controlling the movable body along a plurality of axes. When the part is inserted into the hole formed in the member, an external force which acts upon the part and the position of a point at which the part contacts the member are estimated by a control unit via position sensing means incorporated in the hand. Currents supplied to the excitation coils of the electromagnetic devices are controlled on the basis of the estimate to adjust the state (position and attitude) of the insertable part, whereby the part is fitted into the hole smoothly and automatically.

Abstract: The apparatus and method for assembling magnetic tape drive read/write head modules of the present invention uses an assembly fixture that enables a worker to completely assemble and align the read/write head module in a single step process. This is accomplished by providing an assembly fixture that securely holds the rectangular shaped read/write head frame in a fixed position. A read head and write head alignment tool is pivotally attached to the assembly fixture for magnetically suspending the read head and write head in the rectangular shaped opening in the read/write head frame in a predetermined position. This alignment tool includes an aperture such that the worker can view the transducing gaps on the read head and the write head for alignment purposes. Two sets of threaded rods are included in this assembly apparatus to modify the lateral position of the read head and the write head such that the transducing gaps on these two heads are in exact alignment with respect to each other.

Abstract: This invention relates to a boiler wall tube tool in which boiler tubes in the form of a wall can be clampingly secured to retain adjacent ends of the boiler tubes forming the wall in aligned relation when connecting the ends of the boiler tubes forming the wall when being joined by welding.

Abstract: A device for securing a motor vehicle windshield has rotatable eccentric members which serve as a means to raise the windshield from an initial installation position into a final position. The eccentric member is arranged on a rotatable spacer which is non-uniform in thickness. This arrangement provides that the gap between the inner windshield surface and the windshield frame can also be adjusted.

Abstract: A three-stage system movable in three orthogonal directions includes a pair of cam rods and a screw insertion device secured to one of the stages for displacement in three orthogonal directions. A cabinet has a screw receiving aperture pedestal with aperture locating cam surfaces in a given orientation and spacing. The cam rods are in the same orientation and spacing as the cam surfaces and when engaged align the screw insertion device with the screw aperture. After alignment, a screwdriver attached to the three-stage system drives the screw into the aperture. An automatic feed system feeds screws to the insertion device. A plurality of such three-stage systems are used for automatically attaching an apparatus to the cabinet.

Abstract: A device for displacing the end of an optical fiber (6) along two orthogonal axes, the device enabling said optical fiber (6) to be aligned with another optical component (4) and comprising a frame (1) on which the optical component (4) is maintained together with a non-hinged deformable solid (10A, 10B) having thin blades (14A, 14B) on which the optical fiber to be aligned is fixed, the device being characterized in that the deformable solid is made as a single part and in that the thin blade-shaped portions thereof (14A, 14B) are disposed along the faces of a box-shape whose right cross-section at rest is square and is perpendicular to the axis of the optical fiber (6), one of the two ends of a diagonal of this box-shape being fixed to the frame (1) and the other being fixed to the optical fiber to be aligned, with the two ends of the other diagonal each constituting a thrust point for displacement means (20) enabling the right cross-section of the box-shape to be deformed.

Abstract: A tool and a method for loading pins into pin holes in the bore of the cylinder of a tumbler lock is disclosed. The tool is an elongated rod with two rod sections, a loading section and a handle section having a greater circumference than the rod section to form a shoulder. A contiguous groove runs lengthwise through both rod sections and includes perpendicular pin holes in the loading section. A tapered blade is provided to slide in the groove. In use, the pins are loaded into predetermined pin holes in the loading section. The loading section is inserted into the cylinder bore until the shoulder of the handle section prevents further forward motion and aligns the rod pin holes with matching pin holes in the cylinder. The blade is pushed towards the cylinder and urges the pins from the rod holes into the cylinder pin holes. With the blade holding the pins in the cylinder pin holes, the rod is turned so that the pins are now held in place by the rod itself.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating long full width scanning arrays for reading or writing images. For this purpose, smaller scanning arrays are assembled in abutting end-to-end relationship, each of the smaller arrays being provided with a pair of V-shaped locating grooves in the face thereof. An aligning tool having predisposed pin-like projections insertable into the locating grooves on the smaller scanning arrays upon assembly of the smaller arrays with the aligning tool is used to mate a series of the smaller arrays in end-to-end abutting relationship, there being discretely located vacuum ports in the aligning tool to draw the smaller arrays into tight face-to-face contact with the tool. A suitable base is then affixed to the aligned arrays and the aligning tool withdrawn.

Abstract: Precise and fastenerless connection of a fixture to rotatable headstock and tailstock positioners is provided by a slidably engageable ball and socket arrangement located on the headstock positioner and on one end of the fixture, and by a tapered roller located at the opposite end of the fixture which is cradled between two grooved rollers located on the tailstock positioner. The ball and socket centers the headstock end of the fixture on the rotational axis of the headstock positioner while the tapered roller and grooved rollers locate the fixture linearly as well as centrally. The overall fixture support arrangement permits misalignment of the headstock and tailstock positioners without binding of the fixture. A second slidably engageable connecting device at the headstock end assures precise rotation of the fixture in unison with the headstock positioner.

Abstract: A part positioning apparatus is provided for accurately positioning and angularly orienting a variety of different parts or components for pick-up by a robotic part handling device. The apparatus includes a bowl-like part receptacle which is subjected to a vibratory force so that a part placed on a concave interior surface of the receptacle slides thereover, under the influence of gravity, and assumes an equilibrium position in a designated area of a horizontal plane thereby positioning the part with respect to X and Y axes. Thereafter the receptacle is rotated about a vertical axis to angularly orient the part in a desired direction.

Abstract: A method for centering a semiconductor wafer on a vacuum chuck having a centered shaft. A shaft centering tool which is contained in pre-existing openings in a housing surrounding the shaft is used to define the desired location of the shaft. A second device having the same circumference as the wafer, is employed on the chuck in order that teflon guides can be set into position around the chuck. Once the guides are set, wafers introduced into the guides will be centered on the chuck.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for aligning and attaching partly-worked lens blanks to a block so that the remainder of the blank can be machined. The machine comprises a vee-shaped holder for supporting the block with it axis vertical above a moveable table on which the lens blank is supported. The moveable table is freely moveable in any direction in a horizontal plane and the machine includes means for bringing the block and partly-worked lens into contact and achieving alignment of the axes of the block and lens blank by permitting the lens blank to move in any direction in a horizontal plane. A film of liquid adhesive is provided between the surface of the lens blank and the block which acts both as a lubricant and as a bonding agent when correct alignment has been achieved.

Abstract: An adjustor adapted to be placed on or against a support surface and to be coupled to the mount or leg of a motor or the like for adjusting the distance, such as the vertical height of the mount from a predetermined reference. The device includes a base on which a pair of wedge members are positioned, the lower wedge member having an inclined upper surface and the upper wedge member having a lower inclined surface, the inclined surfaces being adjacent to each other. Each wedge member has a semicircular groove in the inclined surface thereof and the grooves mate with each other to form a bore for receiving a lead screw. One of the grooves has screw threads in mesh with the lead screw so that, upon rotation of the lead screw, the wedge members move relative to each other in a direction longitudinally of the lead screw. As the members move relative to each other, the upper surface of the upper member moves upwardly and downwardly as the lead screw is rotated in opposed directions.

Abstract: An array of mirrors of the SSM ('Second Surface Mirror") type is fixed to the outer surface of a panel of a spacecraft, for example an artificial satellite, for the purpose of heat control. The fixing of the mirrors to the panel is achieved by gluing in a series of operations which ensure the correct positioning of the mirrors, the effectiveness of the adhesion, and electrical conductivity through the array of mirrors. In the application of the mirrors, use is made of a fixed structure for supporting the panel, a transferring tool on which the mirrors are temporarily retained in contact with separate support areas by a vacuum, and a loading tool arranged to receive the mirrors from the transferring tool and apply them to the panel.

Abstract: A method for fabricating upright pins in a base plate, in a mutually orthogonal relationship with respect to the base plate. A first set of holes is made in a base plate at locations needed within an apparatus such as a tape cartridge. The holes are slightly oversize with respect to pins to be permanently seated therein. A second set of holes, a mirror image of the first set of holes, is made in a pin holder plate, except that the holes are not oversize. The second set of holes is adapted to hold pins in frictional contact therein. Once the pins have been disposed in the second set of holes, the holder plate is made to overlay the base plate with the outwardly facing ends of the pins brought into flush alignment with the back side of the base plate by projection through the base plate, but without the pins touching the base plate. The bottoms of the pins are now welded in place by means of a high pulse-power welding apparatus such as a laser working on the back side of the base plate.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for precisely positioning a pair of components such as optical components, including optical fibers, utilizing an apparatus which includes a first support for mounting the first component, a second support for mounting the second component and an elastic joint formed on the first support for moving the first support in relation to the second support by bending the elastic joint. In a preferred embodiment, the elastic joint includes a pair of parallel elastically bendable arms formed on the first support and bendable in a first direction so that the elastic joint provides a translation module.

Abstract: A fixture useful for orienting a stack of clutch plates of a multiple disc clutch or brake assembly is disclosed. The fixture includes three major components. A base receives a stack of clutch plates. A mandrel interfits with the base and slidably mounts a fixture plate assembly. The fixture plate assembly includes a number of posts which cause the protruding teeth of the reaction plates to become aligned axially when the fixture plate is driven toward the base. Plate retention posts carried by the fixture plate assembly engage the reaction plates so that they can be removed from the base and installed within the associated structure while maintaining alignment.

Abstract: A tool for aligning pipes to be secured in an end-to-end relationship which includes a strap to be secured around the end of one pipe and a lever engaging the strap, the lever having a foot to engage and deform a portion of the other pipe.

Abstract: Apparatus and means for assembling strips in grilles, comprising a carriage (24) displaceable vertically on a sub-frame, and a device (26) displaceable horizontally on the sub-frame parallel to the slots in the strips, and comprising a table equipped for receiving and centering a strip, and for enabling a frame forming an assembly jig to be retained in successive predetermined positions in which the slots in the strips carried by the frame face the path of the strip carried by the movable device.

Abstract: A fixture or fixtures and method for assembly and/or fabrication of a component of magnetic information storage apparatus. The component is a flexure arm carrying parts including a gimbal plate; transducer, that is, a magnetic slider head; and a flex cable connecting to the magnetic poles of the magnetic slider head. A fixture is provided having a configuration and holding pins for holding the magnetic slider head; for holding the gimbal plate, and a flexure arm with parts in aligned relationship, the fixture having a removable part which holds the gimbal plate and which is removable from the fixture for subsequent positioning of the flexure arm. Fixture parts are provided for configurating the flex cable. The method comprises a series of steps including positioning parts to be assembled in relationship to the fixture; taking out the removable fixture part; positioning the flexure arm and bonding and attaching the parts together to complete the fully assembled and fabricated component.

Abstract: A tool is provided for positioning an "O" ring in a seating groove cut into the face of a section of flanged pipe. The tool includes a set of two adjustable tongs to grasp the "O" ring. The tongs are held in a fixed position by a pair of parallel facing plates. Bolts running through the parallel facing plates also run through a verticle plate of a support member which secures the tool to the flange.

Abstract: A tool is provided for seating "O" rings in flanged pipe. An "O" ring positioning plate is held between two parallel facing plates. A flexible "O" ring support band is mounted in the tool and holds the "O" ring tightly against an arcuate cut in the lower surface of the "O" ring positioning plate. A support member is included to support the tool on the pipe's flange.

Abstract: An apparatus for fitting spacer frames to panes of glass in the manufacture of insulating glass has a support wall and a frame which is movable towards and away from the support wall and the upper horizontal limb of which can be moved upwardly and downwardly for the purpose of adaptation to the height of a spacer frame, while retractible pins, clamp means and pressure pins for the spacer frame are provided on the frame of the apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for aligning and locating the nipples of an anode rod with the blind bores formed in one surface of an anode block. The apparatus includes a support table mounted for vertical movement on a stand. Alignment means are mounted on the stand above the support table. The alignment means is constituted by a plurality of alignment elements, each of which has the shape of a segment of a funnel. In use, the narrow ends of the alignment elements are introduced into respective bores in the anode block as the support table is moved upwardly. As the support table moves further upwards, carrying the alignment elements therewith, at least some of the nipples of the anode rod engage within the wider ends of the alignment elements, thereby directing the nipples into the bores in the anode block.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing on-site storage of all spent fuel rods removed from a nuclear reactor during its lifetime. Spent fuel rods are removed from spent fuel assemblies and stored in a container in a vertical position, and on a pitch which is less than the pitch of the fuel rods when in a fuel assembly. The removed fuel rods preferably are positioned in a triangular array, and with most fuel rods having line contact along their length with adjacent fuel rods. This arrangement imparts support to all fuel rods in the container and thereby maximizes the available storage space for fuel. To facilitate the loading process, the vertically disposed fuel rods may be installed on steps in the container or on a flat bottom plate therein, all with the assistance of a guidance plate which orients and directs each fuel rod into the container.