Abstract: An optical fiber material comprising at least one optical fiber and a wrapping material wrapping at least a part of the peripheral surface of the optical fiber in the axial direction of the optical fiber, wherein in its section taken at right angles to the axis of the optical fiber, the wrapping material holds the optical fiber tightly at its inside surface which face the optical fiber in the meridian direction of the optical fiber, or hold it tightly in at least three sites of its inner circumferential surface facing the optical fiber.The present invention provide also processes and devices for preparation thereof.

Abstract: To produce a pipe connection, one of the pipes that are to be interconnected has a pipe end that is widened in a cuplike manner, in which the pipe end of the other pipe is positively lodged. Before the two pipe ends are fixed together, a metallic clamping ring, the inside diameter of which is less than the outside diameter of the outer pipe end, is placed onto the inner pipe end. With the aid of a suitable assembly tool, the clamping ring is then pressed onto the outer pipe end. This produces a radial compression of the interengaging pipe ends, and simultaneously a radial expansion of the clamping ring in the elastic range. So that the clamping ring in the assembled position produces a deformation and clamping of the interengaging pipe ends over as great an axial length as possible, the outer surface of the clamping ring has an encircling reduction in the central section between the shorter substantially cylindrical end sections.

Abstract: In a method of the present invention, a wire stent, having a cylindrical shape defined by a series of alternating longitudinally overlapping opposing loops, is fabricated from a wire formed into a planar serpentine configuration. The wire is centered over a semi-cylindrical trough in a flat plate and then pressed into the trough by a forming bar so that a portion of the wire assumes the semi-cylindrical shape. A pulling tool, having a hook at one end, is engaged at the hook with the exposed loops of the serpentine configuration for pulling the exposed loops over the exposed portion of the forming bar to form a generally cylindrical shape from the wire. Once the wire is extracted from the trough and the forming bar is removed, a folded balloon catheter is inserted through the cylindrical shape and the wire is tightly pressed about the catheter.

Abstract: A method for assembling bearing rings in an elongated sleeve member consisting of the steps of forming a roller shell with three sections of varying wall thicknesses separated by angular circumferentially extending shoulders, deforming the shoulder between the middle section and one end section to form a ring-shaped radially, inwardly directed projection by axial displacement of the shoulder. A bearing ring is inserted in the interior of the shell member so that one axial end face engages the first radially oriented projection formed and deforming the shoulder between the middle section and the other end section to form a second radially inwardly directed projection by axial displacement of the shoulder which confronts the opposite axial end face of the bearing ring.

Abstract: The structure comprises a molded plastics housing either having a metallic sleeve molded therein which forms a cylinder for a piston or defining the cylinder itself. An annular retainer for the piston is provided which abuts a location surface of the sleeve or an anchoring element molded in the housing. The location surface is provided by deforming the sleeve or anchoring element so that the location surface engages the annular retainer at a position radially inboard of its outer periphery.

Abstract: A device suitable for use as a catalytic converter for purification of the exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine at continuous operating temperatures in excess of 1600.degree. F. and up to 2500.degree. F. includes a frangible ceramic monolith catalyst element resiliently mounted in a metallic housing. The monolith is wrapped in a thermally insulating layer of ceramic fibers capable of withstanding continuous exposure to temperatures of at least 2000.degree. F. A layer of intumescent material disposed between the housing and the ceramic fiber layer resiliently secures the monolith in the housing. A method of manufacture of such a device is also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sieve for a paper pulp scrubber or similar equipment, and to a method for fabricating such a sieve. The sieve is produced by mechanical interfit of bars with support members, the bars carrying notches, the lips of which engage at least one V-shaped lateral groove formed in each support member, while the support members present, on their face receiving the bars, a first set of notches for positioning the bars. The cross-section of the support members at the level of the first notches has the same configuration and dimensions as the cross-section of the second notches and the cross-section of bars at the level of notches has the same configuration as the cross-section of notches formed in the support members. Assembling is made by bending a bar by an angle of about 20-25.degree. for widening a second notch and inserting a support member therein. The bar is then straightened back, so that the support member will be firmly clamped in the notch.

Abstract: A low friction finger follower rocker arm is fabricated by starting with a flat metal strip sheet stock section having a stamped configuration with a centralized opening being adapted to be bent later into a channel for such rocker arm. The shaping and hardening of the stock section is carried out prior to such bending.

Abstract: In an air pump vane assembly, the vane hub is both staked to the vane blade and clinched to the vane blade.

Abstract: For reinforcing the connection between the tubes of a heat exchanger and the tube end plate in which they are engaged, the tube end plate is formed by punching for delimiting collars having a bevelled end and forming bulged bottoms between the collars, then a small plane plate is applied on the bulged bottoms, the small plane plate being brazed in the same time as the tubes and the tube end plate.

Abstract: A plastics strap handle is secured to a plastics container body by means of a spigot which is pushed into the wall of the container body to form a socket. Material from the wall around the socket is coined into an annulus surrounding the shank of the spigot to retain the head of the spigot in the socket.

Abstract: A plain bearing comprises a metal cylinder as an external member and a resinous cylinder as an internal member, in which the outer surface of the resinous cylinder is firmly engaged and bitten with a concavo-convex portion formed on the inner surface of the metal cylinder. A process for manufacturing the plain bearing comprises producing the metal cylinder, forming the concavo-convex portion on the inner surface of the metal cylinder, combining the concavo-convex portion of the metal cylinder with the resinous cylinder, inserting a core pin into the interior of a combined cylinder of the metal cylinder and the resinous cylinder, squeezing the combined cylinder through a draw die and producing a finished plain bearing.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing spring assemblies, in which a spring is fixed to a hole formed in a linear or an annular metal plate by compressing side edges of the plate to collapse the hole after inserting an end of the spring therethrough. The process is simple, and the obtained spring assemblies have excellent durability because there are not any projecting parts for installing springs on the metal plate, which are otherwise a factor in fatigue failure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing spring assemblies, in which a spring is fixed to a hole formed in a linear or an annular metal plate by compressing side edges of the plate to collapse the hole after inserting an end of the spring therethrough. The process is simple, and the obtained spring assemblies have excellent durability because there are not any projecting parts for installing springs on the metal plate, which are otherwise a factor in fatigue failure.

Abstract: A suture ring including a continuous compression ring formed of a ductile, electrically conductive material and a layer of fabric secured around the compression ring. The compression ring is dimensioned slightly larger than the circumferential surface of a heart valve upon which it is to be secured, so that the suture ring can be slipped over the heart valve to a position adjacent the circumferential surface without radial expansion of the compression ring. The compression ring is deformed inwardly by electromagnetic forming to securely clamp the heart valve while permitting relative rotation between the suture ring and heart valve.

Abstract: A mounting assembly for bearing races is provided which enables split races for roller bearings to be fixed on a bearing member in a space-saving system wherein the bearing member includes at least one race groove parallel to two expanding grooves such that narrow webs are left on either side of the race groove. On assembly, for example, of the inner ring of a roller bearing in the race groove, these webs are flanged or crimped against the bearing end faces such that two ends of the axially split bearing race are securely held by appropriate profiling or beveling of the end faces of the race. Assembly may be carried out by inserting a crimping wheel into the expanding grooves and crimping the webs by means of a conically deforming surface. The mounting can be advantageously applied, for example, in connection with an eccentrically drilled bearing bushing for the plain bearings of blanket cylinders in offset printing machines.

Abstract: An airspring with plastic rigid components having a specialized coupling adapted for push-in engagement of the pneumatic tubing into the airspring is disclosed. The coupling requires no threading in the plastic structural component of the airspring and is composed of an outer ring through which a coaxial annular sleeve with jaws for tubing engagement slides axially. An O-ring seals the tubing against air leaks. The airspring may be used for vibration isolation or load suspension.

Abstract: A compound portal frame extrusion profile of that type employed in the manufacture of insulated portal frames for windows or sliding doors and the like, wherein the compound portal frame profile is fabricated by means of a cooperative mechanical clamp assembly structure provided integral to a set of separate lineal portal frame profile extrusion components and a fabrication method is employed based on the utilization thereof which enables the interim lineally aligned interlock connection of the separate portal frame profile extrusion components, in turn being of either two dissimilar colors or materials or a combination thereof respectively for the interiorly and exteriorly outward facing finished compound portal frame extrusion profile component members, to thus form an intercommunicating resin receiving trough for containing and supporting the progressive injection deposit therewithin of a thermally non-conductive resin-bonding material by which is formed a structural interlock connection joinably between t

Abstract: This relates to a biaxially oriented molded polyester can which may be severed from an elongated blow molded container and which can has an open mouth defined by an edge portion which is enlarged so that the edge portion has generally the cross section of a match. This enlargement which may be formed during or after the severing of the can body from the elongated container is utilized in the formation of a seam between the can body and a metal end unit utilizing conventional double seaming equipment. This abstract is not to be construed as limiting the claims of the application.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for affixing ornamentation support members to a cord-like member, wherein the ornamentation support members include a clamp and a tangentially extending base member which is bonded to the clamp. In accordance with the invention, the base member is supported by first support surface means and the legs of the clamp are supported against outward deformation by parallel walls of a channel formed in second support means. The cord-like member is positioned within the clamp. A slide member is provided in the channel which is moveable between a rest position and a crimping position for deforming the legs of the clamp to crimp the legs about the cord-like member.

Abstract: A clamp for clamping a plurality of strips of compressible material together comprising, a resiliently rigid plate member; a pair of vertical bar members carried by the plate member normal thereto and disposed parallel to one another at a distance generally equal to the width of the strips to be clamped together; a horizontal bar member shorter in length than the distance and disposed in parallel, spaced relationship to the plate member; and, a pair of joining bar members connected between respective ones of the ends of the vertical bar members and the horizontal bar member, the joining bar members forming and angle of between 120.degree. and 150.degree. with the horizontal bar member; and wherein, the vertical bar members, the horizontal bar member, and the joining bar members are of a resiliently rigid and deformable material.

Abstract: Methods of forming joints between bars of materials such as mild steel are disclosed. In one method, the bars are arranged to lie in generally parallel planes but with their axes at an angle to one another, and a plastically-deformable tubular stub of round or square cross-section is disposed between the bars with its axis substantially intersecting the axes of the bars, which are then pressed together to deform the stub partially around the two bars. In a second method, a bar is arranged in a T-formation with a hollow member, two opposed regions at the end of the tubular member are deformed inwardly and back along the member axis, and the bar is then pressed into the groove so-formed at the end of the member, to deform the end portion partially around the bar. Heat may be used, in the former case on the stub and in the latter case on the tubular member, so that after completion of the joint the heated stub or tubular member will cool and contract, firmly to grip the or each bar.

Abstract: A refractory plate assembly for use in a sliding closure unit includes a plate-shaped refractory member having therethrough at least one discharge opening and a metal jacket surrounding the peripheral edge of the refractory member. Such assembly is constructed by providing the refractory member with at least one indentation extending inwardly from the peripheral edge of the refractory member. A metal ring is positioned to surround the peripheral edge of the refractory member such that a portion of the metal ring extends across the indentation. This portion of the metal ring is pressed into the indentation until an innermost external surface of such portion is spaced a predetermined distance from the external surface of the metal ring at a position at the peripheral edge of the refractory member opposite the indentation.

Abstract: A check valve integral with the tube and the method of manufacturing a check valve are disclosed. The ball or poppet of the check valve is maintained in position via a magnetic mandrel while the tube is crimped at both sides of the poppet. The tube is inwardly crimped to prevent the poppet from being displaced in either direction and simultaneously to allow flow to bypass the poppet in the desired flow direction. Thereafter the poppet is physically displaced against one of the crimped indentations to coin a seat such that the poppet and the seat coact to prevent flow of fluid in the undesired direction. In this manner, a check valve is formed integrally with a tube without requiring any additional components.

Abstract: A device for clamping a marker to a mine mooring cable upon severing by a tter utilizes a V-shaped body having a liner that is explosively deformed into clamping engagement with the cable in response to cutter actuation. A smoke flare is included and ignited to provide a prolonged locating signal.

Abstract: In a scaffolding system in which vertical metal scaffold pipes are connected to non-vertical metal scaffold pipes by disc-shaped bridged connecting flanges, each non-vertical scaffold pipe has a wedge-shaped end portion terminated with edges which are curved at the end face of the pipe inwardly of the pipe and form together a smooth supporting surface supported against the outer wall of the adjacent vertical scaffold pipe. Each non-vertical scaffold pipe is provided with a slot in which the disc-shaped connecting flange is engaged in the assembled scaffolding.

Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor is provided having a stack of disk laminations, each of the laminations having a plurality of pole piece sections connected to one another by circumferential bridges situated on the disk periphery. Radial ligaments connect the core portion of the disk to the bridges. The core portion and pole piece sections define the radial thickness of the magnet slots. Magnets are situated in the magnet slots and the bridge positions of the rotor are inwardly deformed causing the radial ligaments to collapse, thereby holding the magnets in their respective slots.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a buckle assembly suitable for use in a vehicle seat belt. The buckle assembly includes a clinched anchor block fixed on a wire and having an interlocking portion projecting downwardly therefrom, a buckle base having a bottom wall defining a matching interlocking portion, which is in engagement with the interlocking portion of the anchor block, and a pair of side walls extending downwardly from the bottom wall. The anchor block is connected directly to both of the side walls of the buckle base. The interlocking portion of the anchor block is press-fit in the matching interlocking portion in the bottom wall of the buckle base. The clinch force of the anchor block against the wire is thus not reduced by the fixing work of the anchor block to the buckle base.

Abstract: A method is provided for adding strength to a T-bar grid fabricated with a double web and capped system. The addition of strength is achieved by coating the inside portions of the T-bar with a hot melt adhesive. Cooling sets the adhesive and results in the parts of the grid member becoming a unitized structure.

Abstract: An adapter for enabling a vertical slotted standard in the form of a steel bar to be mounted to a pair of back-to-back assembled sheet metal channel-shaped studs in a wall, the adapter being disposed within the wall and hidden from the exterior of the wall. The exterior covering of the wall comprises aligned adjacent wallboard members whose vertical adjacent edges engage against a pair of forwardly extending entrance flanges for receiving therein the shelf-supporting hooked end brackets which enter and engage within the slots of the standard. The wallboard members are secured to the studs with the same fasteners that connect a pair of wallboard-receiving wings of the adapter to the studs. The invention is concerned with means for anchoring the standard within the adapter and a method of effecting such anchoring during the assembly of the adapter.

Abstract: The manufacture of two hingedly connected components of a toggle latch by simultaneously press-forming two strips of metal feeding into a multi-phased die wherein the last operation comprises the folding of lugs on a component about an end portion of the other component so that oppositely projecting bosses on that end portion becomes homed in openings in the respective lugs.

Abstract: A soft soft-sided luggage case preferably comprises a frame and a pair of hinged side panels which are zippered to fabric portions of the frame around the periphery and which provide unobstructed access to the interior of the case. Abutting portions of the frame and the side panels provide a seal when the side panels are zippered closed. The fabric portion of the frame is frictionally held between two pairs of outwardly facing flanges.

Abstract: In a field system of a magnet type D.C. motor constructed of a cylindrical yoke and a plurality of pole pieces, each of which is made of a permanent magnet member bonded to the inner peripheral surface of the yoke, an improved field system wherein each pole piece is formed with a recess along its central part. The yoke is provided with bent portions protruding inwards of the yoke, in correspondence with each recess, and the bent portions are held in engagement with the recess through an elastic member.

Abstract: A C-shaped member having a threaded aperture formed through one end and a smooth surface aperture formed through the other end. A threaded rod extends through the threaded aperture with the threads of the rod mating relationship with the threads in the threaded aperture. The rod has a swivel member at its end located between the two ends of the C-shaped member. A roller staker comprising staking rollers at one end and a spindle at an opposite end is provided. The spindle is adapted to be located in the smooth surface aperture with the staking rollers located between the two ends of the C-shaped member and facing the swivel member. The spindle when located in the smooth surface aperture has an end portion extending through the aperture whereby it may be gripped by a portable drill and rotated for rotating the staking rollers.

Abstract: A method of securing a bearing either bushing, roller or ball bearing and a spacer or fitting into a soft non-ferrous material such as aluminum and materials of that hardness. A bearing of this invention containing an annular groove and adjacent forming shoulder or spacer, at least 1/2 a millimeter greater in diameter than the body of the bushing is inserted into a predrilled hole. A metal ring is formed in the annular groove as the shoulder is pressed into the parent material. This metal ring being a part of the parent material and being packed into the annular groove prevents retraction of the bearing or spacer during operation by its diameter being greater than the annular groove in the bearing. The material in the annular groove is of a lesser diameter than the body of the bearing and fitting and interfers with axial movement. The shoulder of the bearing or fitting has longitudinal grooves around its circumference.

Abstract: There is disclosed a novel apparatus and process for nesting a plurality of drum bodies or shells of deformable material wherein a cylindrically-shaped drum body is subjected to a force in a plane substantially parallel to the axis of the drum body to deform the drum body to the extent necessary to permit the positioning of a second drum body about the initially deformed drum body whereupon the deforming procedure is repeated for the nested first and second drum bodies, and is thereafter again repeated until a desired number of drum shells are contained in the resulting nested assemblage of drum bodies or shells.

Abstract: Metal cross chains are interconnected on the inboard side by an inboard rope connector and on the outboard side by an outboard rope connector. Each interconnection of a rope connector with a cross chain includes a combined rope-to-cross chain connecting link and rope clamping ring and rope connector adjustment device having a substantially V-shaped wire body with a loop formed at each end of the V. One of the end loops is firmly clamped to the rope connector and the other one of the loops partially surrounds and slidably engages the rope connector and is open sufficiently to permit the rope to be slipped out of that loop. A collar is clamped to the rope at a position to maintain a loop in the rope between the two connecting link loops when the collar is inside the slidably engaged loop, and to permit the rope loop to be released when the collar is positioned outside of the slidably engaged connecting link loop.

Abstract: To reduce the cost of construction and avoid alignment problems of its component parts, a non-welded construction of mast discharge electrode, as used in an electro-precipitator, comprises a tube having holes passing transversely therethrough, cross members frictionally secured in said holes, and at least two wires extending parallel to said tube and passing through holes in said cross members, the wires being secured in the holes also by friction. The cross members may be knurled so as to be gripped in the tube holes, the latter preferably being formed by means of a punching operation. The cross members may be crimped frictionally to secure the wires. The provision of a non-welded construction particularly at the wires avoids weakening the wires because of the welding, and distortion arising from the heat of welding. The cross members may alternatively be welded to the tube if desired.

Abstract: A fixing structure is disclosed for fixing an intermediate frequency transformer or other electronic component to a flexible and deformable base plate. The component comprises a base portion for fixing it to the base plate and the base plate is formed with an aperture for receiving the base portion. The base plate includes a strip portion extending along a portion of the periphery of the aperture. The component is provided with a protrusion which extends laterally from the base portion thereof. The protrusion is so formed and so located on the base portion of the component that when the base portion is inserted into the aperture, the protrusion engages the strip portion and deforms it in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the base plate, so that the diameter of the aperture shrinks, whereby the base portion is strongly gripped by at least a portion of the periphery of the aperture.

Abstract: A method of making a universal joint outer member affording a cavity with axially extending grooves in the wall thereof for receiving torque transmitting balls, comprising fitting into a preformed outer member, of light weight material, one or more wear resistant elements which define the grooves, and subjecting the assembly to an extrusion operation to secure the groove-defining elements in position and form the outer member to size.

Abstract: By embedding the impregnated and sintered molding of a dispenser cathode in a holder of metal foil of 10 .mu.m to 100 .mu.m thick, such that any gap between the molding and the holder is less than 10 .mu.m a dispenser cathode can be obtained having a long life and/or quick heating properties.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of reinforced, spirally wound pipe having a generally smooth inner wall produced from an elongated flat sheet of ductile material, such as galvanized steel, and one or more narrow strips of ductile material. The sheet and strips are situated in rolls located at the entry end of a rolling apparatus which is constructed to form one longitudinal, generally trapezoidal reinforced impression in the sheet corresponding to each of the narrow strips. In the process of forming the impressions, rolling stands in the rolling apparatus first fashion a longitudinal, generally rectangular channel in the sheet corresponding to each strip as the sheet progresses through the rolling apparatus. At the same time, the strips are shaped into reinforcement elements having an extended, continuous portion and splayed legs extending outwardly from the edges of the continuous portion.

Abstract: The underside of the bottom wall of an electric cooker contains a sheathed electric heater element intermittently staked and keyed to the sides and base of a receiving channel to control and confine growth and resist twisting movement of the element therein during heating.

Abstract: This specification describes a clamp comprising a ductile elongate clamp body having a longitudinal channel which receives a hard tubular element divided longitudinally into at least two separable parts held together by retaining means. The clamp is applied to a plastics-sheathed rope by removing the sheathing over a length greater than that of the tubular element but less than that of the body, positioning and retaining the parts of the tubular member about the unsheathed length, inserting the tubular element into the channel in the body, and compacting the ductile clamp body.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for assembling weather stripping which comprises continuously gaping the flanged mouth of an elongated holder inserting therein succeeding lengths of a foot portion of an elongate piece of weather stripping and thereafter continuously closing the flanged mouth to retain the weather stripping while it is in a relaxed state.

Abstract: A method of making a catalytic converter for use in the exhaust systems of combustion engines comprises the steps of inserting a porous monolithic refractory catalyst element inside a tubular metal shell with a resilient annular fibrous sleeve around the element, securing the element in position inside the shell, and thereafter attaching inlet and outlet headers to the shell by fitting annular end sections on the headers to the exterior end perpheral surfaces of the shell and welding them thereto.

Abstract: A flexible polishing drum segment for use with a polishing or grinding hub. The segment comprises a plurality of abrasive flaps of uniform size and shape, joined together along a common edge to a metal strip. The metal strip comprises first and second, substantially flat plate sections extending parallel to one another in surface-to-surface abutment. One of the plate sections is longer than the other and it is to this longer plate section that the packet is joined. The first and second plate section are integral with and joined together by a root element which is generally circular in configuration. A core is located within the root element to substantially fill the entire volume thereof.

Abstract: A process for the production of lettering or symbol templates by production of symbol cut-outs in a template sheet consisting of thermoplastic plastic, characterized by forcing the cut-out portions of the symbols in a shaping or forging step, and subsequently cutting off the protruding forced-out portions.

Abstract: A non-load bearing, structural stud which has been positioned in a track, may be stabilized in that position in the track by a method of simultaneously making an incision in one wall of the track adjacent both corners of the stud which abut the wall, and curling that portion of the sidewall which lies between the individual incisions and the structural stud, toward the stud and into securing contact therewith. The stud stabilizing apparatus comprises a pair of knife edge means, rigidly held by a center post in parallel, spaced relationship.

Abstract: A metal cased refractory is made by first forming a refractory shape, which may be fired if desired, with at least one, and preferably two, shallow depressions in one of its faces. A U-shaped metal casing is also formed having a discontinuous slot running the length of its central portion. The U-shaped casing is then placed over the refractory shape so that the discontinuities in the slot overlie the shallow depressions. These discontinuities form contraction tabs which are pushed into the shallow depressions, drawing the side legs of the U-shaped casing snugly against the sides of the refractory shape and placing the central section of the casing in tension.