Abstract: For locally stripping an electric wire, the wire is maintained in a guide, the insulating material is cut with rotary knives over a fraction only of its thickness and the residual insulation material is broken by pulling after the knives have been stopped. An apparatus for carrying out the process has a stripping head supporting a wire-guide, provided with a drive motor for rotation about the axis of the guide and carrying knives radially movable between an inner and an outer position. An electromagnetically controlled wire-clamping system is used for axially moving the wire.

Abstract: A high-speed weighing and conveying system, suitable for use in filling soup cans and weighing each as it passes over a weigh platform to a can closer. The open-topped cans slide smoothly and in positive index at all times through a filler and then, in sequence, to an accelerating screw conveyor, to a weigh conveyor which guides them as they slide over the weighing platform, to another screw conveyor, and to a further conveyor which delivers them at the proper times to a closer; an automatic rejector is preferably positioned between the second screw conveyor and the closer to remove from the train of cans, prior to the closer, any can which with its contents has an unacceptable weight. The top portion of the weighing platform is in the form of a longitudinally extending channel member, and the weigh conveyor comprises a pair of rails extending through the channel to support a pair of roller chains having outwardly-extending spaced lugs.

Abstract: Fresh chicken parts are fried by cooking battered chicken parts in hot cooking oil at a temperature of 340.degree.-400.degree. F. for a period of time, such as 3 to 8 minutes, sufficient to dehydrate and brown the batter but insufficient to cook completely the interior meat, after which the parts, immersed in hot oil, are subjected to high intensity microwave energy of 10 to 25 kilowatts for a short period of time, less than one minute, to complete the cooking of the interior meat to a temperature of at least 160.degree. F. at the bone.

Abstract: An idling circuit for a carburation device comprises an idling duct for supplying a primary air-fuel mixture downstream of the throttle and a fueled-air line having an adjustable cross-section for circulating an additional quantity of air and primary mixture from upstream to downstream of the throttle. A solenoid valve is energized by pulses having a duty cycle which is controlled so as to keep the engine speed near a set idling speed and so as to increase the amount of mixture supplied to the engine during deceleration at high speed.

Abstract: An apparatus for heating blooms or slabs comprises a tunnel with a conveyor for supporting successive slabs and moving them along the length of the tunnel. The blooms rest flat on the conveyor rather than on edge. Polyphased inductors are located above and under the path of the bloom to create a travelling wave magnetic field along the tunnel.

Abstract: A frequency conversion system, including a time shared frequency converter and a time shared band limited amplification system, whereby a plurality of information bearing signals are commonly obtained, determined, filtered and amplified over a single path. The process admits signals whose carriers are separated by frequency or phase, and whose amplitudes are different.Synchronous and asynchronous receivers which ordinarily require dual mixers, filters and amplifiers are simplified by this invention. Phase locked loop demodulators, including AM, DSSC and Costas loop demodulators, which ordinarily require a pair of phase detectors, filters and amplifiers to generate the in-phase and quadrature-phase channels are simplified by this invention. The use of a common path for the in-phase and quadrature-phase channels also permits the close matching of gain and frequency response in each channel.

Abstract: Fine particulate solid fuel particles are delivered from a venturi ejector to a rotating double-armed distributor which distributes fuel and air sequentially to conduits leading to the burner ejector of a kiln. The distributor is sealed and pressurized with air so as to provide the conduits with additional pulses of air following the times at which they receive fuel and air from the distributing operation.

Abstract: Fittings and methods for manufacturing fittings for piping are disclosed. The fittings are assembled from three identical molded pieces joined along longitudinal edges. Interfitting pieces form the joints between the sections and serve to draw the sections together during assembly and ensure roundness of the fitting. The technique is especially useful for the manufacture of fittings such as well screens, of synthetic polymeric materials.

Abstract: The method comprises measuring the heat transfer between a specimen of the substance in condensed phase and an ambient gas. The heat transfer is detected by measurement of the amplitude of the angular movement of a pencil of light which is directed substantially parallel to the surface of the specimen subjected to energization variable in time, and which passes through an area located close to said surface. The device comprises a specimen support and a monochromator.

Abstract: A central heating and/or hot-water production installation of the type using at least one source of conventional energy of the liquid or gaseous fuel kind and at least one heat pump thermodynamic heat source particularly of the compression heat cycle kind.In this installation the evaporator(s) of the heat pump(s) are situated in a duct for discharging the combustion gases from the boiler and, in conjunction with this duct, there are provided one or more outside air intakes having flow-adjustment means, upstream of said evaporator(s).Principal applications: heating industrial, agricultural or living premises, etc. and production of sanitary or industrial hot water.

Abstract: A photocell is placed beneath a packet of real or simulated currency at each of a plurality of teller locations in a bank. The photocells at the several teller locations are connected in a parallel circuit with each other, and a voltage supply source is connected to the parallel circuit through a common current-sensing resistance, so that if currency is removed from any teller location this will be indicated by a voltage drop across the common current-sensing resistance. The common current-sensing resistance is located in a control box at a remote location within the bank, and used to control even more remote alarm equipment, at a police station for example.

Abstract: A high-temperature plasma is surrounded with a laser-beam wall to aid in its confinement. When such a laser-beam wall is used in combination with a confining magnetic field acting on a plasma of nuclear fuel material, the confinement time of the plasma is increased sufficiently to produce useful energy and to act as an efficient neutron source.