Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of a textile web supported on a tenter by contact with a heated treatment medium is disclosed. The apparatus includes a nozzle box or boxes having openings directed toward a fabric web to be treated. A by-pass opening is provided for conducting the treatment medium from the compression to the suction side of a circulating apparatus. The cross sectional area of the by-pass opening is substantially identical to the total of the cross sectional areas of the nozzles of the nozzle box, whereby the flow resistance of the treatment medium is independent to whether flow is through the nozzle openings or through the by-pass opening or some combination thereof.

Abstract: An article of manufacture comprising a compact disc and convertible package therefor is disclosed. The device comprises a blank divided into four panel members by cruciform pairs of parallel intersecting fold lines. A flap portion is formed adjacent a surface of at least one of said panels and the compact disc is received between the flap and panel. In the merchandizing mode, a stiffener member is interposed between the leaves formed by double height panels, the components being held together by an encompassing film which is preferably transparent. The device may be converted to the storage mode by removing the film, discarding the stiffener member, and folding the panels about the cruciform fold lines to provide a structure in which the disc is encompassed between four thicknesses of material.

Abstract: A fail safe monolithic ceramic capacitor is disclosed, said capacitor being characterized in that a short circuit between an adjacent pairs of layers of electrode material functions merely to remove the shorted layers from the capacitor circuit leaving a capacitor which is intact but of a lower capacitive value. The capacitor includes a fuse defining a heating element which lies adjacent an external thin band of metal interposed between the fuse and a termination. Any overheating of the fuse results in a melting and shrinkage of the external band of metal with consequent disconnection of the pair of shorted electrodes.

Abstract: A hydraulic noise attenuator of the type utilizing a tubular casing having an inlet and outlet end, a perforated tube extending through the casing, the ends of the tube being secured in the inlet and outlet ends of the casing, portions of the tube adjacent at least the secured outlet end thereof, being encompassed by sound-absorbing material means being provided to reflect sound waves against the sound-absorbing material to enhance the attenuation at the lower frequencies.

Abstract: A compression seal between opposed faces (3 & 4) of two metal members (1 & 2) comprises a metal ring (5) having a relatively thin annular web (7) and thickened beads (8 & 9) at its inner and outer peripheries defining an annular trough on each side of the web. The beads terminate in knife edges (10), washers (6) of deformable material are located on each side of the web (7) and project above the level of the knife edges (10). When the assembly is axially compressed, the deformable washers fill the troughs and any excess material is cut off as the knife edges (10) contact the members (1 & 2) thereby presenting a continuous metal surface to the exterior.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for rapidly and accurately inserting axial lead components such as capacitors and resistors or the like into printed circuit boards mounted in an X-Y PC board positioning device. In accordance with the invention a plurality of magazines each of which contain a multiplicity of the components are loaded into a receiver chute of the apparatus. The apparatus functions, responsive to a signal from the PC positioning device, to remove an individual component from a magazine, deflect the leads to a position at right angles to the body of the component and insert the thus formed leads accurately into spaced apertures of the PC board which have been manuvered by the X-Y apparatus to a component receiver station. The device includes means for automatically removing exhausted magazines and replacing the same with filled magazines.

Abstract: A tamper resistant device is disclosed for dependably indicating when a door or other shut off means has reached a closed position. The device includes a series of transmitting and receiving elements brought into juxtaposition during or at the final closing movements of the door. The device may include read out means responsive to the sequence of activation of the receiving elements and/or the identity of the receiving elements activated.

Abstract: For a method for heat-treating textile material, and for a tenter for carrying out the method, it is proposed to control the textile web velocity as a function of the point on the treatment path at which the maximum deviation in the amount of energy spent per unit time occurs. To determine this point on the treatment path it is not necessary, therefore, to measure the momentary temperature of the textile material directly or the temperatures of the treatment medium flowing in and out. Instead, it suffices to determine the individual valve positions which indicate the amounts of energy supplied per unit time, and to infer therefrom the site of the treatment path where the drying process is completed and the fixing process sets in.

Abstract: According to the process, a toroidal sample of ferrimagnetic material to be analyzed is placed in a thermostatically-controlled enclosure fitted with temperature regulation and detection means. The toroidal sample is submitted to an electro-magnetic magnetizing field of given frequency and the flux induced in the sample is measured directly using a measuring loop, around the sample and which is connected to a vectorial voltmeter.

Abstract: A fabric treatment apparatus for advancing a web of fabric through a bath while spreading deflecting and squeezing same is disclosed. The apparatus includes a moveable trough for the treatment liquid and a displacement body which is completely submerged in the trough in the operative condition of the apparatus, the displacement body also functioning as a heat exchanger.

Abstract: A lighting fixture and ceiling structure incorporating same are disclosed. The fixture may be securely mounted within a ceiling grid work assembly by a simple downward movement of the fixture. Ceiling board is supported by being mounted on flanges integral with the fixture on the one hand and elements of the supporting grid on the other. The fixture and grid work interact so as to effect an accurate positioning of the fixture relative to the grid work by taking advantage of centering formations integral with the grid work.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing and/or burning-in electronic devices such as capacitors is disclosed. The devices are loaded in a matrix having a multiplicity of apertures. A second matrix having complemental apertures is provided, the apertures of the second matrix being filled with fuses. The matrices are pressed together by yieldable electrodes which are connected with a source of current.

Abstract: An explosive action inhibiting glazing formed of at least two glass units supported in separate frames. The frames define an intervening space therebetween. The space is connected to the environment external of the outer pane by passages which are either open or which are readily opened to permit the rapid reduction of pressure in the space between the frames. The passages leading to the space may be covered by snap-fitted sections intended to blast clear and open the passage responsive to pressure increases within the space between the frames.

Abstract: An article of manufacture is comprised of a compact disc and an enclosure therefore, the enclosure being convertible from a pilfer resistant merchandising mode to a compact storage mode. The enclosure includes a disposable stiffener member which functions also, in the merchandising mode, as a pilfer deterrent.

Abstract: A frame construction and profile parts for forming same is comprised of a pair of interfitting rigid sections which are mutually connectable to define a U-shaped configuration for supporting a panel. One of the profile parts includes an inwardly facing chamber for receiving corners connecting adjacent frame legs, the chamber opening toward the panel so that the mounted panel covers the fasteners securing the corners. The profile part includes an outwardly facing and outwardly opening chamber for receiving mounting hardware.

Abstract: A pressure vessel comprising a rigid container having a deformable partition therein defining two chambers for fluid, each having a fluid port leading thereinto with an elongated apertured central guide tube for said partition extending axially in said container having at least one end secured to one of said ports. A flexible closure member encompasses said guide tube and the apertures thereof, said closure member having a plurality of closure elements normally extending radially outward from said tube, each closure element comprising a pair of spaced walls joined at their outer ends, one of said walls having apertures therethrough.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reprofiling the wheels of a railroad wheelset by circumferentially milling the wheelset while the wheels are driven and partly supported by drive rollers, the wheelset being partly supported at its bearing housing. Before profile milling, a reference surface is created by a turning operation as base for measuring the radial infeed of the profile milling cutter. The turning tool required is disposed on the profile milling cutter which is lockable secure against rotation. By coordinating the position of the milling devices with the position of the respective turning devices a positional relation is automatically established between the milling device and the axis of the wheelset.

Abstract: An elastomeric bladder for dividing a pressure vessel into two chambers is formed in one piece and carries integrally at least one rigid element (18 or 19). A tubular blank bladder 10A of raw elastomer is shaped in a mould by fluid pressure applied to the interior of the blank while the rigid elements 18, 19 are clamped against the ends E1, E2 of the bladder valve and a vulcanization is performed whereby the rigid elements 18, 19 are bonded to the bladder.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of manufacturing ceramic capacitors and to the resulting capacitors. In accordance with the method a ceramic monolithic body having void areas extending to edge portions thereof is filled with molten metallic material, the edge portions to which the voids connect being previously coated with a thin layer of metallic material wettable by the injected molten metal. The injected material bonds to the predeposited metal layer with the result that the injected metal is retained within the void areas of the ceramic body. The invention is further directed to a capacitor made in accordance with the described method.