Abstract: Central to the invention is a universal, center case sub-assembly from which, by adding components thereto, one may fabricate a rim style center case assembly, or a concealed-vertical style center case assembly, or a surface-vertical style center case assembly, or a combination rim and vertical style center case assembly, for a panic-type exit device. Besides minimizing the number of diverse components and parts required for the fabrication of the aforesaid center case assembly styles, the universal sub-assembly comprises an improved design which offers a marked mechanical/leverage advantage to the trim linkage.

Abstract: The Compressor is small, compact and lightweight in that it is formed of the barest essentials. It has a pair of in-line cylinders, with pistons reciprocatable therein, and the crankshaft, having only one crank, is drivingly coupled to one of the pistons. The other piston is fastened to the crank-driven piston, in spaced-apart disposition, for a common reciprocation of the two. One of the cylinders serves as the crankcase.

Abstract: The novel system discloses both a batch operation and a continuous operation for supplying pressured liquid and a pressured slurry to an abrasive-jet cutting nozzle. In the batch operation, a single vessel for receiving and pressuring slurry is provided and this vessel goes off line, to be recharged with slurry, when it has disgorged its contents to the nozzle. In the continuous operation, a pair of such vessels are provided, and one supplies the nozzle with slurry while the other, having been emptied, is recharged with slurry; valves switch therebetween, to put a re-charged vessel on line, and an emptied one re-charging, to maintain a continuous slurry input for the nozzle.

Abstract: In the disclosed embodiment, the system has a gear housing and an oil reservoir in juxtaposition, with a separated wall therebetween, and a metering channel in penetration of the wall. A gear in the housing throws oil from the lower portion of the housing (i.e., the sump) upwardly to lubricate a meshing gear, bearings, and seals, etc., and to discharge some of the oil through the wall separation into the reservoir. As a consequence of the latter, the oil level in the sump is transformed from a high static level to a lowered, dynamic level in which only the teeth of the oil-throwing gear contact the oil. The metering channel insures that the housing will have some oil constantly supplied thereto from the reservoir, while the latter gear is throwing oil, and that the static level will subsequently return when the gear is halted.

Abstract: The valve has a ported valving element which removes from, and seats upon, a ported valve seat, to open and close the valve to fluid flow through a ported stop plate, and the valving element, in relation to ports in the stop plate, has relieved steps formed therein to create rolling vortices in the through-flowing fluid. Additionally, the valve, in a first embodiment thereof, has two ported buffer plates, however, the latter, vis-a-vis the stop plate ports, have no steps; rather the ports therein are of the same dimension as the ports in the stop plate with which they align or register.

Abstract: A depicted embodiment of the apparatus comprises a housing having a chamber therewithin and a pair of ports opening into the chamber. One port admits an energized gas, and the other admits a particulate powder, into the chamber. Tubes conduct the powder through the chamber, isolated from the energized gas, to exit ends of the tubes which have convergent/divergent ejector nozzles circumjacent thereto. The ejector nozzles discharge the gas therethrough in fine streams, to draw powder from the tube exit ends for conveyance with the gas streams, and direct the streams of gas and powder to adjacent and collinear diffusers for dispersion of the gas-borne powder from the apparatus.

Abstract: The compressor comprises four stages of compression. It has four compression chambers within four, separate compartments removably bolted to a central, supporting, gear housing. In the compression chambers are rotary (rolling) pistons. A pair of parallel, gear-driven shafts journalled in the housing have eccentric pins on ends thereof. The pins intrude into the chambers and rotatably carry the rotary pistons thereon. Conduits traverse the compartments to inject water into the chambers for cooling, sealing, and lubrication of the rotary pistons. Too, the compartments conduct compressed gas therethrough from the compression chambers, and conduct coolant therethrough as well to heat exchange with the compressed gas product.

Abstract: The apparatus confines abrasive slurry in one chamber of a dual-chamber reservoir having a piston sealing between the two chambers. Pump-pressured water is conducted to the other chamber (a) to displace the piston and, consequently, (b) to pressure the slurry. A fluid line conveys the pressured slurry to a central, orifice-terminated, channel formed in the axial center of a nozzle, and another fluid line conveys pump-pressured water to an annular conduit, formed in said nozzle, which circumscribes the central channel. The annular conduit also terminates in an orifice. Both orifices are axially aligned, the latter one being of greater diameter than the former. Upon emerging from the aforesaid conduit and channel, the water and slurry accelerate together in a convergent chamber of the nozzle to discharge via the larger-diameter, final exit orifice.

Abstract: The valve comprises a configuration in which the flow-through paths are more uniformly and smoothly arranged, albeit incorporating additional paths vis-a-vis prior art valves of like overall dimensions. The additional paths are accommodated through reliefs formed in the base of a central guide ring, and scallop cut-outs in the inner-diameter surfaces of buffer plates. Essentially, the flow-through paths are positioned more radially-outward, to facilitate the additional paths near the center, and to reduce the expanse of the otherwise excessive, radially outermost annulus obtaining between the enclosing wall of the valve and the outer, peripheral surfaces of the valving and buffer plates.

Abstract: The invention is a smoke generator which atomizes fog oil by means of a slinger disc affixed to, and rotating with, a turbine wheel. The atomized fog oil mixes with, and is evaporated by, the hot, turbine exhaust gas. Upon leaving the generator, the evaporated fog oil recondenses into a smoke cloud. The smoke cloud generated is to provide a visual screen on a battlefield for concealing the whereabouts of troops and equipment from observance by an enemy.

Abstract: The Assembly has a submerged root, turbine-wheel-blading configuration, and utilizes circumferentially oriented, buried, friction damping wires, and continuous, overlapping, tip shrouds to minimize vibratory response. The wires, in the presence of blade vibration, simultaneously rub on both the blades and surfaces of a recess in the wheel in which the blade roots are fixed. The continuous tip shrouding provides additional damping through shroud-to-shroud interface rubbing. The assembly has a stack of identical blades, obviating any need for relatively weak locking blades or pieces. The method defines the steps of forming a peripheral recess in a wheel, in which to secure root ends of blades, and setting the damping wires (or wire) therein prior to installing the blade root ends, and uniformly spacing-apart the blades after securing the same to the wheel.

Abstract: The lock mechanism has a spring and cam assembly provided for returning the lock plunger assembly of the mechanism from a locked to an unlocked position thereof. In addition, however, the spring and cam assembly carries an enlongated limb. When the lock plunger assembly is translated to a locked position, it forces the limb to extend from the spring and cam assembly to a disposition in which it blocks a knob catch which is carried in the outside spindle of the mechanism. Accordingly, for being blocked by the limb, the knob catch cannot be depressed and, consequently, the knob which is latchingly engaged by the catch, cannot be removed from the outside spindle whenever the mechanism is in its locked disposition. The spring and cam assembly comprises a compact unit which is slidably received in the outside spindle and confiningly supports the limb therewithin for extension therefrom into obstruction of the knob catch.

Abstract: The method involves the disposition of a pair of walls in separated juxtaposition, to form a space therebetween, the walls having transverse, vane-cross-section shaped apertures formed therein; setting vanes in the apertures, across the space; filling the space with core material for solidification therein; and then separating the walls and vanes from each other after the material has solidified. The fixture provides a pair of walls so apertured, and a platform upon which, removably, to support the walls.

Abstract: The invention comprises a lever handle having a handle-shaft receiving cam which is used to displace a slider to effect the retraction of a latchbolt. A yoke is positioned between the cam and slider to accommodate, adjustably, for handle droop. The yoke has a tapped hole and receives a machine screw which also penetrates an arcuate slot in the slider. Displacement of the yoke relative to the slot, corrects the handle droop by causing the cam to be slightly tilted. Accordingly, the handle shaft in the cam is correspondingly rotated about its axis, and the handle is brought into alignment with the horizontal.

Abstract: The valve employs a buffered valve seat; a buffer plate is interposed between the seat and the valving element. Consequently, the valving element can manifest an increased lift, whereby the valve will offer an improved performance, as the buffer plate dampens the impact of the valving element during valve closure. Springs accelerate the return of the valving element toward the seat and, as the buffer plate has no spring-assisted seating, it intercepts the valving element in its closure. A guide ring shoulder restricts the lift of the buffer plate.

Abstract: The assembly, in a first embodiment thereof, comprises an annular cam retainer which rotatably journalled on the mortise cylinder of an exit alarm unit, and has a limb disposed for movement by the tailpiece of the mortise cylinder for engagement with a bearing surface on the rotary, switch cam of the assembly. The cam retainer retains the rotary, switch cam in an alarm-silenced position while the key may be rotated in its key cylinder to a disengageable position and removed. The modification kit comprises a cam retainer (i.e., an unthreaded annulus, in one embodiment) required for modifying a key-operated, exit alarm, switch cam assembly to enable removal of the key with the alarm in a silenced position as aforesaid. The modification method sets forth the precedural steps in retrofitting a switch cam assembly with such a modification kit.

Abstract: The unit comprises three liquid intensifiers, coupled together in juxtaposition, and fixed between a pair of plates. A support plate at the one end of the intensifiers mounts a rotary valve which, sequentially, supplies operative, low-pressure fluid to the intensifiers. A base plate at the other end of the intensifiers admits liquid into each thereof, for pressure intensification of the liquid by the intensifiers, and provides a common outlet port for the pressurized liquid.

Abstract: The lubricator of the invention is a one-shot or non-continuous type. It has a first reservoir within which to receive a charge of lubricant, and a second reservoir from which to expel a charge of lubricant, and a piston slidable therebetween for moving lubricant from the first reservoir to the second reservoir, and also for discharging lubricant from the second reservoir and externally of the lubricator. Upon the piston moving, slidably, in a first direction it creates a partial vacuum in the first reservoir and, consequently, ingests lubricant into the first reservoir. Then, as the piston moves in the second, opposite direction, it diminishes the volume of the first reservoir, and displaces lubricant therefrom through a channel formed centrally in the piston. The lubricant conducted through the channel is deposited in the second reservoir, and is expelled therefrom, by the piston, when next the piston moves in the first, slidable direction.

Abstract: In a first embodiment, the invention comprises supplanting the usual, single, electrically-operated, blowdown valve, located on the receiver/separator tank of a gas compressor system with a pair of valves operatively arranged in parallel. The one valve operates normally in the manner of the supplanted valve, albeit with reduced venting capacity, and the other is held closed on starting of the compressor. This restricts the venting of the tank and causes its quick pressurization, to induce prompt oil injection for the compressor. A sensor detects the injection oil temperature and when the latter has achieved a given setpoint, the other, vent-restricting valve is opened. Accordingly, the method comprises sensing the temperature of the oil injected into the compressor and holding one of the paired venting valves closed until the oil temperature reaches the aforesaid given or predetermined setpoint.