Abstract: Electronic sensing and measuring equipment for accurately measuring the pitch of musical sounds and which includes an audio tuner responsive to the fundamental frequency of a continuing signal while rejecting all other harmonically related components of said signal to produce a digital signal representing the fundamental pitch of said musical sound, and a counter for counting and totalizing said digital signal defining the same in terms of its frequency and for visually displaying said defined signal.

Abstract: A method is presented to make an investment casting pattern of a rotatable turbine wheel or a stationary turbine nozzle wheel having one continuous and regular series of blades extending around its periphery with a uniform pitch between blades and in which all such blades are bent in one circumferential direction and adjacent blades overlap each other in a circumferential direction so that the wheel pattern cannot be made in a simple two part mold separating at right angles to a parting line. The method comprises separately forming two wheel pattern portions of the same diameter as the finished turbine wheel pattern, each having a series of continuous and regular blades around its periphery with a uniform pitch between the blades which is exactly twice the pitch of the blades in the finished wheel pattern. In such a pattern wheel portion the adjacent blades do not overlap each other.

Abstract: A system for the production of dipped taper candles, including an overhead conveyor system supporting mobile carrier racks for formation of the candles in suspended relation from the rack, and including a wicking station for providing rows of candle wicks in generally tensioned suspended relation from a carrier rack, a dipping station for automatically dipping said wicks on the rack through a predetermined number of dipping cycles, a cutoff station for cutting off the bases including the wick tensioning weights of the candles suspended from the carrier rack, a butt forming station for heat forming the cut butt ends of candles suspended from the carrier rack, and a cut down station for expeditiously cutting down the carrier rack rows of the candles formed on the candle wicks and for collecting the same for further processing. The invention also provides a novel method of producing physically uniform candles in mass production batches.

Abstract: This invention presents a preparation of expanded silicate-based aggregates as useful in a method for absorbing hazardous liquid materials. This expanded silicate-based aggregate material has previously been known for use as insulation, fireproof wallboard and insulating blocks, high temperature pipe covering, fire proofing of steel structures, marine deck filler and for cement block in non-bearing fire walls, but not for absorbing hazardous liquids. The present invention uses this aggregate material, either alone or mixed with a solution of five to seven percent of polyvinyl chloride in a solvent comprising 15% dimethylsulfoxide and 85% methylethyl ketone providing a paste which may be placed on a hazardous liquid material and within seconds will absorb the hazardous material throughout the thick paste material.

Abstract: A work holder including a pusher or feed tube for an automatic machine tool, such as an automatic screw machine, with the work holder including a stock aligning and/or supporting bushing or collar member having a stock receiving opening therethrough with wedge block means coacting with the collar for selectively locking the collar in predetermined rotational position at the stock entry end of the feed tube. The locking arrangement provides for effective and rapid locking and unlocking of the collar to the feed tube, and permits ready changing or replacement of the collar member, thereby providing for rapid interchange for different sizes and/or cross sectional configurations of stock material to be fed into the feed tube.

Abstract: A manually actuated spray dispenser is presented having the usual reservoir for a liquid to be dispensed, with a manually operated pump at the upper end of the container for moving the liquid in the reservoir out through a dispenser opening at the top of the container and including a comfort hold extending from the upper end of the liquid reservoir to the top of the manual pump equipment, completely enclosing the spray complex. The comfort hold is provided at its upper end with a circular button having a downward projection engaging the usual actuator for the spray pump. The comfort hold is of a diameter to be comfortably held in the hand of a user of the spray equipment so that the user may grasp the container by gripping the hold and he will then have his fingers in position to actuate the button up and down to dispense the liquid contents of the reservoir.

Abstract: A photoacoustic cell for analyzing solid and quasi-solid samples and which includes a table for holding a sample to be analyzed and which is movably disposed in the cell housing and positioned in a sample test position to form a part of the cell chamber in which the sample is to be analyzed or tested. The cell chamber is formed having a window through which a light source may pass onto the sample whereby energy is released inside said cell chamber characteristic of the light source and is sufficient to provide a signal characteristic of the absorbance of the sample and which is sensed by a microphone in said chamber. At the completion of the sample test, the table may be moved to a sample load/unload position for discharge of the tested sample and preparatory to having a subsequent sample placed thereon for analysis.

Abstract: A unit is presented for the transfer of a gaseous component in one stream to or from a liquid component in another stream, in which a membrane assembly is wound spirally around a central rigid cylindrical core. The membrane assembly comprises a continuous length of flattened tubular membrane with a gas net passing through the intermediate portion of the membrane from end to end thereof and substantially the width of the interior of the tubular membrane. In forming the coil, a net separator is wound between the membrane layers of the coil. An inlet tube for one of the components communicates with one end of the membrane and an outlet tube for the same component communicates with the other end of the membrane. Means is provided for passing another of the components longitudinally of the coil between the membrane layers from one end of the coil to the other end. The specific embodiment of a blood oxygenator is described.

Abstract: A vertical joint structure is shown extending longitudinally of a generally cylindrical housing encasing a screw conveyor for a breading machine or the like. The housing comprises two generally C-shape half portions formed of sheet metal and assembled by means of a novel joint structure along two longitudinal zones diametrically opposite in the housing. One half portion is fixed in the machine and the other half portion is movable toward and away from a tight fit of the joint structure with the fixed half portion. The distal edges of the movable C-shape half portion extend a short distance beyond a diameter of the housing at approximately a right angle to that diameter and are there bent downwardly and outwardly at an acute angle to a zone just at, or a little beyond, that diameter and there bent outwardly approximately radially of the cylindrical housing. This forms a first linear sealing surface at the acute angle portion.

Abstract: Extracorporeal and implantable blood interchange devices used in providing interchange function of predetermined components with a fluid, such as for instance the removal of undesirable components from the bloodstream of a human and, characterized by capillary tubing having a reactor or sorbent material, such as activated charcoal, disposed within the lumens thereof, with the tubing being semi-permeable and with blood, or other fluid, being perfused over the capillary tubing in close physical contact with the exterior surfaces thereof, for accomplishing interchange coaction between the sorbent in the tubing and the perfusing fluid. Such tubing is arranged in rectangular configuration, with tangential entry and exit of perfused fluid.

Abstract: A fabricated adapter valve for mounting on the exterior of a transportation tank for liquid, such as for instance gasoline or oil, providing for coupling with a compatible loading coupler of a loading island, for loading the liquid into the transportation tank. The valve arrangement provides an adapter coupler section having an exterior coupling configuration as defined by the American Petroleum Institute, for universal coupling with loading couplers of a loading station, and a valve which is of smaller size and less weight, having fewer places to leak and possessing fewer parts, and therefore more economical to manufacture, as compared to prior art valve arrangements.

Abstract: A structural unit, such as for instance a storage framework composed of a plurality of storage frame components assembled into a storage rack, for use, for example, in warehousing systems. The framework comprises generally vertical column members which in certain embodiments are basically of a generally U-shaped configuration in horizontal cross section, but having a connecting or bridging plate or member disposed between and connected to the arms of the U, with the bridging member being preferably recessed inwardly from the distal ends of the arms. A fastener means, such as for instance a threaded stud, is secured to the bridging plate and projects generally perpendicularly outwardly therefrom. In other embodiments the column members are tubular and of polygonal configuration in horizontal cross section with the studs secured to spaced plates attached to one face of the respective column.

Abstract: An electrodynamic force generator or vibrator employing plural ring permanent magnets and a round magnetic structure of the center gap type that is split on a horizontal plane passing through the center and a support and guidance system for supporting the vibratory table and coil consisting of a plurality of horizontal damped cantilever springs joined to "C" shaped damped compensating springs. Typically, a round drive coil of plural turns surrounds a central core or pole of the magnetic structure and is influenced by flux on all sides. Shorted turn coils surround the drive coil and are stationary upon the outer pole to provide reduction of inductance. The drive coil is attached to a table structure which is supported and guided in the magnet structure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dosing and weighing "shag" tobacco comprising the steps of dosing an approximate quantity of tangled long fibre tobacco, which is less than the required quantity, and subsequently dosing disentangled long fibres to make up the approximate quantity to the required quantity of long fibres. Thus the quantity of short fibre tobacco added thereto to obtain the quantity nominally required per package can every time be equal.

Abstract: A cabinet-like furniture unit of cellular structure having generally large area door arrangements for closing the open fronts of the cells; handling ledges or strips are mounted at the edges of the doors, with finger grooves provided in the outer surfaces of each of the handling ledges opening in a direction generally parallel to the main exterior surface of the respective door, and with profile bands of generally T-shaped transverse cross section sheathing the front edges of the cell walls; the handling ledges and profile bands are arranged in such manner that in the closed condition of the doors, the inner longitudinal edge of the outer surface of the handling ledge is in close proximity to the adjacent edge of the cross bar of the profile band, whereby, as viewed from the front, the handling ledge and associated profile band form a homogeneous whole. A novel profile band comprising two separate parts is also disclosed.

Abstract: A cushioning dunnage product produceable from a mechanism which is of relatively compact nature utilizing a roll of sheet-like stock material, such as paper. As the stock is pulled off the roll, the edges are rolled inwardly in a longitudinally convergent chute, into generally superimposed condition. Pusher means urges the sheet-like stock material laterally toward a confronting surface of the chute. Then the inwardly rolled stock is passed into a crumpler section where mechanism attach together the confronting portions of the rolled edges of the stock material generally centrally, in a direction lengthwise thereof, to retain the dunnage product in highly compressible, lightweight pad-like form. A transfer vehicle is adapted to coact with the dunnage producing mechanism for storing a preselected amount of the pad-like dunnage product on the vehicle, whereupon the vehicle can be moved to a location distant from the dunnage producing mechanism for use at the distant location.

Abstract: Endothermic calcination of raw material is effected at a temperature lower than that required for sintering or a chemical reaction, and whereby the calcination is performed in a rotary kiln in which the raw material is in the form of a slurry consisting initially of raw mix and water, the water being partially removed to form a sludge cake which is pelletized and fed downwards through a vertical calciner in the form of a bed consisting of packed pellets, and heat from an axially arranged burner is supplied in a downward stream through the calciner, and the flue gases of the rotary kiln are fed to the calciner to form an upwards directed countercurrent gas flow turbulently passing at a high velocity through the interstices between the packed pellets.

Abstract: A solar engine including an air motor driven by a quantity of pressurized hot air from a solar heater vessel and including an air pump for pumping substantially an equal mass of cool air back into the solar heater. The driving action of the air motor and simultaneous pumping action of the pump is accomplished in one embodiment by means of a moving piston which separates the driving and pumping sides of the air motor enclosure, whereby substantially both displaced volumes are substantially equal. Air is used as both the heat transfer means and as the actual working fluid. The engine provides for an unlimited life for the solar collector, and an engine of relatively low friction and substantial simplicity.

Abstract: An apparatus for shearing an elongated metal workpiece by applying a generally radial compressive load to the workpiece generally circumferentially thereof, and shearing the workpiece adjacent the compressive load applying means along a plane generally perpendicular to the lengthwise axis of the workpiece.

Abstract: A novel actuator is provided for use on a pressurized aerosol can which provides a circular actuator disk concentric around the standard centrally located liquid outlet for such an aerosol can, the actuator disk having a central downwardly extending projection of a diameter to snugly embrace a standard spray head commonly attached to the outlet tube of an aerosol can. Two modifications show a compression spring held between the spray head and the actuator disk.