Abstract: A forklift type assembly for impaling, lifting and carrying a large round bale of hay. The assembly has a backframe with adjustable means for mounting it on the lift mechanism of a small farm tractor. A tubular sheath with a brace on its underside projects from the front of the frame. The rear end of a bale spike, made of a high tensile strength steel rod having a pointed tip, is removably mounted in the sheath. Also mounted on the frame below the sheath and on each side thereof are two forwardly projecting auxiliary bale spikes of reduced length.

Abstract: An afterburner device for injecting fresh air laterally into the exhaust gas streams of a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine. The afterburner has a planar gasket section for mounting between the engine block and the exhaust manifold. Exhaust gas stream port holes extend laterally through the gasket section in alignment with similar port holes in the engine block and manifold. A plurality of fresh air input passages within the gasket section extend from the port holes to a fresh air supply plenum section of the afterburner.

Abstract: A rugged fuel rail assembly for holding a plurality of electromechanical fuel injector elements in aligned positions on an internal combustion engine. The beam portion of the fuel rail is comprised of two elongated manifold members with overlapping sides brazed together. One of the manifold members has a series of planar sites with apertures for retaining and precisely aligning a plurality of injector cups. To prevent vapor locks the injector cups are mounted with their cavities in close proximity to the inside of the fuel rail. In addition to being designed for ease of assembly and to provide adequate rigidity without excessive weight, the fuel rail is designed so that various fabricating steps, including the insertion on an internal divider, can be performed from the inside of the rail members prior to assembly.

Abstract: A rugged fuel rail assembly for holding a plurality of electromechanical fuel injector elements in aligned positions on an internal combustion engine. The beam portion of the fuel rail is comprised of two elongated manifold members with overlapping sides brazed together. One of the manifold members has a series of planar sites with apertures for retaining and precisely aligning a plurality of injector cups. To prevent vapor locks the injector cups are mounted with their cavities in close proximity to the inside of the fuel rail. The fuel rail is structurally designed for ease of assembly and to provide adequate rigidity without excessive weight.

Abstract: A compact heat exchanger suitable for use in an automotive exhaust gas recirculation system. It has two interconnected elongated cooling chambers supported within a two piece outer casing. The fluid to be cooled enters the first cooling chamber at an intermediate location, flows towards opposite ends of the chamber then out of the first chamber into the ends of a second chamber through connecting passageways and finally towards an outlet located intermediate the ends of the second chamber. The cooling fluid enters the outer casing at one end flows over and along one side of the first chamber then through an aperture in a flange that divides the casing into two compartments. From this aperture it flows along and over both sides of the second chamber and one side of the first chamber to an outlet located at the same end as the coolant inlet. The component parts are designed to be assembled in a foolproof manner and copper brazed together with relative ease.

Abstract: A tubular metal nipple for joining with the end of a copper tube by means of solder to readily produce a reliable joint in refrigeration plumbing system. The nipple has a inner copper sleeve concentrically spaced from the inside wall of a steel outer casing with an impervious intervening layer of brazing material filling the space and bonding the sleeve to the outer casing. The distal end of the sleeve is tapered or flared outwardly to produce an annular solder well when a tube end is inserted into the nipple.

Abstract: A mold assembly and method for automatically making crown bottom blown glassware wherein a charge of molten glass is shaped into a hollow preform in a parison mold by means of a plunger. The hollow preform or parison is removed from the parison mold and placed in a finishing mold having a bottom forming assembly comprised of an annular member slidably contained in the bottom end of the finish mold and a domed central member slidably mounted in the annular member such that it can be reciprocated from a normally retracted position level with or slightly below the top surface of the annular member to a position above that surface.

Abstract: A glass article such as a sham bottom tumbler with a decorative air bubble encapsulated in its base is produced on existing automatic glass-forming machines by injecting a bubble of air into a charge of molten glass in the gob-feeder section of a glass furnace as the charge is being formed into a gob. This is accomplished by mounting an air supply pipe in the gob-feeder orifice. Preferably, the outlet end of the pipe extends radially to the center of the orifice. Puffs of compressed air are supplied in synchronism with the feeder plunger cycle so an air bubble is formed in the lower end of the gob, and the gob is then formed by normal procedures into a finished article.

Abstract: A glass article such as a sham bottom tumbler with decorative air bubble encapsulated in its base is produced on existing automatic glass-forming machines by injecting a bubble of air into a charge of molten glass in the gob-forming section of a glass furnace as the charge is being formed into a gob. This is accomplished by providing an air supply tube in the gob-forming plunger. Preferably, the lower tip of the tube extends below the lower tip of the plunger. Puffs of compressed air are supplied in synchronism with the plunger cycle so an air bubble is formed in the lower end of the gob, and the gob is then formed by normal procedures into a finished article.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or nestable container having a unitary sidewall formed from a double-ended sheet of a heat-shrinkable thermoplastic material, the inner suface of which is adapted to contact a liquid product to be contained in said container. The ends of the sheet are joined to one another forming a liquid-tight seam extending from the top to the bottom of said container. An open mouth at the top is defined by the upper portion of the sidewall. The container sidewall tapers inwardly and downwardly from the open mouth for a major portion of the height of said container. The thickness of the sidewall increases continuously and progressively over this major portion from a lesser thickness at the top thereof to a greater thickness at the bottom thereof. The density of the sidewall continuously and progressively decreases over this major portion from a greater density at the top thereof to a lesser density at the bottom thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a heat-sprinkable secondary closure for a container are disclosed, wherein filled, lidded containers moved by conveyor means are delivered to a secondary closure formation and application station, where a band of heat-shrinkable thermoplastic adhesive tape is wrapped around each container such that the tacky side of the tape faces the container, with tape overlapping the seam formed between the periphery of the lid and the sidewall of the container. The tape band is severed from the tape supply during wrapping, and heater means located adjacent the container shrinks the tape into compressive engagement with the periphery of the lid and the sidewall of the container as the tape is wrapped thereabout.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it to shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall.

Abstract: A cup or other nestable container is formed from two continuous web stocks of thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material. A rectangular blank to form the sidewall of the container is severed from a first web stock, and formed into a cylindrical sleeve with the end portions thereof joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof. A circular bottom closure disc is cut from a second web stock and transferred to a recessed top of a forming mandrel carried on a continuously-moving turret. The cylindrical sleeve is positioned about the forming mandrel, which carries the sleeve and bottom closure disc to various subassemblies that cooperate with the forming mandrel to produce a finished cup. The cylindrical sleeve is forced downwardly into a heated rimming die positioned adjacent the lower edge of the forming mandrel to cause the lower edge of the sleeve to be rimmed.

Abstract: A fabricating apparatus for cuplike containers, including a continuously moving conveyor defining a closed path and having a plurality of spaced mandrels with an external configuration corresponding to the internal configuration of the containers. Processing assemblies located adjacent to a main conveyor act in timed relationship with the main conveyor to (a) preheat the mandrels, (b) form cylindrical sleeve blanks from a continuous web of thermoplastic material and telescope the sleeve blanks onto the mandrels, (c) simultaneously cut bottom disc closures from two continuous webs of thermoplastic material and deliver the discs serially to the mandrels, (d) rotate the mandrels carrying the sleeve blanks and discs as they are subjected to heat to shrink each sleeve blank about a mandrel in overlapped relationship with a bottom disc, (e) fuse the disc to the overlapping portion sidewalls of the container and (f) form a curved rim at the top of the cup to complete formation.

Abstract: A cup or other nestable container is formed from two continuous web stocks of thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material. A rectangular blank to form the sidewall of the container is severed from a first web stock, and formed into a cylindrical sleeve with the end portions thereof joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof. A circular bottom closure disc is cut from a second web stock and transferred to a recessed top of a forming mandrel carried on a continuously-moving turret. The cylindrical sleeve is positioned about the forming mandrel, which carries the sleeve and bottom closure disc to various subassemblies that cooperate with the forming mandrel to produce a finished cup. The cylindrical sleeve is forced downwardly into a heated rimming die positioned adjacent the lower edge of the forming mandrel to cause the lower edge of the sleeve to be rimmed.

Abstract: A transfer device for seriately receiving from a forming machine frustoconical paper bucket bodies, nestably accumulating them in a horizontal column in a cylindrical front section of a rotatable drum, loosening the nested bucket bodies from each other in an enlarged cylindrical rear section of the drum, randomly separating the column of bucket bodies into small groups, intermittently conveying successive groups axially away from said drum to a lateral conveyor, conveying the groups laterally to a remote processing machine and adavancing said groups axially into said machine in a direction opposite from the first axial direction.

Abstract: A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it to shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall.

Abstract: A suction accumulator for use in a refrigerant compressing-evaporating system to accumulate in a reservoir the liquid phase of an incoming refrigerant fluid flowing into the accumulator and to control the return of the liquid to the gaseous refrigerant stream flowing out of the accumulator. A weir member located between an inlet and outlet of the accumulator vessel is utilized in conjunction with the vessel wall to form an outlet passageway or flume on one side of the weir end and a reservoir on the other side of the weir.