Abstract: An inside-out cutter for material such as tow in which there is a single pressure roller, which roller has an outside diameter larger than one-half the inside diameter described by the cutting edges of the blades. The large diameter of such roller provides a gradual rather than an abrupt entrance-way for the fiber between the roller and the blades. The apparatus further is constructed to permit the movement of the pressure roller to be moved from a fiber cutting relation to the blades to a more centered position for removal of the roller from the apparatus, as when changing blades or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved ginning system incorporating a roller gin and a feeder for the same. Means is provided for presenting the cotton to the roller gin substantially one lock at a time. Incorporated in the gin is means to move the ginning roller into and out of ginning relation to the ginning knife, and means is provided in the system to cause the ginning roller to move out of ginning relation to the knife whenever there is less than a predetermined amount of seed cotton in the feeder.

Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus for cutting piling, trees and the like, provided with means permitting the apparatus to be placed about a pile or the like by moving it generally normal to the longitudinal axis of the pile. Specifically, the apparatus comprises longitudinal frame members carrying at one end a driven blade and at the other end a stationary blade or anvil. The stationary blade is mounted on an end cross member, one end of which is pivotally secured to one of the longitudinal frame members and the other end of which is adapted for locking to the other of the members. By pivoting the end member carrying the stationary blade upwardly or out of the general plane of the frame, the device may be opened up so that it may be slipped about a piling or tree, without having to be lowered thereabout as has heretofore been required.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for centrifugal casting in which the support for the rotating permanent or semi-permanent molds is so constructed and arranged as to insure long life for the bearings which support the rotating parts of the mechanism. Also, the construction permits the rotating molds to be substantially enclosed by a housing so that water may be sprayed down onto the units during the casting operation without at the same time spraying the bearings or otherwise wetting the portions of the machinery required to be kept dry. Still further, the improved casting device comprises essentially three supporting shafts, one of which may be driven, so relatively located as to simultaneously support for rotating two molds, whereby two castings may be made from a supporting and driving shaft system powered by a single motor or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reinforcing pad adapted to be glued or otherwise secured to the high-wear areas of athletic shoes. Specifically, the pad comprises generally a tear drop or triangular-shaped piece of high denisty or high impact material such as polyurethane having a durometer of from about 70 to about 95 on the Shore A scale. The body is adapted to be secured to the shoe with the hypotenuse of the triangle or one side of the tear drop shape extending generally fore and aft of the sole and with the thicker side of the shape adjacent an edge of the sole.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved puller especially adapted for removing pulleys from the shafts of engines such as lawn mower engines, small tractor engines, etc. The puller comprises generally a box-like member of heavy steel plates with one open wall. A jack screw is threadedly associated with one wall and a pulley, mounted on the shaft, is adapted to be received in position for operative thrust engagement with an opposite wall. Running in on the jack screw forces the hub or central portion of the pulley into operative thrust contact with the opposite wall, whereby the shaft is moved axially of the pulley, thus effectively removing the pulley without damage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process and apparatus for assemblying spiral wound gaskets into gauge rings. The process comprises exerting inwardly directed radial forces on the exterior of the spiral wound gasket, causing it to decrease in diameter sufficiently to slip into the gauge ring. The apparatus comprises a holder having a tapered opening and a mandrel which is adapted to engage the periphery of the gasket. As the mandrel with the gasket in place is pushed downwardly through the tapered opening, the mandrel's diameter is decreased and consequently the outer diameter of the spiral gasket is decreased. Means is provided to hold the gauge ring in position immediately adjacent the minor diameter end of the tapered opening in the holder, whereby as the mandrel pushes the gasket out of the minor diameter end it is immediately placed in the hole in the gauge ring where the forces are then released. The gasket is then free to expand outwardly to a tight fit into the gauge ring.

Abstract: A fifth wheel of the kind having a king pin jaw and locking wedge is provided with means accessible from the outside of the fifth wheel to free the wedge in the event it becomes impossible to move the same with the usual operating handle. The member for moving the wedge is adapted to be struck with a tool such as a hammer to impart a shock force, thus to free the wedge. Also, the member is adjustable toward and from the wedge thus to permit the wedge to compensate for wear of the jaw.

Abstract: A wagon body adapted to receive and transport seed cotton and the like and which has an elongated deck and upstanding end and side walls, the side walls being pivotally arranged for the upper portions thereof to move toward and away from each other. With the walls in spread apart position the wagon is loaded with cotton whereupon the side walls are moved inwardly, thus to compress the cotton. The side walls are power driven by means of an elongated torsion member which extends from end to end of the body and a plurality of links operatively connected between the torsion member and the side walls.

Abstract: The specification discloses apparatus for baling fibers in which the baling chamber is defined at least in part by one wall mounted for movement from a first position relative to an opposite wall to a second position farther from the second wall. There is means for moving the movable wall away from the second wall after the platen has entered the baling chamber but prior to final compression of the bale therein or means to move the wall in response to a predetermined bale compressing position of the movable platen. Further, the wall may be moved in response to a predetermined compressive force exerted by the platen on the bale. Still further, means is provided to overcompress the bale to some extent thus to destroy some of the inherent spring-back of the bale of fibers.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for drying textile stock and the like which assures even, thorough and quick drying of a batch of stock. The process embodies the steps of passing heated air under pressure through the stock along a multiplicity of paths so that the air will not channel itself, but passes through the stock substantially completely in contact with all of the wet fibers. A second feature of the process is the concept of pressing the stock while passing heated air through the same along a multiplicity of paths. The process is further characterized by engaging a column of the stock between two platens, both of which are perforated and one of which is movable and applying a head of heated air under pressure above the movable platen so that the pressure of the air causes the platen to act somewhat as a piston, the air also being forced through the holes in the movable platen to pass through the stock along a multiplicity of substantially discrete paths.

Abstract: An improved, portable, inexpensive solar heater for water and similar liquids. The heater comprises a tank triangular in transverse cross section, the hypotenuse of the triangular shape being closed by a wall effective to pass solar heat energy into the contents of the tank. A pivoted cover is provided for the hypotenuse wall and the inner surface of the cover is reflective, thus to augment the heat received by the contents of the tank. Preferably the tank and cover are made of shells filled with heat insulating material.

Abstract: A ring type debarker in which the arm carrying section is mounted for rotation on a centrally disposed, tube-like member through which the logs pass while being debarked. The central support member is supported in cantilever fashion from the outfeed end thereof. Mounted for rotation with the arm carrying section are means to circulate oil through the main bearing which supports the rotary parts and an air compressor and a receiver for the same. Each arm is equipped with expansible flexible bellows-like air bag members for holding the tool ends of the arms in log engaging positions. The compressor and pump are driven by means of a ring gear mounted on the ring support member, the pump and compressor in turn carrying pinions in mesh with said ring gear.

Abstract: A pseudo palate is formed of a thin sheet of material shaped to the contour of the palate of a person whose speech is to be tested. On the lingual surface of the sheet is an array of electrodes located in the lingual contact areas of the palate and spaced apart predetermined distances. Conductors attached to the electrodes are embedded in the sheet and are grouped together in at least one bundle to exit from the palate at its posterior, into the buccal cavity of the patient's mouth where the bundle of conductors may exit from the mouth at a corner thereof. These conductors are attached to suitable instrumentation which may give a visual or possibly aural signal corresponding to the position of the tongue when the patient makes, or attempts to make, designated speech sounds.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for controlled application of granular refractory material to the linings of ladles, furnaces, and other open top vessels employed in the handling of molten metals. The apparatus comprises a generally vertically arranged pair of telescopically related conduits, there being a nozzle on the lower end of the innermost conduit. Granular material is supplied to the upper end of the innermost conduit and water is supplied through a member to the upper end of the outer conduit and from the lower end of the outer conduit to the nozzle. Means is provided for rotating the conduits and hence the nozzle. Other means is provided for raising and lowering the nozzle and the entire apparatus may be suspended from a crane or the like over the vessel whose lining is to be coated, repaired, filled, etc.

Abstract: Apparatus for blending, paralleling and cleaning fibers such as cotton and synthetics. The apparatus comprises a work roll having its surface covered with metallic wire and an arcuate, metallic wire section cooperating with a portion of the periphery of the work roll. The fiber is fed between the roll and arcuate surface, accomplishing the improved results noted in the accompanying specification.

Abstract: An improved system for removing modules of seed cotton either from a pallet, a transport vehicle, or, with slight modifications, from the ground when incorporated as a part of a transport vehicle. The apparatus comprises a conveyor with a discharge end and a receiving end. At the receiving end there is provided a cotton module engaging and lifting mechanism comprising a plurality of driven, toothed, disc-like lifting members, a multiplicity of the same being mounted in a framework for vertical reciprocation so that upon engaging an oncoming mass of seed cotton the entire unit moves downwardly, thus to get under and lift the seed cotton onto the conveyor. The cotton is fed to a disperser unit which breaks it down into individual locks, or at least groups of locks small enough to be fed to a gin.

Abstract: A bag especially adapted to receive liquid, for instance, motor oil being drained from the internal combustion engine of an automobile. The bag is so constructed that the mouth of the same is held open and elevated above the general level of the bag when the bag is laid on the ground beneath the engine so that as oil runs into the mouth of the bag it is permitted to run into the body of the same, thus to be contained in the bag at a level lower than the upper portion of the mouth. Two embodiments are disclosed, both of which are provided with means to hold the mouth elevated above the level of the body of the bag, and both of which are foldable to permit the bag to be shipped or stored substantially flat.

Abstract: A guillotine-type valve in which the plate thereof is sealed around all edges relative to the housing in which it operates, said seals being pressure assisted. Adjacent the periphery of the plate, including its upper and lower edges, are curved, flexible strips of sealing material which contact the opposite face surfaces of the plate near the edges to form the seal. Surrounding such seals is a chamber and means is provided to maintain such chamber under pressure greater than the pressure of the fluid being controlled by the valve.