Abstract: A container is provided to hold and display a group of fragile articles, such as candles. The container comprises an open-topped box having a rectangular bottom and upright front, back and end walls. Each of the end walls has an upwardly projecting extension the width of which is substantially one-half that of the end wall. One of these upward extensions is adjacent to the front wall and the other is adjacent to the rear wall. The inner edges of these extensions are joined to the opposite edges of a partition wall that lies in a plane parallel to and midway between the front and back of the box. The upward extensions and the partition thus cooperate to form a pair of back-to-back vertical compartments above the top of the box, each having a back formed by the partition wall and one side formed by one of the extensions. Articles set vertically into the box have their upper portions received in the vertical compartments to be supported thereby in upright arrangement exposed to view and to inspection.

Abstract: A completely enclosed combination clutch and brake mechanism permanently mounted at the bottom of a vertical shaft internal combustion engine of the type used to power rotary lawn mowers, is interposed between the crankshaft of the engine and a coaxial blade shaft projecting down from the bottom of the enclosed clutch and brake mechanism to have the cutting blade of the mower fixed thereto. A rotatable driving member fixed to the engine crankshaft and a rotatable driven member fixed to the blade shaft are drivingly coupled by radially outwardly movable clutch elements carried by the driven member and frictionally engaged with a radially inwardly facing circular surface on the driving member. Such frictional engagement results from the application to the clutch elements of both spring force and centrifugal force.

Abstract: The mounting for a visor of a helmet comprises an arcuate track located at the side of the rigid headshell and centered on the visor axis, a shoe connected with the visor and movable along the track, a control element for moving the shoe and hence the visor and means for clamping the shoe to the track. Initial movement of the control element relative to the shoe serves to release the clamping means which may comprise rollers wedging between inclined surfaces of the shoe and the opposing track surface. The visor can be replaced by other helmet borne equipment.

Abstract: A normally disengaged helical spring clutch in which a connection between the control sleeve and the endmost one of the coils of the spring that encircle the hub of the driven element prevents that endmost coil from contacting any part of the driven element when the clutch is disengaged, and in which a reduction in diameter of the end portion of the hub of the driving element brings about a more effective torque transmitting connection between the driving and driven elements when the clutch is engaged and, by the same token, increases the shape-restoring force in the coils of the spring that encircle the contiguous end portions of the hubs, and thereby assures rapid and positive disengagement of the spring from the hub of the driven element.

Abstract: A reversible plough comprises a frame member, at least one support member pivotally mounted on the frame member and two cranked plough legs pivotally mounted on the support member, and biassed toward their operative positions, in which during normal ploughing operations the support member is held in its operative position, but when an obstacle is encountered by the plough body and the working plough leg deflected, the support member is permitted to rotate relative to the frame member.

Abstract: Inside the fuel tank of a small engine liquid fuel system is a buffer chamber that has its interior communicated with the rest of the tank interior only through a small upper air vent and a restricted bottom fuel port. During fueling, fuel enters the buffer chamber slowly and continues to enter it after the tank is apparently full, lowering the fuel level sufficiently to prevent seepage through the tank cap. The engine crankcase is vented to the carburetor air induction passage through a breather check valve in the carburetor body. A first valve, responsive to pressure differences between the atmosphere and the tank interior, vents overpressures in the tank to the crankcase. A second valve, responsive to the difference between tank pressure and subatmospheric cranckcase pressure, admits air to the tank when the engine is running.

Abstract: An open center type control valve for a hydraulic motor, wherein pressure fluid from a source is caused to flow from the valve inlet to a motor port at a substantially uniformly metered rate despite fluctuations in the load on the governed fluid motor, due to the operation of a flow control mechanism which regulates bypass of excess fluid through the open center passage to the valve outlet in accordance with variations in the pressure differential between the inlet and outlet end portions of the open center passage.

Abstract: An automatic coil winding machine having mechanism for automatically emplacing a sheet of insulating material upon completion of the winding of each layer of turns, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,688,450, is improved to effect tight winding of the sheets. A row of resilient spring fingers is mounted on the sheet delivering element of the machine. When that element is in its forward, sheet-delivering position, a localized surface portion of each finger engages under bias against the coil form, to impose a slight drag on the sheet being wound, said surfaces being located to first engage the sheet after about half a turn of its wrap around the coil form. When the sheet delivering element is in its rearward position, the fingers are spaced from the coil form.

Abstract: A type carrier for use in phototypesetting, comprising an opaque planar disc having at least two concentric circular rows of transparencies that define alpha-numeric characters, characterized in that the alpha-numeric characters in one of said circular rows are inverted duplicates of the alpha-numeric characters in the other of said rows.

Abstract: A combined float bowl carburetor and fuel pump for small engines has a lateral extension on its carburetor body that terminates at a flat exterior surface to which open certain cavities and a passageway leading to the float valve inlet. A block-like pump body having flat inner and outer surfaces overlies said exterior surface and has cavities opening to its inner surface that cooperate with those in the carburetor body. A resilient pump membrane, providing a pump diaphragm and valves, is confined between the pump body and said exterior surface. Two cavities open to the outer face of the pump body, which is overlain by an imperforate resilient membrane to define inlet and outlet surge chambers that are respectively communicated with the pump by way of the inlet and outlet valves. All cavities, inlets and outlets are arranged to ensure maintenance of a consistent head of fuel at every inlet.

Abstract: A lamp ballast connectable with a d.c. source comprises a regulating device having a voltage coil and a load coil. The voltage coil is connected in a circuit in parallel with the series-connected load coil and lamp. Alternate charge and discharge of a capacitor connected with the voltage coil impresses an alternating voltage thereacross. The capacitor is charged by current through the voltage coil and is discharged through a resonant commutating circuit comprising a thyristor triggered from an oscillator pulse circuit at a frequency of several KHz. The commutating circuit, which has a resonant frequency about twice that of the oscillator, further comprises a commutating reactor having substantially lower impedance than the load and voltage coils, a back current diode, and a resistance-capacitance dV/dt clamp that reduces back voltage spikes across the thyristor to safe rates of rise.

Abstract: The hydropneumatic accumulator disclosed herein comprises a rigid upright vessel, the mouth of which is at the bottom, containing an inverted bag-like bladder. The mouths of the vessel and of the bladder are sealed to one another. The bladder extends upwardly within the vessel interior and divides the same into inner and outer compartments which respectively contain an incompressible liquid medium and a compressible gaseous medium. To protect the bladder from damage by uncontrolled flexure of its wall in response to variations in the relative pressures within the inner and outer compartments, an inverted conical shape-defining member projects down into the upper closed end of the bladder and a perforated rigid shell projects upwardly into the bottom of the bladder. In addition, vertically extending circumferentially spaced stiffening ribs are formed in the wall of the bladder to hold the bladder upright.

Abstract: A reversible plough has a headstock, a plough frame and a reversing spindle secured to the frame and rotatable in the headstock. A stop member rotatable about the reversing spindle is provided with two adjustable stops to enable the two ploughing positions of the plough frame to be preset relative to the headstock. To reverse the plough frame from one ploughing position to the other, the spindle and thus the plough frame is rotated by a hydraulic ram and an abutment on the spindle engages the stop member to cause said member to rotate with the spindle until the corresponding stop engages the headstock to locate the spindle and hence the plough frame in the other ploughing position.

Abstract: A vertical watertube boiler in which a bank of vertically oriented uniformly spaced watertubes, located in an upright cylindrical shell that has enlarged diameter upper and lower end portions, connect paired headers mounted on and protruding into diametrically opposite sides of the enlarged diameter end portions of the shell, the end portions of the tubes being bent laterally outward and joined to wall portions common to the headers and the gas pass formed by the shell; the headers associated with the upper enlarged diameter end portion of the shell being connected by risers with a steam drum and the headers at the lower enlarged end portion of the shell being connected with the steam drum by downcomers.

Abstract: For feeding logs to a sawing machine, two parallel horizontal I-beams, at a level above the sawing machine, guidingly support an inner and an outer feed carriage. From each carriage pincers-like log supporting jaws extend obliquely downwardly and in the feed direction. The I-beams provide an inner track that has its rails between the rails of an outer track. The inner carriage is wholly between the rails of the inner track and rides thereon. The outer carriage bridges over both tracks and rides on the outer one, and its jaw operating mechanism has portions above the level of the inner track and other portions extending down from said level that are laterally outside the outer track. The carriages can therefore pass one another and exchange leading/trailing relationship for each successive log. Mechanism is disclosed for causing carriage jaws to close on a positioned log without shifting it but by which the closed jaws can be laterally shifted as desired.

Abstract: A saturable reactor for correction of pincushion distortion of a TV picture tube raster has, in one form, a magnetically saturable two window core. A single wire control coil is wound transversely around the central leg segment of the core and is connected with the vertical frequency sawtooth driver in a parabolic wave shaping network. A first load coil, wound transversely around one outer core leg, is connected in series circuit with the horizontal frequency sawtooth driver and the horizontal deflection coils. A second load coil is wound around the exterior of the core, in lengthwise embracing relation to its other outer leg, and is connected in series with the vertical deflection coils and also in a phase inverting resonant loop circuit.

Abstract: An aircraft-carried omnidirectional assembly of retroreflectors for reciprocal-direction reflection of laser beams comprises an aerodynamically slender body having fittings on its medial portion for attachment to underwing supports for externally carried loads. Recessed in each end portion of the body are a plurality of individual retroreflectors, one coaxial and facing endwise outwardly, the rest spaced lengthwise from it and one another and facing in different generally lateral directions but with their axes intersecting the longitudinal axis of the body and uniformly inclined towards the adjacent body extremity. The incident sectors of the several retroreflectors at each end of the body slightly overlap and complement one another to provide, collectively, a hemispherical incident sector symmetrical to the body axis and complementary to the collective hemispherical incident sector of the retroreflectors at the other end portion of the body.

Abstract: A vertical firetube boiler in which the upper tube sheet has a dished formation to coact with an annular baffle spaced down from the peripheral portion of the upper tube sheet, to cause the circulating steam-water mixture in the boiler to flow radially outward along the underside of the upper tube sheet to a circular row or belt of holes that open to an annular steam collecting chamber.