Abstract: This invention features the concept of packaging a transmission so that it can be selectively embodied in any drive system as a unitary structure and serve per se, if desired, as the hub of a rotary drive element. A distinctive feature of this package is that the housing of the transmission unit serves as an output element.A preferred embodiment of the above described concept incorporates details of an output speed-controlled transmission comprising an input shaft, an output shaft and adjustable drive means by which said input shaft drives said output shaft and is characterized by means responsive to the rotational speed of the output shaft to adjust the drive means so as to maintain a predetermined rotational speed condition of the input shaft.

Abstract: The shock absorber illustrated includes a shell one end portion of which is biased from the other, by virtue of contained means, to establish a base length for said shell. Adapter means are provided for connecting the ends of said shell respectively with an overlying structure and a base for said structure. The shock absorber shell and the adapters are characterized by means capable of defining a separable connection therebetween facilitating a quick, precise, relative positioning of the parts, within permissible tolerances, as required to effect one of a plurality of possible extensions of said shell. The separable connector means are so designed as to enable a mechanic to quickly make the apparatus fit any one of a number of applications without need for a trial and error procedure.

Abstract: A cleaner system providing a compact package capable of installation and use in a minimal of space and substantially without loss of space by reason of its configuration. The arrangement provides for free access to all components. In preferred embodiment the system features vertically oriented pipe-like conduits serving as accepts and rejects headers which per se support vertically spaced pairs of cleaners connecting directly to said conduits in straight line configurations and with their rejects ends lower than their accepts ends. The cleaners of each pair are arranged parallel and functionally coupled to provide that to one end their accepts move in essentially parallel straight line flow to and tangentially inward of respectively opposite sides of the interior wall surface of the related accepts conduit. Their rejects flow in like fashion to and tangentially inward of respectively opposite sides of the interior wall surface of the related rejects conduit.

Abstract: A tip turbine type fan particularly adapted for use to effect a substantially instantaneous inflation of an emergency lifesaving device such as an escape slide or life raft. It features a housing having an improved unitized construction which defines an axial flow passage. A rotor within and transverse to said passage is operated under the influence of fluid under pressure directed from a chamber formed within and circumferentially of the wall structure of said housing. Drive of the rotor induces air from the environment surrounding the housing to enter the flow passage at one end to co-mingle with the fluid furnishing the motive power for the rotor and to move therewith from the passage to the interior of a connected article to be inflated.It is a feature of a preferred embodiment of the invention that the entrance to the flow passage is bridged by a platelike closure device which is normally biased to a position to seal the entrance to said flow passage.

Abstract: A buffing or polishing device characterized in its preferred embodiment by a hub comprised of a pair of generally dished or cup-shaped segments mounted in base abutted relation and having the base portions thereof adapted to connect to and be fixed for rotation with a drive shaft. The hub segments are identically constructed to include both male and female portions which are interfit and interlocked as the hub segments are placed in base abutted relation. They also include pins which coaxially dispose to provide anchor elements around which strip-like buffing or polishing elements are looped to have their respective ends diverge as they project outwardly from the hub. With the arrangement described, the divergent ends of the strips mutually combine to dispose as circumferentially and relatively widely spaced pairs, the elements of each pair being slightly convergent as they project in a sense radially of and outwardly from the hub.

Abstract: A direction pointer or indicator for removable attachment to the head of a golf club. A plate-like member projects forwardly of and in a relatively elevated relation to a golf club head and includes both an aperture by which an underlying ball can be seen and forwardly and rearwardly directed pointers to indicate a correct path of movement for the club head in striking the ball. The direction pointer has a light weight, one-piece and inexpensive construction and is readily mounted on and removed from the golf club head with no modification of the club head required.

Abstract: A heat transfer package characterized by a shell-like container within which a receptacle is nested and to which said receptacle is integrally connected. The shell-like container features an upstanding self-stabilizing outer wall section provided with air escape holes and so constructed to enable the wall section to be axially compressed yet having the property to retain its vertical stability on compression. Heat transfer means are included within said outer shell in a separated relation to the material within said receptacle and so arranged to be activated by an axial compression of said outer shell. On an axial compression of said shell, not only is there produced an activation of the heat transfer medium embodied therein but the wall section is collapsed into itself in a locked position while the package is resting on its base.

Abstract: A forming tool comprising a relatively rigid shank portion or holder mounting in bearing relation thereto and for limited rotation thereon an operating head. In the preferred embodiment illustrated the operating head is in the nature of a generally cylindrical body having a V-shaped notch. The formation of the notch in the cylindrical body produces thereon a pair of laterally spaced bearing surfaces for application to material to be worked, one of which functions as a fixing means and the other of which functions as a bending means.

Abstract: A toy device comprising an exercising teeter board mounted for rotation on and for movement with a rolling base. The board and its base are especially configured so that portions of one nests within the other so as to preclude a lateral or longitudinal shifting motion of one relative the other. This design lends significant safety features in that it permits persons riding the respective ends of the board, whether standing or sitting, to tilt the board and induce its longitudinal back and forth movement with its rolling base without fear of being thrown from the board due to a twisting or a longitudinal or lateral shifting movement of the board with reference to its base.

Abstract: A screen element for joining with other like elements in defining a screen surface over which liquid slurry embodying solids may flow for separating and classifying purposes, said screen element being designed to orient in a sense transverse to a slurry flow and having an elongate bar-like form a surface portion of which provides a segment of the screen flow surface, said element being characterized by at least one portion thereof intermediate its ends being laterally offset with respect to said ends, said laterally offset portion being configured to provide that the flow surface portion thereof has a progressively changing width intermediate its ends.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing pulp for use in the manufacture of kraft type products such as linerboard and bag grade paper comprising means for steaming small segments of fibrous material and defiberizing the same in a pressurized atmosphere and at an elevated temperature, means for mixing the defiberized material, while still hot, with hot kraft pulp and means connected to receive and then refine the mixture so obtained.

Abstract: This invention relates to a reversible hand operated device having equal utility as a hoist, winch or puller. It features a unique finger operated control housed in an opening of the operating lever of said device, which control may be smoothly shifted from one position to another to dictate either the raising or lowering function of the device as a hoist or an application of tension to or a release of tension from an applied load when the device is used as a winch or a puller. Preferred embodiments of the invention also feature a strong light weight frame comprised of opposed plates the major extent of which are held in a spaced parallel relation by reason of their adjacent ends being turned over, overlapped and simply interconnected to form flats to either end of the frame. The frame is distinguished by bridging pivot means one of which mounts the cable drum and operating lever of the device and another of which pivotally mounts a retainer pawl for engagement with a ratchet in connection with the drum.

Abstract: A control system for insuring synchronized operation of engines, such as those in a propeller driven aircraft, wherein a master engine dictates the speed and phase condition of a slave engine. The system features a timing generator in connection with the master engine and a speed detector in connection with the slave engine which are interrelated to produce a direct and accurate signal of an overspeed or underspeed, out of phase, condition of the slave engine, when such occurs. This signal is directed through an amplifier computer portion of the control system which embodies a unique dual servo arrangement for selectively routing the signal through different output channels. Low level outputs are modulated for a "soft" correcting influence. In any case, the output of the computer amplifier portion of the control system is directed to provide a representative current value in the windings of an electromagnet embodies in an improved governor operatively related to the slave engine.

Abstract: A work performing member in the nature of a tool or die component comprised of multiple axially related parts including one element which has a work performing end and a shank end and a second element capping the shank end and forming an extension thereof as well as forming thereon a head. The shank end of the one element and the head provided by the other are so formed to effectively and simply key together in an unmistakable fashion whereby to prevent rotation of one relative the other and means are provided for interconnection of the head element to the shank end of the other element in a manner to achieve a pressured connection thereof. Said head element, in a preferred embodiment is further characterized by a form emphasizing the pressured and precisely related disposition of the elements in the connection thereof by the positioning thereof through the medium of alignment pins utilizing means and methods such as described in the U.S. Letters Pat. No. 3,797,352.

Abstract: Foam producing apparatus comprising a container adapted to receive a small amount of chemical solution in its bottom including means for converting said solution into an extremely large volume of relatively "dry" foam. In connection with the container are series related means uniquely formed and arranged to wring and extract liquid from the bubbles of the foam at successive intervals in the course of its flow.Preferred applications of the invention contemplate the use of the "dry" bubbles of the foam as a vehicle for various chemicals such as weed killers, insecticides and fertilizers which will have the capability of an adherent deposit of the chemicals without significant dilution of their required strength.

Abstract: A diffuser device for use in disseminating air or other gaseous fluid under pressure characterized by wall structure at least a portion of which is formed of impermeable material having a multitude of normally sealed microscopic ruptures. Said wall structure, at least in the area of said ruptures, is characterized by the ability to flex when the interior wall surface thereof, which defines the diffuser chamber, is filled with air or other gaseous fluid under a predetermined level of pressure. Said ruptures are so designed that as long as the required air pressure is maintained they form a multitude of jet-like flow passages each of which has an exceedingly small diameter.

Abstract: A wall structure characterized by inner and outer wall coverings and positioned therebetween at least one protective inner layer defined by a rib-like formation defining a series of pocket-like spaces between said wall coverings, which spaces embody a protective medium forming with the rib-like formation and said wall coverings a wall structure which is highly resistant to impact, fragmentation or severe damage by piercing. The rib-like formation is of a material selected from the group consisting of precipitation hardening stainless steels, mar-aging nickel steels, alloy steels and titanium alloys and having a yield strength of at least about 200 ksi. The protective medium may include a fire quenching material.

Abstract: A photographic method and system for achieving three dimensional projection in which separately recorded right and left eye images are projected toward a viewing surface in a superposing relation. Intermediately disposing shutter means cause the right and left eye images to be cast on the viewing surface in a timed space relation, in differential increments, and with relatively high frequency interruption.

Abstract: A portable heat transfer unit in the form of a chemical package includes at least two chemical heat transfer materials separated by a chemical buffer material. In their dry state and in their separated condition the chemical heat transfer materials will remain inactive. The introduction of an activating fluid will cause the respective materials to individually and jointly react and interact to produce an extended heat transfer effect.