Abstract: The disclosure relates to a turbine rotor and method of manufacture thereof. A plurality of blades having dovetails at the radially inner ends thereof are arranged in a circumferentially spaced circular array. A metallic hub is cast about the dovetails of said blades which are metallurgically bonded by the operation. Alternatively, the blades may be joined to the hub thereafter by an electron beam weld that extends axially to the rotor.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hose clamp comprising a band, a housing having a pair of juxtaposed legs having tabs engaged in load transfer relationship in an aperture in one end of said clamp band, and a screw journaled in said housing engageable with the other end of said band. A relieved area is provided between the legs of the clamp housing which permits the legs to rotate relative to one another about a point intermediate the width thereof to minimize spreading of the tabs and thereby to preclude rupture of the band at the aperture therein.

Abstract: A piston seal assembly comprises a seal element of relatively hard material to resist extrusion. The element is of serpentine configuration to facilitate radial expansion. Backup elements nest with the seal element to stabilize the element within a complementary piston groove.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a turbine wheel using an elastomeric mold for the acceptance of powdered metal. The powdered metal is cold isostatically pressed and thereafter heated to effect metallurgical bonding thereof.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine intended for airborne applications in which several of the main bearings of the engine are contained in a bearing cavity and oil is scavenged from this cavity by allowing air from the high pressure region of the engine to leak into the cavity and then flow downwardly, together with entrained scavenge oil from the cavity, through an oversized cored passage housing a quill shaft driving the accessory gearbox for delivery to a crude separator at the bottom of the gearbox where the air is discharged to a low pressure region of the engine and the deaerated oil is delivered to the inlet of the scavenge pump. The leakage air flow effectively scavenges oil from the bearing cavity in all attitudes of the engine and also induces a flow of scavenge oil from the gearbox during upright operation.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an environmental protection system comprising a Rankine cycle power loop wherein a working fluid is heated by either the combustion of a fuel or by heat exchange from internal combustion engine exhaust. A high frequency turboalternator is driven by the power loop working fluid for the production of high frequency alternating current. An electrically driven Rankine cycle cooling loop uses a second working fluid to effect cooling of a desired media.

Abstract: A bottom pour ingot mould system and more particularly a sprue plate having a plurality of horizontally extending runners therein and a plurality of upstanding guide pads spaced from the horizontal runners to effect positioning of each mould relative to an outlet in a horizontal runner. Molten steel is poured down a vertical runner, after which it moves horizontally then upwardly into the ingot mould.

Abstract: A casting process for making and utilizing an elastomeric pattern that is coated with a non-metallic material to form a non-metallic shell mold and thereafter removed from the non-metallic shell mold by thermal decomposition or mechanical stripping.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a die transfer system for a press having a bolster for the support of a die. The system comprises a pair of elongated, parallel upwardly opening cavities having horizontally extending vertically movable rails therein. A plurality of rollers are supported by each rail so as to be movable vertically therewith. An air bag extends longitudinally of each of said cavities under said rails and is engageable with the bottom thereof. Inflation of the air bags effects elevation of the rails and rollers into engagement with the bottom of the die and elevation of the die relative to the press bolster.

Abstract: An oil seal element and method of manufacture thereof from polytetrafluoroethylene or the like. A tubular billet having concentric inner and outer cylindrical surfaces is provided with a frusto-conical end face. Arcuate slits of varying depth and angle are cut in the end face of the billet at each of a plurality of angularly spaced positions. Indexing of the billet is synchronized with rotation of the slitting tool. A disk of desired thickness having arcuate slits on one of its faces is then sliced from the billet, thereby also facing the billet for the next slitting sequence.

Abstract: A switch assembly comprising a flexible face cover membrane; a flexible keyboard membrane positioned immediately below the face cover membrane and including a base portion and a plurality of raised hollow contact pad portions projecting upwardly from the base portion through openings in the face cover member; a flexible printed circuit board membrane positioned below the keyboard membrane for switching coaction with the contact pad portions of the keyboard membrane; and adhesive means bonding the membranes together into a thin, flexible sealed switch sandwich. In one embodiment of the invention, the keyboard membrane is formed of a non-conductive elastomeric material and conductive elastomeric buttons are secured to the underside of the contact pad portions of the keyboard membrane for coaction with printed circuitry on the upper surface of the circuit board membrane.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a gas turbine rotor or stator using elastomeric rings for the retention of the rotor or stator blades in a core mold. The elastomeric rings are split to facilitate disassembly thereof from the blade core which is thereafter utilized in a cope and drag casting system.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for manufacturing a ceramic heat exchanger wherein a layer of ceramic material is deposited on a fugitive carbon form by chemical vapor deposition. The carbon form is thereafter burned away from the ceramic material to form a heat exchanger element. A plurality of heat exchanger elements are bonded to one another by chemical vapor deposition to form a homogeneous ceramic heat exchanger.

Abstract: The invention relates to a carded goods merchandiser comprising a plurality of like racks each of which has a plurality of horizontally extending vertically spaced fingers thereon and a like plurality of vertically spaced apertures horizontally aligned with said fingers. The fingers of each rack are accepted in the apertures of an adjacent normally related rack to form a rigid free standing rectangular array. The fingers on each rack have vertical web portions that are accepted in vertical slots of merchandise mounting cards.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fastener assembly comprising a nut and a washer that insures a minimum preload on the nut and bolt assembly by load indicator means which also maintain the nut and washer in a joint preassembly.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a blind plastic rivet having a fully polymerized head and shear portion and a partially polymerized head forming portion. The head forming portion is deformed upon heating due to tensioning of a centrally disposed mandrel thereby to form a blind rivet having a fully polymerized blind head.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a reinforced plastic rivet comprising a plurality of substantially continuous carbon fibres encapsulated in a partially polymerized thermoset resin matrix and enveloped in a high tensile strength low modulus tubular sheath. A portion of the rivet is deformable to form a head and fully polymerizable upon heating thereof.

Abstract: A windshield wiper blade made of a synthetic elastomeric material includes an elongated body having a longitudinal axis; at least three side-by-side, longitudinally extending wiping ribs integral with the body, the wiping ribs projecting outwardly from the body and having outer ends lying in an arc which is concave toward the longitudinal axis of the body, the wiping ribs being constructed and arranged such that there is a squeegee rib with at least one scraping rib on each side thereof, the squeegee rib having a greater radial length than the scraping ribs; and a mounting rib integral with the body and projecting outwardly therefrom at a location essentially diametrically opposite the squeegee rib, the mounting rib providing a longitudinal extending hinge about which the body can swing in either direction, the arrangement being such that when the blade moves against a windshield the squeegee rib and the scraping rib or ribs on the side thereof facing in the direction of movement engages the windshield and th

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an improved recuperative heat exchanger for a turbine engine. Heat exchanger modules have discrete passages therein for the relatively high pressure compressor discharge air and relative low pressure exhaust gases. A continuous seal is provided at each end of the exhaust passages in the heat exchanger that is expandable into positive engagement with the heat exchange module.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a nut installation tool comprising a magazine for storing a plurality of nuts, a rotatable drive spindle having an internal configuration complementary to the external configuration of the nuts so as to slidably accept said nuts yet effect rotation thereof upon rotation of said drive spindle, power driven means for effecting rotation of said drive spindle, and means that function as a stop for said nuts that effects controlled release thereof from said magazine for movement outwardly thereof into said drive spindle.