Abstract: A pultrusion die for forming elongated, serrated, fiber-reinforced articles is disclosed. The die comprises a die block having a cylindrical cavity therethrough and a plurality of cylindrical rods arranged in a cylindrical array about the sidewall of the cavity. Each rod contacts two adjacent rods at parallel lines of contact which are located along the length of each rod and which define inwardly facing cylindrical arcs of less than 180.degree. so that the rods lock each other against nonaxial movement. The inwardly facing arcs together define a serrated die cavity.

Abstract: A burner assembly in which various elements are joined in a manner which ensures gastight integrity of the assembly. A porcelain-coated base plate is formed of a pair of overlying steel sheets with integral embossments defining air-gas ducts to burner heads mounted on the base plate and defining ignition tubes for conducting a flame from a pilot housing to the burner heads. The air-gas ducts are sealed by establishing a pressurized flow of a slurry of ceramic frit therethrough, which is effective to coat the full interior of the ducts and close any crevices formed between the sheets. The burner head elements are arranged to provide metal-to-metal sealing engagement with peripheral edges of apertures in the base plate sheets which are characteristically free of porcelain enamel coating. An annular embossment on one of the sheets is preloaded by deflecting it toward the other sheet during assembly of the burner head elements.

Abstract: A method of constructing cast-in-place concrete piles by which the static load bearing capacity of a pile is dynamically determined during its formation. In the disclosed method, successive charges of concrete are placed into a removable casing and subsequently driven into the soil by a drop hammer. The pile may be of the pedestal type having an enlarged base for increased load capacity. The pile shaft is formed by incrementally elevating the casing and driving concrete into a vertical series of annular enlargements corresponding to the points at which the lower end of the casing is stopped. The load capacity of the pile base and the individual enlargements is determined by measuring the resistance of the soil against penetration of the several concrete portions when driven by the hammer.

Abstract: A control assembly and method are disclosed for providing manual stop-down mirror-up operations in a single lens reflex camera having a camera ready condition wherein an automatic diaphragm arrangement normally biases a diaphragm operating member to a full open position and a quick-return mirror arrangement normally biases a mirror to a viewing position. The control includes a button externally mounted on the camera for manual rotational movement between first and second button positions and for manual depressing operation in each of the button positions. In the first button position, depression of the button biases the diaphragm operating lever to a stop-down position with the mirror in the viewing position and release of the button returns the diaphragm lever to the normal full open position. In the second button position, depression of the button again provides the stop-down operation and also biases the mirror to a mirror-up shutter operating position.

Abstract: An insulating blanket is disclosed in which a semi-rigid mat of glass fibers is bonded on one side to a facing material. Lateral cuts are formed in the mat extending from the opposite side thereof toward the side on which the facing is bonded. Such cuts allow the facing to bend with a hinge-like manner when the insulating blanket is rolled, permitting the lamination of the facing and mat and the rolling of the laminate prior to the setting of the adhesive. The preferred method and apparatus for forming such insulating blanket is also disclosed.

Abstract: A ratchet switch including a switch wheel formed from an insulating material and having a plurality of electrically connected contact plates spaced about its periphery. Contact arms are flexed and biased against the switch wheel for establishing a circuit across contacted plates and for breaking said circuit when the wheel is moved to a position wherein the contact arms contact insulating spaces between the plates. At least a portion of each of the arms comprises a cantilever beam fixed at one end and free at the other and curving away from its contact plate from a line of tangency established between the plate and the beam, with any remaining portion of each arm lying in substantially parallel relationship with each plate. According to a preferred aspect of the invention, the line of tangency is closer to the edge of the plate adjacent the fixed end of the beam than to the edge of the plate adjacent the free end of the arm.

Abstract: A wear liner for protecting a load surface from impact and wear loads is disclosed. The wear liner includes an elongated body of elastomeric material with a reinforcing and mounting plate embedded therein. A channel is formed in the mounting side of the liner member to receive a mounting bar secured to the load surface. Spaced fasteners secure the reinforcing plate directly to the mounting bar and in turn secure the liner member in its mounted position. The reinforcing plate is provided with interlocking sections on both sides of the channel to firmly secure the elastomeric material to the reinforcing plate. Removable plugs formed of elastomeric material are installed in the openings for the mounting fasteners. The reinforcing plate is spaced from the load surface by a distance in excess of one-half of the thickness of the liner member and extends across the width of the liner member a distance greater than one-half of the width thereof.

Abstract: A split coupling for repairing, hot tapping, or joining pipelines, and particularly underwater pipelines, is disclosed. The coupling comprises a pair of members each having semicylindrical inner surfaces and a pair of faces adapted to oppose the faces of the other member. A first gasket continuously extends circumferentially on each semicylindrical surface and along the faces, with the face extending portion of each first gasket being adapted to mate with the face extending portion of the other first gasket. A second gasket is spaced from each first gasket. Each second gasket continuously extends circumferentially on each semicylindrical surface and along the faces with the face extending portion of each second gasket being adapted to mate with the face extending portion of the other second gasket. Ports are drilled through the coupling and into a zone defined by the first and second gaskets.

Abstract: A hand knitting machine having a single or double needle bed is provided with a device for selecting needles. This device includes an electromagnetic means located on a movable carriage which is electrically and mechanically connected to a program matrix by an endless metallic ribbon tensioned between two rollers over the width of the needle bed. The selected needles are controlled by an assembly of fixed and movable cams, the active and inactive positions of the latter being determined by a knob and lever assembly.

Abstract: A vent check valve having a relatively flat configuration of its elements, being thereby adapted to utilize a local wall area of a housing to be vented as a supporting body and to provide a valve seat. The valve elements include an elastomeric flat diaphragm and a retainer for holding the diaphragm against the valve seat. These elements are disposed in respective counterbores formed in the wall body concentrically with the valve seat. The retainer has a spiderlike configuration with circumferential legs dimensioned to flex rearwardly in the associated counterbore upon installation to produce a self-locking wedge fit therein.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for forming a pulley having at least two grooves from a cup-shaped blank having an axially extending sidewall. The blank is crushed between axially closing dies and as the blank is being crushed, at least two rolls are translated radially into contact with the outer surface of the blank sidewall while the blank is rotated to form at least two annular pulley grooves in the sidewall of the blank. During such translation, a forming roll positioned between the axially closing dies and within the cup is radially shifted away from the longitudinal axis of the cup and into contact with the inner sidewall thereof to form a land between pulley groove pairs.

Abstract: A method of rapid chromatographic separation by exchange of substances between two fluid phases circulating in coutercurrent flow, at least one phase being liquid, consists in injecting the substances to be separated into one of the phases, in causing the two phases to circulate on each side of a porous body having a thickness within the range of 1 to 200 microns while limiting the thickness of at least one liquid phase to a constant value within the range of 0.1 to 100 microns and in collecting after circulation the substances which have been separated in each of the two phases.

Abstract: A machine and method for detecting and identifying the approximate location of air leak-causing defects in flat, thin rubber stock used to manufacture inflatable, expandable bags. The detection of air leak-causing defects is accomplished by continuously moving at a relatively constant rate the flat rubber stock to be tested between two cylindrical rollers. These two rollers are maintained at a voltage which will fluctuate in response to any air leak-causing defect passing between them. The machine disclosed is composed of a frame to which is mounted a feed spool and a take-up spool, numerous supports and guides, a set of two test rollers, a dielectric analyzer, and a marker which punches the edge of the rubber stock adjacent to the in-line location of a detected defect. The disclosed machine and method enable detection of small pin-hole sized defects often undetectable to the naked eye.

Abstract: There is provided a simple gas diffusing apparatus composed of a top member having gas permeable perforations, a bottom member including a plurality of larger openings for removal of solid and semi-solid accretions, a gas inlet nipple for introduction of a gas, e.g. air, into the cavity formed by the assembly of the top and bottom members, a valve, a valve seat disposed on the inner surface of the bottom member, and stop means for the valve for confining the valve between a seated position and an unseated position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for bending beams by which a beam is subjected to pure moment bending in a critically oriented plane to avoid twist and to maintain single plane bending in a beam of arbitrary cross section. As disclosed, a pair of bending heads laterally engage a beam at longitudinally spaced points. Force actuator means connected directly between the heads is energized to rotate one of the heads relative to the other to produce a bending moment in a work area in the beam between the heads. The actuator means is arranged to produce a force couple on the heads which avoids transverse loading of the beam and resultant twist and which is adapted to selectively orient the plane of the applied couple relative to the desired bending plane to maintain single plane bending in beams of nonsymmetric cross section.

Abstract: A method and means for shade marking a fabric web as it is machine spread on a cutting table wherein identifying marks are applied by intermittent stamping action while uniform web discharge speed and tension are maintained by a variable length web feeding path on the machine. Stamping of the web and variation of the feed path length are accomplished by power actuator means controlled by means responsive to pattern coordinating means arranged along a work area on the cutting table to ensure marking of the areas of substantially all of the pattern pieces to be cut without unnecessary multiple marking of such pieces.

Abstract: A motor vehicle fluid power circuit is disclosed which includes a constant displacement pump driven by the engine of the vehicle, a control valve, an open center steering valve, a brake booster accumulator, and a closed center brake booster. The entire output of the pump flows through the control valve under all conditions, and the control valve selectively directs the pump output to the steering valve to assist in steering the vehicle or to the brake booster accumulator (which is hydraulically connected to the brake booster) to assist in braking.

Abstract: The invention provides a bi-directional single-impeller centrifugal pump having a filter screen enclosed within the pump housing and interposed, in the pump chamber, between the single pump inlet and one of two outlets defined in the housing for filtering the fluid pumped through the one outlet in response to the impeller rotating in one direction. When the impeller is reversed to pump the fluid through the other outlet, the particles of lint etc., retained within the pump chamber by the filter screen are then free to exit the pump as flushed therefrom by the fluid being pumped through the other outlet.

Abstract: A disclosed refrigeration cabinet has an integrated construction of sheet material and insulating foam which substantially eliminates the need for mechanical fasteners and welding, minimizes assembly operations, and permits the use of prefinished sheet panels. An outer cabinet shell preferably includes a prefinished sheet wrapped into a rectangular tube. The shell tube is reinforced at one end by a perimeter frame and at the other end by a thermal breaker collar. After the shell tube and frame are assembled, a liner is positioned in the tube and the breaker collar is installed. Rigid insulating foam is then foamed in place between the shell and liner to produce a sandwich construction in which the foam secures and reinforces both the shell and the liner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for raising a sliding shuttering designed to be used for the continuous production of silos, water towers, etc.The device consists of two cases, coaxial with a slide bar, separated from one another by a jack also coaxial of which each of the two parts in respectively integral with one of the cases, each case comprising locking jaws in its interior which, alternating from one case to the other, engage with a slide bar, the locked case serving as a support point for the case in movement and reciprocally, the pressure of the compressed high-pressure fluid of the jack for raising the case joined to the frame, supporting the shuttering, which device is characterised in that the means for raising the other case is provided by a low pressure fluid which acts when the high-pressure fluid is decompressed, which enables an efficient device to be obtained and avoid even a slight backward movement of the shuttering.