Abstract: Apparatus for performing operations on a railway track, comprising an automatically actuated rail adjusting mechanism with parts to engage opposite edges of a flange of a flanged rail for adjusting the relative positions of a rail and a sleeper vertically and for adjusting the position of a rail by moving it sideways relative to a sleeper.

Abstract: A belting fabric having enhanced longitudinal and transverse rigidity includes closely adjacent, substantially uncrimped, warp cords in upper and lower planar arrays, and substantially uncrimped weft cords in upper, lower and middle planar arrays alternating with the arrays of warp cords. The cord to cord spacing in the middle array of weft cords is half that in the upper and lower arrays of weft cords, each upper weft cord is located midway intermediate two adjacent lower weft cords and vice versa, and each middle weft cord is located midway intermediate an upper weft cord and an immediately adjacent lower weft cord.

Abstract: An air nozzle apparatus for directing air flow against the undersurface of an orifice plate of a glass fiber drawing forehearth, having an air introducing section having a manifold formed with at least one air supply port, and an air nozzle section formed with a plurality of nozzle channels communicating with the manifold. The air nozzle section has a plurality of nozzle ribs of substantially the same shape each having opposed side surfaces and opposed end edge portions. The plurality of nozzle ribs are arranged to have their side surfaces located in adjacent relationship to provide a nozzle block. Each nozzle rib is formed on at least one of the opposed side surfaces with a longitudinally extending recess which defines one of the plurality of nozzle channels between the adjacent nozzle ribs.

Abstract: The invention provides fine writing parchment made from the skins of turkeys. The invention also provides a process for preparing fine writing parchment from the skins of turkeys comprising liming, defatting, washing and stretching the skins.

Abstract: A liquid fuel gasifying burner including an inner gasifying member connected to a rotary gasifying member of the frustoconical shape so that the two members can rotate as a unit. The inner gasifying member is formed with an air port in the central portion of its upper end and open at its lower end, and the rotary gasifying member is closed at its upper end and open at its base and rotatably mounted in a combustion cylinder open at its upper end and formed with an air blowing chamber in the central portion of its bottom. A fuel-air mixture passage is defined between the outer circumferential surface of the inner gasifying member and the inner circumferential surface of the rotary gasifying member, and a liquid fuel spreading surface having a liquid fuel scattering portion at its outer periphery is formed on the upper end of the inner gasifying member. A liquid fuel feed line opens at its forward end close to the liquid fuel spreading surface.

Abstract: A traverse motion used in combination with a device for winding a continous elongate element such as a strand consisting of a large number of glass filaments drawn through a bushing with a large number of nozzles. In the traverse motion of the type including a scroll cam with an endless cam groove consisting of at least one pair of right- and left-hand grooves joined at each end and a strand guide which has a cam follower fitted in the endless cam groove of the scroll cam and is adapted to reciprocate along a straight path in parallel with the axis of the shaft of the scroll cam when the latter is rotated, the lead angle of the endless cam groove is increased adjacent to its ends or adjacent to each returning point of the cam follower so that the guide is increased in velocity adjacent to each returning point.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor for a seat belt retractor of the type having an operating member, for example a pawl, engageable with a locking mechanism, for example a toothed wheel, the sensor comprising a pivoted driver situated below the pawl, and having a center of gravity located above its pivot so that it will tend to topple, a lifting surface on the driver positioned radially outwardly from the pivotal axis, and a yoke having its lower end engaging the lifting surface and constrained thereby, its upper end engaging the pawl and constrained thereby, arranged so that tilting of the driver about the pivotal axis lifts a portion of the lifting surface and in turn lifts the yoke, whereby the pawl is lifted to its wheel engaging position.

Abstract: A husk burning furnace having a husk smoke-burning chamber formed by an inner peripheral perforated wall defining a pot-shaped primary gas burning chamber and an outer peripheral perforated wall surrounding the inner peripheral perforated wall. Means are provided to feed the husk particles into the smoke-burning chamber from the lower side of the latter in a floating manner where they are smoke-burnt to become smoke-carbonized husk particles, while generating unburnt gas. The smoke-carbonized husk particles are taken out of the furnace while the unburnt gas is introduced into the primary gas burning chamber so as to be burnt in the primary gas burning chamber. The gas together with flame is introduced further into a secondary gas burning chamber connected to the upper end of the inner peripheral perforated wall to generate colorless hot gas containing no substantial quantities of dust particles. Meanwhile, the smoke-carbonized husk particles are suitably discharged to the desired place.

Abstract: The dispersability of a titanium dioxide pigment is improved by coating it with an organic coating and also an inorganic coating in a total amount of, expressed as oxide, not more than 0.5% and no less than 0.3% of the weight of the pigment. Suitable inorganic coatings are oxides and hydroxides of aluminium, zinc, titanium, zirconium and magnesium.

Abstract: A muffler of the Helmholtz resonator type has a housing surrounding a main gas flow conduit, the gas flow conduit having an apertured zone within the housing wherein apertures extend through the conduit wall, the shape of the conduit wall at the apertured zone being so varied that gas flows through the apertures into or out of the housing, the flow inhibiting the development of whistle noises.

Abstract: A photoelectric sorting device of a color sorting apparatus adapted to sort grains according to their colors. The photoelectric sorting device includes a pair of photoelectric chambers 9, 10 disposed within a grain sorting chamber 12 located under a grain chute 3 of the sorting apparatus, in such a manner that the photoelectric chambers 9, 10 opposes to each other across the flux 4 of flow of the grains coming down from the chute. Each of the photoelectric chambers 9, 10 is shielded from the grain sorting chamber by means of a transparent window plate 11 and accommodates a photoelectric detector 5, 6, 15, 17; 7, 8, 16, 18. At least one of the photoelectric chambers 9, 10 is rotatably mounted on the frame of the particle sorting chamber 12 to facilitate the cleaning of the transparent window plates 11.

Abstract: A downward-flow trough angle adjusting device for a color discriminating machine having a downward-flow trough mounting device for detachably mounting the trough, the device being secured to the upper surface of a frame defining a photoelectric discriminating chamber to provide a unitary structure. The photoelectric discriminating chamber frame is connected at one side to a machine frame for pivotal movement while being movably supported at the other side by the machine frame through a threaded shaft-nut assembly.

Abstract: A surface drainage system comprising base members (27) and cover members (32). The base members have a channel formed between opposite walls thereof, and are designed to be laid end-to-end with the channels in longitudinal alignment. The cover members are of inverted channel section and have opposite side walls with a channel defined therebetween. The cover members are laid above the base members and combine therewith to form an enclosed drainage channel. Each cover member has at least one opening (37) extending through a side wall thereof and communicating with the channel. The lowermost part of the opening intersects the outer surface of the respective wall at a location (36) that is no closer to the bottom than to the top of the cover member. A carriageway (35) can be laid with its surface no lower than the point (36), so that drainage is effected through the opening (37) while the base members (27) lie at a significant depth below the carriageway surface.

Abstract: An electrical information transmitting means for consumer load control comprises a transmitter which transmits a coded signal through the conductors of an alternating current electrical distribution network as a sequence of wave-form distortions to a receiver which decodes the signal. The receiver comprises two correlators connected in quadrature, and the transmitters and each correlator synthesize synchronous signals from the power frequency, all of which is locked thereto. The D.C. voltage outputs of the correlators are squared and summed so that the receiver is independent of phase angle.

Abstract: A clip driver for driving such a type of clip as having opposing holding webs the front edges of which are resiliently pressed to each other to form lips for clipping sheets of paper or the like. The clip driver has a casing in which formed is a longitudinal guide way for guiding the clip, a clip driving member for driving the clip along the guide way and clip opening member with bifurcated inclined leg portions diverging toward the front end of the casing. In use, the clip is driven forwardly by the driving member so that lugs extending laterally from the holding webs slide along the diverging surfaces to forcibly open the clip overcoming the resilient pressing force to permit the sheets of paper or the like to be placed between two holding webs of the clip. As the clip is further driven forwardly, the lugs clear the guide surfaces of the clip opening member to allow the holding webs of the clip to be closed, thereby to clip the sheets of paper or the like.

Abstract: A metal plate stands on a cross tie above an opening in the tie and a rail clip has a substantially straight leg which is driven into the opening, bears upwardly and is at most 2 mm. below a flat bottom of the plate. Second and third parts of the clip bear downwardly on the upper face of the rail flange and the upper face of the plate, respectively. This assembly may be made from an existing assembly in which a spike had its head overlying the rail flange and holding the rail down, the making of the new assembly including the step of forming the opening in the tie without moving the plate.

Abstract: To hold a railway rail down on a support member, a device is employed having a first part driven into a vertical hole in the support member, a second part having a sideways projection, part of which lies vertically below a part of the support member, to one side of the bottom of the hole, and further parts forming an arch above the support member. A convex portion of the first part co-operates with the wall of the hole during the driving operation to form a pivot about which said device rocks to cause the above-mentioned part of the projection to come under the above-mentioned part of the support member. A portion of a clip is driven under the arch and presses upwardly on it, another portion of the clip bears downwardly on the flange of the rail and a third portion bears downwardly on a fixed surface which, as seen from the rail, is beyond said first portion.

Abstract: A planetary speed change gearing for a power transmission system including a flywheel secured to a power transmission shaft of an engine, a flywheel housing enclosing the flywheel and an output shaft provided on the flywheel side and directly connected to a machine to be driven. The planetary speed gearing is built in a recess formed in the flywheel.