Abstract: Apparatus for gripping one or more tapered segmented grips by means of which tensioning members consisting of wires or strands are anchored in an anchor block. For the purpose of detensioning the tensioned members the apparatus is installed between the anchor block and the tensioning jack. The apparatus comprises a body with a number of slotted cylindrical gripping means the number of which corresponds to the number of the tensioning members passing therethrough. The gripping means are coaxial with the tensioning members.

Abstract: A duo bonding layer for adhering a chlorinated polyethylene layer or coating to a rubber-lined article. The first bonding layer contains a blend of material having from 75 to 25 percent of chlorinated polyethylene by weight and from 25 to 75 percent by weight of an elastomer of natural rubber, a rubber homopolymer, or a rubber copolymer. The second bonding layer contains a blend of the same material but with the amount of chlorinated polyethylene by weight ranging from 90 to 55 percent and the amount of the elastomer ranging from 10 to 45 percent by weight. The first bonding layer is generally attached to a rubber layer such as natural rubber, which in turn is bonded directly to an article. The second bonding layer is attached to the chlorinated polyethylene layer.

Abstract: A synthetic resin product which may be used for gluing wood products and the like comprises a lignin and a low molecular weight liquid which is capable of penetrating, swelling and reacting with the lignin to form a hardened product. The low molecular weight liquid may be a solution consisting essentially of formaldehyde and phenol and may also contain an acid or alkaline hardener. Examples of acid hardeners include ammonium chloride, paratoluene sulphonic acid and the like, whereas examples of an alkaline hardener include sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, ammonium hydroxide and the like. The formed resin product is very suitable as an adhesive and utilizes lignin not ordinarily suitable as an adhesive and generally regarded as a waste material.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a permeable seat cushion, a permeable fabric material is pressed between a pair of dies while being heated and wetted with steam to render the fabric temporarily unpermeable to provide a seat covering of bag-like structure. A first precut filler pad is bonded to the seat covering, and a second precut filler pad is then bonded to the first filler pad. A frame is mounted together with springs and other necessary elements on the thus obtained assembly, and the seat covering is anchored at its pheripheral edges to the frame to complete the seat cushion.

Abstract: This metal heating method includes burning an air-gas fuel mixture as it flows into a furnace, flowing hot exhaust gases out of the furnace to an exhaust stack after it has impinged on or been brought into association with the metal in the furnace for heating the same, and thereafter measuring the temperature of gases in the stack. This gas temperature is used for controlling the pressure of the air and also of the gas fuel supplied to the furnace for combustion and with the pressure supplied being reduced when temperatures excessive to predetermined temperatures exist in the stack, but at the same time, a desired high fuel-to-air ratio is maintained to provide a reducing atmosphere in the furnace.

Abstract: The laminate includes a partially cured, flexible acrylic face sheet having a primer layer on one surface thereof bonded to a binder layer having a layer of reflective glass beads embedded therein and protruding therefrom and a sealer layer on the exposed surfaces of the glass beads, the laminate being completed with a spacer layer bonded to the sealer layer and having a reflective mirror-like thin metal coating on the outer surface thereof. The binder layer, sealer layer and spacer layer, or films are all made from basically the same uncured polyvinyl butyral material. The method of forming the acrylic face layer, the use of soft rubber pressure rolls in bonding a glass bead carrying partial laminate to a preformed spacer film, and the method of making the laminate of the invention and the compositions used therein.

Abstract: Apparatus for maintaining the relative spacing of the pressure surfaces in a multi-cylinder press at a predetermined value greater than the desired minimum spacing during the pressing operation, and including liquid supplying means for a press cylinder, a liquid discharge valve and actuating means for mechanically opening the discharge valve when the relative spacing of the press surfaces decreases below a predetermined value. A further control valve adapted, in accordance with a predetermined program, to prevent or allow liquid to be discharged from the cylinder is also present.

Abstract: An insulating panel comprising a plurality of transparent plastic members, usually tubular and substantially rigid, positioned in parallel relation and extending over one surface of a glass sheet, and a transparent plastic cover sheet extending over at least the one surface of the glass sheet and the plastic members and secured to marginal areas of the glass sheet to form a unitary hollow insulating structure therefrom. Or two plastic cover sheets may secure tubular plastic members in the open center of an open center frame.

Abstract: A zinc brightener additive compises a polymeric amine selected from the class consisting of a linear aliphatic amine polymer, an aminated polyepichlorohydrin, a polyethylenimine, and combinations thereof, a propylene oxide-ethylene oxide block copolymer prepared by the sequential addition of propylenene oxide followed by ethylene oxide, or vice versa, to a residue of an organic compound containing active hydrogen atoms such as propylene glycol or an amine base, and an aliphatic ketone. Additionally, an aqueous acid electroplating bath containing the polymeric amine compound in combination with the propylene oxide-ethylene oxide block copolymer and an aliphatic ketone provides bright, lustous electrodepositions of zinc.

Abstract: This invention relates to self-lubricating bearings or other antifriction elements formed of a lubricant-containing polyacetal. It can be manufactured in various shapes by molding a powdery mixture of the polyacetal having a bulk factor of 2-8 with 2-12 wt % of the lubricant which is in a liquid state at a normal room temperature or at the melting point of the polyacetal by a screw type injection molding machine having controlled temperatures in the feed, compression, metering and nozzle sections of the heating cylinders.During the process, the lubricant is uniformly dispersed in said resin material as fine particles independent from each other and this accounts for the extraordinarily high retention of lubricant film which forms on the bearing surface of the molded articles in use.

Abstract: A float device of particularly low cost, having a wide range of application. It utilizes a waste tire with a mass of foamed resin or other porous material filled therein to form an annular float and includes a body structure secured to the float in closely fitting relation thereto and provided centrally with hook means to enable cable or rope connection of the device to an anchor or a hurdle or raft for fishery use. The body structure also has an annular disc portion on which a light device as an aid to navigation or other object can be stably mounted, as required.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a selective absorption surface of a solar collector in which a coating layer consisting of the predetermined composition of metal oxide is tightly adhered to a substrate having the mirror-like surface in the predetermined thickness.The composition of metal oxide consists of those comprising 0.001 - 0.15 wt % of C, 0.005 - 3.00 wt % of Si, 0.005-10.00 wt % of Mn, 11.00 - 30.00 wt % of Cr, 0.005 - 22.00 wt % of Ni, optionally, 0.75 - 5.00 wt % of Mo and the balance being Fe or those comprising instead of Cr, 0.001 - 5.0 wt % of at least one of metals selected from the group of N, Cu, Al, V, Y, Ti, Nb, Ta, U, Th, W, Zr, and Hf, the atom ratio of Metal/Carbon + additional element being more than 5.0. An acidic oxidation method and an alkaline oxidation method are applied to manufacture oxide of the metal compositions.It has been observed that the superior selective absorption surface showing high energy absorption factor at a wave length of 0.3 - 2.5 .mu.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cushion material by applying high frequency welding to a sandwich consisting of a core layer of foamed material, a surface material layer and a backing material layer, in which a fine powdery welding material is previously injected or impregnated in desired weld areas of the foamed material layer. The method comprises floating the fine powdery welding material in the form of a cloud, and blowing up the fine powdery welding material floating in cloud-like form to impregnate the desired areas of the foamed material layer with the fine powdery welding material.

Abstract: A fluid-operated actuator for rotatable valve stems and the like includes a double ended piston reciprocally carried in a sealed housing. The housing has a pair of sleeves threaded into a central body. The sleeves support opposite end regions of the piston and provide adjustable stops to limit the piston stroke. A stem is journaled for rotation in the body. The stem and piston are interconnected by a lever slidably received in the stem and pivotally coupled to the piston. The lever rotates the stem in response to reciprocation of the piston. The sliding connection between the lever and the stem provides a thrust connection between the lever and the stem and permits the lever-arm through which torque forces are applied to the stem to increase as the piston nears opposite ends of its stroke. An adapter bushing is removably connected to one end region of the stem.

Abstract: A rotary cutter means for use with meat cutting or extruding devices including an apertured flat faced discharge means and with the rotary cutter means comprising a planar cutter knife having a plurality of cutter blades extending substantially radially from a support hub. These blades each have an overhanging leading edge axially spaced from the flat face of the discharge means and the blades each have a flat bearing surface thereon positioned adjacent the flat face of the discharge means, the cutting edge being at the leading edge of this flat bearing surface. The device also includes radially extending slots in each of the flat bearing surfaces of the cutter blades and extending the length thereof to form a pair of parallel cutting edges thereon positioned in spaced circumferential relation in the cutter knife.

Abstract: A drip feed attachment to feed tubes having a hollow barb-shaped inlet nipple projecting from the body adjacent a closed end to engage in an aperture in the wall of a feed tube, and a resilient hook shaped holding member on the body at its other open end which hook shaped member is aligned with the nipple and encircles the feed tube for more than half its circumference to firmly grip the feed tube and with the barbed nipple hold it to the feed tube.

Abstract: A pressure actuated switch including a conductive frame forming a chamber having a pressure fluid inlet connecting thereto, a flexible diaphragm extending across the chamber to separate it into a first chamber connecting to the fluid inlet and a second chamber and where the flexible diaphragm mounts a contact means thereon which is movable into engagement with the second chamber wall when a suitable pressure differential exists between the chambers. A deformable member is positioned in the second chamber and is deformable by movement of the diaphragm towards the frame to bring the contact means into engagement with the frame so that the deformable member normally prevents contact closing action. Electrical connection means are present on the flexible diaphragm and extend from the contact means to a point remote from the frame, which connection means is insulated from the frame.

Abstract: The windmill includes a vertically positioned support shaft, a plurality of elongated, molded arcuate plastic vanes which are vertically positioned and operatively connected to the support shaft, which vanes are slightly flexible so winds engaging the vanes will flatten the arc of some vanes and will make the arc of other vanes tighter to provide unbalanced rotational forces on the vanes, and means operatively connect to the shaft to provide power therefrom on shaft rotation.

Abstract: A rotary machine operable as a pump, compressor, motor or internal combustion engine, the machine having a rotor orbiting but not rotating within a chamber in a housing, vanes separating the space within the chamber into working chambers. The rotor is eccentrically mounted on a rotatable shaft, the rotor being guided by lobes on the rotor operating in shaped recesses in the housing. The vanes are vane assemblies biassed outwardly into contact with the chamber wall, and include a plurality of vane blades to give a labyrinth seal effect.

Abstract: A tapered mould consisting essentially of a rigid outer frame formed of a set of radially arranged longitudinally extending guide members and a set of axially spaced encircling rings, and a gapped frustoconical tubular casing of resilient sheet material having a set of longitudinal stiffening members arranged thereon for sliding engagement with the respective guide members. The gap in the wall of the tubular casing, extending along a longitudinal line on the periphery of the casing, is opened and closed automatically as the tubular casing inserted in the outer frame is moved axially in opposite directions. Labor - consuming bolt - clamping and releasing operation is completely eliminated and the mould operation can be mechanized with ease, as desired. Packing means interposed between a pair of stiffening members arranged on the opposite sides of the gap further ensures leak - proof gap closing.