Abstract: An improved system for processing baby chicks so that they may receive necessary preliminary treatment before packaging in such manner as to reduce the amount of handling, to improve the efficiency of operation and to minimize injury to the chicks. The system comprises a plurality of annular conveyors each provided with processing stations, a plurality of chute means for discharging chicks from the annular conveyors and a plurality of belt conveyors for carrying chicks to subsequent annular conveyors. During their passage along the annular conveyors, the chicks are debeaked, vaccinated and sexed.

Abstract: A laminated threaded rod comprises a number of pressed and glued together laminated sections extending longitudinally of the rod. The laminations of all of the sections extend substantially perpendicularly to the superficies of the rod at least at four different locations on the superficies and which are opposed to each other cross-wise within a cross-sectional plane of the rod. The glued together laminated sections can have various initial cross-sections prior to being machined into rounded threaded form such as triangular or rectangular, and the number of sections can also be varied, there being, for example, four or eight triangular sections or three rectangular sections.

Abstract: A capping machine of the rotary type for closing filled bottle type packing containers for beer or other liquids which are made from a plastic material includes a lower wheel on which the bottles to be capped are placed and an upper wheel which supports closing rams which are movable vertically towards and away from the bottles by means of a cammed track. Caps loaded into a magazine are transferred one by one to the rams as the wheels turn, and the bottles are capped as the ram moves downward onto the bottle mouth.

Abstract: In a pressing apparatus for compressing a mass of fibrous material, such as cellulose pulp, into a bale and wrapping the resulting bale with wire or strip, there is used a bale press stand, a stationary first press plate and a second press plate movable toward and away from said press plate, together with means for moving said second press plate. The second press plate has a pressure-applying face constituted by a planar border surface normal to the direction of movement of said second press plate and a centrally disposed portion projecting 10-50 mm. from the plane of said border surface, for effecting a permanent depression, centrally in an end surface of a bale formed in said apparatus, facilitating the gripping and lifting of a wire or strip which is wrapped around a number of such bales.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is described for preparing and assessing machine readable payment documents such as bank or postal checks to avoid fraud. The checks are prepared by enciphering the serial number and the amount for which the check is made out with secret code data to provide a crypto number which is printed on the check with the serial number and the amount. The check is assessed as valid by reading out the printed data and enciphering the amount and serial number with the same secret code data as used when preparing the check to provide a crypto number which is compared with the crypto number read from the check. If the two crypto numbers are the same the check is assessed as valid.The crypto number can be derived from additional data such as the credit card number of the person making out the check, the time and date and the number of the machine preparing the document.

Abstract: A wall lead-through structure for live feeders, particularly for use in antenna matching systems. The feeder is led through a wall opening which is covered on its outer side by an insulating mounting fixture which provides a centrally located opening for the feeder lead-through. The surface defining the wall opening is covered with a sheet metal lining, preferably sheet copper which serves as a corona protector, and a metallic corona protector encloses and is secured to the live feeder where it passes through the central opening in the insulating mounting fixture.

Abstract: The laminated stator component of a dynamo-electric machine is prestressed in such manner as to free the laminations from temperature-induced compressive stresses that otherwise may result in displacement of the laminations. In particular, the stator lamination assembly is prestressed in tension, with respect to the cold condition, in an outward direction, by an amount corresponding at least approximately to the difference in expansion between the laminations fixed in the stator frame and those freely expanded at the same temperature. The laminations are held continuously in tension, preferably in a radially outwards direction, in the stator frame or foundation, which is thus at least partly pre-compressed inwards, in such manner that under all practicable operating temperatures of the machine, no compressive stresses can occur in the laminations.

Abstract: An arrangement for supporting the head portions of the coils which project beyond the ends of the slots provided in the laminated stator component of a high-output turbo-generator in which the coils are placed includes inner and outer radially spaced rings made from a glass fiber-reinforced thermosetting synthetic resin and between which the cylindric array of the insulated coil heads is secured, and a supporting ring secured to the general housing structure of the generator which surrounds and is spaced radially from the outer coil head securing ring. A ring structure of a rubber-like resilient material, e.g. india rubber is interposed between and contacts corresponding faces of the supporting ring and the outer coil head securing ring for the purpose of compensating for unequal expansion coefficients of the copper conductors of the stator coils and the iron of the laminated stator component.

Abstract: A rotary cutter body has at least one recess, adjacent its periphery, in which there is loosely received a cutting insert the cutting edge of which is parallel with the rotary axis of the cutter body. The insert is held in fixed position in the recess by a cylindrical locking pin having thereon a plane surface engageable with a plane surface within a recess in the insert so as to wedge the insert between abutment surfaces of the recess in said cutter body.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring dissolved gases in a fluid medium includes a tubular member which is inserted in a pipe line through which the fluid medium flows. This tubular member thus becomes a part of the pipe line and a portion of the inner wall surface thereof serves as a membrane through which the gas to be measured diffuses into a polarographic measuring cell which surrounds the tubular member and includes an annular electrolyte chamber and cathode and anode electrodes therein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toggle joint, specially to an angular positioning device for a gripping means for gripping tongs where the movements of the tong jaws of the gripping means are regulated by a control cable whose one end is fixed in the gripping means and whose other end is connected to an operating trigger in the handle of the gripping tongs. Said device is formed as a toggle joint having two cooperating joint surfaces designed with locking means which engage one another and forming clutch couplings.

Abstract: A current limiting device includes a duct containing a current-limiting material therein which serves to interconnect two spaced terminals but which is evaporable when subjected to an over-current flowing through the material between the terminals. The wall forming this duct includes a region made from a highly-temperature-resistant material which has a relatively small cross-section that connects with another region of the duct having a larger cross-section, and the wall part forming the region of smaller cross-section is surrounded by a resistor member connected electrically in parallel with the current-limiting material disposed therein and which has a resistance value such that the current-limiting material is relieved of current following onset of an over-current condition.

Abstract: A multi-layered packing material in the form of a web for use in constructing blanks to be erected into finished packaging containers comprises a relatively stiff base layer made of paper, cardboard or foamed plastic coated preferably on both sides with a layer of thermoplastic material, e.g. polyethylene. The laminated packing material may also include aluminum foil to establish a gas-proof barrier. At least one of the edges of the laminated packing material is provided with a narrow edge zone of a heat-activatable bonding agent of the same thickness as the web such as a mixture of solid hydrocarbons which is mechanically stable but elastic at normal temperature and has a relatively low melting temperature range. The edge zone consisting of the heat-activatable bonding agent is utilized in establishing a butt type joint between it and an adjacent panel or other planar part of the container when erected.

Abstract: In an improved tote, having a body, a bottom and two handles attached to the body, one of the handles is arranged to project outwardly from the mouth of the tote while the other handle is folded inwardly against the body part.

Abstract: A low pressure multi-stage axial flow steam turbine comprises an outer housing and an inner housing structure constituting a carrier for the rows of guide blading of the various stages. A steam inflow housing located within the inner housing structure forms the boundary of a crescent-shaped intake duct which surrounds and admits steam to the first stage guide blading which flows through the duct in the same direction as that in which the turbine rotor rotates, and the cross sectional area of the intake duct decreases progressively in the direction of steam flow therethrough such that the tangential components of the steam velocity conform to a predetermined function. The curvature of the intake duct at the inner periphery thereof increases progressively in the direction of steam flow therethrough such that the radial components of the steam velocity conform to a second predetermined function.

Abstract: A multi-pad thrust bearing has the pads mounted on a carrier through a hydrostatic oil pressure cushion regions, the oil in which has been pressurized hydrodynamically by rotation between the pad bearing surfaces and the load surface; the oil is led through the bearing pads to rear cavity where the oil cushion is established.

Abstract: A scanning device for use in conjunction with TIG spot welding lugs on a commutator to taps on the winding of a rotor includes a scanning arm pivotally mounted on a support which can be actuated between a raised position wherein the lower end of a scanning finger depending from the lower end of the scanning arm is disposed outside a circle circumscribed by the ends of the commutator lugs and a lowered position wherein the scanning finger projects into the gaps existing between adjacent lugs. A welding order is released in response to deflection of the scanning arm brought about by contact between the scanning finger and a lug upon rotation of the rotor as well as an order to actuate the support to its raised position for a predetermined period, the support then being returned to its lowered position for scanning the next adjacent lug.

Abstract: Impure sugar solution having a pH of 2 - 6.5 is decolorized by passing the same through a weakly basic anion exchanger having tertiary amine functionality and operated over a hydroxyl form.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cutting insert adapted for a cutting tool having mechanical insert-replacing mechanism. The insert has angularly interrelated side surfaces,- for resting in a corresponding V-shaped pocket in the cutting tool, said side surfaces extending parallel to the main cutting edge of the insert.

Abstract: The invention involves a closed loop control method and apparatus for starting up a steam-heated heat exchanger by controlling the heating-steam pressure. According to the invention a correcting variable is established by a controller from an actual pressure value, measured by an actual value transmitter, and from a reference value, generated by a reference value generating device, the heating-steam pressure being modified by at least one control valve on the basis of said correcting variable. The pressure reference value S is selected from three pressure set values, S.sub.T, S.sub.P1 and S.sub.P2, the lesser value of S.sub.T and S.sub.P1 being established as an intermediate pressure set value S' (that is, S' = Min (S.sub.T, S.sub.P1)), and the pressure reference value S is selected as being the greater value of S' and S.sub.P2 (that is, S = Max (S', S.sub.P2)), where S.sub.T represents that permissible maximum desired pressure value which is a function of the momentary metal temperature T.sub.