Abstract: A tufted nonwoven web material exhibiting high loft, bulk and absorbency is made by a papermaking technique using an apertured, plate-like, fiber collecting element having a structure appropriate to preventing entanglement between adjacent tufts prior to removal from the element. The tufted nonwoven fibrous web exhibits inwardly turned, spirally consolidated and entangled individual tuft head portions and substantially aligned and untwisted root portions interconnecting the head portion to the undisturbed planar main body of the web material.

Abstract: Coiled tape having successive linear segments each of equal length and uniformly angularly offset in the plane of the tape at identical bend angles relative to its trailing segment about a bend forming opening of predetermined size and shape.

Abstract: Clearing wheel assembly is provided for combing out headed objects improperly oriented on a feed track and features an arcuate shield precluding undesired discharge of the objects from a hopper.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump having a cam and pump plungers movable relative to the cam to translate the contour of the cam into a sequence of pumping strokes. An advance piston connected to the cam to adjust the timing of the pumping strokes is controlled by a hydraulic pressure which increases with engine speed. The advance piston mounts a servo valve having a preloaded biasing spring to prevent the delivery of hydraulic pressure to act on said advance piston until a predetermined speed is reached. A movable stop controls the maximum retard position of the advance piston and responds to the hydraulic pressure which is continuously applied to the movable stop and acts to advance the timing a fixed amount as soon as the engine fires. A load sensing piston actuated by a load related source of fluid pressure is operatively connected to the other end of the advance piston to urge the advance piston in a direction to retard the timing of the pumping stroke in response to increased engine load.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a cam and pump plungers movable relative to the cam to translate the contour of the cam into a sequence of pumping strokes is disclosed. An advance piston connected to the cam to adjust the timing of the pumping strokes is controlled by a hydraulic pressure which increases with engine speed. The advance piston mounts two control pistons one of which controls the delivery of hydraulic pressure to the advance piston after a predetermined engine speed is reached and the other bypasses the first to control the delivery of the hydraulic pressure during starting and until a lower engine speed is reached.

Abstract: A drive collar is non-rotatably mounted for sliding movement on an arbor between working and release positions. In working position, the drive collar is disposed adjacent the base of a hole saw which is threadably mounted on an end of the arbor, and the collar and the hole saw are coupled for positively transmitting drive torque from the arbor to the saw. In release position, the drive collar is retracted from the saw and rendered inoperative for quick and easy assembly and disassembly of the saw and arbor.

Abstract: A knitted textile casing for sausages having an additional yarn running predominantly in the circumferential direction of the casing about the sausage to limit the circumferential expandability of the knitted casing.

Abstract: A cable is disclosed having a wire rope jacket and a synthetic compressible core of yarn filaments with a specific tensile strength greater than the members of the jacket and which serve as a reinforcing component for the jacket to provide a cable construction suited for service conditions requiring a strength greater than a conventional steel cable. A method of making cable is set forth which lends itself to economical and dependable manufacture wherein a yarn core is drawn through a closing die in a substantially zero twist parallel arrangement and drawing a plurality of wires through the die in timed relation to passage of the core to be helically laid about the core to form a twisted wire rope jacket.

Abstract: A handle arrangement particularly for a paint pad adapted for releasable engagement with a channel provided on the structure to which the handle is to be applied consists of an apertured base plate a handle member extending upwardly from such base plate and a manually actuable locking means supported within the handle member and adjustable between a first position wherein a part thereof extends through the aperture in the base plate and a second position wherein such part is retracted through such aperture.

Abstract: A planetary machining apparatus comprises a rotor and one or more drive spindle assemblies mounted thereon. Each drive spindle assembly includes a rotary spindle support mounted for rotation on the rotor about an axis parallel to and radially spaced from the rotor axis, a drive spindle eccentrically mounted on the spindle support for rotation about an axis radially spaced from the spindle support axis, and a machining element mounted on the drive spindle. A pair of bidirectional hydraulic motors are mounted on the rotor in operative engagement with the spindle supports for angularly adjusting the spindle supports to effect a radial displacement of the drive spindles and the machining elements relative to the axis of the rotor. A control arrangement including a rotary fluid distributor is provided for selectively operating the hydraulic motors during rotor rotation.

Abstract: A fuel dispensing system having seven separate fuel pumps for dispensing fuel, a pump activation system permitting each of eight hundred authorized users to individually activate a fuel pump the is authorized to use and having a keyboard for user selection of an inactive pump and user entry of an assigned unique nine-digit identification number, digit by digit in descending order sequence, for activating the selected pump. Entry controls and a RAM are provided for validating the identification number and for activating the selected pump if the identification number is correct and an authorized pump is selected and for totalizing the amount of fuel dispensed by each user, and a main console is provided for selectively setting and reading each user's identification number and pump authorization code and for selectively reading the total amount of fuel dispensed by each user and resetting the total to zero.

Abstract: A device is provided for conveniently holding a flexible bag open and extended so as to be filled and which is particularly designed to enable a user to quickly and easily form a tightly twisted closure for removal of a loaded bag. The device features a base upon which a support platform and stand are rotatably mounted with the stand having a wirelike frame construction promoting access to a loaded bag for efficient removal from the support platform upon spinning the bag to form an open top of the bag into a tightly wound closure serving as a handle for the bag.

Abstract: An improved modular expansion joint having proportioning bars to provide support for and to center the beams which run longitudinally in the gap being joined. The proportioning bars extend across the gap under and at an angle to the beams. The ends of the bars slide in channels formed in the ends of the pavement sections being joined. As the gap narrows, the angle between the bars and the beams becomes more acute. Each beam is connected to at least a pair of bars and its position in the gap is thereby controlled. Removable caps are provided on each beam to accommodate replacement of the resilient seals between the beams.

Abstract: A clock with a rotary drive motor having a pair of axially aligned stator subassemblies with identical molded frame parts with interfitting end portions rotatably supporting a permanent magnet rotor and take-off gears. A separate axially extending U-shaped pole piece is mounted on each frame part to provide four stator poles equiangularly spaced about the axis of the rotor, and each frame part forms a coil bobbin for winding a stator coil for the respective pole piece.

Abstract: A machine having blanking, barb forming and bending stations is provided for making a coil of metal tape from a substantially planar linear strip of metal stock wherein such strip is fed in sequence to the stations in a single pass through the machine to respectively edge notch the strip into barbs, upset the barbs into inclined relation to the plane of the strip and then edge bend the strip in the plane of the strip to form it into identically angularly displaced adjoining linear segments of equal length to make a generally annular coil of barbed metal tape.The method of this invention features forming spaced openings along a longitudinal axis of a substantially planar linear strip of metal stock, positioning the strip by means of its openings and edge bending the strip in the plane of the strip adjacent its openings to form the strip into a coil having identical angularly displaced adjoining linear segments.

Abstract: A method is described for joining the opposite edge portions of a sheet of flexible material to form a durably-joined elongated tubular member. The material is shaped or folded to provide opposite edge flaps, spaced and extending outwardly from the tubular member formed. A strip of connector tape, folded lengthwise to form a pair of leg flaps, is interposed between the edge flaps with its legs confronting and extending oppositely thereto. Each leg flap is bonded to its corresponding adjacent edge flaps, whereby the tape serves to connect the edge flaps and form a longitudinal joint within the elongated tubular member. The tubular member so produced may include an insulating layer and a flexible skeletal structure therewithin.

Abstract: An electrical raceway assembly having a channel-shaped cover and a plurality of receptacles mounted in the cover. A pair of cover sidewalls have free edges bent toward one another, and longitudinally extending recesses are formed in opposite sides of the receptacles in confronting relation to the free edges on the cover sidewalls to provide a pair of by-pass conductor compartments with the free edges of the cover sidewalls serving as conductor retaining jaws. This invention also discloses an electrical receptacle assembly featuring a receptacle face cap removably fitted over a raised front face of the receptacle. The face cap has projecting flanges which may be interposed between the receptacle and its cover plate to secure the face cap in overlying position on the receptacle face.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a programmable device for mechanically executing work operations, more particularly, to a handling device consisting of a series of mutually coupled rotating and/or displacement elements, wherein the moving part situated at the one end is associated with a production unit while the moving part situated at the other end has a tool mounted thereon, for example, a gripper means for handling workpieces, paint spray guns for applying paint, welding rods for resistance welding, etc. The moving elements are designed to move various loads into predetermined positions at given speeds.

Abstract: This invention relates to drapery rods having pendants or hangers for supporting drapes or curtains and more particularly to pendants which incorporate means for facilitating the attachment of drapery hooks thereto and for preventing the accidental disengagement of hooks once they are attached.

Abstract: Electric discharge method and apparatus for producing a relatively large volume, diffuse glow gas discharge plasma for laser, chemical synthesis and other applications at high power, high pressure and high volume levels and such that plasma properties are dominated by collision processes and wherein the operational parameters of the electric discharge are established to provide an average gas residence time T.sub.R in a continuous wave convective electric discharge and a discharge duration time T.sub.P in a pulsed electric discharge that is approximately equal to the plasma instability growth time T.sub.G = CP/JE where P is the pressure in Torr, JE is the electric power density in Watts/cm.sup.3 and C is a constant typically about 10.sup.-.sup.4 for self-sustained gas electric discharges and 10.sup.-.sup.