Abstract: This relates to the mounting of vanes on a runnerhead of an abrasive blasting machine. The face of the runnerhead is provided with slots in which bases of vanes are slid in a generally radial direction with the base having an interlock with the runnerhead so as to retain the vane against movement normal to the face of the runnerhead. This particularly has to do with the locking of the vane base in the runnerhead slot. The pin is rectangular as opposed to the usual circular pin and the outer ends of the runnerhead slot and vane base are provided with cooperating slots and grooves which receive the pin, the pin being inserted in a first groove and slot arrangement at an angle to the axis of the base and then rotated or pivoted into a second groove and slot arrangement where it is locked in place against retrieval. The pin is locked in place by the outward movement of the vane from its pin inserting position.

Abstract: A device for monitoring the flatness or camber of a moving metal strip is disclosed. The device includes a cylindrical roller over which the metal strip travels, which cylindrical roller is independently supported at each end on a plate which is pivotally mounted on top of a housing for two load cells situated on opposite sides of the centerline of the strip product. The projections provided on the underside of the plate bear against the load cells in a manner whereby any difference in tension across the width of the strip may be detected as a difference in pressures exerted on the two load cells.

Abstract: An electrical resistor is described which is comprised of a resistor core having at least one electrically conductive end cap mounted thereon. The end cap is in electrical contact with the butt end portion of the core and electrically insulated from the side, or periphery, portion of the core member. The end cap has an outward-extending radial portion thereon, positioned contiguous to the junction between the core and the cap.The present electrical resistors are produced by forming a resistive core member of a conductor in a dielectric matrix material and an end cap, having an internal contact surface and a receiving portion. The receiving portion is larger than the outside diameter of the core. The end cap has an outward-extending radial position adjacent the receiving portion. The end cap is mounted on the core to place the butt end portion of the core in electrical contact with the internal contact surface of the end cap, but otherwise spacedly within the end cap.

Abstract: The invention provides resin compositions which are particularly suitable for utilization in electron cured coated abrasives. The resin systems of the instant invention have been devised to be particularly suitable for the backing fill of a cloth which is to form the base of a coated abrasive. The formation of a treated base cloth for coated abrasive formation by electron beam curing resins creates a product which in addition to being suitable for immediate formation into a coated abrasive by application of grain is further a product which may be stored for later use or sold to other parties that have need for a waterproof stretch-resistant cloth or that make coated abrasives without doing cloth finishing. The invention also encompasses the formation of electron curing resin systems which are particularly desirable for the make coat and size coat utilized in forming coated abrasives.

Abstract: The resistance-heated boat of the present invention is comprised of a heating portion and a crucible portion separated by a heat conducting, substantially non-electrical conducting portion.The heating portion is fabricated of an electrically conductive material capable of being resistance heated to high temperatures. Mixtures of titanium diboride with boron nitride, aluminum nitride or silicon carbide typically provide electrical conductivity in the desired range. Zirconium diboride, mixtures of boron nitride, silicon nitride, aluminum nitride or titanium diboride, or mixtures thereof are also useful.The crucible portion of the boat provides a vaporization surface and is fabricated of materials selected for their ability to provide wettability by the metal to be vaporized, a desired chemical and physical resistance to the metal, or impurities in the metal, to be vaporized and to the vaporization atmosphere.

Abstract: Oxide refractory materials (for example, alumina-zirconia mixtures) can be cast to have an extremely fine crystal structure by casting them onto a non-reactive, non-melting particulate solid cooling media of a material other than that of the oxide refractory material (for example, steel spheres having a size ranging from about 5 to about 60 mm). By using steel spheres as the cooling media, the spheres can be removed from the solidified material with a magnet. The solidified material, when crushed and graded, has exceptional utility as an extremely tough abrasive grain.

Abstract: Sintered, spherical composite pellets or particles comprising one or more clays as a major component and bauxite, alumina, or mixtures thereof, are described, along with the process for their manufacture. The pellets may have an alumina-silica (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 -SiO.sub.2) ratio from about 9:1 to about 1:1 by weight. The use of such pellets in hydraulic fracturing of subterranean formations is also described.

Abstract: A strong, relatively inert filter cloth is impregnated with an ion exchange resin to provide, for an electrofiltration process, a reinforced solid polymeric electrolyte having ion transport properties and at the same time constituting a positive barrier to mass transport.

Abstract: In accord with the present invention, a composite ceramic article may be produced by joining separate components of ceramic materials with a cement or brazing compound of finely-divided metal borides, such as Mo.sub.2 B.sub.5, MoB.sub.2, TiB.sub.2, GeB.sub.2, ZrB.sub.2, SmB.sub.6, NbB.sub.2, HfB, VB.sub.2, WB.sub.2 or TaB.sub.2. A particularly useful metal boride for use with silicon carbide is Mo.sub.2 B.sub.5.If the metal carbide parts or components to be joined are sintered, the metal boride cement is selected to have a melting point within 150.degree. C., but less than the sintering temperature of the metal carbide.If the metal carbide parts or components to be joined are unsintered, or an unsintered component is to be joined to a sintered component, the metal boride cement is selected to have a melting point slightly higher than the sintering temperature of the metal carbide components to be joined.

Abstract: This invention relates to an electrical element support system that utilizes a series of ceramic hanger elements of generally rectangular cross-section which are adapted to be inserted into a clip which is attached by welding or bolting to the furnace wall. The clip provides bearing surfaces which match surfaces on the hanger element to provide support for the electrical element which is carried at the end of the support. The outer end of the hanger element generally has a hook or other device which is adapted to hold a particular electrical heating element.

Abstract: An electrical resistor is described which is comprised of a resistor core having at least one electrically conductive end cap mounted thereon. The end cap is in electrical contact with the butt end portion of the core and electrically insulated from the side, or periphery, portion of the core member. The end cap has an outward-extending radial portion thereon, positioned contiguous to the junction between the core and the cap.The present electrical resistors are produced by forming a resistive core member of a conductor in a dielectric matrix material and an end cap, having an internal contact surface and a receiving portion. The receiving portion is larger than the outside diameter of the core. The end cap has an outward-extending radial position adjacent the receiving portion. The end cap is mounted on the core to place the butt end portion of the core in electrical contact with the internal contact surface of the end cap, but otherwise spacedly within the end cap.

Abstract: Oxide refractory materials (for example, alumina-zirconia mixtures) can be cast to have an extremely fine crystal structure by casting them onto a non-reactive, non-melting particulate solid cooling media of a material other than that of the oxide refractory material (for example, steel spheres having a size ranging from about 5 to about 60 mm). By using steel spheres as the cooling media, the spheres can be removed from the solidified material with a magnet. The solidified material, when crushed and graded, has exceptional utility as an extremely tough abrasive grain.

Abstract: A ceramic turbine wheel (1), especially such a wheel intended for an exhaust gas driven turbine of a turbocharger for motor vehicles, comprises a body portion (3), blades (2) and hub portion (4). The body portion (4), and optionally the hub portion (3) as well, are provided with hollow central cores (5, 6).

Abstract: This relates to the mounting of vanes on a runnerhead of an abrasive blasting machine. The face of the runnerhead is provided with slots in which bases of vanes are slid in a generally radial direction with the base having an interlock with the runnerhead so as to retain the vane against movement normal to the face of the runnerhead. This particularly has to do with the locking of the vane base in the runnerhead slot. The pin is rectangular as opposed to the usual circular pin and the outer ends of the runnerhead slot and vane base are provided with cooperating slots and grooves which receive the pin, the pin being inserted in a first groove and slot arrangement at an angle to the axis of the base and then rotated or pivoted into a second groove and slot arrangement where it is locked in place against retrieval. The pin is locked in place by the outward movement of the vane from its pin inserting position.

Abstract: A fluorocarbon polymer gasket is disclosed which has been compression formed from a fluorocarbon polymer sheet heated to its gel state, cooled in its compressed state, and shaped into a gasket. The gasket so manufactured has a "living memory" thus enabling it to tend to return to its pre-compression form when exposed to elevated temperatures.

Abstract: A ceramic fiber and a shrink resistant article manufactured therefrom. The fiber comprises at least 80 weight percent of a refractory compound selected from the group consisting of silica, alumina, aluminum silicate, titania, zirconia, zirconium silicate and mixtures thereof and which comprises less than 5 combined weight percent of alkali or alkaline metal oxide or alkali or alkaline metal silicate. The fiber is uniformly coated with from about 0.01 to about 5 weight percent of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a discharge chute for granular material which is associated with an apparatus wherein the apparatus is vibrated with the vibrations also being imparted to the discharge chute. It has been found that in such instances, the capacity of the discharge chute may be greatly increased by providing more than one sloping wall while at the same time not increasing the overall height of the discharge chute. Further, when the angle of the sloping wall above the sloping bottom wall is increased, the capacity of that wall is greatly increased.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fire-resistant seal for sealing around a member passing through a fire-resistant building divider. The seal is formed of an adhesive fire-resistant cement on at least one side generally in the plane of the divider surface, behind the adhesive cement is placed bulk ceramic fiber. The second surface of the seal may be covered with an adhesive cement.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing a non-woven, boron nitride fiber mat, suitable for use as an electric cell separator in a lithium-sulfide battery. Molten boron oxide is centrifugally spun into strands and attenuated by an annular gas stream into fibers which are compacted at a controlled relative humidity into a mat. The mat of fibers passes through a needler, which repeatedly drives arrays of needles into the mat from either one or both sides, to reorient and intertwine the fibers, producing additional mechanical bonds thereamong. The needled mat then is heated in an anhydrous ammonia atmosphere to convert boron oxide in the fibers into boron nitride (BN). In an alternate embodiment the boron oxide fibers within the mat are converted into boron nitride before being passed through the needler.