Abstract: A controller controlling the dispensing of paper currency including a microprocessor for controlling motors which feed a predetermined mix of paper currency from each dispensing device to a common acceleration device which advances bills to an output stacker. Each individual dispensing device dispenses the proper number of bills to the acceleration device. Apparatus multiplexes the control signals to the stepper motor. After the bills have been dispensed, the stepper motor is halted, and a home positioning sensor determines if the stepper motor has been halted in the proper position. Sensors provided at spaced intervals along the common acceleration device determine if bills have reached the acceleration device. The dispensing operation is repeated if bills do not reach the sensor. The sensors perform the dual function of sensing advancement of a bill and detecting overlapping or multiple fed bills. The adaptive technique conmpensates for changes in the sensor such as component aging and dust accumulation.

Abstract: An arrangement in which a toggle mechanism on the outside of a proective helmet acts on an end of a nape strap outside the helmet to shorten the effective length of the nape strap within the helmet to move the wearer's head forward to bring the wearer's face into engagement with the face seal of a face mask attached to the helmet.

Abstract: An apparatus for metering dusting powder comprises a powder supply container, a stirring mechanism arranged in the supply container, a powder outlet opening at the bottom of the supply container, and an oscillating plate for metered delivery of the powder, which is provided at the outlet opening and to which an oscillatory motion is imparted by means of a shaking device. The stirring mechanism comprises a stirring blade rotating immediately above the bottom and the outlet opening of the supply container, and the oscillating plate of the shaking device executes an inharmonic oscillation consisting of a slow motion to and a quick motion fro.

Abstract: A controller controlling the dispensing of paper currency including a microprocessor for controlling motors which feed a predetermined mix of paper currency from each dispensing device to a common acceleration device which advances bills to an output stacker. Each individual dispensing device dispenses the proper number of bills to the acceleration device. Apparatus multiplexes the control signals to the stepper motor. After the bills have been dispensed, the stepper motor is halted, and a home positioning sensor determines if the stepper motor has been halted in the proper position. Sensors provided at spaced intervals along the common acceleration device determine if bills have reached the acceleration device. The dispensing operation is repeated if bills do not reach the sensor. The sensors perform the dual function of sensing advancement of a bill and detecting overlapping or multiple fed bills. The adaptive technique compensates for changes in the sensor such as component aging and dust accumulation.

Abstract: A controller controlling the dispensing of paper currency including a microprocessor for controlling motors which feed a predetermined mix of paper currency from each dispensing device to a common acceleration device which advances bills to an output stacker. Each individual dispensing device dispenses the proper number of bills to the acceleration device. Apparatus multiplexes the control signals to the stepper motor. After the bills have been dispensed, the stepper motor is halted, and a home positioning sensor determines if the stepper motor has been halted in the proper position. Sensors provided at spaced intervals along the common acceleration device determine if bills have reached the acceleration device. The dispensing operation is repeated if bills do not reach the sensor. The sensors perform the dual function of sensing advancement of a bill and detecting overlapping or multiple fed bills. The adaptive technique compensates for changes in the sensor such as component aging and dust accumulation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for manufacturing a turbine or compressor wheel made of composite material, comprising the following steps of:making at least two helicoidal textures each formed by weaving a spiral band with helicoidal warp yarns and weft yarns which are substantially perpendicular to the axis of the texture,assembling the helicoidal textures by "screwing" them in each other and stacking them by mutually approaching their interlaced turns, anddensifying the stack thus made to obtain a preform of a turbine or compressor wheel.

Abstract: Sensors in the infeed and output stackers, under control of the microprocessor, monitor the sheets. The apparatus is started automatically by placing sheets in the infeed. A count of the sheets is developed and displayed as the sheets are fed. When the infeed is empty and the output contains sheets, the count is retained. If sheets are removed from the outfeed, the count is retained and is reset only after more sheets are placed in the input. The same rules obtain for batching. The sensors cooperate with singles, holes and doubles detectors and have their again adjusted depending upon sheet density. Automatic threshold adjustment circuits compensate for dust build-up and component aging. Upon sheet detection, the sensing circuit threshold level is instantaneously shifted to prevent an abrupt change in intensity from the sheet covering the sensor to provide an erroneous indication of the presence of a subsequent sheet or sheets.

Abstract: The center comprises a conveyor, a motor-driven carriage equipped with a gripper to move a section (2) over the conveyor, along a numerical axis toward the fixed frame (7) of a machining station, and a vise (11).In accordance with the invention, the machining station includes only the following: two moving elements (16, 21) adapted to move along cross-axes, the first said element (16) being movable relative to the fixed frame (7) and the second (21) being movable relative to the first (16), said second moving element (21) carrying a swivelling spindle head (25) equipped with at least one tool (5).Also, the actuator (22) which controls the movement of each said element is a multipurpose actuator selectively controlled by the main numerical control program to execute either positioning-only commands, or feed-only commands, or combined commands, among others.

Abstract: A filter for squeezing or pressing out suspensions has the following main components: a boiler-shaped outer casing, a cover releasably closing the outer casing at its open end face, a tubular filter element projecting from the cover and an elastic membrane which is arranged between outer casing and filter element and is connected, on the one hand, to the open end face of the outer casing and, on the other, to the end face of the filter element remote from the cover such that the membrane is inverted when the cover is removed coaxially from the outer casing. In a filter of this type, the inner diameter of the slack membrane in the region of the filter element is equal to or smaller than the outer diameter of the filter element.

Abstract: Device for supporting a piezoelectric resonator inside a casing. The device comprises two cross-shaped half-shells, each one comprising: four branches of which the free ends define angle pieces with a horizontal bearing surface of small dimension, which surface is slightly raised with respect to the central part of the corresponding half-shell, as well as one vertical branch holding the edge of the resonator: four identical independent securing flanges to secure the two half-shells in position, said flanges having the shape of a turned down U, each flange comprising, at the end of each branch of the U, two stop elements bearing against two superposed branches of the two half-shells, on the faces of those branches facing said horizontal bearing surfaces; and at least four pairs of springs for suspending the four securing flanges with respect to the casing.

Abstract: A filter for squeezing or pressing out suspensions has the following main components: a boiler-shaped outer casing, a cover closing the outer casing at its open end, a tubular filter element projecting from the cover and a membrane which is arranged between outer casing and filter element and connected on the one hand to the open end of the outer casing and, on the other, to the end face of the filter element remote from the cover such that the membrane is inverted when the cover is removed coaxially from the outer casing. In a filter of this type, the membrane and the filter element are pivotable or rotatable as a unit about their common axis when the outer casing is in its closed state.

Abstract: Sensors in the infeed and output stackers, under control of the microprocessor, monitor the sheets. The apparatus is started automatically by placing sheets in the infeed. A count of the sheets is developed and displayed as the sheets are fed. When the infeed is empty and the output contains sheets, the count is retained. If sheets are removed from the outfeed, the count is retained and is reset only after more sheets are placed in the input. The same rules obtain for batching. The sensors cooperate with singles, holes and doubles detectors and have their gain adjusted depending upon sheet density. Automatic threshold adjustment circuits compensate for dust build-up and component aging. Upon sheet detection, the sensing circuit threshold level is instantaneously shifted to prevent an abrupt change in intensity from the sheet covering the sensor to provide an erroneous indication of the presence of a subsequent sheet or sheets.

Abstract: A protective helmet assembly in which a manually operable pump carried by the helmet outer shell is accessible from outside the shell to inflate two inflatable bodies disposed between the shell and respective sound-attenuating earcup subassemblies suspended from the shell adjacent to the wearer's ears. An element accessible from outside the shell can be actuated to deflate the inflatable bodies when the helmet assembly is doffed.

Abstract: A system for facilitating the construction of wood frame panels in which a mobile truck body having tool receiving bays along one side thereof has an enclosure formed on the top thereof for housing a component assembling machine. A normally retracted bridge crane is adapted to move panels from stowed positions on top of the body to operative positions at which they form an upper working area adjacent to the component assembling machine and a lower working area adjacent to the bays. One of the upper panels has an extension and hinged portion adapted to form a material support rack.

Abstract: A tool changing apparatus for a machine tool comprising, adjacent an operating space, an indexable tool carrier displaceable in two feed directions defining a plane of movement and comprising a plurality of tool receiving means each including a holding means, which is provided with a clamping device, for inserting and securely clamping a base of a tool as well as a clamping element having a predetermined direction of movement for tightening and releasing the clamping device, and also comprising a tool gripping device having an actuating device adapted to be coupled to the clamping element.

Abstract: A continuous process of making a blended yarn of staple fiber and long-fiber or filamentary material in which the long-fiber or filamentary material is passed through a rupture zone to produce lengths thereof which are fed directly into an air stream with the staple fibers to produce an intimate blend which is conveyed by the air stream directly to an open end spinning device which produces the yarn.

Abstract: This invention relates to a centrifugal decanter comprising a rotor connected to a motor for driving in rotation by a vertical shaft suspended in pendulous manner by a swivel joint supported by a fixed connected seat. Springs for returning the shaft into vertical position are provided, in the form of compression springs arranged so as to relieve the swivel joint of the weight of the rotating system that it supports.

Abstract: A process for the continuous measurement of the density of a liquid by means of an aerometer body swimming in the liquid is characterized by the feature that the liquid is allowed to flow periodically at an increased flow rate past the aerometer body in order to clean the same of foreign matter, gas bubbles or the like disturbing the measuring, with the measuring procedure being interrupted during this cleaning period. In an apparatus for performing this process, an aerometer body is surrounded in a measuring vessel by a partition wall at a small distance therefrom, and line is provided, through which liquid to be measured may be introduced at a relatively high flow rate into the space between the aerometer body and the partition wall in order to periodically clean the aerometer body.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for accurately positioning a generally rectangular sheet being fed in a direction generally parallel to one edge thereof in which a first stop offset from the centerline of the sheet in the direction of feeding engages the leading edge of the sheet to initiate a turning action thereof and in which second and third edge stops engage the lateral edges of the sheet with reference to the direction of feed and at points adjacent to the sheet corners before appreciable turning movement of the sheet has taken place.