Abstract: Terry cloth toweling (18) moves from a supply along its length through an aligning and cutting system (14), to a transfer station (15). As the untufted bands (20) of the toweling material approach the transfer station, a plurality of fingers (28) of a gate (25) engage the untufted portion of the toweling, and as the toweling continues to move, the oncoming edge (22) of the plush surface (19) of the toweling engages and is retarded by the fingers. In the meantime, a plurality of presser feet (92) each of which is aligned with the fingers of the gate urge the toweling into engagement with a feed roller (85) that pulls the toweling through the processing path, and tension in the toweling tends to lift one or more of the presser feet (92) to relieve the pull applied to the toweling. This functions to straighten the band of the toweling.

Abstract: Sealing means for a reverse osmosis system includes an approximately cylindrical body (103) open at one end and including an outwardly stepped portion (109) at its open end which receives a cylindrical rim (121) of a cover (107). An O-ring seal (123) is seated in an annular groove (125) of the cylindrical rim and includes an outwardly projecting annular tongue (123B) which engages and seals against the inner surface of the stepped portion (109) of the cylindrical body (103). Annular filter element (105) is positioned in an upright attitude in the cylindrical body (103) and fluid moves through inlet opening (31) of the cover (107), then downwardly into the outer portion of the cylindrical body, then through the annular filter, then upwardly through the cover to an outlet (135). The liquid then moves through the other elements of the reverse osmosis system, including a boiler (29) and condenser (33), to storage tank (35).

Abstract: The filleting apparatus for removing fillets from poultry carcasses comprises a tabletop chain onto which at regular distances retaining means are provided which move the carcasses through a gate member so that the fillets are mechanically pushed off from the carcass.

Abstract: A device for measuring pressures and variations of pressure with time at surface of test objects, for example wind tunnel models, is equipped with a plurality of pressure-sensitive sensors (4) arranged on a carrier (3). The pressure-sensitive sensors (4) are seated flush with the surface in the carrier (3) and this, in turn, is arranged flush with the surface of the test object at the test location. In the carrier (3) an operational amplifier is provided for each sensor (4). The underside of each sensor (4) is connected via as short a line (10) as possible to the associated operational amplifier. At the carrier (3), connections (7, 11) for supplying the operational amplifiers (18) and for conducting the output signals are provided. All top sides of the sensors (4) are connected to each other and to a combined ground connection (5) of the operational amplifiers thru an electrically conductive coating.

Abstract: Cookies (18) and the like are moved in a horizontal, as-baked attitude from an oven and are automatically loaded in edge standing attitude in the semicylindrical cavities of a tray (146). The cookies are received in series from the cooling belt (19) that leads away from the oven onto a slick top belt, then moved in sequence to a backlog belt conveyor (22), to a timing belt conveyor (24), to a pin conveyor (12), to a loading wheel (13) and into a loading cell (106) of a turret. The slick top belt operates at approximately the same speed as the cooling belt leading away from the oven, and the backlog belt operates at a slower speed as necessary than the slick top belt so as to accumulate the cookies in edge-to-edge relationship. When the supply of cookies on the backlog belt has accumulated to the point where they are backing up on the slick top belt, the operational speed of the system is increased so that the speed of operation matches the operation of the oven.

Abstract: During the operation of an oxygen-fuel burner the supply of fuel is reduced to generate an oxygen-rich low velocity flame. The excess oxygen of the flame is heated by the flame and oxidizes any slag accumulated on or about the burner.

Abstract: A spring-system, used for the suspension of motor-vehicles, comprises a manical, pneumatic, or hydro-pneumatic suspension-spring inserted between the sprung and the unsprung masses of the motor-vehicle. The suspension-spring is linear and possesses relatively high positive rigidity with only short spring-travel. Arranged in parallel with the suspension-spring is a correcting spring having negative rigidity and zero-crossover in the region of negative rigidity. The correcting spring comprises two parts each equipped with permanent magnets, one of these parts being connected to the sprung mass and the other to the unsprung mass. Each of the parts of the correcting spring comprises a plurality of permanent magnets arranged one behind the other in the direction of movement, with pieces of soft iron arranged therebetween, like poles of adjacent permanent magnets adjoining the soft-iron intermediate pieces, and the magnetizing axes of the permanent magnets being arranged in parallel with the direction of movement.

Abstract: A high velocity oxygen fuel burner (10) includes a combustor assembly (11) mounted in a graphite block (12), with the burner mounted in a water jacket (18) of a furnace. The combustor assembly includes a combustion chamber (48) that receives a stream of oxygen along its center axis (51). The fuel moves from fuel barrel (32) through fuel passages (50), with a portion of the fuel being diverted into the combustion chamber (48) by the annular fuel diverter ring (52) and with the rest of the fuel moving on through the fuel extension passages (50b) and through nozzle ring (34). The nozzle ring directs the fuel into the flame as it emerges from the combustion chamber, so that the fuel from the nozzle has a cooling effect at the exposed end of the burner and tends to develop the flame in an annular ring about the stream of high velocity oxygen that is directed toward the work product in the furnace.

Abstract: Poultry wings are automatically cut into pieces by mounting them in troughs formed in the periphery of a wheel and moving them into sliding contact with rigid guide bars which, in conjunction with the shape of the troughs, guide their elbow joints and flipper joints into severing contact with cutting blades.

Abstract: Liquid soap is made in small quantities in the home by mixing a fat, such as left over cooking fats, with an alkali while adding a diluent each time viscosity of the mixture is detected to rise. Apparatus for making the soap includes a sealed container 17 with compartments filled with the alkali and other additives, with the sealed container having protrusions 68 which engage switch elements 69 that control the amounts of each additive to be mixed with the fats. A tiltable baffle 78 feeds the grease added to the system alternately to one of two grease receptacles 75 or 76, a D.C. motor drives a mixer 55, and water from a water tank 30 is added to the mixture in response to the detection of an increase in voltage drawn by the motor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is described for packaging a light-weight, flimsy garment such as hosiery in light-weight, flimsy packaging material such as plastic film. A garment is drawn by air pressure into a packing chamber and about a rotating spindle. The packed garment is then pushed off of the spindle by a plunger into and through a tubular strip of packaging material and into a closed end portion thereof. The packed closed end portion of the strip is then sealed and severed.

Abstract: A right angle clamp assembly holds two frame elements in a common plane and in angled abutment to form a mitered joint. Pneumatic cylinders are arranged to move the movable clamps of the right angle clamp assembly. A fastener tool has its discharge opening positioned on one side of the location where the mitered joint is to be formed, and a brace is positioned on the other side, with the brace being movable toward and away from the location of the mitered joint. The fastener tool is tiltable with respect to the right angle clamp assembly, and control means are provided for firing the fastener tool in response to the frame elements being gripped by the right angle clamp assembly. The fastener is inserted into the mitered joint at an angle formed by the frame elements to draw the mitered joint together.

Abstract: An insulated panel is provided with an embedded locking pin that is mounted to a plate placed flushly against a side of the insulated panel. An adjacent panel may be securely fastened by rotating a hook down into the insulation of the other panel and into locking engagement with the embedded locking pin.

Abstract: Birds are moved in series along an overhead conveyor about a rotary support assembly 22, a spreader tool 45 moves down into the previously eviscerated cavity of each bird, a first disk cutter 68 cuts behind the spreader tool through the tissue extending from the breast to the back about the cavity, the spreader tool is withdrawn from the bird, and a second disk cutter 69 cuts through the backbone of the bird.

Abstract: A pure water tank for distillation equipment comprises a casing on a water tank proper and a communicating pipe via which interiors of the casing and tank proper communicate each other. Water in the casing prevents air from entering into the pure water tank through a condenser when generation of steam is halted.

Abstract: A casket 10 has decorative right angle corner plates 18 detachably mounted thereto by mounting means that includes shoulder screws 22 and retaining clips 34.

Abstract: Garments are made of sets 11-14 of loosely juxtaposed strands of yarn that are spread to a single layer and stitched to tapes 16,17 at each of their ends and are bundled together intermediate their ends and stitched to a central tape 15, with the sets of strands and tapes comprising a segment of a garment.

Abstract: A pocketknife is formed with a latching mechanism that includes a catch and latch for releasibly holding a key ring.

Abstract: A substantially torus-shaped chamber is refurbished by installing partitions about the chamber to create isolated compartments within the chamber, and by sandblasting, painting, and curing the paint in the compartments and exhausting air from the compartments so that the dust and fumes from the compartments are not spread to adjacent ones of the compartments. In the curing process a plurality of insulated panels are installed in juxtaposed relationship with respect to the painted surfaces, and high velocity air is moved between the panels and the painted surfaces in closed paths. The recirculating air is heated to approximately 200.degree. F. and the hot air is confined substantially to the space immediately adjacent the painted surface.