Abstract: An automated receiving station is provided for inventorying stock items. The receiving station comprises a plurality of independently driven conveyor sections arranged sequentially for moving items along a predetermined path from a deposit end to a removal end while reading bar coded labels on the items and weighing the items. Further, identification labels are affixed to those items not otherwise having labels. More specifically, the independently driven conveyor sections include a receiving conveyor section for sequentially receiving items thereon, a scanner conveyor section along which items thereon may be scanned for identifying indicia, a weighting conveyor section for weighting any of the terms positioned thereon and a labeler conveyor section for affixing identifying indicia onto any one of the items.

Abstract: A lighting unit having a source of illumination on a support with there being simulated vegetation on the support. The support includes a base that simulates a natural stem for the vegetation.

Abstract: A laminated magnetic core is characterized in that core-forming thin sheets each having a surface roughness such that the maximum height Rmax is at least 1 .mu.m are laminated together with a sheet-to-sheet distance of 2 to 10 .mu.m, desirably 3 to 6 .mu.m and that at least a part of protruded portions of the opposite roughed surfaces is diffusion-bonded to each other at the interface between adjacent thin sheets. The laminated magnetic core may have innumberable voids present at the diffusion-bonded interface between the adjacent thin sheets. This invention further provides a method of manufacturing a laminated magnetic core comprising the steps of providing a plurality of core-forming thin sheets each having a surface roughness such that the maximum height Rmax is at least 1 .mu.m; laminating and bonding said core-forming thin sheets one upon another through an organic adhesive, desirably at a sheet-to-sheet distance of 2 to 10 .mu.

Abstract: A toothed belt has cores coated with a resorcin-formalin-latex liquid that includes as the latex component at least about 60 wt % of a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber or a chlorosulfonated polyethylene rubber. The teeth can be covered with a tooth covering fabric that is made from yarns containing at least 50 volume percent of aramid fibers.

Abstract: A drain cleaning apparatus has a cylindrical drum containing a supply of flexible line suitable for cleaning a drain. A frame is provided for rotatably supporting the drum and, in addition, the frame mounts a motor for rotating the drum relative to the frame and a control unit for selectively advancing cable from the drum and causing the cable to move back into the drum as the drum and cable length are rotated in use. The apparatus includes a wheeled cart which can be connected to at least one of the frame and drum for releasably operatively connecting the cart and the one of the frame and drum to allow the cart to be used to transport the drum and frame as a unit. Alternatively, the cart is adapted to be releasably connected to the drum to allow the drum to be transported by the cart without the frame.

Abstract: A hot gas generator includes a dual fuel injector (42) having spaced fuel discharge nozzles (48, 60) on the longitudinal axis (28) of a vessel (18) having a narrow inlet (22), an opposite narrow outlet (14) and an intermediate, enlarged chamber (24) which serves as a combustion chamber. The nozzle (60) injects a spray cone (64) of fuel in a cone angle that is sufficiently wide that a large angle exists between the fuel spray and the path (54) of high velocity combustion gases moving toward the outlet (14) to achieve excellent vaporization of fuel at fuel rich conditions without causing carbon buildup and/or the generation of black smoke in the exhaust.

Abstract: In order to facilitate the transfer and utilization of a tank of ink in a printing facility, an ink tank/pump system includes a plurality of ink tanks each adapted to accommodate a pump for supplying a press with ink from the tank. The system also includes a transfer cart having a generally flat, horizontal surface to support at least one of the ink tanks thereon. The transfer cart is adapted to move from one point to another, e.g., from an ink tank storage location to a press location. The system still further includes a receiver cart having a generally flat, horizontal surface to support at least one of the ink tanks thereon. With this arrangement, the tank supporting surfaces of the transfer and receiver carts are alignable, which accommodates slidably moving the ink tanks therebetween, and the ink tanks may include a splash resistant lip.

Abstract: A power transmission belt having a belt body with an inside surface and an outside surface, with the belt body having a compression section and a tension section, spaced outside of the compression section. At least a first part of the tension section is defined by a chlorosulfonated polyethylene rubber composition having a chlorine content of 15 to 30% by weight. At least a second part of the compression section is defined by a rubber composition that is different than the rubber composition of the first part.

Abstract: A tip member for an exposed pin end on a chain-type power transmission belt. The tip member has a body defining a first surface to be engaged with a cooperating pulley and a pin-receiving opening in the body defined by a surface of the body. The body surface has a concave portion for guiding pivoting of the pin bearing against the concave surface portion, a tapered inlet portion for guiding a pin end into an operative position within the pin-receiving opening, and a transition portion at least partially between the concave surface portion and tapered inlet portion.

Abstract: Lean flameout upon ignition in a turbine system including a turbine wheel (10) driven by motive gases including gases of combustion from a combustor (20) may be avoided by locating an orifice (130) downstream of the servo/.DELTA.P valve (52) that controls fuel flow to the fuel inlet (22) of the combustor (20).

Abstract: Potential difficulties with corrosion in hear exchangers utilizing aluminum fins are avoided by using fin and tube constructions made by a method which includes the steps of providing a flattened tube (50) of ferrous material (80) and having an exterior coating (82) predominantly of aluminum providing at least one serpentine fin (56) of aluminum (86) and clad with a predominantly aluminum braze cladding (88); assembling (102) the fin (56) to the flattened tube (50); applying (94), (100), (104), a brazing flux to at least one of the fin (56) and the tube (50); raising (106) the temperature of the assembly to a level sufficient to at least partially melt the braze cladding (88); and maintaining the temperature for a sufficient period of time to achieve a brazed joint (60) between the fin (56) and the tube (50) but a time insufficient to convert the coating (82) and the cladding (88) to ferrous-aluminum intermetallic compound or intermediate phase.

Abstract: Long thermal paths and the resulting slow response times in sealed and electrically insulated thermal sensors may be substantially reduced by insulating and sealing the sensor (26) by a method which includes the steps of providing (30) an electrostatic fluidized bed of electrically insulating resin; locating (34) the sensor (26) at the bed; coating (36) the sensor (26); removing (38) the sensor from proximity to the bed; and curing (40) to the resin to form a uniform, thin coating encapsulating the sensor (26).

Abstract: Problems with the cooling of a turbine nozzle (60) and a turbine wheel (20) of a gas turbine engine when the engine is uprated may be avoided or minimized by employing a combustor (36) that is free of any means for providing cooling air films on the interior walls thereof and which allows the entry of only stoichiometric quantities of air into the interior of the combustor (36) at predetermined locations along the entire axial length thereof. Consequently, the entirety of the combustor (36) is available for combustion. Cooling of the nozzle (60) and components of the engine downstream thereof is handled by the provision of an annular array of small openings (102) immediately upstream of the leading edges (98) of the vanes (58) constituting the nozzle (60) to provide excellent mixing of dilution air and combustion gases thereat.

Abstract: A system for automatically cultivating crops, according to the present invention, consists of a first structure for conveying seedlings in a first predetermined path to allow the seedlings to be treated under a first set of controlled growing conditions, a second structure for conveying the seedlings in a second predetermined path to allow the seedlings to be treated under a second set of controlled growing conditions, and structure for selectively diverting conveying seedlings on the first conveying structure onto the second conveying structure for conveyance by the second conveying structure.

Abstract: An improved waterbased gravure ink includes an additive package. The ink exhibits reduced volatile organic compound content and improved printability as compared to conventional waterbased gravure inks. A method of printing using the ink includes the steps of introducing the ink into cells of a printing surface and applying the ink in the cells to a printing substrate, the printing surface being made using about a 120.degree. to 150.degree. diamond and about 120 to about 300 lines per inch.

Abstract: A latch for selectively connecting a sash of a double-hung window to a slide track in a window frame, including a lever including a gear at one end, a latch housing mountable to the sash, the housing including means for pivotally supporting the lever, and a locking member movable between a locked position securing the sash to the track and an unlocked position releasing the sash from the track. The locking member includes a tongue projecting from the latch housing when the tilt latch is in the locked position and lying within the latch housing when the tilt latch is in the unlocked position, and a rack engaging the lever gear to move the locking member to locked and unlocked positions in response to pivoting of the lever. The lever gear includes a disk formed along one side, and the locking member includes a channel along the rack receiving the disk during pivoting of the lever.

Abstract: A plate and cup holder has a plurality of panels attached foldably relative to each other and convertible into an assembled state. A support panel has a first end with an opening for receiving a cup and a second end for supporting a plate. Side panels are attached to the support panel along opposite said side edges thereof and are swung transversely of the support panel when the holder is the assembled state. Each side panel has a tab which is swung inwardly of the respective side panel and beneath the first end of the support panel when the holder is in the assembled state. An end panel is attached to the support panel and is engaged with the tabs to maintain the holder in the assembled state.

Abstract: A game having a ring with a peripheral outer surface to be engaged with and rolled over a subjacent surface supporting the ring and a pusher for propelling the ring by rolling thereof. The pusher is a rod having a proximal and a distal end with the proximal end being configured to be gripped by a user. The distal end of the rod cooperates with the ring in such a manner that the user can selectively pull and push the ring through the pusher to accelerate and decelerate rolling of the ring over the surface.

Abstract: Volume, weight and complexity difficulties in the fabrication of torque limiters are avoided in a construction including a housing (10), a shaft (20) journalled in the housing (10) and adapted to be connected to a source (22) of rotary power, and a rotary output (28) journalled in the housing (10). A ball ramp coupling (44) is disposed within the housing (10) and includes an axially movable drive element (46) coupled to the shaft (20), a driven element (42) coupled to the output (28), a spring (52) biasing the elements (42,46) towards each other, facing ramps (61,62) in the elements (42,46) at the interface of the elements and balls (64) in the ramps. A first set of teeth (72) is carried by the drive element (46) while a second set of teeth (82) is carried by the housing (10) and aligned with the first set of teeth (72).