Abstract: An amphibious vehicle has an engine and a drive train connected to drive wheels with tires having a tread configuration that produces a water propulsion effect when the vehicle is driven through water. An auxiliary propulsion unit is selectively positioned in driving relationship to each of the wheels to improve water speed of the vehicle. The propulsion unit includes a gear box with its input connected to the wheel hub; its output connected to a propeller and an anti-torque strut is pivotally connected to the gear box and anchored to the vehicle hull whereby the propeller speed is increased by the gear box a desired amount as compared to axle speed to rotate the propeller at a speed to propel the amphibious vehicle.

Abstract: A boring tool is disclosed capable of positioning a tool element between a radial cutting position and a radial retracted position out of contact with the finished workpiece bore to avoid tool mark formation on the finished bore during tool withdrawal. The boring tool is simple and low cost in construction and includes a resilient tool-carrying member which extends transversely of the spindle axis in cantilever fashion for deflection by a spindle draw bar relative to a stop means on a fixed support member attachable to the spindle. During boring, the tool-carrying member is in deflecting engagement with the drawbar and, in conjunction with stop means, positions the tool thereon in a radial cutting position. For tool withdrawal, deflecting engagement is released so that the resiliency of the tool-carrying member positions the tool in a radial retracted position out of contact with the finished workpiece bore.

Abstract: Mechanical fastener means for blocking off an opening in an intake manifold gasket when the latter is used with a fuel injected engine. The fastener means includes two mating metal members whose outer edges are oppositely bowed to extend past and confine the oppositely disposed edge portions of the gasket opening therebetween, with one of the members having a central opening formed therein for receiving a "button" extension in the shape of a substantially cylindrical cup formed on the other member and, once extended through the central opening, such button extension being mechanically impacted to be caused to assume a dished shape and a flanged connection with the edge portion of the central opening in the one member.

Abstract: A vehicle mounted weapons control system has forward feed provided by a stepping motor drive system under the control of an analog controller without feedback from the weapons system. The controller includes a ballistic computer to produce outputs of train and elevation rates and stabilization means that includes means to modify the aforesaid rates to counteract vehicle disturbances and means to provide stabilization train and elevation rate signals which combine with the ballistic computer outputs to produce analog signals for use in controlling the rate of pulses generated in the stepping motor drives.

Abstract: A three rack and double pinion weapon elevation mechanism is disclosed and is useful for positioning and balancing a weapon, such as a cannon, on a combat vehicle. Two hydraulically-actuated gear racks are in facing relation with a main pinion in meshing engagement therebetween. The main pinion is integral with a shaft to which an output pinion is attached. Rotation of the main pinion produces an identical rotation of the output pinion. The output pinion is in mesh with a sector gear attached to the weapon. The two racks are slidable past the main pinion causing it and the output pinion to rotate in one direction or the other, producing a corresponding elevation or depression of the weapon. A third hydraulically-actuated rack is meshed with the main pinion to exert an elevating torque on the output pinion counter to a depressing torque exerted thereon by the weight of the weapon and which varies with changes in weapon elevation angle.

Abstract: A corrugated box forming, loading and sealing machine, including a first or magazine and infeed section, a second or forming and loading section, and a third or closing and discharge section. In the first section there is stored and fed one-at-a-time flat corrugated blanks consisting of bottom, front, back and two top-half panels, all with extended edge panels, while glue is applied to the bottom, front and back edge panels. In the second section a product, such as cartons or plastic bottles, and two side panels, are loaded from opposite sides onto the bottom panel. When full, the loaded bottom panel is lowered through an opening whose four edge portions cause the front and back panels, and their respective edge panels to wrap around the product.

Abstract: The broach manufacturing method includes a first turning operation in which the outer diameter of the puller portion, retriever portion and the toothed cutting portion are rough turned to within 0.030-0.050 inch of finished dimension. Also, in the first turning opertion, the cutting teeth are turned to include a gullet radius of finished dimension and an oversized hook angle intersecting therewith. Following a hardening treatment, the cutting teeth are turned to finished dimension in a second turning operation with the exception that the outer diameter and back-off angle of the finishing teeth are turned slightly oversize in the second turning operation followed by grinding to final dimension. The oversized hook angle of the cutting teeth is also nicked off during the second turning operation and blended with the gullet radius turned in the first turning operation. The turning operations are performed on a CNC lathe.

Abstract: A computerized die-casting machine control includes a microcomputer and a programmable controller having presettable inputs to establish a desired machine operating sequence. Temperature sensors at the holding furnace, cover die, ejector die, gate and at the die impact bushing monitor the die casting variables and produce input signals to the shot-control micro-computer. The micro-computer is programmed to take pre-programmed actions to correct out of tolerance conditions in the machine on a continuous on-line basis during machine operation.

Abstract: A pressure atomizing fuel nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a support housing in which a pressure-responsive fuel check valve and metering valve are disposed in line to provide a flow of primary fuel for engine start-up and low power operation and secondary fuel for higher power operation. The check valve is located upstream between the fuel inlet and a sleeve inside of which the metering valve is disposed. The check valve prevents the fuel manifold from draining after engine shut-down and controls fuel entry to both the secondary fuel chamber within the sleeve and to an annular primary fuel chamber between the sleeve and support housing connected in fuel flow relation to the secondary chamber by a fuel filter. The primary fuel flows through the primary chamber around the exterior of the secondary chamber and through an annular primary fuel conduit disposed around the secondary fuel conduit in the housing strut to the nozzle attached to the strut.

Abstract: A die casting machine has a hydraulic shot ram controlled by a servo system that includes pre-settable thumbwheel switches to establish a desired memory of shot speed values and shot position presets in a programmable computer. An analog output responsive to the control program in the programmable computer produces a direct current analog velocity command signal. A servo amplifier includes means for comparing the command analog signal and a feedback signal from transducers sensing velocity of the hydraulic ram and position of valve means to produce an on-off servo valve signal so that a servo valve will modulate flow from a third state Olmsted shot valve so as to compensate for shot speed changes produced by changes in operational conditions including wear and build-up on a cylinder and ram; hydraulic oil heat-up during operation of the machine; and changes in flow characteristics of a molten metal due to temperature variations thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for roll sizing the periphery of cylindrical workpieces to finish and size the workpiece to a close tolerance diameter. The method and apparatus can also be used to prefinish and presize cylindrical workpieces in preparation for subsequent forming of spline teeth or gear teeth and the like on the workpiece periphery.

Abstract: The drawings and description disclose a heat sealable container for edible oils and other types of oils, and a blank for constructing same, having a laminated wall construction of suitable oil resistant barriers or layers which are compatible with one another insofar as bonding and sealing are concerned. Such wall construction includes central layers of aluminum foil and fluorochemically treated paperboard secured to one another by a suitable adhesive, an ionomer layer, such as Surlyn, formed on each outer paperboard and foil surface, and a layer of thermoplastic material, such as polyethylene, formed on each outer Surlyn surface.

Abstract: A fuel distribution valve assembly is provided with a laminated thermal buffer member between the valve housing and inner valve means to prevent binding of the valve means from thermal effects.

Abstract: There is illustrated and described herein a heat exchanger including rows of tubes, a pair of headers secured to the ends of the tubes, a groove formed in each of the headers adjacent the peripheral wall thereof and intermediate adjacent rows of tubes, a recessed portion formed along the full length of the centerline of each groove, a pair of tanks having walls aligned with and mounted in the grooves of the respective headers, a ledge formed around the outside wall of each header, a chamfer formed along each of the inner and outer edges of the tank walls to form a blunt edge at the ends of the chamfers, and a gasket mounted in each groove and depressed along its centerline into said recessed portions by the blunt edge, the tanks being retained in position by bending spaced extensions of the peripheral wall of each header onto the ledge.

Abstract: A tool is provided for pressure forming teeth in the periphery of a cylindrical, tubular workpiece such as a power transmission member by rolling. The tool has an improved tooth generating configuration which improves the flow characteristics of the metal in the workpiece and develops uniformity of tooth wall thickness during the tooth generating process.

Abstract: There is illustrated and described a machine for setting up corrugated box blanks having four side panels folded double and sealed along their otherwise adjacent free edges and having top and bottom end flaps extending from each end of each side panel.

Abstract: A drive mechanism for an automatic transfer machine has a mechanical transfer drive including a motor driven gear box with an output shaft connected to a single, rotatable drive arm with cam follower means thereon selectively engageable with one or the other of a pair of spaced cam slots on a transfer buggy to define a linear geneva index for producing a harmonic motion, two stroke, transfer of the transfer buggy so as to produce improved start-stop-start-stop sequences of movement of pallets in a linear geneva operated transfer system.

Abstract: An expandable abrasive tool is provided with an axially-extending slot receiving a single abrasive element and multiple axially aligned and axially spaced apart pockets located circumferentially from the slot with each pocket fixedly receiving an individual centering element for properly positioning and supporting the abrasive element in the hole. The axially spaced apart pockets space the centering elements apart in end-to-end relation and thereby allow torsional flexing of the tool body during hole machining without damaging the brittle centering elements. In an alternative version, multiple centering elements are received in spaced apart end-to-end relation in a single axially elongated slot instead of in individual pockets.

Abstract: The cutting tool includes a cutting insert retention pin with an intermediate radial flange adapted to engage a crescent-shaped bottom wall or shoulder in a specially-configured pin-receiving cavity in the toolholder insert pocket and thereby cause the retention pin to tilt in an insert locking direction in the cavity. The pin-receiving cavity is formed by first and second intersecting circular counterbores and a tapped hole with the first counterbore and tapped hole being coaxial and the second counterbore being offset toward an abutment surface in the toolholder pocket and deeper than the first counterbore.

Abstract: Servo control circuits particularly suited for electric discharge machining apparatus to provide the input to the servomechanism which actuates the tool feed during machining.These circuits respond to a setting of desired gap emf and an input of actual gap emf to control tool movement so as to equalize these inputs. They respond to abnormally low gap emf during the machining "on" pulse to retract the tool to allow the gap to clear of debris.The gap emf during the "on" period of the pulse cycle is stored in a small capacitor coupled to a high-impedance input to power circuits of the servo control, which capacitor normally retains most of its charge during the "off" time of the cycle. Logic circuits responding to the pulse generator and the gap emf discharge this capacitor when abnormally low gap emf occurs during cycle "on" time.