Abstract: A machine for assembling washers on headed screw blanks, comprises a turntable having peripheral recesses into which the washers are inserted. Elevators in the form of vertically swinging arms are mounted on the turntable about the periphery thereof, extending generally radially of the turntable, and are cam controlled to swing vertically relative to the turntable. In their upwardly swung position, recesses in the outer ends of the arms receive screw blanks beneath the heads thereof, the arms then swinging downwardly to insert the screw blanks in the washers that are in alignment below the screw blanks on the turntable. At the discharge side of the turntable, a slideway is provided for complete assemblies; but incomplete assemblies are detected and are disassembled with the parts returned to storage.

Abstract: An adjusting device for the cutting blades of a cutting tool, especially of an annular cutting tool according to which the cutting blades have associated therewith at least one abutment which is adjustable for adaptation to the extent of the wear of wear plates or corresponding machine parts of the cutting tool. The device furthermore includes a setting device for adjusting the cutting blades so as to occupy their abutting positions.

Abstract: A blade holder for machine blades, especially for blades which are arranged in an annular fashion along the periphery of cutting tools. The blade holder has a blade carrier and a blade holding plate which is detachably mounted on the blade carrier by at least one bolt. The blade holding plate at least partially covers the blade, which is supported on the blade carrier, while leaving the cutting edge exposed. The blade holder plate, which is removable from the bolt, is provided with an opening for a nut which is seated on the bolt.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for balancing a rotor such as the rim of a vehicle. The device utilizes the rated dimensions of the rotor in determining the angular position and magnitude of the imbalance. Means are provided for correcting the rated dimensions of the rotor with correction values corresponding to the distance between the center of gravity of a counterweight utilized to correct the imbalance in the axial and/or radial direction from a measuring point on the rotor for which the rated value is indicated. Means are also provided for converting between units.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method of removing a generally uniform layer portion of fibrous material from the top of a bale of compressed fibrous material and loosening the fibers of the layer portion during the removal thereof by providing a bale of relatively compressed fibrous material having a predetermined upper surface area, providing a suction hood having an overall area corresponding in size generally to the upper surface area of the fibrous bale, creating at least two spaced linear areas of suction across the overall area of the hood while preventing the creation of suction between the two linear suction areas, positioning the suction hood in overlying contiguous relationship to the bale upper surface area whereby the suction draws the fibrous material upwardly across the overall area and loosens the compressed condition thereof to a generally fluffed state through a uniform depth thereof, raising the suction hood to remove a general uniform depth of the loosened fibrous material across generally th

Abstract: An apparatus for balancing unbalanced bodies such as motor vehicle wheels having a rotating mounting shaft, a pedestal body in which the mounting shaft is arranged and transducers and other support means for supporting the mounting shaft. The lateral influence of the transducers on each other and the tilting impact of the transducers upon the mounting shaft at their points of contact therewith are minimized by disposing the transducers, other support means and the longitudinal axis of the mounting shaft in a single horizontal plane.

Abstract: Apparatus for mounting and centering a wheel on a mounting spindle of a testing machine, including a shaft portion, a centering taper member on the shaft portion for engaging a center hole in a wheel to be mounted, a fixing nut which can be screwed on the shaft portion for pressing the wheel against the centering taper member for centering the wheel, a spring operable to urge the taper member towards the nut, a housing member on the shaft portion around a part of the spring, a covering means covering the spring for protection thereof, the covering means being disposed on the shaft portion and at least partly in the housing member, and means for limiting the movement of the spring towards a fully relaxed condition thereof thereby to maintain a pre-stressing in the spring.

Abstract: A control device is disclosed for controlling the drive means and consequently the oscillation range of a periodically oscillating member particularly when it is necessary to maintain the speed of the periodic oscillation movement such that it corresponds to the average speed of another drive unit. Two movably mounted sensors are located near opposite ends of a predetermined oscillation range of the oscillating member. When either of the sensors senses the presence of the oscillating member beyond the predetermined oscillation range, a signal is generated by the sensor which is transmitted to control means adapted to adjust the speed of the drive means operating the oscillating member.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for balancing a rotor in at least one plane. The geometrical parameters of the rotor are stored along with test values representing the rotor in balance as determined during a test run. These stored values are transmitted to a frame computer which determines the size and phase relationship of counterweights necessary to balance the rotor. The test values resulting from the test run are stored for the entire duration of the balancing operation upstream of the frame computer. Also, the geometrical parameters of the rotor may be recalled and displayed at any time during the operation.

Abstract: A procedure and apparatus for determining the characteristic values of tires and rims and/or the attitude of the endurance limit of the same by rolling a wheel on a drum drive machine and measuring the forces and/or moments with a torque indicator. The measured forces are then transformed to the forces at the area of contact between the wheel and the drum. The forces applied to the wheel may then be readjusted by altering the slip angle, the camber angle and/or the contact pressure of the wheel on the drum.

Abstract: A front panel for a balancing machine in which the adjustment buttons and operational elements, including digital controls and displays are neatly and compactly grouped. This reduces the risk of improper operation.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for testing the nonuniformity of rotating bodies, and especially motor vehicle tires, in which the rotating body is pressed against a test drum and the radial and lateral reaction forces are measured at several locations on the drum. At each location a value proportional to the radial force is added to the lateral force to correct for the inductive disturbance of the lateral force measurement caused by the radial force. The corrected lateral force can then be used to determine the cone and angle effect.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to apparatus for separating card strips, such as fiber neps, fiber adhesions, short fibers, foreign particles, waste fibers and the like from fibrous material during a carding operation in which a rotating carding cylinder has means for carrying fibrous material therewith, a strips roller adjacent the carding cylinder defining therewith a gap through which the fibrous material is carried by the carding machine, and the strips roller including means for forming carding strips from the fibrous material which are subsequently removed therefrom.

Abstract: A locking device for a lift having an arm pivotably mounted for horizontal movement about a lifting carriage with two tubular members each pivotably connected at one end to the arm. One of the tubular members extends into a cylindrical housing and is locked thereto by balls mounted in ball cages urged by a spring to a locking position. The other tubular member is locked to the first tubular member by similar balls, cages and spring. A sleeve longitudinally slidably exterior to the two tubular members includes pins for engaging the ball cages to release the two tubular members.

Abstract: A circuit and process for eliminating unbalances on a rotor which permits equalization of unbalance only in constructionally predetermined equalization planes and component angles in which conventionally produced balance signals indicating the amounts and angles of unbalance are rectified and applied to an arithmetic circuit which produces output signals indicating the amounts of unbalance in equalization planes and, where balance in a given equalization plane is not possible, the amount of unbalance in a substitute plane. To permit balancing of different type workpieces having different dimensions, potentiometers are connected to the arithmetic circuit and to a longitudinal positioning circuit for applying signals indicating locations of the planes.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for quantitatively and qualitatively determining the dust content of fibrous material, in which a representative sample of the fibrous material is opened to obtain individual fibers and release the dust contained therein. The individual fibers and fine dust are separated by a combination of gravity separation and air flow. Coarse dust is separated and collected incidental to the opening process. The dust quantity and quality are determined on a weight basis.

Abstract: An envelope-stuffing machine adapted to insert sheets of paper or the like into an envelope or a folder comprises a pair of opposite perforated surfaces connected to a suction chamber and between which the envelope or folder is introduced so as to draw the opposite sides of the envelope or folder apart to receive the sheets to be inserted. A pressure sensor is provided to respond to the suction in the chamber communicating with the perforations of the surfaces to trigger the insertion of the sheets upon the detection of a predetermined reduced pressure in the chamber. The pressure sensor is of the threshold type.

Abstract: A method and appartus for measuring forces of reaction of a wheel rim and tire so as to minimize smooth road vibrations whereby the wheel and rim are rotated together in a first measuring run, the wheel and rim are rotated with respect to each other by a predetermined angle, and the wheel and rim are rotated together in a second run. The offset angle which minimizes vibrations can then be determined from the reaction forces of the two runs and the wheel and rim rotated with respect to each other to that offset angle.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a grinding wheel of the type having a spindle which is rotated by a motor or the like and on which is mounted a grinding wheel and a machine housing between the wheel end drive. A balancing structure includes a first annular housing mounted on the spindle adjacent the wheel and means mounted on the machine housing for injecting a balancing fluid into the annular housing and a second housing mounted on the spindle adjacent the spindle drive.

Abstract: A load of garments or other textile material to be washed is presoaked in organic solvent, e.g. in a rotating drum, and is then immersed within the same vessel in a water bath while still permeated by a substantial quantity of solvent. During this immersion, the vessel is gradually heated to the boiling point of the solvent, or of the azeotropic water/solvent mixture, which is below the boiling point of water so that only a part of the wash liquor is vaporized. The evaporation can be accelerated by placing the vessel under a partial vacuum. The evaporation rate of the solvent is measured and the washing cycle is halted as soon as that rate drops to zero or below a predetermined limit, with subsequent drying of the load by, for example, centrifugation.