Abstract: A radiant energy burner having a combustion element composed of a generally cylindrical foraminous metal support or screen, and a woven fabric formed of substantially continuous ceramic fibers is disposed on the outer surface of the support. The end portions of the fabric are connected to the support while the portion of the fabric located between the connected end portions is free of attachment to the support. A blower is used to supply a gaseous fuel mixture through the support and fabric and an igniter is located on the outer surface of the fabric to ignite the fuel mixture on the outer surface of the fabric.

Abstract: A two component cartridge case which may be of dissimilar materials including a tubular casing component with a mouth for receiving a projectile and reduced diameter shank with male threads to be received by the base component with corresponding female threads, recessed pocket on its centerline for holding a primer and a flange for engaging a firearm extraction mechanism.The components, both tubular casing and base, are carefully proportioned to allow only a minimum of the base to enter a sizing die during sizing operations thus permitting ease of sizing using conventional (ordinary) sizing dies, while using a hard material in the base component for added strength.The components are shaped to permit manufacture of the tubular casing component from existing conventional cartridge cases or from specially headed two diameter cartridge cases.

Abstract: A spring deck for upholstered seating consisting of a thin deck sheet, flexible transversely of its plane but inelastic in its plane, arranged generally horizontally over an open seat frame, and being connected at its front and rear edges to the frame, the connection at its rearward edge being by edge springs resiliently yieldable toward its forward edge so that it may yield downwardly responsively to top loading, and vertically yieldable sub-springs disposed beneath the central portion of the deck sheet and biased to offset that portion of the deck sheet upwardly above a plane determined by its front and rear edge connections, so that a load imposed on the deck is supported first by the sub-springs and later by both the sub-springs and the edge springs. The forward edge of the deck sheet may be supported by springs which are vertically yieldable, but not yieldable toward the rear deck sheet edge, in order that the deck sheet provides a soft-edge yieldability at its forward edge.

Abstract: A spreader for particulate material, the spreader being of the broadcast type having a hopper from which particulate material is discharged onto a rotating impeller. To provide adjustment for materials of various physical properties, a conically-shaped deflector is mounted between the hopper and impeller. The deflector is helically shaped at the bottom so that it has a gradually varying radius. By rotary adjustment of the deflector, particulate material can be discharged onto a preselected portion of the impeller.

Abstract: In pressure forming splines or teeth in the axially-extending sleeve of a clutch hub having a cylindrical oil seal surface adjacent the sleeve, a pair of special tooth-forming racks adapted to intermesh with a toothed mandrel with the sleeve therebetween and a pair of special support racks adapted to contact the oil seal surface are used. Each tooth-forming rack includes a first working surface with a plurality of toothed sections interrupted and spaced apart by toothless sections in an alternating sequence and each further includes a second working surface with uninterrupted toothed sections. Each support rack includes a first working surface with raised support sections interrupted and spaced apart by lower non-supporting sections in a proper alternating sequence and configuration to insure that the raised sections support the oil seal surface when the interrupted toothed rack sections of the tooth-forming racks deform the sleeve.

Abstract: An anchor for tying between a sequentially layered veneer and a backup system. The anchor comprises a channel with a slotted web for accepting an anchoring means and apertured flanges pivotally receiving a formed wire tie. The anchor is adjustable translationally and pivotally as a unit. By locating the apertures in the flanges off center of the length of the elongate slot, pivoting of the channel 180.degree. expands the vertical adjusting capability of the tie which is captured fixedly between successive layers.

Abstract: A flame cutting apparatus includes a pair of longitudinally movable gantries and a connecting transverse bridge which mounts carriages with flame cutting torches including a plasma torch unit. A computer numerical controller is fixedly mounted adjacent to one gantry. Position sensors and operating devices are mounted on the bridge with a high frequency supply for igniting the plasma torch and supplemental electronic circuits. The bridge is a generally hollow box-beam having doors within which the supplemental electronic circuitry to mechanically and electronically isolate them. Cables are provided for connecting the bridge mounted sensors and operating devices to an onboard computer controller. A special filter unit is mounted in the controller-mounted gantry. The filter unit includes an enclosure and a plurality of separate filters each of which is connected to a lead of the cable. The filters isolate the controller from electronic noise and extraneous signals in the cables.

Abstract: The adapter member includes a threaded male portion adapted for threadable engagement in a threaded bore of the punch and a threaded female portion of smaller diameter adapted for threadable engagement with a small diameter threaded end of the draw stud which can pass through an initial small diameter pilot hole in the workpiece. The adapter member allows the punch to accommodate a draw stud of sufficiently small diameter to fit through the pilot hole and allows punching of a larger diameter hole in light gage or non-ferrous materials without enlarging the pilot hole. This arrangement eliminated the need in the past for the additional step of enlarging the pilot hole to accept a draw stud of larger diameter that was threaded directly into the thread bore of the punch for punching larger diameter holes in both heavy and light gage material.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for inserting field windings in axial flux electric machines. Preferably each field winding is wound in the form of a spiral of wire on an elongate former. The former is then reduced in external dimensions and a press member moves along the former to push the turns into a pair of slots.Apparatus for forming and inserting both insulating sleeve members for the slots and insulating wedges to maintain the windings in position in the slots, is also disclosed.

Abstract: An installation for processing unlimbed or delimbed trees in a terminal landing comprises a processing unit (14) which is movable on a track (13) running along a storage of unlimbed or delimbed trees (12). The processing unit (14) includes a loading crane (23) for taking trees from the storage (11) and feeding them, butt end foremost, into a processing assembly (24). The processing assembly (24) cuts the trees to logs which are allowed to drop onto a log receiving bed (15) having an inclined plane on which the logs are parallelized with the track (13) and caused to be uniformly directed, whereupon they are transported to a sorting installation by a horizontal conveyor (16) positioned along the lower edge of the inclined plane.

Abstract: The invention provides a device for supporting a mold insert in space inside a mold cavity. A pilot and keeper assembly rests on the top of a mold part and extends into a mold cavity and through a small hole in the mold insert. Movement of a handle, which is part of the pilot and keeper assembly of the mold part, is transmitted through a shaft to a retaining means, which engages the opposite extremity of the hole to retain the insert in position during molding operations. After plastic is inserted into the base of the mold cavity and a sufficient curing time has transpired, the handle is rotated back to its initial position, thereby returning the retaining means to a nonretention position, and the pilot and keeper assembly is withdrawn from the mold.

Abstract: An improved motorized timer for coin operated devices utilizing a spring slip clutch. A single motor drives a single rotating cam which controls first and second switches, a first of which controls operation of the timer motor, and a second of which controls operation of the appliance.

Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor, wherein a magnet cage includes a plurality of equally spaced, longitudinally extending, selectively shaped legs, a sleeve mounted within the inner surfaces of the legs, and a shaft press fitted through the sleeve. A plurality of wedge-shaped magnets are inserted between adjacent legs around the sleeve, retained by the shapes of adjacent leg surfaces. A cover plate having chamfered slots is mounted on the leg ends against the magnets. The ends of the legs are staked in the chamfered slots to secure the rotor assembly.

Abstract: A detector thermostat for fire detection systems is disclosed. Such detector thermostat includes a bimetal snap disc thermostat having a metallic disc cup which supports the snap disc. A heat collector is mounted on the disc cup in good heat transfer relationship therewith. The collector provides a flange formed with concentric circular convolutions and a circular array of projections cut from the material of the flange and extending substantially perpendicular to the flange. The projections are positioned around the disc cup and provide improved sensitivity to the flow of hot air and gases in a direction parallel to the plane of the flange.

Abstract: A sterilization apparatus and method for sterilizing the interiors of paperboard containers, wherein such apparatus and method are operative prior to the container being mounted on a mandrel assembly on which the container bottom closures are formed, closed and sealed. This is accomplished by providing nebulizing means for communicating a suitable sterilant fog through and onto the inside surfaces of the carton blank immediately after it has been removed from a magazine and opened into a four-sided tubular shape, thereby greatly increasing the total interior sterilizing time available prior to the container being filled, as compared to conventional sterilization processes which are operative after the bottom panels of the carton have been closed and sealed.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel distribution system includes a fuel distribution valve having a single fuel inlet and a plurality of fuel discharge ports, each of which are connected by an individual fuel manifold to the inlet of an engine fuel injector. The distribution valve has identical fuel metering holes for distributing meter fuel flow to each manifold and injector and an adjustable flow control plug located downstream of the fuel metering holes is accessible during fuel flow through the system to adjust for system inequalities to balance the system during its operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for equalizing the temperature of conveyor rolls in a glass-tempering furnace, said furnace comprising a thermally insulated housing (1) confining a heating chamber (8), conveyor rolls (4), extending horizontally between the side walls of chamber (8) and lying one after the other in the lengthwise direction of the chamber, heating resistors (5 and 6) in the chamber above and below the array of conveyor rolls, as well as means for driving the conveyor rolls unidirectionally during a first cycle and reciprocally during a second cycle. Since the reciprocating movement means that a glass sheet remains longer in contact with the midsection rolls, these rolls cool more rapidly. In order to equalize the temperature of the rolls, the end sections of the furnace are provided with screen plates (7) mounted between heating resistors (6) below the array of conveyor rolls and the rolls (4) themselves.

Abstract: A folding and tucking apparatus for a container end closure forming and sealing machine where a pair of oppositely rotating arms, each having a freely rotatable roller mounted on its distal end, are adapted to engage and move a heat-activated, plastic coated carton end closure panel around a score line from a vertical to a horizontal attitude. The result is that, while the rollers thus move the panel, the relative movement between the rollers and the panel is minimal, thereby preserving clean, unmarred surfaces on end panels of cartons which will be characteristically observed by consumers in the marketplace.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a chemical composition from two liquid components selected for cross-linking reaction with each other and a product of the method are disclosed, the method including the steps of selecting the components for interaction to form a solid chemical composition product, the components being intimately mixed with an inert blowing agent to avoid altering chemical characteristics of the chemical composition product and to vary density of the product, the mixture being conducted to an application zone through an expansion chamber having internal dimensions selected for achieving substantially complete expansion of the mixture to a substantially relaxed condition as it passes from the expansion chamber. In one embodiment, means are provided for spraying the product onto the application zone. In another embodiment, delay means are provided for causing increased viscosity of the components. Mesh material forms an integral portion of one preferred product.

Abstract: A machine-retrievable card and associated card retrieval apparatus and method therefor is disclosed in which the card is provided with a code-notched sorting edge located between the leading and trailing card edges which has (a) a predetermined configuration of complementary and primary digit code teeth which are removed and retained, respectively, to encode the card with a particular digit, and (b) an acquisition tooth at the leading edge and associated acquisition slot, and (c) a return tooth at the trailing edge and an associated notch. The card retrieval apparatus includes complementary and primary code blades which selectively engage associated complementary and primary code slots of the card, respectively, as well as a pair of acquisition blades and a pair of return blades which cooperate with the acquisition and return teeth, respectively.