Abstract: A device, particularly for use with guided missiles, of a type having an intake pipe which is not fully rotationally symmetrical and is particularly semi-rotationally symmetrical, having particularly a semi-rotationally symmetrical air intake cross-section. The device prevents hum in the supersonic intakes of air-breathing reaction engines, particularly, ram jet engines, of a type which are operated with solid fuels and without regulation of the amount of air intake, the amount of fuel or the amount of thrust current flow for driving guided missiles. The construction includes a missile body having an intake pipe mounted thereon with a front opening disposed in an opening plane defining an inlet. A displacement body is mounted within the pipe in spaced relationship thereto and has a front pointed end which extends outwardly beyond the intake plane and which projects into the incoming air flow.

Abstract: An over-center self-closing hinge for furniture. In the door-related part of the hinge, which is in the form of a cup to be set in a mortise, there is provided a resiliently biased, pivotingly mounted cam which, in cooperation with a contact surface on the jamb-related part of the hinge, forms the over-center mechanism. Within the hinge cup there is provided a swivel arm which can be swung upwardly to a position in which it holds the resiliently biased cam in its dead-center position. With the swivel arm there is associated a resilient element which seeks to swing it up into the raised position. The resilient element is preferably an elastically flexible arm reaching beneath the swivel arm and joined fixedly to the cam adjacent the pivot axis thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hair growth stimulating composition with improved properties, which contains horse radish extract in an aqueous-alcoholic solution optionally together with additives commonly applied in the preparation of hair growth stimulating agents. The composition according to the invention contains, beside the above ingredients 8 to 2000 mg/l, preferably 35 to 100 mg/l, of allyl isothiocyanate and 600 to 6000 mg/l, preferably 1100 to 2200 mg/l, of one or more sulfur-containing amino acid(s), and optionally up to 160 mg/l, preferably 1.5 to 6 mg/l, of copper(II) ions and up to 28 mg/l, preferably 1 to 5 mg/l, of rhodanide ions.The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of the above composition.The composition according to the invention is devoid of the disadvantage of B/a/ nfi hair-lotion, since it does not make the hair tacky, does not render the scale sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, and has no unpleasant smell.

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 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 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: An improved breather system for a sealed storage structure. The roof of the storage structure is provided with an opening and a generally cylindrical, vertically disposed, breather bag is located within the structure with the neck of the bag being sealed within the opening. A cable is attached to the inner surface of the bag at the lower end of the bag and extends upwardly through a series of vertically spaced tubular guides and exits through the neck of the bag to the exterior. Each of the tubular guides is connected to the inner surface of the bag by a series of cables. A storage sleeve can be mounted on the roof in communication with the opening. By pulling upwardly on the cable, the bag will be drawn upwardly out of the storage structure and into the storage sleeve to a location where the bag will not interfere with filling of the storage structure with a stored material.

Abstract: The machine comprises a fixed dummy for receiving an article of clothing having a collar and lapels, and an upper mold supported by a support structure such as to be pivotable about a horizontal axis adjacent the dummy. The upper mold has a configuration substantially matching that of the dummy and a lug-shaped front portion extending downwardly. The support structure is vertically displaceable by a fluid-operated cylinder between a position in which the upper mold is spaced from the dummy and a position in which the upper mold contacts the dummy and is pressed against it. In this position the ironing of the collar of the article of clothing is carried out, while the ironing of the lapels occurs by additionally pivoting the upper mold about the horizontal axis and pressing the lug-shaped front portion thereof against the lapels.

Abstract: This invention provides novel transmission means for interconnecting a rotary output shaft of drive means to a rotary input shaft of means to be driven by the drive means. Basically, the novel transmission means of the present invention comprises gear means mounted on base means for rotary movement relative thereto, with those gear means comprising first, second, third and fourth gears and each of those four gears including a hollow, fluid-receiving, radially inner hub portion that is rotatably mounted to the base means and a radially outer portion that is divided into plural segments, each having a radially outer end that is provided with teeth and a radially inner end comprising an arm mounted within the hollow hub portion for slidable movement relative thereto both towards and away from the radial center of the hub portion.

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: An improved apparatus for the continuous and relatively labor-free fabrication of adobe bricks and the forcing of well casings into the earth. With regard to forming adobe bricks, a rotating table carries the bricks being processed from one station to the next and a novel means for applying unusually high forming pressures permits immediate forming and ejection of the bricks from the forms while at the same time producing adobe bricks of improved quality and hardness characteristics.

Abstract: A folding brush comprises a case having parallel first and second walls respectively having first and second interior faces spaced from each other to form a cavity. The first wall includes a matrix of cylindrical like slots extending between the first face and a third face on the exterior of the first wall. A frame slides along a longitudinal axis in the cavity between a first retracted, locked position and a second fully extended, locked position. Multiple of tapered, unifilar, generally straight bristle tufts have bases mounted in the frame so longitudinal axes of the tufts rotate together from a first retracted angle displaced slightly from the frame longitudinal axis to a second fully extended angle approximately at right angles to the frame longitudinal axis in response to the frame sliding between the first and second longitudinal positions.

Abstract: A method of and a furnace assembly for bending glass sheets. Glass sheets (6) are conveyed in bending moulds (5) supported by cars (4) along an upper transport run (2) periodically from one heating section (10) to another. In the final heating section, temperature is risen so high that a glass sheet bends by the action of heat and gravity to conform with the surface of the mould. Thereafter, a car (4) together with a bent glass sheet is lowered onto a lower run (3) and returned to the outset of a furnace (1). On cooling, the glass sheets on said lower run emit heat to the glass sheets on said upper run through the open bottom structures of cars (4). The weight and heat capacity of the cars have been made as low as possible by removing the side and back walls thereof, whereby only the front or leading walls (8) provide locking walls between sections (10) successive in the longitudinal direction of the furnace.

Abstract: A continuous string of molded items is formed and advanced toward a winder, the latter being periodically rotated. A tensioner member takes-up slack in the advancing string when the winder is stopped. The biasing force applied to the tensioner is reduced during periods when the winder is rotated, in order to reduce the tendency for the string to be excessively stressed.

Abstract: A snap-disc-actuated switch for monitoring high fluid pressures is disclosed. A non-bistable snap disc, calibrated to snap from its stable state upon application of a relatively low force, is engaged at its center by one end of a pistonlike plunger having its other end exposed to a highly pressurized fluid. The effective cross-sectional area of the fluid-exposed end of the plunger is minimized to provide, in response to relatively high fluid pressure, the required low operating force directly to the snap disc via the plunger, the diameter of the plunger's exposed end being substantially less than the diameter of the disc. The force generated by the disc, when automatically resetting to its normal stable state, constitutes the sole means for moving the piston against the pressurized fluid-generated force acting on the exposed end of the piston.

Abstract: An excess voltage arrester of the kind comprising a gas-filled enclosure having an electrode structure (1, 11, 13) within the enclosure which defines at least one discharge gap. A portion of at least one electrode (13) is adapted to melt on overheating of the arrester so as to take up a generally spherical form (19) under the action of surface tension and thereby contact another electrode (1).

Abstract: A safety plastic filler neck for an automobile, vehicle, etc., that functions both to control the screwing torque and to prevent the fuel leakage from filler port through releasing a cap separable from the screw body. The screw body includes a flange disposed on its top portion, engaging/disengaging teeth formed at several locations along its outer circumference by extending the flange, a circular standing edge provided on the flange, latching teeth formed at several locations along the outer circumference of the circular standing edge which are to be latched in screwing direction, and incisions provided under the latching teeth and corresponding to them. The cap includes a rotation flange disposed on top of it, a round cover edge for covering the circular standing edge and the engaging/disengaging teeth of the screw body, latches formed on upper inner surface of the round cover edge, and an anchoring groove formed in lower inner surface of the round cover edge.