Abstract: A swivel assembly for connecting a load such as a television receiver to a support includes a swivel stem having a cylindrical head, a reduced diameter cylindrical middle body, and a mounting base. The stem is supported by a retainer assembly including thrust washers engaging the top and the bottom of head. An adjustment is provided for maintaining the thrust washers securely engaged with the head of the stem.

Abstract: A turbocharger comprising a turbine, director, and compressor. The turbine may be formed as a turbine wheel surrounded by at least two scrolls. The at least two scrolls may direct exhaust gases supplied thereto toward the turbine wheel to cause rotation thereof. The director may control distribution of the exhaust gases between the at least two scrolls to optimize circumferential velocity in the scroll or volute, and thus impingement velocity on the turbine. The compressor may be driven by the turbine.

Abstract: A forming tool for generating a predetermined configuration in a rotating metal workpiece includes a tool body having a shelf formed thereon, a shim on the shelf, a cutting insert having a cutting edge on the shim and a clamp assembly for clamping the insert and the shim on the tool body. The clamp assembly includes a clamp member having top and bottom sides, and a pair of screws for securing the clamp member on the tool body. The clamp member has a pair of substantially parallel elongated front and rear clamping pads formed on the bottom side thereof and it is mounted so that one of the clamping pads is supported on the tool body whereas the other clamping pad engages the insert to secure it on the tool body. The clamp member has an arcuate crown formed on the top side thereof which is oriented so that the apex thereof is substantially parallel to the clamping pads.

Abstract: A hole cutting tool of the type operable to produce a circular hole by cutting only the circumferential areas thereof, comprising removable cutting inserts which are received in a cutting head of the tool and are engageable with a workpiece to produce a desired hole. A cooperative wedge-like relation between the inserts and wedge elements of the tool secures the inserts in slots in the cutting head and permits use of the tool in reduced sizes.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for arranging a row of bundles, preferably tied or untied bundles of folded or unfolded corrugated boxes or blanks, into stacks which include a plurality of layers of one or more bundles. The apparatus includes a feeding conveyor for feeding a row of bundles to a loading conveyor. A worker is stationed at the loading conveyor and functions to arrange the bundles into a layer on the loading conveyor. The loading conveyor then operates to transfer the layer of bundles to a transfer station on a vertical conveyor. Alternatively, the worker can arrange the bundles directly at the transfer station.The vertical conveyor includes a plurality of carrier plates which each operate to lift a layer of bundles from the transfer station and transfer it to a delivery station on the other side of the vertical conveyor.

Abstract: A tool having an interchangeable insert includes a body with a recess for receiving the insert. The body is further provided with alignment means whereby the insert and body may be operatively positioned with respect to a work piece. A wedge positioned between the insert and the body forces the insert into operational contact with the alignment means. A step abuts a portion of the edge so as to force the wedge against the insert in substantial line contact therewith so as to prevent opposite surfaces of the body and insert from fully contacting the wedge in a manner which could result in frictional blocking, i.e. taper lock, and accordingly subsequent improper hang up of the wedge.

Abstract: A forming tool generally having a dove-tail shaped machine connector provided with an integral outwardly extending front support which in cooperation with the front surface of the tool is adapted to receive a forming insert. The front support is provided with a slot for receipt of locking wedges as to lock the insert in position with respect to the tool. The front support is positioned below the working edge of the insert and the tool is further provided with means for positioning the insert laterally with respect to the slot.

Abstract: A steel door fabricated of sheet steel and having inner and outer end panels retained in spaced relation by inwardly-bent vertical edge portions has a plurality of inwardly-swaged recesses spaced along one edge of the door for the flush reception of hinge plates securable in place by the use of sheet metal screws received in bent sheet metal hinge support plates fixed within the door behind each of the recesses. The hinged edge of the door is formed along its length with a central, outwardly-extending portion of rectangular cross-sectional configuration along which the hinge plate recesses are formed and which, at the inside of the door, define side-wall portions within which complementary side wall portions of the bent metal hinge support plates are snugly received.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for organizing and arranging bundles, preferably bundles of folded or unfolded corrugated boxes or blanks, into stacks which include a plurality of layers. The apparatus includes a vertical conveyor for supplying bundles to a loading station, at which one or more operators or mechanical arms are located, which function to remove the bundles for the loading station and to position them in a desired pattern on a horizontally movable support to form a layer. After a complete layer is formed, the support is removed from beneath the layer so that the layer of bundles is deposited on a stack-forming device which includes a vertically movable platform which is incrementally actuated downwardly each time another layer is deposited thereon to form the stack. The formed stack is then discharged from the stack-forming device and straps are applied thereto.

Abstract: A box stitching machine is disclosed which includes a stitching head and a set of pull rollers for intermittently moving a box to be stitched past the stitching head. An operating motor drives a shaft which is connected to the pull rollers through a clutch brake combination. Logic circuitry is disclosed which is responsive to a pair of photocells for starting and stopping operation of the stitching head; a manual switch for adjusting the desired spacing between stitches applied by the stitching head and a plurality of photocells for finely adjusting the stitch spacing.

Abstract: A work element, such as a wire stitching head, is provided which is adapted to be manually advanced and positioned along a support rail. The work element is carried by a carriage adapted to be movably mounted on a support rail, said carriage including bearing means, such as roller means, operably connected thereto and adjustable between engaging and retracted positions and adapted to contact the support rail and facilitate movement of the carriage along the support rail when the bearing means is in its engaging position. Each carriage also includes selectively positionable securing means, such as clamping members, for preventing the advance of the carriage along the support rail when the bearing means is in its retracted position, which means are adjustably connected to the carriage and adapted to engage the support rail.