Abstract: A wall-mounting block or frame is used to mount fixtures to exterior building walls having siding. The wall-mounting block includes two major parts, a first or base section and a second or holding section which are both configured as cap-like structures detachably connected to each other with integrated, adjustable connectors. The present design eliminates the need for special hardware to attach the holding section to the base section, and helps prevent awkward mounting situations.

Abstract: A sheet bending brake for forming a workpiece comprises a base and an anvil having a bottom-clamping surface. The anvil is positioned in a fixed spaced relationship above the base and in combination with the base defines an unobstructed passage therebetween for receiving at least a portion of the workpiece. A movable plate is disposed between the base and the top plate wherein the movable plate is vertically translatable therein for clamping the workpiece between a top surface of the movable plate and the bottom clamping surface. A bending member is pivotally attached to the movable plate and extends longitudinally therealong for bending the clamped workpiece.

Abstract: A sheet bending brake for forming a workpiece comprises a base and an anvil having a bottom-clamping surface. The anvil is positioned in a fixed spaced relationship above the base and in combination with the base defines an unobstructed passage therebetween for receiving at least a portion of the workpiece. A movable plate is disposed between the base and the top plate wherein the movable plate is vertically translatable therein for clamping the workpiece between a top surface of the movable plate and the bottom clamping surface. A bending member is pivotally attached to the movable plate and extends longitudinally therealong for bending the clamped workpiece.

Abstract: A surround molding assembly for a doorway or window of a structure such as a residential home or a commercial building. In one embodiment, first and second pilaster bases receive first and second cover plates in recesses, wherein the recesses have a lip along at least two sides and the cover plates are mounted flush with the pilaster bases and covering the lips. Further, a mantle base having a central portion comprising regularly repeating reinforced sectional structural receives a mantle cover thereover such that the mantle base in generally obscured from view. The pilaster and mantle bases each include decorative ends integrally formed thereon.

Abstract: A slide valve for control of product flow through it in which the valve internals are maintained in position by a stub welded to the orifice plate which in turn is welded to an internal end of the support cone and may be released and removed through the bonnet area of the slide valve by cutting the weld between the stub and support cone, and replaced through the bonnet area and rewelding the remaining portions of the stub to the support cone.

Abstract: A ventilation assembly for ventilating an attic of a building through an opening in the roof or wall of the building. The ventilation assembly includes a vent structure having a mounting portion securing the vent structure to the building over the opening. The vent structure further includes a vent portion having a series of walls defining a series of unimpeded fluid passageways for providing unobstructed fluid flow through the vent portion over the opening. The ventilation assembly includes a partially porous membrane mounted to the roof or wall over the opening and spaced from the fluid passageway to maintain the unobstructed fluid flow through the fluid passageway. The membrane also creates a barrier for preventing the intrusion of particles, debris, insects and the like into the opening while allowing the ventilating to occur.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved assembly of orifice chambers for reducing pressure of large gas flows effective to reduce noise of the gas flows and wear on orifice chambers by progressive pressure drops in the gas flows through successive orifice plates which are releasably secured, preferably by fillet welding, in each of the orifice chambers, removal of one or more orifice plates in an orifice chamber providing manway access to the next succeeding orifice chamber for inspection, repairs, and replacement of the orifice plates thereby reducing the manway opening or access to only one orifice chamber and eliminating separate access manways or manholes for each of the orifice chamber necessary for maintenance of the orifice chambers. Preferably, an internal shell providing an annular space with the body to which the orifice plates are connected is connected to the body by an annular ring and brace by fillet welding in compressions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control slide valve for control of product flow through it in which the valve internals are maintained in position by the clamping action of a split clamp and may be released and removed and replaced through the bonnet quickly and easily by release and reclamping the split clamp rather than by utilizing bolts which often gall, break, and are difficult to remove and replace. The slide valve is particularly suited for high temperature abrasive flow.

Abstract: Disclosed is a slide valve for control of product flow through it in which the valve internals, an orifice plate and guide assembly, are maintained in position by a circumferentially extending attachment stub surrounding and welded to a circumferentially extending weld-on stub welded to the orifice plate, the circumferentially extending attachment stub being welded to an internal end of the support cone and to the weld-on stub whereby the internals may be released and removed through the bonnet area of the slide valve by cutting the weld between the attachment stub and the weld-on stub, and replaced through the bonnet area and rewelding the weld-on stub and the attachment stub with another fillet weld. This places the fillet weld under compression rather than under tension, and is much stronger than the tension fillet welds in previous embodiments of this slide valve. Also, the refractory material when used can be finished in the shop rather than on site.

Abstract: The present invention constitutes an improvement over U.S. Pat. No. 5,269,493, and other butterfly valves controlling the flow of hot gases or other fluids under high pressures or velocities by having the valve stem not centered in which there is either no deflection or the deflection of the butterfly valve and rotation of the valve stem is substantially reduced when in a closed position resulting in no or substantially reduced leakage of the disc in closed position with respect to prior art butterfly valves currently in comparable use.

Abstract: Disclosed is a slide valve for high temperature and/or abrasive service having a metal shell and a liner of refractory material forming a flowway having an inlet and an outlet and an orifice opening between them. A side opening closed by a removable bonnet intersects the flowway at the orifice opening and is provided with grooves extending transversely from the side opening to each side and beyond the orifice opening and forming upstream and downstream guide and slide shoulders. An orifice plate with an orifice is slidable into and out of position through the side opening, a slide or disc is slidable in the guides for movement to open, closed, and throttling positions. The orifice plate has a seal around its orifice which sealingly engages the upstream shoulder.

Abstract: A manual override drive apparatus for use with normally powered driving assemblies, such as valve actuators, is disclosed which has a body having an axial bore therethrough, a shaft movable axially but not rotatably extending through the bore and having screw threads thereon, a cage in the body rotatably disposed about the shaft having elongate circumferentially arranged pockets and restrained against axial movement by thrust bearings, a plurality of elongated gear segments movably disposed in the pockets having screw threads which mate with the threads on the shaft, cam means operable to move the gear segments toward and away from the shaft for engagement and disengagement of the screw threads on the shaft and the gear segments, and means operable to rotate the cage and thus the gear segments thereby driving the shaft axially when the gear segments are in threaded engagement with the shaft.

Abstract: A valve is disclosed in which the wear-prone parts comprised of the valve, guides and valve seat are readily and easily removed through the bonnet area. The guides are maintained in position in the valve body by engagement with a stop and by securing the bonnet to the body without the requirement of being bolted to the body. Other features and details are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of producing hardfaced plate which eliminates distortion while making weld deposits along the length of a sheet-like plate of relatively ductile and weldable material by securing the plate about a cylindrical supporting surface, then welding hardfacing material to the plate's surface which causes the plate to shrink against and be supported by the cylindrical surface which effectively maintains the plate against substantial distortion during the welding. The plate with the welded hardfacing material is then removed from the cylindrical surface. Preferably, the composition of the hardfacing material is such as to form random cracks at a frequency of not less than about one in each three inches upon cooling from the welding temperature, and preferably of the order of about 5/8" to about 3/4".

Abstract: A control valve assembly for controlling fluid flow in a flowline having a housing with a normally operative flow control structure and bypass structure therein for providing independent first and second flow paths for allowing controlled fluid passage through the housing from the flowline through the first and second flow paths, as desired.

Abstract: A guided slide valve having wear-prone internals which can be removed through the bonnet opening and which can operate in high pressure, high temperature erosive solid or fluid flow systems is disclosed which includes a body having a flow passage through it, a large internal portion closed by a removable bonnet or cover, a body portion projecting into the enlarged internal portion, preferably a cone suspended in non-external load-bearing relation with the body, the projecting portion having sides spaced from internal walls of the enlarged internal portion, a valve surface or orifice disposed on the projected body portion, preferably releasably secured, and a slide valve slideable in the enlarged internal portion adjacent the valve surface having transversely spaced side members which extend around the sides of the projecting body portion.

Abstract: A slide valve with integrated removable internals which can operate with fully reversing pressures in a high pressure, high temperature, erosive solid or fluid flow system is disclosed which includes a body having a flow passage through it including a large internal portion, a body portion projecting into the enlarged internal portion, preferably a cone suspended in non-external load bearing relation with the body, a valve surface or orifice plate releasably secured on the projecting body portion, and a slide valve slideable in the enlarged internal portion adjacent the valve surface having side portions extending transversely of the direct flow passage in the enlarged internal portion. Traversely spaced guides are disposed in the enlarged internal portion, either releasably secured to the valve surface or formed integrally with the valve surface which are in the form of side members.