Abstract: A workpiece holder which is attachable to the positioning apparatus of an automatic sewing machine includes a plurality of sharp pointed pins extending upwardly from a base plate. The workpiece which may comprise one or more individual elastic pieces is mounted on the sharp pointed pins. A cover plate, pivotally attached to the base plate, covers the thus mounted workpiece in such a manner that the sharp pointed pins are shielded from contact with the operator of the sewing machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing a moisture curable composition in a container having a body portion, a closure member for closing one end of the body portion having an outwardly projecting neck defining an outlet opening, and a closure piston at the other end of the body portion comprising a support for the closure member including an exit port for receiving the neck of the container and a moisture proof seal between the neck and the exit port. The support also includes a heater to melt the moisture curable composition which was forced from the container by pushing downwardly on the closure piston. A clamp clamps the body portion of the supported container in place on the support.

Abstract: A blind-riveting machine comprises a transfer device having suction means to hold a mandrel stem and carry it into vertical alignment with a bore in a nosepiece of a rivet-setting device. With the blind-riveting assembly thus poised, the suction is released and the mandrel stem drops into the nosepiece, which holds the assembly when the transfer device retracts.

Abstract: A multipart article comprising a rod or pin (26) with a sleeve or collar (58) on it is made from one piece of wire by parting off a blank, impact extruding a stem to form the pin or rod, backward extruding a residual portion of the blank to form the sleeve or collar with an internal diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the stem and joined to the stem by a short thin web (64), and then fracturing the web and inserting the pin or rod into the thus separated sleeve or collar.The advantage in manufacturing small articles on a mass production basis is in the economy of forming two parts in one machine operation rather than making them separately, an example being parts of a blind-riveting assembly.

Abstract: A cut-clinch mechanism for cutting and forming the leads of electronic components inserted into the openings in a printed circuit board, the mechanism having a fixed cut-clinch head supporting a movable cut-clinch head with a bi-directional drive means for incrementally moving the heads toward and away from one another to accommodate variable spaced component leads.

Abstract: A blind-riveting machine having a device for presenting blind-riveting assemblies to the nosepiece of a rivet setting head. The presenting device comprises a chamber with flat parallel side walls bounded by arcuate walls leading from an inlet 60 at one end to a gate member to arrest blind-riveting assemblies at the other.

Abstract: A mechanism for stripping the tape carrying an electrical component to expose the component for removal from the tape. The cover strip is removed from the tape to expose the component and the tape is passed between guides that retain the component in the tape until removed therefrom.

Abstract: An easily removable blind rivet of the type having an open rivet body with a flange on one end and a mandrel positioned within the opening in the rivet body, the mandrel having an enlarged head at one end adapted to upset the rivet body when the mandrel is pulled. The rivet is assembled with a separate strip of material surrounding the rivet body below the flange, the strip of material is adapted to be pulled so that the rivet flange can be removed from the rivet body enabling the rivet body to be passed through the opening in a workpiece.

Abstract: Rotary processors and methods for mixing a low viscosity liquid with a viscous material while controlling plugging of the means for introducing low viscosity liquid to the processor. Viscous material is introduced to a mixing rotary processor comprising at least one annular channel carried by a rotor and enclosed by a housing to form a mixing passage. The material is dragged forward by the rotating channel walls from the passage inlet past a spreader as films on the channel walls, forming a void downstream of the spreader between the films. Low viscosity liquid is sprayed from a point within the void to be deposited on and carried downstream with the films of material and to be mixed with material collected at a passage end wall.In one embodiment, pressure sealing means permits spraying into a saturated vapor zone in the void so that liquid vaporizes and is condensed onto the films as well distributed fine droplets.

Abstract: A pelletizing apparatus is provided with a first passage through which a strand of liquified plastic is fed to a die face. A second passage intersects the first at a point closely spaced from the die face and conducts a stream of pressurized fluid. The end of the strand of plastic forms a plug blocking continued passage of the polymer. Build-up of pressure of the fluid overcomes the blocking force of the plug, cutting the strand at the intersection and ejecting the plug as a pellet. Release of the fluid pressure permits the plastic strand to advance and block the exit whereupon the fluid pressure builds up to again eject the plug. Repeated self-regulating cycles cause a stream of pellets to be formed.

Abstract: Rotary processors and methods for purifying a viscous liquid material by liquid-liquid extraction. Material is introduced to an extracting apparatus including a mixing rotary processor comprising at least one annular channel carried by a rotor and enclosed by a housing to form a mixing passage. The material is dragged forward by the rotating channel from the passage inlet past a blocking member. Solvent introduced to the passage, such as by spray means, is carried downstream with the material and dispersed in material collected at a passage end wall. In one embodiment the blocking member comprises a spreader which spreads the material as films on the channel walls. In another embodiment, sparging means sparges solvent into a pool of the material collected upstream of the blocking member. Separation of the solvent from the material may involve rotary devolatilizing or phase separating processors, which may be arranged with the mixing processor for cocurrent or countercurrent, multi-stage series operation.

Abstract: A push button is provided which is adaptable for pressing onto a stud having redges extending radially therefrom. The push button is provided with at least one resilient finger protruding from the wall of a blind hole formed in the shank of the button. The resilient finger is angularly disposed toward the center of the blind hole such that the end face of the finger is disposed behind a ridge with the push button positioned on a stud. The push button is provided with an opening for each resilient finger, which opening extends from outside the button towards the locality of the end face of the resilient finger and is of a dimension to eclipse, or cover the cross-section of the resilient finger when projected onto the plane of the opening.

Abstract: A head assembly for a cut-clinch mechanism that cuts and forms lead wires of an electrical component that extend down through openings in a printed circuit board. The assembly has a fixed knife and a movable knife driven by a pneumatic cylinder into cutting relationship with the fixed knife. The drive has a piston which encloses an electrical contact responsive to contact of the movable knife with a lead wire to signal the presence of the lead wire. The electrical contact is adjustable to fine tune the sensor.

Abstract: In a motor driven tools for setting blind nuts, a threaded interconnection between a nose housing and a mast housing that provides an adjustment of the length of the setting stroke of the tool to accommodate various sizes of blind nuts. A locking member sets the adjustment and the mast housing is provided with indicating lines of the stroke depth.

Abstract: A drive mechanism for the assembly table of an electrical component insertion machine having a motor driven roller engaging the peripheral edge of a disc on the table. A latch mechanism is located on the table for engaging a latch block on the table disc, the latch mechanism being releasable in response to a program control to permit the table disc to rotate and at the same time energize the motor driven roller to rotate the table disc. The disc can be rotated in either direction.

Abstract: A clip for releasable attachment to a stud having a screw thread or annular ribs comprises a mount, which is elliptical in cross-section and has transverse flanges on its long sides to engage the thread or ribs of the stud. Squeezing the mount by applying pressure onto the ends of its major axis forces the flanges apart and releases the clip. Such a deformation of the mount is checked by abutments at opposite ends of its major axis.

Abstract: A bearing assembly for roll journals comprising a bearing box having one piece of a semi-cylindrical sleeve and fixed relative to a nip line of a roll. A bearing box having the other piece of the bearing sleeve is movable toward a roll journal resting on the first piece to provide a minimum clearance between the roll journal and the bearing sleeve.

Abstract: A numerically controlled motor provides a drive at a rate which is proportional to rotation of an independently driven shaft. In addition, the ratio of such rate to such rotation can be varied by a control circuit by which, in response to each pulse supplied by an encoder on said shaft, an incremental value, corresponding to an analogue signal supplied by a potentiometer to an A-D converter, which converts said signal to said value, is supplied to an accumulator, which sums the successively supplied increment values and, at a predetermined cumulative value, "overflows", such "overflow" supplying a drive signal to the n.c. motor. The potentiometer is manually set by an operator to vary the increment value and thus the frequency of "overflow" in relation to shaft rotation. The control circuit also enables "reverse" and "fast forward" drive to the motor independently of the shaft.

Abstract: A verifier for a chip type component placement mechanisms which has an air track conveying the component from a supply source to a placement head. The verifier is positioned in the air track and stops the chip for testing to determine whether the proper chip is presented and whether the chip is the proper electrical value. If the chip is acceptable, it is sent on down the track to the placement head, and if unacceptable, it is rejected from the system.

Abstract: Method for constructing a press knife for cutting out sheet material such as leather, wherein machine instructions are generated containing data relating to a desired configuration of the press knife for cutting out a particular profile, the machine instructions are supplied to a bending device (36, 38, 40) and to a strip material feed device (62), the feed device supplies the strip material to the bending device so the bends are introduced into the strip material in accordance with the machine instructions, the formed strip material then being cut off from the stock and assembled and fixed to form the desired knife configuration, preferably being fixed around a support plate which is produced by a forming device (30) fed with machine instructions derived from the same source (12) as those controlling the bending and feeding devices.