Abstract: A plastic container lid which has a small ridge protruding from the outer periphery of the lid, at the top corner of the lid. The ridge provides a uniform taper in the outside diameter of the lid, enabling containers to be capped at high speeds by a method that utilizes a spinning rod feed mechanism. The ridged lid is formed by a novel method, utilizing a one-piece mold cavity, fitted with a one piece mold insert. Also disclosed is a method of fabricating the one-piece mold cavity.

Abstract: A control device for a corrosion testing apparatus includes an airtight air saturation tower which is adapted to contain a liquid. A heater is provided in the tower to heat the liquid. A sensor is provided adjacent a wall of the tower, to sense an abnormal condition in the tower. The sensor can be adapted to measure the presence of liquid in the tower adjacent the sensor or the temperature of a wall of the tower. A control device is provided for shutting off the heater when the sensor detects an abnormal condition in the tower.

Abstract: A terminal piece fixed to the hood of the belt pulling unit has a front wall with descending oblique lower edge to convey out of the pulling area of the belt any bodies or objects pulled by said belt.

Abstract: A method for vacuum-packaging a powdered material comprises providing a first gas-impermeable sheet, a second gas-impermeable sheet, and a gas-permeable sheet, the three sheets being substantially rectangular in shape and the gas-permeable sheet having smaller dimensions than the gas-impermeable sheets, the gas-permeable sheet being impermeable to the powdered material. The gas-permeable sheet is positioned on the first gas-impermeable sheet such that the latter peripherally overlaps the former; and one edge of the gas-permeable sheet is sealed to the corresponding edge of the gas-impermeable sheet. The second gas-impermeable sheet is positioned on the opposite side of the gas-permeable sheet such that the former similarly peripherally overlaps the latter. The three sheets are sealed together along their opposed edges respectively perpendicular to the first sealed edge.

Abstract: A high-speed wire fence weaving apparatus for making wire mesh fencing. The apparatus provides a first stage where a high-speed transfer mechanism moves large spools of wrap wire in a weaving pattern about a plurality of strand wires. The strand wires and wrap wires are pulled from the first stage to a second stage which is relatively remotely spaced from the first stage to permit the wires to be guided into a more closely confined relation to one another. The second stage also has a transfer mechanism which moves in synchronism with the first transfer mechanism to weave the wrap wires between and around the strand wires to produce a diamond-mesh pattern. Thereafter, the mesh is pulled to a take-up location by the apparatus.

Abstract: Method for cutting food materials having predetermined depths defined by a proximal surface and a remote surface, into a desired, continuous, closed configuration. A food material is selected having a predetermined depth. The desired configuration is cut into the food material by inserting therein at the proximal surface blade means having a cutting edge defining at least the exterior outline of the desired, continuous, closed configuration, while maintaining the cutting edge of the inserted blade means spaced from the remote end of the food material. The blade means is then removed from the food material while leaving the cut configuration substantially intact in the food material. Removal from the food material of the desired cut configuration when the blade means is removed is prevented by avoiding excessive compression of the food material when the blade means is inserted in the food material.

Abstract: A unitary package for use in the washing and in the conditioning treatment of fabrics in a laundering operation. There is provided a packet in which a multi-layer plug-like laminate is contained in and is bonded within a cup-like water-insoluble and water-impermeable receptacle having an open top. The laminate presents an exposed upper surface to the wash water in the tub of a washing machine. Only after the materials (for example, detergents) in the top layer of the laminate have dissolved and dispersed does the washing water reach to solublize the second layer containing the fabric conditioner (for example, a fabric softener). Thus, the article of the invention ensures the simple and highly reliable manner time-spaced sequential incorporation of two different functional agents into a fabric washing system, even though the agents are added simultaneously.

Abstract: A device is provided for transferring nuclear fuel element sheaths to a fixed pellet filling station. This device comprises a sheath transfer assembly. This latter comprises a first transporter for taking as a whole a layer of several sheaths placed on the laying rack of the first means associated with the first transporter and intended for changing the spacing pitch of the sheaths in the layer and for presenting the layer at the position for simultaneous filling of several sheaths by the vibrating table machine (50) for inserting fuel pellets, second pitch change means for bringing the sheaths back to the original pitch, a transporter cooperating with a second pitch change means for bringing the layer of sheaths as a whole onto a take up rack and means for the automatic synchronized control of the components of the assembly ensuring the movements of the sheaths always in the same direction.

Abstract: The present publication describes an arrangement in a roll wrapping apparatus for the application of headers (5), and in particular of soft headers, to the ends of paper rolls (1) or corresponding rolls. The arrangement comprises a header (5) storage unit (2), transfer unit (6), and an application unit (13). The suction head (15), acting as the grasping member of the application unit (13) is, according to the invention, fitted so as the grasp the header (5) over its center area and to set the header (5) into a revolving movement taking place in its own plane so as to keep the soft header (5) aligned by the effect of the centrifugal force until the application members (14) shift the header (5) onto the end of the roll (1). Owing to this arrangement, it is also possible to automatize the wrapping of rolls (1) by means of soft headers (5).

Abstract: A rigid packaging material having a coating of heat-sealable, anti-static plastic. A fiberboard sheet substrate is coated with a lamina of polyethylene made electrostatic-free by the addition of an organic anti-static compound. When skin-packaged with a film of heat sealable, anti-static plastic material, a static-sensitive item is completely enclosed by a static-free barrier package.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for placing multiple crimped flexible pieces into concave formed shells. In the method, a plurality of flat fibrous web pieces are provided on a shuttle device and are picked up and crimped longitudinally by gripper fingers, and each piece is transferred laterally to a location over a formed shell then lowered and inserted into the shell. While the pieces are on the shuttle device they are moved apart from each other. Also, during lateral transfer the crimped pieces are moved longitudinally and are also bowed longitudinally while being placed into the concave formed shells. Suitable apparatus is also disclosed for picking up and crimping the flexible pieces and laterally transferring the pieces and placing them in the concave formed shells.

Abstract: A heating and melting apparatus according to the present invention has a housing for receiving a substance to be melted, a heater for heating the housing in order to melt the substance, and a vessel for receiving and storing the resulting liquid. The liquid stored in the vessel is exhausted from the vessel in an effectively utilizable form. The operation of the apparatus is controlled by a processing unit in accordance with the temperatures of the housing and the liquid stored in the vessel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for transporting flexible foil packages, particularly flat bags (6, 8, 13) filled with unstabilized material to a package container (1). The flat bags (6, 8, 13) deposited flat and with uniformly distributed contents by a filling and closing machine upon a transport belt are first of all imbricated and maintained clamped on both sides during further transport into the package container, so that the uniform distribution of the contents is maintained into the container. A close filling of the container (1) without excessive pressure is ensured by this means. Because the flat bags are conveyed from the conveying path directly into the container without an intermediate magazine, containers of different size can be filled consecutively virtually without interrupting the conveyance.

Abstract: A screwcapping head for applying prethreaded closures onto prethreaded containers is disclosed having a hysteresis clutch. The screwcapping head includes a housing adapted to be secured to a rotatable drive spindle and a quill mounted in the housing for free rotation thereto. The screwcapping head also includes a hysteresis clutch having a pair of permanent magnetic rings secured to the housing and a disc of hysteresis material secured to the quill and sandwiched between the pair of permanent magnetic rings. The clutch is capable of slipping after the application of a prethreaded closure onto a prethreaded container at a desired torque value while eliminating the torque reversal feature inherent in synchronous clutches.

Abstract: Apparatus for packing bulk material including high moisture agricultural products such as grain in plastic bags has a transferring mechanism with a rotating device disposed in a generally upwardly directed plane relative to a support frame for positioning and locating the rotating device to create a rotating wedging action against bulk material within a plastic bag to provide an acceptable level of density both for ensiling of agricultural products and for storage of bulk materials.

Abstract: In an electric warmer having a temperature sensor and a thermosensitive heater wire arranged in a body thereof, a thermal distance between the temperature sensor and the surface of the body is shorter than a thermal distance between the temperature sensor and the thermosensitive heater wire. The temperature of the thermosensitive heater wire is controlled to vary by a temperature sensing signal from the temperature sensor, thereby effecting comfortable warming of a user in response to the temperature of a thermal load formed by a contacting portion of the user's body.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling dynamic characteristics of an outer load includes a crank angle detecting device which detects a crank angle and an outer load detecting device which detects the outer load, output signals of the two detecting devices are input to a controlled hydraulic pressure correcting device in which an ideal value of outer load corresponding to the crank angle has been preset, a deflection rate between the detected outer load and the ideal value of outer load is judged in accordance with the detected crank angle and, each time that the deflection exceeds a predetermined range, the output of a hydraulic source for setting a balanced pressure is controlled so as to adjust the balanced pressure.

Abstract: Machine for packing products in a thermoretractable film is disclosed and includes a roll supplying a supple film center-folded in two layers for wrapping a product, means for separating the two layers of film, means for welding the periphery of said film, and means for retracting the film about the product to be packed. In the machine the welding and retraction means are regrouped into one working station on a fixed table. The retraction means are constituted by a movable structure, disposed in parallel to and above the fixed table, said structure being equipped with a source of hot air directed towards the table, and being able, on the one hand, to slide horizontally along the table so as to sweep the surface of the film to be retracted, after edge-to-edge welding; and on the other hand, to pivot inside an orthogonal plane with respect to the plane of the table.

Abstract: In order to increase the working range of existing designs of gear cutting machines upon which gear teeth based upon an extended epicycloid are cut according to the continuous gear-cutting process, the workpiece and cutter spindles of a gear cutting machine are driven in identical directions of rotation by a reversing drive train. A reversible auxiliary drive is connected to an end of a primary drive train remote from a main drive for maintaining the primary drive train interconnecting the workpiece and cutter spindles under constant load, i.e. for suppressing backlash in the primary drive train. This permits the practical fabrication of gears (i.e. the practical cutting of gear teeth) based upon a hypocycloid instead of an epicycloid.

Abstract: Linear potentiometers are commonly used as position sensors on various mechanical devices. Such potentiometers are frequently subjected to extreme vibratory excitation, which is known to cause premature failure. The subject potentiometer includes a housing having interior walls defining a cavity. First and second guide slots are linearly disposed along the cavity walls parallel to the housing. A wiper block is positioned and is axially movable within the cavity. The wiper block includes first and second slide rails linearly disposed along the wiper block and extending outwardly from the wiper block at a location sufficient to project into respective ones of the guide slots. Each of the first and second slide rails has a plurality of tapered engaging portions positioned adjacent respective surfaces of the guide slots.