Abstract: A beating blade member for beating or whipping cooking material such as egg into froth. The blade member has blades each of which has a vertically stretched and radially extending beating surface in which formed are a multiplicity of meshes. Thanks to the provision of these meshes, it is possible to obtain fine contact of the material with the blade to promote the stirring and beating. Also, these meshes effectively catch the ambient air to permit a better mixing of the material with the air. At the same time, the material is guided to flow radially inwardly, as well as in the vertical direction, so as to ensure the interference of the material with the meshes of the blades. Consequently, the material is beaten and whipped into froth in quite a short period of time.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for compensating for the difference between the actuation and release points of a switch resulting from a document being conveyed across the switch. This difference is brought about by the physical dimensions of a switch wherein it is actuated longer than the time required to indicate the dimensions of the actuating document.

Abstract: A strap winding mechanism for the winding of truck load straps and the like comprising a stanchion having a clamp at the lower end thereof for generally vertical demountable attachment to any selected stake hole of a conventional flat bed truck. The upper end of the stanchion has a plurality of generally horizontal journal apertures at various azimuthal attitudes for selective journalling of a reel handle and a bifurcated open-ended reel assembly in any of the journal apertures. The reel handle and reel spindle are threaded complementarily and thus readily assembled and readily reversible in the journal apertures, and readily disassembled for compact storage.

Abstract: A unique chassis arrangement for the mounting of equipment thereon and a unique equipment arrangement for a ground fed type blender means which is trailer mounted for use in well servicing operations.

Abstract: A smoker device including a smoke chamber, a smoke generator mounted to the bottom of the chamber, and a plurality of conveyors positioned to move food through the smoke chamber in an alternating path from an entry opening to an exit opening. The associated ends of successive conveyors have complementary shaped portions to provide for the food to be inverted as it passes from a first conveyor to a second conveyor and to inhibit overlapping or other disarray of the food as it passes from one conveyor to the next.

Abstract: A pneumatic control arrangement for a high speed dual slide feeder for punch presses and the like; the feeder comprising two reciprocating feed slides which are respectively reciprocated by two main fluid motors and which respectively carry two gripper fluid motors. These four fluid motors are adapted to be sequentially controlled by only two control lines which arranged in a cross over type circuit and which have opposite pressure-exhaust conditions existing therein. This arrangement permits a substantial simplification in the valving and in the associated control lines over that normally required to produce the rapid successive alternate stock feed strokes of said feed slides; such thereby substantially reducing the cost of the feeder while increasing the reliability and durability thereof.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for longitudinally reinforcing continuously generated, resin-impregnated fiber pipe includes depositing longitudinal reinforcing fiber elements directly onto the surface of the pipe into the nip formed between the surface of the pipe being generated and fiber elements being wound circumferentially onto the pipe. Rollers contacting the pipe at the nip guide the longitudinal deposition of fiber elements supplied from a swinging supply tube.

Abstract: Continuous printing collator apparatus for printing, handling, collating and final processing of multiple-page printed items such as business forms, booklets, small newspapers, and magazine is provided which includes structure for storate-in-process and/or drying of elongated, printed webs, and aligns a plurality of such webs in a continuous, in-line non-interrupted operation. The apparatus preferably includes a plurality of elongated, individual, shiftable web-supporting bars oriented for receiving and supporting printed webs in a draped fashion thereon; the bars are mounted on a continuous, track (which may be serpentine, closed loop, or open loop) such that individual webs can be received seriatim and, after all webs have been received and aligned on the bars, the complete set thereof can be further processed. The bars may include respective pins for insertion into corresponding web apertures or other means of holding the webs in position so as to facilitate initial and continuing alignment of the webs.

Abstract: A transport roller system is provided for use in photographic film treating tanks employed for developing, fixing, washing and the like, in which on each side of the rack frame plates, a central driving cluster gear is provided on a roller shaft of a central vertically disposed roller system with driven cluster gears on roller shafts on each of roller systems on each side of the central vertical roller system to provide for downward and upward movement of a film strip, with provisions including pairs of actuating drive gears on alternate central horizontal roller shafts, the pairs of actuating drive gears on the alternate shafts on the outside of each of the rack frame plates comprising a driving gear connected to its respective shaft and an idler gear each meshing with contiguous gears, the pairs of gears having larger pitch circles than the cluster gears and having pitch diameters corresponding to the center to center distance between alternating shafts of the central vertically disposed roller system, wher

Abstract: A dispenser for wound rolls of flexible sheet material, such as, paper towels, toilet tissue or the like has inwardly facing tracks on the opposite inner side walls of the dispenser housing to receive therein outwardly projecting spindles carried by wound rolls to be dispensed for the rolls to move in succession downwardly relative to the tracks with a section of the lower end of each track slanting away from a feed roller mounted adjacent the lower end of the dispenser housing and each track having at such lower end section a pivotally mounted roll rotation driving guide biased toward the track center to form the lower side of each track section slanting away from the feed roller.

Abstract: A concrete mixing apparatus comprises a mixing vessel at the bottom of which a plurality of heated steam injectors are arranged, the opening and closing whereof are controlled by valves slaved to actuating means.

Abstract: A barodynamic resonator for cavitating water in a liquid mixture to form a stable emulsion. The resonator comprises a resonator body defining a chamber therein. A resonant element is adjustably supported in the chamber. An inlet nozzle admits the mixture under pressure within the chamber to form a hollow spray pattern that impinges on the resonant element to cause the resonant element to resonate at a frequency sufficient to cause the water to cavitate into finer water globules to form a stable emulsion. An outlet port is provided in the body and communicates with the chamber to provide for the outflow of the stable emulsion therefrom.

Abstract: A beaming device for fabrics and in particular for very elastic fabrics is described which comprises a first pair of rollers (3,5) for entraining the fabric from a textile machine, a second pair of rollers consisting of a winding roller 13 around which the said fabric is to be rolled in rolls and driving roller 11. The second pair of rollers turn at a lower speed than the first pair. The winding roller is caused to rotate by the driving roller 11 which in turn is rotated by the entraining roller 3 of the first pair of rollers by means of a transmission comprising a speed controller. The driving roller 11 is arranged between the said first pair of rollers and the beaming roller 23. The fabric to be wound loses any deformation caused by the first pair of rollers when it goes through the part 2' between the two pairs of rollers.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding wire at great distances having wire-feeding mechanisms connected by thyristor stages with phase control to generators of ignition pulses, and supplied by a common supply bus to a speed stabilizer in the first wire-feeding device, connected to the wire-feeding mechanism and the generator of ignition pulses. In a first embodiment the output of the generator of ignition pulses of the first wire-feeding device is connected by means of a synchronization bus to the inputs of the generators of ignition pulses of the second and the next-following wire-feeding devices. In a second embodiment the inputs of the generators of ignition pulses of the second and the next devices are connected to the outputs of formers of synchronizing pulses, the inputs of which are connected to one of the supply buses.

Abstract: Mixing apparatus is described in which a plurality of chemical materials are to be incorporated in a carrier liquid, which may be a solvent, such as water, and which is quantitatively predominant, some of the chemical materials being incompatible if brought together directly, or in a wrong sequence, or which are difficult to combine, the materials being combined in the desired proportions in a series arrangement of liquid filled rotary motor driven pumps, the respective materials in the desired proportions preferably being supplied from separate sources of materials by reciprocating pumps, the delivery of the carrier liquid being to a first rotary motor driven pump to which a first chemical material is supplied, the first rotary motor driven pump having a fluid connection between its intake and delivery portions for repeated circulation and agitation of the liquid for mixing, with a tap for fluid input of the carrier liquid and first chemical material and a tap for fluid delivery connected to a fluid connecti

Abstract: A brake compensator for use in a servicer that supplies sheet material at a predetermined tension to a tire building drum. Such servicer has a plurality of supply rolls journaled on bearings wherein the bearings have support frames that are fixed to the frames. Collars on shafts that have brake material thereon rest on the support frames and have cooperative surfaces that provide a tensioning to the fabric that is proportional to the quantity of material on the supply roll of the shaft.

Abstract: A de-icing device comprises a lighter and a flame tube inserted thereon and provided with aligned openings through which a key can be inserted for exposure to the heat of the lighter flame. The lighter and the flame tube are partially accommodated in housing; the parts of the lighter and the flame tube that project from the housing are covered by a removable top closure which, when in place, constitutes an entirely closed casing together with the housing. On the outside of the housing and the top closure there are formed matching length portions of a scraper edge for using the device as an ice scraper when the top closure is in place.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a two-drum winder for the winding of an endlessly fed web. Two parallel carrier drums define a carrier drum bed in which a roll to be wound is supported. Upon completion of winding of a roll, the roll is lifted, a web cutting device presses the web against the raised wound roll, air is blown in the feed direction of the web for forming a loop of the web over the second carrier drum in the feed direction. Additional air is directed up between the carrier drums for assisting in the loop formation. A pressing roller on the cutting device presses the loop against the second carrier drum and continued rotation of the second carrier drum draws the looped web tight against a knife in the cutting device for cutting the web. The newly leading end of the web continues to be blown by the loop forming air flow which flattens the web. Then an air flow blows the newly cut leading end of the web counter to the web feed direction onto a new winding core supported in the carrier bed.

Abstract: A modular bidirectional tractor feed assembly having its own platen, which is substituted for the platen normally in the printer, is installed on the printer as a single unit using projections on the side platen of the feed assembly. Adjustments are performed on the assembly during manufacture to assure proper alignment of elements to provide error-free feeding of record material and properly aligned printing thereon. The assembly includes mechanism to provide positive assist in loading the record material, mechanism to prevent the perforations in the record material from becoming stuck on the drive pins when the record material leaves the feed mechanism, mechanism for easily locking and unlocking the feed mechanism in position to accommodate various widths of record material and mechanism to easily adjust the tension in the drive pin carrying chains of the feed mechanism.

Abstract: A tool is described which is particularly adapted for detaching by peeling sheet metal strip from a wound construct containing a plurality of coiled strips interconnected by intermittently spaced tabs that bridge the parting lines between adjacent strips. The tool is effective to fracture the tabs without distorting or marring the adjacent strip material.