Abstract: An improved grease fitting of the type generally referred to as a blowdown fitting is provided, including a plurality of sealing means which enables lubricant to be safely injected into the lubricant supply system. An upper body is rotatable with respect to the main body, and pressure may be vented through a cap threaded to the upper body. A stinger assembly is rotatable with respect to both main body and the upper body, which enhances the life of the seal between the stinger and the main body. A sealing ball is provided between the stinger assembly and the cone, and is biased toward its seating surface by a spring adapted to enable a lubricant/polyester plasticizer mixture to pass through the fitting.

Abstract: A vehicle headlight for providing a shaped beam spreading as a flat bundle. A dish-shaped reflector is employed where the inner reflection surface in the axial longitudinal sections in each case forms an ellipse segment, where the ellipse eccentricity increases from the longitudinal section spanned by the vertical and the reflector axis to the longitudinal section spanned by the horizontal and the reflector axis, where the focal points of the ellipse segments of all sections disposed in planes containing the reflector axis coincide, and where the vertices of the ellipse segments of all sections disposed in planes containing the reflector axis coincide. The depth of the reflector within the longitudinal sections of the reflector containing the reflector axis corresponds to the longer half-axis of the respective ellipse.

Abstract: Components, such as bearings, of gas turbine engines especially for aircraft are lubricated by a lubricant supply system including a main lubricant circulating circuit and an auxiliary lubricant circulating circuit for assuring a sufficient lubricant supply to the lubricating chamber or chambers under all operating conditions including those causing extremely rapid and locally differing displacements of the lubricant fluid in its supply tank. The main lubricant circulating circuit with its pumps, lubricating chamber or chambers, cooler, air separator and accumulator is operatively connected to the component being lubricated and is effective during normal and critical flight conditions. The auxiliary circulatory circuit with its lubricant supply tank and its pump is operatively connected to the main circulatory circuit for supplying lubricant into the main circuit.

Abstract: An oil lubrication system, especially for knitting machines includes a plurality of electromagnetically driven piston pumps, one of which is assigned to each individual lubrication site operated by and exciting current pulses of adjustable pulse-recurrence frequency. Each piston pump has a scanning device which produces a receipt pulse during the working stroke when the pump piston reaches its end position. The current pulse and receipt pulse are applied to a monitoring device which provides an output signal if the receipt pulse is not applied within a certain time after the current pulse. An indicator light flashes at each current pulse and switches to a permanent signal when an output signal is produced. An oil storage vessel feeding the pumps can be provided with a filling state monitor when produces an electrical oil deficiency signal when the oil level falls below a predetermined minimum. Both the oil deficiency signal and the output signal are applied to a disconnecting unit which stops the machine.

Abstract: A sealed beam headlamp unit having an improved sealed exhaust hole is disclosed. Further disclosed is a method of applying the seal of the exhaust hole.

Abstract: There is disclosed an oil changing and lubricating system for a vehicle comprising a housing connectable to the vehicle, a pump affixed to the housing, the intake of the pump communicating with an oil reservoir for the vehicle and the outlet of the pump being adapted for communication with a receptacle for oil removed from the reservoir when the pump is in use and lubricant inputs mounted on the housing for connection to a supply of lubricant, the inputs communicating with the points of the vehicle requiring lubrication for the delivery of lubricant thereto.

Abstract: A lubrication apparatus for conveyor equipment and/or chains, especially overhead conveyors and conveyor chains. The apparatus is mounted immediately adjacent a conveyor or chain for proper lubrication of bearing surfaces while the conveyor or chain is moving. Provision is made for pivotal movement of the lubrication apparatus out of the path of the conveyor or chain should a damaged conveyor or chain part contact the apparatus. Preferably, the apparatus includes side arms with internal lubricant passageways and metering pump means therein for dispensing and directing the lubricant. The pump means are actuated by a center arm pivotally mounted between the side arms and biased into engagement with the moving conveyor or chain. The side arms may be pivotally mounted or stationary with respect to the conveyor apparatus or chain. Check-valve nozzles which direct lubricant in a finely divided spray from the side arms are also disclosed.

Abstract: A firearm comprises a barrel having a bore and a receiver forming an ignition chamber. A bolt is slidable in the ignition chamber and includes a striker projection for igniting a primer of the projectile. A bolt advancing mechanism comprises an arm having a first end mounted on the bolt such that a second end of the arm is movable laterally relative to the fore-aft axis. A boss is carried at the second end of the arm. An actuator member is movable in the fore-aft direction relative to the bolt and boss, and includes a first cam surface inclined relative to the fore-aft axis for urging the boss forwardly and laterally. The boss is movable laterally along the first cam surface in response to the boss becoming aligned with a lateral groove in the receiver. Such lateral movement of the boss is in a direction tending to displace the bolt forwardly.

Abstract: An igniter for high-performance rocket motors having a full, head-end web of propellant in the forward end of the motor comprises a closed, rigid pressure vessel having walls which are formed of a consumable filament structure. The igniter includes a hollow cylindrical solid propellant having a high surface grain area which operates at high pressure and is removably attached to a liner that is provided in a cavity in the aft end of the propellant. The liner is machinable with the motor propellant grain thereby facilitating propellant grain cutback if required by a change in mission of the motor. The thrust produced by the igniter neither applies stresses to the motor propellant nor exerts any forces tending to eject it from the cavity.

Abstract: A magazine for storing and delivering ammunition has a housing and a plurty of pairs of rotating members. The housing has curved inboard and outboard walls. Each pair of the members includes an inboard and outboard one, rotatably mounted at the inboard and outboard wall, respectively, at diametrically opposed, interior positions. Also included is inboard and outboard endless carriers disposed on the inboard and outboard ones of the members, respectively, to circulate thereon. The magazine also includes a hand-off sprocket and a plurality of engage rods, the latter being mounted across the carriers and spaced to allow the ammunition to fit therebetween. The hand-off sprocket is mounted alongside the carriers, for removing passing ones of the ammunition.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for loading cartridges into a relatively large capacity firearm magazine of, for example, the rotating drum type is disclosed and includes structure defining a plurality of generally parallel extending slots for receiving cartridges in a horizontal attitude and arranged as a plurality of generally parallel, vertical columns of superposed cartridges lying in the slots. The structure also includes a sliding panel with a single cartridge-passing opening therein, which opening may be selectively aligned with any one of the cartridge columns. The cartridge-passing opening is then aligned with a magazine loading port and the cartridges transferred one at a time from the bottom of a column into the magazine. When a column is exhausted, the structure is shifted so as to align a different column with the aperture and loading port whereupon that column is transferred one at a time to the magazine.

Abstract: Lubricator for bores in members, the lubricator being particularly useful for the lubrication of bores of small diameter with a lubricant of high viscosity. The lubricator has an applicator in the form of an elongated composite plunger having an outer tubular part and inner rod-like part disposed within the tubular part and reciprocable relative thereto. The inner part has an enlarged head thereon disposed axially outwardly of the confronting outer end of the outer tubular part, the head and the confronting end of the outer tubular part in the initial stage of operation of the lubricator defining a toroidal gap which receives and retains lubricant which it picks up as the outer end of the composite plunger travels through a reservoir for lubricant and thence into the bore of the member.

Abstract: A frangible fly through diaphragm for missile launcher tubes consists of epoxy and fiberglass plies with each ply being scored in predetermined patterns. The plies are bonded together and a Mylar/aluminum ply can be located on the missile side to provide gas sealing and electromagnetic interference protection. A segmented foam rubber outer layer can also be provided for additional protection from missile jet plumes.

Abstract: A lubricating device is provided for greasing wire ropes and cables comprising a diametrally split housing with clamps to close the housing about the cable. Within the housing is a diametrally split core body of hard elastomeric material having an axial bore through which the cable travels axially. At the center of the core body is an internal cavity through which the cable passes and which is kept supplied with grease under pressure. Toward its ends the core body has two further internal cavities through which the cable passes, which serve to collect surplus grease. Between and beyond the grease supply and collection cavities, the axial bore of the core body is profiled so that each length of it has the form of an internal triangular section or Vee threaded screw thread; except that the directions of the screw thread are mutually reversed in the two halves of the split core body.

Abstract: A flash guide tube arrangement utilized primarily in propellant charge igniters for large-caliber ammunition with laterally located openings from which the ignition gases, emitted by conventional ignition systems, exit, either for the ignition of an ignition booster charge or for the direct ignition of a propellant charge. Indentations emanate axially from these openings and extend into the interior of the flash guide tube, the depth of the individual indentations decreasing in the direction toward the rear end of the flash guide tube. The indentations are preferably radially arranged and several of such radially disposed indentations can be provided in the flash guide tube. The rear end of the flash guide tube can furthermore be constructed as a cone having its apex pointing toward the ignition system.

Abstract: A grease pump for railroad tracks operable by vertical deflections of the rail caused by the weight of the train as the train wheels pass over the track. The pump comprises a housing anchored to the ground and connected to a grease source. Pump operating means comprise a rigid beam connected to the track rail at one end and to a pump operating rod at an opposite end. The operating rod is connected to a cap-like pressure member fitting over the housing and operable by the rail deflection movement to draw grease through inlet port means from the grease source and pump the grease through outlet port means to a track lubricator. Check valves are provided in the pump to control the grease flow.

Abstract: A plurality of plastic fastener members each provided with a fixing part, a resilient piece, and an engaging face are attached fast to the side walls of the lamp housing for an automobile. When the lamp housing is inserted into an insertion hole formed in advance in the body panel of the automobile, the engaging faces of the fastener members come into fast engagement with the rear side of the edge of the insertion hole. Thus, the lamp housing is safely fastened to the automobile body by one action.

Abstract: A transparent lighting diffuser panel is provided for circular gas discharge lamps and having an inner surface, facing the lamp, comprising a generally cylindrical toroidal fresnel lens with the optical centerline of the lens approximately equal to the lamp circle diameter and coaxial with the center of revolution of the lamp tube; and an outer surface, facing away from the lamp, comprising an overall pattern of elongated linear triangular prisms in a radial pattern coaxial with the toroidal lens and the lamp.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement are disclosed for regulating a path length defined by a pressure-responsive unit. Whenever a coarse positional adjustment has been made, a pause period is made to elapse before a fine adjustment (if any) is carried out. This arrangement does not, due to the pause period, require any accommodation or tuning to regulating stages having different decay behaviors.

Abstract: The shade assembly for use in a lighting fixture is characterized by a knockdown construction so that it may be easily disassembled for purpose of storage or transport. The shade assembly is in the general form of a regular polyhedron and includes a set of at least three flat trapezoidal windows arranged in a closed figure with their short sides on top and their long sides on the bottom. A base member is centrally disposed in the region above the windows. There are also a set of at least three ribs, each rib extending along the juncture of two of the windows and having its upper end removably secured to the base member. Each window is removably secured to the two adjacent ribs.