Abstract: Method and apparatus for double jointing pipe, wherein a first pipe section is moved onto a pipe support roller assembly and moved lengthwise over a boom which carries a pipe clamp and internal welder at its end. A second section of pipe is then moved onto the pipe support roller assembly and moved lengthwise into engagement with the first pipe section. After the first and second pipe sections have been properly aligned and the clamps expanded to hold the pipe sections in welding positions, the pipe sections are rotated simultaneously while both internal and external welds are made simultaneously. A cap weld may also be formed with the pipes clamped as described, or the pipes may be moved to another support roller assembly and the cap weld made while the connected pipe sections are on the second support roller assembly. The methods and apparatus disclosed result in considerable savings as to both the cost of equipment and operating costs.

Abstract: A web of undulate wire is converted into a series of coherent C-shaped binders of the type known by the trademark Wire-O and used to bind stacks of paper sheets or the like in the making of steno pads, brochures, calendars and similar stationery products by continuously moving the web lengthwise at a constant or variable speed, by imparting to successive increments of one marginal portion of the moving web a concavo-convex shape in stepwise fashion so that the one marginal portion resembles (in cross-section) one-half of the letter C, and by thereupon imparting to successive increments of the other marginal portion of the moving web a concavo-convex shape in stepwise fashion so that the thus converted other marginal portion becomes a mirror image of the converted one marginal portion. The imparting steps include deforming the respective marginal portions from the inner toward the outer edges thereof.

Abstract: A pressing machine has opposingly spaced-apart compacting surfaces movable toward each other to weld malleable metal of a metal sheet having a nut-receiving circular aperture therethrough, into a welded state with a malleable metal of circumscribing side-walls of a cylindrically-shaped undercut nut mounted in the aperture. The nut's top has a greater diameter than the aperture. A bottom one of the compacting press surfaces has a raised rim or ridge, and an upper one of the compacting press surfaces has a plurality of raised portions, arranged in a circular array to overlap edge portions of the sheet at its aperture. With the plurality of raised portions pressing downwardly, and the ridge in a circular shape around an annulus hole of the bottom press surface, the compacting surfaces in a single compacting movement in compacting the sheet carrying the inserted nut having overlapping top edges, results in an article in which the metal sheet has become welded to the nut.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of bonding together a plurality of ferrous metal members, the resulting assembly and a heat exchanger comprising the thusly bonded metal members in which the members are bonded to each other by assembling them with aluminum metal between and in contact with them, coating this assembly with a liquid bonding composition as disclosed in Simpelaar U.S. Pat. No. 3,301,688 comprising a liquid solvent and a zinc halide and heating this assembly thereby causing the aluminum to displace zinc from the zinc halide with the zinc thereby uniting with the ferrous metal to form a secure joint comprising an alloy of iron from the ferrous metal members and zinc displaced from the zinc chloride.

Abstract: A method for making a glass-or ceramic-to-metal seal, and the seal itself. A layer of gold is deposited onto the metal. A thin layer of indium is placed over the gold, and the structure is heated above the melting point of indium to create a gold-indium alloy at the gold-indium interface. After cooling, the indium surface of the structure and the glass surface are super-cleaned. The super-cleaned surface are then pressed together to form an air-tight seal.

Abstract: A method of forming fixing heads on both ends of tension springs which are made from coiled spring wire, in particular for precision apparatus. A continuous coil of spring wire is expanded over at least two turns at the area of the ends to be formed. The expanded turns are provided with an envelope of a synthetic material by molding.

Abstract: A method of forming an exhaust gas conduit tube wherein a plurality of captured take-up slots in the tubular wall define a deformable region near a free end of the tube, which region will cooperate with clamping means encircling the region to clamp the tube to a second tube inserted telescopically therein. The captured nature of the slots enhances the structural integrity of the tube end. The method includes forming the apertures along an edge of flat steel stock, rolling the steel stock into a tube wherein the apertures are adjacent a free end and welding the longitudinal seam. The free end portion is further flared for strength and to facilitate entry of a second tube.

Abstract: A method for the assembly of large diameter rolling bearings comprising two support rings concentrically arranged one in the other, the said rings being provided with circumferential grooves, two raceways wires form-lockingly arranged in seats in the grooves under preload and rolling bodies rolling therein, at least one support ring being provided with a circular cavity in the circumferential groove which cavity is dimensioned to receive a raceway wire without preload.

Abstract: A steel floor construction for freight hauling vehicles includes a plurality of elongated floor planking members arranged in side-by-side relation to provide a load bearing floor with a nailing groove between adjacent planking members. Each plank includes a downwardly open channel member having a relatively wide central web supported along its edges by integrally formed downwardly extending flanges, with the web being reinforced along its length by an upwardly directed generally U-shaped member welded to its bottom surface and having a pattern of anti-skid projections die-formed on and project upwardly from its top surface. The channels are progressively roll formed from a continuous length of strip steel by passing the strip through a series of forming roll pairs.

Abstract: A light-gauge metal container has a closure flange fixed to a container wall, to which a closure plug is detachably screwed. An inwardly projecting cylindrical neck is fastened to the edge of a closure flange receiving opening made in the container wall. The closure flange is inserted in the opening so that the inward ends of the flange and neck flushed with each other, with an annular face formed by the flushed flange and neck ends circularly edge-welded. In manufacturing the container, the closure flange is press-fitted in the receiving opening, with the annular face held in the horizontal position. The assembly is transferred to welding apparatus, and positioned roughly first, then exactly by mating the flange opening with a vertical reference shaft on the welding apparatus. The annular face is edge-welded by rotating a welding torch about the axis of the reference shaft.

Abstract: A groove is provided on the side of a metallic structure opposite to the side thereof which is exposed to a corrosive atmosphere, and the groove is subjected to build-up welding while cooling with a liquid coolant, whereby any stress corrosion cracking which otherwise occurs on the side of the structure to be exposed to the corrosive atmosphere can be prevented. Especially, this method of manufacture is appropriate for the repair welding of a butt-welded pipe of austenite type stainless steel, and it is effective to perfectly prevent the stress corrosion cracking of the pipe prone to be caused by reactor water during use in a nuclear reactor.

Abstract: In making diode bridges 16, it is desirable to solder a plurality of such bridges simultaneously. To accomplish this a plurality of diodes 10 are held by a portion of one lead each in a cantilevered fashion in each of four in-line racks 38, 40, 50 and 52. The four racks 38, 40 50 and 52, with diodes 10 extending therefrom, are held at a fixed angle and fixed spacing with respect to each other to interleave the diode leads 14 and form channels. Solder wire 62 is placed in each of the channels. The diodes 10 and the solder wires 62 are then placed into either a heated gas or heated saturated vapor to melt the solder at the crosspoints 60 of the leads 14. Troughs 64 are provided adjacent the crosspoints 60 to catch any solder runoff which occurs during the melting.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for fabricating a solar collector panel including providing a thermal conductive, heat absorbing plate having a plurality of grooves therein, feeding discrete lengths of solder strips having transverse curvatures into said grooves, respectively, placing a tube assembly having a plurality of conduits into said grooves of said plate in superimposed relation on said solder strips, holding said loose assembly together, and heating the loose assembly to melt the solder and effect a thermal conductive bond between said tube assembly and said plate.

Abstract: The solder extractor includes a hollow handle rear section housing a suction connected receiver and a front section carrying an electrically heated tubular tip and a coaxial communicating rearwardly projecting coupling tube. One of a pair of end-to-end hinged posts projects forwardly and eccentrically from the rear section and the front section is coupled to the other post by an elongated bolt slidably engaging axial bores in the posts and screw engaging the rear section. In operative position the post are coaxially locked and the rear section secured to the posts with the coupling tube connected to the receiver by the tightened bolt and to position the sections for cleaning the bolt is retracted to allow retraction of the front section and coupling tube and to relatively unlock the posts to permit the swinging of the rear section affording access to the bore therethrough for cleaning.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for applying beads of solder to a metallic plate as an integral part thereof for subsequent attachment to another component in an assembly operation.

Abstract: A method of producing a nonconsumable electrode comprising forming a blind hole in the working end face of a high-melting core of the electrode, partially filling the blind hole with doping agents and then filling the remaining portion of the hole with a mixture of the doping agents and high-melting core material. The mixture is then heated from the surface of the electrode until a fused surface layer is formed and an enclosed space with doping agents is provided in the electrode.

Abstract: A method for assembling a large massive steel shell is disclosed for housing a nuclear reactor while having sufficient strength to contain an explosion of such nuclear reactor. The shell is formed of large heavy gauge metal plates which are welded to each other to form a large sphere. Locating and supporting rings are mounted concentrically on a base. The rings increase in height from the center of the sphere to support and locate correspondingly higher annular segments of the sphere. The rings are erected and positioned with precisely adjustable tie rods so that the annular upper edge of the rings have a correspondingly accurately known position with respect to the annular sphere segments to be supported by the rings. The large heavy plate segments are then mounted on the rings and welded together to form a lower spherical portion whose spherical shape closely conforms to that desired for the sphere.

Abstract: Automatic apparatus for the treatment of the links of metallic chains which comprises, in operative sequence: means for the automatic application of soldering powder to the chains being treated; means for the automatic removal of the excess of soldering powder applied to said chains; and means for the automatic application of a powder which isolates each chain link from the next during the soldering operation. The application and removal means also have the function of movable guide means for the chains being treated.

Abstract: A method of bonding a diamond or cubic boron nitride abrasive compact to a second such compact in which a braze alloy layer is deposited on a layer of a transition metal on the first compact, the second compact being then placed on the braze layer and the whole assembly being heated to effect bonding between the first and second compacts.

Abstract: Substrates made of a metal or an alloy are bonded by coating a brazing flux incorporating a metallic powder or a metal compound powder on the surface of the substrate having a melting point of higher than 700.degree. C.; and heating them at a temperature higher than a melting point of the flux but lower than a melting point of the metal of the metallic powder or the metal compound powder whereby a molten crystallization and a mutual diffusion are caused between the substrates and the metal activated by the molten flux.