Abstract: An automatic capacitor winding machine has a retractable bifurcated arbor and vertically movable clamps to grasp the ends of the capacitor dielectric layers and carry those ends to a point below the retracted arbor. The bifurcated arbor is registered in its retracted state with its slot parallel to the dielectric layers. The arbor is then extended and grasps the dielectric layers between its tangs. The pressure grasping the dielectric layers is partially removed to allow the arbor to rotate and pull the dielectric layers from between the clamps. A stripper washer is provided to freely rotate on the arbor with limited movement parallel to the axis of the arbor and with a relatively small clearance between the washer's inside surface and the arbor's outside surface. Photoelectric means are provided to accurately detect the location of the first tab (terminal) to time the insertion of the other tabs. A reciprocating blade severs the dielectric layers after the capacitor is wound.

Abstract: A film developing tank support plate is provided on a main housing, which support plate is pivotally mounted to agitate the development tank in response to a control unit in the main housing. The control unit has a solenoid whose arm is connected to the support plate and is actuated by a rotating contact abutting stationary contacts on a stationary plate.

Abstract: A lip seal assembly provides an axially adjustable seal between a rotating shaft, such as a crankshaft, and a stationary housing, such as an engine block. The assembly includes a generally ring shaped retainer circumscribing the shaft and having a hollow, cylindrical cavity therein which receives a slidably positioned lip seal mounting member. A plurality of ring shaped spacer gaskets enable the lip seal to be axially adjusted within the cavity such that the point of engagement of the lip seal with a running surface of the shaft may be changed.

Abstract: A power-telephone service pole having a cover which is removable simply by being pried off when the pole is installed so that the telephone compartment is readily available and having a T-bar/tie-rod hanger and a power junction box which cooperate with the removable cover to permit the pole to be quickly installed or relocated together with a pedestal adapting the pole alternately for use on tile or on carpet and for being spotted in position by means of floor studs or screws.

Abstract: An improved pipe cap comprises a cover and a U-shaped handle pivotally connected thereto. The handle includes a pair of rounded lugs which are adapted to engage an annular groove in the pipe end when the pipe cap handle is rotated toward its locking position. When the handle is rotated away from the locking position and towards the unlocking position, the lugs cooperate with the groove so as to cam the cover off of the pipe end. This novel camming action helps to overcome the resistance frequently associated with breaking the seal between a pipe end and a pipe cap.An alternate embodiment of the improved pipe cap is fitted with lugs having a pronounced flat on one side. The alternative cap is intended to fit on a pipe adapter having a flat locking rim instead of a groove. The rim includes two slots 180.degree. apart which are engagable by an appropriate wrench to thread the adapter onto a fill pipe. The lugs on the cap are located in such a manner that at most only one lug can fall into a slot.

Abstract: Column packing comprising a first layer and a second layer adjacent said first layer, each said layer comprising an inner knitted flattened tubular mesh element formed by inner filaments having 8 to 14 counts per inch, and outer knitted flattened tubular mesh element formed of outer filaments surrounding said inner element and in contact therewith and having 41/2 to 61/2 counts per inch, the axes of said inner element and said outer element being substantially parallel or coincident, at least one of said layers being crimped in wave form, the crests of said waves being at an angle of 20.degree. to 45.degree. to a line perpendicular to said axes, a surface of said first layer being generally in contact with a surface of said second layer, the diameter of said inner filaments being from 29 to 75% of the diameter of said outer filaments.

Abstract: This specification discloses a system and method for blending a dry chemical and a liquid. The system is comprised of a hopper for receiving and feeding the dry chemical into a pipe where it is transported by gas to a liquid weir and there mixed with the liquid. The hopper is adapted for having a positive pneumatic pressure applied at an upper location thereof and a negative pneumatic pressure applied at a lower location thereof to feed the dry chemical into a pipe. The dry chemical is then transported by gas through the pipe and directed from the downstream end of the pipe into the liquid weir. The liquid weir is adapted for having liquid flowed therethrough to mix and blend the liquid with the dry chemical. A container is provided to contain the blended mixture.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for converting an orifice fitting for an orifice plate, of the type known as a "simplex" or "semi" orifice fitting, in a pipeline so that the orifice plate in the orifice fitting may be replaced or removed while maintaining the product in the pipeline under pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus useful in damming the flow of fluid through a pipeline is shown. The apparatus comprises an inflatable bladder encompassed within a flexible, expandable outer bag made of a rubber-like material. The bladder and bag are separated by an annular zone filled with a viscous fluid. The bladder is attached by means of an umbilical tube and suitable valving to a source of pressurized fluid. In use, the apparatus is positioned within a section of pipeline upon which repairs are to be made and the bladder is inflated forcing the outer bag, through the medium of the viscous liquid, to be forced into tight, sealing contact with the interior surfaces of the conduit in which the apparatus is positioned. The apparatus is inexpensive and portable and may be used to seal off sections of pipeline from larger systems without requiring extended or costly shutdowns.

Abstract: Rotating seal sealing by viscous effect, intalled on a rotating shaft crossing through a bore separating, from the outside medium, an enclosure containing a fluid kept under pressure, comprising at its center two threads having an unequal length and having reverse pitches, separated by a groove and two lip seals for a rotating shaft of the conventional type on either side of the threads. The gap between the two lip seals is fed with viscous fluid by two tanks, one of which is at the pressure of the fluid for which sealing is to be provided. Application to the passing of shafts rotating at a high speed for all types of enclosures containing a gas or a liquid under pressure which can reach several tens of bars.

Abstract: An improvement in a mechanical seal assembly for a slurry pump, or like shaft rotating in a housing subject to incursions of grit contaminants of the type having relatively rotating first and second seal elements in annular engagement defining the seal, the first of the seal elements comprising telescopically interfitted inner and outer cylindrical members having seal-wear-responsive extensile movement to maintain sealing engagement with the second seal element, the grit contaminants tending to work between the first element inner and outer members and block their telescoping movement; the improvement comprising a rigid cylindrical shroud axially opposing and radially enclosing the first element concentrically for a substantial distance against grit contamination blocking inner and outer member telescoping movement.

Abstract: A roller sealing head for overpressure and underpressure containers, especially for processing webs of textile and synthetic material with non-fixed application of print or dye or for non-treated webs of goods, in which a first sealing roller has a second sealing roller arranged opposite and in spaced relationship thereto while two endless sealing strips held in a rim-shaped frame are respectively associated with the first and second sealing rollers. The roller sealing head furthermore includes a hollow roller of a narrower width than that of the first and second sealing rollers. The arrangement is such that the web of goods to be processed is directly passed through between the hollow roller and one of the first and second rollers, while only one straight section of each endless sealing strip engages the inside of the hollow roller whereas the curved sections of the sealing strips as well as the second straight section of each sealing strip engages the sealing rollers.

Abstract: An extruder screw for plastic extruding apparatus effects continuous separation of the molten plastic from the unmolten plastic with minimal interference with the flow of the plastic material being processed. Optionally, means are provided for additional mixing and homogenization of the molten plastic.

Abstract: A pan cleaning apparatus for use with bun and roll pans in bakeries which will provide a brushing and scrubbing action for loosening seeds, crumbs or the like as well as other foreign material which may be lodged in the pan after use. The device includes brushes arranged to brush all of the corners and recesses of the pan adequately. The unit includes multiple brush construction and a vacuum hood which removes debris from the pan as it passes through the apparatus.

Abstract: A tubing article is fabricated from a fluid permeable fibrous plexifilamentary polyolefin material having a porosity .epsilon. of 0.5 to 0.7, a contact angle of greater than 85.degree., and a Gurley-Hill porosity in the range of 4 to 70 sec/100 cc.The tubing is particularly useful in sub-surface and trickle or drip type irrigation systems used in agriculture.

Abstract: A game fishing reel of the multiplying type has a spool for fishing line rotatably mounted on a shaft supported between two end housings moulded from thermosetting plastic. A winding handle is mounted on one of the end housings and is arranged to rotate the spool through a friction coupling which comprises one coupling part, to which the winding handle is geared, rotatably mounted on the shaft in opposing relation to a friction ring secured to the adjacent end flange of the spool. The shaft is rotatable in the end housings and at the end housing remote from the winding handle it is journalled in an aperture formed through the plastic material of this end housing and projects on the outside of the housing. The projecting end of the shaft is threaded and has a nut screwed thereon into abutting relation with the outside of the end housing.

Abstract: An improved sealing means for securing a fin tube heat exchange element to the floor of a heat exchanger or cooling tower hot water basin. The sealing means includes a first collar section received around the fin tube and a second collar section received around an opening in the hot water basin floor. A compliant web section connects together the first and second collar sections. Gusset reinforcement members are provided to the web section to reduce twist and prevent seal leakage. Small circumferential grooves are provided in the portion of the second collar section which seals against the basin floor to effect a positive seal. The opening in the basin floor is large enough to permit the effortless vertical extraction of the fin tube element.

Abstract: Fabric and method for reinforcing concrete pipe or the like in which a plurality of sets of transverse wires are arranged along the length of the line, or circumferential defining, wires, each set defining a segment of fabric having a length corresponding to the circumference and overlap desired for a cage to be formed from that segment. Preferably, the distance between the first and last transverse wires in each set corresponds to the desired circumference of a cage to be formed and the distance between adjacent sets corresponds to the desired overlap.

Abstract: A seal mountable between a piston-like element and a cylinder-like element, one of which is formed with a groove opening toward the other, has a supple annular core with an inner periphery and an outer periphery spaced radially therefrom. One of these peripheries lies in the base of the groove and the other periphery is turned radially toward the other element. A central contact ring is compressed radially between the other periphery and the other element and at least one rigid guide sleeve has an end region at least partially surrounding the core and formed with an end face axially engageable with the contact ring. The sleeve lies between the elements. The annular core is elastomeric, the contact ring is formed of readily deformable material having a very low coefficient of friction, and the guide sleeve is formed of a very stiff and durable synthetic resin.

Abstract: A marking device has a cylindrical housing journalled to an extended arm. The cylindrical housing has an outer peripheral surface whose circumference preferrably corresponds to a standard linear distance that is normally encountered in the building industry. The peripheral surface has at least one marking element extending radially from it so that as the cylindrical housing is rotated over a workpiece, the marking element leaves a mark on the workpiece that serves as a centerline measurement for the accurate alignment and placement of building components on the workpiece. The extended arm of the device includes a movable guide that may be extended radially beyond the peripheral surface of the cylindrical housing for guiding the marking device as it is moved along the workpiece or that may be retracted radially from its extension beyond the peripheral surface so that the marking device may be used on an extended planar surface without the guide interfering with the travel of the device over the planar surface.