Abstract: A bag placer apparatus having a number of improvements which, in combination, significantly increase the rate of placing valve bags upon a plurality of filling spouts to fill the bags with a flowable material. The apparatus comprises a pair of magazine apparatus for stacking the bags, a transfer apparatus for removing one bag at a time from the stack, a presenter apparatus for aligning the bag with the valve portion thereof in a precise location, and a picker-spouter apparatus which picks up the aligned bag, opens the valve and places it upon any one of one, two or three filling spouts. Each magazine supports a plurality of vertical stacks of horizontally positioned bags. The transfer apparatus alternatively de-stacks one bag at a time from each magazine and transfers it laterally to the presenter apparatus. The presenter apparatus includes means including a novel tilt arm for automatically transfering and registering each bag in precise position and alignment relative to the picker-spouter apparatus.

Abstract: A flexible, very high pressure hose as a flexible conducting member in hydraulic systems. The wall of the hose contains filamentary load-carrying cords which are embedded in two or more layers. The load-carrying cords are combined to form a plurality of strips which cross one another or are braided with one another. The present invention deviates from the heretofore known symmetrical arrangement where the strips of a given layer have the same number of load-carrying cords in both directions, and instead provides an asymmetrical layer construction including strips which in one direction have a different number of load-carrying cords than do the strips which extend in the opposite direction. While the local resistance to pressure remains the same, the advantages of the present invention are distinct improvements, primarily in the flexibility and the service life of the novel hoses.

Abstract: A powder-air separator with a filter made by sintering short-cut filament-shaped particles or by sintering a mixture of short-cut filament-shaped particles and ordinary atomized round particles.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling electric apparatus such as transformers with insulating oil consists of first and second decompression tanks each having an opening at one side for taking the transformers in and out of each tank. The tanks are placed so that the openings are opposed to each other. A flatcar is provided between the openings of the tanks and reciprocally moved in the direction in which the openings of the tanks are opposed to each other. A door is provided on the flatcar. The openings of the tanks are alternately closed by the door when the flatcar is reciprocally moved. Two carriers for carrying the transformers are provided on respective sides of the door. The transformers carried on the carriers are alternately taken in and out of the tanks when the flatcar is reciprocally moved. The apparatus further includes a vacuum pump for decompressing each tank. The transformers are filled with insulating oil in the tanks under decompressed condition.

Abstract: A method of charging a package with dosed bulk material, includes the steps of filling the package in a pre-filling station to an extent less than a desired final weight; weighing the partially filled package; determining the difference between actual and desired weight of the package; advancing the partially filled package to an after-filling station; and filling the package in the after-filling station with additional bulk material having a weight corresponding to the determined weight difference. Metering of the additional bulk material and readying the additional bulk material for delivery into the package are started before the package assumes a charging position in the after-filling station.

Abstract: The drain pipe plug device for drain testing includes an elongated elastomeric, flexible, resilient hollow tube which has a central passageway running its length and in communication with a rear portion bearing an inlet and front portion bearing an outlet. These two portions are joined to a narrow diameter more flexible middle portion. The inlet is fitted with a connector adapted to receive water and air hoses. The outlet is fitted with a pressure relief valve, preferably in the form of an open cage bearing a fluid-blocking transverse plate trapped in a transverse internal groove. The plate is by-passed by fluid when the front portion expands sufficiently radially under pressure. The front tube portion has thicker walls than the rear tube portion and collapses first after both have radially expanded under fluid pressure so as to prevent backflow of fluid. The middle portion also expands radially and is flexible enough to facilitate passage of the device into intersecting drain pipes.

Abstract: Pressurized cylinders are rapidly filled with acetylene gas and solvent in a staged process that is closely monitored by a control unit to assure that filling progresses with all critical variables maintained within safe bounds. An operator performs certain preliminary cylinder hookup tasks as monitored and prompted by the control unit. The control unit conducts the actual filling of the cylinder, carrying out this procedure in distinct filling stages with alternate injections of solvent and gas into the cylinder. The improved system enhances the safety and efficiency with which acetylene cylinders are filled.

Abstract: A flexible cable conduit having an anti-friction liner adapted to surround a movable core. The liner in turn is surrounded by a plurality of spiraled lay wires. The lay wires in turn are surrounded by a spiral wound overlap wrap where the wrap comprises a plastic material to provide a sealing means for the conduit and has high tension properties to constrain the wires from moving radially on any bending of the conduit.

Abstract: Protectors are provided for both internally and externally threaded ends of a tubular member. Each protector includes a plastic and a metal member. The plastic member of each protector defines threads which are adapted to threadedly engage threads of the tubular member. Each metal member defines a projection that is adapted to be received by a recess formed in the plastic member. Each plastic member defines a channel that guides the metal projection to the recess as the metal and plastic members are joined together.

Abstract: Apparatus for compressing bulk material into a storage bag including a hopper, an auger tube having an inlet port and a discharge port, an auger rotatably mounted within the auger tube, and a storage bag support framework affixed to the auger tube at its discharge end. The auger extends through the discharge port and into the area defined by the storage bag support framework to permit lateral displacement of the bulk material from the auger into the storage bag support and then into the storage bag. The auger preferably extends through the discharge port a distance of at least one flight; the pitch of the flights being shorter than those within the auger tube. The auger is unsupported adjacent the discharge port except by a pilot shaft which engages the compressed material within the storage bag.

Abstract: A fixed fluid control system for loading fluids into sealed tanks includes pressure sensing conduits in a mobile vehicle and fixed fluid controls. In the vehicle are first and second pressure sensing conduits having portions within the sealed tank positioned at the top and bottom of the tank. The pressure sensing conduits have exterior portions to which are detachably coupled additional pressure sense lines. The additional pressure sensing conduits are coupled to a differential pressure to current converter within the fixed fluid control system. The converter produces a current signal proportional to the pressure difference between the two sense lines. When this current reaches a predetermined high level, the supply of fluid to the sealed tank is discontinued.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods directed to transferring fluid from a supply container to a plurality of uptake containers are disclosed utilizing a common vacuum bore in communication with a plurality of channels adapted to receive the uptake containers for drawing vacuum in the uptake containers for delivery of fluid into the uptake containers. The apparatuses and methods further contemplate transferring a plurality of individual fluid samples, each contained in its own supply container, to a plurality of corresponding individual uptake containers in a one-to-one isomorphic displacement. Thus, the apparatuses and methods of this invention are capable of handling a large number of individual fluid samples in the shortest time possible without contaminating the homogeneity of the individual fluid samples being transferred. Additionally, the apparatuses and methods of this invention contemplate transferring fluid into a large number of samples in the shortest time possible.

Abstract: A bellows-like hollow member formed of gathered tubular sheathing material, for processing, especially as a peel-skin for the production of small sausages, produced as follows: polypropylene with copolymers is extruded in a smooth foil of three inseparable layers, of which the middle layer is stronger and the two outside layers have a lower melting point. The foil is then stretched to increase its strength, and is formed into a tube with a lengthwise seam along its entire length, formed by overlapping and consolidation of its lengthwise edges. Finally, the tube is gathered bellows-like forming a plurality of folds and forming hollow member, and is simultaneously rotated around its axis so that the lengthwise seam produces a helical path. The tubular sheathing which is obtained by this gathering is of inexpensive material, can be easily peeled from the boiled meat emulsion, can be used without difficulty in sausage machines, and is not sensitive during storage to moisture and high temperatures.

Abstract: A hollow filament wound tube having a plurality of cylindrical, hollow, open ended load bearing shells embedded between radially spaced layers of fiber of the filament wound tube, the shells having a longitudinal dimension less than that of the filament wound tube.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing nozzle has a check valve mounted adjacent the front of the nozzle body to seal an annular vapor return passage, which is between the spout and a bellows, to prevent communication through vapor return passages in the nozzle to the vapor recovery equipment unless the spout is disposed in the fill pipe of a vehicle tank. One of the elements of the check valve for forming this seal is mounted on the spout and the other is mounted on a member, which is slidably supported by the nozzle body.

Abstract: An ultra-high pressure hose assembly capable of withstanding sustained internal fluid pressures exceeding 60,000 psi is disclosed herein and consists essentially of an innermost tubular core, a plurality of successive tubular layers and an outer containment sleeve. The innermost tubular core and containment sleeve are designed to add substantially no structural integrity to the overall assembly but rather function only as a fluid barrier and containment structure for the tubular layers respectively. The outer tubular layers serve as structural members of the overall assembly and respectively consist of individual bands which are alternately helically wound around and directly against the layers immediately below them at predetermined helix angles. Each band in turn consists of a number of separate steel wires which have opposing flat sides and which are positioned in unconnected edge to edge relationship to one another so as to form the band.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of collecting a desired end-point weight amount of material first conveys the material into the collection container until a predetermined weight amount is collected. The predetermined weight amount is less than the desired end-point weight amount by a selected initial weight offset amount. An additional incremental amount of material is next conveyed into the container for a predetermined fixed time period. In doing so, the method and apparatus gauge the particular flow characteristics of the associated flow system. A further additional incremental amount of material is conveyed into the collection container for another time period, the length of which reflects the anticipated flow characteristics of the system, based upon the performance of the system during the preceding period. The method and apparatus repeat this sequence until the then-existing weight amount equals or exceeds the desired end-point weight amount.

Abstract: A ceramic body for use as a gas conduction channel or duct and preferably used to define an exhaust channel in a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, where the cylinder head is cast around the ceramic body. The ceramic body is provided with a thickening or external layer over at least a part of its outer surface. This external layer adds stability and strength to the ceramic body and allows it to withstand the pressures occurring during the casting of the cylinder head. The thickening or external layer is formed from a pressure resistant material and may be applied to a depression in the ceramic body or into the space between two parallel ceramic bodies to provide the required strength and stability.

Abstract: A shirred tubular material comprising a plurality of outer folds which when the tubular material is opened are arranged along at least two substantially parallel, longitudinally extending helixes. A method for forming the disclosed shirred tubular material is disclosed which comprises sequentially applying shirring forces through two or more sets of shirring elements wherein each successive member of a set applies shirring forces along a different continuous line than its immediate preceding member. The tubular material may contain reinforcing fibers.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting and maintaining the level of a liquid in a container filling machine having a rotatable filler bowl includes a float disposed within the liquid in the bowl and having a permanent magnet disposed within the float body. A liquid level indicating bar is mounted within the bowl and is formed from a magnetically responsive material so that vertical movement of the float results in a vertical movement of the liquid level indicating bar. An infrared photo detector is provided for detecting the position of the liquid level indicator and controls are provided for increasing or decreasing the rate of flow of liquid into the bowl depending on the detected level of the liquid.