Abstract: A quick coupling connector device, which is intended for use as a terminal connecting member for a floating hose piping. The connector device is composed of two floating parts, which define, when assembled, one single floating body with hydraulic seal properties.One of said parts can be attached to the floating pipe and comprises remotely controlled quick coupling means, while the other part is a detachable sealing cover for said one part.

Abstract: Inertial measurements, including the measurement of angular velocity as well as angular and translational acceleration, are made by spinning one or more translational acceleration transducers disposed at predetermined positions and orientations and combining their output signals. The principles of the invention are also applied to generate components of translational acceleration for the purpose of calibrating translational acceleration transducers.

Abstract: A water hammer shock absorber comprising a casing provided on both side walls thereof with a hole and innerside thereof with a cavity adapted to have a pressurized gas sealed therein, a pipe having number of small perforations defined on the peripheral wall thereof between said hole of the casing, and an elastic tube covering the periphery of said pipe being fitted thereto in a watertight fashion.

Abstract: A hose construction and method of making same are provided wherein such hose construction is made primarily of combustible polymeric material and has a tubular inside surface defining a longitudinally extending passage for conveying a fluid therethrough and has an outside surface; and, the hose construction has at least one member which has a fire extinguishing material comprising same disposed adjacent one of the surfaces with the fire extinguishing material being activated upon subjecting the member to combustion temperatures.

Abstract: A sealing cover is provided for preventing ingress of water and other foreign matter between the inter-engaging screw-threads of a stored drilling rig casing pipe element which is fitted either internally or externally with a screw-threaded nipple which engages with the screw-thread on the pipe element and projects beyond the end of the pipe element to protect the screw-thread of the pipe element from damage by impact.

Abstract: An extra corporeal blood tube injection site comprising a smooth blood conduit or tube, an elongated elastomeric sleeve surrounding a section of the tube, and a C-shaped needle-impenetrable member extending along and partially surrounding the sleeve which generates forces within the portion of the sleeve that is not covered by the C-shaped member sufficient to prevent air leakage into, or blood leakage from, the tube during needle penetration or after withdrawal of a needle.

Abstract: A light weight vacuum maintained structure, especially useful when cylindrical, includes a plurality of hollow wall members made of a thin, normally flexible material and internally pressurized so as to be form-retaining, preferably of keystone-like shape, which are positioned with respect to each other so as to form an external wall of such structure, exposed to atmospheric pressure, with a vacuum in the interior of the structure, the difference in pressure holding the wall members together to seal off the interior of the structure and prevent loss of vacuum.

Abstract: Disclosed is a duct board assembly which comprised a panel of conventional duct board formed of rigid thermal insulation to which is attached boardering strips on one face of the panel; the panel may be provided with spaced, longitudinal grooves to define the wall widths of an air duct section to be formed from the duct board assembly and the outer margins of said panel-framing strips being provided with locking means to provide a closed longitudinal seam for the air duct section and to provide for closed joining, end-to-end, of successive duct sections.

Abstract: A method and means for removing the fire extinguisher dry powder from its pressurized cylinder using a vacuum pump and appropriate apparatus and collecting the powder in a drum and to prevent powder degradation. The apparatus is simple to operate and provides a clean, fast method for discharging and removing dry chemical powder from fire extinguisher cylinders.

Abstract: In a very high or very low temperature duct system in which duct insulation is terminated at selected locations so as to be not coextensive with the duct, an annular metal perforated or mesh screen support flange is used, as a low conductor of heat or cold, between the duct and an outer insulation cover to retain the end of the insulation and to support its usually very thin cover. The screen may be Z-shaped in cross section having a small diameter annular portion to surround and be secured to the duct adjacent the end of the insulation. A generally radially extending portion of the screen extends outwardly from the small diameter portion and adjacent the end of the insulation. The periphery of the radially extending portion is in alignment with the outer peripheral surface of the insulation and the outer peripheral surface of the insulation cover.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pressure accumulator of the type which includes a rigid container or casing having substantially axially aligned ports in the ends thereof, and having a deformable open mouth bladder therein dividing the casing into a liquid chamber and a gas chamber in communication respectively with said ports, the port in communication with the gas chamber having a rigid fitting associated therewith, with a gas charging passageway extending therethrough and leading into the gas chamber, deformable closure member being associated with said fitting, automatically to seal the end of the passageway leading into the gas chamber upon discharge of gas from said gas chamber, to preclude extrusion of said bladder into said end of the passageway in said rigid fitting with consequent failure of the accumulator.

Abstract: A device for closing off the space defined between an inner pipe and an outer shield tube comprises a sleeve of flexible resilient material having one end portion whose internal diameter is substantially equal to the external diameter of the inner end, a second end portion whose internal diameter is substantially equal to the external diameter of the shield tube, and an intermediate portion of substantially frusto-conical form joining the first and second end portions. The sleeve also has a tubular appendix which is joined to the intermediate portion of the sleeve and extends substantially parallel to the axis of the inner pipe and the shield tube for accomodating a signal transmitting cable. Angle plates are provided, with each having an axial portion extending over the extension of the shield tube at one end thereof and a radial portion extending at least part of the way from the axial portion across the clearance between the shield tube and the inner pipe.

Abstract: Fluid is forced from a reservoir into an evacuated chamber by forcing a plunger into the reservoir. When it is desired accurately to stop the flow of the fluid, the plunger is withdrawn and concurrently the pressure in the reservoir is reduced to that of the evacuated chamber by means of vacuum pump connected to the reservoir.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pulsation dampener device comprising a pressure vessel having a flow through conduit secured thereto adjacent the oil port, the device being characterized by a sleeve member shiftable axially of the pressure vessel, the sleeve having a bladder secured thereto and providing a guide controlling the movements of the bladder.

Abstract: A disposable pressure vessel includes a gas valve containing cylindrical cap encircled by an O-ring. The cap is bonded to an annular flared portion of a generally cylindrical rubber bladder and is disposed in a hollow cylindrical housing such that the cap compresses the flanged portion of the bladder against a shoulder in the cylindrical housing. The cap is held in place by three equally circumferentially spaced, lanced portions of the cylindrical housing and the O-ring seals the interior of the cylindrical housing from the exterior.

Abstract: An accumulator comprising a cylinder and piston in which the front end of the piston is characterized by two spherical zones separated by a chordal zone while the opposed end wall of the cylinder is concave having a slope substantially the same as said chordal zone; the piston seal is an elastomeric ring supported on each side.

Abstract: An insolation survey device for determining the exposure of a reference point to a cyclically varying radiation source. The device employs a base member for horizontally supporting a display sheet premarked with a grid calibrated in units corresponding to the measurement being taken. A transparent reflective member is supported by the base member over the display sheet so that a reflected view of the surrounding appurtenances and the view of the display sheet, through the transparent dome, form one composite picture. In the composite picture so formed, the period or periods, if any, within the radiation cycle that the reference point will be exposed to said radiation appear as unobstructed sky superimposed onto the premarked grid. A compass is provided to directionally align the device and means are provided for orienting the base member in a true horizontal plane.

Abstract: The present invention is a stop device to be used in automatic feeding systems consisting of a number of feed dispensers placed in succession and combined with a pipe-shaped transport string (conveyor tube) in which the feed is conveyed by an endless feed mechanism, e.g. a scraper chain or a steel wire with scraping units, so that the feed dispensers are filled successively. The stop unit is mainly placed after the last feed dispenser.

Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention comprises a vehicle having a cement carrying container and two water carrying containers. The cement container is V-shaped in cross section with outwardly, flared walls adjacent the apex of the V, and includes an auger screw conveyor inside the container extending along the V-shaped bottom thereof. The auger is adapted to convey the cement within the container along the length of the auger to an outlet opening adjacent the bottom of the container. A vertical conveyor carries the cement upwardly from the outlet opening to a third conveyor which carries the cement to the concrete mixer being serviced. Within the container below the auger conveyor are a plurality of fluffing means which introduce air under pressure to the cement to cause it to be fluffed and to prevent it from packing around the auger screw.

Abstract: A machine and method for winding coils of wire on a slotted core of an armature core assembly. The machine has a holder for releasably supporting the armature core assembly in an upright position. Rotatable annular members located adjacent opposite sides of the core have holes for accommodating wires that are wound on the core. Chucks mounted on the annular members guide the wires moving from the annular members into two pairs of slots in the core. A motor connected to the annular members with a common drive structure rotates the annular members in opposite directions to wind two coils of wire on the core. A core indexing motor drivably connected to the holder operates to sequentially index the core during the winding operation.