Abstract: Apparatus for sorting pieces of non-ferrous scrap metal into a plurality of components, each component being a particular metal type, feeds the pieces into a vertically disposed sorting zone. The pieces fall down a steeply inclined guide member under the influence of gravity and they pass a pair of timing devices which are spaced apart along the guide member, each timing device being a light source on one side of the path of the pieces and a light detector on the other side. The timing devices provide signals representing not only timing but also size an velocity. The pieces then pass an x-ray analysis system including a source of high energy rays to induce x-ray fluorescence and a detector to detect this fluorescence. The detector provides signals indicating the metal type for each piece of scrap. The pieces then fall past a plurality of blast nozzles spaced apart along the guide member.

Abstract: An improved tool for railway track adjustment machines is disclosed which may be made by processes forging, casting, and which includes a shaft and a blade manufactured as separate entities and force-fitted together. In making the tool the lower end of the shaft is formed so that it is able to be forced between flanges located on the rear side of the blade. This lower end preferably has a transverse cross section shaped as a trapezoid with an apex angle .gamma. and is upwardly and outwardly tapered at an angle .alpha.. The flanges located on the rear side of the blade are manufactured from the same piece of material as the blade and define a slot which opens upwardly and outwardly at an angle to the direction of the longitudinal axis of the tool and the symmetrical plane of the blade. A method the slot defined between the flanges has a transverse cross section which tapers inwardly at an angle .delta. and may be formed by deforming the blade.

Abstract: Self propelled pallet vehicles (12a) are guided along a track network (10) by downwardly projecting guide pins (350, 352) carried by each pallet vehicle (12) which engage slots (354, 358) in the track network and steer the pallet vehicle (12) along the track network (10). The track network has main (20) and branch (22) track sections, and selective delivery of the vehicles to various destinations along the track network (10) is achieved by controlling the position of the guide pins (350, 352) between alternate rotated raised and lowered positions. In the lowered position the guide pins (350, 352) interact with the track network (10) to guide the pallet vehicle (12) into a branch section (20) of the track. In the raised position, the guide pins (350, 352) cause continued movement of the vehicle (12) along the main track section (22) and past a junction (38). The guide pin position may be controlled by a photoemitter (364) at the junction (38), or by various other alternatives.

Abstract: A basket 1 of vibratory screening apparatus comprises inflatable elastomeric member 3 positioned to overlie a part of a screen member 5, 7 mounted in the basket. Inflation of the inflatable elastomeric member 3 causes it to press against a screen frame 7 of the screen member, clamping it against a support 9, 29 of the basket 1. Preferably the inflatable elastomeric member 3 is deflatable and a reservoir 19 may be provided for vented inflation fluid. The screen member may be pre- or post-tensioned. The basket 1 may comprise supports 29 and inflatable elastomeric member 3 positioned to press against parts of the screen member remote from its periphery.

Abstract: A freight securing device for freight enclosures having sheet metal sidewalls supported by spaced vertical wall stiffeners and lined with plywood panels comprising a synthetic fiber strap one end of which is attached to a ring member or equivalent connecting device and the other end of which is adhesively secured to the plywood liner with a flexible adhesive having an elasticity substantially corresponding to the elasticity of the strap so that forces applied to the anchoring member as a result of longitudinal shocks encountered by the freight enclosure and freight will be spread substantially evenly across the entire adhesive area. The strap is adhesively secured to the leading edge of a plywood panel so that the entire panel will be placed in tension and the fasteners which secure the panel to the rest of the enclosure sidewall will be substantially evenly loaded.

Abstract: A modular headliner subassembly incorporating a substrate defining a first opening, a retainer ring sized to be mounted relative to the first opening, a console sized to fit partially within the opening and be mounted to the retainer ring, a pair of inboard sunshade supports for supporting the inboard end of the sunshades mounted to a modular headliner and retention clips mounted to the inboard sunshade support fastening means such that the substrate and retaining ring are secured between the base of the inboard sunshade support and the retention clip to mount the inboard sunshade support to the substrate prior to assembly of the modular headliner to the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A suspended monorail track system has a box-shaped cross section with flanges extending inward and upward from the bottom edges of the side walls to form an acute angle between each flange and its attached side wall. An opening remains between the flanges extending along the bottom of the track. An intermediate horizontal wall may be added below the top wall to form an enclosed channel for power and signal cables within the track. A number of power and signal conductors extend along the interior surfaces of the track to provide electrical contact with vehicles moving along the track. Signal conductors are used to prevent collision between vehicles. Each vehicle is suspended from the track by a bogie assembly extending through the opening along the bottom of the track. The bogie assembly is supported by load-bearing wheels riding on the upper surfaces of the flanges, and stabilized by a second set of wheels rolling along the bottom surfaces of the flanges.

Abstract: A combined tamper and compaction apparatus for use on a railroad track leveling machine utilizes hollow tamping tools which are inserted in loose ballast on either side of a cross tie. The tamping tools are vibrated to "fluidize" the ballast and plungers mounted within the tamping tools force the ballast therein downwardly and outwardly beneath the ties. Thereafter the tamping tools with plungers extended are raised and lowered to compact the ballast.

Abstract: A wide-body shipping container is adapted for engagement with standard width container supports mounted on various types of carriers by providing a plurality of adapters movably mounted with respect to supporting points on the bottom of the wide-body containers. Each adapter is movable to a position below the container supporting point and engageable therewith in such a manner as to define a new supporting structure spaced laterally inward from the outer most surface of the wide body shipping container so as to permit coupling of the container to a standard width container support.

Abstract: A resilient liner is provided on the particle supporting surface(s) of a vibratory conveyor system. The liner accounts for a live surface that counters the tendency of the particles, particularly those that are moist and sticky, from adhering to each other and the conveying surface. The liner is particularly effective in systems such as separating systems wherein the particles at various stages fall to other levels.

Abstract: A bicycle wheel includes a rim, a spindle and a hub articulately mounted on the spindle. A first pair of sections with opposite-hand threads are located symmetrically on the middle portion of the hub. A second pair of sections having opposite-hand threads of less diameter than those of the first sections is located on the hub at the end of the hub. Adjacent threads between the first and second sections are opposed in direction, and carry first and second flanges respectively. Situated on opposite sides of the hub are reinforced composite material diaphragms, shaped as an annulus, and interposed between the first and second flanges. The diaphragms are rigidly coupled with their inner side to the first and second flanges, and with their outer side to the rim.

Abstract: A grain sorter for use in a rotary type rice hulling and sorting device comprising a hulling part, a pneumatical sorting part, sorting cylinders rotatably installed so that mixed rice grains may be fed from one end and the sorter rice grains may be discharged from the other end. The sorting cylinders have a large number of recesses formed on their internal surface and troughs for taking out the sorted rice grains received by the recesses which are installed inside the sorting cylinder. The troughs consist of (1), a plurality of troughs for taking out finished sorted rice grains of the sorted rice grains received by the recesses and (2) a plurality of troughs for taking out sorted rice grains, which must be sorted again, of the sorted rice grains received by the recesses.

Abstract: A pulsator for enriching, particularly, hard coal has mounted in a pulsating compartment a hoisting wheel and a bracket both mounted on a drive shaft, or a ratchet wheel mounted on a drive shaft which runs in bearings above the liquid level of a working trough. The pulsating compartment is of cylindrical shape and is connected to working trough along its longer side and separated from the working trough with a wall. The pulsating compartment consists of an outer wall to which is welded a bottom wall shaped as an arc and connected via a vertical wall to an oblique wall of the working trough. The bottom wall is provided at its lowest point with a grate encased with a pulp outlet stub pipe. The hoisting wheel consists of a side wall connected with an outer screen which is connected in turn to an outer ring along the periphery of the outer screen.

Abstract: The apparatus is used for detecting the proper conductivity of a conductive film enclosed within a nonconductive substrate or envelope such as a fluorescent lamp without requiring physical contact with the fluorescent lamp. The conductive film detector comprises a capactive proximity switch mounted close to but spaced from the lamp as the lamp passes the inspection station. At the inspection station there is also provided a feeler switch for sensing lamp presence and a cam switch for inspection initiation when the lamp is instantaneously properly positioned. A control unit powers the capacitive proximity switch and receives the proximity switch output to control a lamp rejection mechanism for rejecting lamps having resistance that is too high. The set up procedure involved adjustment of the capacitive proximity switch sensitivity by using test lamps of alternately acceptable resistance and unacceptable resistance, along with adjustment of lamp-to-proximity switch spacing.

Abstract: A flat bed vehicle such as a tilt bed car carrier vehicle has side rails which may be positionable either in a raised position disposed above the bed platform and a lowered stowed position wherein the tops of the rails are disposed coextensive with the platform. The caps or tops of the rails are supported on posts and the ends of posts remote from the caps have cam followers which are positioned within respective cam tracks extending transversely beneath the bed floor. The cam tracks are configured so that the followers may be moved between first and second ends of the cam tracks selectively. At one end of each track the follower is located such that the respective post may be either in the upstanding operative position at the side of the bed, and at the other end of the track the follower is located such that the post is in the stowed position extending transversely beneath the floor of the bed with the cap of the rail positioned on a shelf of a longitudinally extending bracket at the edge of the side.

Abstract: A materials separator apparatus comprising a base supporting a ramp type of materials receiving surface sloped longitudinally and transversely with respect to the base for directing commingled dielectric items and electrically conductive items of nonferromagnetic materials deposited on its upper end portion along a fall path extended longitudinally and transversely downward of the surface, and a planar series of substantially parallel permanent bar magnets supported in contiguous rows in a plane substantially parallel to the material receiving surface and sufficiently close thereto for establishing along the surface a spatially alternating array of oppositely directed static magnetic fields which extend in substantially parallel relationship transversely of the surface at an oblique angle with the fall path of the commingled items.

Abstract: A deflector shield for a motor vehicle is characterized by having a molded, wrap-around shield assembly along the horizontal and vertical side edges of the hood portion directly behind the grille which is secured in place by elongated flexible, shock mounting strips at spaced intervals along the horizontal edge and vertical sides of the hood portion, and a molded wrap-around cover plate in overlapping relation to the horizontal edge and opposite vertical side edges of the shield; and molded guard members are dispoed in overlying relation to a surrounding portion of the front grille of the vehicle together with front fender guard members which conform to and are disposed in overlying relation to the front fender and headlight portions of the vehicle.

Abstract: A suspension arrangement for rail vehicles, including at least one pair of superimposed elastomeric shock absorbers, including a first shock absorber disposed between a first mandrel and a first bell-shaped member, and a second shock absorber disposed between a second mandrel and a second bell-shaped member. The first bell-shaped member and the second mandrel are disposed between the two shock absorbers and are interconnected in such a way that they can carry out not only a movement in the main direction of shock absorption, but also a pendulum movement about any axis disposed transverse to this main direction of shock absorption.

Abstract: A monorail transportation system utilizing generally inverted channel shaped rail members for supporting personal transit vehicles which are each suspended from the rails by a carriage having traction motor propelled drive wheels engageable with the rail channel and spaced apart vehicle supporting guide wheels. The vehicles have aerodynamically contoured bodies provided with lift surfaces which provide varying degrees of lift in accordance with vehicle speed and angle of attack to reduce mechanical friction in the carriage and structural loading on the rail network. The vehicles are automatically controlled and used by individual user when called up from storage track sections at spaced apart stations along the rail network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for transporting rove bobbins between a flyer frame and a spinning frame wherein transporting operation of rove bobbins can be assured for a long period of time. The system comprises a plurality of driving devices provided at fixed positions along a transport rail. A carrier for hanging rove bobbins thereon is smoothly moved along the transport rail by way of a mechanical engaging structure which establishes motion transmission between the carrier and a successive one of the driving devices.