Abstract: An arrangement for the chemical treatment or galvanizing of articles or bulk materials in which the articles to be treated or processed are made of metal, plastics or other materials, and are held within a drum. The wall of the drum is provided with distributed openings or perforations having a conical shape in an alternating manner.

Abstract: A plasticating extruder screw is provided with a wave section in which the depth of the material conveying channel varies cyclically over a plurality of cycles. The wave section as a whole provides good pumping performance for metering the extrudate at a uniform rate. The deep valley portions of the wave section minimize heat inputs to the material being fed, and the shallow ridge portions of the wave section assure repeated intensive mixing of the material for providing high quality polymer melts. The minimum channel depth portions are in a balanced relationship about the axis of the screw to avoid lateral thrust problems. Such balance may be achieved in successive cycles of a single channel or as between adjacent channels of a multiple channel screw. The wave may be in the metering section of a single stage screw or in any of the pumping sections of a multiple stage screw.

Abstract: A horizontal type continuous pug mill for a high viscous material in which means for feeding the material to be treated are provided in spaces defined by a mill body and adjacent agitating blades thereby minimizing rotation of the material together with the blades and promoting the surface refreshment of the material.

Abstract: In the case, where fruits, which are relatively soft and liable to be bruised upon contact or collide with other object such as particularly in the case of white peaches, are to be separated into flesh and pit automatically, means for assuring a high efficiency and a high yield is provided for separating and taking out flesh from the fruits without bruising the flesh as much as possible.

Abstract: The machine comprises a frame having an arcuate knife pivotally mounted thereon. A saddle element supports a butt to be trimmed so that it is located in the path of the knife. A clamp-down assembly pins the butt to the saddle so that it is fixed. The knife is curved to conform to the curvature of the lean meat-back fat interface of the butt; the saddle surface is curved to conform to the outer surface of the butt fat layer. In operation, the knife is drawn through the fixed butt and severs a layer of fat of uneven thickness, leaving a layer of generally constant thickness adhering to the lean meat. On the return stroke, the knife pushes the unclamped butt and severed fat from the saddle.

Abstract: Apples which have been oriented, peeled and cored on the machine shown in U.S. Patent 3,586,081 are further processed to remove the fibrous carpel tissue providing the seed cell in the apple. Following removal of the seed cell, the apples may be discharged whole or passed through a slicing device to cut the apples into a plurality of segments.

Abstract: A device for continuous coating of fibers has a horizontally mounted cylindrical mixing container with an inlet for fibers at one end and an outlet for coated fibers at the other end. The container has a mixing shaft mounted coaxially therewithin, which shaft is driveable at a considerably supercritical speed. The shaft is at least partially hollow and is provided with a glue feed through its interior. In a glue feed zone of the container the shaft is provided with glue agitating elements projecting therefrom and dispensing glue to the ring of fibers formed in the vicinity of the wall of the container. The shaft also has ventilator ridges mounted thereon extending radially outwardly for most of the length of the shaft, which ventilator ridges support mixing tools which extend into the ring of fibers.

Abstract: A machine for repitting peach halves which have previously been subjected to a pitting operation, but wherein the peach halves are not completely pitted because of split or fragmented pits remaining attached to the fruit. The machine automatically feeds the peach halves, centers them relative to a pitting knife, and re-pits the halves to remove any pit fragments which have escaped the initial pitting operation. Since the initial pitting is done by first cutting whole peaches in half along their entire planes and the resulting peach halves cannot be repitted in the same machine, the present peach repitting machine provides a recovery system for the primary pitting operation in order to increase the overall yield without hand-pitting.

Abstract: Apparatus and a system are disclosed for storing and transporting material as well as conducting required batch processing operations on the material within a container having exterior fittings designed for use in conjunction with a quick connect-disconnect docking station. A member of the docking station interlocks with containers of different size in a positive self-positioning manner. Blending, mixing, chemical reaction, and reconstituting of liquid and/or solid material in the container or inverting of the container itself can then be accomplished without having to transfer the material to additional process equipment. In addition to the significant materials handling advantages obtained, the apparatus and system virtually eliminate pollution and contamination problems for batch processing operations.

Abstract: A rotating shaving mechanism for the preparation of artichoke hearts including a circular knife mounted at an angle to the longitudinal extension of the artichoke. The knife is rotatable on an arm mounted on a rotatable shaft to enable the knife to be rotated about the central axis of the shaft while rotating about its own axis. The shaft is mounted in a support which may be displaced towards or away from the artichoke to be prepared.

Abstract: Equipment for heating polar polymers to the temperature at which they become plastic comprises a microwave generator, a tubular component acting as a waveguide in conjunction with the generator, means for supplying the tubular component with the polar polymer and for causing the latter to travel through the tubular component and at least one static malaxating device positioned inside the tubular component.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for holding food and the like at desired temperature and moisture levels for an extended period of time wherein a holding chamber confines a volume of air about a food disposed therein, an air flow supply produces a stream of heated humidifed air that is directed in a curtain-like vortex pattern around the outer perimeter of the inside of the holding chamber to form a core of relatively still, heated moisturized air about the food to transmit heat and moisture thereto without a significant amount of air flow in direct contact with the food. A power control circuit is used to selectively operate a blower motor that circulates the air in a closed air flow system, a heating element that heats the air, a removable food rack motor that rotates the food in the holding chamber and lights that illuminate the food in the holding chamber.

Abstract: An open top box having a chamber for carrying particulate materials. An open grid covers the top of the box. A tongue and wheel assembly is removably connected to the base frame of the box. A plurality of augers removably located in the chamber rotate to mix and blend the materials in the chamber. Power transmitting structure mounted on the back of the box operates to rotate the augers. A material discharge conveyor attached to the side of the box operates to laterally discharge the mixed materials to a desired location.

Abstract: A horizontally oriented tubular screen has a shaft extending through it. Outwardly adjacent one end of the screen the shaft is configurated as a feed screw which receives cereal grain and feeds it into and through the screen. Within the confines of the screen the shaft is provided with one or more rows of pins projecting radially from the shaft. The pins of each row are located in a common plane, and the two planes include with one another an angle no greater than 90.degree. in circumferential direction of the shaft. The outlet end of the screen communicates with an outlet section through which the cereal grains are discharged.

Abstract: A manually operated agitator for installation in a container of a thixotropic suspension such as catsup or the like. An enlargement for agitating the suspension by movement therethrough and means for securing the enlargement interior of the container to afford movement in two directions. The securing means is fixed to the interior wall of the container remote from the neck opening of the container and secures the enlargement for movement in a direction generally axially of the container and in a direction generally radially of the point of securement.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mobile apparatus for making aqueous bitumen and tar emulsions at road making and other surfacing sites. By providing a separate mobile storage unit for raw bitumen and mill mixing apparatus on a mobile water reservoir in which emulsifier liquid is to be made, which mill is adapted itself to draw fluid bitumen and emulsifier liquids in a pumping action, a compact and mobile plant is obtained relative to the capacity of the plant. The apparatus of the invention thus offers a feasable alternative to the transportation of ready prepared bitumen emulsions from fixed plants to distant road making sites.

Abstract: A static mixing chamber for mixing multi-component compositions has the provision of having the mixing chamber at the outlet of the feed lines. A valve is at the outlet end of the chamber. By having the chamber near the outlet end, a large pressure drop across the chamber is insured. Moreover, the valve at the end of the chamber insures that the large pressure drop will be maintained even during start-up of dispensing. By increasing the pressure drop over the chamber, mixing therethrough has been greatly enhanced. Therefore, a smaller mixture is required for effective mixing. The result in small size makes the static mixer capable of being hand held, in the form of a dispensing gun and the valve actuator is part of the dispensing gun so that the valve can be operated by the same hand that is holding the gun.

Abstract: A plurality of spaced and parallel auger assemblies are supported in cantilever fashion and extend rearwardly from a bearing housing. These auger assemblies in conjunction with a packing chamber and concrete hopper, extrude a longitudinally apertured slab behind a machine which is moved along rails by the compression and extrusion of the slab. The bearing housing is resiliently supported upon the main frame and is vibrated by one or more vibration generators or motors operatively connected to the bearing housing which in turn transmits the vibration to the individual auger assemblies thus assisting in the flowing and compacting of the concrete being augered by the auger assemblies. This permits auger assemblies of relatively small diameters to be used so that a relatively thin slab can be manufactured by the device.

Abstract: An apparatus for propelling fluid, the apparatus including a rotatable propeller disposed within a container. The propeller has at least one entry collector in the form of a hollow cylinder open at one end and closed at the other. A plurality of conduits are aligned in at least one row, the conduits communicating with the entry collector by way of a similarly aligned row of openings. The conduits may be defined entirely within members which present only smooth surfaces to the surrounding fluid. The cumulative inner volumes of the conduits of one row is less than 33% of the volume of an annular body of revolution defined by that body of conduits when in rotation. Also, the inner volume of the entry collector is approximately equal to the cumulative inner volumes of the conduits of that row. The conduits may be positioned at angles other than 90.degree. with respect to a motor shaft which drives the propeller.

Abstract: An improved toilet seat and flushing rim joined as an integral part of the toilet bowl, comprising a hollow, disc-shaped annulus with an egg-shaped perforation therein for the passage of human excrement and having an upper wall sloping downwardly from its outer rim and inwardly towards its inner rim which surrounds the perforation forming a toilet seat and a lower wall joined in fluid sealing relationship to the inner rim of the upper wall and sloping downwardly therefrom and outwardly towards the toilet bowl sidewall and having a serrated edge about its outer peripheral edge the edge being disposed in juxtaposition to the inside sidewall of the toilet bowl, thereby forming an inherently selfdraining flushing rim.