Abstract: An adhesive tape reel loading structure includes a displacement plate with an axle mounted thereon and being housed in a housing compartment of a tape stand and a loading disk mounting on the axle. The loading disk has an inner ring for holding a small adhesive tape reel and an outer ring for holding a large adhesive tape reel. The outer ring has an opening to allow the small adhesive tape reel mounting on the inner ring to pass through. The loading disk may be separated from the restriction of the housing compartment by moving the displacement plate by force to allow adhesive tape reels of a small inner diameter and a large inner diameter be installed on or removed from the inner ring and the outer ring for use.

Abstract: A wire stringing cart for laying out wire in the making of a fence. The wire stringing cart includes a frame assembly designed to be a two-wheel cart with a crossbar member for holding a spool of wire that can be laid out as the cart is moved. The assembly also has a toolbox for housing the tools utilized in making a fence of this sort.

Abstract: A reeling device (10), has a support base (1), a support arm (2), and a shaft (9′) mounted on the support arm (2). One shaft end has a boss (9) and the other end has a revolving frame (7). Mounted to the device is a transit case (20), within which the used doctor blades (12) of a paper/cardboard machine are reeled on a roll. Raw material is supplied to a blade production plant, where the blades are produced, then transported to a paper/cardboard plant and stored in the plant prior to being mounted in connection with paper/cardboard machine rolls, where their condition is monitored during use. Used doctor blades are removed from the machine, packed in storable form with the reeling device, and are stored in the paper/cardboard plant. The packed used blades are transported away from the paper/cardboard plant and delivered into recycling, reuse or end use.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying mobile phones and other hand-held devices comprising a clamping system, a retracting system, and a positioning system. The clamping system holds a hand-held device between two parts, which are fastened together by a fitting and a security screw having a head with a slot requiring a special key. The retracting system includes a retractable tethering cable wound on a spool. The positioning system includes a male component, which anchors the tethering cable to the fitting, and a female component, which is mounted on the retracting system. The tethering cable passes through the female component of the positioning system so that when the hand-held device is retracted, the male component of the positioning system is received by the female component thus assuring proper orientation of the hand-held device on display.

Abstract: A toilet paper dispenser and folder system has a frame subassembly having front and rear parallel panels, an upper feeder roller and a lower feeder roller. Each panel has a large aperture and a paper roll holder aperture and a lower roller aperture and an upper roller slot. A paper rotation subassembly has a cylindrical housing with a cutting edge and a guide, and roller arm and a backplate. A pulley subassembly has a rotator bolt with two threaded ends and a bushing and threaded nuts and larger and smaller pulleys each with a central hole, and a belt between the pulleys.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for winding a web about a central axis and a rotating mandrel to form a roll. A feeding mechanism provides a running web to be wound into a roll. A retainer assembly may be configured for holding the web as it is wound upon the rotating mandrel. The retainer assembly may be configured to accommodate oscillating movement of the rotating mandrel between a clockwise and a counterclockwise direction. The web may be wound in one direction and then back again repeatedly to form a roll. Retaining means, such as paddles, may be actuated from an active position in contact with the web to a resting position removed from the roll. Paddles may serve to hold the web upon the outer surface of the roll at the time in which the rotating mandrel is changing rotational direction.

Abstract: A resin extruder in which the degree-of-kneading of the resin can be effectively controlled. The invention can be applied to both a single-screw extruder and a twin-screw extruder. In either case, blocking walls are formed around a cylindrical portion of the screw or screws just upstream of the kneading section. A valve structure is provided in the walls to control the kneading of resin at the kneading section.

Abstract: A small mixer vehicle structured as a trailer has clutching mechanics for frictionally revolving a rotatable drum during towing and for both manual and powered auxiliary drum turning when the trailer is parked. For manual drum turning, an attachable crank is provided. The crank attachment also accepts connection by a hydraulic motor which is remotely powered by an auxiliary pump. The trailer drum support structure has mechanics for placing the drum in a tilted position for unloading and for returning the drum to a horizontal towing position. A tow bar attached to the trailer includes adjustable mechanics for leveling the trailer.

Abstract: A transportable concrete batching plant is disclosed which combines improvements in the discharge section of the aggregate storage bin and aggregate batching hopper together with an unique suspension system which allows for weighing of both aggregate batching hopper and the cement batching vessel by a plurality of load cells and which also allows tension to be removed from the load cells if desired.

Abstract: A mop for simultaneous scrubbing and polishing floors and other surfaces comprised of an upper and lower bonded-fiber sections. The upper section comprises, a plurality of joined bonded-fiber fabric layers which diminish in size from top to bottom, and each layer having fringes cut in the outer edges thereof. The bottom section is free of fringes and comprises a plurality equal-sized bonded-fiber fabric layers, which, are smaller, however, than the layers of the upper section. The uppermost bonded-fiber fabric layer in the upper section has a central opening and a pair of opposing pockets, into which a stiff mounting support is inserted, and the mounting support being of substantially the same size and shape as the lower section and aligned therewith when positioned in the pockets.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing batter materials, such as food batter, including sausage batter for wieners and the like, without incorporating the use of any casing for the batter. The apparatus forms a blank having a proteinaceous skin made by congealing surface batter materials. Each thus formed blank is ejected onto a conveyor that includes a device for completing the formation of congealed skin on the blank. The thus shaped items can then be packaged and cooked within the package in order to provide an aseptic product. If desired, the items can be cooked and then packaged in order to provide a product having an acceptable shelf-life.

Abstract: A vibrator is provided which includes a relatively rigid shell with a vibrating mechanism being provided within the shell to cause the same to vibrate. A flexible shaft is coupled to the vibrating mechanism to drive the same. Moreover, a cover is provided on the shell formed of a material softer than the shell whereby to lessen the effects of the impact of the shell on any encountered object such as a reinforcing rod. The cover is made, for example, of a plurality of rings arranged in axial series. The rings include projections and are provided with notches or receptacles for receiving the projections. The projections on respective of the rings are engaged in the receptacle of the next adjacent rings in the axial series. The vibrator may be inserted, for example, in a setting concrete to remove air and voids therefrom. The covering on the shell is intended to avoid chipping of, for example, epoxy coatings which are employed on reinforcing rods to avoid the corrosion of the same.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing a food product. A series of processing cabinets are each provided with an inlet and an outlet in one of the cabinet side walls adjacent an end wall. The product is carried by a series of individual product carriers, which are capable of turning relative to the rail. The carriers pass through the cabinet inlets, and are turned relative to the rail thereafter so as to pass through the cabinets in a closely packed arrangement. As the carriers approach the opposite end wall of the cabinet, the carriers are again turned so as to exit the cabinet in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cabinet.

Abstract: The invention is in a pneumatic powder ejector comprising a suction stage and an injection stage. The suction stage includes a suction chamber (16), a venturi (14) communicating a primary gas to the suction chamber and a lateral suction input (18) offset in relation to the downstream and of the venturi. The injection stage includes a nozzle (22), an injection chamber (36) and a diffuser (38). The stages are located within and coaxially of the body of a tubular ejector. The nozzle includes a path for powder and primary gas between the suction chamber and diffuser, and is formed to provide a flow path of reduced dimension to communicate a secondary or entrainment gas between the diffuser and injection station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for processing produce and particularly fresh vegetables for salads. The vegetables are stored in an area near the beginning of the process line, and the storage area is partitioned by vinyl strips to create a temperature gradient for different vegetables. The vegetables are first cleaned on mesh conveyors under high pressure nozzles that spray chlorinated water at the desired storage temperature of the vegetables. A trimming table includes a lower conveyor for moving the vegetables for hand processing. An upper, cleated conveyor carries the vegetables to a slicer. Another cleated conveyor lifts the sliced vegetables vertically into a hopper where they are mixed with cooling water that then flows through a significant horizontal length of pipe. The vegetables move to shaker tables that provide the bulk of the dewatering and then vibrate the vegetables into a single layer for air drying.

Abstract: A machine with at least two working shafts, particularly a double-screw extruder machine, comprises associated with each shaft a gear rotated by a drive gear, coaxial to said shaft and gear by way of at least two idle gear wheels acting on said gear and disposed within the drive gear.Each idle gear wheel rotates about a shaft supported by a support member which is advantageously mobile in a plane orthogonal to the axis of the shaft and is disposed about this latter; between the drive gear and idle gear wheels there is provided a floating gear to transmit the drive force of the drive gear to said idle gear wheels.

Abstract: A mixing, dispensing and purging apparatus for mutually reactive chemicals. The dispensing apparatus includes a cartridge comprising a mixing assembly and purging rod. The mixing assembly having a block of inexpensive monolithic design with an axial bore formed in it through which the purging rod reciprocates. The mixing assembly also includes a scraper assembly positioned within the block of material. The scraper assembly includes two cup-shaped members positioned essentially in mirror image with each cup-shaped member including an aperture in its base through which the purging rod extends. An insert is positioned within both of the cup-shaped members and extends between the base of each cup-shaped members. The cup-shaped members and insert are designed to remove material built up on the reciprocating purging rod while keeping the rod aligned and preventing fluid flow through the scraper assembly. The scraper assembly thus alleviates the need for any solvent material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooking food products has first and second sections of thermally conductive moving belt that are pulled over crowned hot plates to cook food product atop of the belt sections. An improved structure of reduced cost keeps the belt sections running true and in direct conductive contact with the hot plates. The improved construction provides for easy disassembly and cleaning without tools. The machine has an improved food roller for making roll-ups, and an improved scraper structure and suspension for removing cooked food from the belt sections. The method and apparatus will make crepes, filled crepes, roll-ups, omelettes, french toast, pancakes, and other cooked foods both from pre-fabricated items and/or liquid batters, with or without fillings.

Abstract: The apparatus for the moving of articles, vessels or of liquid, pasty and/or pourable media has an articulated system with at least six links (1 to 6), each of which is connected to two neighboring links (1 to 6) in each case so as to swivel about axes of articulation (A12 to A61) to form a closed articulated chain. The swivel axes (A12 to A61) of each element (1 to 6) form fixed angles of articulation (W1 to W6). At least one link (2) is connected to an article, the vessel or a means of moving the media.

Abstract: A toaster having a bread holder (17) mounted to slide vertically in the toaster, has a mechanical device (25) for locking and unlocking the bread holder (17). This device (25) enables the holder (17) to be locked in a low position, and a return spring is provided for raising the holder (17). The mechanical device (25) comprises an upper connecting rod (56) articulated with a lower connecting rod (57) by a common articulation (59), an end of the upper connecting rod (56) opposite the common articulation (59) being articulated at a fixed point (58) and an end of the lower connecting rod (57) opposite the common articulation (59) being articulated with the holder (17). An intermediate lever (42) is articulated with the upper connecting rod (56), and a spring (63) acts on the intermediate lever (42) for retaining the holder (17) in the low position. An end of the intermediate lever (42) comprises a tip (24) which is engageable with a retaining catch (45) when the holder (17) is moved into the low position.