Abstract: A component mounting method, and an apparatus therefor, which includes the steps of causing a plurality of suction nozzles, supported for intermittent movement along a predetermined path in synchronism with each other, to receive electric components at a component receiving station and then to transport them towards a component mounting station, and effecting both the rectification of the position of each component in two directions perpendicular to each other and the angle adjustment of the respective component during the successive transportation of the components towards the component mounting station. Both the rectification of the position and the angle adjustment of each component are carried out while the associated suction nozzle is held still at a certain station, and electric characteristics of each component are checked during the rectification.

Abstract: Manufacture of low profile clip connectors characterized by a cap in the form of a planar strip of plastic material provided with plural tapered holes spaced along its length. The cap is loaded into a test clip mold along with a cable/contact sub-assembly with the cap in juxtaposition with the side of the cable opposite the contacts which are soldered to respective conductors of the cable. After the mold is closed, molten plastic material is introduced into the mold cavity to form the balance of a clip body, the molten material flowing up through an insulation removed area of the cable around the soldered junctions and into the tapered holes in the cap which locks the cap to the thusly molded balance forming portion of the clip body. During molding, the cap is used as a back stop for the cable to prevent shifting of the cable as the molten plastic is forced into the mold cavity.

Abstract: A machine tool for supporting a workpiece during the finishing of a plurality of surfaces has a pair of center support means which are coaxially aligned for rotatably supporting a shaft and gear structure. Bearing support surfaces can be simultaenously machined concentric with the axis of the center supports. A gear finishing tool is supported on another axis which is disposed in nonintersecting relation with the axis of the center supports for simultaenously machining a gear surface.

Abstract: A bundle of tubes filled with nuclear fuel is positioned in a machine with the lower end of the bundle adjacent a first rotary cutter which is operated to sever the lower ends of the tubes after which the bundle is moved to a position adjacent a second rotary cutter where the tubes are cut into short lengths by teeth carried by a second rotary cutter.

Abstract: A scroll-type slitting machine of the type having upper and lower arbors, each having a plurality of mating rotary cutting members, a movable housing rotatably supporting ends of the upper and lower arbors, a fixed housing rotatably supporting opposite ends of the upper and lower arbors, and a mechanism for vertically adjusting at least one of the arbors relative to the other, includes the improvement which consists of a pinion stand mounted outboard of and adjacent one of the housings, upper and lower intermeshing, synchronizing gears rotatably mounted within the pinion stand, and upper and lower torque-transmitting couplings extending between and operatively joining the upper and lower synchronizing gears to the upper and lower arbors, respectively, while permitting relative movement between the arbors.

Abstract: A briquet sheet from a briquetting machine is subjected to shearing forces to sever the longitudinal webs of the sheet and subsequently, to bending forces to fracture the remaining transverse webs. The separator apparatus includes a pair of shear rolls with alternate shear lands and smaller diameter idler rolls. The shear rolls are followed by a pair of lobed separator rolls.

Abstract: An attachment for driving pipe wherein a plurality of concentric sleeves having diminishing diameters are arranged in driving engagement with a pipe end with a driving hammer operating to impart a driving force to the pipe, the sleeves being arranged to form a generally concial configuration such that the sleeves are in contact with each other at points which lie along lines of contact intersecting at the axis of the driving hammer to form an acute included angle.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting holes and notches in thermoplastic film by using heated steel rule dies. The dies are set into a heated die block, and scrap passes through the die, and through a hole in the heated die block so pieces of scrap fuse together as they pass through the block. The die block is fixed, and a movable platen urges the film down against the heated dies. A stripper is biased up to strip the film from the dies after cutting, and is resiliently movable down to allow cutting. Air can be directed through the stripper to blow the film up, off the stripper, to prevent melting when the film motion stops. Use of two dies accurately spaced can cut wicket holes and provide accurate cutting to assure proper operation in a bagging machine.