Abstract: Apparatus for applying marking to the outside surface of an outer jacket of a cable assembly including a cable having flat cable sections and sections where the conductors are not held. The apparatus includes a supply station for providing a length of the cable, a take up station for taking up the completed cable assembly, and a driver for moving the cable toward the take up station. The apparatus also includes a flat cable section detector adjacent the supply station for marking a flat cable section with an implant, and an extruder positioned downstream of the flat cable section detector for providing the outer jacket about the cable and the implant. The apparatus further includes an implant detector disposed downstream of the extruder for detecting the passage of the implant, and a printer located between the implant detector and the take up station and which is responsive to the implant detector for marking the location of a flat cable section on the outside surface of the outer jacket.

Abstract: An apparatus for the production of grains using the rolling layer technique. The apparatus has a container formed from multiple concentric sections, a truncated cone shaped lower section, a cylindrical shaped middle section, and, at least one cylindrical shaped upper section, and is supported for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the container. The lower section tapers outward from a lower end face plate to an upper end which communicates with the lower end of the middle section to form a transfer port between the lower and middle sections, while the upper end of the middle section communicates with the holed lower face of the upper section to form a transport port between the upper and the middle sections. An annular ridge-like structure exists on the interior surface of the lower face of the upper section, circumferentially surrounding the transfer port. The cross-sectional diameters and the heights of the sections vary relative to each other.

Abstract: A first distance measurement device for measuring a height of the surface of a substrate with respect to a reference plane of a drawing machine which drawing a pattern on the substrate by issuing paste-like material from a nozzle is mounted on a revolution member rotating about the nozzle, and the first distance measurement device is always positioned in the moving direction of the nozzle and measures a height of the surface of the substrate at a slightly preceding position from the nozzle, on the other band a second distance measurement device substantially measures a height of the nozzle from the reference plane, thus, a position of the nozzle is controlled on the basis of both the measured result, and an interval between the nozzle and the surface of the substrate is kept within a predetermined value.

Abstract: A hydraulic press for simultaneously forming a plurality of pastry crusts under pressure in individual pans. The pans are loaded into a carrier tray, each pan is filled with a pre-portioned quantity of dough and the tray is placed between the upper and lower dies of the hydraulic press. Alignment elements formed on the hydraulic press and the carrier tray align the pans with the dies as the press closes. The resulting pastry crusts are formed with a uniform thickness throughout the crust. If desired and when the dies are so fabricated, crusts with different thicknesses at the bottom, side wall and flange of the crust can be formed. Pressure forming crusts eliminates the need for handling scrap dough which is usually trimmed and recovered in rolled or sheeted crust production.

Abstract: A system for distributing wax or a similar substance in semi-solid form is provided which includes a liquid wax supply system, a wax conditioning system including a heat exchanger which cools the wax to a semi-solid state and an accumulator for storing conditioned wax until needed, and a die press or similar work station which receives semi-solid wax from the accumulator in a continuous stream or flow. Such a system allows a lost wax die press to operate without need to manually open and reload the press with wax. An automated control system according to the invention allows die press reloading to occur automatically when needed, and operates the wax conditioning system as needed to maintain a supply of wax in the accumulator. Wax tunneling problems are avoided by means of a piston disposed in the heat exchanger which is movably interposed between hot liquid wax entering the heat exchanger and cooler, semi-solid wax leaving the heat exchanger.

Abstract: Press tools are used for processing plastics, in particular fiber-reinforced plastics, to moldings in presses. They essentially consist of a lower part which can be firmly connected to the press frame and an upper part which is movable with respect to the said lower part and can be connected to a frame drive. The upper and lower parts of the tool, together with drive elements for driving together parts which define the mold cavity, form a basic unit. The parts are replaceably held in the basic unit and are guided in the said unit.

Abstract: An automated machine for continuously puttying the side edges of a plurality of elongated plywood boards is disclosed. The device includes a laterally adjustable conveyor system for accommodating boards of various widths. Also included are a pair of opposed putty applicator heads for simultaneously applying putty under pressure to both side edges of the plywood boards as the boards pass thereby. Excess putty striking or wiping devices are included for wiping excess putty from the side edges of the boards which is applied by the putty applicator heads. The machine quickly, efficiently and completely putties the side edges of large numbers of plywood boards rapidly and continuously in a mass production operation.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing press includes a vertically movable upper die closable over a lower die, a guide roller mounted on support structure of the upper die, a nearly horizontal roller guide way provided on a rear top portion of a press body, a vertical roller guide groove provided with a notch extending upward of the roller guide way and communicating therewith on the front top portion of the press body at the rear of a vertically intermediate portion thereof, a counter-rotatable crank gear, and a crank arm coupling a crank pin mounted at an eccentric position of the crank gear with the upper die support structure. When the press is operated during normal tire production, the crank gear is rotated in one direction, the crank pin is shifted from a bottom dead point to a top dead point, and movement of the crank pin is transferred to the upper die support structure through the crank arm, thus shifting the guide roller from a lower end portion to an upper end portion of the vertical roller guide groove.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating cores has an endless conveyor operable with discrete intermittent movements between a plurality of preselected positions defined in a predetermined course of the endless conveyor with a preselected dwell period between each of the discrete intermittent movements, respectively. A set of drives for the endless conveyor includes a coupler associated with each drive for engagement with the endless conveyor only during the preselected dwell periods, and means for intermittently moving the drives only when the couplers are engaged with the endless conveyor, respectively.

Abstract: A shaped container of a size suitable having an insert having a face coated with a dry water-soluble dyeing composition and a method of dyeing eggs using said shaped containers and a kit containing various shaped containers, each having therein different dry water-soluble dyeing compositions.

Abstract: This invention discloses an apparatus for the formation of a shaped food product, and the apparatus adopts the helix disc cutters which make their self rotation and orbital revolution and according to the said rotating and revolving movement the passage is formed for opening and closing, wherein more than two kinds of food material are pushed from the extruder, and finally the desirable formation of a shaped food product is obtained after making the most of passage transformations caused by rotation and revolution of two pairs of helix disc cutters.

Abstract: Time periods required for dipping semiconductor wafers in a treatment liquid in a treatment bath and for replacing the treatment liquid etc. are previously stored in a memory. Based on these data, the expected clock time when the semiconductor wafers reach each treatment bath is calculated and the replacement of the treatment liquid and transportation of the wafers are controlled on the basis of these data and the expected clock time.

Abstract: An electrolytic apparatus and a material handling apparatus, including a pair of drive chains oriented to rotate in a substantially vertical plane. One or more product carriers, each including a basket portion, are supported by the chains. As the chains rotate, the product carriers are translated along a path in a substantially vertical plane. One tier of treatment tanks, or two tiers of vertically separated treatment tanks, may be positioned below the drive chains. Workpieces, such as encapsulated electronic components, may be placed within the baskets and translated by the drive chains for sequential immersion in each tank. Sprocket arrays engaged with each drive chain at positions above each tank direct the baskets first upward and then downward over the tank end walls, or over any barriers between the tanks.

Abstract: A process for making filters with a non-bypassing peripheral seal which comprises heating a cylindrical filter housing to expand its internal diameter; inserting a filter disc that has a diameter larger than that of the internal diameter of the housing when cold; and allowing the assembly to cool.

Abstract: An apparatus for the production of photoconductive components for use in electrophotography, including a coating tank that contains a certain amount of coating, the tank having a coating-supply opening, at a lower portion through which the coating is supplied to the tank, and a partition that is positioned between the inner wall of the tank and the outer wall of the electric conductor, whereby when an electric conductor to be coated is immersed in the coating and removed from the coating, occurrence of a turbulent flow of the coating in the vicinity of the electric conductor can be prevented.

Abstract: This publication describes a short-dwell coater for coating a web with coating mix against a rotating backing roll. The coater comprises a support structure, a feeder means adapted to the front lip for feeding the coating mix into an application zone formed between the backing roll and the support structure, and an actual doctor blade, adapted into the support structure to press against the web, with which blade the excess coating mix passing over form the application zone can be removed. According to the invention, a separate predoctoring blade is adapted at a short distance before the actual doctor blade in the machine direction of the web for smoothing out disturbances in the coating mix flow before the mix proceeds up to the actual doctor blade.

Abstract: A plurality of holders, each capable of holding a rod of raw material, and a single handler are equipped within a chamber which is adapted to be evacuated. An operator positions one of the holders at a location where it is opposite to a rotary shaft capable of driving the rod of raw material for rotation at a high speed. The operator then secures the rod held by the holder to the free end of the rotary shaft by handling the holder. A rod of raw material which has become consumed by granulation is separated from the rotary shaft by the handler which is operated by the operator. A fresh holder is then positioned at a location where it is opposite to the rotary shaft, and a rod of raw material which is held thereby is then secured to the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A dual applicator for simultaneously applying a polyurethane adhesive and sealant and a foam dam to a motor vehicle window or windshield and a robot arm capable of translating and/or rotating the applicator relative to the glass. The applicator includes a first nozzle for discharging the polyurethane through a shaped opening which defines a first plane and a second nozzle adjacent to and offset from the first nozzle. The first nozzle discharges polyurethane in a first bead as the applicator or glass is translated and the second nozzle discharges the foamable material in a second bead adjacent to and spaced from the first bead.

Abstract: A machine for applying adhesive wax is provided with a pan for receiving the wax and a pair of rollers defining a bite therebetween through which sheet material may be passed. A lower one of the rollers passes through the adhesive both and transfers adhesive to the back of the sheet material. A heating element, connected to a thermostat, maintains the adhesive bath at a desired temperature. A motor, provided for rotating the rollers is interconnected with the heating elements such that actuation of the motor is inhibited absent actuation of the heating element. Additionally, a thermostatic switch may be interposed in the adhesive bath to prevent actuation of the motor unless the bath has reached a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A press platen, for bonding ends of a conveyor belt, having both heating and cooling means, the heating means being electrical resistance elements positioned in grooves bars, within the platen, which bars also define cooling channels therein.