Abstract: Apparatus for installing connectors onto flat conductor cables. An improved installation station including the apparatus includes magazines for supporting a plurality of connector portions and a transport station to sequentially move the includes magazines for supporting a plurality of connector portions and a transport station to sequentially move the connectors from the magazines to the installation station. The installation station includes a surface for retaining cables in a horizontal plane and a press having an avil and ram for coupling connector portions to the cable and to each other. The installation station also includes means to retain connector portions on the ram during the coupling.

Abstract: Apparatus for installing connectors to flat conductor cables comprising an installation station having a platen means for supporting cables in a generally horizontal plane and also having press means for coupling connectors to the cables supported thereat. The apparatus also includes magazines for supporting a plurality of connector portions in a generally vertical orientation and a transport station to sequentially move connector portions from the magazines to the installation station while reorienting them from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation. Also disclosed is the method for carrying out the installation with the above described apparatus.

Abstract: An automatic process and apparatus for producing terminated coaxial cable jumpers. A control system utilizing a microprocessor accepts push button entry of variables such as job identification number, quantity to be produced, jumper length, and jumper configuration. In addition to the control system, the apparatus includes a feed-measure-cut system for introducing raw lengths of jumpers into the process and a conveyor system for transporting the jumpers, in stepped sequence, to a series of work stations which operate on at least one end of each jumper and finally result in completed jumpers. Tests are performed at some of the work stations and those jumpers which fail any of the tests are removed from the process.

Abstract: A method of forming identification markings on a thin walled can, includes the steps:(a) forming the can bottom wall to have outwardly concave shape,(b) providing a punch and forming discrete projections thereon to be separated from one another,(c) and displacing the punch relatively toward the can concave bottom wall to cause the projections to penetrate the wall to depths less than the wall thickness, thereby to form discrete and separate indentations in the can wall, the identations defining at least one recognizable alphanumeric character, and(d) relatively retracting the punch away from the can bottom wall.

Abstract: Apparatus for installing connectors onto flat conductor cables. An improved installation station including the apparatus includes magazines for supporting a plurality of connector portions and a transport station to sequentially move the connectors from the magazines to the installation station. The installation station includes a surface for retaining cables in a horizontal plane and a press having an avil and ram for coupling connector portions to the cable and to each other. The installation station also includes means to retain connector portions on the ram during the coupling.

Abstract: Apparatus for installing connectors onto flat conductor cables including an improved transport station for transporting connectors from a magazine to an installing station supporting a flat conductor cable. The transport means includes rotatable reorientation means to reorient connector portions at the magazines from vertical orientation to horizontal orientations at an intermediate location. The transport station also includes apparatus to retain connector portions on the reorientation means during transportation and also includes pushers to move the connector portions from the intermediate locations to the installation stations.

Abstract: A crimping tool of the type employed in crimping or compressing an article such as an electrical connector which has a substantially fixed jaw which has a surface against which an article is compressed, a ram having a surface for supporting a die and an article, the ram being mounted for movement toward and away from the jaw, and a die holder which is pivotally mounted to the ram to keep the compressing surface of the jaw and the supporting surface of the ram parallel throughout the movement of the ram in the event that the jaw deflects slightly during operation of the tool.

Abstract: Acid cleaning compositions containing an inhibitor for cleaning metal surfaces, processes for cleaning metal surfaces therewith, and concentrates useful in forming the acid cleaning compositions. The present acid cleaning compositions contain an acid, a Mannich base, a thiourea, an alkyl trimethyl ammonium halide and/or an alkyl (C.sub.8 -C.sub.9) phenoxypolyethoxy ethanol, and a nonionic surfactant which is a condensate of poly(oxyethylene) and poly(oxypropylene) groups.

Abstract: A high speed turning tool comprises:(a) a generally cylindrical body having an axially extending bore,(b) multiple cutters at one end of the body and spaced about said axis,(c) each cutter having a front face and a cutting edge which extend in a generally radial axial plane, the cutter edges equally spaced about said axis,(d) each cutter having a back flank which extends at a relatively shallow angle from said edges and into proximity with the front face of the preceeding cutter and therewith define a first chip curl space,(e) there being additional and substantial chip curl space formed by the extension of said back flank into proximity to a body front face extending outwardly relative to said first curl space.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for making electrical connectors and, in one embodiment suitable for use with a multiplicity of parallel planar arrayed, spaced-apart insulated conductors, comprises means for and the steps of retainably positioning the conductor array above the crimp retainer portions of interconnected connector members, inserting the conductors into the connectors, positionally affixing the conductors to the connectors as by crimp means encircling the cable insulation and crimp means enveloping the exposed cable conductors, shearing the strips which interconnect the connector members to each other, and inserting the cables and their associated connectors into an associated connector block.

Abstract: Compositions comprising a mixture of gelatin and a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are each a group selected from the class consisting of --H, --Cl, --CHCl.sub.2, --CH.sub.2 Cl, --CCl.sub.3, --SH, --SCH.sub.3, --NH.sub.2, --NHC.tbd.N, --CH.sub.2 C.tbd.N, ##STR2## --CH.sub.2 OH, --NO.sub.2 and monovalent hydrocarbon radicals having from 1 to about 18 carbon atoms, provide effective corrosion inhibition for aqueous carboxylic acid solutions in the cleaning of metal industrial equipment.

Abstract: Compositions comprising mixtures of a dithiocarbamic acid derivative and a sulfonium compound such as triphenylsulfonium chloride provide effective corrosion inhibition in acid treatment of metal in the presence of a copper complexing agent such as a thiourea.

Abstract: A low profile air jack for lifting vehicles is described, in which the force exerted by a horizontally disposed air cylinder and piston assembly on the lever arm of a lifting member pivoted to the jack frame causes the lifting member to rotate, so that its front end engages and lifts the vehicle. The piston shaft of the air cylinder is connected to the lever arm of the lifting member by a flexible chain and sprocket assembly which acts as a force-multiplying mechanism so that the force acting on the lever arm of the lifting member is approximately double the force which would be exerted if the piston shaft were directly connected to the lever arm by a rigid member. The two flexible chains are connected to a stabilizing bar, which is pivotably attached to the jack frame for both vertical and horizontal movement thereto, rather than directly to the frame, so that equal forces are applied to both chains during the lifting operation.

Abstract: A boat latching device is disclosed for use on boat trailers. The latching device includes an elongated support member and a bow conforming guide member having a spring-loaded latching mechanism mounted thereto. An adjustable or resiliently mounted bow stop member is attached at or near the top of the support member. The entire latching device is mounted at the forward end of a boat trailer so that it can receive and hold an elongated eye fixed to the bow of a boat.