Abstract: A feed weighing assembly includes an assembly scale, a display screen interfacing with the assembly scale and an insert body carried by the assembly scale and sized and configured for placement in a game feeder.

Abstract: A tooling pin assembly 10 is mounted on a test platen 12 having a planar surface 12b which supports a circuit board 16 under test. The tooling pin assembly 10 includes a locating pin 20 which engages the circuit board 16 to fix the relative position of predetermined test sites on the circuit board 16 and a lid assembly having probes 22 that contact these sites during testing when said circuit board 16 and lid assembly are in correct alignment. Mounting means for the locating pin 20 enables the locating pin to be manually relocated to compensate for minor irregularities of test sites, or in the fixture, or both.

Abstract: A data collection method is provided for use on a computer system including a host processor which is coupled to a plurality of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) via a communications bus. Each PLC is coupled to a respective controlled machine to gather Boolean alarm point information from several alarm points associated with that machine. The alarm point information from all the controlled machines is stored in a random access memories (RAM) in a respective PLC. The alarm points are grouped in memory such that a predetermined number of alarm points are stored in a trigger point register in the RAM. The host scans the trigger point registers of all the PLCs to determine if the value of any trigger point has changed since the last time such trigger point was scanned. If such a change of value in a particular trigger point is found, then the host requests that the value of each alarm point within that particular trigger point be transmitted to the host. An appropriate alarm is then annunciated to the user.

Abstract: A duct to carry air has openings along it and a flexible sheet extending longitudinally within it. The end of the sheet adjacent the point of air intake can be brought against one side of the duct or the other, either to allow air to be blown through the duct along the side thereof in which the holes are located or to force the air to go through the duct along the other side, thereby not being able to emerge from those holes.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for cooling a frozen comestible plasticizer apparatus with a heat exchanger pan over a freezer, protecting the freezer from extraneous matter filling in, while providing a cool circulatable environment to cool the auger and cup of the apparatus to help avoid bacterial growth and minimize the need for cleaning of the apparatus.

Abstract: A comestible processing apparatus employs an auger and receptacle in processing. In order to protect the operator or anyone having access to the apparatus while the auger is moving, a safety door and switch are provided, disenabling the auger when the door is open or until the auger in the receptacle is inaccessible through the door.

Abstract: A high speed weighing machine, for determining the weight of a package "on-the-fly", with respect to a predetermined weight range, as the package travels across a weigh cell weighing platter, incorporates apparatus for interpreting multiple samplings of the weight bearing on the weighing platter for determining the interval during which the package is fully on this weighing platter and for calculating the average weight registered by the weighing platter during that interval wherein three periods are defined for each weighing operation.

Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, wrapping packages of different sizes in thin-gage film and heat sealing the film includes transporting the package at the same horizontal level through the machine, pulling the film down across a horizontal in-line package path to form a vertical wall of film, pushing the article along the path forwardly into the wall of film, forming a tubular loop of film about the package with the loop open at the rearward end, severing the film, closing and sealing the rearward end of the loop, stretching, and/or underfolding the film, and heat sealing the package. The length of film needed to wrap packages of randomly different sizes is sensed and fed automatically. A trailing-end portion of over-lapping film of preselected fixed length, irrespective of the size of the particular package, is provided at the rearward edge of the package. This over-lapping trailing portion is heat sealed and then pushed against the back of, or under, the package.