Abstract: A pressurized bearing seal which uses pressurized air (1) to expand a sealing member which surrounds a shaft supported by the bearing to create a seal between the shaft and bearing, and (2) for an air purge from the bearing along the shaft to prevent intake of foreign particles into the bearing along the shaft. A ring assembly, which is secured to the bearing, surrounds the expandable member and has a conduit formed therein for purging or bleeding pressurized air along the shaft to the atmosphere.

Abstract: Stripping and cutting apparatus in which a pair of disc cutters are affixed on a common rotatable shaft that is pivotably mounted to a rotating head. An object having an inner core member and an outer concentric member, which in the preferred embodiment is insulated conductive tubing, is advanced through a central opening in the head. The speed of the head is controlled so that at one speed the shaft is centripetally pivoted to an inner radial position that causes the closest of the cutters to block the leading end of the object, and so that at another faster speed the shaft is centrifugally pivoted to an outer radial position which removes the particular cutter from the blocking relationship with the leading end of the object thereby allowing the object to be advanced past the remote cutter for a predetermined distance, and so that at another speed, which is less than the last mentioned speed, the shaft is centripetally pivoted inward to provide concurrent cutting of the object by the two disc cutters.