Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of substrates with fluidized material in repetitive patterns during application cycles. The treatment patterns made with this invention can be altered by changing machine operating parameters. The patterns of fluidized material are applied to substrates using intermittent charges of compressed air. The intermittent charges of compressed air pass through a venturi slot which creates a region of low pressure in the charges adjacent to a region where the fluidized material accumulates between application cycles. This region of low pressure helps to entrain the fluidized material in the charge of compressed air. After the fluidized material is entrained in the charge of compressed air, the charge deposits the fluidized material on the substrate.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for sorting and transporting cylindrical articles from a jumbled mass into a continuous stream of uniformly spaced articles aligned end-to-end. The methods include the steps of sorting, spacing and incorporating the spaced apart articles into component assemblies. The invention apparatus comprises a bowl feeder, a series of frictional, suction and lugged belt conveyors and a plurality of vacuum transfer and assembly drums. The apparatus includes a plurality of sensors, a control system and transmission systems for regulating the sorting and transfer of the articles, for synchronizing transfer of the articles between apparatus subsystems, and for incorporating the articles into component assemblies.

Abstract: A valve construction and method of making the same are provided, the valve construction comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet and a valve seat adapted to be interconnected to the inlet and the outlet, a movable valve member carried by the housing and being operatively associated with the valve seat to control fluid flow therethrough from the inlet to the outlet, and a stepper motor carried by the housing and being operatively interconnected to the movable valve member to move the movable valve member relative to the valve seat to control the fluid flow through the valve seat, the movable valve member comprising a flexible part for sealing closed the valve seat when the stepper motor moves the flexible part against the valve seat and a throttlling part extending beyond the flexible part and into the valve seat to throttle the fluid flow therebetween when the stepper motor has moved the flexible part away from the valve seat and the throttling part has a portion thereof disposed in the valve seat.

Abstract: A torquemeter apparatus for use in measuring torque in a drive having a drive member and a driven member. The apparatus includes a signal transfer device and a torque sensing device connected to the signal transfer device. The driven member is journaled to the drive member by bearings. The torque sensing device is mounted to the drive member through a drive member extension outboard of the bearings. A flexible coupling is provided for transmitting driving force from the drive member outboard of the torque sensing device to the driven member, permitting substantially only torque forces acting coaxially on the drive member to be transferred from the driven member to the torque sensing device.

Abstract: A rotary transformer such as for use in a torque-meter structure arranged to have reduced cross talk between the excitation and signal transformer portions, and to have improved durability. In the illustrated embodiment, the air gaps of the transformer section are disposed outboard relative to each other, with the U-shaped cores opening away from each other toward outboard support bearings to provide a circuitous flux path and thereby reduce cross talk between the transformer sections. A two-piece housing structure minimizes dimensional errors in manufacture. The rotor support has a large axial mounting contact for improved accuracy and stability as a result of the short length of the core housing the improved structural arrangement.

Abstract: An atomizing nozzle particularly suited for your use in compact combustion chambers. Successful combustion of liquid fuels having generally high viscosity and widely varying properties such as distillation temperatures, distillation rates and impurities, including "heavy" and waste oil. Improved combustion is accomplished through the use of viscosity control and improved fuel atomization. Use of a nozzle utilizing "shearing" of the fuel by an atomizing fluid stream which intersects the fuel at approximately right angles. Recombination of liquid fuel particles is prevented by the use of a controlled "exit orifice" in the burner nozzle. The nozzle also features continuous circulation of the fuel in the nozzle body which establishes orientation of impurities contained in the fuel relative to the exit orifice so that they are expelled through the orifice. Combustion of conventional distillate fuel oil such as API No. 1 and 2 is also provided.

Abstract: An atomizing nozzle particularly suited for your use in compact combustion chambers. Successful combustion of liquid fuels having generally high viscosity and widely varying properties such as distillation temperatures, distillation rates and impurities, including "heavy" and waste oil. Improved combustion is accomplished through the use of viscosity control and improved fuel atomization. Use of a nozzle utilizing "shearing" of the fuel by an atomizing fluid stream which intersects the fuel at approximately right angles. Recombination of liquid fuel particles is prevented by the use of a controlled "exit orifice" in the burner nozzle. The nozzle also features continuous circulation of the fuel in the nozzle body which establishes orientation of impurities contained in the fuel relative to the exit orifice so that they are expelled through the orifice. Combustion of conventional distillate fuel oil such as API No. 1 and 2 is also provided.