Abstract: The feedwater heater of this invention comprises a plurality of heating tubes arranged in U form, with feedwater being passed therethrough, a feedwater inlet chamber having a feedwater inlet for introducing feedwater thereinto and a tube plate assembling the ends of said heating tubes and also having formed therein a feedwater reservoir, a feedwater outlet chamber having a feedwater outlet for discharging the heated feedwater and a tube plate assembling the other ends of said heating tubes and also having formed therein a feedwater reservoir, a first cylindrical body or shell having disposed therein a tube nest consisting of the U-formed heating tube portions positioned on one side as well as support plates holding said heating tubes in position, said cylindrical body having its one end communicated with said feedwater outlet chamber and also provided with a hot steam inlet for introducing hot steam that serves as the feedwater heating source, a second cylndrical body or shell having disposed therein a tube n

Abstract: Heat exchange apparatus including a toroidal-type radiator having radially extending cooling air passage-ways formed through the core thereof, a rotary fan positioned radially inwardly of the radiator core, and fan shroud means shaped and positioned with respect to the radiator core and the blades of the fan whereby the air stream induced by the fan during operation has a major component in a radial direction.

Abstract: A plurality of parallel tubes in the form of at least a first plurality of parallel tube rows and a second plurality of parallel tube rows are supported by a baffle comprising an outer ring capable of surrounding the tubes and a plurality of parallel rods which form a plurality of parallel chords with the outer ring wherein the rods are capable of passing in the spaces between the tubes forming adjacent parallel tube rows of one plurality of parallel tube rows and wherein the number of rods in the baffle is substantially less than the total number of rods which could be positioned in the spaces between the tube rows in the plurality of parallel tube rows.

Abstract: A method for initiating an in situ combustion operation for heating a well to recover petroleum from a subterranean reservoir in the well comprises lowering an elongated combustion chamber suspended from a hollow electrical cable with an air supply tube therearound which supplies electricity, fuel gas, and air to the combustion chamber, mixing an air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber, and igniting the air-fuel mixture with an ignitor responsive to the thermocouple detecting burning in the combustion chamber for providing an automatic, reliable, and flame-out proof method for initiating heat deep in the well.

Abstract: Recovery of oil from a dipping subterranean oil-bearing reservoir is effected by the injection of a first slug of a light hydrocarbon at a high rate to insure mixing with the reservoir oil adjacent the injection well followed by the injection of a second slug of carbon dioxide at a low rate to form a conditionally miscible transition zone with the altered reservoir oil and thereafter by the injection of a drive agent.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating or forming hydrofluoric acid in a subterranean siliceous formation by combining an injected aqueous solution of a fluoride salt and an injected aqueous acid solution in the pore spaces of the formation. This is accomplished according to this invention by immobilizing one of the aqueous solutions in the pore spaces of the formation by displacing the aqueous solution into the formation with a liquid that is substantially immiscible with the injected aqueous solution, thereby driving said aqueous solution to a saturation at or below its residual saturation. The other aqueous solution is then injected into the formation.

Abstract: A large drop sprinkler head is disclosed including a nozzle, a pair of arms extending outwardly and upwardly from the nozzle and joined at their ends in coaxial alignment with the nozzle. A concave, plate distributor is supported by the arms coaxially with the nozzle. The plate distributor includes a central, cup-like portion and an outwardly, downwardly directed, annular plate. A large drop deflector is disposed within the cup-like portion of the plate distributor. The large drop deflector includes a plurality of equally spaced tines or fingers which extend downwardly towards the nozzle. The plate distributor defines a shoulder and the tines extend generally perpendicular to the plate distributor and beyond the plane of the shoulder.

Abstract: A cultivating implement has an elongated frame portion with a front three point coupling that connects to the three point lift of a conventional tractor. A rear supporting structure for a further implement has spaced apart beams that extend forward to pivots near the lower two points of the front coupling. The structure has interconnected frame beams that are supported on ground wheels and the rear ends of the forwardly extending beams are fixed to vertical frame beams. Rearwardly extending arms are pivoted to the interconnected frame beams and these arms together with coupling plates on an upper tie beam, form a rear three point coupling. The arms are interconnected to the remainder of the structure by adjustable carrier arms. Ground wheels support the structure and a further implement that is connected to the rear coupling.

Abstract: A rotary cultivator has a row of soil working members mounted on upwardly extending shafts that are geared to a driving shaft extending transverse to the direction of travel. The shafts have soil working tools at their lower ends and transmission gears at their upper ends. Intermediate their ends, the shafts are surrounded by bearings in respective housings. The housings can be disconnected from their supports and the shaft, bearings and housing corresponding to each member can be removed or replaced as a unit. Upon removal, transmission gears are disengaged. The supports for the housings can be bars connected to spaced apart beams of the frame to which gear box - bearing housings are fastened by bolts. Alternatively, an enclosed casing can be formed by an assembly of three spaced apart plates that form an upper gear chamber and a lower trough within which the housings are secured. The rims of the plates can be clamped by bolts and the bearing housings bolted to the lower two plates.

Abstract: A cultivating implement has a main frame comprised of beams that support an elongated central frame portion that has rotatable soil working members mounted in a transverse row. At each lateral side of the central portion, an outer elongated frame portion, with a corresponding group of further soil working members, is pivoted. In working position, the outer portions comprise extensions of the central portion so that a broad strip of ground is worked. For transport, the outer portions can be pivoted upwardly by hydraulic assemblies about pivots that interconnect same to the central portion, and the central portion can be raised out of ground contact by further hydraulic assemblies that move rear ground wheels into supporting position. Each of the hydraulic assemblies has a latch that cooperates with a pin to retain the outer portions and ground wheels in transport position. A cable or rope to the operator can pivot and release the latch so that a working position can be assumed.

Abstract: A power tillage device is provided having a passive rolling coulter as the prime mover for a power tillage blade which is carried in the lead of the coulter on a transfer case mounted as a radius arm on the counter shaft. The tillage blade rotates in the opposite direction from the coulter and is designed for optimum efficiency for shearing and lifting soil from a furrow.

Abstract: An implement has one or more rows of tines fixed to frame beams and the lateral sides of the frame have adjustable ground wheels to control the working depths of the tines. A further soil working member is connected at the rear of the frame by parallelogram linkages and a driven eccentric on the further member imparts up and down vibratory movements to that member. Each linkage includes a bracket, the lower front portion of which is pivoted to a rear frame beam and rearwardly extending arms that are pivoted to vertical support arms that carry and move the further member. Above the pivot connection to the frame, the bracket has connection points for a tie arm that extends forward to a leading frame beam. A fixing mechanism interconnects the upper linkage arm with the front of the bracket at two spaced apart locations and springs in the mechanism bias the arm and further member to an equilibrium position.

Abstract: The subject bearing assembly is characterized by bearing structure for axially supporting the disc blade arrangement while simultaneously providing optimum support against the lateral or thrust forces acting upon the disc blade arrangement, i.e., thrust forces normally brought about as the disc blades obliquely attack and prepare the soil. The bearing structure includes a rotatable axle having at least one radial ball-bearing sub-assembly circumposed thereabout for taking the axle load, and at least one thrust ball-bearing sub-assembly circumposed about the rotatable axle and having a pair of lateral races for taking the lateral load. A spacer sleeve member is also incorporated for establishing an optimum non-binding relationship between the lateral races irrespective of lateral compression forces which are developed in frictionally urging the sub-assemblies and the spacer sleeve member together in attaching the disc members to the rotatable axle.

Abstract: A method and means for using nitrogen exhaust gases or gaseous mixtures of combustible products for reduction of oxygen in drilling fluids during the drilling of well bores and which comprises utilizing nitrogen from normally waste exhaust gases or the like, injecting the nitrogen and other gases present into the usual drilling muds for replacing the oxygen contents of the drilling muds with the nitrogen gas, whereby corrosive action of the drilling muds is greatly reduced or substantially eliminated.

Abstract: A roller-type rock bit has a body which fits into a drill hole and is provided with inwardly directed spindles about which cone-shaped cutters revolve. Between each spindle and its cutter is a tapered roller bearing, a flat thrust bearing, and a sleeve-type radial bearing arranged in that order from the large end of the cutter. The raceways of the tapered roller bearing converge toward the small end of the cutter, and that bearing is unitized by a thrust rib located on the spindle opposite the small ends of the rollers and a rib ring which fits into the cutter opposite the large diameter ends of the rollers. Thus, a major portion of the radial load encountered in drilling is taken by the tapered roller bearing, as well as a significant portion of the thrust load, with both of those loads being transferred between the raceways generally transversely through the tapered rollers.

Abstract: A machine for cutting up lumps of crude rubber (synthetic or natural) and weighing out an accurate quantity to be fed to a mixer in accordance with a selected formula, comprising two band saws having special blades with teeth having no "set" and lying entirely within the plane of the blades; crude rubber blocks are fed to a first of two band saws on two conveyor belts which pass one to either side thereof, one of the two conveyors being laterally displaceable and able to convey one of the portions into which the block of crude rubber is cut by the first band saw to be cut by the second band saw, the lateral position to which this portion is conveyed determining the relative size and therefore weight of the two pieces into which this portion is cut; all the cut portions and pieces are fed to an output conveyor which feeds them selectively to a hopper under the control of an automatic weighing machine.

Abstract: A single weighing pan of a top-loading balance is mounted on a vertically movable carrier spindle which transmits the weight of the pan and of a load thereon to an electromechanical transducer. Shock damage to the transducer is prevented by two superposed, star-shaped leaf springs connecting the pan to the spindle and jointly with the spindle, constituting a parallelogram linkage which prevents tilting of the pan under an eccentric load.

Abstract: A power divider system with governed speed control wherein a first power path and a second power path are formed by a differential-like power divider. A control system associated with the two power paths senses and controls the speed relationship thereof. The speed of an output element of the second power path is determined and then governed to a predetermined value by modulated transfer of power from the second power path to the first power path. The speed of an output element of the first power path is limited relative to the output element of the second power path by the transfer of power from the first power path to the second power path through a one-way drive system. A power transfer mechanism for governing the second power path to the predetermined speed provides fail-safe operation.

Abstract: A vehicle brake control system includes a brake having an engaged position and a disengaged position, a seat having an element movable between a first position corresponding to an occupied seat and a second position corresponding to an unoccupied seat, a control system connected to the brake for selectively operating the brake in the engaged and disengaged positions and being responsive to movement of the element to the second position for automatically placing the brake in the engaged position, and a brake actuating assembly having a control member movable between a brake engaged position and a brake disengaged position, the brake actuating assembly connected to the control system and being of a construction sufficient for automatically moving the control member to the brake engaged position in response to movement of the element to the second position.

Abstract: A vehicle power steering system which effects steering with a pair of fluid actuated cylinders, one cylinder being operatively connected to each steerable wheel. Each cylinder is normally powered independently of the other cylinder so that both cylinders steer the vehicle. A pressurized fluid flow from a single source is divided for parallel flow along companion fluid flow paths to the indivdual cylinders. In response to a pre-determined pressure decrease sensed in one of those fluid flow paths a pressure responsive fluid diverter automatically diverts fluid flow from the reduced pressure flow path to the companion path so that all pressurized fluid in the system is then utilized to power one of the cylinders.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for seismic exploration. It consists in simultaneously emitting disturbances from a plurality of sources S1 . . . Sn immersed at various depths and positions chosen so as to maximize the power transmitted vertically and to minimize the power transmitted in certain determined oblique directions. The reflected or refracted seismic signals are gathered by hydrophones. By this means certain parasitic refractions are eliminated.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system for the passenger compartment of a vehicle, such as an automobile, is disclosed. The system has at least two loudspeakers arranged on opposite sides of the passenger compartment in the end regions of a rigid, hollow support element which is closed on all sides and extends across substantially the entire width of the passenger compartment. This hollow support element is at least partially filled with sound absorbing material.

Abstract: A suction air muffler having a muffler case connected to the air cleaner, wherein a suction pipe connected at one end to the air inlet port formed in the muffler case extends through the muffler case. Air drawn by suction into the suction pipe passes through the muffler case before being delivered to the air cleaner, so that the noise produced by the air drawn by suction into the suction pipe of a motorcycle can be minimized.

Abstract: An absorption muffler for flowing gases and particularly for exhaust gases from internal combustion engines comprises a housing which is of oblong shape and has spaced apart semicylindrical short side walls, with long side walls on each side which are synclinally drawn in the middle thereof. Parallel inlet and outlet pipes are connected into the front wall and extend substantially up to the rear wall, and they are located in substantially parallel relationship centered within the respective short side wall semicylindrical portions. An inlet channel is defined on the interior of the housing which extends in a helical curve around the inlet pipe, which in one embodiment has a single convolution and in another embodiment has a plurality of convolutions. This inlet channel connects to a similarly constructed outlet channel designed around the outlet pipe through an obliquely extending connecting channel. The inlet channel comprises either a single convolution or a plurality of convolutions.

Abstract: In a speed control system of elevator, a first speed pattern being an integration of an acceleration pattern and a second speed pattern decreasing at a constant speed for the remaining distance till the stoppage point, are set up. The car is operated in accordance with the first speed pattern. When the car reaches the decelerating point, the car is operated in accordance with the first speed pattern before the first and second speed patterns are not coincident, and then in accordance with the second speed pattern after they are coincident. A comparator is provided to detect the difference between the first and second speed patterns. When the car reaches the deceleration point, the acceleration pattern is successively reduced stepwisely in accordance with the output of the comparator. The reducing of the acceleration pattern is integrated and the result of the integration is used as the first speed pattern.

Abstract: A bicycle wheel rim brake comprises a pair of extensible and retractable brake members mounted in bicycle frame members which straddle the wheel rim. Each brake member is symmetrical about the longitudinal axis of its frame member and is slidably mounted in an opening formed in a support for movements toward and away from the rim. A cover is carried by each support and overlies the associated opening. Springs acting between the covers and the brake members bias the latter away from the rim and hold the covers in place.

Abstract: A clasp brake rigging is provided with an axially acting brake regulator coupled between a pivotable control lever and a rigging pull rod opposite the dead brake lever. The control lever at an intermediate position is coupled by an adjustable length link to the live brake lever at the coupling position with its brake block assembly.

Abstract: A sliding guide arrangement to permit a brake caliper to slide relative to a fixed brake carrier. The arrangement includes a first pair of sliding guide members on one side of the brake disc axis and a second pair of sliding guide members on the other side of the brake disc axis. Each pair of guide members include caliper guide surfaces and brake carrier guide surfaces. The caliper guide surfaces are provided by surfaces of a rib portion or groove formed therein and the brake carrier guide surfaces are provided by prismatic pilots engaging the caliper groove. A spring is provided in contact with the carrier and the brake cylinder carried by the caliper to keep the guiding surfaces of the caliper and brake carrier in abutment with each other.

Abstract: In a building structure with a partition having an opening, a log dispenser includes coacting interior and exterior log boxes having a common inclined floor which forms the base of the opening. The interior box includes a vertical wall or log stop at the inner extremity of the inclined floor spaced from the partition. The exterior box includes enclosing end walls and a side wall, and a suitable closure cover. The exterior box also includes horizontal shelf means providing an inclined surface above the partition opening for guiding logs away from the partition towards the side wall and onto the inclined floor. A vertically sliding closure door is guided for movement at the exterior side of the partition. Door operator means include a bell crank mounted within the partition opening including a journal shaft, a lifting arm adjacent to the door, and a handle arm disposed at the inner face of the partition. The lifting arm is pivotally connected to the door by means of a suitable link.

Abstract: An improved fully mechanized sawmill is provided which is composed of structurally independent modules which are removably mounted on a platform composed of a plurality of side-by-side longerons supported horizontally on files of spaced-apart vertical piers and columns. The longerons provide horizontal stress support for the platform along the files of piers and columns perpendicularly to the cutting axis of the sawmill, and the modules mounted thereon provide horizontal stress support for the platform along the ranks of the piers and columns parallel to the cutting axis. In addition, improved mechanisms and techniques are provided for handling and selecting the sawlogs to be cut, for selecting and distributing the pieces cut therefrom according to shape and utility, and for stacking and handling the distributed pieces at preselected locations according to shape and utility.

Abstract: The embodiment of the invention disclosed herein is directed to a bread vending machine used for storing, displaying and selectively dispensing a plurality of packaged food articles, such as bread. The vending apparatus includes a housing structure having side, top, bottom and rear wall portions which are arranged to be constructed and assembled at a site where it is used as a floor mounting unit. The vending apparatus includes a plurality of discrete spaced apart compartments formed therein, and wherein each compartment is sized and configurated to receive packaged food articles substantially in the size and configuration of a loaf of bread. The vending apparatus further includes a corresponding plurality of discrete spaced apart hinged door members which form substantially entirely the front wall of the vending apparatus, and which door members each includes its own individual coin receiving and door lock release mechanism.

Abstract: In making electrically asymmetrical semiconductor devices, it is generally necessary to orient all of the devices into a common polarity at some point in the manufacturing operation. To accomplish this, a magnetic turning chute receives those devices which do not have the desired common polarity and turns them into the common polarity. A helical magnetic field is established in the turning chute by arranging strip magnets into vertical helices around a cylinder. As the devices, which have magnetic properties, progress through the helical field, they are turned by the magnetic force. Further turning impetus is provided by nonmagnetic helical tracks disposed to coincide with the helical magnetic field so that the leads of the devices can slide along the tracks while they move through the chute. Air jets may be used to assist in forcing the devices through the apparatus.

Abstract: An improved fully mechanized sawmill is provided which is composed of structurally independent modules which are removably mounted on a platform composed of a plurality of side-by-side longerons supported horizontally on files of spaced-apart vertical piers and columns. The longerons provide horizontal stress support for the platform along the files of piers and columns perpendicularly to the cutting axis of the sawmill, and the modules mounted thereon provide horizontal stress support for the platform along the ranks of the piers and columns parallel to the cutting axis. In addition, improved mechanisms and techniques are provided for handling and selecting the sawlogs to be cut, for selecting and distributing the pieces cut therefrom according to shape and utility, and for stacking and handling the distributed pieces at preselected locations according to shape and utility. In particular, there is provided at least two hollow slotted pull-off arms containing therein a pneumatic cylinder.

Abstract: A feed-in can conveyor receives a bank of multiple rows of cans from a first work station, such as a can washing apparatus, and conveys them in inverted position, that is, with the open ends of the cans facing down and the closed bottom ends facing up, under a perforated endless can-carrying and can-uprighting conveyor belt which works over the peripheral surface of a rotary foraminous metal cylinder or drum.

Abstract: A retainer arrangement for a stationary shaft, rod or the like for retaining the shaft against upward movement in an upwardly open recess or slot of a support bracket, and the combination of the retainer with the shaft and with the support bracket. The retainer arrangement comprises a retention spring clip which encircles a substantial portion, such as 270.degree., of the shaft periphery contiguous the supported end of the shaft. The upper portion of the retention spring clip is formed to include opposite laterally spaced axially extending lugs which are adapted to snap each into a corresponding retention groove carried by the respective opposite recess-bounding walls of the support bracket when the shaft is seated in the upwardly open recess or slot of the support bracket.

Abstract: A mechanism for opening and shutting hinged doors, having special utility for discharge doors on silage elevators remotely operable by control ropes, which mechanism is firmly held in both open or closed position by gravity force holding the mechanism against a stop element which employ a door operating pulley, to one side of which is attached a control arm to open and close the door. The pulley is caused to rotate slightly past the point where said control arm is at its uppermost position when the door is opened and lowermost position when the door is closed and the stop means on said pulley prevents further rotation so that the door is held both open and shut by the force of gravity thereon.

Abstract: A match which is difficult for young children to ignite utilizes a protective coating on the tip of a match head which prevents ignition of the sulfur and potassium chlorate-containing mixture when an attempt is made to strike the match in the usual manner with its stem substantially perpendicular to the friction surface of the matchbook. The protective coating requires a special manipulation of the match whereby its stem is disposed at an angle preferably less than about forty degrees with respect to the friction surface so that the unprotected side of the match head can rub against the friction and ignite the match.

Abstract: There is disclosed a carrier for a multiplicity of articles such as boxes, cans or other containers and comprising a flattened tube of plastic sheet material which is transversely slit partially therethrough at successive locations to present successive sections thereof to be unfolded to provide interconnected annular sections or rings for encircling the articles.

Abstract: A reusable carrier for cans which comprises a thin sheet of resilient plastics material with can-receiving frusto-conical openings having wide bottom ends and narrow upper ends permitting machine application of the carrier onto the cans by a single press-on operation.

Abstract: An upwardly open box is provided with an inset cover of substantial thickness perforated by a plurality of orifices adapted in size and spacing to the reception and retention of artist's crayons. The peripheral wall of the box, generally rectangular in plan, extends above the upper surface of the inset cover and protects the protruding ends of the crayons against breakage. The vertical location of the cover within the box is variable to accommodate to the changing length of the crayons with wear, by manually adjustable means including projections and recesses for removably securing the inset cover or holder plate in selected vertical positions relative to the box.

Abstract: A two pocket rock bolt resin package containing, in one pocket, a polyester together with sodium bicarbonate and calcium carbonate and, in a second pocket, a curing agent, water and a weak acid.

Abstract: A mixing capsule for mixing a first material with a second material (e.g. to prepare a dental silver amalgam) comprises a pair of tubular housing sections removably attached to each other and defining between them a first chamber for receiving the first material to be mixed. The second housing section includes a partition integrally joined to its inner surface by a thin connecting web, and a tubular neck above the partition. A plunger is disposed in the neck of the second housing section, the lower face of the plunger defining with the partition a second chamber for receiving the second material to be mixed, the plunger being depressable to cause the partition to be severed along its connecting web from the inner surface of the second housing section and thereby to cause the material in the second chamber to drop into and mix with that in the first chamber.

Abstract: A disposable thermometer sheath package contains a sheath to provide a sterile barrier during temperature taking with a clinical thermometer. The sheath package comprises inner strips in which the sheath is formed by a tear seal and outer cover strips. All four strips of the sheath are sealed together in the tab portion thereof along the edges of a tab portion to make the tab portion into a pocket leading to the mouth of the sheath. Additional flat seals are formed between all four strips within the tear seal to provide a restriction within the sheath in order to cause the sheath to turn inside out upon a thermometer being withdrawn. A die is provided to simultaneously make the tear seal and the flat seals. The die surfaces of the flat seal forming portions of the die are offset from the die surface of the tear seal forming portion to permit the tear seal forming portion to sink sufficiently far into the sandwich of strips of the sheath package to properly form the tear seal.

Abstract: A package with a stretchable tear element for opening the package. In a preferred embodiment the tear element extends over a packaged article and beneath a covering plastic film formed over the article to secure the article to a supporting panel. The tear element is capable of stretching sufficiently, when the plastic film is drawn down in a softened condition over the product to form the package, so that the film can conform itself and the tear element substantially to the shape of the product and any tendency of the film to form a tent across an initial span of the tear element is minimized. The tear element further stretches, in part within the package, when one end is pulled back across the film so that a portion of the element moves past the film at the exit point, producing a slicing or sawing action, while at the same time it remains essentially anchored at the opposite end. The panel is preferably foldable to form a box.

Abstract: A method, system, and attachment for sorting articles, such as laundry or the like whereby each article includes as a part thereof a quantity of each of a number of different materials of the type which each produce secondary radiation at a characteristic energy level when x-ray, gamma or other radiation impinges thereon, the combination of materials forming a code uniquely identifing the article. Each article is passed through a pneumatic tube or on a conveyor line substantially one at a time past a source of radiation and a multi-channel energy level detector which produces an electrical output signal indicating the article, and also indicating when two or more combination codes are being simultaneously passed. The articles are then diverted in accordance with the electrical signal.

Abstract: This invention relates to the inspection of glass ampules to determine whether or not a complete score line is present. A laser beam is directed to the point on the ampule where a score line would be located. The laser beam is reflected in a diffuse or specular fashion depending upon whether or not a score line is present. By detecting the amount of light which is diffusely reflected in a particular direction, determination of the presence of a score line is possible. The same inspection may be utilized to determine whether the constriction on an ampule is of the proper diameter.

Abstract: A system is described for receiving mixed mail pieces, for singulating the machinable mail including flats, and for culling all of the pieces into respective discrete categories for further processing. The system is characterized by an inherent freedom from jams and consequent mail damage and features a recycle loop which provides a continuous, substantially uniform output of machinable mail.

Abstract: A can sorting apparatus is described for processing over 600 filled metal cans per minute. An infeed conveyor moves alongside a main conveyor in which the main conveyor is moving at a speed greater than the infeed conveyor. A transverse diverter directs the moving cans from the infeed conveyor to the main conveyor causing the cans to be automatically spaced as they move from the infeed conveyor to the main conveyor. The cans move past a sensing station to individually identify the cans and determine which cans are to be separated from the others. An overhead separating conveyor extends across the main conveyor at a separating station. An overhead electromagnet is positioned at the separating station to selectively lift a can from the main conveyor and bias the can upward against the lower flight of the overhead conveyor. The overhead conveyor then directs the lifted can transversely from the single line of filled cans to perform the separation of the cans.

Abstract: A wall mounted rack for storing a bicycle or the like comprising a horizontal bracket mountable to said wall and being just wider than the tire of the bicycle to be stored, a rail perpendicular to said bracket mountable to said wall, a slide that can be adjusted along the vertical length of the rail, and a hook for suspending the bicycle with the wheels thereof placed upon the horizontal bracket hinged to said slide.

Abstract: An improved showcase which facilitates arraying and displaying goods on the shelves and base thereof. An inclined surface is formed on each shelf or base and a movable goods display member that is movable rearward and forward on each shelf is placed on each inclined shelf surface. In one preferred embodiment, the surface of the shelf or the base itself forms the inclined surface. In a modified embodiment, an auxiliary member having an inclined top surface inclined is mounted on the shelf or the base of the showcase and the movable goods display member is placed on the inclined top surface of the auxiliary member.