Abstract: A bottle filling and closing machine and a bottle labeling machine are mounted on opposite sides of a bottle conveyor line close enough together so that both machines can be operated by a single operator. The filling and closing machine, the labeling machine, and the conveyor means extending therebetween are normally driven in synchronism by a common motor. A clutch is included in the drive means for the labeling machine to enable it to be disconnected from the filling and closing machine, and an auxiliary drive motor is coupled to the labeling machine to enable it to be driven independently of the filling and closing machine. The conveyor means extending between the two machines can comprise conveyor star wheels or conveyor worms.

Abstract: A method of mechanically packing a slaughtered bird, including poultry, comprising opening an inlet of an envelope resting on a support, pushing a bird resting with stretched legs on a support into the envelope by exercising a force on the body of the bird, then pressing the legs upwardly to locate the legs in a folded position on both sides of the body and thereafter sealing the envelope.

Abstract: An improved transfer device for transferring soft cake-shaped products, and soap cakes in particular, from one conveyor to another conveyor, which device comprises a sliding member reciprocatingly moved along a horizontal guide parallel to said one conveyor, and an oscillating arm associated to said sliding member to cause a vertical and reciprocating movement of sucker means carried by said sliding member. A locking device is provided for locking said oscillating arm in its upwardly directed position when sensing means, positioned near the drawing area of said one conveyor, detects an irregular sequence of products. An intercepting bar means, positioned at the end of said one conveyor and near said drawing area, is cyclically moved from an intercepting to a disengaging position, and viceversa, to intercept the irregularly supplied products and to hold them in the sucker means drawing area so as to be correctly sucked by said sucker means during the next machine cycle.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically manufacturing cupped food materials such as cupcakes, in which food material is filled in a cup which is formed from a blank cut out from a strip of sheet and pressed between a moulding female member and a moulding male member. The male member has a hollow portion extending through the center thereof and through which food material is ejected into the cup.

Abstract: The specification discloses a saddle girth in which a webbing member is formed into a loop by joining the ends together. A pair of girth buckles are attached to the loop along with buckle overlap and padding members to form a high strength saddle girth.

Abstract: An arrangement of parallel fingers within the head of a cotton stripper is twisted in response to the operation of a pair of supporting cylinders disposed between the head and a vehicle frame to which the head is pivotably mounted to vary the heights of the opposite ends of the arrangement of parallel fingers in response to height sensors mounted at the opposite ends. The parallel fingers are mounted on an elongated tubular structure which extends between and is attached to the opposite ends of the head and which twists in response to the action of the cylinders and the weight of the head to twist the normally planar arrangement of parallel fingers. Transversely mounted stalk walker and feeder shafts in the region of the fingers are journaled in universal bearings at the opposite ends of the head to permit distortion of the head and twisting of the arrangement of parallel fingers.

Abstract: A tomato harvester supported on a draft propelled chassis and having a pair of header conveyors to simultaneously harvest two adjacent crop rows. The chassis is supported on wheels so spaced relative to one another that they may travel between the crop rows and an adjustable draft tongue enables a draft vehicle for the harvester to be positioned in aligned spanning relationship to a crop row ahead of the harvester. During harvesting, the crop, including the vines therefor, is lifted by the harvester and conveyed longitudinally over its length. A shaker conveyor having means to continuously vary the ratio of conveyor speed to oscillation rate subjects harvested vines to shaking to break attached tomatoes away from the vines. A separator is provided to separate loose tomatoes and dirt clods from the vines in advance of the shaker conveyor. Collecting conveyors collect loose tomatoes and dirt clods and preliminarily separate dirt clods from the tomatoes.

Abstract: A safety blade for a rotary mower along with a rotary mower is provided in which the rotary mower has a blade housing with an annular band mounted for rotation therein. The annular band has teeth encircling the edge and is connected to the drive shaft by supporting cross members. The annular band may extend vertically when attached to a mower, or may be angled inward towards the center; and may have a fixed or removable annular blade portion. The cross support members may have features for removing grass, and the mower housing may have an opening for the ejection of grass from the sides or the top of the housing.

Abstract: The supplied strand is provided with a permanent twist due to the rotating balloon and a superimposed false twist due to a false twist device prior to winding onto the bobbin package. Prior to winding on the package, the false twist is eliminated so that the resultant roving has relatively high breaking strength for handling purposes while remaining draftable.The false twist device is located between the delivery rolls and spindle to rotate coaxially around the spindle and may be driven by the balloon or by a positive drive.

Abstract: An air jet nozzle to entangle the filaments of at least a pair of multifilament yarns passing therethrough. Air is supplied substantially perpendicular to the yarn passing through the jet and an air deflector is employed on the entrance side of the jet to prevent the supplied air from blowing residue from the yarn into the yarn break detector switches.

Abstract: An electronic watch having an alarm means which produces alarm by sound or color phase when a time count coincides with an alarm setting time. A display device displays for selected alarm channels whether an alarm time is memorized or not, and the watch includes circuitry display setting times when a channel is selected and simultaneously to operate the channel displaying in a turn-on and off lighting mode of operation.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece adapted to perform time correction in response to a train of time correction pulses transmitted from another electronic timepiece. The electronic timepiece comprises a detecting means to detect the train of time correction pulses; a writing-in signal generator circuit to generate writing-in signals in synchronism with a synchronizing signal contained in the train of time correction pulses, and a writing-in gate circuit means to perform writing-in of the train of time correction pulses into a timekeeping circuit of the timepiece as new current time data in response to the writing-in signals.

Abstract: A chain net with at least one nodal point formed by a horizontally arranged chain lock and at least three vertical links connected to each other by a C-shaped basic body of the chain lock, which is closed by a locking element, at least one end of which forms a stop for a horizontal link, the basic body being provided with further stops preventing the vertical links from moving into the area of the locking element.

Abstract: A dual cycle turbine system is presented which includes a combination of two engines with different cycle pressure ratios. The two engines are cross connected by a common regenerator that enables low specific fuel consumption under partial load conditions.

Abstract: An auxiliary gas turbine in an aircraft is driven by adding dimethyl-hydrazine to Kerosine and producing propellant gas by adding HNO.sub.3 or N.sub.2 O.sub.4 as oxidizer. Additional Kerosine is injected into the resulting gas for matching the gas constant of that gas to the gas constant of regular combustion gas which normally drives the turbine.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine which includes one of a radial compressor or a combined axial-radial compressor, a reversing annular combustion chamber, a compressor drive turbine and a gas generator rotor. The gas generator rotor is rotatably mounted in the gas turbine engine by way of at least one movable bearing and a fixed bearing. A bearing spider is provided for the fixed bearing and is disposed behind the radial compressor and in front of the compressor drive turbine. The bearing spider is designed with a box construction so as to resist axial forces.

Abstract: A thrust reverser nozzle for coaxial-flow turbofan engines comprising target-type deflector doors which are hinged for deployment about a fixed axis by means of actuation about single fixed pivots mounted on support structure on either side of the engine nacelle rearward portion. The deflector door's outer surfaces are shaped to match existing aerodynamic contours of the aircraft engine nacelle so as to provide a lower boattail angle for improved drag characteristics in the stowed or normal flight position. In that position, the deflector door interior configuration comprises a portion upstream of the engine exhaust nozzle exit plane and a downstream "fishmouth" portion through which flows hot engine exhaust gases surrounded circumferentially by cool air discharged from the engine fan.

Abstract: A jet engine cowl includes a thrust reverser in which a cowl portion is movable to open a gap in the flow duct wall. The movable cowl portion is further divided, to enable one portion to be moved faster than its complementary portion. The difference in speed of movement provides a drive face to pivot blocker flaps across the flow duct.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided with a long nacelle which forms both the inlet and exhaust of the engine. The nacelle is spaced apart from a core engine to define an annular bypass duct therebetween. The incoming air stream is pressurized by a front fan disposed in the inlet and then divided between the core engine and bypass duct. A lobed mixer device is provided downstream of the core engine to intermix the core engine and bypass duct exhaust streams. The mixed streams are discharged from a common nozzle formed at the downstream end of the nacelle. A non-redundant system of mounts are provided to secure the engine to the pylon of an aircraft in such a manner as to reduce engine thrust induced bending loads and insure symmetry of these thrust loads. The total reaction of the thrust loads at the mounting points is reduced by a unique interlocking system by which all of the major engine assemblies are joined.

Abstract: An engine exhaust gas purification system having an exhaust gas reactor mounted on the engine exhaust pipe, a secondary air supply system having a secondary air supply passage connected to the exhaust pipe upstream of the reactor, and an exhaust gas air-fuel ratio detector mounted on the exhaust pipe to detect air-fuel ratio of exhaust gases in the exhaust pipe. A secondary air supply control valve is provided in the secondary air supply passage and controlled by a valve actuator having a diaphragm to which positive pressure of the secondary air and the engine intake vacuum pressure can be applied. The application of the positive and vacuum pressures to the diaphragm is controlled by solenoid valves which are controlled in accordance with the air-fuel detector output voltage which represents the detected exhaust gas air-fuel ratio, whereby the secondary air supply control valve is controlled such that the secondary air is supplied to the engine exhaust gases at a continuously controlled, variable rate.

Abstract: A part of the exhaust gases from an engine proper is fed into an intake manifold via an insulated space which is formed between an inner shell defining therein an exhaust gas passage through which the exhaust gases from the engine proper pass before discharging into the open air, and an outer shell spacedly but substantially covering the inner shell.

Abstract: A secondary air supply control system including: an air cleaner; an air pump connected to the air cleaner; a valve having a first chamber and a second chamber, which are separated by a diaphragm and communicated with each other through a first orifice, and controlling the supply of secondary air from the air pump to an exhaust manifold, in response to deflection of the diaphragm; and a passage connecting the second chamber to an intake manifold in a position downstream of a throttle valve in a carburetor and having a second orifice. In addition, a check valve which allows the flow of the secondary air only in the direction towards the exhaust manifold is provided in a passage interconnecting the valve and the exhaust manifold. In this system, an open cross-sectional area of the first orifice is smaller than that of the second orifice provided in the aforesaid passage.

Abstract: A relief pressure control valve for controlling the pressure in a secondary air supply line has first and second pressure chambers divided by a diaphragm, a spring for biasing the diaphragm towards the second pressure chamber, a relief port connected to the secondary air supply line, a valve head connected to the diaphragm and being biased to close the relief port.The air pumped out from an air pump is supplied to the first pressure chamber and the first pressure chamber is communicated with the second pressure chamber through an orifice. Accordingly, during stable running operations of the engine, the pressures in the first and second pressure chambers are made equal by means of the orifice, while during the accelerations pressure difference is produced between the chambers for a certain time period.

Abstract: A hydraulic system including a pressure and flow compensated pump, a source of pilot fluid under pressure, a plurality of hydraulic circuits each including a work performing device, a plurality of controls, one for each circuit, each including a pilot operated flow valve for connecting the associated work performing device to the pump and an operator positioned valve connected to the pilot source for selectively directing pilot fluid to the corresponding flow valve, the work performing devices and the flow valves being connected in parallel.

Abstract: Two turbine engines are connected to a common gear box to drive a common load, such as a helicopter rotor, and circuitry is provided for controlling the two mechanically intercoupled engines in order to provide: (1) individual temperature shutoff for the engines, (2) limitation on the maximum total torque supplied by the two engines to avoid exceeding the power handling capability of the gear box for the associated load, (3) speed control for the engines, and (4) substantially equal sharing of the torque load by the two engines. By suitably combining the signals which require analysis, and supplying a single properly conditioned signal to the fuel control unit of each engine, tight control without oscillation or cycling may be achieved. Notch filtering to avoid reinforcement of mechanical resonances, and a variable response characteristic depending on the magnitude of the error signal may be included in the circuitry.

Abstract: A scissored sea-floor well template for positioning spacing of subsea wells or piling in the sea floor. Two arms, each having a pontoon template at each end thereof, are pivotally connected. The two arms are rotated about the pivot to a closed position for transportation to the marine site at which they are to be used. Inasmuch as the template is provided with pontoons, it can be towed and does not have to be loaded on a barge although it could be. Upon reaching the well site the arms are opened so that the pontoon templates assume the desired shape. The arms are then locked in this extended position and the scissor well template is then lowered to the ocean floor.

Abstract: A suction line/capillary tube assembly which provides improved heat exchange between the cool gaseous refrigerant conveyed by the suction line and the warm liquid refrigerant conveyed by the capillary tube in a refrigeration system. The assembly is generally characterized by the capillary tube being within and in direct thermal contact with the suction line wall along a substantial length thereof, which length is at least approximately two feet. In a first specific embodiment, the capillary tube is soldered to the inside of the suction line, as opposed to merely being loosely passed therethrough. In a second specific embodiment, an aluminum suction line is fabricated with an internal extruded channel defined between a pair of ridges extending from the interior surface of the suction line. A copper capillary tube is snugly positioned in the channel and preferably the ridges are deformed toward each other so as to substantially surround the capillary tube.

Abstract: An auxiliary method and apparatus therefor for cooling refrigerated enclosures equipped with a primary refrigerating system, includes an intake opening mounted in fluid communication with a source of cold air and a blower having its inlet connected in fluid communication with the intake opening to draw cold air from the source of cold air, such as cold outside ambient air. The blower is mounted within a heated enclosure to prevent the blower housing from collecting moisture therewithin. A discharge opening is provided in the walls surrounding the refrigerated enclosure and a conduit connects in fluid communication the outlet of the blower and the discharge opening for supplying the cold air to the interior of the refrigerated enclosure when the blower is activated.

Abstract: An ice cube freezing arrangement in an absorption type refrigerator having conduit means conducting hot vapors from a vapor conduit leading from the boiler system to the ice dividing walls and tray for ice cubes. The vapor conduit is normally blocked but opened occasionally in order to release the ice cubes from the tray. Thus, ice cubes are manufactured with relatively small energy consumption. The control system for ice freezing is completely internal in the refrigerator, which controls the ice making, ice releasing, and the water supply to the ice making device.

Abstract: Intensified infrared cooling of a restricted region is achieved by locating the region in the path defined by a geometric configuration, in which a small electrostatic infrared radiation sink and a large infrared radiation condenser are axially related.

Abstract: A universal joint has a single flexible elastic seal inclosing the trunnion body and in contact with the bearings on the trunnion pins to form seals therewith. The trunnion body is provided with a reservoir in the form of a depression or chamber so that the reservoir is positioned between the trunnion body and the seal. Passages may be provided between the reservoir and seal to extend toward the trunnion pins.

Abstract: Mechanism for selecting and controlling needles of circular knitting machine wherein, at each feed of the knitting machine, there is provided a cam path in which is engageable an outwardly projecting butt on an axially reciprocable needle to reciprocate the needle. An activating swing jack is pivoted to the bottom of the needles and a selector jack is pivoted to the unit and is operatively associated with the activating swing jack. A selector butt and a complementary eraser butt on the selector jack are respectively positively engaged by a selector lever and an eraser lever, the selector lever moving the jacks and hence the needles whereby the needle butts engage in the cam path while the eraser lever move the jacks and hence the needles, whereby the needle butts are disengaged from the cam path, respectively to bring the needle into its operative and inoperative condition. The selector and eraser levers cooperate with the selector and eraser butts of the selector jack over the entire length of the feed.

Abstract: A carriage drive is provided for a flat bed home type knitting machine. Such carriage drive includes a reversible electric motor, a pair of motor driven capstans, and wire rope which winds on one capstan and unwinds on the other when the motor rotates, the rope being connected to opposite ends of the carriage of the machine.

Abstract: The improved safe door locking arrangement includes a pair of oppositely extending dovetail locking bolts. The locking bolts are eccentrically attached to a crank wheel and are actuated responsive to rotation of the wheel. The wheel is spring loaded for easier operation. In the extended or locked position, a combination lock controlled bolt locks the dovetail bolts in their extended condition. A further feature is a safety bolt which in turn locks the combination lock controlled bolt in the locking position, if attempts are made to dislodge the combination lock.

Abstract: A conventional rotatable tumbler combination lock of the type having notched rotatably mounted tumblers, a notched rotatably mounted drive plate, a bolt plate and bolt movable between locked and unlocked positions, a lever pivotally mounted to said bolt plate and having a fence for engagement with said tumbler notches and a dog for engagement with said drive plate to allow movement of bolt to said unlocked position, the improvement comprising including a scrambler mechanism which includes a rod having one end rotatably mounted to the bolt plate and another end adapted for engagement of detents on the tumblers. The rod engages said detents when the lock is in the open position and when the lock is closed, the rod spins the tumblers and the engagement of the dog with the drive plate notch and the fence with the tumbler notches is upset.

Abstract: A mobile pipe straightening machine is of relatively light-weight construction for increased transportability and finds particular application for straightening drill pipe in the field. For minimizing the overall weight of the machine, a bed frame is provided in an elongate, trough-shaped, construction having first and second upstanding sides and a bottom member to define a bed space. At least one drive roll is swivelly supported within the bed space, and first and second idler rolls are movably coupled to the bed frame in spaced relationship with the one drive roll. Each idler roll is supported within a housing which in turn is supported within a dome-shaped support structure. A bushing having a key slot and a key for the key slot is disposed between the dome-shaped support structure and the housing.

Abstract: A tool for setting threaded bushes has a body portion and a mandrel puller rotatably and slidably mounted in the body portion. A mandrel is fixed to the mandrel puller for movement therewith. The free end portion of the mandrel is screw-threaded for engagement with a threaded bush. Means are provided for sliding the mandrel puller relative to the body portion so that the threaded bush strikes the body portion and is arrested thereby. Further movement of the mandrel puller causes the bush to expand and be set in position. The threaded bush is releasable from the mandrel by rotating the mandrel puller relative to the body portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to machines, for the manufacture of springs, of the type which produce springs with a hook in a plane passing through the axis of said spring at one end, and a hook lying in the extension of the last turn of the spiral at the other end. The improvement is that means are provided for transferring the roughed-out spring in front of a device, for straightening the second hook, which is angularly displaced in relation to the machine, the transfer being effected by an axial movement of the blank, followed by rotation, and ending with a further axial movement.

Abstract: The method of drawing uniformly heavy walled parts in a multiple plunger machine without any intermediate anneals and a machine for carrying out the method. The method comprises a number of press operations which convert a flat blank to a final desired drawn configuration, the relatively uniform wall thickness being maintained throughout the operation by the mouth configuration of each die and by means of supplemental sleeves that assist the punches in extending the drawn shells into the dies with no stretch to the metal or thinning of walls. Work hardening due to stretch or tensile load is minimized allowing more deformation without anneals.

Abstract: This apparatus includes means for measuring capacitance or resistance and means for simulating a selected capacitance value. The apparatus is connectible into a fuel gaging system. When so connected, a selector switch can be operated to make the normal connections between the fuel gaging capacitors and the indicators, so that the indicators produce their normal responses. Alternatively, the selector switch may be operated so that the apparatus measures the capacitance or resistance of various elements in the gaging system. As another selection, a simulated value of capacitance may be inserted in the gaging system to make the indicators in that system respond to the simulated value in addition to the capacitance of the fuel gaging capacitors of the gaging system.

Abstract: A densimeter for measuring the density of liquids is disclosed. The densimeter comprises a substantially vertical shaft having a central axis. The densimeter further comprises means for rotating the shaft about its axis and a vessel mounted on the shaft asymmetrically with respect to the shaft axis. Counterbalancing means are provided on the shaft for at least partly compensating for the asymmetry. The shaft is resiliently mounted with freedom of oscillation transverse to the shaft axis. Means are provided for measuring the amplitude of the oscillations.

Abstract: A hardness tester has an image sensor and a detecting system. The image sensor has aligned plurality photoelectric sensor elements on an image plane on which a bright and dark image of an indentation is formed through an optical system. The detecting system detects the diagonal length of the indentation by using the differences in amplitude of the output signals developed by the sensor elements in the vicinity of the ends of the indentation image.

Abstract: A wet crack method of testing the performance of soap bars comprising the step of first shaving a face of the soap bar. Then, the soap bar is immersed in water, after which it is air dried. The face which has been shaved is then placed face down on a flat bed photocopying machine so that a permanent graphical record is attained.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the upper dead-center position in piston engines, in which the crankshaft angle corresponding to the maximum compression pressure is determined by a pressure measurement and by the addition of a correcting factor that corresponds to the thermodynamic loss angle conditioned by heat-transfer and leakage losses.

Abstract: Measurement and correlation of chamber pressure and projectile position d is accomplished using an array of phototransistors, illuminated by collimated light, which phototransistors are sequentially switched off due to the interruption of the collimated light by the passing projectile. Pulses generated thereby may be displayed on an oscilloscope along with the pressure-time trace.

Abstract: A head-up visual approach instrument having a display of flight guidance information for a two-segment approach to touchdown. The display includes flight path indicia which the pilot aligns with an outside world aiming point, as the touchdown zone of a runway. During the first segment the flight path indicia is positioned as a function of aircraft altitude to define the changing sight angle to the target.

Abstract: An anemometer for measuring the component of air or of a similar fluid speed along its axis of rotation, in which the anemometer has a plurality of generally radially directed, helicoidal airfoils. The airfoil effect is produced by the helicoidal twisting which results in a vacuum being produced on one side thereof according to the direction of rotation. Each of the airfoils has a plurality of helicoidal edges, each edge being formed by the intersections of two or more plane surfaces so as to form airfoils having parallelogram or substantially parallelogram cross-sections. Each airfoil extends outwardly from a rotatable hub and is attached to the hub at its inner end but is spaced in part from the hub by a cutout area, such as a slot across the airfoil.

Abstract: An electromagnetic fluid flowmeter wherein two arc-shaped, circular segment electrode plates B.sub.1, B.sub.2 are disposed horizontally opposite each other on the internal periphery of a tubular conduit M, and are separated by vertically opposed, convex insulators D.sub.1, D.sub.2. The respective dimensional relationships of the electrode plates and insulators, and the flux pattern of the magnetic field within the conduit, are geometrically determined and configured such that the induced current flow between the electrode plates is always proportional to the fluid flow rate, even when a free fluid surface exists within the conduit and regardless of the level of the free surface.

Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid velocity measuring apparatus comprising an actuable generator for providing a relatively high frequency signal to a transmitting transducer for directing an ultrasonic wave into a conduit through which liquid is directed. A receiver transducer is disposed to receive the acoustical wave as reflected from the liquid, and to provide an output signal to be amplified and demodulated to provide a train of high frequency pulses, the frequency of which is indicative of the velocity of the liquid directed through the conduit. The train of pulses is applied to a counter and a decoder for respectively counting and decoding the pulses to provide a signal to a display whereby a digital indication of the liquid velocity is given.

Abstract: An adjustable liquid level measuring device for measuring the level of a liquid in a variety of container configurations. The device has an indicator means for mounting on a container for providing a visual reading related to the level of the liquid in the container. The device has a frame connected to the indicator means and a buoyant float adapted for floating on the surface of the liquid in the container. The device has an endless flexible chain with a first loop adjacent to the indicator means and another portion connected to the buoyant float. The chain also has a loop movably mounted on the frame so that movement of the float moves the first loop relative to the indicator means. The indicator means is connected to have an indicator dial pointer moved by the movement of the first loop.