Abstract: A burglary proof door, especially for a residence, comprising a frame formed of metal hollow sections or profiles and a door faced with coverings and assembled together from metal hollow sections or profiles. In its closed position the door is guided both at its hinge side and lock side throughout its entire height in substantially U-shaped guides provided at the frame. The door part guided at the lock side in the frame comprises two rails movable transversely with respect to the direction of opening of the door and extending over the entire door height. The hinge side outer edge of the door is bevelled or tapered throughout its entire height and the substantially U-shaped guide provided at the hinge sideframe part is accommodated to such shape.

Abstract: A portable cutter used to cut structural materials at a construction site. The material to be cut is clamped between a fixing rod and a bed frame and is cut by means of a grinder mounted so as to be slidable longitudinally along a machine frame. The fixing rod and the machine frame are adapted to be fastened to the bed frame.

Abstract: An expandable abrading tool (20, 20a, 20b) disclosed includes a rotatable arbor (22) and an abrasive insert (24, 24a, 24b) having stacked washers (26) which receive the arbor and are mounted thereon in a clamped relationship. Each washer has a round outer edge including an abrasive (32) secured thereto for performing a cutting operation upon tool rotation. The washers each have a frustoconical shape that points toward one axial end of the insert. A threaded clamp (38, 40, 42, 44) which provides a means for clamping the ends (34, 36) of the insert is adjustable to increase the clamping force in order to flatten the washers and thereby control the washer diameters. The insert can thus be initially sized for use and can be adjusted to compensate for wear of the abrasive.

Abstract: An air or frame supported hall made out of synthetic sheeting, especially a hall having an outer heat insulation consisting of a number of adjacent mats covering substantially the entire hall, each mat consisting of a core of soft cellular synthetic, each flat side of said core being laminated with an unreinforced soft flexible synthetic sheet material.

Abstract: An aerial lift is described which has a pivotable boom with a load end and a pivot end. The boom is constructed such that, as the pivot end of the boom pivots upwardly, the load end is raised substantially vertically. In one embodiment, the boom is mounted on a telescoping scaffold to provide the boom with a greater reaching range. In another embodiment, the boom itself is provided with telescoping members to extend its vertical reach.

Abstract: A unitary extendible post-panel structure adapted for anchoring or seating the bottom or floor end of wall panels includes screwdown threaded metal bolts, bars or rods which are spring-activated so as to hold the post-panels in place against a floor or like surface.

Abstract: A sheet for constructing the wall of a substantially cylindrical silo. This sheet has a substantially rectangular periphery and is slightly cylindrically curved according to the radius of the wall of the silo to be constructed. The sheet comprises first and second straight edges opposite one another and first and second curved edges also opposite one another. The sheet is provided with rows of bolt holes adjacent the four edges. The first straight edge and the first curved edge are provided with a flange, both flanges being positioned at the same side of the sheet and extending approximately perpendicularly to the sheet surface, the second straight edge and the second curved edge having no flange. The flange on the first straight edge ends at a distance from the second curved edge.

Abstract: An insulated masonry building block and a method for forming such a block in which cementitious aggregate material is cast around an insert formed from insulating material, whereby the insert remains a part of the block.

Abstract: A highly flexible spacer-sealer for reflective insulation inner assemblies is provided which spaces a pair of flexible reflective insulation sheets or liners while also sealing a volume of space therebetween. To accomplish this a corrugated strip of material is mounted on its edge between the pair of flexible reflective insulation liners all along the perimeter of the two sheets. The corrugated strip is compressed and twisted at predetermined points and mounted to one of the liners leaving the other liner to lie on the corrugated strip. This construction allows the inner assemblies to be curved and bent to conform to the various shapes of the inner and outer case assemblies which are mounted to the body to be insulated.

Abstract: A triple lap siding product is machined from a strip of wide lap hardboard siding to give the appearance of three narrow laps of natural wood siding or actual drop siding cut from 3/4" lumber. The configuration for simulating narrow lap siding is machined with beveled profiles having opposed first and second surfaces. Each strip of siding includes a plurality of inclined cuts and vertical cuts subdividing the single strip into three lap portions. The configuration for simulating actual drop siding includes a plurality of arcuate cuts and vertical cuts that subdivide each strip of siding into three lap portions. For both types of siding, the leading edge of one strip is adapted to cooperate with the trailing edge of another strip to form a continuous lap siding installation on the building or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a shingle having an enhanced relief effect which thereby simulates roofing slate or roofing tile. The enhanced relief effect is provided by covering at least a portion of the underside of the shingle with a layer of expanded particulated material such as spheres of expanded polystyrene.

Abstract: The invention concerns a prefabricated building structure, one which employs a series of structural elements of novel design that permits even an inexperienced person to quickly and easily assemble a building. These structural elements all are designed to hold taut at least one flexible sheet spanning the space defined by the elements, this sheet being received, with a resilient spline, in a keyhole-shaped slot provided in each structural member, this slot being of a unique design. A minimum of different structural elements are employed in the building, these different structural elements all being described in the following specification.

Abstract: A flange cover for embracing engagement with and clamping retention on a flange edge. The flange cover is an elongated strip of a generally U-shaped cross section defining a pair of legs connected by a web. Each leg has at least one retention lip extending inwardly therefrom and is made of a lower durometer thermoplastic material than the web. The flange cover is made by extruding a flat, elongated strip with a middle portion of higher durometer than side portions, said side portions having retention lips projecting therefrom, and then bending the strip along its longitudinal axis to form a flange cover having a U-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A machine for packaging a plurality of bottles by enveloping the bottle necks within a plurality of apertures (2-7) formed in a main panel (1) of a carrier blank includes means for moving a group of bottles along a predetermined path (85,87), means for moving a carrier blank above the bottles and in synchronism therewith and with the apertures (b 2-7) in the main panel (1) of the blank disposed in vertical coincidence with the bottle necks, static plows (81,82) arranged to engage the main panel (1) from above and to urge it downwardly so that the apertures in the main panel engage the bottle necks together with a rotatable element (93) which engages a longitudinal fold line (8) formed in the main panel (1) of the blank and disposed in alignment with the apertures to facilitate envelopment of the bottle necks together with plow means (96,97,98,99,100) arranged to engage and fold the extensions of the blank which are foldably joined to the side edges of the main panel upwardly and over the tops of the packaged

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for automatically providing a predetermined portion of a meat product in a casing, and for automatically closing and clamping closed the open end of the casing. The apparatus includes a portioning piston and cylinder arrangement including a second piston and cylinder arrangement which regulates the speed of the first piston and cylinder arrangement. Meat product is fed to the portioning cylinder from a source of the meat product by a valve arrangement, and the valve arrangement then passes the meat from the portioning cylinder to a horn. The portioned product is inserted in a casing whose end is automatically clamped closed after the complete portion is inserted in the casing.

Abstract: The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for producing or forming frozen confections or desserts of the comestible cone type in which cone assemblies, each comprising a comestible sugar cone enclosed within a protective paper cone-shaped shell, are processed through successive method steps in which a chocolate composition is atomized and delivered into each comestible cone forming an impervious chocolate coating as a moisture barrier, the comestible cone tamped into the protective shell, a comestible ingredient such as ice cream, ice milk, sherbet or the like delivered into each cone assembly and the confection or product subjected to reduced temperature to freeze, congeal or render solid the ice cream and other comestible constituents in the end product.

Abstract: Microwave energy is used for sealing polymeric film material particularly the sealing of film material in the form of flexible containers.

Abstract: Articles to be packaged are brought by a conveyor above a vacuum chamber and a preheated plastic film is sucked toward a cardboard sheet supporting the articles and resting on the conveyor.

Abstract: The meat packaging machine of the present invention is designed to vacuum pack meat products between two webs of heat sealable thermo-plastic material. One web of each package is formed with at least two pockets connected by and bounded by a sealing flange extending outwardly therefrom. The second web which closes the pockets also extends over the sealing flange and the entire interface between the two webs is heat sealed to prevent migration of meat juices. The machine includes a sealing head and a sealing die mounted one on either side of the sealing plane. Heated sealing members are located in the sealing head and in the sealing die which, when the head and die are in the closed position, are disposed to engage the first and second webs therebetween to effect a heat seal over the entire sealing interface of the webs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic speed control system for controlling the peripheral speed of a pick-up reel rotatively mounted about the front of a peanut combine. During the harvesting operation, the hydraulic speed control system is adapted to drive the pick-up reel at a generally constant speed as long as the ground speed of the peanut combine is equal to or less than a selected speed. The hydraulic control system is responsive to the ground speed of the peanut combine such that once the ground speed exceeds said selected speed, the hydraulic control system then drives the pick-up reel in proportion to ground speed such that the peripheral speed of the reel is generally equal the harvester ground speed in order that the relative velocity between the entering crop material being delivered to the combine by the reel and the combine itself is generally zero.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a mower-conditioner comprising a cutting mechanism with discs driven from beneath and a conditioning mechanism extending in a conditioning passage the width of which is less than the cutting width, the discs situated outside the zone in which the conditioning mechanism extends being provided respectively with a truncated cone intended to separate the standing fodder from the cut fodder, each of these truncated cones being respectively surmounted by a fixed deflector the flank of which extends at the same time upwards and towards the interior of the conditioning passage, said deflector being connected to the front edge of the said conditioning passage in a smoothly continuous manner.

Abstract: A device for automatically correcting the date indicator of an electro-mechanical timepiece to the first date of the next month at the end of each month. A pulse driven motor advances the date indicator one date in response to a plurality of pulsed drive signals with the motor advancing one step for each drive signal pulse, and at a speed corresponding to the drive signal frequency. A fixed number of drive signal pulses are applied to the motor each month to advance the date indicator through the dates of each month to the first date of the next month. A predetermined number of the drive signal pulses, corresponding to the number of dates of each month, are applied to the motor at a normal advance frequency normally to advance the date indicator.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece having an integrated circuit including a high frequency oscillator with a frequency divider circuit for dividing the high frequency output to provide a low frequency time unit signals. A time counter circuit responds to the time unit signals and develops time information signals. A decoder is coupled to the time counter circuit and provides display information signals in response to the time information signals. A driver circuit provides drive signals in response to the display information signals and an electro-optical device responds to the drive signals to display time information. A frequency adjustment circuit adjusts the high frequency signal to a correct value and has a plurality of frequency adjustment ratio setting terminals selectively coupled to output terminals of the driver circuit to develop outputs representative of frequency adjustment ratios.

Abstract: A method and circuit for selecting a function of a watch. A predetermined number and a predetermined sequence of electrical code signals are user generated by two switches which are located on the watch. The code signals correspond to at least one function of the watch. The sequence of code signals is stored and the code signals occurring within a predetermined time period are counted. The count of the code signals occurring within the predetermined time period is compared to the predetermined number and the stored sequence of code signals are decoded only when the count of the code signals equals the predetermined number within the predetermined time period.

Abstract: An apparatus for advancing a date indicator of an electromechanical calendar watch. An hour indicator is driven through two normal operating revolutions of twelve hours each while keeping the date indicator fixed. The hour indicator then is driven through at least one more revolution at a speed much greater than the two normal operating revolutions to advance quickly the date indicator one day through a gearing connecting the hour indicator to the date indicator.

Abstract: A timepiece comprises a case and a back cover with improved snap-fitting means for releasably fastening the cover to the case. The back cover includes as improved snap-fitting means a peripheral engagement surface of noncircular, multilobal cross-section having a lobal diameter selected in relation to the diameter of a circular engagement surface on the case such that said surfaces are in snap-fit relation only at multiple, spaced locations, rather than along their entire peripheries, whereby the engagement surface of the back cover can flex elastically between the spaced contact locations and thus facilitate removal and attachment of the back cover by snap-fitting.

Abstract: Electronic timepiece with a device for indicating the time, which is electronically controlled and is used to display elements which simulate a game of chance. Additional circuits are provided for the control of the display of the elements of the game and at least part of the circuits of the timepiece, normally intended for the measure of the time are used in order to perform the choice at random of the elements.

Abstract: A fuel system particularly for a gas turbine engine in which a tubular shaft rotatable during operation of the engine at engine speed or at a speed proportional thereto has a fuel inlet through which liquid fuel is introduced into the interior of the shaft, the peripheral wall of the shaft having at least one port therein communicating externally of the shaft with a combustion region of the engine and comprising a first resiliently-supported valve member mounted on the outside of the peripheral wall of the shaft in registration with the port to move away from the shaft centrifugally as the speed of rotation of the shaft increases, thereby to open the port and thus to allow fuel to flow through the port to the combustion region.

Abstract: A control circuit is described for sensing and correcting deviations in speed of a turbine-generator. The control circuit compares actual turbine speed with a speed reference signal and provides a non-linear speed control signal to the turbine. The non-linear speed control signal is characterized by a first substantially constant slope for deviations in speed below a preselected deviation and a second substantially greater slope for deviations in speed above the preselected deviation. Substantially improved power system frequency regulation is thereby maintained.

Abstract: In a fuel vaporizing type of combustor for gas turbines, using fuel vaporizing tubes and associated mechanism, the vaporizing tubes having a construction and configuration adapted to maintain uniform temperatures therein, the structure as well maintaining uniform temperatures in the head plate of the unit and in an associated splash plate, if used, the structure further tending to eliminate carbon build-up within the tube per se.

Abstract: The exhaust gas purification device includes an exhaust manifold, a purification cylinder connected with the exhaust manifold through a first honey-comb shaped catalyst, and a second honey-comb shaped catalyst positioned at the rear portion of the purification cylinder. Each catalyst is supported by steel wool rings including coarse and dense portions of steel wool. The purification device further includes a secondary air supplying arrangement.

Abstract: The exhaust manifold for a transversely mounted automobile engine terminates adjacent to the engine in an outlet having an articulated connection with the inlet of an exhaust header that terminates in an exhaust pipe discharging to the atmosphere.The articulated connection comprises an annular coupling portion having a spherical surface at the header inlet removably interfitting within a downstream enlarging conical sealing surface at the manifold outlet. An annular flange adjacent to the inlet of the header may be seated in sealing engagement against a second sealing surface of the annular coupling portion. A collar is yieldingly urged against the annular flange by spring means removably secured to the header to enable replacement of the annular coupling portion and to maintain the latter during operation in sealing engagement with the conical sealing surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluid coupling which includes: a housing being used as a rotary driving member; a rotor rotatably mounted in the housing and being used as a driven member, a fluid pump having a pump chamber defined between the housing and the rotor; a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port; and a fluid circulation passage between the chamber and the housing, such that fluid in the pump circulates from the fluid circulation passage into the pump chamber through the inlet port and from the pump chamber through the outlet port into the fluid passage.

Abstract: The hydraulic machine comprises an oscillating rotor, mounted on a machine frame, which is driven with reciprocating movement by a crank mechanism. On the oscillating rotor there is arranged an active pipe circuit filled with water, and consisting of a pipe winding the ends of which are connected, by means of flexible hose portions, to a fixed inlet and a fixed outlet. When the oscillating rotor is driven with reciprocating movement, the water contained in the active pipe circuit is subjected to a linear alternating acceleration which produces between the fixed inlet and the fixed outlet a pressure difference which varies in an almost sinusoidal manner.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling the flow of hydraulic fluid to and from a work cylinder. The disclosed system includes a reversible variable displacement pump interconnected between a work cylinder and a selector valve which may connect the pump with any of a plurality of fluid reservoirs. The fluid reservoirs contain hydraulic fluid at variable pressures so that the pressure at the work cylinder may be raised to pressures well above the pressure differential capacity of the pump at maximum flow rate by selectively increasing the pressure on the reservoir side of the pump. The system includes means for controlling the pressure at each port of the pump so that the pressue on the output port is always greater than the pressure on the input port regardless of the direction of flow through the pump and regardless of pressures at other points in the system.

Abstract: The hydraulic turbine system includes:an electric generator;rotary turbine blades;a hydraulic pump for operation by rotation of the turbine blades;a hydraulic motor for driving the generator;a hydraulic reservoir;and connections between the pump, the motor and the reservoir for causing the motor to operate in response to rotation of the turbine blades by water flow.

Abstract: A hydrostatic transmission having a variable displacement pump whose control element varies the transmission ratio and output direction of the transmission is controlled by a hydraulic servomechanism including a direction-reversing valve and a cylinder connected to this valve. A direction selector acts upon the valve and a mechanical or hydraulic locking mechanism is provided to prevent shifting of the valve until the control element of the pump has been restored to its neutral position before direction change.

Abstract: Hydraulic system for operation of a winch, including a hydraulic motor for operation of the winch, a pump for pumping hydraulic oil for operation of the motor, a manoeuvering valve for control of the speed of the motor and rotational direction, a first choke valve which is connected in series with the pump, and a second choke valve which is connected in parallel with the motor, the system including two or more hydraulic motors connected in parallel, with throughflow both ways, preferably of the multi-stage type, and drive-connected to the same winch shaft.

Abstract: A free piston hot gas reciprocating machine having, one piston surface which varies the volume of a working space, while its other surface bounds a buffer space of constant pressure, and a control mechanism formed by an auxiliary cylinder and an auxiliary piston which is movable therein. The control mechanism maintains a given central position of the free piston by instantaneously opening a connection between the buffer space and the auxiliary cylinder space.

Abstract: A control apparatus and method for a steam turbine plant comprising supply pressure control, to be used in particular in conjunction with a turbine plant drawing its steam from a boiling water reactor, wherein there is provided rpm control with subordinated power output (rpm - power output control) and that the rate of steam flow through the turbine is controlled by reference to a continuous comparison between the controller output quantities of the supply pressure control device, on the one hand and the rpm - power output control device, on the other hand, exclusively or predominantly, as the case may be, by the smallest one, in terms of rate of steam flow, of said controller output quantities (minimum value selection).

Abstract: In a process for condensing the vapor of a volatile liquid, such as vinyl chloride monomer, a gaseous mixture comprising the vapor of the volatile liquid and a non-flammable gas, such as nitrogen, is heat exchanged with a liquid refrigerant or vapor evolved therefrom, or both, the heat exchange being performed such that condensate of the vapor of the volatile liquid is produced at a directly or indirectly controlled temperature which is between the boiling point of the volatile liquid at atmospheric pressure and the boiling point of the refrigerant at atmospheric pressure and which is also between the boiling and freezing points of the volatile liquid at the prevailing pressure at which the condensate is formed, the non-flammable gas remaining uncondensed; the condensate is collected; the uncondensed gas is warmed to a temperature, and then vented to the atmosphere.

Abstract: A food storage compartment of a freezer accumulates frost. At selected times, a heat source of large thermal capacity transforms a retained body of water or ice to steam. The steam condenses upon and melts the frost. A portion of the melt is retained to provide a source of steam in a subsequent defrosting period. The heat source operates at a temperature substantially above the boiling temperature of water and is permanently attached to a concavity or other reservoir which retains the water substance.In a preferred embodiment, the freezer is part of a system of domestic appliances using a liquid phase thermal exchange fluid to transfer heat between a plurality of appliances and thermal reservoirs maintained at hot and cold temperatures. The retained water substance is ice in a concavity at the bottom of the freezer. During a defrosting period, valves are positioned to allow flow of hot thermal exchange fluid as a heat source adjacent to the concavity.

Abstract: Improved hydrogen-hydride absorption systems for improving the energy utilization in refrigeration and heat pump cycles comprise reactor systems for chemically forming three or more hydride components, means for supplying heat to and removing heat from the hydride in the respective systems, and means for conveying hydrogen between the several reactor systems.A method for deriving improved heat pump effects from a narrowly temperature differential thermal source and sink by means of three or more hydride components is achieved by successive pressure staging between a series of hydride components over the narrow temperature range of the thermal source.A method for deriving improved energy utilization of a high temperature thermal source for refrigeration by means of three or more hydride components is effected by cascading pressure differences between hydride components.

Abstract: Cracking gases are cooled by spraying them through a multiplicity of orifices into a cooling oil bath below the surface thereof.

Abstract: Improved apparatus for operating a continuous process for the freeze concentration of aqueous solutions, such as fruit juices, wine, beer, coffee extract and the like.

Abstract: A two-part ear ornament clip of known type, whose pivotally connected front and back parts are so dimensioned and connected to one another that, in the open condition of the clip, the front part is supported by the back part in a manner which greatly facilitates the handling and application of said clip by the wearer to her ear lobe. Moreover, said front and back parts are such that, when said parts are in their lobe-gripping positions relative to one another, the portion of the front part to which the ornament would be secured is directly opposite the portion of the back part which is in contact with the inside face of the ear lobe.

Abstract: A clip for an earring or the like comprising separate jaw members pivotally attached for movement towards and away from each other. A first jaw member includes an ornamental portion and is provided with contact means adapted to contact outer portions of the wearer's earlobe. A second jaw is provided with a generally C-shaped loop having base, root and terminal segments. A pair of spaced smooth bore openings are respectively provided through the root and terminal segments for receipt of a screw provided at one end thereof with contact means adapted to cooperate with the contact means of the first jaw member and for engaging the opposite side of the earlobe, and at the other end, with means for manually rotating said screw for movement relative to the first jaw. The terminal segment of the loop is angularly disposed with regard to the screw so that as the screw passes through the opening therein, the front top edge and the bottom rear edges of said opening make threaded engagement with the screw.

Abstract: A drive shaft of a fan coupling assembly includes a shaft member fixedly connected with a fan drive rotor, and a flange member fixedly connected with a fan pulley. The two members are separately formed into their predetermined configurations. The shaft member has a securing portion and a flange coaxially formed at one end thereof, while the flange member has a central bore including a plurality of radially outwardly recessed portions. After the flange member is fitted on the shaft member through the central bore thereof, the two members are fixedly secured to each other by a securing member, whereby an integral flanged shaft may be obtained.

Abstract: A universal joint for power drive tools and the like. The universal assembly includes a means for connection to a tool and a means for engaging the nut or a head of a fastening member, such as a bolt. Articulation of the universal is accomplished by means of a quadrified ball in a square socket. The head of the ball retains its spherical form, and the base of the socket is spherical in shape to accommodate the ball head. The four sides of the quadrified ball do not intersect thereby retaining the spherical configuration of the ball at the corners. A unique ball spring preloads the socket. The resulting combination is ideally suited for power drive tools wherein the forces generated are high, and the rotation is rapid.

Abstract: An elastic shaft plate for shaft couplings comprises sleeves disposed angularly spaced around a shaft plate axis. The sleeves are wrapped in pairs by string coils and embedded together with the coils in an elastomeric material. At least one sleeve of each pair of sleeves wrapped by a common string coil is an external sleeve receiving an internal body adapted to be fixed to one of two shafts to be coupled by the elastic shaft plate. A spacing is provided between said external sleeve and said internal body, said spacing likewise containing an elastomeric material.