Abstract: A construction element comprises a wide-flange steel beam having a web-flange thickness ratio of at least 0.8. Anchors or holding members in the form of studs or wire fabric are secured only to the web of the beam, and a reinforcing bar or plate extending along the beam is in turn welded to the achoring members. The area between the flanges of the beam is then filled with a concrete body in which the holding members and reinforcing elements are embedded for fire resistance.

Abstract: The invention relates to a swellable surface product such as paper, fabric, tricot, non-woven fabric and the like for setting up self-stretching ceiling structures, wall coverings and the like. Said surface product comprises essentially cellulose fibres having a lower, preferably at least 5% lower crystallinity level than the crystallinity level of native cellulose (Cellulose 1), said fibres having good swellability in water, for instance, both in their longitudinal and their transverse direction.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for machines for packeting cigarettes into hinged-lid rigid type cigarette packets is of the type comprising an intermittently rotating wheel having radially disposed compartments for housing individual cigarette packets. A dispensing channel is associated with the wheel and upper and lower heated plates cooperating with the compartments. A pushing member is provided at the end of the dispensing channel to push, during the normal operation of the apparatus, the individual packets into a first track coplanar to the dispensing channel. A control mechanism, should the wheel accidentally stop, acts on a pair of mechanical systems which cause the spacing apart of the plates from the compartments and further starts a timer.

Abstract: A packaging machine for applying and securing a continuous web of material, especially of the heat sealable type, to containers, especially open-topped containers. The machine includes an intermittently rotatable cutter for severing the web between adjacent containers as well as a conveyor allowing mounting of interchangeable container supports of different sizes which cooperate with the cutter to rotate same to sever the web. The cutter need not be adjusted or modified when the container supports are changed and automatically accommodates the different sized supports.

Abstract: Methods of making feminine hygienic pads from non-layered and layered material by use of folding, pressure molding and various methods of bonding to create a long geometric form with an anterior leading panel of narrow thickness and a thicker posterior underpanel of a wider thickness. The folded panels may be bonded by either a suitable adhesive, crimping, heat, pressure or ultrasonic means leaving an anterior portion with a leading anterior edge and a larger posterior portion. A filler may be inserted between the folds of the material prior to bonding. Thereafter, the long geometric form is multiple cut transversely providing pads about two inches long. These pads are used for insertion into the female interlabial space. The geometric configuration of the pads facilitates insertion of the pad via the anterior leading edge into the interlabial space and has improved retention within such space.

Abstract: A receptacle is formed from an appropriately scored blank by mechanical folding and set-up prior to its being filled, and for mechanical closure of the self-contained cover members after the filling of the receptacle.

Abstract: A method is provided of manufacturing a joined telescoping vented cap-and-body capsule filled with viscous material, comprising the steps of filling the viscous material into the body part, closing the filled body part with a layer of pasty sealing composition which is inert to the viscous material, telescoping the cap and closed body part, and sealing the inner side of the cap to the body part.

Abstract: A method is described for joining a capsule having a body and a cap comprising the steps of telescoping the cap onto the ridge of the body part, applying a pasty solidifying sealing composition onto the inner side of the capsule in the form of a strand, in the area of the ridge.

Abstract: An aquatic weed cutter for cutting aquatic plants and their root systems. The aquatic weed cutter includes a water vehicle having a drive system connected to at least two shafts that project out of the vehicle. Each shaft has a circular cutting blade mounted at the distal end of the shaft. The cutting blades are positioned for rotation in a generally vertical plane for cutting aquatic plants and their root systems, as well as for propelling the vehicle through the water. The drive system is also used to control the position of the shafts below the surface of the water in order to position the tips of the cutting blades at various distances below as well as above the surface of the water bed. The shafts are positioned from one another in order to provide an overlapping relationship between each cutting blade. A forward cleaning blade is placed forward of each of the cutting blades with teeth having leading and trailing pitched portions to keep the cutting blades clean of debris.

Abstract: A tractor drawn and powered impeller mower-conditioner includes a transverse cutter assembly comprising a series of side-by-side rotating cutting disks. An impeller rotor with free-swinging flails is mounted above and slightly to the rear of the cutter bar with its axis of rotation parallel to the cutter assembly. A hood over the rotor includes a confining forward conditioning plate conforming fairly closely to the rotor periphery to form a conditioning zone and a rearwardly extending deflecting and windrow forming portion. The rotor is disposed and rotated so that the flails intercept cut material delivered rearwardly by the cutter assembly and carry it inside the hood up and over the rotor through the conditioning zone to be discharged rearwardly into a windrow.

Abstract: A rotary mower is provided with a housing penetrated by a shaft mounted on a vertical axis for rotation relative to the housing. A cutting blade is fixed to the shaft for rotation relative to the housing, and the shaft and the cutting blade are driven by a prime mover connected to the shaft outside the mower housing. According to the invention, a mulching blade is mounted on the shaft above the cutting blade and within the housing for rotation relative to the shaft and the housing, and a transmission operative connects the motive means and the mulching blade for rotating the later coaxially with and in a direction opposite from that of the cutting blade.

Abstract: A harvester for sugar cane sticks or similar crops having a feed roller with feed elements extending lengthwise of the roller to successively engage the sticks on rotation of the roller, to feed the sticks in a direction at right angles to the axis of rotation of the roller. At least one of the feed elements being in the form of a resiliently deformable hollow structure of elastomeric material.

Abstract: A mechanized harvesting machine particularly suitable for picking or harvesting vegetables such as peppers and tomatoes uses a single rotating helical guide member carried on a shaft aligned longitudinally above the row of plants to thread its way through the plants with minimal disturbance. Arcuate picking elements are attached between the helical guide and the shaft for pushing and pulling the vegetables or other crops to be harvested from the plant, as the helical guide member is rotated through the row of plants. The guide member is operated parallel to the ground and turns in a single direction, leaving the plants in a relatively undisturbed condition after they have been picked so that the plants may be used to grow a subsequent crop. The harvesting machine includes conveyor belts located on opposite sides of the helical guide member for catching the vegetables after they have been picked to convey them to a convenient storage bin on the machine.

Abstract: A fruit picking apparatus for picking fruit from a tree configured for use in combination with a mobile chassis comprising a base rotatably mounted on the mobile chassis, a first boom assembly pivotally coupled to the base, a second boom assembly movably coupled to the first boom assembly and a picker assembly attached to the outer portion of the second boom assembly wherein the first boom assembly includes a first positioning device to pivot the first boom assembly relative to the base and a second positioning device to move the second boom assembly longitudinally relative to the first boom assembly and wherein the second boom assembly includes a first positioning device to pivot the second boom assembly relative to the first boom assembly and a second positioning device to pivotally adjust the picker assembly relative to the second boom assembly.

Abstract: A textile winding head of the driven flyer type having a rotary bobbin carrier is provided with an adjustable brake of the electromagnetic induction type, preferably of the regenerative type, and a controller for increasing the braking torque progressively as the diameter of the package increases during winding so as to maintain close control over the tension of the material being wound. A tachogenerator may be connected to turn with the bobbin carrier to provide a signal varying with the angular velocity of a package being wound to provide an input signal to the controller for adjusting the braking torque. Additional tachogenerators may be connected to turn respectively with the delivery rollers and the flyer to provide correction signals, and the controller is preferably a computer for receiving the signals from the three tachogenerators and for providing an output signal for adjusting the braking torque.

Abstract: A unique and appealing novelty yarn characterized by having random size loops disposed at random locations therealong is economically produced on conventional textile machinery, thus avoiding the need for specialized and expensive machinery such as a novelty twister. The yarn includes a foundation strand and an effect strand wrapped about the foundation strand, with certain areas of the effect strand forming random length multiple layer deposits at randomly spaced locations along the foundation strand, and with portions of the effect strand projecting from the multiple layer deposits and forming random size loops. A binder strand wrapped about the foundation and effect strands binds the effect strand to the underlying foundation strand.

Abstract: A composite yarn of a falsetwist textured continuous multifilament end and spun yarn end fluid entangled with an interyarn tangle factor of at least 20 is disclosed. The spun yarn end is wrapped around the continuous filament end in alternate and varying degrees while individual filaments of the continuous filament yarn are wrapped around the spun yarn at "locking points" along the length of the spun yarn and interlaced together. A method for manufacture of the composite yarn is also disclosed.

Abstract: Prior to doffing a bobbin package, the roving is severed to form a beard which is located adjacent a stop on the spindle. After the bobbin package is doffed, the beard is located adjacent to an axial stop on the spindle. When a fresh tube is donned, the roving beard is brushed down by the tube and clamped by the bottom of the tube against the axial stop. A new package can then be wound while the roving beard remains clamped.

Abstract: In order to avoid troublesome length differences between the core and the outer layer in the S-Z twisting of five or more elements to be twisted, the average value of the input twist is chosen equal to the average value of the resulting S and Z twist.

Abstract: An extremely thin digital electronic timepiece comprising an electrooptical display element is disclosed. The timepiece essentially consists of a connector frame, supporting plate, flexible film-shaped circuit substrate and base plate. These constitutional members are manufactured in mass production scale by injection molding process, press working process etc. The circuit substrate is sandwiched between the supporting plate and the base plate. A portion of the connector frame is used to secure together the constitutional members into one integral body.

Abstract: An electro-mechanical watch for advancing the uncorrected watch indicating members to their correct time indicating positions, after a correction period during which one of the indicating members is adjusted and the advancement of the uncorrected members is interrupted. In regular operation, a pulsed signal at a normal frequency from a watch frequency divider drives a stepping motor to advance the indicating members. At the beginning of the correction period, the pulsed signal is switched from the stepping motor to a pulse counter which counts the pulses occurring during the correction period. After the correction period, the pulsed signal is switched back to the stepping motor and a number of signal pulses at a higher than normal frequency, equal to the count of the pulse counter are applied to the stepping motor to advance rapidly the uncorrected indicating members to their correct time indicating positions.

Abstract: A mechanically operating pendulum clock is provided with an electronic cocting device which comprises a quartz oscillator. An electronic frequency divider generates from the oscillation frequency of the quartz oscillator a frequency equal to that of the pendulum. A permanent magnet is arranged on the pendulum to cooperate with a control coil forming an electro-mechanical converter. The control coil is effective at least in the two turning positions of the pendulum. A contact-free pendulum sensor is also provided. A proportional electronic control device includes a converter which produces rectangular signals from the signals emitted by the quartz oscillator and the sensor, and a comparator is adapted, depending upon the reciprocal phase position of the quartz oscillator and sensor signals to transmit delay or acceleration signals to the control coil as well as opposing acceleration or delay signals to the control coil but phase-shifted by 180.degree..

Abstract: An electronic watch is set to the proper time by correction of the content of counters of the watch through the actuation of one or both of two switches. The actuation of the first one of the switches selects whether the content of the counters is to be incremented or decremented at a first speed. The subsequent actuation of the other switch performs the correction at a second higher speed in the sense selected by actuation of the first switch.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display electronic wristwatch having a lamp therein to illuminate the liquid crystal display mounted in the watch case beneath the display panel so as to overlap with the display and cover glass in plan view. Wristwatches constructed and arranged in accordance with the invention may be of reduced size without having to reduce the size of the display panel.

Abstract: A control device for controlling the display of an electronic watch capable of providing two different types of information. The control device enables selection of the information to be displayed and differentiation between the two types of display available.

Abstract: An analogue electronic alarm timepiece has a dial on which time is displayed by the usual hour, minute and second hands. The time for which the alarm is set is displayed digitally in an aperture provided in the dial. The digital display of the alarm time is effected by means of a rotatable hour wheel having hour indicia thereon and a rotatable minute wheel having minute indicia. The hour wheel and minute wheel are selectively rotatable by manual operation of an external stem. The hour wheel and minute wheel are magnetically and electronically coupled with alarm time memory means. Time counting means is electronically connected with a dividing circuit which divides a standard signal produced by an oscillator and to which a motor for driving the hands is also connected. The alarm is activated by a coincidence circuit when the time of the time counting means coincides with the time for which the alarm time memory means is set. Means is provided for synchronizing the time counting circuit with the hands.

Abstract: A pulse generating means is adapted to be rotated in either direction by a manual operation and to produce a plurality of trains of pulse signals the frequencies of which are varied in accordance with the speed of rotation. The pulse trains have different phase differentials which are inverted when the direction of the rotation of the pulse generating means is reversed. Either the up counting mode or the down counting mode of an up-and-down counter is selected in accordance with the output from the pulse generating means, so as to correct the contents of the counter by an addition or a subtraction.

Abstract: An ejector-type engine thrust augmentor intended for use in aircraft, e.g. in agricultural aviation. The thrust augmentor comprises an ejector shroud and a shell in the form of a truncated cone. The shell is located between the nozzle and the ejector shroud. The large-diameter inlet section of the shell faces the outlet section of the nozzle whereas the small-diameter outlet section of said shell faces the inlet section of the ejector shroud. The shell has longitudinal slots spaced at equal distances from one another. Due to the efflux of air from the longitudinal slots the stream flowing out of the nozzle acquires a complex cross section with a large surface area. This increases considerably the thrust increment with substantially smaller size and weight of the thrust augmentor.

Abstract: A gearless split torque (mechanical/hydrostatic), twin range (reduction/overdrive) with a direct mechanical drive in-between, hydrostatic transmission with regenerative braking and engine starting capabilities comprising two hydraulic pumps tied together by a clutch.

Abstract: A gearless split torque (mechanical/hydrostatic), twin range (reduction/ overdrive) with a direct mechanical drive in-between, hydrostatic transmission with regenerative braking and engine starting capabilities comprising two hydraulic pumps tied together by a clutch.

Abstract: A supply or demand margin valve for use in hydraulic systems having at least one load provided with hydraulic fluid under pressure by a main pump, a pilot pump and at least one control valve for the load. The margin valve includes a valve body having a bore with a spool reciprocally received within the bore. A first port in the body extends to the bore and is adapted to be connected to the pilot pump. A second port in the body extends to the bore and spaced in relation to the first port and is adapted to be connected to a component of a hydraulic system other than a pilot pump. A spring is disposed in the valve body for applying a biasing force to the spool to urge the spool in one direction and a third port is in fluid communication with the pressure responsive surface and is adapted to be connected to a main pump so as to apply a force to the spool to urge the spool in the same direction as the spring.

Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for steering and front brake system of a vehicle wherein discharged hydraulic fluid from steering cylinders is utilized for cooling front disc brakes. The circuit comprises a conventional steering circuit including a pair of steering cylinders and a steering valve having a drain circuit connected therewith, the pair of steering cylinders being operatively connected with the steering valve, and a pair of disc brakes for front wheels wherein the disc brakes are connected with the drain circuit of the steering valve.

Abstract: A wheel having a plurality of vanes which extend centrally out to the periphery thereof, is rotatably mounted on the walls of a main compartment. A first liquid is contained within this main compartment. A second liquid having a substantially lower boiling temperature than the first is contained within a second "boiler" compartment, the second compartment being mounted in the first and at least partially submersed in the first liquid. A source of heat is applied to the first compartment to heat this compartment and the liquid contained therein to a high enough temperature so as to cause the second liquid to boil. The vapor generated by virtue of the boiling of the second liquid is conveyed to a location beneath the wheel where it is released through port means such that the vapor bubbles rise in the first liquid and in rising are caught within the vanes of the wheel, which then exerts a buoyancy force, thereby rotatably driving the wheel.

Abstract: An elongated floatable hull is provided including bottom anchoring structure for anchoring the hull in position above a predetermined bottom portion against horizontal displacement from the aforementioned position, while allowing roll, pitch and heave movements of the hull in response to wave action thereon. Fluid motor and pump structures are supported from the hull and are driven in response to each of the roll, pitch and heave movements of the hull and also various combinations thereof.

Abstract: A hydraulic brake booster of the type utilizing pressurized fluid supplied to a hydraulically operated device comprises a flow regulating valve adapted to rapidly increase the pressure in a power chamber of the booster in response to actuation of a control piston and another flow regulating valve adapted to ensure supply of the pressurized fluid to the hydraulically operated device. In the brake booster, the first-named valve includes an annular recess formed on the control piston for permitting the flow of fluid supplied to the power chamber when the control piston is in an original position and blocking the flow of fluid to the power chamber when the control piston is moved, and an orifice for throttling the flow of fluid supplied to the power chamber in response to movement of the control piston.

Abstract: A supercharger set for internal combustion engines comprising two turboblowers the two axes of which being mutually perpendicular. The high-pressure turbine is mechanically coupled to the high-pressure compressor, whereas the low-pressure turbine is mechanically coupled to the low-pressure compressor. A single casing is used for the egress of the gases from the high-pressure turbine and their ingress into the low-pressure turbine.

Abstract: In a process for recovering mechanical work in a heat engine there is used as a working medium in the heat engine a gas to which vapor is added having a H-value lower than the H-value of the gas, the gas being caused to absorb the condensation heat from the vapor by condensation of the vapor under essentially isothermal expansion. A heat engine for carrying out the process comprises; an isothermal compressor to which a liquid injection mechanism is connected; an isentropic compressor; an expansion machine to which a vapor generator is connected; and at least one additional expansion machine with liquid separator; said compressors and expansion machines being included in a closed circulation system for the gas serving as a working medium.

Abstract: A compression module may comprise a hermetic helical screw rotary compressor having injection and ejection ports in addition to discharge and suction ports or may comprise a multiple cylinder, multiple level, reciprocating compressor. The module incorporates a subcooler coil and is connected to an outside air coil, a thermal energy storage coil, a direct solar energy supply coil, one or more inside coils for the space to be conditioned and a hot water coil through common, discharge manifold, suction manifold, liquid drain manifold and liquid feed manifold, by suitable solenoid operated control valves and check valves. The solenoid operated control valves are selectively operated in response to system operating parameters. Seal pots and positive displacement pumps may operate to force liquid refrigerant condensed at intermediate pressure to flow to the receiver which is pressurized at a pressure corresponding to the condensation temperature of the highest pressure condensing coil in the system.

Abstract: An air cooled centrifugal liquid chiller is disclosed which includes an air cooled condenser exposed to ambient conditions such that, during those times when the temperature of the ambient is at a relatively low level and the chiller is inoperative, refrigerant will tend to migrate to and condense in the air cooled condenser. If this accumulated condensed refrigerant is permitted to then flow by gravity to the evaporator of the chiller, the heat exchange liquid within the tubes thereof may freeze, causing possible damage. In order to prevent this occurrence, the conduit means connecting the air cooled condenser to the evaporator are provided with a trap portion disposed at a level above the maximum level of condensed refrigerant accumulation within the air cooled condenser, which trap portion is vented to a point in the air cooled condenser above said maximum level.

Abstract: A coupling for drivingly connecting power transmission shafts, has input and output members interconnected by axially-spaced flexible diaphragm means which permit axial freedom without angular movement of their axes as defined by inner and outer concentric spacer components to each end of which the diaphragm means are attached.

Abstract: The apparatus prevents the unintentional removal of a universal joint of the type where a tubular outer member is provided on an end portion of a shaft. In this structure, plural longitudinal directional sliding grooves are arranged in parallel one with another and an inner member provided on an end portion of another shaft is provided with plural spherical surface members. These may be spherical surface rollers, balls or the like. The respective spherical surface members are in slidable engagement with associated sliding grooves. An open end of the outer member has an annular closure member and is provided with concave portions facing the respective spherical surface members in the sliding grooves. The inner surfaces are formed into spherical surfaces substantially in conformity with the spherical surfaces of the spherical surface members.

Abstract: A selection mechanism for knitting machines in which each raising jack for lifting the needles is associated with a pusher jack which is placed opposite the poles of an electromagnetic array during each selection cycle. This array either holds the pusher jack, whereby it is held out of the scope of action of cams which apply it against the corresponding raising jack or does not hold it, so that said pusher jack is selected by one of the above cams. The holding or non-holding of the pusher jack is determined by a program unit which selectively energizes the coils of the electromagnetic array.

Abstract: Slider needles for use with warp knitting machines which may be used to provide a trick plate thread layed in around the needles includes a hook formed end portion and a shank portion with a groove provided therein. A slider member slidably cooperates with the groove and is coupled to the machine driving means. The slider member has one end portion extending from the shank to the tip of the needle hook end portion. The slider member is further provided with an enlarged cam portion displaced from the tip thereof, which is disposed within the mouth of the hook opening when the hook is closed in a first position and recedes towards the shank, opening the hook, in a second position.

Abstract: Apparatus for feeding a plurality of yarn, sliver or fibrous materials to a textile machine, comprising: a plurality of stationary supply packages on which said materials are wound; a stationary endless track having at least a working and a return section; and a plurality of feeding elements. Every feeding element is associated with one of said supply packages, wherein said feeding elements are arranged to run around said track in series in such a manner, that the distances between the feeding elements and the associated ones of said supply packages become gradually and alternately smaller and larger during successive runs of said feeding elements on said track. Said materials are held by said feeding elements when the relevant feeding elements pass through said return section, and are releasable for processing by said textile machine when the relevant feeding elements pass through said working section.

Abstract: A latch handle of the type having a lever which rotates about a shaft normal to one end is locked by a key-controlled pin engaging the second end of the lever.

Abstract: A combination push-button lock wherein a bolt is shiftably mounted in a body for movement between locked and unlocked positions, a rotor being mounted internally of the body and carrying an operator for unlocking the bolt upon predetermined rotor rotation, rotor being rotatable by selective movement of shifters generally tangent to and engageable in turning engagement with selectively located turning tabs on the rotor.

Abstract: A pick-proof lock cylinder is disclosed wherein a set of lock pins accommodates the cut notches of a key and biasing means are angularly disposed to the lock pins to abut and hold the ends of the pins in locking positions. Attempts to pick the set of pins are frustrated by the interference of the biasing means. The biasing means are offset to the axis of the locking pins so that upon withdrawal of the key, the biasing means keeps the locking pins in raised condition. At least one of the locking pins is in abutment with a driver pin, so that the driver pin is disposed outside the shear line of the lock cylinder in its housing, and whereupon key insertion, the lock pin driver pin abutment line is coincident with the lock cylinder shear line so as to permit rotation of the cylinder in its housing.

Abstract: A tumbler pin-type cylinder lock wherein the lock cylinder is mounted for controlled axial or axial and radial movement relative to the lock cylinder housing characterized in that the key and the cylinder have cooperating surfaces for axially shifting the cylinder toward the device actuating position. The cooperating surfaces comprise a conical depression on the lock cylinder and a cooperating pointed element at the inner end of the key. The conical depression is also characterized by having an opening in the center aligned with a counter bore extending axially through the cylinder.

Abstract: There is disclosed a Bramah lock which comprises locking lever bars mounted for longitudinal displacement and rotation, said bars having each two cuttings, thereby providing the lock with a double safety device as long as the bars are not actuated by the key to their unlocked position. The lock is therefore a double security lock offering an increased resistance to unauthorized attempts to pick it and a larger number of combinations.

Abstract: An improved drawing die apparatus is disclosed for reducing the wall thickness of a thin wall metal tube in cooperation with a floating pin or a fixed mandrel. At least three, and preferably four, wall thickness sensors are positioned in the die body in angular relationship around the outer periphery of a carbide draw die nib for indicating the wall thickness, and thus the eccentricity, of the tubing as it is being produced. Preferably, the sensors are contact type ultrasonic transducers which are acoustically coupled with a viscous couplant to flats formed on the draw nib in regions overlying a land region of the die. The acoustic coupling between the draw nib and tube is achieved through the O.D. drawing lubricant.