Abstract: A gazebo structure having an octagonal configuration with a base structure comprising corner posts and side panels. The roof comprises a plurality of triangularly shaped roof sections having radially extending beams at edge portions thereof. There is an apex center piece having a plurality of U-shaped mounting brackets, with each bracket receiving therein the apex ends of two adjacent side beams from two adjacent roof sections. The roof sections are prefabricated and can be erected into the completed roof quickly and conveniently.

Abstract: A worshipping system comprises a worshipping room having an altar, an area for storing a number of cinerary urns, visible means provided in said worshipping room for visually suggesting the movement of the spirits from the cinerary urns to the altar, and control means for actuating said visible means. When necessary codes such as the number of the family or the deceased concerned are inputted into the input unit of the control means, the visible means simulates the transfer of the spirit of the deceased from the cinerary urn to the worshipped object. This causes the worshippers of their ancestors to feel that the spirit in the cinerary urn has been united to the worshipped object through the visible means.

Abstract: An anchor plate for locking a plumbing conduit extending through a wall opening into firm assembly with the wall is a generally U-shaped plate that fits over the plumbing conduit and is soldered thereto. The anchor plate includes holes through which fastening screws extend into the wall. The lateral extent of the plate is no greater than a decorative wall escutcheon so that the plate is hidden behind the escutcheon.

Abstract: An enclosure comprises a plurality of modules arranged in a longitudinal direction. Each module comprises a pair of longitudinally spaced frames separated by wall panels extending along the sides and top of the enclosure. The frames are secured together by tensioned cables which press the frames together and hold the wall panels within channels formed in the frames. Two of the top wall panels are inclined at an oblique angle and have upper and lower longitudinal edges which bear against corresponding edges of adjacent wall panels. Portions of the inclined wall panels and/or adjacent panels are bent to assure proper engagement therebetween. Removable locking plates prevent removal of the inclined wall panels.

Abstract: An improved mudsill anchor is provided with tabs is its attachment arm or arms for fastening the anchor temporarily to a form board without nails to achieve significant savings in labor and improvement in lateral stability of the anchor during installation of a concrete slab foundation. Further improvements include a bendable tab formed from the lower end of the anchor leg for tying the leg to a reinforcing bar and a bent tab proximate the upper end of the leg that is embedded into the form board to prevent the reinforcing bar from pulling the mudsill anchor up from the form board.

Abstract: A wind-resistant inverted built-up roof construction is provided comprising a roof deck, a waterproof membrane overlying said roof deck, a plurality of closed cell foam plastic insulation material overlying said membrane, and a plurality of paving blocks overlying and supported by said insulating members in edge-to-edge relationship. A plurality of resilient members is secured relative to said membrane and extend past the insulating blocks. A plurality of hold-down plates respectively overlie a plurality of the paving blocks, and each plate is aligned with and secured to one of said resilient members in order resiliently to hold said paving blocks in place.

Abstract: In a window frame assembly having hollow frame members, a joint interconnecting the ends of two adjacent frame members is described. The joint includes a rabbeted miter cut and an anti rack and twist component. These features act synergistically to align and firmly joint adjacent frame members.

Abstract: An anchor channel for use in the construction industry is provided having outwardly directed protuberances in the web of the channel with openings therethrough which are penetrated by the shaft of an anchor bolt. The bevel of the countersunk head of the anchor bolt is fitted tightly in the protuberance the inner surface of which due to material deformation is attached by a press fit to the circumferential surface of the anchor bolt. The inner surface of the opening is the shape of a truncated cone and arranged with the smaller diameter directed toward the web of the channel. The thereby formed wedge between the surface of the opening and the anchor bolt is filled by squeezing or upsetting a connecting section of the anchor bolt which has a greater cross-section or diameter and projects along the anchor bolt shaft from the countersunk head of the anchor bolt.

Abstract: Facing panels can be fastened by the anchoring device of the invention to a building wall or similar anchoring base. The anchoring device has a pair of angular holders, each of which includes a holding part, fixable to the anchoring base, and a supporting part projecting horizontally. A bolt has an outer receptacle for the panels to be fastened and is formed with toothing by means of which the bolt can be mounted in the horizontal supporting parts adjustably and so as to be surrounded in a box-like manner over its axial length. For this purpose, by means of the toothing, the bolt is clamped on opposite longitudinal sides between two separate clamping plates which form the horizontal supporting parts and which are connected by means of tension parts located on both sides of the bolt. At least one of these tension parts is adjustable.

Abstract: There is disclosed a simulated thatched roofing which closely approximates the appearance and durability of thatched roofs. The roof structure includes a supporting roof structure formed of a roof frame and a base underlayment and a natural or synthetic fiber outer covering laid thereover which is formed of a base sheet, which can be woven or unwoven fabric, with or without a laminated layer of a synthetic resin, or can be a layer of a natural or synthetic resin in which a plurality of discontinuous loops of a synthetic or natural, raw bast or leaf fiber are embedded. The loops are cut to the ends of the fibers as tufts which are closely spaced across the entire surface of the roof covering, and which simulate the cut ends of reeds used in traditional roof thatching.

Abstract: In a packaging machine for packing in packages formed in a material web a printing means having type bars for printing on the material web reciprocally movable between a rest position having a distance from the material web and an operating position, and an inking wheel and drive means for moving the inking means in a direction transversely to the type bars and for applying ink onto the type bars. In order to eliminate the frequent exchange of an ink ribbon the inking wheel is designed such that ink is applied to the type bars only in case the inking wheel is heated to a temperature being above room temperature, and the inking wheel is disposed in a casing which at least partly surrounds the inking wheel and which is designed to be heated and to be moved reciprocally together with the inking wheel.

Abstract: In a method and device for barrel-binding and packaging articles, a first end of packaging material is pinched between a fixed seal member and a first pinching member movable with respect to the fixed seal member. The first end and a coupling end of the packaging material is pinched between the fixed seal member and a movable seal member confronting the fixed seal member with the articles bound by the packaging material. The coupling end is then pinched between the first pinching member and a second pinching member and a pushing-in member is inserted between the fixed seal member and the first pinching member in response to separation of the first pinching member for pinching the first and coupling ends. The first and coupling ends of the packaging material are then joined between the fixed and movable seal members while they are pinched between the seal members and thereafter the coupling end is cut by a cutting blade at the inserted end of the pushing-in member.

Abstract: A system for in-line processing of envelopes and the like includes a first upstanding feed hopper for feeding primary envelopes through a first printing station operative to print predetermined indicia on the primary envelopes after which they are conveyed in the direction of their major longitudinal axes through a plurality of inserter stations operative to insert special event envelopes between selected ones of the primary envelopes. The primary and insert envelopes are conveyed by conveyance means in-line past an ink jet type printer station operative to print particular cluster data on each successive envelope making up a set, followed by a station for the automatic collating and packaging of sets of envelopes into cartons. The conveyance means include a endless vacuum belt which holds the envelopes flat in a continuous stream and allows easy transfer to and from the conveyance means.

Abstract: A conveyor system having first second and third stations and a return conveyor in communication with and linking the first and third stations: The first station has a device to selectively feed pallets, one at a time, from the return conveyor to a position underneath an unpackaged work piece disposed on the first station portion of the conveyor system and help position the pallet with the work piece on top of it on to another part of the first station portion of the conveyor system, which conveys the pallet and the work piece to the second station where packaging of the workpiece is carried out, for example, shrinking a plastic sheet about the work piece. Another part of the conveyor system conveys the packaged work piece to the third station where a device removes the pallet from the packaged work piece, places the packaged work piece on another part of the third station portion of the conveyor and places the pallet on the return conveyor for return to the first station.

Abstract: A front attachment of a field chopping machine for picking and transporting stalk fruits standing in a row has a plurality of stalk dividers, at least four transporting passages inclined relative to one another opposite to a travelling direction, and a transporting element provided in each of the transporting passages, wherein two outwardly located transporting passages with their transporting elements are turnable upwardly to an inoperative position each one about an axis extending in the travelling direction and are fixable in this position. The outer transporting passages are turnable about the axle provided on a supporting frame of the attachment.

Abstract: The device for mowing and conditioning crops including a plurality of juxtaposed mowing rotors and a conditioner rotatably arranged around a horizontal axis immediately behind and extending substantially across the width of the mowing rotors. The conditioner includes a shaft with left and right pitched auger flights which join at approximately the longitudinal center of the shaft so that the cut hay is directed into a single narrow swath in the center behind the conditioner. Conditioning tools are secured along the outer edge of the auger flights and the conditioner is rotated in a direction causing an overshot movement of the hay from the mowing rotors.

Abstract: An adjustable mechanism for picking up, lifting, and laterally displacing a windrow in a field by the use of a toothed conveyor platform traveling at a canted angle with respect to the center line of the windrow being displayed for drying purposes.

Abstract: The process for replacing an empty roving bobbin with a full roving bobbin in a spinning machine, particularly in a ring spinning machine, in a dispensing position by an automatic roving bobbin changing device comprises taking the full roving bobbin from a storage location and putting the full roving bobbin in place of the empty roving bobbin. The full roving bobbin associated with the dispensing position is taken from one of a plurality of stand-by positions in the storage location. To provide a more automatic operation the process further comprises testing whether the full roving bobbin is present in one of the stand-by positions adjacent the dispensing position before beginning the exchange and when the absence of the full roving bobbin is indicated inducing a relative motion between the roving bobbin changing device and the stand-by positions until the roving bobbin changing device stands adjacent to one of the stand-by positions having a full roving bobbin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shuttle valve designed to retain fluid in a pressurized system when the cap or closure of the filler neck is damaged or left off. In a preferred application, the shuttle valve of the present invention is designed to be installed in the filler neck of an oil storage tank incorporated in a turbine engine of an airplane or other high speed vehicle. The valve head comprises a piston which is disposed to move slideably and is biased by gravity, or other means, to seat in normally closed position near the inner end of a cylindrical sleeve which is suspended coaxially from an annular flange in the mouth of the filler neck. The cylindrical sleeve has an axial length which substantially exceeds that of the piston, which in one embodiment is a hollow cylinder closed at one end.

Abstract: A compact, valve assembly (10) is provided having multiple chambers. A forward chamber (14) retains dual T-shaped blades (36) having shaped orifices (38) for controllably metering at least two fluids passing through the valve assembly. The valve assembly is also provided with a servo-valve assembly (70) and a piston indicator (62) assembly in cooperative association with the valve assembly.

Abstract: In a double air-fuel ratio sensor system including two air-fuel ratio sensors upstream and downstream of a catalyst converter provided in an exhaust passage, the actual air-fuel ratio is adjusted in accordance with an air-fuel ratio correction amount calculated by using the output of the upstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor and an air-fuel ratio feedback control parameter such as delay time periods, skip amounts, or integration amounts calculated by using the output of the downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor, and the calculation of the air-fuel ratio feedback control parameter is prohibited when the downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor is in an abnormal state.

Abstract: An engine in which a very lean mixture of fuel and air can be compressed, ignited and burned to completion outside of the cylinders of an internal combustion engine before it is introduced into a cylinder for effecting a power stroke. Two pistons operate together, piston one being for suction and piston two for power. Piston one introduces and compresses the fuel into rotating combution chambers, and piston two receives the burned fuel and air mixture to produce the power stroke. As the combustion chambers rotate, the fuel and air mixture is ignited by a glow plug. After ignition, the ignited fuel remains confined within the rotating combustion chambers to assure complete combustion. The expanded fuel powers the piston in the second cylinder and is then discharged as a clean exhaust.

Abstract: A displacement control for a variable displacement hydraulic motor wherein the control is a summing pressure compensator control which is responsive to the pressures of a plurality of loads so that the average, weighted average, or total pressures of the loads can be sensed to generate a control signal for increasing the displacement of at least one motor when the plurality of pressures have a sum or average above a predetermined level. The summing pressure compensator control can also include an overpressure sensing device which is responsive to the pressure of one load, or the highest pressure of more than one load, to also provide a control signal to increase motor displacement. The increase in motor displacement limits the pressure of the motor system.

Abstract: A pump supplies via in each case a directional valve a plurality of consumers with fluid, a pressure balance for load-independent division of the pump displacement being provided between each branch line branching off the pump delivery line and the directional valve. In a pressure regulating valve common to all pressure balances a control pressure is generated from the pressure difference between the pump pressure and the respective highest consumer pressure and is applied to all the pressure balances so that when the pump power is inadequate a proportional quantity reduction at all consumers is achieved.

Abstract: A hydraulic transmission has a pump and a hydraulic motor which are in communication with each other through a fluid passage and each of which has an eccentric or inclined movable member that is moved to vary the volume of liquid discharged by the pump or motor, the pump receiving an input rotation that is developed from the motor as an output rotation of a varied rotational frequency. The hydraulic transmission further includes a first element for urging the movable member of the pump in a first direction, a second element for urging the movable member of the motor in a second direction; and an actuating mechanism which moves the movable member of the pump a distance proportional to a control input, and which, when the displacement of the pump is varied, retains the movable member of the motor to keep the displacement of the motor constant, and which, when the movable member of the pump is retained at a certain position, moves the movable member of the motor a distance proportional to the control input.

Abstract: A liquid cooling system for an internal combustion engine supercharged by a turbocharger which consists of a cooling circulation for the internal combustion engine through which the cooling liquid is forced by a liquid pump, and of a turbocharger cooling circulation. The turbocharger cooling circulation is formed by a pipe line from the turbocharger to a geodetically higher expansion vessel and by a return line to the turbocharger. The liquid pump is inserted into the return line of the turbocharger cooling circulation which at the same time forms the return line of the cooling circulation of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A power system for use in converting solar energy into useful and stored energy available as output power capable of operating diverse types of power-driven units, such as electric generators, air conditioners, etc. The power system includes solar heat collector means, motor means a compressor system and power storage means. The solar collector system utilizes the sun's rays to heat a liquid medium, such as a refrigerant and convert it into a gas, with the expanded gas being delivered to large motor means. The large motor means is used in part to operate a power-driven unit and in part to drive a substantially smaller motor means operable to pressurize a compressor gas in accordance with the principle of hydraulic pressurization. The combination of the large and small motor means allows the pressure of the solar heated medium to greatly magnify the pressure developed on the compressor gas, which is transferred to the power storage system.

Abstract: The turbine vanes of a gas turbine engine immediately downstream of the combustor are maintained at a cool temperature by judiciously directing cooling air at the stagnation point ahead of the vane's leading edge at the juncture of the vane's airfoil section and platform.

Abstract: Apparatus and methodology for the ultralow temperature processing of metallic, carbide, ceramic and plastic parts and items to materially increase their wear, abrasion, erosion and corrosion resistivity, stabilize their strength characteristics, improve their machinability and provide stress relief. The cryogenic treatment processing is carried out in an insulated box-like treatment chamber which includes a perforated platform extending parallel to and spaced above the bottom of the chamber. Parts and items to be treated are supported on the platform and cryogenic liquid is introduced to the chamber below the platform in accordance with a time-temperature program which reduces the temperature of the parts and items in stages to -320.degree. F. by initial cooling of the parts and items by evaporating vapors from the cryogenic liquid pool in the space below the platform and thereafter by partial or substantial submersion of the parts and items in the cryogenic liquid. After a soak period at the -320.degree. F.

Abstract: A cabinet freezer efficiently utilizes a liquid cryogen refrigerant in conjunction with a spiral conveyor which conveys a product load through a temperature gradient within the freezer. The freezer has a lower inlet and an upper outlet for the conveyor and food load thereon. The escape of cryogen vapors created in the freezer from the liquid cryogen is controlled such that at least about 80% of the vapors exit through the upper outlet which is at the warmest zone established as a part of the temperature gradient in the freezer.

Abstract: A multi-zone thermal energy storage variable air volume heat pump system for capacity effective averaging of continuously operable heat pumps of varied capacity and each operable at its optimum capacity and assigned to a separate zone space, wherein variable air volume by-pass ducts and zone space dampers operate in response to zone space temperature, and characterized by a chilled water storage tank and pump circulating chilled water through one closed circuit, and a hot water storage tank and pump circulating hot water through another closed circuit and through a water conditioning coil, there being a downstream charging coil and a re-cooling coil in the supply air duct upstream from the air conditioning coil and each selectively in closed circuit through the chilled water storage tank, and the re-cooling coil selectively in closed circuit through the hot water storage tank, and control means therefor.

Abstract: A device for freezing foodstuffs on a tray cart includes a liquid cryogenic refrigerant spraying system for each side of the cart. The spraying systems are activated by reversible magnet valves. Rotary fans circulate the vaporized refrigerant. The fans are reversibly rotated for drawing in or blowing out the vaporized refrigerant across the cart shelves.

Abstract: A cooling arrangement for use in continuously keeping cool edible substances, such as foodstuffs and/or beverages, while being transported in a motor vehicle having an outside air ventilation system and an air conditioning system, includes a cooling box bounding an internal space for accommodating the edible substances and having an air inlet and an air outlet situated across the internal space from one another; and a cooling system including a first and a second inlet respectively connected to the ventilation system and to the air conditioning system of the motor vehicle, an outlet connected to the air inlet of the cooling box, and a three-port valve device interposed between the inlets and the outlet of the cooling system and operative for selectively connecting the first and second inlets with the outlet of the cooling system and for controlling the amount of air flowing through the outlet of the cooling system and then past the edible substances accommodated in the cooling box to be discharged through the

Abstract: A device is disclosed for air conditioning in a winter garden, more particularly for dehumidifying a winter garden in order to avoid formation of perspiration and condensation water, the device having a housing (16) in which first, second and third heat exchanger means (26,28,30) are selectively connectable to a compressor means (32). Communication between said heat exchanger means and compressor means may selectively be established in such a manner that the winter garden can be dehumidified, cooled or heated, as required. At the same time, the device permits heat from the winter garden to be recovered for use in the dwelling house (10).

Abstract: Improvements in heat pump systems having indoor and outdoor heat exchangers, at least two compressors, and conduit connections including associated compressor selector and change over valves operable to control the direction of flow of fluid medium through the heat exchangers from the compressors, and to control whether one or more of the compressors will be operating the system and in all cases to connect the operating compressor or compressors in series with the heat exchangers.

Abstract: A water storage tank for use in the fresh food compartment of a refrigerator comprising a surpentine shaped hollow body having parallel first, second, third and fourth straight sections serially connected. The first section has an inlet at the top end and the fourth section has an outlet at the top end. The first section is connected to the second section by a U-shaped curved section at the bottom end, the second and third sections are connected at the top by a U-shaped curved section, the third and fourth sections are connected at the bottom by a U-shaped curved section, with all of the U-shaped curved sections having an internal curvature in the shape of a teardrop. The four straight sections of the serpentine shaped hollow body are connected at the top thereof by air flow passageways.

Abstract: An improved heat exchanger assembly is disclosed and has a wall composed of a heat transmissive material and a plurality of sections of spaced-apart elongated fluid conduits also composed of a heat transmissive material disposed on one side of the wall for conveying a heat transfer fluid therethrough. The assembly includes an elongated filler member, which either has a solid outer surface or is a wire mesh structure, and which extends longitudinally through the space between at least one adjacent pair of the spaced-apart elongated fluid conduits or conduit sections. The elongated filler member is also composed of a heat transmissive material and at least in part spaced from the fluid conduit or conduit sections, thus defining at least one opening providing communication into the space between the adjacent pair of fluid conduits.

Abstract: The invention concerns a thermic machine comprising a reactor of the adsorption-desorption type, a condenser and an evaporator. According to the invention, the machine is constituted by a first vertical hermetic cylindrical tank section (1), traversed by a first hydraulic circuit (4) and containing the reactor, an envelope arranged at the periphery of the first tank section (1), which is connected to a second hydraulic circuit (6) and which together with the wall of the said first tank section (1) constitutes the condenser (5), and a second hermetic tank section (2) in communication with and arranged below tank section (1), the second tank section being traversed by a third hydraulic circuit (7) and constituting the evaporator.

Abstract: An injection cooling arrangement for a rotary compressor whereby the heat of compression may be reduced more efficiently. A liquid refrigerant line is connected to the high pressure side of the refrigeration system between the condenser and the expansion device at one end thereof and at the other end is connected to a refrigerant inlet path located within the compression cylinder. The inlet path is connected to an orifice leading into the compression bore. The inlet path decreases in cross-sectional area as it leads from the liquid injection line to the orifice. The orifice is sized to allow for the restriction to take place at the entrance to the compression cylinder.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for electrically interfacing a circuit operable at one temperature with a circuit operable at another temperature, comprising a primary cooling or heating surface disposed inside a vacuum chamber which is thermally connected to the first circuit. Transmission lines may extend through the wall of the vacuum chamber to the second circuit which can be located outside. In one embodiment, the first circuit is operable at cryogenic temperatures and is fabricated on an elongated fused quartz substrate together with the transmission lines. The first circuit may be thermally connected to the primary surface via a secondary surface, which may itself be thermally connected to the primary surface via a flexible support and/or a thermal switch. The use of a flexible element in the construction of the apparatus prevents thermally induced movement from shattering the substrate.

Abstract: A compact and easy-to-construct cylindrical counter-flow heat exchanger is provided for cryogenic refrigeration systems. It has an annular body, a helical pipe wound around and in contact with the annular body, and a sleeve which envelopes the helical pipe. A helical flow passage is formed around the annular body in contact with the helical pipe. A high-pressure fluid is introduced into a helical pipe, while a low-pressure fluid flows through the helical flow passage. Heat is exchanged between the two fluids through the helical pipe wall which is made of high heat-conductivity material such as copper.

Abstract: An improved male-female type connector assembly. A male connector includes hook elements while a female connector includes a composite of a flexible substrate having a knit structure with loops produced about at least a portion of same. Loop height, loop density and/or configuration of the hook elements may be varied to produce an assembly that is intended for repetitive connective, disconnect operations, or a semi-permanent structural connection.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for hosiery includes an electromagnetic needle selection system. This selection system includes pivotal selector devices which act on resilient pushers and which are pushed indiscriminately or selectively against the resilient action of the pushers by radially acting cams. The system also includes groups of electromagnets which are placed annularly around the cylinder to exert a retaining effect on the selected cams when they are pushed against these by radially acting cams. In addition, electromagnets are placed between adjacent retaining electromagnets and they are of a size not exceeding the gap between the needles and the adjacent jacks. The jacks are excited selectively by means of a program control in order to exert the same retaining action as the retaining electromagnets and to effect abandonment or relinquishing of a selector which is moving.

Abstract: This manufacture prevents an unauthorized removal of an article or equipment item, such as a typewriter, for example, from a table top or the like. The article is secured to a cover plate which includes a plurality of hooking members or ears on its underside. These hooking members in turn engage apertures the body formations for which are securely mounted to a flat plate that in turn is secured to the table top or mounting surface. To assemble cover and plate into a locked position, the cover and its ears are shifted in a direction for engagement of ears to apertures. In this position then, a tang on a cylinder lock mounted in the cover's periphery is rotated into abutment with an edge of the plate, and the lock locked. The cover can no longer shift in a reverse direction to disengage ears from apertures. Case-hardened sleeves are provided to prevent sawing of screws which secure cover and article together.

Abstract: A deadlock includes a casing, a front knob and a rear knob respectively rotatably formed on the front and rear walls of the casing, and a slidable latch reciprocatively mounted in the casing as driven by either the front or rear knob, wherein the latch is formed a triangular locking tongue having two inclined surfaces so that the latch can be conveniently used in a bi-directional door when opening the door either outwards or inwards.

Abstract: An auto-directing lever lock includes a case housing a cylinder (4) with a plug (3) mounted for movement therein. The plug includes a keyway (14) for accepting a key bit (7). A keyway opening (15) on the surface of the plug provides access for lever tumblers (6) to engage lever steps on the key bit. The key bit is detachable from a bow and shank section (8), and inserted in to the keyway through a key hole (39) in the case. The tumblers ride on a surface of the plug and are held away from the lever steps of the key bit during rotation of the plug, until the tumblers disengage the plug surface due to the keyway opening therein. The tumblers, when disengaged from the plug surface, fall onto the lever steps of the key bit to align gatings (32) of the tumblers so a bolt stump (28) may pass therethrough to retract a bolt (5) of the lock.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in cooling and/or drying or cleaning elongate material, such as drawn wire, tube or strip material, the apparatus comprising a chamber, which may be formed at least in part by a flexible tube, having an inlet and an outlet through which the material enters and leaves the chamber, and the chamber is connected via an outlet passage to a device which creates a sub-atmospheric pressure within the chamber. The sub-atmospheric pressure lowers the evaporation temperature of the cooling liquid which is on the surface of the material which evaporates and cools the material and the sub-atmospheric pressure causes air to flow into the chamber around the material in the region of the outlet and this airflow is at high velocity and wipes the material. The apparatus is preferably located on the end of a structure in which a drawing die is housed.

Abstract: A novel process is disclosed by which contorted or distorted sheet gauge steel and other metal scrap material, generated by stamping and other deforming metal-working operations, is flattened by rolls for the purpose of increasing its bulk density and to provide a scrap product that can more efficiently be transported and used for remelting in steel-making and foundry furnaces. The process involves the steps of feeding contorted sheet metal scrap between a pair of moving compressive surfaces, compressing the scrap to substantial flatness, and discharging the flattened steel scrap. The novel apparatus for performing the process is also disclosed.

Abstract: Tube forming apparatus for forming a tubular part having an enlarged diameter end section at one end with an adjacent short radius bend is disclosed. A straight length of tubing is magnetically positioned between die members and fixedly clamped with opposite ends of the tube projecting from opposite ends of the die. One end of the clamped tube is then enlarged to form the enlarged end section. A magnetic transfer device is engage with the other end of the clamped tubing and, with the die opened, the tube is transferred to a second position between the die members which are closed to clamp the enlarged end section only with the remainder of the tubing projecting from the die. A tightly fitting plug member is seated in the interior of the clamped end section and a bending member the bends the projecting end of the tubing against an anvil formed on one of the die members.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a diamond coil for a rotating electric machine comprises bending a straight conductor in a first plane at eight points so as to produce coil leads, coil ends, and coil straight portions. The conductor is next twisted about its longitudinal axis so as to bend the coil ends out of the first plane. The conductor is then bent in two in a second plane, which is perpendicular to the first plane and which includes the longitudinal axis of the conductor, until the two leads of the conductor point in approximately the same direction.