Abstract: A multi color wire marker comprises a base, a slideway, a carriage housing to which are mounted rollers for respectively feeding and gathering hot foil colored tape, a main ram housing and an anvil against which a wire to be marked is supported. A plurality of rollers carrying different colored tapes are mounted on the carriage housing whereby anyone of the colored tapes can be chosen to mark the wire by indexably moving the carriage housing until the appropriate tape is lying between the ram and the anvil. The ram which is heated to an adjustable temperature is then pressed against the tape which presses the wire against the anvil, the heat and pressure making colored products mounted on the tape melt off and color mark the wire.

Abstract: Wire rope is cleaned or otherwise treated during operation in a system or machine by surrounding the wire rope with a plurality of tools at a location fixed along the wire rope path, and causing the tools to spin around the wire rope by positioning followers to track in the valleys between outer helical strands of the wire rope.

Abstract: A lubricant applying device for use in a two-for-one twister, which is mounted on a tenser and is provided with a lubricant applying means on a face thereof contacting with a yarn taken out from the yarn supply package and running through the yarn guide tube. The device comprises a hollow container for reserving a liquid lubricant therein and a cap mounted on the upper portion of the container having a lubricant applying means provided on an outer face of the cap.

Abstract: An advancing optical fiber (22) is marked with a plurality of spaced indicia along its longitudinal axis. The indicia are applied by an applicator wheel (56) in the form of a disc which is mounted for rotation about an axis which is transverse to the path of travel of the optical fiber. The wheel has a plurality of marking teeth (70-70) arranged about its periphery with each tooth provided with a groove (72) for receiving increments of length of the optical fiber as it is moved rotatably. As the wheel is turned, each tooth in seriatim compresses a porous, resilient pad (80) which is disposed to one side of the wheel in a chamber through which the optical fiber is advanced to cause ink from the pad to be received in the groove of each tooth. Further rotation of the wheel causes ink to be transferred from each groove to the moving fiber. The pad is supplied with ink through a tube by a peristaltic pump (90).

Abstract: A marking apparatus comprises a plurality of containers of colored inks and a solvent connected to a mixing chamber and a rotating applicator. Insulated wire is marked by passing it through the applicator housing which collects the excess colored ink. The excess ink may be returned selectively to either the mixing chamber or a disposal container. Solvent purging of the system permits rapid changeover of colors.

Abstract: An improved glue application system is used in combination with a collating apparatus of the type in which a plurality of rolls are mounted on spaced spindles and webs unwound from the spindles are to be collected in overlapping relation. The improved glue application system includes at least one flexible tapered nozzle having a tubular body and a tip having an end which contacts a supported surface of a selected web at an angle normal to the supported surface, the nozzle being mounted on the collating apparatus such that the tubular body flexes in response to variations in distance from the supported surface to the tubular body so that the end remains in contact with the supported web during operation of the apparatus. The nozzle communicates with a source of glue by a conduit which carries a valve which can be remotely controlled to start or stop the flow of glue through the nozzle.

Abstract: A band marking apparatus for producing marking bands at spaced intervals along an insulated wire employs two ink jet dispensers located on opposite sides of the moving wire at longitudinally spaced stations. The dispensers are driven in an oscillatory manner by means of a tachometer engaged with the wire so that the marking bands are produced at uniform intervals regardless of the speed of movement of the wire past the dispensers. To insure proper registration of the band segments produced by the respective dispensers on opposite sides of the wire, an electronic controller for the dispensers includes an adjustable phase selector to regulate the phase relationship of the oscillating dispensers. The controller also includes other circuitry to maintain linear signal relationships and to center the oscillations of the respective dispensers on the wire.

Abstract: A yarn to be dyed at intermittent locations is continuously transported at high speed and in stretched condition past a nozzle supplied with dyestuff under pressure, with interposition of one or more rotary shutters such as disks with arrays of apertures of various configurations centered on the axis of rotation. Synchronization between yarn motion and shutter rotation may be achieved by designing the shutter as a grooved pulley or sheave with a frustoconical recess having apertures near the groove bottom through which a yarn entraining the pulley or entrained by it can be sprayed by a nozzle lodged in the recess.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for printing encoded markings on elongated material comprising a first disc (41) having raised lands (46) extending between central and peripheral disc regions, and a second disc (42) mounted to the first disc flush against the raised lands. A third disc (40) having raised lands is mounted to the second disc with its raised lands flush against the second disc. Means (61, 62) are provided for altering the radial position of the first and second discs relative to each other.

Abstract: For striping pencils, paint is extruded through die orifices in the walls of a passage through which the pencil is advanced longitudinally. The orifices are formed in lands which engage corresponding side regions of the pencil and guide the pencil through the passage. The passage is formed in a block having parts that are supported for relative movement along guide rods and are urged together resiliently. Each block part may have at least one paint reservoir with a duct extending from the reservoir and terminating in a die orifice. The paint, which is supplied to the reservoirs under pressure from a separate source moves longitudinally of the pencil in shallow channels as it issues from the orifices and spreads laterally to an extent depending upon viscosity of the paint, forming stripes of width greater than that of the orifices.

Abstract: An insulated conductor moves along two marking stations having tapered, oscillating nozzles made of magnesium, and whose tips are spaced from the conductors by about 20 to 30 millimeters; the ratio of the length of the nozzle to the spacing of the nozzle is about 6:5 to 7:5.

Abstract: In this arrangement a circuit is provided for generating deflection voltages for the coloring material marking the insulation of electrical conductors as the electrical conductors are extruded which compensate for distortions in the shape of color ring insulation markings when large ring spaces or high conductor extrusion speeds are employed. Two spaced spray nozzles are used to provide two streams of color material. These nozzles are disposed on opposite sides of the extruded electrical conductor, each of the spray nozzles provide one half of the color rings. The deflection voltage consists of a rectangular waveform with a semicircular top portion. A high resistance potentiometer is connected between the two spray nozzles with the wiper of the potentiometer connected to a high DC voltage source. Adjustment of the wiper renders the amplitudes of the two streams of color material equal.

Abstract: A method for space dyeing yarn wherein a rapidly advancing yarn is intermittently deflected into and out of a nip of a pair of rotating dye applicator rollers, such that those portions of the yarn which pass through the nip are subjected to a rapidly applied and substantial compressive force in the nature of a hammer-like impact in the nip, to cause the dye carried by the rollers to deeply penetrate into the yarn. In the illustrated embodiment, the yarn is advanced past a plurality of such pairs of dye applicator rollers, and an external pattern control acts to deflect the yarn into and out of the various nips in accordance with a predetermined program.

Abstract: An electronic arrangement for generating, from a reference value proportional to the rate of movement, for example, from an a.c. voltage generated by a means of a tachometer generator, two a.c. voltages which can be shifted in phase with respect to each other by a constant frequency-independent amount. An arrangement is provided in which a variable input a.c. voltage is changed to a triangular voltage of constant amplitude and proportional in frequency to the a.c. voltage. There is a first square-wave voltage derived from the triangular voltage and the triangular voltage is inverted. The inverted and uninverted triangular voltage are each applied to one input of two comparators and a manually variable d.c. voltage is applied to the second input of each comparator. The d.c. voltage is manually variable between the maximum and minimum amplitudes of the triangular voltage.

Abstract: Electrical wires and other continuous, elongate, flexible members having a three-dimensional exterior printing surface are marked with alpha-numeric characters by longitudinally feeding the wire past an electronically controlled ink jet printing head assembly that forms the characters by directing a positionable jet of ink onto the exterior surface of the wire. A wire feed transport receives the electrical wire from a storage reel and longitudinally feeds it through aligned guides establishing a wire guide path. The guide path carries the wire past a printing station at which the printing head assembly ejects a jet of electrostatically charged ink drops which are selectively deflected in a dimension transverse to the wire and in synchronism with the rate of longitudinal travel of the wire as established by the transport so that the ink drops impinge on the exterior three-dimensional wire surface in patterns which form the desired characters.

Abstract: The dyeing apparatus effects a programmed dyeing pattern on the travelling strip. This apparatus includes a housing provided with a through channel for passage of the travelling strip through a treatment station in the housing. Treatment medium such as a dye is delivered to the treatment station via a channel perpendicular to the strip. In addition, compressed air is delivered to the treatment station via a funnel-shaped channel downstream of the station to remove excess dye from the yarn and to obtain a clean well-defined dyed area on the strip. A similar funnel-shaped channel upstream of the treatment station serves to seal the elongated channel against the treatment medium. Also, an exhaust channel is provided to remove excess treatment medium and air.