Abstract: Apparatus and method in which a number of thin, disc-like wafers are moved in an arcuate path while supported in a generally upright position. While so supported, the wafers are indexed between a plurality of cleaning stations which may include a scrub station, a scrub rinse station, a rinse station, and a dry station. In the scrub rinse and/or scrub station, the wafers are rotated while contacted on opposite surfaces thereof by a pair of rotating brushes disposed in a closed position, which brushes may be moved to an open position to accommodate movement of the wafers therebetween. Furthermore, a bracket of unique construction serially moves the wafers into the travel path. Means for introducing the wafers to the path and for removing them therefrom are further included.

Abstract: An apparatus for electrohydroblasting of castings comprises a base, a bath, a mechanism for feeding castings into the bath, having a movable platform mounted in vertical guides, and a loading device. The loading device comprises horizontal guides and a means for conveying castings along the horizontal guides. The horizontal guides have a section disposed above the bath and sections mounted on the base. In accordance with the invention, the section of the horizontal guides, disposed above the bath, is mounted on the movable platform of the mechanism for feeding castings into the bath.

Abstract: A longitudinal automatic sprayer for cleaning glass containers based on two parallel conveyor chains on which transverse beams carrying individual baskets are arranged perpendicularly to the direction of transport. At the beginning of the conveyor, the individual baskets are automatically filled with the unclean glass containers by a transfer device. A delivery device for automatically ejecting the containers is situated at the end of the conveyor. Spray nozzles for rinsing the glass containers are arranged above the conveyor. The individual baskets are checked for breakage by a mechanical scanning device underneath the conveyor chains. At the same time, the scanning device monitors the positioning of the individual baskets appropriate to the working cycle.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating photopolymer printing plates, which have already been exposed, with liquid media, in which the plate, mounted on a vertically movable holder, can be moved up and down between an upper loading and unloading chamber and a lower treatment chamber, separated from the upper chamber by a partially open partition, and in which upper and lower rim elements of the plate holder seal the aperture in the partition in a vapor-tight manner when the plate holder is in its terminal positions.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling glass jars with lids as they move toward a labeling machine to receive labels thereon. The jars are initially disposed in a crate which holds a number of layers of the jars and, after being unloaded from the crate, one layer at a time, the jars are moved by a conveyor along a generally horizontal path and are subjected to a hot water spray for a predetermined time. In this way, the jars are preheated so that the labels will more positively adhere thereto. Also, the spray removes dust and water spots from the lids of the jars. After passing through the spray, the jars are directed, one by one, through the labeling machine.

Abstract: Rows of stakes rising from several parallel beams in a soaking pit form a multiplicity of compartments each designed to receive one or more slabs coming to rest on a pair of such beams. The slabs are carried hot to the pit and cold from the pit by a railborne transporter including a traverse provided with two sets of fixed vertical guide bars hanging down between the rows of stakes, these sets being separated in the direction of travel by twice the stake spacing and flanking an array of vertically reciprocable gripper arms lowerable to the level of the beams between the rows of stakes. The gripper arms, mounted on carriages guided by the bars, define with them two carrying cages, alignable with a pair of adjacent pit compartments, and are provided with retractable feet that can be alternately extended across the bottom of one or the other cage for supporting a hot slab to be deposited in one compartment and then extracting a cooled slab from the adjoining compartment.

Abstract: A chip washer which has its cylindrical upper part an upwards directed outlet pipe and an outlet channel for washed chips and in which the foreign materials separated from the chips sink into the funnel part attached to the upper part as its continuation, the funnel part having been linked by means of a valve to a tubular part to remove foreign materials. The washer is partly or entirely filled with a washing liquid which is introduced tangentially from close to the edge of the upper part of the washer in such a manner that the washing liquid is put into a circulatory motion forcing the chips fed from the upper part of the washer downwards in the circular space between the side wall of the upper part and the outlet pipe, whereby the chips freed from foreign materials pass into the outlet pipe and from there into the outlet channel, and the foreign materials pass into the funnel part and further through the valve into the tubular part.

Abstract: The initial quick freeze (IQF) pan includes a horizontal baffle plate about which liquid freezant is recirculated continuously in a flow path having a lower reversely directed portion, a semi-circular intermediate portion, and an upper forwardly directed portion terminating at a sharp crested weir adjacent which the freezant flow divides, the relatively high velocity freezant surface layer passing over the crest of the weir while the lower main body of freezant is recirculated into the lower reversely directed flow path portion. Food particles are dropped into the freezant as it flows along the upper forwardly directed flow path portion and are carried by the relatively high velocity freezant surface layer over the crest of the weir.

Abstract: A continuous sheet pickling line and apparatus therefor which embraces the concept of pickling sheets by passing them horizontally through a tank made of suitable material and so constructed as to hold a sufficient quantity of pickling acid as to permit the sheets to be completely submerged as they pass therethrough, certain of the support rollers for the sheets and drive gears and associated bearings also being submerged. The line and associated apparatus processes the sheets in one continuous operation during which the sheets are fed onto an entry conveyor from a pack, one sheet behind the other, whereafter they are processed while horizontally disposed through the pickling tank, sheet scrubber, drying conveyor, leveler, oiler and then stacked in a suitable piler. Provision is made to heat and agitate the acid within the tank and to control the acid level.

Abstract: An arrangement for cooling hot rolled steel bands reeled into coils, according to which the rolling hot steel band after having been rolled into coils are cooled in a liquid bath.

Abstract: A tray washing system includes conveyors which transport compartmented food service trays from a tray receiving mechanism to inverting and scrapping mechanisms and through washing, rinsing and drying mechanisms to a stacking mechanism. The receiving mechanism restricts trays to insertion in a predetermined orientation in which the food receiving surfaces face upwardly, and the inverting mechanism inverts each tray so that the food receiving surface faces downwardly.

Abstract: A commercial dishwasher comprising two or more modulars connected together through which dish-carrying baskets are moved for washing and rinsing the dishes, one or more of the modulars being arcuate-shaped so as to alter a straight line movement of the baskets into one where they are swung through a 90.degree. angle. By connecting two of the arcuate-shaped modulars together, it is possible to swing the dish-carrying baskets through an arc of 180.degree.. Therefore the dishwasher can be positioned in the corner of a room and thus make use of space that would otherwise not be used.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating cup-shaped workpieces in which the workpieces are positioned within a shape-conforming chamber formed with an outlet port in the base thereof and a conforming nozzle is positioned within the interior of the workpiece in close clearance-spaced relationship. The nozzle is provided with an axial port for discharging a high-pressure treating fluid against the central portion of the interior bottom surface of the workpiece, causing a high-speed radial outward flow therealong and thence axially outwardly along the interior wall surfaces of the workpiece. Upon reaching the open end of the workpiece, the direction of flow is reversed and is directed axially along the exterior wall surface of the workpiece, and upon passing the bottom edge thereof, the fluid is deflected in impinging relationship against the outer bottom surface, whereafter it is discharged through the outlet port and is recovered for reuse.

Abstract: A workpiece, such as the body of a vehicle is advanced in suspended condition in one of two transversely spaced paths until it is opposite a treating station which is located between and spaced from both of the paths. There are several such treating stations provided, spaced along the paths, and they are each capable of affording a different treating action. The workpiece is placed opposite the desired work treating station and is then shifted transversely of the paths to the treating station where it undergoes treatment, to be subsequently shifted to the other of the paths and along the same.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates generally to the treating of workpieces, and more particularly to a method of and an apparatus for treating of workpieces. Still more particularly, the invention relates to a method of treating a vehicle body or the like by providing it with a surface coating, and to an apparatus for carrying out the method.

Abstract: Equipment for cleaning metal or plastic parts by immersion in a tank-contained agitated liquid cleaning solution in which the parts are loaded into open side cages mounted on a powered carrier wheel immersed in the solution and having interrupted rotation to carry the parts from a loading station at one side of the carrier above the solution downwardly therethrough and upwardly to an unloading station at the opposite side of the carrier, the tops of the cages being slotted to accommodate mechanical displacement of the parts through the cages and the tank containing stationary barriers blocking movement of the parts through the open sides of the immersed cages.

Abstract: An apparatus for washing cereals to wash them in a cereal washing tank by a jet water rotor. The invention includes collecting the water-cereal mix and removal of the heavier cereals from the mix which overflows a receiver to remove lighter weight wastes.