Abstract: An acoustical shield assembly and mating thread preguide unit include a series of acoustically insulated panels that substantially surround a sewing machine so as to be operative in attenuating any generated noise. A portion of the top panel, including a downwardly extending flange, is hinged to move between an opened position allowing access to the sewing machine and a closed position for mating with the preguide unit. The preguide unit is mounted to the sewing machine by a pair of adjustable mounting rods and includes two face plates spaced apart by means of a pair of spacer posts. Each face plate includes eyelets between the spacer posts for the passage of thread to the sewing machine. When the hinged portion of the top panel is closed, an elongated opening is formed between the downwardly extending flange and the top edge of the adjacent rear side panel of the shield assembly.

Abstract: A sewing machine thread guide is provided with a flexible plastic thread entrapping core portion, and a hard core encasing portion having thread supporting grooves in alignment with thread receiving eyelets in the core portion.

Abstract: A guide is illustrated for positioning packages for carrying yarn including thread and the like upon a creel wherein an elongated package positioning member has an outer surface tapering inwardly toward an end which is insertable within the package, said elongated package positioning member having a longitudinal bore which is loosely receivable upon an elongated package positioning member on a creel. An offset support is carried by each of the package positioning members for supporting a yarn guide for feeding yarn from the packages to a consuming machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing and winding strands formed of filaments to achieve good split efficiency on removal of the plurality of strands from the package for further processing, and to produce a package of wound strands having good edges.The apparatus has a filament forming means, gathering means to gather the filaments into a plurality of strands, rotatable winder to attenuate and wind the strands, a traverse vehicle guide, reciprocating means, and contacting means. The traverse vehicle guide has a base and angularly opposing sides that converge toward each other with one side being longer than the other. The sides do not touch each other and thereby form an opening for placement of the strands into a containment area formed by the angularly opposing sides and the base. The traverse guide deposits the strands in essentially uncrossed, side-by-side relation, and cooperates with the contacting means at each end of a layer to deposit the strands in grouped relationship.

Abstract: A ceramic guide for tape-like materials such as magnetic recording tapes, movie films, and microfilms, and a process for producing such ceramic guides are described. The ceramic guide is a sintered product of (A) 98 to 93 parts by weight of barium titanate, (B) 2 to 7 parts by weight of a silicate inorganic binder, and (C) 0.2 to 2 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of (A) and (B), of lanthanum oxide. The ceramic guide meets the requirements for guides for use in, e.g., small sized video cassettes, is non-magnetic, electrically conductive and has anti-static properties and, therefore, it does not generate static charge and has a low coefficient of friction during running of tape-like materials in contact therewith.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a rotationally symmetrical body formed of crisscross-wound layers includes a winding mandrel, a carriage reciprocating along the mandrel and a thread laying assembly mounted on the carriage. The assembly has a pivotal device, and four thread laying rollers mounted for rotation on the pivotal device. The shafts of the rollers extend parallel to one another and are situated at points of an imaginary equilateral trapezoid having a plane perpendicular to the roller shafts. Each roller has a plurality of circumferential grooves for simultaneously guiding and depositing on the mandrel a plurality of parallel-running threads. Two rollers are situated on one side of the pivot axis of the pivotal device and form a first roller pair and two rollers are situated on an opposite side of the pivot axis and form a second roller pair.

Abstract: Apparatus is described for feeding a wire from a wire coil to a processing tation. When wire is taken from a coil and fed to a processing station, because of the tension imposed on the wire, the wire end carries out uncontrolled movements which in arc welding are known as "pig-tailing" effects. In order to obviate such uncontrolled movements of the wire after issuing from conventional guide means, in the present wire guide apparatus the wire is guided with a radius of curvature r which is equal to the radius of curvature which the cylindrical spring formed by the cylindrically wound wire has in its relaxed state. The wire guide apparatus comprises a guide tube which is joined tangentially to the coil housing and which is constructed with a slightly curved shape. Connected to the guide tube is a mouthpiece which has a curved tubular duct the radius of curvature of which is equal to the radius of curvature r.

Abstract: A filamentary gathering apparatus, apparatus for forming filaments into a gathered bundle of filaments, and a method of forming gathered filaments into a bundle of filaments according to the present invention result in a reduced tendency of the filaments and/or gathered filaments to wrap around the gathering apparatus. The gathering apparatus is a cylindrically shaped gathering shoe having a height much smaller than the diameter of the shoe and having an annular recess providing for a peripheral groove in the shoe. The groove has a plurality of holes extending radially toward the center of the gathering shoe and up the side of the groove. The apparatus for forming filaments has a fiber forming means, an applicator, one or more rotating gathering shoes and a winder mechanism. The one or more rotatable gathering shoes have the groove with radially extending holes.

Abstract: A take-up mechanism for a winding unit wherein yarns, tapes or other strands are wound on tubes or similar supports. The invention particularly relates to a compensator wheel mounted for pivoting so that it maintains alignment with the strand passing therearound in all operative positions of the compensator wheel. In another embodiment, the compensator wheel configuration includes a concave curvature which may be used in a conventional take-up mechanism in conjunction with certain strands such as carbon fibers which may suffer edge damage during winding.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and package are provided for producing and winding strands to achieve good split efficiency on removal of the plurality of strands from the package for further processing and to produce a package of wound strands having good edges.The apparatus has a fiber forming means, an applicating means for applying chemical treating compositions to the fibers, gathering means to gather the fibers into a plurality of strands, a rotatable winder to attenuate and wind the strands, a slotted traversing guide, a reciprocating means, and contact means at each end of the reciprocating stroke of the traversing guide. The slotted traversing guide has more than one slot where the terminal portions of the slots have curved ends to retain a strand and are located directly behind the terminal portion of the preceeding slot.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and package are provided for producing and winding bundles of filamentary material to achieve good split efficiency of removal of the plurality of bundles from the package for further processing, and to produce a package of wound bundles of filaments having good edges.The apparatus has a filament forming means, gathering means to gather the filaments into a plurality of bundles of filaments, rotatable winder to attenuate and wind the bundles, traversing guide, reciprocating means, and contacting means. The traversing guide has angularly opposing sides that converge to meet and extensions protruding from each angularly opposing side to subtend partially the point of convergence of the angularly opposing sides. The extensions do not meet each other to form an opening for placement of the bundles into the containment area formed by the angularly opposing sides and extensions.

Abstract: A traverse yarn guide is provided for use with a winder which includes a cam, a cam groove and a guide slot. The guide comprises a metal guard plate, partially embedded in a body of synthetic material, the body having attached thereto a yarn guide of wear resistant material. The guard plate projects from the body on either side of the yarn guide to prevent yarn to body contact during yarn stringup. The body comprises at least one flange for retention of the body in a guide slot and a depression in which is inserted for pivotal movement a partially sheathed end of a shoe, made of synthetic material. The sheath is made of metal and rotationally attached to the shoe. The other end of the shoe is shaped to follow a cam groove and has a width of at most 0.457 cm.

Abstract: In a weaving machine having a warp stop motion feature which includes upper and lower vertically aligned supports for supporting contact bars and guide bars, the lower support being cantilevered to a longitudinal beam, the warp ends extending parallel to the upper supports and through eyelets provided in drop wires resting on the warp ends which are carried by an upper surface of the beam. The beam comprises a hollow body having a wear resistant element mounted along an upper side thereof, the element being replaceable and being of a material harder than the beam itself.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for serially winding a high speed running yarn onto bobbins without yarn stoppage between bobbin changes, and without loss of yarn. The method and apparatus includes at least two bobbin receiving chucks which are adapted to be serially delivered to a winding position. When the first bobbin becomes full, it moves laterally away from the yarn traverse guide, and the chuck with an empty bobbin and an associated yarn catching notch is moved into the yarn path of travel while being rotated, and with the notch being positioned axially outside the yarn traverse stroke along the empty bobbin. The separated full bobbin, which continues to receive the yarn, is then moved axially so that an end portion is aligned with the plane of the yarn catching notch on the empty bobbin. An auxiliary yarn guide is then moved to engage the yarn and terminate its traverse.

Abstract: An improved balloon-control guide for use in end-unwinding packages of crosswound filamentary yarn. The guide comprises self-centering means for permitting the guide to self-center, under yarn balloon forces, towards an axis representing the yarn balloon's energy center at any point in time. Use of the guide, in otherwise conventional beaming operations, results in significant increase in productivity.

Abstract: A boat steering assembly including a pedestal steering actuator for actuating steering movement, a rudder having a steering axis, and cables for transmitting steering movement from the pedestal steering actuator to the rudder. The assembly further includes an idler plate sheave assembly for guiding the cables from the pedestal steering actuator in a substantially vertical orientation to the rudder in a substantially horizontal orientation. The idler sheave assembly is mounted on bolts by adjustable nuts for adjustingly angulating the idler sheave assembly in relation to the rudder to guide the cables leading from the idler sheave assembly in a plane perpendicular to the steering axis of the rudder.

Abstract: A thread guide for drawing threads (3',4') overhead from two yarn bobbins (3,4) disposed coaxially one above the other comprising separate thread guide flyer arrangements (5,12) mounted by means of respective bearing bushes (6,13) provided for each yarn bobbin. The thread guide flyer arrangement (5) provided for the lower yarn bobbin (3) is mounted between the two yarn bobbins. The second thread guide flyer arrangement (12), which can be associated with the upper yarn bobbin, is also mounted between the two yarn bobbins such that the two thread guide flyer arrangements keep one another under control for the purpose of rendering their circumferential speeds uniform.

Abstract: A wireline guide for use in oil-well industry has three arms, each of which is made of parallel elongated trusses with support plates attached between the trusses. The first, lower arm is fixedly attached at 45.degree. angle to a collar of a pack-off assembly, the second arm is swivelly attached at its lower end at 45.degree. angle to the upper portion of the first arm, the second hand having a first pulley wheel rotatably mounted between the trusses at the upper portion of the second arm. A bumper is integrally mounted to the upper portion of the second arm in order to prevent contact between a travelling block and the wireline. The lowermost pair of support plates attached to the swivel arm are mounted at 45.degree. angle in relation to the trusses. A third, removable arm is mounted at its lower end between the angular support plates and extends vertically upwardly from the second arm. The uppermost reinforcing plates of the third arm are mounted at 45.degree.

Abstract: A continuous cable winch having at least one cable drum arranged within the winch frame, and a cable storage drum located externally of the frame for receiving a non-loaded cable section which is disposed with play in a guide which surrounds the cable and is located in the region between the winch frame and the cable storage drum. The ends of the guide are respectively secured on the winch frame and on the cable storage drum. The guide is flexible, and has radially open portions over its periphery. The guide may be a helical spring, the coils or windings of which are spaced from one another.

Abstract: A fishing rod has at least one fishing line guide made up of a ring-like body with a high resistance to deformation and wear or abrasion, it being joined to the rod by a winding placed round it and the rod. The winding is made up of a high-strength fiber material having a low ultimate elongation, such as, more specially, carbon fiber, aramide fiber, boron fiber, glass fiber or polyester fiber. The ring body may be made of ceramic material, sapphire or a high-strength carbide and it may be seated on the rod itself or be spaced at some distance therefrom. In the case of a preferred process for producing such a guide on a rod, two template bodies of silicone rubber are slipped onto the rod so that two faces, normal to the rod, on the templates, are opposite each other falling in a space in which the winding may be produced. One such face has a pin for positioning the ring body to be fixed in position.

Abstract: A yarn winding machine for performing open winding of multiple ends of yarn onto a bobbin wherein all yarn ends are to be substantially the same length and under the same tension. The machine includes a frame on which bobbin and bobbin receiving means are disposed; traversing means including a yarn guide roll and a yarn guide beak that is elongated so that it can contact the yarn package; and yarn guiding means spaced from the yarn guide roll a distance such that the enclosed lash angle of the multiple yarn ends between the guiding means and the guide roll is not more than 20.degree..

Abstract: A lineguide includes two longitudinally slotted sleeves 18 which fit on a fishing rod. These sleeves have apertures 16 and 22 extending transversely through them. The aperture 16 is circular and the aperture 22 is a slot extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve 18. A line housing 20 has two leg mountings 24 each having two transversely spaced limbs to straddle the apertures 16 and 22. The leg mountings 24 are pivotally mounted in their respective apertures by pivot pins 26. When the rod flexes one pivot pin 26 moves along its slot 22 taking up the change in spacing between the sleeves 18 and thereby reducing any stiffness in the rod 8 between the sleeves 18.

Abstract: A rod mill guide tube has a channel member of U-shaped cross-sectional configuration to which a cover member of T-shaped cross-sectional configuration is fastened whereby no seam edge is presented which a rod passing therethrough may contact.

Abstract: A method of making a tape guide pin or sleeve adapted to directly engage the back of recording tape or the like, comprises applying a surface layer of a nonmagnetic hard material on a base body of nonmagnetic material and then forming microscopic tips on the circumferential surface of the hard-surfacing layer such that the pattern of the microscopic tips extend substantially linearly in the transverse direction to the axial dimension of the pin or sleeve. These tips are then fine-finished and thereby rounded. The tape guide has improved wear-resistance and frictional characteristics by comparison with even tape guides free from the surface roughening formed by the microscopic tips.

Abstract: An adjustable wire guide for positioning wire within a given range of diameters on a predetermined intended centerline for the wire for feeding the wire into and/or out of equipment which will act upon or process the wire. It includes two pairs of rollers offset in parallel planes with each roller disposed at 90.degree. from an adjacent roller in another plane so that the wire passing through the guide is engaged at four locations equally spaced around it. Each of the rollers is moved through a camming plate and support structure towards or away from the intended centerline of the wire. The movement is achieved simultaneously through the use of spiral slots in the camming plate which receive pins on structural members supporting the rollers and move each of the rollers inward or outward the same amount with respect to the intended centerline of the wire.

Abstract: A strand guide reciprocable along a winding collet as part of a package builder and having an upper strand-reciprocating portion and a lower strand-flattening portion.

Abstract: The wire guide and retainer assembly of this invention is utilized with a wire dispenser stand assembly to dispense a wire strand member from the reel members mounted on a support assembly. The wire guide and retainer assembly includes (1) a first wire guide assembly; and (2) a second wire guide assembly. The first wire guide assembly includes a first frame support assembly secured to the support assembly; and a first pulley assembly mounted on said first frame support assembly. The first frame support assembly includes a pair of support arms having one end pivotally connected to the support assembly and a support shaft mounted between the support arms. The first pulley assembly is rotatably mounted on the support shaft and axially movable thereon. The second wire guide assembly is substantially identical to the first wire assembly with a second pulley assembly mounted on a support shaft member.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for serially winding a high speed running yarn onto bobbins without yarn stoppage between bobbin changes, and without loss of yarn. The method and apparatus includes at least two bobbin receiving chucks which are adapted to be serially delivered to a winding position. When the first bobbin becomes full, it moves laterally away from the yarn traverse guide, and the chuck with an empty bobbin and an associated yarn catching notch is moved into the yarn path of travel while being rotated, and with the notch being positioned axially outside the yarn traverse stroke along the empty bobbin. The separated full bobbin, which continues to receive the yarn, is then moved axially so that an end portion is aligned with the plane of the yarn catching notch on the empty bobbin. An auxiliary yarn guide is then moved to engage the yarn and terminate its traverse.

Abstract: A guide is disclosed herein through which a fishing line is trained which includes a U-shaped frame or yoke movably supporting a spool roller on ball bearing assemblies between sideplates which is provided with a reduced central portion for movably conducting and guiding the fishing line thereover. The spool roller includes end flanges which are inset into end caps while the ball bearing assemblies are carried on opposite ends of the spool roller. A mounting shaft extends through the spool roller and the end caps detachably mount the spool roller and bearing assemblies to the yoke sideplates via a threaded engagement with the shaft. Detachable mounting members retain the yoke onto the fishing pole via a plurality of thread windings wrapped therearound.

Abstract: A guide encloses a group of traveling filaments arranged in a pattern forming a main longitudinal axis. The guide comprises a carrier movable toward and away from the filament group. A plurality of relatively movable members are mounted on the carrier for movement between open and closed positions. Those members form a through-passage for the filament group in the closed position. An actuating mechanism is operatively connected to the carrier and members for extending the carrier toward the filament group, and closing the members around the filaments to converge the filaments. Thereafter, the carrier is retracted to a position where a longitudinal axis of the through-passage is substantially aligned with the main longitudinal axis formed by the filament group.

Abstract: Apparatus for winding a coil or wire or thread on a C-shaped core structure where the coil width is greater than the gap through which it is being wound comprising, a stationary pedestal having a stationary base and upper platform. A first arm having a central slot engaging a stationary pin on the platform slides and turns angularly. A block and shaft are connected to one end of the arm and are reciprocated by a motor driven cam so that the end of the arm moves in a straight line. At the end of the arm is a post carrying an upper other arm which extends in cantilever fashion over the first arm. Jeweled bearings on the upper arm guide a wire to the rotating C-shaped core structure. The free end of the upper arm extends into a pole gap between ends of the core structure and moves with the lower arm in a straight line while the arms turn and slide on the pedestal, so that the coil is wound uniformly layer on layer on the rotating C-shaped core structure.

Abstract: A device for dispensing and holding materials wound on a spool having a contoured peripheral edge on a spool end or spool end flange comprising a congruent, self-lubricious member capable of bi-directional movement along the contoured peripheral edge with a predetermined amount of frictional resistance. The member incorporating a material dispensing aperture congruently contoured to the cross-sectional profile of the material thru which the material is dispensed with a predetermined amount of frictional resistance. The member moving along the contoured peripheral edge when the spooled material is pulled away from the plane of the spool end or the spool end flange and generally parallel to the spool core axis during the dispensing process. When the pulling force on the material is halted, the dispensing ceases and the material can then be severed near the member.

Abstract: With the creel for a spinning machine according to the invention at least two rows of rotatably suspended roving bobbins, which extend essentially in parallelism with respect to one another, are adjacently lined-up. Normally in ring spinning machines there are employed for such creels roving deflecting rods which extend horizontally in the longitudinal direction of the ring spinning machine. The rovings extending from the roving bobbins to the drafting arrangements are guided around the deflecting rods for the purpose of guiding the rovings. If the deflecting rod is located behind the bobbins, then insertion of the rovings about the rods is extremely cumbersome, and additionally, there exists the danger of damaging the rovings. If the deflecting rod is located further towards the front, then exchange of the bobbins becomes tedious. These drawbacks are eliminated with the invention in that a row of substantially rod-shaped holders is arranged behind the front row of roving bobbins.

Abstract: A yarn tension device is disclosed which includes a generally hollow, cylindrical body having an open top and an interior channel of sufficient size to contain one or more tensioning balls. The body terminates downwardly in inwardly converging bottom walls within which are mounted a pair of diametrically opposed ceramic eyelets for yarn inlet and yarn outlet. A flanged roller is horizontally positioned at the bottom of the body in transverse alignment to a plane through the eyelets to apply tension to yarn passing through the eyelets. The body is formed with parallel, planar walls adjacent to the roller flanges to maintain the position and orientation of the roller during yarn tensioning.

Abstract: A rope protection device comprising several layers of canvass with spaced splints lodged between bottom and adjacent layers of canvass, said layers being joined at the periphery by sewing or the like wherein opposite edges of the canvass assembly are folded over towards each other to provide a channel for a rope therein including transverse spaced webbing binding the opposite edges of the assembly in a fixed channel forming position wherein the rope can be threaded through the opposite open ends of the device.

Abstract: A multiple package thread transfer alignment guide system for continuously feeding thread from multiple supply sources to a processing location under controlled tension conditions is disclosed. A thread transfer alignment guide device, including first and second eyelet openings interconnected by a tortuous path, is positioned in close proximity to the generally horizontally mounted supply packages and aligns the thread to enter a trumpet guide. Each eyelet opening is substantially aligned with the longitudinal feed axis of a corresponding supply package. The tortuous path means includes first and second rod portions spaced apart from each other and in overlapping relation to define a path inlet opening communicating with each of the eyelets. When the thread transfer is to occur from the first eyelet opening to the second eyelet opening, a momentary loss of balloon thread tension is experienced, together with a growing effect of tension along the new thread path vector angle.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for attenuating and collecting glass filaments are provided comprising a rotatable collet adapted to wind said strands thereon; a traversing means adapted to move the strands along the length of said collet, said traversing means having an axis of movement; guide means located adjacent said traversing means, said guide means having a plurality of spaced apart strand accommodating notches wherein at least two of the notches are contained in a reference plane that is obliquely oriented with respect to the axis of movement of said traversing means or axis of rotation said collet to facilitate the maintenance of the individuality of each of the strands being wound into said package.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a soot blower of the long retracting type. In accordance with the invention, a novel cable drive system is provided to impart a traverse motion to the lance tube of the soot blower. The cable drive system comprises a rotatable, cable-supporting drum, a first cable including one end fastened to the drum and extending from the drum to an operative connection with the traveling carriage supporting the soot blower lance tube and a second cable including an end fastened to the drum and extending from the drum to an operative connection with the traveling carriage on a side thereof opposite to the side which is connected to the first cable. The drum is selectively rotatable in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction and rotation of the drum is operative to move the traveling carriage in an advancing or retracting direction along a predetermined path of travel.

Abstract: In a spinning or twisting machine, a anti-balloon ring stationarily fixed around the bobbin spindle is first sand-blasted so as to produce a predetermined degree of surface roughness, then provided with a nickel coating in order to reduce undesirable excrescences followed by a copper coating in order to reduce friction and loss of yarn resistance while permitting much higher spindle speeds in respect of an acceptable rate of wear.

Abstract: A compact welding wire feed device is provided capable of being mounted directly on a welding head carriage. The device comprises a ball bearing having an inside race with tangential entrance and exit guides to the race adjacent to opposite axial ends of the bearing. A hub member has an outside diameter less than the inside diameter of the race so that the hub member can be coaxially received in the race and a welding wire passed through the entrance guide and wrapped around the hub and out the exit guide. By now side-loading or expanding the hub against the inside of the race and driving the hub rotationally, the welding wire is continuously fed out the exit guide. The coaxial relationship of the hub and race provides for a very compact structure thereby permitting mounting of the wire feed directly on a welding head carriage adjacent to a weld head or even permitting the feed wire itself to be used as an electrode in a MIG welding system.

Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus used to apply tension to heavy distribution wire or cable that is preferably made of rolling two cables in a wrapped form and is used when pulling the wire onto existing structures, and the method of accomplishing such with the apparatus. The apparatus has a frame with a pair of wheels; a guide for guiding the wire; lower and upper bull wheels; a brake connects to the frame and operatively communicates with the lower and upper bull wheels to maintain tension on the wire; and an adjustable tension swagger roller attached to the frame and positioned between the guide and the lower bull wheels.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for winding a multistrand roving package by guiding a plurality of strands along convergent paths of travel towards a winding mandrel employ a pair of spaced strand guide members in the vicinity of the mandrel. The guide members define a gap for the strands and are reciprocated parallel to the mandrel axis so as to alternately engage and deflect the strands into a side-by-side relationship in the package. The strand guide members each have strand guide edge portions so located that, transversely of the mandrel axis, they are offset towards the mandrel from a linearly disposed relationship to intersect the strand paths at different respective angles corresponding to the differences in direction of the strand paths, thereby to compensate for differences in the strand deflections resulting from the differences in direction of the strand paths and to improve the strand deposition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a snap in wire guide housing constructed of an elastomer material for use in securing a conventional metallic wire guide to a metal housing.

Abstract: A tape guide pin for recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a base body made of non-magnetic material; and a surface layer formed on the base body, made of non-magnetic hard material, the surface layer having the surface roughness whose microscopic tips are rounded. A method of manufacturing the tape guide pin for recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes the steps of: forming a base body of non-magnetic material; forming a surface layer of non-magnetic hard material on the base body; subjecting the base body and/or the surface layer to surface treatment for dimensional accuracy of circumferential surface; and fine-finishing for rounding the microscopic tips of the surface roughness formed by the surface treatment for dimensional accuracy.

Abstract: An outer ring frame and an inner ring frame are separately prepared and disposed coaxially in a mold die with an annular space therebetween and a synthetic resin is injected into the annular space.

Abstract: Capillary fiber bundles of semipermeable membrane material may be used by winding the fibers onto a reel member to form an annular assembly of the fibers, and thereafter cutting the annular assembly into separate bundles. In accordance with this invention, the capillary tubing is fed to the reel through guide slot means elongated in a direction generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the reel. The tension on the capillary tubing is sufficiently low to allow the capillary tubing to move about while winding in the guide slot means in generally random manner. Accordingly, the bundles comprise strands in generally non-parallel, crossing arrangement with adjacent strands. Individual bundles may be wrapped in a special flexible sheet, and cut at their ends for improved quality.

Abstract: A reusable guide device for use in guiding elongate filament such as wire from a coil contained within a package or carton, the guide device including a tubular guide member adapted to be inserted radially into the coil and having means for securing an outer end of the guide member within an opening in the carton so that the elongate filament may be paid out from the coil through the guide member. Restraint means in the form of a plurality of finger barriers are provided within the guide member and cooperate with the elongate filament to prevent its retraction or withdrawal back into the package.

Abstract: A spray head is carried on the end of a flexible hose guided for up and down movement in a chute by a length of roller chain which allows the hose to curve gradually from horizontal to vertical while providing a low friction support for the hose. The chain may be inserted endwise into the chute through a relatively small hole formed in the chute and in a wall surrounding the chute.

Abstract: A sensing device responsive to ballooning motion of textile yarns, and producing electrical sensing signals comprising a hollow or ring-shaped yarn guide body whose interior periphery is provided with motion responsive and non-responsive elements in alternate sequence.

Abstract: An improved airborne hoist for use in lifting a load, particularly by means f a helicopter, comprising a pair of rotatable drums, each drum being rotatable in an opposite direction, a drive unit intergeared through a series of shafts for providing rotation to the drums, a cable holding device, in the configuration of a supplemental drum surrounding each of the first said drums, and each cable holding device provided for rotating simultaneously in unison with the rotation of its respective drum, while at the same time being axially shiftable for providing a winding or unwinding of its held cable from a constant location. The pair of drums each hold, respectively, its own cable, thereby providing a pair of cables that furnishes an inherent safety factor in that a single mechanical failure of a drum does not result in a loss of its held load.