Abstract: This invention relates to a mounting tool, wherein contact springs are fixed in place on a ridge by a press-on unit. A mounting tool used for a simple and secure mounting of the contact springs is created because the press-on unit has a rolling body which rolls on counter-surfaces of the contact springs and presses the contact springs on the ridge.

Abstract: A tool for compressing a torsional spring for clamping a heat sink. The tool includes a base having an aperture extending therein for receiving the torsional spring and the heat sink. A first set of opposing jaws is pivotally coupled with the base for compressing the torsional spring in a vertical direction. A second set of opposing jaws is pivotally coupled with the base for compressing the torsional spring in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A device for removing and inserting drill bit retaining clips. The device having a casing rigidly connected to a base plate, the casing containing a piston, one end of the piston contacting a spring against the base plate, the other end of the piston having a nib, the piston also includes a handle, wherein the piston may be pressed toward the base plate allowing the nip to grip a retaining clip against the casing, so that the retaining clip can be removed or inserted while being held.

Abstract: A tool for inserting a flexible O-ring in a connector having a recess including a lip. The tool includes a base. A ram is mounted on the base for pushing the O-ring toward the recess. A sleeve is mounted adjacent the ram. At least one chamfered edge is positioned on either the ram or the sleeve for engaging the O-ring to cause the O-ring to flex inwardly during pushing by the ram to allow the O-ring to pass the lip and enter the recess.

Abstract: A tool and method for enabling substantially uniform and tight crimping of an intravascular stent onto a balloon catheter assembly. The crimping tool is constructed from a rigid cylindrical chassis sealed at both ends, having a hollow interior containing an elastic tube that partially occupies the interior. A piston abuts the elastic tube and forms a hermetically sealed chamber behind the piston and a closed end ofthe chassis. A port connected to an indeflator and positioned on the chassis provides an inlet into and out of the chamber. A stent that is loaded onto the balloon portion of the catheter is inserted through a central opening in another end of the chassis to position the stent catheter assembly within the axial space inside the elastic tube. The indeflator injects a fluid into the chamber thereby increasing its pressure which in turn displaces the piston into the elastic tube compressing the tube longitudinally.

Abstract: A rotatable wheeled tool for simultaneously inserting and staking a weatherstrip into a slot, said tool comprising a body having a channel extending longitudinally from a first end to a second end, said channel configured to accommodate a length of weatherstrip through the body having sides extending a distance beyond the second end to form two legs and a rotatable wheel having an inserting edge and a staking edge, and mounted axially between said the legs with both the inserting and staking edges extending beyond the legs.

Abstract: A tool to remove a retaining ring at least partially received in a groove of a cylinder has a handle lever constructed to engage the open end of the cylinder and a claw lever having a hooked end or claw constructed to be received at least partially underneath the retaining ring with the claw lever pivotally connected to the handle lever permitting relative movement between the two levers. The pivotal connection between the handle lever and claw lever permits them to be separated and joined together in a scissor-like fashion to facilitate engaging the claw with the retaining ring. When engaged with the retaining ring, the tool is pivoted about the cylinder to displace the claw and thereby displace the retaining ring inwardly and upwardly of the groove to remove it from the cylinder. The tool permits easy and non-destructive removal of the retaining ring and requires relatively low force and a relatively low level of skill to safely remove the retaining ring from the cylinder.

Abstract: The method of laying and clamping an elastic tubular covering on an element consists in using a rigid tubular support mounted on the element and previously provided with said covering expanded thereon. In the laying method and the corresponding assembly, flexible associated auxiliary means that are strong in traction and not stretchable are provided for temporarily mechanically securing the expanded covering on said support to said element on which said covering is thus mounted and positioned. The invention is applicable to use at an end of an electric cable or at a junction thereof.

Abstract: A corrugated plastic service pipe 20 is inserted together with a flexible guide assembly 22 through an accessible end 11 of a steel service pipe 14, 10, which extends from the end 11 to a main 18. The flexible guide assembly 22 comprises a flexible guide element 24 and a flexible spring guide 26. The element 24 extends through a nose-piece 32 having an outer part secured to the pipe 20 and an inner part 36. The spring guide 26 carries a sensor 60 at its tip which emits a signal when the sensor enters the main 18. When the pipe 20 is correctly positioned fluid sealant 70 is injected into the space between the pipe 20 and the pipe 14, 10. When the sealant has solidified sufficiently, the guide assembly 22 is withdrawn through the pipe 20, the inner part 36 being separated from the outer part 34 to allow withdrawal of the spring guide 26.

Abstract: An O-ring assembly tool for locating an O-ring within a groove formed in the end surface of a fitting includes a plunger having a cylindrical body with an end wall. A locator hub with a cylindrical body closely receives the cylindrical body of the plunger. A compression spring biases the plunger rearwardly within the locator hub, while a retaining pin allows axial forward movement of the plunger, but prevents relative rotation with respect to the locator hub. The locator hub includes an enlarged receiving end which axially and radially locates the assembly tool with respect to an end fitting. The cylindrical body of the plunger includes a flat annular engagement surface and when the plunger is pushed forwardly, the engagement surface pushes an O-ring forwardly into the groove on the end face of the fitting. The locator hub has a tapered inner surface at its forward end which radially-inwardly compresses the O-ring to fit cleanly within the groove.

Abstract: The support is designed to keep in expanded condition an elastic covering sleeve for elongated cylindrical elements such as electric cable joints and the like. The support comprises a tape wound spirally in side-by-side turns so as to take on a cylindrical tubular form and mutual constraint means between the turns to keep the tape in wound condition. In accordance with the invention the tape and the constraint means are provided in different materials.

Abstract: A crimping tool for progressively squeezing weatherstripping on an elongated thin molding such as around the border of a vehicle door.

Abstract: A stent crimping tool for firmly and uniformly crimping a stent onto a balloon catheter is constructed from a housing containing a silicone tube wherein the silicone tube is compressed by a thumb screw that is threaded into one end of the housing. The silicone tube has a passage containing a premounted uncrimped stent. The balloon catheter is inserted through the thumb screw and aligned with the stent inside the tube. Both ends of the silicone tubing are tapered and engage a tapered internal end inside the housing and a tapered recess inside the thumb screw. Advancing the thumb screw decreases the length of the silicone tubing and reshapes it so that the inside diameter of the passage decreases thereby crimping the stent onto the balloon. In an alternative embodiment, the opposite end of the housing is fitted with a second thumb screw. Further, the silicone tubing can be separated into two discrete segments by an annular washer located at a mid-point along the length of the silicone tube.

Abstract: The rubber plug fitting apparatus includes a temporary receiver (4) disposed after the feeder (3); a rubber plug holder (5) pivotable 90 degrees by a first drive means (29); a transfer pin (7) for transferring the rubber plug (2) to the holder (5); a wire guide (11) disposed opposite the holder (5) when the latter is pivotated 90 degrees with the rubber plug held therein, which supports a wire (9); a second drive means (37) for moving the holder in a rubber plug fitting direction; and a third drive means (36) for moving the guide (11) in the same direction. A waterproofing rubber plug is reliably fitted over a wire with high positional accuracy.

Abstract: A system for inserting O-rings into axially spaced annular grooves in a cylindrical cavity includes a cylinder for insertion to a limited extent into the cavity from one end, with a rod extending from the cylinder through the cavity; a sleeve for insertion to a limited extent into the cavity from the other end; spacer rings for selective mounting on the cylinder and the sleeve to selectively position the cylinder and sleeve relative to the cavity, whereby to cover all but one of the annular grooves within the cavity. A tube fits into the sleeve and over the rod to push an O-ring along the rod and into the one annular groove left exposed by the cylinder and sleeve.

Abstract: A packing puller and puller lifting tool are used together for extracting packing material or seals from a stuffing box, as used for sealing various hydraulic equipment such as motors, pumps, shafts, etc. The pulling tool comprises either a rigid or a flexible shaft with a bit attachment end at one end and a handle at the opposite end. The working bits may be interchangeable in order that the optimum configuration may be selected for a given job, and/or for replacement of a damaged bit. The shaft of the puller includes a series of lifting lugs permanently affixed thereto, with which a lifting or lever tool may be engaged to provide additional mechanical advantage in lifting the puller and packing from the stuffing box. The lifting tools may comprise a single elongate arm with each end having a different working bit configuration for optimum efficiency, or may comprise a lever arm with removably interchangeable bits so the appropriate bit configuration may be selected for any given situation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for introducing at least one cable C connected with a connector 20 into or through a grommet 30 having openings provided therefor. The apparatus has a second element 12 for at least partly accommodating the cable C and the connector 20 and a first element 18 for at least partly accommodating the cable C and the grommet 30. The elements 12,18 surround the cable C over its entire length and are movable with respect to each other while holding the connector 20 and the grommet 30 in respective positions to introduce the cable C into or through the grommet 30.

Abstract: A tool and method by which an inner oil seal may be installed in the hub of a wheel assembly which is in a normal upright position. The tool comprises a shaft with a tool mounting plate affixable to the outer end of a hub with the tool shaft extending axially therethrough and terminating in a threaded end. A seal locator and pusher is slidably mountable on said tool shaft from the threaded end thereof. The locator and pusher has a portion facing the tool mounting plate on which the inner seal may be slidably mounted. The opposite face of the locator and pusher is provided with a thrust bearing and thrust washer. The tool includes a nut engageable on the threaded tool shaft end. The wheel assembly is removed form its axle and is maintained in an upright position. The seal mounting tool is bolted to the hub. The inner oil seal is mounted on the locator and pusher which is mounted on the tool shaft from its threaded end.

Abstract: A machine for fastening a compression ring on an object to be fastened by shrinking the ring in which segmental actuating slide members are movable within a housing along circular paths with a constant radius about a center, and in which segments on the inside of the slide members are operable to move a limited distance in the radial direction; the segmental slide members are provided with internal surface portions of non-constant radial distance from a center, and the segments are provided with surface portions for abutment with the non-concentric surface portions on the inside of the slide members; an actuating mechanism operatively connected with the slide members causes the latter to close and thereby forces the segments to reduce the inside diametric dimension thereof which in turn causes compression of a shrink-ring held thereat.

Abstract: Apparatus for inserting a lens into the eye opening of an eyewear frame front includes a lens-seating surface on which a lens is placed. The lens-seating surface is reciprocally movable within a lower block. An upper block is reciprocally movably along a common vertical axis with respect to the lower block such that the upper block can be alternately raised and lowered relative to the stationary lower block. The upper block releasably carries a stretching cone which is placed on top of the lens on the lens-seating surface; the upper block is then raised while leaving the cone on the lens, and the eye opening of a heated front frame is placed over the stretching cone. The upper block is again lowered to capture the frame portion surrounding the eye opening, and the lens-seating surface is raised to force the cone through the eye opening.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for effecting an interference fit of two parts, wherein the two parts are held by a holding device such that the two parts are movable toward each other, and at least one of the two parts is accelerated by an accelerating device toward the other or each other in a direction that permits the interference fit, to give the at least one part a kinetic energy, for thereby achieving the interference fit of the two parts.

Abstract: A method and connector to connect a first shielded cable to another electrical element, such as a second shielded cable, is disclosed. The first and second shielded cables comprise a cable shield applied over an insulated conductor. The connector comprises a contractible opening with a shield connector, such as a spring clip, located on the inner surface of the opening and contractible therewith. The opening can be resiliently deformable from a biased position, which permits easy insertion of the first cable, to an unbiased or contracted position, which can frictionally hold the first cable. To insert the first cable, the opening is biased to the biased position. Upon insertion of the cable to an inserted position, the opening is allowed to resiliently deform about the first cable, such that the first cable is frictionally held in the opening and the shield connector is in electrical contact with the cable shield of the first cable.

Abstract: An insertion tool for insertion of a ring into a body defining an internal recess for receiving the ring including a ring holder and a plunger. The ring holder includes a ring end and a handle end. The ring end includes a stationary shoulder for engaging the body. The ring end includes at least one relief for receiving and positioning the ring. The ring holder defines a plunger channel extending between the ring and the handle ends. The plunger is slidingly positioned in the plunger channel. The plunger has a radius end adjacent the ring end and an actuation end adjacent the handle end. The radius end includes at least one radius for engaging the ring.

Abstract: A wiring harness shroud to enshroud a wiring harness. The shroud holds pigtails, takeouts, connectors, harness hold-downs and the like which otherwise extend from the harness against a trunk of the harness so that it can be inserted through an opening in a firewall or other structural member of a motor vehicle or other product for installation of the harness. Once inserted through the opening, the shroud is removed, by a zipper closure device which initially maintains the shroud as a tubular structure but can be released to open the tubular structure to facilitate shroud removal.

Abstract: A sipper tube insertion and removal apparatus is provided for easily and consistently inserting a sipper tube into a stopper with a hole and for also easily and consistently removing a sipper tube from a hole in a stopper. For insertion of a sipper tube into the hole of a stopper, the apparatus includes a sipper tube insertion head for holding the sipper tube, a stopper insertion platform for holding the stopper, and an actuator. The stopper insertion platform holds the stopper such that the hole of the stopper is aligned with the sipper tube, and the platform is disposed at a predetermined distance apart from the sipper tube insertion head. The actuator closes the predetermined distance between the sipper tube insertion head and the stopper insertion platform so as to cause the sipper tube to be inserted into the hole of the stopper.

Abstract: A bungee loader having a base and two fixed vertical posts with a movable cross arm sleeved over each post. The cross arm further has two descending arms that are slideably connected to the cross arm with sleeves. The descending arms further each have a fixed cross bar containing two fixed hooks. A self contained hydraulic jack attached to the base is operable to lift the cross arm and slideably attached descending arms. The slideable descending arms lift and load a bungee cord on a hydrasorb unit centrally secured in the base.

Abstract: A gasket securing device of a gasket mounting appliance is movable in its radius direction, capable of being put into an opening disposed in an object after mounting a ribbonlike gasket in its backward position, and, in its forward position, capable of pressing predetermined parts of the gasket against and fitting them into respective predetermined parts of an engaging portion prepared along the margin of the opening and, thereafter, pressing the rest of the gasket that lies between the fitted predetermined parts against and fitting it into the rest of the engaging portion.

Abstract: A rotatable wheeled tool for simultaneously inserting and staking a weatherstrip into a slot, said tool comprising a body having a channel extending longitudinally from a first end to a second end, said channel configured to accommodate a length of weatherstrip through the body having sides extending a distance beyond the second end to form two legs and a rotatable wheel having an inserting edge and a staking edge, and mounted axially between said the legs with both the inserting and staking edges extending beyond the legs.

Abstract: A frusto-conical thread protector on the pin end portion of a sucker rod is removed by a cylindrical housing axially surrounding, at one end portion, the thread protector and the adjacent end portion of the sucker rod. Stop means diametrically mounted on the periphery of the tubular housing at the sucker rod end portion projects inwardly of the housing wall in confronting relation to abut the large diameter open end of the thread protector for removing the thread protector from the sucker rod in response to a plunger axially projecting into the housing opposite the sucker rod and forcibly moved longitudinally to pierce the wall at the small end of the thread protector and axially abut the adjacent end of the sucker rod and separate the thread protector from the sucker rod.

Abstract: The support is designed to keep in expanded condition an elastic covering sleeve for elongated cylindrical elements such as electric cable joints and the like. The support comprises a tape wound spirally in side-by-side turns so as to take on a cylindrical tubular form and mutual constraint means between the turns to keep the tape in wound condition. In accordance with the invention the tape and the constraint means are provided in different materials.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for positioning an animal guard on a transformer insulator elevated a remote distance above the ground by an individual located on the ground is provided. The apparatus includes an elongated pole and a guard applicator. The pole has a first end positionable near the ground and a second end extendible so that the second end is positionable adjacent the insulator. The guard applicator has a first end and a second end, the first end connected to the second end of the elongated pole, the second end having a pair of outer prongs spaced apart a distance from one another so that the outer prongs are slidably positionable into a pair lateral loops formed on the guard.

Abstract: The pulling tool has a pulling head for gripping an insert, such as an ene valve seat or a pre-combustion chamber, and for pulling it out of a recess. A gripping mechanism for an annular insert, such as a valve seat, may grip the insert by its inner edges. Such a gripping mechanism includes a shaft that slides freely through a bore in the body in a direction parallel to the body. At the end of the shaft is a cone, which cooperates with at least two toothed claws. The toothed claws may be pivotally mounted on a lower extension of the body or may be integrally formed with one another as a collet and flex radially outwardly. The body may have a lever that, when depressed, lifts the shaft, pulling up on the cone, causing the claws to move outward, and causing teeth to penetrate the metal of the insert on its inner diameter to lock into the insert. A gripping mechanism for an insert having a central or eccentric opening, such as a pre-combustion chamber, may have a pivoting claw arm with a tooth on one end.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for inserting a supporting insert, such as a seat insert (bun) for a vehicle, into a cover, such as a seat cover for a vehicle. The apparatus of the present invention includes a bench upon which a cover holding assembly and a stuffing bracket are provided. The holding assembly comprises four self-adjusting blades which are substantially grouped together at the beginning of the fitting cycle. After an inside-out seat cover's open end is fitted onto the blades, the blades move away from each other into the corners of the cover to expand the cover to its maximum size. The insert is then positioned between the top (closed) end of the covering material and the stuffing bracket. The stuffing bracket then drives the seat insert into the inside-out covering material, gradually turning the material outside-out as the insert is moved forward.

Abstract: A hand held plastic rod gripping tool 25 is especially adapted for forcefully pushing thin cylindrical plastic rods into a resident pivot joint site between two modular links of a conveyor belt. Plastic pivot rods are difficult to insert manually because they are thin, and easily flexed, making them hard to grasp frictionally in the fingers at a stiff short section for forceful axial insertion. Also some conveyor modules require the rods or the modules to be distorted for snapping in over a barrier ridge thus requiring more force for initial entry. The tool 25 has a cylindrical knurled 26 hand grip body, of a diameter that permits a firm grasp, through which extends an axial passageway, typically a slot 27, for entry of the rod. A manually movable gripper assembly 45 is generally laterally movable to frictionally contact a rod 10 held within the tool body. Within an interior channel 49 at an acute converging angle 50 toward a rod 10 the gripper 45 is spring biassed 46 to move toward the rod surface.

Abstract: A handle applicator for applying a handle having an attachment ring onto a neck of a container by expanding the ring as the ring is being applied. The applicator includes a plurality of circumferentially positioned arms each having a distal end. The arms are moveable between a radially outward first position and a radially inward second position. In the second position, the arms generally define a diameter over which the ring can be positioned onto the arms. The arms also each include a ramp surface and these surfaces cooperate to define a frusto-conical shape when the arms are in the first position. The applicator also includes a plurality of fingers that are generally located radially outward from the arms and which are being biased such that arm contacting portions of the fingers contact the arms. The fingers are movable toward and away from the distal ends of the arms so that the arm contacting portions will engage and push a ring located on the arms up the ramp surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a tool connectable to a robot for automatic installation of a sealing joint in a fillister or groove. The tool can be used, for example, for the automatic installation of a sealing joint around a vehicle door. The tool includes a frame designed to be attached to the wrist of a robot, and to which a functioning part of the tool is pivotally attached. The functioning part works in conjunction with the frame by means of pneumatic jacks which flexibly and precisely adapt the motion of the tool to the contour of the joint or of the element housing the joint along the path which the robot causes the tool to follow.

Abstract: A plurality of lengths of window or door framing material which have weatherstrip receiving channels are disposed on a support surface (10). An operator controls (14) a carriage (16) to move from a home position to the opposite end of the support surface. The operator takes free ends of strips (18) of weatherstripping which extend through a pinch roller assembly (22). A portion of each strip near the free end is inserted into the channel manually and the free end is clamped (50, 52) in the carriage. When all the strips are started, the operator changes the differential pressure across the piston of a rodless cylinder (34) returning the carriage to its home position pulling the weatherstripping through the channels. At the home position, the carriage releases the free ends of the weatherstripping and the operator cuts the weatherstripping adjacent the pinch roller assembly. The framing material with inserted weatherstripping is removed from the support surface and the process repeated.

Abstract: Method for expanding tubular members, such as U-shaped heat transfer tubes having ends thereof located in the confined space adjacent the curved sides of the bowl-shaped lower plenum of a typical nuclear steam generator. The apparatus includes an elongate mandrel having a flow channel therethrough in communication with a resilient tubular bladder surrounding the mandrel. The bladder is flexible about its longitudinal axis due to the ribbed construction of the wall thereof. The mandrel includes a plurality of segments, adjacent ones of the segments interconnected by a ball-and-socket joint therebetween, so that the segments swivel about respective ones of the ball-and-socket joints. Thus, the mandrel and the expandable bladder connected thereto are flexible rather than rigid in order to be easily inserted into the tube ends located adjacent the curved sides of the bowl-shaped plenum and in order to easily traverse the upper U-bend portion of the tube.

Abstract: An insulating sleeve removing device including a base member having a planar upper surface and a planar lower surface. A side wall of the base member has indicia thereon. A shaft member having a cylindrical configuration is secured to a central portion of the planar upper surface of the base member in an orthogonal relationship. An upper end of the shaft member is receivable within a venting aperture of an insulating sleeve for dislodging a can from within the insulating sleeve when the can is positioned therein.

Abstract: A method of making a cleaning scrubber comprising a step of preparing an elastic and reticulate tube, which is fitted over a locating set of a molding tool such that the tube is forced to expand and that the periphery of the tube is pleated. The expanded and pleated tube is then fastened with two resilient cords such that two fastened areas are opposite in location to each other and that two resilient cords form a ring located between the inner and the outer sides of the tube. Finally, the tube is removed from the molding foot and released to allow the periphery of the tube to expand along the cords serving as axes, so as to form a spherical cleaning scrubber.

Abstract: A loop pin attaching device for tag hanging is provided with a drive lever which is selectively moveable between a first, unactivated and a second, activated position. A link is rotatably connected with the drive lever and a piston member is connected to the other end of the link, the piston member and link being selectively moveable between first, unactivated and second, activated positions. A pressing body formed with a pipe shape is fixed to a front face of the piston. An insertion guide is dimensioned to allow the pressing body to slide therethrough when the piston member is moved and to receive an insertion portion of a loop pin. A rack gear is rotatably fixed to the link adjacent the second end of the link, and a gear group, formed of at least a first, smaller diameter gear and a second, larger diameter gear, is provided, the smaller diameter gear meshingly engaging the rack gear.

Abstract: Tool for releasably engaging and removing one-way clips. The tool includes a handle coupled to a tool head. The tool head includes a set of cooperating jaws formed of relatively thin, flat members for releasably engaging the clip and collapsing the clip during engagement of the clip.

Abstract: A trim welt installation tool for installing a trim welt on at least one flange around an opening includes a support frame having at least one roller rotatably connected thereto for engaging a trim welt and a guide member operatively connected to the support frame for guiding the at least one roller along the trim welt.

Abstract: A method for joining a pliable, tubular joining component to one end, which is, for example, conical, of a base component, including inserting the joining component into a workpiece holder, holding the base component by use of a gripping tool so that the joining component and the base component are aligned coaxially, moving the gripping tool and the workpiece holder towards each other, delivering compressed air into the workpiece holder via a compressed air delivery channel for the purpose of widening that end of the joining component facing the base component, and pushing the base component into the widened end of the joining component. A device for carrying out the method includes a workpiece holder, a movable gripping tool for holding the base component, and a compressed air delivery channel coaxial with respect to the joining component and the base component.

Abstract: A pipelined system for removing the contents of sealed coin-collection boxes, wherein each box requires a set of different operations to be performed in seriatim to remove the box contents. The operations include removing a seal, opening a box lid, removing the box contents, resetting the lid and resealing the box. The pipelined system comprises a rotary surface for supporting a plurality of the boxes at spaced locations. Stationary surfaces mount a plurality of box-processing units, including pneumatic actuators and processing tools, at spaced stations to form a pipeline. The processing units each perform a different one of the processing operations during each processing cycle. A motor assembly pivots the rotary surface for stepwise positioning the boxes at different ones of the stations. A control system, including computer and pneumatic systems, causes the box-processing units to perform the different processing operations simultaneously on all boxes in the pipeline.

Abstract: Seal removal and installation tools for removing and installing seals from difficult to access locations. The seal removal tool is capable of gripping the seal without passing between the seal and the surface with which it is in sealing engagement. The seal installation tool is capable of simultaneously installing two seals on opposite ends of a shaft. The seal installation tool precisely aligns the seals and the shaft and positively locates the seal in on the shaft to minimize the chance of damaging the seal. The seal installer also gradually expands the seal to the diameter of the shaft so that stresses in the seal are substantially uniform during installation.

Abstract: A flexible belt is disclosed which includes a major segment and at least one narrow minor segment, the narrow minor segment extending from one end of the belt to the opposite end and being more extendible than the major segment when subjected to an externally applied tension. This belt may be a component of a composite cylindrical device including a rigid drum substrate supporting the flexible belt in a stretched condition. The composite cylindrical device may be fabricated by providing a preformed rigid cylindrical support drum having a predetermined outer circumference, a first end and a second end, providing a flexible belt having an outer surface and an inner surface circumference of at least about 0.

Abstract: An automatic tubing assembly device of modular design and suitable to utilization with thin-walled, flexible tubing is shown in several embodiments. The device includes a mechanical assembly for pure rectilinear motion to avoid tubing damage and an elongated jaw set (18) which applies a force to the tubing (45) over the fitting (1) involved and which flexes outward over the fitting (1). Use of a springed friction member (54) and sliding cam (21) act to achieve the rectilinear motion. The fitting (1) is supported along its length and the entire device is operable from one lever (7) which has only one degree of freedom and thus lends itself to assembly line automated uses. Additionally, multiple axis fittings can be accommodated through simple reconfiguration of the modular design.

Abstract: Tools for inserting a spout of a flexible bag liner into fluid-tight sealing and anchoring engagement with a discharge outlet of a container and for removing the spout from the outlet. The spout has at least two seal rings, preferably each having a pair of axially spaced and radially outwardly extending lobes, for firmly frictionally engaging the container discharge outlet to provide a fluid-tight seal between the spout and outlet and to anchor the liner within the container. The tools have a collet carried by a shaft for releasably engaging the spout to apply force to the spout during operation of the tools. In one form the tools are actuated by a hydraulic or pneumatic drive and in another form the tools are manually actuated by pivotally moving a lever arm.

Abstract: A seal puller for removing worn seals from transmissions and like equipment. The seal puller includes a planar body having opposed top and bottom surfaces and a threaded transverse bore. A plurality are positioned adjacent the transverse bore. A bolt is threadably secured within the transverse bore. The bolt has a threaded rod portion which may be projected from the transverse bore beneath the bottom surface of the body.