Abstract: A reformable, shape retentive hose having a precured tube located in a hose sidewall, and a reformable rod inserted in the precured tube. A method for making hose by placing at least one precured tube in the sidewall of a hose during the time that the hose sidewall is formed, curing the hose assembly with the precured tube in the sidewall, and inserting a reformable rod in a portion of the precured tube.

Abstract: A membrane keyboard construction and method of making the same are provided, the membrane keyboard construction comprising two circuit layers, a spacer disposed and secured between the circuit layers and having an opening passing therethrough to permit the circuit layers to be pressed together in the opening and thereby provide a switching function, a face plate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the face plate and one of the circuit layers and securing the face plate to the one circuit layer, the adhesive layer having a passage therein and leading from an area thereof that is aligned in superimposed relation with the opening to the exterior of the construction to vent that area thereof. The area is isolated from the opening by the one circuit layer and is vented by the passage to tend to enhance tactile feel and avoid false switch closure of the opening by tending to prevent entrapment of air bubbles in the area.

Abstract: A window spacer assembly is disclosed having tubular members interconnected by corner pieces. The corner pieces are provided with flexible fingers which create an interference fit with the tubular member ends and resist forces which tend to pull the assembly apart.

Abstract: A single retainer retains two sets of circumferentially separated rollers. The retainer is made from flat metal stock. A method for making a double row retainer bearing from strip stock is disclosed.

Abstract: Construction of impellers of various dimensions are manufactured from tubular hub stock and sheet-like blade stock by cutting a hub of particular length from said hub stock and blades of corresponding length from said blade stock and attaching said blades to said hub. The bore of the hub may be enlarged according to a specified support shaft diameter, and the overall diameter of the impeller may be altered, preferably by trimming ends of the blades prior to mounting on the hub.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a heat shield for an exhaust system component. The exhaust system component preferably is of tubular nonlinear configuration. The heat shield is formed from a larger pipe having an internal diameter greater than the outer diameter of the exhaust system component. Appropriately dimensioned inwardly directed supports are formed in the larger pipe. The larger pipe then is bent into a nonlinear configuration substantially identical to the configuration of the exhaust system component. The outer pipe then is cut longitudinally in half along its entire length to define a unitary nonlinear heat shield which can be mounted to the exhaust system component. A portion of the remaining half of the larger pipe can be reattached to the heat shield to provide an air gap pipe along a portion of the length of the exhaust system component.

Abstract: Method of making, from a strip, (for example metallic) a peg including a prismatic sheath from at least one surface of which extends a fin shaped so as to facilitate its downward penetration into the ground and increase its strength in the transverse direction, characterized in that the method comprises: shaping a strip adapted to form a plurality of pegs so as to define on each edge thereof a straight prismatic sleeve (1, 2) having all along its longitudinal dimension an opening (11, 21) extending along its edge which connects it with the intermediate strip portion (3) joining both sleeves to each other; and cutting said shaped strip both in a direction orthogonal to the generatrixes of said prismatic sleeves (1, 2) to form sections (A.sub.1, B.sub.1, A.sub.2, B.sub.2) the length of which is equal to the vertical dimension of the peg, and, in each said section, along a diagonal plane (A.sub.1, B.sub.1). The method can be used for making pegs for fences.

Abstract: A two cycle internal combustion engine may be fabricated by employing an improved method for forming a composite cylinder block. The cylinder block includes liners which are cut from sections of cylindrical pipe and which are positioned in a cylinder block either by an insertion or casting step, the cylinder block is composed of a different material. Prior to the insertion, the port openings are formed by punching.

Abstract: A method of efficiently using fiberboard (10) for insulating pipes (16) carrying high temperature fluids. Semicylindrical pieces (12) are cut out of the board, with the legs (14) of the cut pieces having a length approximately five percent longer than necessary. When these pieces are installed on a pipe, the additional material is compressed mainly near the ends of the legs (where the fibers are radial to the pipe). This selectively increases the density where required for efficient insulating purposes. In addition, a better sealing of the joints between adjacent legs is accomplished.

Abstract: A water deflector for securement to the inner panel of a vehicle door to prevent water from entering the vehicle body or wetting the inner door trim panel. The deflector comprises a sheet of polyethylene peripherally shaped for covering the inner door panel, and having permanently plastic and permanently tacky pressure-sensitive adhesive on selective areas thereof for attaching the sheet to the inner door panel.

Abstract: A machine tool installation enables the production of a variety of parts from a workpiece, and sorting of the parts so produced, on a fully automated basis. The machine tool has a numerical control system by which its cutting tool is caused to act upon the workpiece to selectively produce any of a number of different parts. The same control system is concurrently utilized to operate a sorting unit to position the designated one of several receptacles provided thereon to a point adjacent a common discharge location from the machine tool. The different parts produced are thereby segregated into substantially homogenous batches within the several receptacles provided.

Abstract: A method and a device for manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitors, in which a plate of ceramic material composed of several layers is subdivided in the green non-sintered state into separate capacitor elements. For this purpose, by means of notching members, notches of a given depth are provided simultaneously on both sides of the plate in such a manner that spontaneous ruptures are obtained through the remaining thickness of the plate. Due to this method, the contamination of the exposed electrode layers and delamination are avoided. By the use of a frame with resilient walls, the already separated capacitor elements are held together until the notching process has been carried out completely.

Abstract: A method of constructing a lens of the type receiving a collimated beam of input radiation for transmitting a narrow sheet of output radiation of substantially uniform intensity over an angular range of approximately + and -45 degrees relative to the input radiation beam. The method includes steps relating to defining the lens surface geometry and to implementing that geometry on a transmissive material having an index of refraction no greater than 1.6. The implementation of the method employs grinding and polishing steps which may be carried out by a disclosed lapping machine.

Abstract: A method for producing a nondirectional pen includes the steps of drawing a metal pipe to form a pen blank having three or more radial blade sections extending along the length of the pen blank and equally spaced angularly away from one another, each of the radial blade sections including an internal gap extending along the length of that blade section; cutting the pen blank into pen bodies having a predetermined length; shaping the forward end of each of the pen bodies into a substantially conical configuration; slotting the pen body from its tip to form longitudinal slots each aligning with the internal gap of the corresponding radial blade section; and providing a hard pen point capable of writing.

Abstract: A method for producing a nondirectional pen includes the steps of drawing a solid metal rod to form a pen blank having three or more radial blade sections extending along the length of the pen blank and equally spaced angularly away from one another; cutting the pen blank into pen bodies having a predetermined length; shaping the forward end of each of the pen bodies into a substantially conical configuration; welding a pen point ball to the tip of the pen body; slotting the pen body from its tip to a predetermined depth through the pen point ball to form longitudinal slots; and plastically deforming the pen body to close the slots.

Abstract: A connecting rod for a radial piston motor including a spherical surface portion, a rod portion and a pad portion having a sliding surface. The spherical surface portion, rod portion and pad portion are formed integrally, and the sliding surface has a bearing alloy attached to its surface by centrifugal casting. An overlay may be provided on the bearing alloy. The connecting rod is produced in a mass production basis by a method including the steps of integrally forming a star-shape cylindrical monolithic blank (18) having a single cylindrical centrally located axial opening and bearing six equally spaced outwardly radiating rod portions (2), each rod portion bearing an integral, substantially spherical surface portion (1) on its distal end; attaching a bearing alloy by centrifugal casting, to the centrally located axial opening in said blank (18); machining the surface of the bearing alloy; and dividing the blank into six pieces constituting six connecting rods.

Abstract: To make vane airfoils for an axial flow compressor metal strip is first contour rolled to a cross section comprised of two opposing airfoils separated by a center rib, where one of the faces of the strip is kept planar. The rib is used to guide the strip into dies where it is notched and slotted to define individual airfoils. Next, die stamping makes concave the planar surface of each airfoil.

Abstract: Method of making, from a strip, (for example metallic) a peg including a prismatic sheath from at least one surface of which extends a fin shaped so as to facilitate its downward penetration into the ground and increase its strength in the transverse direction, characterized in that the method comprises: shaping a strip adapted to form a plurality of pegs so as to define on each edge thereof a straight prismatic sleeve (1, 2) having all along its longitudinal dimension an opening (11, 21) extending along its edge which connects it with the intermediate strip portion (3) joining both sleeves to each other; and cutting said shaped strip both in a direction orthogonal to the generatrixes of said prismatic sleeves (1, 2) to form sections (A.sub.1, B.sub.1, A.sub.2, B.sub.2) the length of which is equal to the vertical dimension of the peg, and, in each said section, along a diagonal plane (A.sub.1, B.sub.1). The method can be used for making pegs for fences.

Abstract: A heat exchanger having a heat absorbing or radiating panel formed from a plate which is mounted in thermal contact with a pipe or series of pipes. The panel is mounted within a seamless frame member, joining means being interposed between the panel and frame member, to locate adjacent edges of the panel and frame member and secure them together. The plate forming the panel and the frame member may be made from a single sheet of material in a single forming operation.

Abstract: A pocket clip is attached to the tubular barrel of a writing instrument and the rear open end of the barrel is closed by pressing a pocket clip part over the rear end of the barrel and pressing an integral plug portion of the pocket clip part into the opening at the rear end of the barrel.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a piston ring is disclosed wherein web-like first metal member which will form a base of a piston ring and web-like second metal member which will form a wear resistant layer of the piston ring are separately fed and joined together. The joined web is subject to curving to gradually decrease a radius of curvature.

Abstract: A closely coiled multilayered element ("element") for use in filtration of gases, particularly with compressed air, is disclosed, which is a coiled cylindrically-shaped packing, spiralled about a common central axis where each successive layer essentially touches the previous layer. The materials of construction of the element are polyolefins, and, preferably for compressed air, polyethylene where the molecular weight may be as low as 2.5 million. The elements do not compress, thus keeping the void volume open in normal use for trapping both entrained solids and liquids, even if the liquids are dissimilar, such as oil and water. A method for manufacturing the invention which comprises cutting individual pieces of bed packing material from a solid core is also disclosed and the process of gas purification is described.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a piston ring is disclosed wherein web-like first metal member which will form a base of a piston ring and web-like second metal member which will form a wear resistant layer of the piston ring are separately fed and joined together. The joined web is subject to curving to gradually decrease a radius of curvature.

Abstract: The method of manufacture of a hydraulic cylinder in which a piston for the cylinder is formed from a steel workpiece which is rotated and a bronze overlay fused into its surface while it is rotating, the overlay being continuously monitored and machined to a precise diameter. Thereafter, spaced ring grooves are cut into the piston.

Abstract: An inner blade (15) for use in a reciprocating type electric shaver, including at least two support members (17) and a plurality of inner blade elements (16) mounted on the at least two support members (17). The inner blade element (16) having a pair of a first blade tip portion (19) and a second blade tip portion (19') is formed by folding, a blank (24) having a profile symmetrical with respect to a line (L), along the line (L) into a pair of a first inner blade element portion (18) and a second inner blade element portion (18') such that the first inner blade element portion (18) is brought into close contact with the second inner blade element portion (18').

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the manufacture of twice the number of equal lengths of single or ribbon conductors equipped at one end with plugs or connector shells and with insulation stripped at the other end by a device for simultaneously cutting the conductors and stripping the insulation off the conductors. In order to increase the output of the manufacturing process it is proposed that an additional cutting and insulation-stripping device be arranged centrally in the longitudinal direction of the processing machine.

Abstract: The method of manufacture of a hydraulic cylinder in which a piston for the cylinder is formed from a steel workpiece which is rotated and a bronze overlay fused into its surface while it is rotating, the overlay being continuously monitored and machined to a precise diameter. Thereafter, spaced ring grooves are cut into the piston.

Abstract: A method for making complementary pairs of race rings for rolling bearing assemblies from a unitary metallic base component formed with the raceways for the rings consisting of the steps of:a. forming at least one annular separation seam in the metallic base component defining a bridge which can be severed to form the paired bearing race rings;b. hardening the metallic base component;c. machining the raceways of the rings simultaneously or successively;d. plastic coating the base component to form housing sections adjacent the bearing and side surfaces of the race rings exposing the raceways and separation seam; ande. separating the base component at the bridge to form the finished race rings.

Abstract: A method for punching disc-like lock parts from a metal band or the like and for combining them to form lock mechanism units determining different lock combinations or the like. The punching of the parts to their final form takes place in a series of punching actions carried out by different punching units. Punching of parts having different details is carried out by having the pattern of the series changed for each punching stroke. In a final phase, the punched lock parts are separated from the band and collected in an order determined by a pre-selected combination code.

Abstract: A sectional gasket 11 includes corner junction members 12, straight junction members 13, and extension members 14. The junction members 12 and 13 each include a recess 19, and the recesses 19 each include axially extending laterally inwardly facing sealing surfaces 20 and 21. The extension members 14 each have a uniform lateral cross-sectional configuration along their entire axial extent. Each extension member 14 includes axially extending, parallel, laterally outwardly facing sealing surfaces 25 and 26. The sealing surfaces 25 and 26 extend continuously and without interruption along the entire axial extent of the extension member 14. The extension members 14 are characterized by the absence of any special tongue and recess at their opposite ends, and the extension members 14 are manufactured and stored in long continuous strips which are cut to the desired length and used in combination with the junction members 12 and 13 by the end user of the gasket 11.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plate-shaped permanent magnet (7) which is to be arranged in an air gap of a core (1) for a transformer or choke coil and which consists of a number of permanent magnetic portions (29) which are made of a metal alloy having a high magnetic remanence and which are magnetized perpendicularly to the plane of the plate. A plate (11) of the alloy is fixed between two insulating foils (13, 15) after which this assembly is arranged on a flat backing (17) and is rolled in two mutually perpendicular directions (25, 27) by means of a cylinder (19) whose outer surface is provided with grooves (23). The plate (11) is thus very simply fractured to form a very large number of portions (29).

Abstract: A method and tooling for making angle ring flanges from relatively light gauge sheet metal. The method starts with a flat strip of sheet metal from which two angle ring flanges are formed. The strip is rolled and butt welded into a band, the butt weld is broached on both surfaces at the weld line to the thickness of the sheet metal band. The band is placed in a roll forming machine between a set of two forming rolls which rotate and merge to rotate the band and form it into a ring of channel section with outward facing channel legs at 90.degree. to the channel base. One roll is male and pushes the center half of the band down into the female roll and the outer quarters of the band are forced into the clearance between the male and female forming rolls to form the standing legs or flanges of the finished channel section. The male roll has an annular central groove and the female roll includes a shearing cutter disc which is complementary to the annular groove.

Abstract: Two printed circuit boards are provided, each having a row of metallic pads located along an edge. The pads are spaced along the edge so that, when the boards are aligned with the two edges opposing each other, every pad in the row of one board is opposite a pad of the row of the opposing board. Each pad has a drilled center hole suitable for the insertion of a wire. The boards are opposed and spaced apart, and jumper wires are inserted to connect each pair of opposing pad holes. The jumper wires are inserted into the holes from the opposite sides of the pads and the ends of the jumpers are soldered to the pads. The jumper wires are then cut at points intermediate the two boards to provide a row of conductive mounting terminals along an edge of each board.

Abstract: Hollow fiber fluid fractionation cells such as used in artificial kidney machines are manufactured by placing a series of half sections of the longitudinal walls of the cell on the periphery of a winding wheel; winding fluid-filled permeable hollow fibers thereabout until the section is full or slightly over-full; placing another mating half shell over each fiber-filled section on the wheel and assembling the cell core; cutting the courses between each section and draining the fluid therefrom; putting an initial fluid potting compound about the courses of fibers and centrifugally casting the potting compound about the fibers at each end of the cell; cutting the fibers at each end within the area of the potting compound to re-expose the hollow cores thereof and placing end caps on and affixing them to each end of the cell to complete the assembly of the cell.

Abstract: A strip of fasteners such as pierce nuts is formed from a metal blank with no scrap resulting from the provision of a spacing between adjacent nut bodies, and without the difficulty and expense incident to attaching nut bodies to connecting elements. The body portion of a laterally flanged blank is severed in the transverse direction to separate nut bodies from the blank without fracturing the flanges. The flanges are severed in the longitudinal direction to form severed longitudinally extending flange segments integral at both ends with unsevered flange segments. When the flanges are straightened, the stretching of the severed flange segments resulting from shearing provides a spacing between adjacent nut bodies in the strip. The strip includes spaced apart nut bodies interconnected by continuous lateral flanges. The flanges include unsevered lateral flange segments integral with both sides of each nut body, and severed flange segments integral at both ends with the unsevered flange segments.

Abstract: A method for making decorative emblems, plaques, or panels comprising flow coating a clear, fluent plastic material onto the surface of a decorated substrate. Flow coating is accomplished with a multiple orifice nozzle (or nozzles) which is passed over the surface of the decorative substrate at a steady speed to give a uniform thickness coating of 0.020 to 0.030 inch. The flow coated fluent plastic is then cured and the coated decorative substrate is stamped to form slightly convex emblems, plaques, or panels.

Abstract: An arrangement for fabricating planar elements which may be stacked for producing predetermined surfaces and bodies. The planar elements have cross-sections corresponding to respective cross-sections of the surface to be constructed. The planar elements are formed by cutting them from plate-shaped material or sheet metal, and the cut-out elements are held to the parent sheet or plate material by tabs. The planar elements are cut successively from the sheet or plate-shaped material at spaced intervals. The cutting action is such as to leave the tabs for holding the planar elements in place. Registration holes are punched about the planar element, so that these may be readily stacked relative to each other, as required to form the surface to be constructed. Sprocket holes are also punched in the sheet material to advance the material along a processing path at which the various processing stations are located.

Abstract: A new extrusion die head and method of making the same is provided that permits two strips of elastomeric material to be extruded simultaneously and one above the other from a single core of extrudate. The head is particularly useful for extruding sidewall strips in the manufacture of pneumatic tires. The head design has features common to both conventional strip extruding heads and to heads for extruding tubular shapes, commonly called tuber heads. However, the head is quite different from both the conventional strip extrusion heads and the conventional tuber heads, and has the advantage that it permits two strips to be extruded simultaneously through passages that are relatively short in length and are no wider than the width of a single sidewall strip. The design of the head and the method of making it are such that the extrusion passage surfaces can be easily machined to provide excellent flow characteristics, and the entire head is easily fabricated and cleaned.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing a coreless separatory module utilizing a drum with outwardly projecting vanes having tips spaced greater than the desired length of ultimate bundle and after winding, sliding the bundle axially of the drum and cutting between vanes to produce the desired length.

Abstract: In a wiper assembly (10) for a windshield, a window, a headlight, or the like, including a flexor (20) for a resilient wiping element (21) having laterally extending tabs (45,46) and lateral indents (55,56) defined on the flexor by the lateral edges (33,34) thereof. A plurality of such flexors are cut from a sheet of material without substantial waste by orienting the flexors to be cut in abutting side-by-side relationship such that the tabs of one flexor are cut from laterally aligned indents of an adjacent flexor on the sheet. The pair of tabs (45,46) have axially spaced external shoulders (49,52) located near one end (30) of the flexor with one shoulder on each lateral side of the flexor and the pair of indents (55,56) have axially spaced internal shoulders (59,62) located near the other end (31) one on each lateral side of the flexor such that adjacent flexors are oriented 180.degree. relative to each other when they are to be cut apart from the sheet.

Abstract: A printed circuit board substrate is subdivided into sections, the boundary of each section being defined by notches which weaken the substrate and thereby permit the substrate to be fractured at the boundaries of the sections to permit the removal of a defective section. Printed conductors which electrically connect one section to another pass over the weakened substrate regions and when a section is removed, these conductors fracture at the boundary of the removed section. A replacement section may then be substituted for the removed defective section and its conductors connected to corresponding fractured conductors on the substrate.

Abstract: Process of fabricating hollow bead rings for the beads of pneumatic tires, said hollow bead rings having a radial cross-section with at least one interior partition which connects together two portions of the outer contour, is improved by using the following operations:(a) extruding, by means of an extruder whose orifice is equipped with a single mandrel, a hollow member whose interior partition is connected to a single one of said portions, the other end of the interior partition being free, and(b) deforming, in one or more steps, the radial cross-section of the hollow member until the free end of the interior partition comes into contact with the other portion of the outer contour.

Abstract: Machines and process for making in a continuous operation a prestressed glass reinforced, thermally insulating panel, structurally stiff, and totally impervious, of indefinite length and with a cross-section shaped as an elongated parallelogram.Steps for manufacture include making the surface of the panel out of a tubular envelope of knitted or woven glass fabric, stretched over a special holding frame, to give it the desired parallelogram shape. Fastened by a continuous knitting process to the opposite faces of the glass fabric envelope, other glass fibers are stretched inside the envelope and arranged according to three principal directions, all of them oblique with respect to the panel faces. The glass fabric envelope is then coated with a plastic resin to make it impervious to gas and covered on one face at least with a metal liner. This liner, made of cryogenic alloy, has its edges upturned and folded, so as to be fastened to the glass reinforced plastic envelope.

Abstract: A rail for a machine carriage has an elongate base plate and a pair of spaced supporting walls extending along and rising obliquely from the base plate and converging toward each other in a direction away from the base plate. A first lateral carriage track is located on top of and extends along one of the supporting walls, while a second lateral carriage track is located on top of and extends along the other of the supporting walls and in parallel to the first track. An elongate top plate extends between the first and second lateral carriage tracks and is spaced from the base plate. The base plate, pair of supporting walls, first and second tracks and top plate are integral with each other and encompass an elongate hollow space extending through the rail. Apparatus for supporting and guiding a cutting machine, a machine carriage, and a method of making a machine carriage are also disclosed.

Abstract: A stopcock with the exception of its shaft, journal and bearings, is constructed of a plurality of sheet metal parts welded together to form a housing and a plug rotatably mounted in the housing. The housing is made up of a tubular member with ring disks welded to its opposite ends. The plug is made up of ball-shaped half shells and annular disk cores welded to the half shells. A tubular plate is welded into the half shell and forms the flow passage through the stopcock.

Abstract: A piston-type safety lock device, of the type comprising a cylindrical rotor journalled in a cavity of a stator. Said rotor contains a plurality of radially slidable pistons cooperating at their inner end with the notches of a key for bringing their other end flush with the periphery of said rotor. Said other end bears against the inner surface of the cavity in which the rotor is journalled and, for one angular position of the rotor, against pistons slidable in the stator and elastically biased toward the rotor. Said pistons of the stator and rotor are flat blanked members. Said pistons are disposed respectively in a single slot of the stator and in a single slot of the rotor and have rectilinear and parallel lateral edges which are in contact with the lateral edge of an adjacent piston or the end of said slot.

Abstract: A method is disclosed wherein so-called pull-lock type blind fasteners are automatically and efficiently fitted and fixed to a plurality of apertures provided in a panel, or a plurality of aligned apertures provided in superimposed two or more panels to fix them together, with the use of a fastener assembly. The assembly includes a plurality of fasteners connected with one another in a head-to-head connected fashion.

Abstract: The method of manufacture and use of a magnetic field sensitivity indicator apparatus for evaluating magnetic fields applied to ferromagnetic material parts during magnetic particle inspection utilizing known defect indicators to establish the strength and direction of magnetic fields in the parts under test.

Abstract: An explosive-suppressive mass comprises layers of expanded metal of which each layer is arranged in a selected orientation so that its mesh strands are inclined with respect to the mesh strands of the layers adjacent thereto. This gives economic and other advantages in the manufacture of the anti-explosive materials.

Abstract: A microscopic length scale typically about 50 .mu.m long and graduated in several intervals ranging from 1 .mu.m to 20 .mu.m. The scale is useful in calibrating the magnification of scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and other electron imaging instruments. The scale comprises alternating layers of two metals deposited on a substrate. The two metals have substantially different electron emission coefficients to provide contrasting emission signals when scanned by an electron beam. One of the metals, preferably gold, is deposited in uniform layers about 40-80 nm thick. The other metal, preferably nickel, is deposited in several layers ranging from 1 .mu.m or so thick near the substrate to 20 .mu.m thick in the outermost layer. The resultant multilayer composite is cut into one or more samples and each sample is mounted on edge. The exposed edge is ground and metallographically polished and a microscopic indentation is made in the substrate near the first gold layer.