Abstract: A machine for conveying container bodies for heat sealing of surfaces thereof is disclosed. Structure is provided for introducing heated air to said surfaces while the bodies are moving in a conveyor path and for modulating the temperature of the heated air in accordance with sensor means disposed in relationship to the surfaces to be heated.

Abstract: Cylindrical two-piece cans are decorated with thermally curable inks and coatings and are placed on generally horizontally extending pins of a pin-chain conveyor. The cans are then moved through a flame drying chamber to dry the inks and coatings by direct impingement of flame on the can surface. The cans are thereafter moved through a cooling chamber and then are discharged from the pin-chain conveyor which circulates back to the decorator unit to receive newly decorated cans. The pins of the pin-chain conveyor can be at an angle to the horizontal and the pins can have brushes or the like to grip the internal surface of the can. The flame dryer unit consists of gas and air-fed burner heads disposed in one of several different patterns along the path taken by the cans through the flame dryer housing. Flame impinges directly on the can and the can moves through the tunnel at a speed sufficient to prevent heat damage to the can.

Abstract: Apparatus for decorating cylindrical containers is provided with a compact-curing section mounted directly thereto. The curing section includes a subassembly pivotally mounted for movement between an operating and a servicing position. The subassembly includes a liquid-cooled main reflector, an arcuate array of elongated ultra-violet lamps, and air-cooled chambers wherein the lamp terminals are disposed. A liquid-cooled shutter is provided to shield those containers stopped in the curing section.

Abstract: The end of a tubular member to be heated is received in an annular space between a central core and a shroud. Hot gas passes through passageways in the central core against the inside surface of the tubular member, then along the inside surface to the end of the tubular member, and then along the outside surface of the tubular member. At least one of the flow of hot gas along the inside surface and the flow of hot gas along the outside surface of the tubular member is caused to follow a spiral path.

Abstract: Deburring of metal articles and parts in a combustion chamber process is accomplished in a machine requiring only a short stroke to open and close the combustion chamber in the processing of a series of articles or parts. Only the cap plate of the combustion chamber is fixed to the upper part of the vertical frame of the machine, it being provided with the inlet for the combustion gases, and the hollow cylinder and bottom plate form a mating unit of the combustion chamber, of which a number may be provided for sequential operation, which may travel into the work position and out of it on conveyor rails. Compression to seal the parts of the combustion chamber together during combustion processing is provided by a hydraulic or pneumatic piston drive mounted on the bottom portion of the frame to bear against the bottom plate of the particular interchangeable combustion chamber unit that is located in the work position.

Abstract: An apparatus for the edge heating of sickle blades having a pair of magazines for retaining a vertical stack of blades therein, a pair of heat-treating stations located inwardly of the magazines and a discharge chute between the stations. A guide and rod assembly is reciprocated by an eccentric between two positions for feeding a blade from a magazine to a heat-treating station and removing the treated blade from the heat-treating station to discharge the blade into a discharge chute.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying a chemical product containing a burnable liquid by igniting and burning the liquid from the product, consisting of means for contacting the product with a burnable liquid, means for feeding the product and means for cooling the product and liquid to a temperature below the ignition temperature of the liquid, continuous conveyer means for transporting the product to a burning chamber, the burning chamber having inlet means for the product, combustion air inlet means, ignition means for igniting the burnable liquid and outlet means for hot combustion gases and outlet means for the dried product.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying a material containing a burnable organic liquid by igniting and burning the liquid from the material, consisting of an enclosed burning chamber having at one end an inlet for the material to be dried, a combustion air inlet and an ignition means for igniting the burnable organic liquid and having at the opposite end transport means for drawing the material through the chamber, an outlet means for hot combustion gases and an outlet means for dried material.

Abstract: Apparatus for fixing electrophotographic images produced by an electrophotographic copying machine, comprising a conveyor belt for transporting image bearing sheets on its upper run and a planar heater which extends substantially parallel to the upper run and is disposed closely above it but out of contact with the sheets.

Abstract: In an electrostatic copier of the type which utilizes a liquid developer for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a copy sheet as a result of which the copy sheet becomes wet, there is provided improved apparatus for drying the wet copy sheet. The drying apparatus includes a movable belt, made of a strip of imperforate heat conductive material, for transporting the wet copy sheet in a predetermined path of travel through the drying station of the copier. The drying apparatus also includes a cover for deflecting air which is normally utilized for drying purposes, away from a portion of the belt so as to form first and second drying regions in the path of travel of the wet copy sheet. The drying apparatus additionally includes means for heating the moving belt at the first drying region, for urging liquid developer carried by the wet copy sheet towards the surface of the same which is disposed out of contact with the moving belt.

Abstract: Flash fusing method and apparatus for fusing toner images onto flexible support material in which the support material is transported in a cylindrical path encircling the flash fusing lamp. The support material is a web or alternatively is in the form of copy sheets tacked onto a transport belt either by electrostatic tacking or by a vacuum transport and then advanced in a circular path around the flash with the toner images facing the flash lamp and receiving a uniform radiation therefrom.