Abstract:
Devices for spacing overhead, parallel subconductors of a conductor bundle and for damping vibrations of the subconductors. The devices each comprise elongated, rigid arms pivotally connected together at one end and at a common, center location of the device, and having a clamp at the other end of each arm for attaching the arms to respective subconductors. Extending between and physically connected to the arms are resilient wire cables providing the primary damping mechanism.
Abstract:
A safety vent is provided for an aerosol container which includes a metal closure member adapted to be sealed on a container body and having an integral hollow groove therein, an integral hollow rib interrupting and spanning the groove, and a score line in the groove across the rib to weaken the rib so that excessive pressure in the container will fracture the residual metal in the score line across the rib to vent the pressure from the container.
Abstract:
Recycle system for the recovery and reuse of the effluent gas and additional values emitted in production of aluminum by electrolysis of aluminum chloride.
Abstract:
An easy opening container component and a method and tools for forming the same are provided in which the container component includes a substantially rigid inwardly displaceable opening panel including a V-shaped weakening indentation therearound in the public or exterior surface of the component providing a fracturable web at the root of the indentation adapted to be fractured by inwardly directed pressure digitally applied against an integral outwardly projecting deflectable portion of the container component around the opening panel. The V-shaped indentation may be formed in the exterior surface of the container component while the opposite surface lies against a rounded anvil which forms an inwardly concave undersurface on the nonpublic surface of the container component, and may be formed in sheet metal without destroying the integrity of a protective coating on the interior surface thereof.
Abstract:
A forging die having an irregularly shaped cavity and a method of making the same. A cylindrical die has a calculated interference fit in a cylindrical shrink ring which is applied to it without welding or fusing, so as to prestress the material of the die, without detailed calculations of the stresses induced in the die by the ring and without making allowances for distortion of the cavity by the ring. Thereafter the irregular cavity is cut or sunk into the die. During the sinking of the cavity, stresses in the ring are partially relieved and distortion of the cavity is machined out as the machining proceeds. At such time, compressive stresses developing in the corners of the cavity will be limited by plastic deformation to the yield strength of the material. The compressive stresses remaining after the cavity is sunk provide a working stress range of about twice the range which would be available without the prestressing.
Abstract:
An improved racquet construction for paddle ball games and the like including a pair of spaced-apart opposed striking faces having sandwiched therebetween a honeycomb-like network comprising a light weight, high strength composition, especially aluminum. The honeycomb network conforms generally to the blade configuration and extends integrally into a handle portion for the racquet to become a part thereof. An edging strip, preferably comprising aluminum, is provided at the periphery of said sandwich construction and extends into said handle portion. The sandwich construction may be maintained by means of a suitable adhesive whereby said striking faces may be bonded to said edging strip.
Abstract:
A fire-retardant foamable latex carpet backing can be produced using large particles of alpha alumina-trihydrate which have been ground to a median particle size of about 6-35 microns and subsequently treated with sufficient water at a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient time to prevent collapse of the subsequent fire-retardant foam latex.
Abstract:
Recycled aluminum containers and other charges of aluminum or other metals comprising pieces and particles are rapidly melted by forced submergence in a moving stream or system of molten melting media. For melting aluminum the media can be molten aluminum or a molten salt. The charge is forcibly submerged by the action of a rotating wedge blade situated within a downwardly diverging conduit.
Abstract:
An electrode and method for electrostatically treating the surface of a substrate of continuous sheet metal material, wherein the electrode comprises a rotatable, electrically conductive cylindrical member onto and off of a segmental portion of the peripheral surface of which the substrate is continuously wrapped. The cylindrical member has its peripheral surface encompassed by a non-conductive material for engaging the substrate as it passes around the cylindrical member. The nonconductive material includes an insulating barrier for insulating the substrate from the cylindrical member, and outwardly opening cavities to provide an air space between the substrate and the cylindrical member, in the area of the substrate wrapped on the cylindrical member, to enable ionization of the air in such air space for treating the substrate surface wrapped on the cylindrical member upon application of a potential difference between the cylindrical member and the substrate.
Abstract:
Improved construction for a fluidized conveyor system for the bulk transport of particulate material to provide for the controlled bulk discharge of finely divided material therefrom. Included therein are angularly disposed discharge conduit assemblies intersecting the permeable floor portions of a transport conduit to interrupt the normal flow of fluidizing gas therethrough and provide discrete receptacles into which the particulate material may flow and accumulate in bulk without deleterious disturbance of the main transport stream thereof.