Abstract:
The apparatus includes a shaker platform fixture having a mounting face upon which is supported a movable specimen mounting fixture. The specimen mounting fixture is pivotally movable relative to an axis perpendicular to the plane of the mounting face of the platform fixture and holds a specimen to be vibrated along its orthogonal axes. The mounting face of the platform fixture is provided with the necessary angle of incline relative to the plane of vibration, and the specimen mounting fixture is provided with mounting faces having the necessary angle of incline relative to the mounting faces of the platform fixture, such that turning of the specimen mounting fixture about its pivotal axis will expose the mounted specimen to vibration along each of its major orthogonal axes. A shaker platform is provided of a configuration having a mounting face of such angular incline to the plane of vibration so that the specimen to be vibrated may be attached directly to this face, and, in turning of the specimen along an axis perpendicular to said mounting face, subject the same to vibration along a number of other orthogonal axes.
Abstract:
An improved Geneva mechanism characterized by a driven starwheel having a segmented cam-follower surface and a star-wheel driver including a restraining cam having a segmented cam surface for engaging the cam-follower surface of the star-wheel and antifriction rollers pinned to the restraining cam for engaging the cam-follower surface of the star-wheel.
Abstract:
A variable resistance device which includes a cylindrical housing having elongated resistance wires fixed thereto. A movable arm having a supporting block carried on the outer end thereof is rotatably carried by the cylindrical housing. An arcuate steel spring member is pivotally supported by the movable arm. A leather wiper member is carried adjacent one end of the spring steel member, and an electrically conductive surface is carried adjacent the other end. The supporting block maintains the spring steel member in compression so that a constant pressure is applied to the conductive end of the spring steel member and the leather wiper. The leather wiper is saturated with a lubricating oil for maintaining the resistance wire clean as the movable arm is manipulated.
Abstract:
Allyl amine and chemically related compounds are polymerized as thin films in the presence of a plasma discharge. The monomer compound can be polymerized by itself or in the presence of an additive gas to promote polymerization and act as a carrier. The polymerized films thus produced show outstanding advantages when used as reverse osmosis membranes.
Abstract:
A tool for use in lifting a pin-supported, electronic package mounted in juxtaposition with the surface of an electronic circuit board. The tool is configured to be received beneath a pin-supported package and is characterized by a manually operable linkage, including an elongated body within which an elongated, rigid link is supported for axial reciprocation and a pivotal link pinned to the body and supported for oscillation induced in response to axial motion imparted to the rigid link. A lifting plate is pivotally coupled to the distal end of the pivotal link so that oscillatory motion imparted to the pivotal link serves to move the plate vertically for elevating the plate into lifting engagement with the electronic package positioned thereabove.
Abstract:
A detector of ultraviolet radiation for operation in a space vehicle which orbits through high-intensity radiation areas. Two essentially identical ultraviolet sensor tubes are mounted within a shield which limits, to acceptable levels, the amount of proton radiation reaching the sensor tubes. The shield has an opening which permits ultraviolet radiation to reach one of the sensor tubes, hereafter referred to the sensing tube. However, the shield keeps ultraviolet radiation from reaching the other sensor tube, hereafter referred to as the reference tube. Both sensor tubes receive approximately the same amount of proton radiation, but the sensing tube also is able to receive ultraviolet radiation. The circuitry of the detector subtracts the output of the reference tube from the output of the sensing tube. Therefore, any portion of the output of the sensing tube which is due to proton radiation is offset by the output of the reference tube. Consequently, the output of the circuitry of the detector is proportional to the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching the sensing tube. A delay circuit in the detector prevents false alarms by keeping statistical variations in the proton radiation sensed by the two sensor tubes from developing an output signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus for establishing a flow of fluid mass, such as a gas, having a known velocity, characterized by an hermetically sealed chamber conforming to a closed-loop configuration and including a throat and a plurality of axially displaceable pistons for sweeping through the throat a stream of gas including a core and an unsheared boundary layer. Within the throat there is provided a cylindrical coring body concentrically related to the throat for receiving the core, and a chamber surrounding the cylindrical body for drawing off the boundary layer, whereby the velocity of the core is liberated from the effects of the velocity of the boundary layer.
Abstract:
A holographic recording medium employing a substrate having a diffraction grating composed of a plurality of spaced line ridges on a surface thereof together with a first layer consisting of a metal having a plasma wavelength shorter than that of a selected light source and a second layer, or coating, on top of the first layer, consisting of a thin film of photo-sensitive emulsion.
Abstract:
DAMAGE FIBERGLASS STRUCTURES ARE REPAIRED BY SUBSTANTIALLY FILLING THE IRREGULAR SURFACED DAMAGED AREA WITH A LIQUID, SELF-CURING RESIN, PREFERABLY AN EPOXY RESIN MIXED WITH CHOPED FIBERGLASS, AND THEN APPLYING TO THE RESIN SURFACE THE FIRST OF SEVERAL WOVEN FIBERGLASS SWATCHES WHICH HAS STITCHING IN A ZIG-ZAG PATTERN PARALLEL TO EACH OF ITS EDGES AND A FRINGE OF WARP AND FILL GLASS FIBERS ABOUT THE EDGES OUTWARD OF THE STITCHING, COATING THE APPLIED SWATCH WITH THE LIQUID, SELF-CURING RESIN, AND APPLYING ADDITIONAL SWATCHES IN A SIMILAR MANNER, EACH OF A LARGER DIMENSION THAN THE PRECEDING SWATCH IN A MANNER TO OVERLAP A PORTION OF THE FRINGE OF ADJACENT, SWATCHES, UNTIL THE FIBERGLASS SWATCH AND RESIN COMPOSITE THAT IS FORMED COVERS THE AREA TO BE REPAIRED, AND ALLOWING THE RESIN TO CURE. THE METHOD IS ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO REPAIR OF FIBERGLASS ROCKET ENGINE CASINGS AND IS PARTICULARLY ADVANTAGEOUS SINCE IT TESTORES THE REPAIRED FIBERGLASS STRUCTURE TO SUBSTANTIALLY ITS ORIGINAL STRENGTH WITHOUT ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE GEOMETRY OR MASS OF THE STRUCTURE.
Abstract:
An electrical wire along whose length loops are formed at intervals and retained in a plastic capsule that allows unfolding of the loop when tension is exerted on the opposite ends of the wire. The capsule is formed by encompassing each loop with a sleeve of heat shrinkable synthetic plastic material which overlaps the loop and heat shrinking the overlapping portions. Thus, a length of electrical wire is formed which stores extra lengths of wire in the quantity needed to match the expected stretching of materials or elements such as ropes, cords and the like of high elongation to which the electrical wire may be attached.