Abstract:
A system for braking or driving a strip comprising a roller for receiving a strip, a shoe movable radially toward the roller in the region in which the strip is received, a system for injecting compressed air into a chamber in the shoe to urge the shoe away from the strip and a jack acting on the shoe to urge the same towards the roller. When compressed air is applied to the chamber and acts between the shoe and the strip, the strip is applied against the roller with a force equal to that exerted by the jack on the shoe, the compressed air forming a very thin fluid cushion and providing a very small clearance between the shoe and the strip to prevent rubbing of the shoe on the strip. An annular hollow joint of flexible material is secured to the shoe and surrounds the chamber into which the compressed air is introduced. The joint has an orifice which opens into the chamber so that when the chamber is pressurized by the compressed air, the joint will simultaneously be pressurized and inflated. A plurality of joints can be mounted on the shoe, each joint defining an individual chamber, each chamber having an associated valve for control of the feed of compressed air thereto.
Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for shearing the edges of a sheet of metal in which a sheet is positioned with its longitudinal axis effectively parallel to the cutting line of shears, the sheet is moved towards the cutting line, that edge of the sheet adjacent the shears is cut, the sheet is rotated through 180* about an axis parallel to the cutting line and the other edge of the sheet is moved towards and cut by the shears, wherein the sheet is initially positioned relative to the shears in dependence on the deviation of the edges to be cut from linearity, the deviations being calculated using detectors which detect the positions of the edges adjacent and remote from the cutting line as the sheet is moved towards the shears.
Abstract:
A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED DISPERSION OF FIBRES OR PARTICLES INTO A LIQUID SUSPENSION COMPRISES THE STEPS OF FIRST FINELY DISPERSING THE FIBRES OR PARTICLES IN A GAS OR VAPOUR CURRENT DEPOSITING THE DISPERSED FIBRES OR PARTICLES ON A MOVING FORAMINOUS SUPPORT AND SUBMERGING THE SUPPORT WITH DEPOSITED FIBRES OR PARTICLES IN A LIQUID BATH. THE DISPERSING STEP MAY INCUDE MECHANICAL DISPERSION FOLLOWED BY ENTRAINMENT OF THE DISPERSED FIBRES OR PARTICLES IN THE GASEOUS STREAM. THE MOVING SUPPORT
MAY BE A SINGLE FORAMINOUS SCREEN, DOUBLE FORAMINOUS SCREENS, OR A PERFORATED CYLINDER.
Abstract:
A METALLIC BATH IS REFINED BY BLOWING OXYGEN INTO THE BATH BY SUBMERGED BLAST PIPES. A PRIMARY JET IS CENTERED IN EACH BLAST PIPE FOR A GAS CONTAINING DROPLETS IN SUSPEN: SION TO REDUCE OR SUPPRESS METALLIC OXIDE FUMES OTHERWISE PRODUCED IN THE BATH BY THE OXYGEN.
Abstract:
A body of revolution mounted for rotation about a non-rotary bearing which comprises a segment received by a bore of the body and articulated about a single pivot axis, normal to the bore axis, on a support shaft, the segment in use of the body being positioned in the line of and on that side of the shaft directed toward a radial load to be applied to the body.
Abstract:
An installation or rotatably spporting a workpiece for example during Tempering, the support comprising two endless belts or chains each of which has an upper run passing around a pair of pulleys whose axes are horizontally spaced and situatd at the same level, a drive for a belt or chain, and a return device for each belt or chain below the pulleys, the chains or belts being adjustably spaced from one another and their upper runs serving to rotatably support a workpiece, one of them serving to effect that rotation.
Abstract:
An automotive truck including a motive and orientable wheel and movable over a support surface, the truck being slidable freely at a fixed orientation relative to a beam parallel to the surface, the beam being displaceable over the surface parallel to itself by the truck.
Abstract:
Chemical descaling apparatus is provided for the automatic treatment of sheets of metal, including, a descaling pit and a rinsing pit, with introduction of the sheets into the descaling pit and for transferring them to the rinsing pit. The sheets are handled in a series of cradles by a transfer crane which is horizontally movable between the pits, and which has a vertically movable support bar which includes hooks for supporting the cradles. A runway is used for initially introducing sheets into the cradles.
Abstract:
A CONTINUOUS SHEET FORMED BY FILTRATION OF PARTICLES IN SUSPENSION IN A LIQUID ON MOVING FILTER SCREEN SLOPING DOWNWARDLY IN ITS DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT. THE SLOPE OF THE SCREEN AND THE AMOUNT OF SPACE ABOVE THE SCREEN ARE SELECTED TO PROVIDE A PROGRESSIVE INCREASE IN THE PRESSURE ACTING ON THE FILTRATE TO GIVE A UNIFORM FILTRATE EXTRACTION ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE SCREEN.
Abstract:
Metal oxides difficult to reduce are reduced in a rotating furnace heated by a short flame having a temperature of at least 1,900* C. produced by converting a gaseous hydrocarbon into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by partial combustion with oxygen at about 1,250* C. The carbon monoxide and hydrogen are burned in a furnace in a jet of oxygen directed toward the top of the furnace at about 1,900* C. producing carbon dioxide and water with release of heat.