Abstract:
The annular body of a damper-type check valve has a mainly cylindrical inner surface that defines a fluid passage, but a ridge around it provides a valve seat that is inclined to the passage axis with its lower part forward in the direction of permitted fluid flow. The damper is dome-shaped, forwardly convex, and is swingable about a pivot axis which is parallel to its horizontal diameter but is spaced thereabove by about half its radius. A counterweight on the convex front face of the damper is concentrated near its geometrical center. A readily removable spring can provide supplemental closing bias on the damper.
Abstract:
A gimbal mounted mirror, universally tiltable about coplanar coordinate axes, reflects a sight image onto a screen of an optical weapon sight. Four linear electrodynamic motors, two for each tilt axis, control mirror positioning. The motors are on said axes, equidistant from their intersection, and spaced far enough from that intersection so that a mirror position transducer can be located between them, under the gimbal mounting. The transducer comprises a soft iron rotor carried by the mirror, a central core wound with an a.c.-energized exciter coil, and four outer cores that are positioned like the motors and each wound with a secondary coil.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a canal when moulding a metal block, said canal being defined by a core inserted into the mould. The method involves using a core comprising a tube of powdered or granulated refractory material held together by an organic binding agent, and a rod located within the tube, coating the core with a blacking agent prior to moulding, carrying out the moulding operation and simultaneously combusting the binding agent and leading off gases through the core, and finally removing the rod and clearing away the remnants of the tube in the canal formed. The disclosure also provides a core suitable for use in said method.
Abstract:
Recordable electric signals are produced by signal generating means connected with a tracing stylus that is guided over a graphic figure by a sighted person. Such signals control horizontal movements of a carriage that carries a striker pin, moving the pin in correspondence with stylus movements. As the carriage moves, the pin repeatedly thrusts up against deformable sheet material to produce therein a succession of raised projections that depict the traced figure in a manner detectable with the fingers.
Abstract:
The plug of a plug valve is connected with its stem by means of a connector comprising a collarlike part snugly embracing and anchored to the inner end of the stem and a resilient plate-like part extending laterally outwardly from the collar-like part, with outer edge portions secured to the plug. The plate-like part flexes to enable the plug to swing relative to the stem, but constrains the plug to partake of all stem rotation.
Abstract:
In a numerically controlled machine tool in which a fundamental pulse frequency determines speed of cutting tool motion along an axis, and pulses are distributed to axes according to programmed direction of cutting tool movement, successive pulses are counted into successive equal groups, each containing a number of pulses which is a multiple of the number of axes. The number of possible pulse distributions in a group is limited; hence an augmenting pulse frequency can be precomputed for each possible distribution, based on a relationship between total stairstep motion distance signified by pulses of the group and corresponding direct distance. For each group, pulses of the proper augmenting frequency are injected between pulses of the fundamental frequency so that for a given fundamental frequency speed in the same in any direction.
Abstract:
An electronic circuit microelement, seated on the upper surface of a supporting member, has its terminals projecting upwardly away from said surface to a level well above its body. Elongated connectors, one for each terminal, have medial parts anchored in the supporting member, pin-like lower parts projecting beneath the lower surface of the supporting member, and upper parts formed as upstanding S-shaped spring arms that engage the microelement terminals in a plane spaced above the microelement body so that the connectors can be soldered to the terminals by immersion.
Abstract:
A transducer has a body of ferromagnetic material to which force to be measured is applied to produce, by magnetostriction, changed distribution of magnetic flux induced in the body by an a.c. energized primary embracing it. The body has a hole large enough to insure high stress concentrations upon application of force. An even number of secondaries are wound through smaller holes and around edge portions of the body. Half of the secondaries embrace zones of tension stress, the other half zones of compression stress.