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flat in cross section and position adjacent to the by-pass valve fluid coupled between the opposite trailing edges of said impeller blades to absorb ends of said cylinder; and means coupled beprimarily the force generated by said impeller in a plane normal to said axis and at right angles to the radii emanating therefrom; a casing containing liquid enclosing and coaxially positioned with respect to said impeller and said rotor; and a plurality of inwardly extending guiding blades on said casing, said guiding blades being substantially C shaped and positioned externally of the blades of said impeller and said rotor, the blades of said rotor extending into the opening of the C to form a complete oval shaped path through the three sets of blades, said guiding blades extending inwardly substantially along raddii from the axis of said casing and having a substantially continuous twist about said casing axis, said twist being contrary to the direction of rotation of said impeller and existing from the leading edges of said casing blades adjacent to the trailing edges of said rotor blades to the trailing edges of said casing blades adjacent to the leading edges of said impeller blades, said rotor and casing being operably connected to said driven member. tween said first and second pressure supply means and responsive to the failure of said first pres2,616,262 sure supply means for opening said by-pass valve. HYDRAULIC PISTON STOP Paul A. Driscoll, South Bend, Ind., assignor to Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, Ind., 2,616,265 a corporation of Delaware MEANS FOR ADJUSTING FLUID MOTOR ELEApplication March 11, 1950, Serial No. 149,089 MENTS TO MAINTAIN SYNCHRONIZED 7 Claims. (Cl. 60—54.5) MOVEMENT Robert C. Wilson, Warren, Ohio Application August 24, 1949, Serial No. 112,043 + 9 Claims. (Cl. 60—97)
7. In a disk brake assembly, a carrier having at least one fluid pressure actuator, said actuator being provided with a fluid pressure port with one portion of said port serving as a valve seat, a valve adapted to close said port, fluid passing means associated with said valve, and a spacer member associated with said valve adapted to pass through said port to disconnectedly engage said actuator, said spacer member normally hold 6. In a system for maintaining predetermined ing said valve away from said port. alignment of relatively movable elements, a plurality of fluid actuated means adapted to effect relative movement of said elements, means for 2,616,263 ascertaining alignment of said elements, and pressure intensifier and de-intensifier means seWITHDRAWN lectively controlled by said ascertaining means to effect desired relative movement of said fluid actuated means. 2,616,264 9. In a system for simultaneously moving two HYDRAULIC BY-PASS CONTROL or more hydraulically actuated means in predeDavid Grant, Los Angeles, and Leland V. Hall, termined relation, a hydraulic circuit connecting Manhattan Beach, Calif., assignors to Hughes said hydraulically actuated means in relation so Tool Company, Houston, Tex., a corporation of that movement of one causes movement of the Delaware other, detection means affected by movement of Application February 6, 1948, Serial No. 6,748 said hydraulically actuated means from prede12 Claims. (Cl. 60—97) termined relation, and means under control of 1. In combination: a hydraulic cylinder, a pis- said detection means and operable to restore the ton within said cylinder; first and second pres- predetermined relation of said hydraulically actusure supply means; means for selectively coupling ated means by applying a single correction to the said first pressure supply means to the ends of volume of said hydraulic connecting circuit, the said cylinder for moving said piston in either amount of said correction being determined by direction within said cylinder; a normally closed the duration thereof. Page 3
drain opening which remains open during the op- sloping peripheral groove therein, a plurality of eration of said impeller structure for causing the recesses in said flooring in communication with Liquid contents of said vessel to drain when the said groove and a plurality of wall units, each operation of said impeller structure is stopped. of said units having an inwardly downwardly beveled edge, a plurality of bolts extending ver tically through said wall units, resilient means 2,616,281 attached to said beveled edge of each of said wall PAINT ROLLER JACKET CLEANER units, said bolts holding said means to said wall Roy I. Calhoun, Milwaukee, Wis. units, said wall units being positioned on said Application February 2, 1951, Serial No. 209,174 flooring with said beveled edge in said sloping 1 Claim. (Cl. 69—19) groove and with the lower ends of said bolts in said recesses, and said resilient means forming an expansion joint between said flooring and said wall units.
A fireproof construction including & first channel unit comprising a thin sheet metal provided with longitudinal alternate open-bottom and open-top contiguous channels having sub stantially vertical common side walls between An implement for reconditioning the cylin- said open-bottom and open-top channels, a hard, drical Jackets of paint rollers and adapted to solidifiable Alling material in said channels receive the jacket directly from the paint roller firmly confining therebetween said common comprising a jacket receiving body portion in- walls, lateral binding means fastened to the cluding a pair of spaced parallel legs and a trans. sheet metal and extending across the channels verse connecting bight portion at the forward to prevent their spreading, said sheet metal ends of the legs for Atting flat against one end formed at the outer side edge of one of the side of the roller, an outwardly projecting shank channels with an outwardly extending flange, a formed on the inner end of one of the legs and second outwardly extending flange fastened to extending a material distance beyond the legs the side channel opposite said first outwardly exand in longitudinal alignment with the longi- tending flange and an inwardly extending flange tudinal axis of the body, and a hand grip se- formed from said sheet metal on the other side cured to said shank of a circular shape in cross- channel, a second of said channel units assemsection, whereby the handle can be placed be- bled with said first channel unit with the outtween the hands of an operator and rolled back wardly extending flanges of said first unit firmly and forth. embracing said inwardly extending flange of said second unit and the channel to firmly lock them 2,616,282 together against relative movement in either diCONCRETE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION rection, Frank W. Vogel, Rock Island, Tii. Application May 11, 1950, Serial No. 161,277 2,616,284 3 Claims. (Cl. 72-1) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCK JOINT Valerian Leontovich, Palo Alto, Calli. Application April 26, 1949, Serial No. 89,701 6 Claims. (Cl. 72—107) 1. In a joint between two precast blocks, a rod anchored in one of said blocks and having a free end extending therefrom, the other of said blocks having an opening on the side opposite said one block, a jacket in said opening comprising a plurality of frustrums superimposed upon one another and tapering toward the side opposite said one block, said free rod end extending into said Jacket, a binder Alling the chamber and surrounding said rod end in said jacket, said jacket having a straight cylindrical section near said open block side, a cover closing the opposite end of said jacket, said cover having an opening therein to admit said binder to said jacket, a 1. A building construction comprising a foun- pipe embedded in said other block and leading dation, a flooring supported by said foundation, from said opening in said cover to a side of said said flooring having an inwardly and downwardly other block, said pipe constituting a passage for the delivery of said binder into said jacket, said a link connecting said lever and cam, means for jacket having a binder repelling inner surface oscillating said lever, and means for securing a Page 4
space, a gasket in said groove, a plate of trans- applied between said energizing terminals and parent material marginally received in said the adjustment of said means, a temperature groove and disposed against said gasket, a clamp sensitive element connected in the energizing plate secured to said side and end members and connection to said energizing terminals of said overlying said plate of transparent material to reference voltage means, adapted to be subjected hold the latter in sealing engagement with said to one of said first and second temperatures, and gasket, said clamp plate having an opening there- operative to increase the voltage applied bein exposing said plate of transparent material tween said energizing terminals upon an increase and the end members secured to said frame plate in said one of said temperatures, a voltage reeach having an opening therethrough, and a con- sponsive device having a pair of input terminals, and conductor means connecting said first and second thermoelectric junctions in series voltage opposition and in series with said output terminals between said input terminals, said voltage responsive device including adjusting means connected to said adjustable reference voltage means and operative to adjust the latter in accordance with the magnitude and polarity of the resultant voltage applied between said input terminals, whereby said adjusting means adjusts said adjustable reference voltage means in accordance with the ratio of said first and second temperatures.
2,616,297 THERMOMETER Edwin I. Dillon and Ralph R. Dillon, Chicago, Ni., duit connected at one end to one of said end mem- assignors to W. C. Dillon & Company Inc., Chibers in communication with the opening there- cago, Ill., & corporation of Ilinois through for connecting said space with a water Application December 22, 1947, Serial No. 793,280 container, said frame plate having slots therein 3 Claims. (Cl. 73343) extending one along each of said side members. cleats extending one across each of said slots and bearing at their ends against the side of said frame plate remote from said bracket, and bolts extending through registering apertures in said cleats and said bracket clamping said frame plate between said cleats and said bracket. 1. A thermometer adapted for mounting on a bus bar and the like, comprising, an elongated 2,616,296 stem of high heat conducting material, said stem TEMPERATURE MEASURING APPARATUS being unitary and having a longitudinal opening William H. Wannamaker, Jr., Flourtown, Pa., as- therein, said stem having a cross-sectional area signor to Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator which is large relative to the cross-sectional area Company, Minneapolis, Minn., a corporation of of the opening, said stem having at least one flat Delaware face of substantial area adapted to engage the Application October 1, 1949, Serial No. 119,060 flat face of the bus bar in a position at an angle 7 Claims. (Cl. 73–341) to the bus bar and across the entire width of the bus bar, a temperature responsive element operma ably mounted in said opening and operably connected with a temperature indicator, said temperature indicator being secured to said stem and laterally spaced from said bus bar, clamp means 27 pivotally mounted on the end of said stem remote from said indicator, and second clamp means piyotally mounted on said stem adjacent said indicator, said clamp means being engageable with the edges of the bus bar for clamping the stem in firm engagement with the flat face of the bus bar, said second clamp means being adjustably movable to different positions on said stem for accommodating various widths of bus bars and different angles of the stem with respect to the bus bar.
1. An absolute temperature ratio measuring 2,616,298 device comprising a first thermoelectric junction ESCAPEMENT MECHANISM adapted to be subjected to a first temperature, a Cecil Frank Clifford, Bath, England, assignor to second thermoelectric junction adapted to be Horstmann Cufford Magnetics Ltd., Bath, Engsubjected to a second temperature, adjustable land, a limited company of Great Britain reference voltage means having energizing ter- Application March 26, 1947, Serial No. 737,279 minals adapted to be connected to a source of In Great Britain April 18, 1939 energizing voltage and having a pair of output Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 terminals between which said reference voltage Patent expires April 18, 1959 means is operative, when energized from the 18 Claims. (Cl. 74-1.5) source, to provide a voltage of a magnitude joint- 1. A magnetic escapement, comprising a first ly dependent upon the magnitude of the voltage member; an oscillatory member, said members being mounted for relative rotary movement; an
2,616,300 endless wavy magnetic band-like element on one SHAFT POSITIONING DEVICE of said members forming a track thereon; a polar Wilhelmus Lambertus Vervest and Gozewijn Van element on the other member; and means for Gelder, Eindhoven, Netherlands, assignors to inducing magnetic flux in said elements to couple Hartford National Bank and Trust Company, them magnetically, said wavy element having Hartford, Conn., as trustee successive apex portions disposed alternately on Application February 17, 1949, Serial No. 76,946 opposite sides, respectively, of a circle at sub In the Netherlands March 3, 1948 8 Claims. (Cl. 7410.2)
stantially equal distances therefrom, and other shaft, a plurality of locking discs each being sepa. 1. In a shaft positioning device, & rotatable portions connecting successive apex portions, resides of said circle inclined to the latter and being tion thereon adapted to be engaged by one of a spectively, said other portions being on opposite rately and rotatably supported by said rotatable shaft and each having an outer edge deformaotherwise shaped and directed so that one element will follow the other magnetically coupled system of pawls to be arranged beside said shaft, element during substantially natural oscillation tatable shaft and each arranged alternately be a plurality of friction discs mounted on said roof said oscillatory member. tween said locking discs, means permanently fixing the inner peripheries of each of said friction discs against both rotative and axial displace2,616,299 ment relative to said shaft, each of said friction SHAFT POSITIONING MECHANISM discs having a flexible portion beyond the said Jacob Marinus Unk and Wilhelmus Lambertus inner peripheries thereof, respectively, whereby Vervest, Eindhoven, Netherlands, assignors to axial displacement of the outer peripheries of Hartford National Bank and Trust Company, each of said friction discs is permitted. Hartford, Conn., as trustee Application January 28, 1949, Serial No. 73,272 In the Netherlands February 23, 1948 2,616,301 10 Claims. (Cl. 7410.2) GEAR ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSMISSIONS Robert G. Le Tourneau, Longview, Ta. Application January 18, 1950, Serial No. 139,263 5 Claims. (Cl. 74360)
1. Shaft positioning mechanism comprising a 1. A transmission comprising: a case; a pair control shaft to be positioned, a plurality of stop of gear trains mounted within said case; a series members mounted on said control shaft, a plu- of parallel shafts mounted in said case and prorality of rotatable stop pawls each adapted to en- jecting therefrom; one of said gear trains having gage selectively with a corresponding one of said its gears mounted on said shafts; a series of stop members, a separate pawl shaft supporting parallel sleeves mounted in said case and proeach of said pawls, supporting means for said jecting therefrom and the other of said gear pawl shafts, said supporting means permitting trains having its gears mounted on said sleeves; rotative movement of said pawl shafts in a body each of said sleeves being aligned upon and surabout said control shaft upon engagement of any rounding one end of a corresponding one of said pawls with its corresponding stop member on said shafts; a series of clutches associated with said control shaft, resilient means for restraining such sleeves and shafts, each separate one of said bodily rotative movement of said pawl shafts clutches being associated with a corresponding about said control shaft and stop means for separate one of said aligned shafts and sleeves for checking said pawl shafts in extreme position binding its associated shaft and sleeve for joint under influence of said resilient means. rotation; a shaft gear adapted to be driven by
an engine; a larger compound gear driven by having a closed path within the casing. valve said engine gear; said sleeve mounted gear train means carried by said fluid guiding member and including corresponding non-meshing engine and movable in the casing to variably restrict the compound gears and a forward gear and a reverse flow of fluid in said circuit and thereby vary the gear meshing with each other; said forward torque transmission, and means controlled by sleeve mounted gear meshing with said compound sleeve mounted gear; said reverse sleeve mounted gear meshing with said sleeve mounted engine gear; an output shaft; a large gear and a small gear mounted on said output shaft; sald shaft mounted gear train including a forward gear adapted to rotate with said sleeve mounted forward gear when the connecting clutch is engaged; said shaft mounted forward gear meshing with said large gear; said shaft mounted gear train including a reverse gear adapted to rotate with sald sleeve mounted reverse gear when their connecting clutch is engaged; said reverse and forward shaft mounted gears being adapted to rotate at approximately the same speed; said shaft mounted reverse gear meshing with said small gear.
2,616,302 ANTIFRICTION TRANSMISSION movement of said throttle controlling element Gunnar A. Wahlmark, Rockford, II., assignor to when moved in a throttle closing direction to Sundstrand Machine Tool Co., Rockford, m., move said valve means to stop the flow of fluid in a corporation of Ilinois said circuit, thereby stopping the transmission Application March 6, 1947, Serial No. 732,854 of torque from the driving to the driven shaft 6 Claims. (Cl. 74459) and thus neutralizing the transmission.
1. An anti-friction device comprising, a screw having a thread formed thereon, a mounting surrounding said screw, said mounting having a pair of spaced recesses each of which is eccentric to the axis of the screw and has its axis substantially perpendicular to a plane which is par. allel to the helix of the thread where the thread is closest to the sidewall of said recess, and a substantially annular thread engaging member surrounding the screw and in rolling engagement with the thread on one side thereof, said thread engaging member being anti-frictionally mounted concentric with and perpendicular to the axis of said recess. 1. In an automotive vehicle provided with a 2,616,303 change speed transmission, an accelerator, power TORQUE CONVERTER means for operating the transmission including Edward J. Thurber, New Orleans, La., assignor to a motor, a valve for controlling the operation of The Thurber Corporation, New Orleans, La., a the motor, and means for controlling the operacorporation of Louisiana tion of the valve including a solenoid comprising Application October 6, 1948, Serial No. 53,026 an armature operably connected to the valve, 37 Clalms. (Cl. 74472) and means for controlling the operation of the 28. A controlling mechanism for a motor ve- solenoid to effect an operation of the valve inhicle of the type having a throttle controlled cluding a vehicle speed responsive governor, a engine, a driving shaft, & driven shaft, and a switch, normally open, operated by the governor, throttle controlling element, a hydraulic power a switch, normally closed, operated by the actransmission for transmitting torque from the celerator, a source of electricity, electrical means, driving to the driven shaft, said transmission in- including a relay coll, interconnecting the source cluding a single casing having rotatable impeller of electricity and the two switches, and electrical and turbine members and a normally stationary means interconnecting the battery and solenoid nuid guiding member therein all cooperative with including a normally open relay switch con. a working fuld to establish a working circuit trolled by the operation of the relay coll.
2,616,305 ported for rotation independently of the second FLIGHT CONTROLLER FOR AUTOMATIC bevel gear, said third bevel gear unit in each inPILOTS stance having coaxial gear parts presenting conFrancis Henry S. Rossire, Leonia, N. J., assignor centric and axially spaced teeth in angularly op to Bendix Aviation Corporation, Teterboro, posed relationship and disposed in planes parallel N. J., a corporation of Delaware to the plane of the associated second bevel gear, Application March 17, 1948, Serial No. 15,325 one of the gear parts of each of the said third 5 Claims. (Cl. 74491) bevel gear units being in mesh with one of the first bevel gears, and intermediate driving means including bevel gears at opposite ends, one of which latter mentioned bevel gears at each end of the driving means is in mesh with the second bevel gear and the other of which is in mesh with the gear part other than said one on the third bevel gear unit. 2. A control mechanism as defined in claim 1, and wherein said intermediate driving means comprises concentric and independently rotatable shafts.
2,616,307 CAM AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Marion Mallory, Detroit, Mich. Application September 22, 1950, Serial No. 186,211 4. A stick controller for automatic pilot sys 8 Claims. (Cl. 74567) tems for mobile craft, comprising a base, a frame on said base mounted for oscillation about an axis, & control arm mounted on said frame for oscillation about an axis perpendicular to said first axis and to the longitudinal axis of said arm, oscillation of said control arm about the first two mutually perpendicular axes being adapted to affect the pilot system to control the movement of the mobile craft, a brake assembly on said frame and on said base for each of said first two axes to retard the movement of said arm about said axes, detent means on said frame co- and an upright shaft rotatably supported by the 1. In a device of the type including a support operating with each of said brake assemblies to support, the combination of a cup-shaped sheet lock said control arm in a neutral position about metal cam member having an open upper end each of said first two axes, and stop means and a bottom wall at the lower end thereof, said formed by said assemblies for limiting the mo- cam member having a plurality of angularly retion of said arm about each of said first two lated side walls extending upwardly from said axes. bottom wall and intersecting to form a plurality of cam portions around the periphery of said cam 2,616,306 member, said bottom wall having a central openCONTROL MECHANISM ing therein, said shaft projecting upwardly Fred S. Boyer, Chicago, Ill. through said central opening, the portion of said Application April 6, 1949, Serial No. 85,918 bottom wall surrounding said opening having a 10 Claims. (Cl. 74491) fixed connection with said shaft, said bottom wall and said side walls of said cam member cooperating with the portion of said shaft projecting upwardly through said bottom wall to form a receptacle, and a fibrous material within said receptacle saturated with lubricant.
2,616,308 TRANSMISSION Richard T. Burnett, South Bend, Ind., assignor to Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, Ind., a corporation of Delaware Application January 31, 1948, Serial No. 5,546 8 Claims. (Cl. 74645)
24 1. A control mechanism comprising, in combination, controlling and controlled parts each including a shaft portion providing an axis of rotational movement and having a first bevel gear drivingly secured to the shaft portion, means providing bearings rotatably supporting the shaft portions of the controlling and controlled parts, each of said means having a second bevel gear drivingly secured thereto and disposed in a plane transverse to the plane of the first bevel gear in each instance, a third bevel gear unit for each 1. A transmission for a vehicle comprising inof the controlling and controlled parts and sup- put and output shafts, torque multiplying means
interposed between said shafts and including a mechanical torque multiplying, accelerating, forhydro-kinetic torque converter provided with ward underdrive, a second forward drive planerotatable bladed impeller, turbine, and guide tary gear train having the sun gear thereof wheels, means for holding the guide wheel against mounted on and adapted to be driven by the rotation in one direction and allowing rotation in extension of said input shaft to provide means the other direction, a one-way clutch interposed for the transmission of a positively connected between the impeller and guide wheels so that emergency, forward underdrive that is also usethe impeller wheel cannot drive the guide wheel able as a coasting ratio, an output shaft, means during rotation in one direction of the impeller for drivingly connecting each of said planetary wheel but permitting the latter wheel to be driven gear trains to said output shaft upon selective by the guide wheel when it is rotated, said torque multiplying means including a planetary gear set provided with a planet carrier mounting pinions, ring and sun gears Intermeshing with said pinions, said planetary carrier connected to the output shaft, said ring gear connected to said turbine wheel, said sun gear connected to said guide wheel, means for holding the ring gear against rotation, control means for said first and secondnamed holding means operative to establish a power transmitting connection through the oneway clutch, with the output shaft driving the input shaft.
2,616,309 TRANSMISSION Robert C. Russell, Euclid, Ohio, assignor to Eaton activation of the gear trains, brake means for Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a selectively activating said planetary gear trains. corporation of Ohio and an output shaft speed responsive governor Application April 29, 1950, Serial No. 159,060 to automatically deactivate the second gear train 23 Claims. (Cl. 74677) and activate the first gear train to change the emergency underdrive to the accelerating underdrive when the transmission is conditioned for the transmission of the emergency underdrive and the output shaft speed is reduced to a predetermined value.
2,616,311 TRANSMISSION 1. A power transmitting mechanism com Robert Lapsley, Buchanan, Mich., assignor to prising a toroidal fluid circuit including co Clark Equipment Company, Buchanan, Mich., a corporation of Michigan operating pump, primary and secondary turbines and reactor means, a power input member con- Application November 21, 1950, Serial No. 196,876 nected to the pump, a power output member con 4 Claims. (Cl. 74—730) nected to the secondary turbine, a planetary gear system including a ring gear connected to the primary turbine, a sun gear, and a set of planet pinion gears pivotally mounted for rotation on the output member having meshing engagement with the ring and sun gears, brake means for preventing reverse rotation of the reactor means and other brake means for preventing reverse rotation of the sun gear.
2,616,310 HYDRODYNAMIC TRANSMISSION Joseph Jandasek, Highland Park, Mich., assignor to Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Mich., a corporation of Delaware Application February 27, 1948, Serial No. 11,712 1. In a drive mechanism, the combination of a 19 Claims. (Cl. 74688) fluid torque converter having a driven element, 1. In a power transmission, an input shaft, a a shaft, said driven element of said fluid torque torque converter unit comprising an impeller converter being fixedly mounted to said shaft, member, a turbine member and a reaction mem- a housing for enclosing said fluid torque conber cooperatively arranged to form a torque multi- verter, a transmission housing mounted to said plying power transmitting device, means con- fluid torque converter housing, said shaft exnecting said input shaft to said impeller mem- tending into said transmission housing, a counber, a hollow intermediate shaft connected to tershaft mounted in said transmission housing and driven by said turbine member, an extension and having a constant driving connection with of said input shaft extending concentrically said shaft, and a brake construction disposed exthrough said hollow intermediate shaft, a first teriorly of said transmission housing and having forward drive planetary gear train having the connection with said countershaft for providing annulus gear thereof mounted on and adapted for selective braking of the latter together with to be driven by said turbine driven shaft to pro- said driven element of said fluid torque convide means for the transmission of a fluid and verter. 664 0. G.-9 Page 5
but movable axially of said head for radially cross-section and pivotally mounted on the trunmoving said carriers in the direction toward nions, the trunnion engaging end portions of the working operation responsive to axial movement inner wing member being arranged in telescoping of said wedge means in one direction, and other relationship with the trunnion engaging end pormeans for retracting said carriers in response tions of the outer wing member, each of said to axial movement of said wedge means in the wing members having a flat top surface with a other direction. semi-circular cut-out at the trunnion engaging end thereof, the cut-outs being of less diameter than the width of the top surface of the inner 2,616,326 wing member, said cut-outs defining a central TOOL POST FOR LATHES opening through which the screw may enter when Roar Henry Bergström, Skovde, Sweden the wing members are mounted one within the Application May 18, 1949, Serial No. 93,951 other on the trunnions, and means to limit the In Sweden September 29, 1948 opening movement of the wing members compris4 Claims. (Cl. 82—36) ing shoulder portions defined by and between the edges of the cut-outs and the sides of the wings, the corner portions of the shouders of the outer wing member, adjacent their intersection of the end of the flat surface of the wing, being bent inwardly of the plane of said surface so as to cross the opposed surfaces of the corresponding shoulders of the inner wing member, whereby opening movement of said wing member is limited by substantial face to face engagement of the mutually opposed shoulders, the said contact areas of the shoulders being spaced from and in substantially vertical alignment with the pivot points of the 1. A tool post comprising a post proper having wings on the trunnions. means for clamping it to a support, a tool holder, an adjusting screw for vertically adjusting said tool holder relative to said post proper, guide 2,616,328 surfaces on said post proper, corresponding guide FASTENER surfaces on said tool holder and cooperating with Harry Vincent Kingsmore, West Babylon, N. Y., said guide surfaces on said post proper upon ver assignor of one-fourth to William F. Mathias, tically adjusting said tool holder, all said guide Jr., Brightwaters, N. Y. surfaces being parallel and co-extensive with the Application February 1, 1951, Serial No. 208,903 sides of said post proper and said tool holder, 1 Claim. (Cl. 85—40) a wedge disposed between said post proper and said tool holder, and a screw for vertically moving said wedge in one sense or the other, said wedge being adapted when moved downwards to RI press said tool holder outward for causing the guide surfaces of the latter to engage the guide surfaces of said post proper; an extension member partially extending into a recess in said post proper and disposed substantially centrally intermediate said guide surfaces on said tool holder and projecting into the path of motion of said adjusting screw for said tool holder, said exten A fastening device for securing together two sion having a threaded bore therein, said screw juxtaposed parts having aligned bores, said defor vertically moving said wedge being threaded vice comprising: an outer member having a and coacting with said threaded bore, a collar on smooth, circular head portion and a cylindrical said threaded screw coacting with said wedge for portion, extending from the head portion and vertical movement thereof upon actuation of said adapted to fit snugly within the bores, the cylinscrew coacting with said threaded bore, and a drical portion adjacent the head portion being shoulder on said extension forming a stop for the knurled to engage within at least one of the bores lower end of said adjusting screw. and hold the member against rotation, and the other end of the cylindrical portion being divid ed by kerfs into longitudinal segments, the outer 2,616,327 member being provided with an axial bore conTOGGLE BOLT verging inwardly at the end removed from the John Karitzky, Cranford, N. J., assignor to Dia- head portion, and the bore being provided with mond Expansion Bolt Company, Inc., Gar- threads extending along the bore from the head wood, N.J. portion; and a generally cylindrical inner memApplication June 28, 1950, Serial No. 170,859 ber adapted to fit within the bore of the outer 2 Claims. (C1, 8543) member, the inner member at one end thereof having a recessed head and having threads engaging the threads of the outer member, and the other end of the inner member being generally conical in form to provide a cam surface engaging the inner circumference of the converged end of the axial bore to radially spread the segments, the taper of the converged end 1. In a toggle bolt, in combination, a screw, a of the axial bore being substantially greater than nut threaded on said screw, said nut including the taper of the conical end of the inner memoppositely extending trunnions, an inner wing ber whereby said conical end engages the conmember and an outer wing member, each said verged end of the axial bore of the outer memwing member being of substantially U-shaped ber in substantially a line contact the length of Page 6
an intermittently rotatable shaft element coax. lens and light bulb, and a sliding button upon ial with said measuring roller element, one of and projecting through the casing to engage the said elements being formed with a coaxial con- endless film and the said angularly bent projecical socket at its end adjacent the other ele- tion upon the said conductor element adapted to ment, and the other element having a tapered intermittently move the said endless film and coaxial extension of the last mentioned ele- close the electric circuit to light the bulb and ment adapted to enter said socket and engage project a picture through the condenser and lens. the peripheral wall thereof, one of said elements having a threaded coaxial portion with the element and a threaded member swiveled on the 2,616,333 other element and adapted to enter into threaded FOLDABLE STEREOSCOPIC DEVICE engagement with said threaded portion when rotated in one direction and thereby force said Application February 11, 1950, Serial No. 143,744 Theodore B. Tinker, New York, N. Y. tapered extension into driving engagement with the peripheral wall of said socket, and adapted 3 Claims. (Cl. 88—30) when rotated in the other direction to axially move said elements apart.
1. A stereoscopic device comprising a box-like structure having opposite walls and a portion formed in one wall thereof for receiving lens means, another wall having a pocket opening In a miniature toy projector, comprising a therein having picture and cover sheets, said therein for the insertion of a picture album housing formed of detachably joined half sec- cover sheet being extendable into the pocket of tions, lens upon the housing aligned with an the other wall for maintaining in position orifice in the housing, hinges and a snap lock upon against said other wall so that the picture sheets the half sections of the housing, multiple pairs thereof can be turned into the box structure for of slotted, insulating supporting members upon viewing from said lens means, said box-like and inside of one of the half-sections of the said structure having a cover with an inner surface housing, a condenser lens removably mounted serving when elevated to reflect light toward within the housing and aligned with the orifice the picture sheets of the album being viewed, in said housing, a metallic light bulb carrying and a flap on said cover for insertion into said member removably mounted in a pair of said in- pocket to close said box-like structure upon prior sulating supporting members and forming one removal of said picture album from said pocket. terminal of a normally open electric circuit, a light bulb engageable through the said metallic light bulb mounting and having electrical connection therewith and arranged in alignment with 2,616,334 PHASE MICROSCOPY the said lens, orifice and condenser, a pair of dry batteries within the housing, an electrical con Frits Zernike, Baltimore, Md. ductor element engageable with the opposite poles Application May 12, 1948, Serial No. 26,703 of said dry batteries and removably mounted in a In the Netherlands November 25, 1947 second pair of the said slotted insulating support 3 Claims. (Cl. 88–39) ing members, a spring conductor element removably mounted in another pair of slotted insulating supporting members, the said spring conductor having an angularly projecting end engageable with one pole of one of the said batteries and having electrical connection with the contact 1. For use in a microscope a phase plate device point of the said light bulb, a conductor element for producing compensated dispersion phase conmounted in a fourth pair of slotted insulating and trast in an image to produce a given phase shift supporting members, the said conductor element at any selected wave length consisting of a having contact, at one end, with the opposite pole light transmitting strip of material of the order of a second dry battery and having its opposite of 2–10 microns thick embedded in a thin transend angularly bent and projected toward the parent resinous material, the whole forming a upper end of the said metallic light bulb member, thin layer, giving a predetermined phase differbut out of contact therewith to normally main- ence of P degrees between light rays which pass tain an open electric circuit, an endless film have through the strip and those passing beside the ing a multiplicity of spaced pictures thereon en- strip according to the formula gageable upon guide pins around the inner pe P=360 (ns-nm)d/ riphery of the said housing, the said pictures upon the endless film adapted to consecutively in which ns and nm represent the respective indiand intermittently align with the said orifice, ces of refraction of the strip and the material in Page 7
2,616,351 the upper end thereof, a stop associated with PLOW said brackets and the lower end of said parWalter H. Silver and Orey W. Oerman, Moline, allel arms to stop said brackets before said pivotal III., assignors to Deere & Company, Moline, III., connection between said parallel arms and said a corporation of Illinois brackets reaches dead center, whereby when said Application February 6, 1945, Serial No. 576,498 disc gang is forced to ride over a serious obstruc12 Claims. (Cl. 97—50) tion, said brackets will be caused to rotate and overcome the pull of said springs and cause said bracket to travel forwardly and permit said disc gangs to raise on the pivotal connection of said forwardly extending arm as an axis, and whereby after the discs pass over the obstruction, said springs will return the brackets and disc gang to their operating positions.
2,616,353 CROP SHIELD FOR HARVESTERS Fred A. Thomann, East Moline, I., assignor to Deere & Company, Moline, Ill., a corporation 9. In an agricultural implement having a part of Illinois to be adjusted and a hydraulic unit for adjusting Application August 17, 1949, Serial No. 110,739 said part, quick detachable means for releasably 1 Claim. (Cl. 97—192) connecting said hydraulic unit with the implement, comprising a member having a notch to receive a portion of said hydraulic unit, motiontransmitting means adapted to connect said notched member with said implement part for adjusting the latter, a latch engageable with said hydraulic unit portion for holding the latter in said notch, and cam means on said latch operable by movement of the latter into its releasing position for positively disengaging said prising: an elongated tunnel having a front sec A crop shield of the character disclosed, comhydraulic unit portion from said notch. tion, an intermediate section and a rear section contiguously arranged so that crops are received 2,616,352 via the front section, pass through the intermeRESILIENTLY MOUNTED DISK TILLER diate section and escape via the rear section; said Howard M. Johnston, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, intermediate section comprising a major portion assignor to Massey-Harris Co. Ltd., Toronto, of the length of the tunnel and each of the front Ontario, Canada, a corporation of Canada and rear sections being relatively short compared Application August 15, 1947, Serial No. 768,867 to the intermediate section; said intermediate 1 Claim. (Cl. 97—53) section being of substantially uniform cross-sectional shape throughout its length and having a top wall portion and a pair of depending side wall portions, each of the latter terminating in lower edges substantially parallel to the top wall section; said front section having a top wall portion adjoining and extending forwardly and upwardly from the top wall portion of the intermediate section and further having a pair of depending side wall portions extending forwardly generally as continuations of the side wall portions of the intermediate section and terminating in lower edges respectively as continuations of In an automatic release for a disc tiller, a main the lower edges of the side wall portions of the frame shaft with a carrying wheel mounted on intermediate section; and said rear section havits front end and two carrying wheels mounted ing a top wall portion adjoining and extending on its rear end, a tube rotatably mounted on said rearwardly and upwardly from the top wall porframe shaft having rearwardly extending arms tion of the intermediate section to a rear termisecured thereto and a disc gang rotatably mount- nal edge above the level of and rearwardly of the ed on the rear ends thereof, a half turn power intermediate section top wall portion and furclutch mounted on one of said carrying wheels ther having a pair of depending side wall porand having an operating connection to said tube tions, each of the latter having lower edges refor raising and lowering said disc gang by turn- spectively adjoining and extending upwardly and ing the tube, said power lift operating connection rearwardly from the lower edges of the side wall to said tube comprising in combination, a for- portions of the intermediate section into proxwardly extending arm secured to said tube, brack- imity to the aforesaid rear terminal edge of the ets rotatably mounted on said tube and on oppo- rear section top wall portion so that each of said site sides of the forwardly extending arm, parallel rear section side wall portions has a rearwardly and upwardly extending arms near the upper end diminishing area. of which is operatively connected said power lift clutch, the rear lower end of said parallel arms 2,616,354 being pivoted to said brackets, the parallel arms VENTILATOR being operatively connected to the forward end Fred A. Dahlin, Chicago, Ill. of said forwardly extending arm, said brackets Application March 17, 1950, Serial No. 150,256 each having forwardly extending lever arms, 7 Claims. (Cl. 98—8) springs operatively connecting the forward ends 2. A ventilator assembly comprising dome of the lever arms and said parallel arms near shaped covers mountable on a roof structure one Page 8
snugly on said core, and a substantially full- end walls and combining therewith to define a caliber bearing ring fixed to said bourrelet for substantially frusto-conical pump chamber, a engaging the lands of the bore of said gun, said rotor or impeller rotatably mounted in the pump sabot having a rear cup portion and a forward chamber including a plurality of integral resilicup portion integral with said sabot, said forward ent and flexible radially projecting vanes extendcup portion adapted to hold said bourrelet on ing from end-to-end of the rotor, the outer pesaid core, said bourrelet having a plurality of ripheral edges of said vanes being tapered to subradial weakening cuts to facilitate its disintegra- stantially conform to the taper of said pump chamber and for engagement with the frustoconical side wall thereof, one of said end walls having circumferentially spaced inlet and outlet
tion under centrifugal force, said sabot having a plurality of radial weakening cuts from the rear end thereof substantially to the base of said rear cup portion and a corresponding number of radial weakening cuts from the forward end thereof at least to the base of said forward cup ports opening into one end of the pump chamber portion, the segments thus formed being sup- and communicating with the spaces between said ported by cantilever action from the uncut por- vanes, and said side wall having an internally tion of said sabot. thickened portion extending from end-to-end thereof defining an internal wall surface of the side wall which is disposed eccentrically of the 2,616,373 axis of the housing and of the rotor, said thickPRESSURE REGULATING AND SHAFT POSI- ened side wall portion defining an internal cam TIONING MECHANISM FOR TURBINE surface engaged by the outer peripheral edges of DRIVEN PUMPS the vanes and by which the vanes are bent over Robert H. Goddard, deceased, late of Annapolis, in passing over the cam surface. Md., by Esther C. Goddard, executrix, Worcester, Mass., assignor of one-half to The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, New 2,616,375 York, N. Y., a corporation of New York APPARATUS FOR LOADING FREIGHT Original application June 11, 1945, Serial No. OR THE LIKE 598,755, now Patent No. 2,450,950, dated Octo- Sulo Michael Nampa, Detroit, Mich., assignor to ber 12, 1948. Divided and this application Sep- Evans Products Company, Plymouth, Mich., a tember 28, 1948, Serial No. 51,542 corporation of Delaware 3 Claims. (Cl. 103—87) Application July 9, 1947, Serial No. 759,887 22 Claims. (Cl. 105—369)
1. In a blast-driven, turbine-and-pump assembly, the combination with a pump, a turbine and a common shaft mounting said pump and turbine, of fluid-pressure-actuated means to move said shaft transversely, and means responsive to transverse displacement of said shaft from normal running position by said turbine blast, which latter means renders said fluid-pressure-actuated means effective to move said shaft in a direction counter to the direction of said transverse displacement caused by said blast, thereby restor- 1. In a freight car loading system for a freight ing said shaft to its normal running position. car or the like, in combination, means on and extending along the car side walls defining a series of vertically spaced, horizontally extending 2,616,374 paths and a series of horizontally spaced verROTARY PUMP tical paths intersecting and in open communicaFrank L. Carson, Hollywood, Calif. tion with said horizontal paths, said vertical and Application July 11, 1947, Serial No. 760,450 horizontal paths comprising elongated recesses 8 Claims. (Cl. 103—117) having continuous narrow slot-like entrances 1. A rotary pump comprising a housing having opening only into the freight car interior and parallel end walls and a substantiallv annular having their interiors wider than their said enfrusto-conical side wall extending between said trances. Page 9
case and having a gear at the lower end to drive 2,616,389 said driven gear and propeller shaft, said drive WEIGHING SCALE INDICIA ILLUMINATOR shaft projecting upwardly from the upper end John M. Little and Cecil G. Blank, Toledo, Ohio, of said gear case through said housing for con- assignors to Toledo Scale Company, Toledo, nection with said engine, said propeller shaft ex- Ohio, a corporation of New Jersey tending substantially at right angles to said drive Application May 2, 1949, Serial No. 90,889 shaft and from only one end of said gear case 4 Claims. (Cl. 116-129) to carry a propeller external of the case, bores formed in said gear case to receive said tie bolts for securement of the gear case to the planiform face of the underside of said housing with the drive shaft projecting upwardly centrally through the opening in said face, a water circulating delivery passage within said gear case having intake ports in the underside of the gear case located generally in the plane of the major diameter of the body of the torpedo-like case, said passage extending to the upper end of the gear case to register with one of said pipes for supplying coolant to the pipe, and means formed by said gear case closing the other of said pipes, said drive shaft and coolant supply passage being disposed to allow said gear case to be reversed on the axis of said drive shaft and to support said 1. In a weighing scale, in combination, a cypropeller shaft selectively either forwardly or lindrical chart, a housing portion that conforms rearwardly of the gear case, and provide a cool- closely to the chart over a portion thereof which ant supply from the underside of the gear case is to be displayed to an observer, a light source in either position to one of said pipes without in- positioned in an adjacent portion of the housterference from the movement of water passing ing, a body of transparent material that has a the unit, and to close the other pipe in either of curved form to match the cylindrical chart and said positions. that is interposed between the chart and the closely conforming portion of the housing, said 2,616,388 body having an edge thereof in light receiving TRAFFIC SIGNAL relation to said light source, said transparent Herbert B. Mueller, Los Angeles, Calif. body having an opening cut therethrough to exApplication April 2, 1946, Serial No. 658,893 pose the selected portion of the chart and having 20 Claims. (Cl. 116–63) the edges of the opening beveled toward the chart whereby light transmitted through the body is directed onto the selected portion of the chart, and a cover plate having a window, said cover plate closing an opening in the housing overlying said transparent body with the window registering with the opening in said transparent body.
1. In a traffic signal a housing having top and bottom plates, bearings on said plates, a vertical 116 shaft journalled in said bearings; an oscillating cylinder and an upper and lower drum mounted on said shaft; said cylinder having two sets of differently colored windows; means mounted on top of said top plate of the housing to operate said shaft and drums; reversely displaced springs for alternately rotating said cylinder in opposite 1. The combination with a conveyor for movdirections, which springs are tensioned by the ing a bun pan; and a spray nozzle connected shaft and drum operating means on top of said with grease under pressure for greasing the pan; top plate; an illumination control gauge that of work controlled and electrically actuated encircles said oscillating cylinder and means means for causing the nozzle to intermittently operable by said drums to raise and lower said spray the pan at a number of points as the pan control gauge to regulate the timing of the is moved by the conveyor and comprising a solechanges of the differently colored light passing noid; a trip lever actuated by the pan for closthrough said windows. ing a switch for connecting a source of current Page 10
2,616,397 comprising an air cylinder, a piston operating in HYDRAULIC PRECONTROL OF PRESSURE the cylinder and including an operating rod ex FLUID OPERATED GOVERNORS tending through one end of the cylinder, a valve Otto Severin Ruud and Trygve Johan controlling admission of air under pressure to Wilhelmsen, Oslo, Norway opposed ends of the cylinder and the exhaust of Application December 29, 1947, Serial No. 794,220 air from said ends of the cylinder, said valve being In Norway March 8, 1946 arranged in a valve casing, gears on opposed ends Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 Patent expires March 8, 1966 5 Claims. (Cl. 121–42)
of said valve within said casing, a pair of racks slidably mounted in the ends of the casing and operatively engaging said gears for imparting rotary reciprocating motion to the valve, means ad justable in the casing controlling the speed of 1. A stabilizing mechanism of the type wherein travel of the piston in the cylinder in both direca centrifugal governor cooperates with a servo- tions, and a pair of solenoids for operating said motor to regulate the speed of a machine com- racks in controlling operation of said valve. prising, in combination, a fluid pressure system for operating the servomotor; a first cylinder; a slide member moving in said first cylinder; valve 2,616,399 means operated by said slide member and adapt- BEARING FOR WATER METER CHAMBERS ed to actuate the servomotor; a housing; a sec- Frank W. Kohout, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor to ond cylinder disposed in said housing; a piston Badger Meter Manufacturing Company, Miloperating in said second cylinder having two ac- waukee, Wis., a corporation of Wisconsin tion faces, said piston dividing said second cylin- Application August 25, 1949, Serial No. 112,257 der into a first and a second chamber; two spring 1 Claim. (Cl. 121–69) means in said second cylinder, one in each of said chambers, oppositely acting one on each lace of said piston and tending to keep said piston in a middle position corresponding to a normal speed of the machine; a passage providing a permanent communication between said first and said second chamber; a pressure chamber adjacent to said first chamber of said second cylinder; a narrow passage providing a fluid communication betweer, said pressure chamber and said first chamber of said second cylinder; duct means providing a fluid communication between said pressure system and said pressure chamber; a duct providing a fluid communication between said second chamber of said second cylinder and said first cylinder; a fluid outlet provided in said In a disc-type expansible chamber for water first chamber of said second cylinder; a centrifu- meters and the like, a disc, separable complemensal governor; a nozzle valve operated by said cen- tary cast metal members joining in a transverse trifugal governor to open and close said fluid out- plane and defining a chamber adapted to receive let, thereby causing a movement of said piston said transverse plane, a thrust roller carried by said disc for nutating movement therein through changing the pressure in said second chamber of said disc at the periphery thereof, said members said second cylinder whereby said slide member in said first cylinder is set in motion so that said having adjoining recesses for movement of said valve means actuate the servomotor; and adjust- roller in an arc defining a plane substantially able means for returning said slide means and normal to said transverse plane and having cosaid valve means to a normal position after regu- cesses parallel to said normal plane, said cham planar adjoining walls at one side of said relation of the machine has been effected. ber members having oppositely disposed slots formed in the corresponding meeting edges there2,616,398 of outwardly of and opening into said recesses APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AIR adjacent to said adjoining walls, the depth of CYLINDER STROKE MOTIONS said slots from the corresponding edges of the George W. Emrick, Forest Hills, N. Y.; Manufac- members being insufficient to cause appreciable turers Trust Company executor of said George distortion of the chamber members when the W. Emrick, deceased slots are cut therein, and a single-piece flat bearApplication April 17, 1948, Serial No. 21,665 ing member disposed in said recesses and having 10 Claims. (Cl. 121–45) a body seated against said walls of said recesses 1. An apparatus of the character described and disposed between said walls and said roller to support the radial thrust of said roller, said valve means having means defining passage bearing member having a coextensive, flat dove- means for connecting said supply passage to said tailed projection extending into said slots, and motor and being automatically operable at said said slots being of complemental depths to form limits to reverse said connection, and control a dovetailed interlock with said projection and valve means operable, at any time regardless of positively secure said bearing member against the position of said reversing valve means to movement in said normal plane and against dis- establish a connection, through said reversing placement by said roller. Page 11
2. A cervical cap in combination with a sperm chamber, the cap comprising a single cup-like body with open top adapted to coact with the cervix, the cup-like body having a spiral thread 1. An arm sling free from encumbering parts chamber comprising an elongated hollow body formed on the inner surface thereof, the sperm and loose ends, adapted to fold readily into a removably disposed through the bottom of the small package, and to give the arm proper sup- cap, the top of the hollow body extending above port, without binding, consisting solely of a loop- the open top of the cap and the bottom of the adjusting clasp and one continuous strip of cloth hollow body extending below the bottom of the tape with one end sewed to the strip about four cap. teen inches back from itself to form a loop about seven inches long, so that the wrist may receive proper support without undue looseness or tight 2,616,422 ness, the other end being looped around the sta VAGINAL APPLICATOR tionary bar of said loop-adjusting clasp, and John Leslie Jones, Los Angeles, Calif. stitched back on said strip, said strip being passed Application October 18, 1948, Serial No. 55,030 through said clasp to form an adjustable loop 23 Claims. (CI. 128-261) for supporting the upper portion of the forearm ps at the proper level, whereby only a single adjustment need be made for the entire sling and whereby there are no loose ends or other encumbrances. 2,616,420 1. A single use vaginal applicator, comprising: DISPOSABLE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE a rigid open ended tubular member of uniform John W. Hart, Albany, N. Y., assignor to Sterling diameter formed of paper-like material; a crush Drug Inc., New York, N. Y, a corporation of able hollow container located therein adjacent Delaware one end thereof; and a device for crushing said Application November 1, 1951, Serial No. 254,410 container protruding from the remote end of said 2 Claims. (CI. 128—218) tubular member.
1. A disposable medicament container compris ing a tube-like body having an outer open dis1. A disposable hypodermic syringe comprising charge end, said body having an inner end of a a plastic one-piece ampoule having an open end, restricted diameter, a medicament ejection a closed end in the nature of a diaphragm, and plunger having a portion compressed and snugly a tube extending outwardly from the diaphragm itted within said inner restricted end to norand terminating in an open end, a plunger clos. mally close said inner end, and a breakable sealing the open end of the ampoule, a double ended ing means abutting the extremity of the comneedle, a needle guide for the needle, said needle pressed portion of said plunger for sealing the guide having a sliding frictional ft in the tube junction of said body and plunger for preventing with the distal end of the needle free of the the entrance of air between the plunger and the diaphragm but adjacent thereto, a needle guard container and into the container. slidably arranged with respect to the tube and 5. In combination with an ejector having a completely closing the same, said needle guard plunger rod, a disposable medicament container 664 0. G.-11 Page 12
processed material inlet portion and a processed said element, of a lever having a spring pivot material outlet portion, said installation com- mounting and acting directly on the valve memprising an unprocessed material loading station, ber, and a link including a stiffened portion a processed material unloading station, a conveyor conduit system disposed approximately in the form of a figure eight having upwardlydirected conduit portions crossing one another including a supply conduit portion extending from said loading station to said inlet portion and having an outlet positioned to discharge conveyed material into said apparatus inlet portion, an intermediate portion extending from said inlet portion to said outlet portion, a discharge portion having an inlet positioned to receive processed material from said apparatus outlet portion and extending from said outlet portion to said unloading station, said discharge portion having an outlet positioned to discharge processed material at said unloading station, and a return portion extending from said unloading station to said loading station; an endless flight conveyor arranged within said conduit system and traversing said portions, and conveyor driv mechanism operatively engaging said conveyor.
Apparatus for draining a water pipe extending from a source of supply and which may be exposed to freezing temperatures, comprising a valve chamber having an inlet formed therein 1. A collapsible umbrella having a shaft and a to be connected to a water pipe and through frame supported upon the shaft, said frame which water from said pipe may enter the having a plurality of jointed ribs, each of said ribs chamber said chamber having an outlet formed comprising a main rib portion hingedly connected therein, a release valve hingedly mounted in the to an end of the shaft and an extension portion chamber normally retained in closed position hingedly connected to the main rib portion, a over the outlet by the pressure of water in the runner slidable upon the shaft, a strut connected chamber, a tube extending outwardly from the at one end to the runnar and at the other end chamber over the outlet, a rod extending longito a point intermediate the length of the main rib tudinally of the tube and beyond the outer end portion, a guide upon the main rib portion, a push thereof, said rod being threaded at its outer end, pull wire connected at one end to the strut slid- anchoring means between the tube and rod to ably extending through the guide, and a link hold the latter in position, a spring on the rod pivotally connected to the opposite end of the bearing against the release valve, a nut threaded push pull wire and to an end of the rib extension on the outer end of the rod, and a sleeve on the portion. rod extending between the nut and spring, said sleeve having slots therein through which the 2,616,440 anchoring means extend, and said spring being PNEUMATIC CONTROL MECHANISM adapted to open the release valve when the water Clesson E. Mason, Brookline, Mass., assignor to pressure in the chamber drops below a predeter Mason-Neilan Regulator Company, Boston, mined point. Mass., a voluntary association of Massachusetts Application August 3, 1944, Serial No. 547,912 2,616,442 20 Claims. (Cl. 137–85) RESPIRATORY DEVICE 1. In a pneumatic controller including a fluid Bradford B. Holmes, New York, N. Y., assignor to pressure system having a source of fluid pres- Bendix Aviation Corporation, Teterboro, N. J., sure, and a valve having a valve member for vary- a corporation of Delaware ing the pressure in the system, the combination Application June 18, 1946, Serial No. 677,597 with a measuring element is movable in response 5 Claims. (Cl. 137–157) to a change in the value of a condition, and a 1. A selective control for a diaphragm comrotatably mounted arm directly connected to prising a plurality of posts, a spider slidably re Page 13
movement thereof to limit by abutment the rota- oppositely slide the chucks of each pair upon axial tion thereof in one direction, said single stop shifting of the spindle through the heads, means means being adjustable along said paths of move- to cause such axial shifting of said spindle and ment to allow various amounts of rotation by means to maintain the chucks in face to face envarying the position of abutment, a pitman rod rotatably carried by each bell crank lever other arm, said pitman rods carrying means rotatably supporting a router therebetween, said router being vertically adjustable with respect to said latter means to select a desired depth of cut for said elliptical pattern.
2,616,463 1. A machine for riving shakes, comprising a APPARATUS FOR FABRICATION OF pair of longitudinal rails in spaced relation for a PLYWOOD TUBING frame, abutments adjusted to and between the Joseph A. Potchen, Grand Rapids, Mich., as. rails for guiding wood blocks to be split for shakes, signor to Haskelite Manufacturing Corporaa carriage slidably connected to the rails for tion, Grand Rapids, Mich., a corporation of travel to and fro beneath the abutments, a pair New York of tables attached across the carriage spaced apart Application July 14, 1945, Serial No. 605,027 and having their upper faces concaved to provide 2 Claims. (Cl. 144-268) clearance for protuberances on the bodies of blocks and to prevent the blocks from falling, upstanding single bosses on the outer edges of the tables for centrally supporting the outer ends of the blocks, a pair of rocker arms pivotally connected across the carriage between the tables for supporting the inner ends of the blocks horizontally and alternately for determining the thickness of the butts of shakes, said arms spaced apart to provide a passageway for shakes separated from the blocks and for the dual purpose of prying shakes downward from the blocks and tapering the thicknesses of the shakes beyond the butts, a flattened blade affixed to the carriage and extended horizontally between the tables on a 1. Apparatus for fabricating plywood tubing, higher plane than the cross arms for riving the comprising: a supporting structure, a casing proshakes from the bases of the bolts. vided with a longitudinal gap through which a panel can be fed, supported on the structure; a 2,616,462 rotatable mandrel for winding the panel into TOOL FOR TAPERING FIBER PIPE ENDS convolute form, mechanism on the structure for George F. Haddican, Delano, Calif. rotating the mandrel in the casing, a flexible Application April 18, 1949, Serial No. 88,106 member for feeding the panel into the casing, 2 Claims. (CI. 144-205) having a free end insertable through the gap. 1. A tool for tapering a pipe end, comprising means for winding the other end of the flexible a longitudinal spindle, an expansible chuck as- member for drawing the member through the sembly on the spindle adapted to be received in casing, the free end being drawn out of the casing one end portion of the pipe with the spindle when the panel has been wound on the mandrel. projecting therefrom, means operative upon rotation of the spindle to expand the chuck assembly into rigid engagement with the pipe, a 2,616,464 rotary handle on the projecting portion of the ANGULARLY AND ROTATABLY ADJUSTABLE spindle, and a pipe end taper cutting device WORK HOLDER AND SUPPORT THEREFOR mounted on the rotary handle radially out from William T. Berry, Jr., Bassett, Va., assignor to the spindle; said chuck assembly including a Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated, pair of longitudinally spaced, radial end heads, Bassett, Va., a corporation of Virginia means rigidly connecting said end heads as a Application November 19, 1948, Serial No. 61,088 unit, a pair of opposed chucks mounted on each 3 Claims. (Cl. 144-288) end head for radial sliding motion, cam surfaces 1. An angularly and rotatably adjustable work between the spindle and said chucks operative to holder and support therefor having a vertically disposed support adapted to be suspended at its exteriorly of said yoke and having one end conupper end, said support including a vertical guide, nected to the upper end of said yoke for movean adjustable collar on said guide, a rod pivotally ment about an axis transverse of said sleeve and connected at one end to said collar, a supporting connected adjacent said one end to the other end base attached to the other end of said rod, a of said linkage for movement about another axis second rod pivotally connected at one end to said transverse of said sleeve. base and pivotally connected at its other end Page 14
2,616,488 conduits including a valve and a valve operating FUEL BURNER lever assembly disposed to one side of the handle George F. Olsen, Colton, Calif., assignor to Cali- where an operator's hand holding the handle can fornia Portland Cement Company, Los An- control the valve operating lever assembly, said geles, Calif., a corporation of California assembly including a plurality of levers pivoted Application May 5, 1951, Serial No. 224,786 at spaced points with respect to the handle and 1 Claim. (Cl. 158—11)
pivoted at their proximate ends with respect to each other, and means at one of the pivot points permitting the corresponding lever to move longitudinally a short distance with respect to the pivot point as the plurality of levers are moved A combination fuel oil and gas burner com- toward the handle. prising a tubular body having an open axially inner discharge end and an air inlet near its opposite outer end from which a stream of air 2,616,490 filows axially in the body to said discharge end, FUEL BURNER SAFETY CONTROL an annular wall extending transversely across said outer end of the body, a gas delivery tube John M. Wilson and Richard S. Feigal, Minneap APPARATUS extending axially in said body and through an olis, Minn., assignors to Minneapolis-Honeyopening in said transverse wall to project out well Regulator Company, Minneapolis, Minn., a wardly therebeyond, means on said gas tube out corporation of Delaware wardly beyond said wall for connecting the tube to a gas supply line, said tube having an open Application February 26, 1949, Serial No. 78,592 discharge end in the body facing inwardly in the 15 Claims. (Cl. 158—28) direction of said open end of the body, means carried by said wall and within the body guiding the tube for axial adjusting movement relative to the body, an oil delivery tube extending axially in and radially spaced from the gas tube and projecting outwardly therebeyond, means on the oil tube outwardly beyond the gas tube for connecting the oil tube to an oil supply line, means mounting said oil tube for axial adjusting movement relative to said body and gas tube, a spreader baffie carried by and projecting downstream from said oil tube and against which oil and gas from said tubes are discharged, said bafle in extending downstream from said tubes having first a substantially frusto-conical radially outer surface faring downstream from a diameter less than the oil tube to an enlarged diameter greater than the gas tube and then having a substantially cylindrical outer surface of said enlarged diameter, said body having a substantially cylindrical inner surface opposite both of said outer baffle surfaces, a connection between said oil tube and baffle containing a series of circularly spaced passages directing oil from within the tube onto said flaring outer surface of the baffle, and a needle valve in said oil tube for controlling the oil delivery there 1. Control apparatus for a fuel burner having through having a tapered valve portion at subo a fuel valve and a blower motor, comprising in stantially the location of said baffle and having a heater therefor, first switch means operated combination, an electron discharge device having an actuating stem extending axially through the oll tube and projecting from the outer end there- upon a demand for burner operation, means in cluding said first switch means adapted to comof. plete an energizing electrical circuit to the blower motor and to said heater, second switch means 2,616,489 actuated by said discharge device when said heatUNDERWATER CUTTING TORCH er has been energized for a predetermined length Thomas J. Skalles, Baraboo, Wis., and Raymond of time, means including said second switch R. Zimmer, Chicago, III., assignors to The Bas- means adapted with said first switch means to tian-Blessing Company, Chicago, Ill., a corpo- energize the fuel valve and establish independration of Illinois ently of said first switch means a further elecApplication February 3, 1945, Serial No. 576,052 trical circuit to the blower motor, said further 7 Claims. (Cl. 158–27.4) electrical circuit remaining established for a 1. A torch including a plurality of conduits, a length of time dependent on the cooling time of handle on said conduits, means for connecting said heater after said first switch means is no said conduits to separate sources of gases, means longer operative to indicate a demand for burner for controlling the flow of gas through one of the operation. Page 15
2,616,507 means for forcing a supply of water under pres TURBOPROP CONTROL sure into the interior of and through said tank Leonard Sidney Greenland, Weston-super-Mare, England, assignor to H. M. Hobson Limited, London, England, a company of Great Britain Application May 14, 1946, Serial No. 669,653 In Great Britain May 28, 1945 12 Claims. (Cl, 170–135.74)
8. In an internal combustion engine, the comand through said shavings, a discharge pipe con- bination, with a constant speed propeller driven nected to said outlet, and means for directing the by the engine, and a propeller governor associdischarge from said discharge pipe on to a fire. ated with the constant speed propeller, means for adjusting the propeller governor to vary the engine speed which will be maintained by the 2,616,506 constant speed propeller, a manually operable WIND-OPERATED POWER GENERATOR speed selecting member, a fuel pump, a conduit Berton M. Mathias, Monte Vista, Colo. for supplying fuel to the engine from said fuel Application March 22, 1949, Serial No. 82,899 pump, a metering orifice in said conduit, a meter. ( ing pressure governor driven by the engine and tending to develop across the metering orifice & metering pressure which increases in desired relationship with increase in engine speed, mechanism for varying the datum of said metering pressure governor and thereby altering the relationship between the metering pressure and the engine speed, mechanism operated by the speed selecting member for simultaneously actuating the propeller governor adjusting means and the datum-varying mechanism to effect, as said member is moved to select a higher or lower speed, a controlled increase or decrease respectively in the metering pressure additional to that obtained by the normal response of said metering pressure governor to change in engine speed, and means responsive to changes in the metering pressure developed by said metering pressure governor for automatically increasing the effec tive delivery of the fuel pump as said metering A wind-operated mechanism comprising a sup- pressure increases, and decreasing the effective porting tower, a frame mounted on said tower for delivery of the fuel pump as said metering presrotation about a substantially vertical axis, a sure decreases. tapered air-intake scoop and a tapered air-outlet spout carried by said frame with said air-outlet 2,616,508 spout oppositely directed to said intake scoop, a CONTROL SYSTEM FOR GAS TURBINE restricted throat structure connected between the PROPELLER ENGINES smaller ends of said intake scoop and outlet spout, Frank C. Mock, South Bend, Ind., assignor to a shaft extending longitudinally into said throat Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, Ind., structure concentrically thereof, and an air. a corporation of Delaware driven rotor mounted on said shaft within said Application September 12, 1946, Serial No. 696,396 throat, said intake scoop and said outlet spout 10 Claims. (Cl, 170-135.74) each having a substantially right-angle bend in- 1. In a power control system for engines of that termediate its length and said throat structure type utilizing a gas turbine drivably connected having a U-shaped formation, said intake scoop to a load and a burner or generator to which air and said outlet spout having their portions in- is supplied under pressure by a dynamic comwardly of the respective bends convergingly in- pressor, a fuel conduit for conducting fuel under clined downwardly in said frame, and said U- pressure to the burner having a variable metershaped throat structure being disposed and having ing restriction therein, an element for varying its opposite ends in communication with the lower, the area of said restriction, means for maintainsmaller ends of said scoop and said spout, whereby ing a fixed metering head across said restriction the distance between the inlet end of said scoop at a given position of said element and at a given and the outlet end of said spout is materially less entering air density, means for varying the load than the length of the air passage through said on the engine, and a manually operable power scoop, said spout and said throat structure. control member having an operative connection Page 16
with said element and said load varying means of the cylinder and a cap secured to the outer for obtaining predetermined ratios of load take- end of the housing, said spring acting to force the cylinder inwardly against a stop formed in the housing, said housing being provided with an inlet oil passage leading to ports provided in the cylinder at opposite ends thereof, in registry therewith when the cylinder is in its inward position, said cylinder being provided with outlet ports spaced at each side of the piston when it is centrally located in the cylinder, said housing being provided with an outlet duct in registry
1. An airfoil comprising, in combination, a collapsible flexible casing designed to conform, when 2,616,511 tensioned, to the desired aerodynamic contour of TURBO-PROPELLER the airfoil, flexible struts embedded within the William Perrott, North Bergen, N. J., assignor, by walls of said casing and so arranged both longi- direct and mesne assignments, to Trochoidal tudinally and transversely of said casing that, Propellers, Incorporated, a corporation of Dela- when tensioned, they act to reinforce said cas- ware ing to withstand, in use, those aerodynamic Application June 3, 1948, Serial No. 30,829 stresses which tend to deform it from said de- 4 Claims. (Cl. 170—166) sired aerodynamic contour, and means for main- taining casing tensioning pneumatic pressure therein, said airfoil having an extensible tip, normally retracted, and pneumatic means for ex- tending said tip.
2,616,510 ROTOR BLADE DAMPER Joseph Rzeczycki, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor, by 4. A propeller comprising a hub, a plurality of mesne assignments, to Plasecki Helicopter Cor. rearwardly inclined blades attached to the hub, poration, Morton, Pa., a corporation of Penn- a rotor in the form of a zone of a sphere with sylvania opposite openings of different sizes, mounted Application November 7, 1947, Serial No. 784,614 intermediately on the blades concentric to the 5 Claims. (Ci. 170—160.55) hub and having its smaller opening in front, said 1. In combination, an articulated sustaining rotor having an inner surface that is concave rotor, a rotor blade damping and locking device from front to back diverting the fluid stream into comprised of a housing. the inner end of said a direction parallel to the hub axis. housing having connecting means for attachment to the rotor hub a fluid containing cylinder carried by the housing for longitudinal move 2,616,512 ment therein, a piston slidably mounted in said ANTIBACKFLOW VALVE cylinder, a shaft extending through said cylinder Everett P. Coon, Boise, Idaho and fixed to the piston for reciprocation there- Application April 6, 1950, Serial No. 154,248 with, the outer end of said shaft being provided 1 Claim. (CI. 182—25) with fastening means for attachment to a rotor An anti-backflow valve comprising a hollow blade, a spring interposed between the outer end casing having a substantially horizontally ex
tending inlet conduit terminating in a cylindrical said gas lift tube extending through said plate, 2,616,514 GAS SEPARATION APPARATUS WITH LIQUID LEVEL CONTROLLER Henry E. Shobe, Bartlesville, Okla., assignor to Phillips Petroleum Company, a corporation of Delaware Application September 20, 1948, Serial No. 50,133 8 Claims. (CI. 183–2.7)
2,616,513 1. An apparatus for use in the removal of gas PORTABLE AMINE GAS TREATER and liquid from a vessel comprising an elongated Ernest A. McClendon, Odessa, Tex., assignor to vertically disposed tube of small diameter and Phillips Petroleum Company, a corporation of open at both ends, a second tube of greater diam- Delaware eter than the first tube and disposed concentric Application August 30, 1948, Serial No. 46,783 with and surrounding said first tube, the upper 3 Claims. (Cl, 183–2.5) end of said first tube and the adjacent end of said second tube joined in a gas-tight manner, the inner tube is of such length that it termi. nates within the throat of a venturi connected with the lower end of said second tube, and an opening in the sidewall of the second tube.
2,616,515 ADSORPTION PROCESS Clyde H. O. Berg, Long Beach, Calif., assignor to Union Oil Company of California, Los Angeles, Calif., a corporation of California Application February 21, 1949, Serial No. 77,555 29 Claims. (Cl. 183_-4.2) 1. A process for the separation of a gaseous mixture which comprises passing a moving bed of solid granular adsorbent downwardly through a cooling zone, an adsorption zone, at least one rectification zone and a heating zone successively, introducing said gaseous mixture into said ad- sorption zone, removing a substantially unad1. A stripping vessel comprising an elongated, sorbed lean gas from said adsorption zone as a vertically disposed, cylindrical vessel, a liquid- product gas, desorbing adsorbed constituents as gas disengaging means in the lower portion of the a rich gas from the adsorbent in said heating vessel, a gas lift tube extending from a point zone as a product gas, subsequently cooling the near the bottom of the vessel to a point near heated adsorbent in said cooling zone and heating the top thereof, a plate disposed transversely of said adsorbent in said heating zone by recircuthe vessel at a point nearer the top than to the lating a stream of a product gas through said bottom and dividing said vessel into two sections, cooling zone to remove heat from the adsorbent
blate, said tube e but ging econd
therein and subsequently through said heating tending between said frames, said rows being arzone to add heat to the adsorbent therein, the ranged between the collecting electrode plates, a recirculating stream passing in direct heat ex- central support member for the electrode syschange relationship to the adsorbent in one and tem, an extension member from which the supindirect heat exchange relationship to the ad- port and electrode system are suspended, said exsorbent in the other of said cooling and heating tension member being fixedly mounted at the zones, and withdrawing a portion of the recircu- outlet substantially in alignment with said suplated stream as a product stream. port member and an adjustable connection between said support member and said extension member, said adjustable connection being angularly adjustable in all planes passing through the vertical axis of said electrode system and also being capable of limited rotation about said axis whereby the emission electrode system may be tiltably and, to a limited extent, rotatably adjusted.
2,616,517 TANK TYPE CLEANER Roland D. Beck, Sycamore, II., assignor to Ideal Industries, Inc., Sycamore, Ill., a corporation of Delaware Application August 30, 1948, Serial No. 46,811 1 Claim. (C1, 183–37)
27. An apparatus for the separation of a gaseous mixture which comprises a vertical adsorption column containing an adsorbent cooling section, an adsorption zone, and an adsorbent heating zone, means for conveying adsorbent removed from the bottom of said column to the top thereof, an inlet conduit for a gaseous mixture into said adsorption section, an outlet conduit therefrom for substantially unadsorbed lean gas product, an outlet conduit from said heating section for desorbed rich gas product, means for recirculating a stream of at least part of one of said product gases successively through said adsorbent heating and cooling sections to convey heat from the adsorbent in said cooling section to the adsorbent in said heating section, said apparatus being In a vacuum cleaner, a casing having an open adapted to bringing the recirculating product stream into direct heat exchange relation in one top, an annular abutment carried by the casing and into indirect heat exchange relation in the near its open end, a bag-supporting frame memother of said adsorbent cooling and heating sec- depending from said frame member, a separating ber supported upon said abutment, a filter bag tions, and an outlet conduit for removing a por- tank having an open top and means defining an tion of the recirculating stream as a product gas. air passage through the tank, an outwardly directed annular flange carried by the tank over lying the bag-supporting frame and supporting 2,616,516 the tank within the filter bag, means sealing the ELECTROFILTER tank flange and the bag-supporting frame to the John Helge Lindbergh, Stockholm, and Gustaf casing abutment and to each other, a slipcover Larsson, Jonkoping, Sweden, assignors to A B for the open top of the casing, air inlet means Svenska Flaktfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden in said cover, suction means for drawing air Application May 3, 1949, Serial No. 91,188 through said inlet, through the tank and filter In Sweden April 22, 1949 bag, and discharging the same from the casing, 2 Claims. (Cl. 183—7) and an upstanding rim on the tank surrounding the upper open end thereof and adapted to be sealingly engaged by the cover member in circumscribing relation to the air inlet means thereof by suction induced by said suction means within the casing.
1. An electro-filter for gases comprising an in 2,616,518 let , an outlet, and an intermediate vertically AGITATING MEANS FOR CLEANING FILTERS extending chamber through which gases are Gordon Heatherton Vokes, Guildford, England, adapted to flow from the inlet to the outlet, a assignor to Vokes Limited, Guildford, England plurality of collecting electrode plates extend- Application October 11, 1949, Serial No. 120,767 ing longitudinally of said chamber, an emission In Great Britain October 18, 1948 electrode system in said intermediate chamber 3 Claims. (CI, 183—59) including a pair of spaced frames and a plu 1. In a filtering installation in which bays or rality of parallel rows of emission electrodes ex- sections of fixed filtering bags or pockets are
subjected to balanced pairs of beater members by it resumes flow in a direction substantially in each bag or pocket, means to oscillate selected parallel to said center line, the leading edge of balanced pairs of beater members and simultane- said barrier being positioned adjacent the porously to oscillate other selected balanced pairs of tion of said outer casing which deflects said dirty air the second time in cooperative relation therewith whereby a substantial portion of the dirt in the incoming air passes into said outer passage because of the relatively greater density thereof while a major portion of the clean air passes into said inner passage because of its relatively lesser density, the motion of the dirt particles during and between said deflections occurring in planes substantially coinciding with said center line, a plurality of radially disposed air turning vanes supporting said center member inside said outer casing, an electric motor positioned inside said enclosed center member, and an axial flow fan driven by said electric motor.
beater members in the opposite directions, the other selected members being mounted in bags or pockets located between bags or pockets wherein the first-mentioned selected members are mounted.
2,616,520 MULTIPLE CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATORS CONNECTED IN PARALLEL Eugen Feifel and Roland Kemmetmüller, Vienna, Austria, assignors to Waagner-Biro Aktien- gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria, a joint-stock company of Austria Application March 1, 1949, Serial No. 79,006 In Austria March 4, 1948 4 Claims. (Cl. 183—80)
2,616,519 INERTIA TYPE AIR CLEANING DEVICE John H. Crankshaw and William S. O'Kelly, Erie, Pa., assignors to General Electric Company, a corporation of New York Application January 28, 1949, Serial No. 73,254 2 Claims. (CL 183—75)
1. In a centrifugal dust separator plant the combination comprising at least a pair of spaced vertical columns composed of a plurality of cylindrical cyclones having their axes disposed substantially; horizontally and each disposed in gastight relation to an adjacent cyclone, each cyclone column on one side partly enclosing a crude gas chamber and on the other side partly enclosing a dust chamber, a vertical wall partly enclosing the crude gas chamber and partly enclosing a pure gas chamber and connected to corresponding ends of at least a pair of spaced cyclone columns, & second wall connected to the other corresponding ends of the pair of cyclone columns and partly enclosing the dust chamber, the cyclones including casings provided with crude gas inlets opening into the crude gas chamber and with dust outlets opening into the dust chamber and provided with pure gas outlets opening into the pure gas cham ber, a substantially; horizontal gastight wall closmosphere comprising an elongated outer casing the dust chamber by a gastight joint. 1. An apparatus for removing dirt from the at. ing the upper end of the dust chamber, and a dust collecting funnel connected to the lower end of of varied diameter circular cross section, means providing for the flow of dirty air to be cleaned into one end of said outer casing in a direction substantially parallel to the center line of said 2,616,521 casing, a completely enclosed elongated center ADSORPTION PROCESS member coaxially positioned on the center line Clyde H. O. Berg, Long Beach, Calif., assignor to of said outer casing, means for sharply deflecting Union Oil Company of California, Los Angeles, said dirty air radially toward said casing, said Calif., a corporation of California means comprising an outwardly disposed conical Application February 21, 1949, Serial No. 77,556 projection on the dirty air inlet end of said cen 6 Claims. (Cl. 183-114.2) ter member, an intermediate coaxially positioned 5. A process for the separation of a gaseous barrier separating a portion of the radial space mixture which comprises passing a substantially between said outer casing and said center mem- compact moving bed of solid granular adsorbent ber into an outer longitudinal dirty air passage downwardly by gravity successively through a and an inner longitudinal clean air passage, said cooling zone, an adsorption zone, at least one outer casing deflecting said dirty air again where- rectification zone and a heating zone, introduc
ing said gaseous mixture into said adsorption zone piston engine comprising a hollow casing, a to adsorb the more readily adsorbable constituents reciprocatory member in said hollow casing thereof on said adsorbent to form a rich ad- having a reduced portion, means forming å sorbent and leaving the less readily adsorbable high pressure chamber at one end of said constituents unadsorbed as a cool lean gas, casing, groove means in said high pressure passing at least part of said cool lean gas from chamber for collecting excess oil coming off said said adsorption zone directly and without other reciprocatory member, channel means in said treatment into direct countercurrent contact casing having an inlet in communication with with adsorbent in said cooling zone, controlling said groove means, said channel means having the flow rate of said lean gas flow therethrough an outlet opening internally of said casing at to form a hot lean gas and a cool lean adsorbent a point between said high pressure chamber and and to establish and maintain a substantial tem- said lower pressure chamber, said reciprocatory perature gradient therein, subsequently cooling member having passageway means therein which at least part of said hot lean gas, recycling the has an inlet which aligns with said channel cool lean gas thus formed again through said cooling zone, contacting said rich adsorbent with a rich gas reflux in said rectification zone to preferentially desorb traces of said less readily adsorbable constituents forming a rectified adsorbent, heating said rectified adsorbent by a di
means outlet only when said reciprocatory member is at the closest position to said high pressure chamber during the reciprocatory movement and an outlet in communication with said lower pressure chamber at least during the time when said reciprocatory member is away from said closest position, whereby a blow-off of pressure and oil from said high pressure chamber to said lower pressure chamber is obtained once each reciprocatory cycle, said outlet in communication with said lower pressure chamber being the space defined by the reduced portion of said reciprocating member and a wall of said casing juxtaposed to said reciprocating member. rect countercurrent contact with a recirculating stream of hot rich gas to desorb adsorbed con 2,616,523 stituents from said rectified adsorbent, con LUBRICATING APPARATUS trolling the flow rate of said hot rich gas to form Ernest W. Davis, River Forest, mi. a hot lean adsorbent and a cool rich gas, cooling Substituted for application Serial No. 499,157, the recirculated stream of hot lean gas by in August 18, 1943. This application January 11, direct heat exchange with said recirculated 1946, Serial No. 640,526 stream of cool rich gas forming a cool lean gas 18 Claims. (Cl. 184—26) and a hot rich gas for reintroduction into said cooling and heating zones respectively, removing said hot lean adsorbent from said heating zone, suspending said adsorbent in a lift gas and conveying it to a separation zone wherein said lift gas is separated from said adsorbent, recirculatIng lift gas from said separation zone to form further quantities of said suspension, transferring separated adsorbent from said separation zone to said cooling zone, continuously removing a portion of said recirculating rich gas as a rich gas product, and continuously removing a portion of said recirculated lean gas as a lean gas product.
2,616,522 LUBRICATING MEANS FOR RECIPROCA- TORY MEMBER IN A HIGH-PRESSURE CHAMBER AND BLOWOFF MEANS THERE- FOR Willem Van Heeckeren, Dobbs Ferry, George W. Meadows, Irvington-on-Hudson, and Burton A. having a discharge outlet, power driven operatApplication April 27, 1948, Serial No. 23,584 ing mechanism having a driving connection with 9 Claims. (Cl. 184—24) said pump for operating said lubricant pump, a 1. A device for blowing off excess lubricating source of power, power controlling means conoll from a high pressure chamber of a hot gas nected with said source and with said operating Page 17
mechanism for intermittently connecting said op 2,616,525 erating mechanism with said source of power, said WHEEL AND BRAKE ASSEMBLY power controlling means including a movable William H. Du Bois, South Bend, Ind., assignor member movable to an energizing position in to Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, which said operating mechanism is connected Ind., a corporation of Delaware with said source of power, and to a deenergizing Application November 18, 1947, Serial No. 786,720 position in which said operating mechanism is 23 Claims. (Cl. 188—18) disconnected from said source of power, means continuously tending to urge said movable member toward said deenergizing position while the apparatus is in use, movable means mechanically engageable with said movable member for moving said movable member to said energizing position, other means for retaining said movable member in said energizing position, and means movable in response to the lubricant pressure in said discharge outlet and mechanically engageable with said movable member for rendering said retaining means ineffectual, whereby said urging means may then move said movable member to said deenergizing position.
2,616,524 LUBRICANT PUMP Alexander P. Fox, University City, and Lutwin C. Rotter, Maplewood, Mo., assignors to Lincoln Engineering Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corpo- ration of Missouri Application April 22, 1950, Serial No. 157,561 20 Claims. (Cl. 184-28) 1. In an aircraft landing gear having a strut provided with a mounting flange and with a laterally-extending stub axle, a wheel and brake assembly comprising a first annular brake-supporting member secured to the mounting flange and having a central opening through which the axle extends, a second annular brake-supporting member mounted alongside the first brake-supporting member and having a portion which is spaced from the corresponding part of the first brake-supporting member, a plurality of angularly-spaced fastening members securing the two brake-supporting members together, a plurality of anchor sleeves carried by said fastening members, one or more non-rotatable friction discs mounted between said brake-supporting members and having slots engaging said anchor sleeves to prevent rotation of said discs while permitting axial sliding movement thereof, two axiallyspaced bearings, one supported axially and radially on the periphery of each of the brake-supporting members, a wheel rotatably mounted on said bearings, said wheel consisting of two sections joined together by a plurality of axiallyextending fastening members, a plurality of angularly-spaced axially-extending key members secured to the hub of the wheel and located be tween the bearings, one or more rotatable fric1. A lubricant pump comprising a pump cylin- tion discs having slotted engagement with said der having an inlet and an outlet, a plunger key members and inter-leaved with said nonreciprocable in the cylinder and movable across rotatable discs, one of said brake-supporting the inlet from a retracted position through a members having an annular chamber adapted to pressure stroke and back to retracted position be connected to a fluid pressure actuator, an anthrough a return stroke, a check valve in the out- nular piston reciprocable in said chamber, and a let adapted to open during pressure strokes and plurality of angularly-spaced springs compressed to close during return strokes of the plunger, said between the annular piston and the opposite check valve having a vent therein, and a vent brake-supporting member to tend to retain said valve in association with the vent in the check piston in retracted position. valve mechanically controlled by the plunger to vent the pump outlet to the cylinder when the plunger is in retracted position and positively to 2,616,526 close the vent when the plunger, in being moved HYDRAULICALLY ACTUATED DISK TYPE from its retracted position, reaches an interme AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE BRAKE diate position prior to closing of the cylinder Preston W. Hovey, Berkeley, Calif., and inlet, the vent valve maintaining the vent posi Charles G. King, Portland, Oreg. tively closed throughout the remainder of a pres- Application April 24, 1950, Serial No. 157,726 sure stroke and also during retraction of the 4 Claims. (CL. 188—152) plunger provided the plunger is not retracted past 2. A disc type brake comprising a plurality of said intermediate position, cooperative members including thrust members Page 18
operable means for co-acting with the other end testing, channel, aligned with one end of said of said stop member, means for positioning said coin chute and extending between said chute stop member for co-action with one or the other and the coin operated machine, means for pushof said co-acting means and means for immobiliz- ing the coin from the bottom of the chute into ing said stop member in one or the other of said the inclined coin testing channel, said channel co-acting positions. consisting of a top and a bottom guide member, insulated from each other and arranged substan tially in a vertical plane above each other, each 2,616,543 member being provided with substantially verSAFETY ASSEMBLY FOR POWER PRESSES tical side walls and being so shaped as to surPhilo H. Danly, Hinsdale, Ii., assignor to Danly round a portion of the coin while holding the Machine Specialties, Inc., Chicago, Ill., a cor- latter in a substantially vertical position, and the poration of Illinois two members being so spaced that the coin is in Application March 19, 1949, Serial No. 82,421 electric contact with both members while travel8 Claims. (Cl. 192—150) ing downwardly along the coin testing channel by gravity, the bottom guide member being provided with a slot larger and wider than the coin to be tested, transverse coin supporting pins arranged at a distance smaller than the coin size normally removed from said slot, an electromagnet near said slot arranged on one side of the coin testing channel, a suspension member carrying said pins, arranged on the other side of said coin testing channel, an armature for said electro-magnet projecting upwardly and provided with a projecting plate, crossing the channel above the top guide member, a suspension member mounting an arm on said plate, a connection for limited movement in more than one direction between the suspension means and said arm, the said suspension member thus being held in a substantially vertical position irrespective of the movement of the armature, with the pins projecting at substantially right angles in a substantially horizontal direction, said armature be ing moved by the electro-magnet from an in1. A safety assembly for power presses includ- tion, thereby moving the pins from their normal clined position into a substantially Vertical posiing in combination a power press, a member position into a position in which they form a adapted to be subjected to stress during the work- transverse substantially horizontal support for ing cycle of the press, a hydraulic piston for bal- the coin below the slot, an energizing circuit for ancing the stress in the member. means for ap- the electro-magnet, and circuit limiting means plying hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic pis- in the energizing circuit of the electro-magnet ton, means for maintaining the hydraulic pres- for reducing the energizing current to a value sure at a predetermined point including an ac, producing energization of the electro-magnet cumulator containing a quantity of compressed only with a predetermined coin, but excluding gas and hydraulic fluid whereby the hydraulic operation with a coin of higher resistance, a fuid is subjected to the pressure of the com, tripping device for the armature and suspension pressed gas, a pump for pumping hydraulic fluid member producing a returning impulse, said into the accumulator, pressure responsive means tripping device being linked to and suspended for controlling the pump to start the same when- on the projecting arm of the armature and inever the pressure in the hydraulic system falls cluding a member with a depending extension below a predetermined point and means respon: located in front of the delivery end of the chansive to an increase in hydraulic pressure created nel in the position of energization of the armaby stress in the member beyond a predetermined ture of the electro-magnet and further including point for stopping the operation of the press. an arm pivoted to the suspension member, the coin, when leaving the channel, thus de-energiz ing the electro-magnet, also hitting the exten2,616,544 sion of the tripping device and producing an imSLUG ELIMINATOR pulse returning the armature and the members , . Application October 28, 1946, Serial No. 706,243 attached to it to their normal position. 1 Claim. (Cl. 194100) 2,616,545 TYPE BAR SHIFTING MECHANISM FOR STENOGRAPHIC TYPEWRITERS Harrison M. Von Duyke, Wilmington, Del., as signor to New Dictatype Company, Incorporated, Wilmington, Del., a corporation of DelaApplication October 18, 1947, Serial No. 780,607 2 Claims. (Cl. 197—74) 1. In a stenographic typewriter, a plurality of type bars each having two type faces adapted to be selectively imprinted on paper passing over a cylindrical platen, one set of said type faces beA slug eliminator for coin operated ma- ing initially in the printing plane passing chines comprising a coin chute, an inclined coin through the axis of the platen, a series of key op Page 19
through the reinforcing member and the front 2,616,558 wall, and a companion fastener element carried SMOKING PIPE PORTMANTEAU AND STAND by the flap on the rear wall for engagement with Sidney Kay, Jr., Scarsdale, N. Y. the fastener element that extends through the Application September 7, 1949, Serial No. 114,318 front wall for holding the closure flap closed. 1 Claim. (Cl. 206—45.13)
A portmanteau or the like carrier for smoking pipes having, in combination, a box-like container forming one member and which includes a bottom wall to the edges of which are connected a pair of upstanding end and side walls, a lid or cover forming another member hingedly connected to one of said side walls, said lid com prising a plurality of swing segments comprising 2. A dispensing and receiving package for inner and outer segments to each side of a brace safety razor blades comprising an elongated car- segment, said lid overlapping the edges of said rier card having a series of transverse slits there end and side walls in the covering position, the in, a plurality of thin flexible blades each project- outer of said swing segments of said lid having ing obliquely at one end through a slit of the card, brace sheet member substantially co-extensive connected thereto on its interior face a rigid and a fexible strip of sheet material covering with said bottom wall member and extending the inserted blade ends, marginally secured to and cooperating with the card to provide a blade- free of the other of said swing segments in the receiving compartment and provided with a open position of the lid, said brace member havtransverse blade-receiving slot adjacent to that ing loops attached thereto for engaging the pipe end from which an inserted used blade will pass edge of said brace member comprising a base stems, supporting brackets extended at a bottom freely over the said blade ends. and a front lip cooperating with the loops to hold said pipes in position on said brace member in swinging to and from the covering position of 2,616,557 said lid, said brackets being engageable on the VACUUM-ACTUATED ASH TRAY FOR bottom and side wall in the open position and VEHICLES cooperating with the brace segment to serve as Robert L. Gill and Frank A. Nash, Portland, Oreg., an angular support for the brace sheet member. assignors, by direct and mesne assignments, of eighty-five per cent to Robert L. Gill, Vancouver, Wash., and fifteen per cent to Harry E. 2,616,559 Olson, Portland, Oreg. Application November 25, 1949, Serial No. 129,442 PACKING ARTICLES, SUCH AS FISHING LURES, MADE OF FLEXIBLE SHEET 10 Claims. (C1. 206—19.5) MATERIAL Daniel F. Hyland, St. Louis, Mo. Application April 15, 1949, Serial No. 87,774 8 Claims. (Cl. 206—46)
1. A fishing lure package comprising a backing sheet having a coating of pressure-sensitive adhesive on one side, a framing layer of flexible sheet material having an aperture in the outline of a fishing lure and at least one aperture in the 6. An ash tray, comprising an ash receiver outline of a wing strip adhered to the adhesivemember biased to a filling position in communica- coated side of the backing sheet, the backing tion with a filling aperture and mounted for sheet closing the apertures on one side of the movement to a discharge position in communica- framing layer, a lure body cut from flexible sheet tion with a discharge aperture, means for re- material of different color from the framing layer ducing the air pressure within said discharge in the outline of the lure-shaped aperture in the aperture, and means rendered effective by a move- framing layer occupying this aperture and rement of said ash receiver member toward said movably adhered to the adhesive-coated side of discharge position and responsive to the reduced the backing sheet, a wing strip cut from flexible air pressure in said discharge aperture for con- sheet material of different color from framing the tinuing the movement in opposition to said bias. layer in the outline of the wing strip aperture in the framing layer occupying the wing strip aper- columns for designations, a set up device includture and removably adhered to the adhesive- ing a plurality of storage means equal in numcoated side of the backing sheet, said lure body ber to said index positions and respectively asbeing slitted to receive said wing strip. Page 20
having an outstanding shoulder with an upper face spaced from the lower edge of the ring when
the ring is screwed up on the bottle, and the shouldered part of the cap being disposed in the charge duct hingedly connected to said hopper space thus provided, the cap being so dimenand capable of being swung into a position in sioned that when the cap is so secured said cap substantial parallelism with the direction of assumes a predetermined axial position with retravel of the vehicle. spect to the nipple structure.
2,616,580 FORK LIFT TRAILER Arthur E. Olson, Cupertino, Calif. Application July 29, 1949, Serial No. 107,462 2 Claims. (Cl. 214131)
2,616,582 BUNG Louis C. Kappes and Lyall F. Whitney, Cincin- nati, Ohio, assignors to Whitney-Kappes Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, a partnership Application November 28, 1950, Serial No. 197,936 4 Claims. (Cl. 217–109)
29 1. A bung for sealing a container opening comprising a cup-like flanged body member having a central aperture, a pressure plate provided with a central threaded stud passing through said aperture, a plurality of rubber-like gaskets em1. A trailer lift truck comprising a main frame bracing sald body member between said flange having a forward portion and laterally spaced metallic shim between each two adjacent gaskets, and said pressure plate, a substantially rigid horizontal side arms extending rearwardly there- and a nut engaging said threaded stud by means from, supporting wheels mounted on said arms, of which said individual gaskets may be commeans on the forward portion of the main frame pressed and caused to expand radially to seal for supporting it in substantially horizontal posi- said container opening, all of said gaskets and tion in cooperation with said wheels, a supple- shims having substantially the same inside dimental listing frame having a forward portion ameter, but the outside diameters being of propositioned above the forward portion of the main gressively different size, whereby upon insertion frame and pivoted on a horizontal axis to the of said bung in a tapered container opening and forward end thereof, load lifting fork arms hav- tightening of said nut. the individual gaskets ing vertical portions suspended from the supple- make substantiaaly uniform and equal sealing mental frame between the side arms and hori- contact with said tapered opening. zontal portions coextensive with the side arms and adapted to be positioned at the level of the wheel treads, guide means on the ends of the side 2,616,583 arms for aligning a load being received between FILLER CAP ASSEMBLY the side arms, and means on the inner portions Larence E. Rausenberger, Springfield, Ohio, asof the arms for clamping the sides of a load. signor to The Steel Products Engineering Com pany, Springfield, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application March 20, 1950, Serial No. 150,655 2,616,581 13 Claims. (CI, 220—25) NURSING OUTFIT 1. A filler cap assembly for the inlet of a conPaul S. Madsen, Bethany, and George W. Good- tainer to retain positive pressure on the con son, North Haven, Conn., assignors to The tents thereof, comprising an adapter for said conSeamless Rubber Company, New Haven, Conn., tainer including an annular rim defining an ina corporation of Connecticut let opening, a closure adapted to seat on said Application October 8, 1945, Serial No. 620,878 rim, a clamp adapted to engage the under side 5 Claims. (Cl. 215—11) of said rim, means supporting said clamp and 1. In a nursing bottle, the combination of a extending through said closure, operating means bottle having a mouth, a nursing nipple, a re- on said supporting means for causing relative taining screw ring holding the nipple over the clamping and unclamping movement of said bottle mouth, and a protective cap of the push- clamp and closure, a cover for said assembly. on type extending over the nipple and over the means forming a driving connection between said retaining ring, said cap having a resilient rubber cover and sald operating means to cause operative Page 21
wire members being bent to engage the lower sur- for delivering fluid to said spout, a valve in said face of a bottle and adapted to support and retain pipe, said valve having a stem and being biased to closed position, a lever engaging said stem, and a polygonal cam having sides corresponding in number to said measuring devices and engagSETT
said bottle in position against and below said panel member.
2,616,602 BOTTLE CARRIER Fred John Middlestadt, Baltimore, Md., assignor to Joseph B. Waller, Baltimore, Md. Application February 23, 1950, Serial No. 145,685 4 Claims. (Cl. 22448)
2,616,604 METHOD FOR FREEZING AND DRYING LIQUIDS AND SEMISOLIDS Theodore R. Folsom, San Diego, Calif. Original application May 2, 1941, Serial No. 391,561, now Patent No. 2,411,152, dated November 19, 1946. Divided and this application August 22, 1946, Serial No. 692,319 4 Claims. (Cl. 226—70) 2. A collapsible bottle carrier comprising a handle having a top portion and vertical spaced side members, a movable panel having a vertical flanged portion at each end thereof which extends below the lower edge of the panel, vertically spaced end bars pivotally connected to the handle member and the movable panel at each end of the carrier, a fixed panel extending between the two handle members, and a bottom shelf supported at one side by pivotal connection to the lower extension of the flanged portions and having an upwardly bent section along the one side which contacts the outer edge of the flanged portions to limit the downward movement of the shelf below the horizontal plane so that the carrier may be collapsed by folding the bottom shelf inwardly adjacent the side panel essing in a high vacuum, freeze-drying chamber 1. The improved continuous method of procand then lowering the side panel and said shelf freeze-dried material constituted of explosively together to a position below and aligned with frozen solid particles which are extremely porous the handle. with a vast surface area far exceeding ordinary dried substances and which are unusually sensi2,616,603 tive to contamination by the atmosphere, sealing BAG OPENER FOR PACKAGING MACHINES the freeze-dried material into containers under Louis M. Haugen, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Paul L. selected and controlled conditions including a Karstrom Co., a corporation of Illinois high vacuum, and air-locking the freeze-dried Application August 6, 1949, Serial No. 108,972 material out of the vacuum into the atmosphere 1 Claim. (Cl. 226—59) which comprises continuously introducing maA bag filling machine comprising a stationary terial other than substantially wholly volatile horizontal table having a discharge spout, a matter including masses containing at least one measuring unit arranged over said table and liquid and at least one solid in a sub-divided form comprising a plurality of measuring devices into a high vacuum, freeze-drying chamber, conrotatable successively to a position above said tinuously subjecting said material in said freezespout to discharge material therethrough, a ver- drying chamber to a vacuum so extremely high as tical shaft carrying said measuring unit, a pipe to provide an extremely low vapor pressure of water to explosively freeze said material into Page 22
the discharge end of the diffusor and spaced cylinder, a low pressure oil reservoir at one end therefrom to form a chamber between the hous- of said cylinder, an inlet port for said cylinder, communicating means including lubricant metering means, between said low pressure oil reservoir and said inlet port, an outlet port for said cylinder communicating with the exterior thereof and connecting with separating means for separating lubricant from the discharged gas, a conduit from said separating means leading to the point of application of said gas, a high pressure oil reservoir, a conduit from said separating means leading to the interior of said high pressure oil reservoir, a conduit from the point of application ing and diffusor to receive the discharge of the ejector, and a discharge opening for said housing. 2
2 of said gas to said low pressure oil reservoir so that oil will be drawn into said compressor assembly as a function of the differential between said inlet and outlet ports, an eccentric shaft rotatably mounted and extending through said cylinder, a piston on said shaft, said piston being pivotally mounted in said cylinder so that as said An oilless vacuum pump comprising a housing eccentric shaft rotates said piston will move in having a generally cylindrical chamber and also tangential relation to said cylinder to first create having air inlet and air outlet ports communi. a vacuum therein, such vacuum force serving to cating with the chamber and spaced apart cir- draw a gas through said inlet port into said cylcumferentially along the periphery of the cham- inder to be compressed and discharged through ber, & generally cylindrical rotor mounted in the said outlet port. chamber with the rotor axis displaced from the chamber axis, the rotor being of smaller diameter than the chamber and having its periphery 2,616,617 in closely spaced relation to the chamber periph AIR CIRCULATING DEVICE ery at a region between said ports, the rotor hav Harold Hill, New York, N. Y. ing four slots extending parallel to the rotor axis Application October 7, 1949, Serial No. 120,133 and opening through the rotor periphery, adja- 2 Claims. (C1. 230—241) cent slots being at right angles with each other, each slot intersecting a radius of the rotor and having its outer part displaced from the inter- sected radius in the direction of rotation of the emma rotor, the circumferential spacing between adja- cent slots being less than the circumferential spacing between said ports measured along said region of the chamber periphery, and rigid wings of self-lubricating material mounted loosely in the slots and engageable at their outer edges with the chamber periphery, each wing having a deeper face on the leading side of the wing than on the lagging side, and having its outer edge inclined at an obtuse angle to the lagging side of a table in which the fan is housed and is sub- 1. An air-circulating device comprising, a fan, the wing, the slots being substantially deeper stantially hidden and concealed, said table havthan the wings, the plane of each wing being ing a horizontal top, imperforate parallel side offset from the rotor axis a distance equal to panels having upper ends located downwardly approximately one-third of the depth of the slot of the top and providing vent openings between said upper ends and the top, the table having an open bottom below the lower ends of the side 2,616,616 panels, deflector wings projecting laterally out ROTARY PUMP AND COMPRESSOR of the vent openings, the deflector wings being Charles J. Wolff, San Antonio, Tex. located above the upper ends of the side panels, Application December 16, 1946, Serial No. 716,611 said deflector wings being located below the top 11 Claims. (Cl. 230-207) of the table and providing outlet vents between 1. A rotary eccentric compressor comprising a them and said top, and an angular deflector secompressor assembly, said assembly including, a cured to the under side of the top above the fan. Page 23
circling said spool, one end of the spring member upwardly opening yoke members rigidly secured being fixed to the spool and the opposite end to laterally spaced portions of the frame and thereof being free and, when the magazine is adjacent its forward end and disposed thereempty, normally extending outwardly of the spool above and adapted to turnably engage beneath and terminating short of said side wall, said free and against portions of the rear axle housing spring end being movable by manually rotating of a prime mover, means connecting the frame the spool to a position adjacent said film port, to the prime mover rearwardly of said yokes whereby a film end manually inserted through for supporting the frame on the prime mover the port of the closed magazine will engage and slide along the inner side of the spring to gripped position between the spring and spool.
2,616,635 CONCAVO-CONVEX STEEL RULE CONSTRUCTION Frederick 0. Carlson, Monrovia, Calif., assignor to Carlson & Sullivan, Inc., Monrovia, Calif., a corporation of California Application September 10, 1949, Serial No. 114,984 1 Claim. (Cl. 242—84.9) at two longitudinally spaced points on the frame, said frame having an open rear end adapted to receive a roll of wire therein, laterally aligned upwardly opening bearings adjacent the rear end 34 4130 of said frame, and an axle member adapted to extend axially through the wire roll and sup ported and journaled in said bearing members 23 38 for supporting the wire roll in the open rear end of the frame. 20 2,616,637 POWER-OPERATED REEL AND REEL HOIST FOR TRUCKS Alfred F. Schroeml, Wadena, Minn. A pocket-size steel ruler assembly of minimum Application June 6, 1950, Serial No. 166,493 over-all dimensions including: a substantially 3 Claims. (CI. 242—90) cylindrically shaped case with a ruler opening in a sidewall thereof and an axially disposed center post therein, a windup spring wound about said center post and having its inner end fixed with respect thereto, a steel ruler wound about said windup spring with its inner end attached to the outer end of said windup spring and with its outer end passing through said ruler opening, and an L-shaped tip piece having one of its legs secured flat against the end of the ruler and the other of its legs extending at substantially a right angle therefrom and forming an abutment which prevents the outer end of the ruler from being drawn by the spring through the opening into the case: the interior of said case defining a substantially cylindrically shaped compartment, a nose forming a part of the case in the region of said opening and defining, interiorly thereof a ruler passageway leading substantially u L' tangentially from said compartment to said 1. The combination with a truck bed, of a opening, said passageway being not substantially horizontal power driven shaft journaled under longer than said one leg of said L-shaped piece the bed and having an outer end adjacent one and in cross section snugly fitting around said side of the bed, a demountable reel carrying and ruler and said one leg, said nose having a pair of driving shaft having a socketed outer end and exterior side portions blending substantially tan- an inner end connected to said end of said driven gentially with the substantially cylindrical shape shaft, a driving connection between said deof said case and coming together in a dihedral- mountable shaft and reel, a post rising from like tip defining an angle of about 85° when said side of the bed, a horizontal beam carried viewed in profile looking parallel to the axis of at the upper end of said post and projecting over the center post, said opening being located close- said demountable shaft, a vertical support prolyl adjacent said tip, and said ruler having meas- vided with a stub shaft in said socket for rotaturing indicia on its side facing away from the ably supporting the outer end of said demountother portion of said nose. able shaft and being slidable out of said socket to release said demountable shaft, a pivotal con nection between the upper end of said support 2,616,636 and said beam whereby said support is swingable ROLLED WIRE ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES to slide said stub shaft out of said socket, a Wilbur Aden, Golden, Ii. brace, and means attaching said brace to said Application January 18, 1950, Serial No. 139,273 post and support to prevent swinging of said 3 Claims. (Cl. 242—90) support comprising detachable connections 1. A wire roll support comprising an elongated whereby said brace is detachable to provide for rigid frame having a forward end and a rear end, swinging of said support. Page 24
element being carried by the body of the airplane 2,616,643 and the other element carrying the airplane FASTENING DEVICE wheel, means for causing application of a brake Wilbert H. Budd, Elkhart, Iad., assignor to Chiassociated with said wheel and comprising a cago Telephone Supply Corporation, Elkhart, source of pressure liquid, liquid-containing Ind., a corporation of Indiana means, and an operator operated liquid pressure Application July 8, 1948, Serial No. 37,569 generating device, all located in the body of the 6 Claims. (Cl. 248-27) airplane, and a power brake control device carried: by the wheel-carrying element of the shock strut and connected to said brake for operating same, a conduit leading from the liquid pressure generating device to the power brake device for controlling the operation of the latter, means normally connecting said power brake device to the liquid-containing means for receiving liquid exhausted from said power brake device, and means connecting said power brake device with the source of pressure liquid, said power brake device being controllable by said liquid pressure generating device for regulating the communication of 1. Means for mounting a part against one side pressure liquid from the source of pressure liquid of a supporting panel, comprising: a pair of relato the brakes. tively flat substantially parallel spaced apart tabs on said part projecting therefrom through holes 2,616,642 in the panel with their outer extremities at the FASTENING DEVICE opposite side of the panel; feet on the extremiWilkie L. Bush and Joseph G. Veatch, Elkhart, ties of said tabs projecting edgewise in the same Ind., assignors to Chicago Telephone Supply direction over the panel and having inclined cam Corporation, Elkhart, Ind., a corporation of In- surfaces on their undersides cooperating with said diana part to wedge the portions of the panel lying beApplication July 8, 1948, Serial No. 37,554 tween the feet and said part therebetween; an5 Claims. (Cl. 248—27) other tab on said part substantially crosswise to said pair of tabs and projecting through a third hole in the panel with its extremity at said opposite side of the panel; ears on said other tab bent toward one side thereof from the opposite edges of said other tab and disposed edgewise over the panel; and inclined cam surfaces on the undersides of said ears cooperating with said part to wedge the portions of the panel lying between the ears and said part therebetween, the cam surfaces on said ears reacting against the panel in a direction to effect tighter wedging engagement between said feet on the first designated tabs and said part.
2,616,644 AXIALLY TIGHTENING CLAMP 1. Means for anchoring an instrument upon Clarence E. Christophersen, Inglewood, Calif., asthe back of a panel from the front thereof, com signor to Marman Products Company, Inc., Inprising: a number of relatively flat spaced apart glewood, Calif., a corporation of California tabs on said instrument projecting therefrom Application June 19, 1951, Serial No. 232,430 through holes in the panel and grouped about 9 Claims. (Cl. 248–27) a point located centrally between them and edgewise substantially radial to said point with their flat sides lying in planes substantially normal to the panel; a spring ring lying flat against the front of the panel and coacting with the tabs to hold the instrument on the panel; all of said tabs being on the same side (circumferentially) of the spring ring and having integral feet thereon lying in the planes of the tabs, said feet projecting laterally edgewise over the spring ring with their under edges in contact therewith and receding from the plane of the front of the panel toward the outer ends of the tabs so that said under edges of the feet provide cam surfaces which hold the spring ring under tension, whereby the radial force engendered upon the cam surfaces by the spring ring is resolved into 1. In a band clamp for attachment to the back a force which draws the instrument toward the of a supporting panel, a flexible band having back of the panel; and abutment means on the overlapping end portions; a U-shaped bracket Instrument contiguous to said tabs and held having a web portion extending parallel to the tightly pressed against the back of the panel axis of the band and bearing against one of said under the force of the spring ring acting through end portions, and a pair of ears projecting rasaid cam surfaces. dially outwardly from the respective ends of said 664 0. G.--15 Page 25
2,616,667 adjacent the apex, said lower edges of the legs MOUNTING FOR ROCK DRILLS of said member being gradually widened down- George M. Dick, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, aswardly from the apex and turned inwardly at signor to Ingersoll-Rand Company, New York, their widest points to terminate in a V-shaped N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey axle hub engaging end portion, and a vertical Application June 9, 1949, Serial No. 98,018 integral bridge piece in the base of the V-shaped 1 Claim. (Cl. 255—51) hub engaging end portion having a stud receiving orifice therein for the lower most of the circularly arranged studs.
A mounting for rock drills, comprising a portable frame, a pressure fluid operated jack on an end portion of the frame, a rotatable support member on the opposite end portion of the portable frame, a pressure fluid operated brake on the frame for controlling the rotation of the support member, a boom pivotally connected to the support member for movement in a vertical plane, a support arm pivotally connected to the boom for transverse swinging movement, pressure fluid operated means connected to the support member and the boom for effecting pivotal movement of the boom, a pump on the frame for pumping pressure fluid to the fluid operated means, a pneumatically driven motor on the frame for driving the pump, control means on the boom located adjacent the free end thereof In an automotive vehicle and boom assembly for controlling the flow of pressure fluid to the including a vehicle frame, side boxes carried by brake and the boom actuating means, and means said frame and terminating short of the rear end for stopping the motor when the discharge presof said frame, a power operated winch carried sure of the pump exceeds a predetermined order. by said frame between said side boxes, & three legged boom carried by said frame and including two main legs and a third, adjustable length leg, a crown pulley carried by said boom at the upper 2,616,668 REGENERATOR end of the latter and a boom cable wound at one end on said winch and suspended over said crown Franciscus Lambertus van Weenen, Gerhart pulley, means for raising and lowering said boom Wolfgang Rathenau, and Arie Koelewijn, Eind. by said power operated winch comprising means hoven, Netherlands, assignors to Hartford Nadetachably connecting the bottom ends of the tional Bank and Trust Company, Hartford, two main legs of said boom to said frame at the Conn., as trustee rear end of the latter, means detachably con Application April 22, 1948, Serial No. 22,606 necting the bottom end of the third leg of said In the Netherlands May 30, 1947 boom to said frame ahead of the rear end of the 1 Claim. (Cl. 257-6) frame, a first transverse bar secured to said side boxes near the top of the latter to extend across the space between said side boxes adjacent the main legs of said boom and above said vehicle frame, a second transverse bar secured at its ends to said main boom legs near the bottom ends of the latter, cable sheaves journaled one on each of said transverse bars, saddles carried one by each of said main boom legs rotatably engageable with said first transverse bar to pivotally support said boom when the boom legs are detached from said frame for lowering said boom, said saddles being movable away from said first transverse bar when said boom is erected to permit said main boom A regenerator comprising a housing having an legs to assume an upwardly and rearwardly in- inlet and an outlet through which a medium clined position relative to said frame, and an eye flows, a filling mass of glass wool in said housing secured to the rear end of said frame for attach- and contacting the wall of said housing, and a ing of the free end of said cable to said frame plurality of spiral-shaped steel wires embedded with said cable trained over said cable sheaves, in said glass wool in spaced apart planes, each whereby said winch controls the turning of said of said wires extending in a plane perpendicular boom about said first transverse bar as a fulcrum to the flow of said medium and adjacent wires between its erected position and a lowered posi- being separated by layers of said mass of matetion in which it rests upon the top of said side rial, said wires being spaced from the walls of boxes. said housing. Page 26
2,616,688 active feed rolls inactive while a loop is built up WINDOW REGULATOR DRIVE MECHANISM in the web between said sets of rolls, means for Burton S. Floraday, Toledo, Obio, assignor to positively driving the rolls of each set of rolls at Detroit Harvester Company, Detroit, Mich., a predetermined speeds, the intermittently active corporation of Michigan web feeding rolls being driven at a higher speed Continuation of application Serial No. 587,761, than said metering rolls, and means engaging April 11, 1945. This application July 3, 1950, the upper surface of the web between said sets Serial No. 171,909 1 Claim. (Cl. 268—126)
of rolls and disposed below a straight line extending between the nips of both sets of rolls and creating a tensioned frictional drag on the web between said sets of rolls to prevent the intermittently active rolls, during their active period when its loop is taken up, feeding more of the web than is metered to them by said metering rolls. In a vehicle having a window well, a window movable in and out of said well to and from a 2,616,690 closed position, an inside panel at the inner side DEVICE FOR GUIDING THIN BANDS of the well disposed out of parallelism to the Johannes Adrianus Harings, Eindhoven, Netherplane of window travel, regulator mechanism for lands, assignor to Hartford National Bank and operating said window, said regulator mecha- Trust Company, Hartford, Conn., as trustee nism comprising a window engaging arm, a Application April 29, 1946, Serial No. 665,666 pivotal mounting for one end of said arm disposed In Belgium February 8, 1945 at substantially right angles to the plane of win- Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 dow travel, a gear sector for actuating said arm Patent expires February 8, 1965 having a body portion substantially parallel to 2 Claims. (Cl. 271-2.6) the plane of window travel, a pivotal mounting for said gear sector, the teeth of said sector being inclined laterally relative to said sector body portion and out of parallel relation to the plane of window travel, a driving pinion for said gear sector, said pinion being disposed intermediate of the ends of a quadrant, having a lower end which is horizontal and passing through the axis of said pivotal mounting, and having an upper end which is vertical and passing through the axis of said pivotal mounting helical teeth on said driving pinion meshing with the sector teeth, those teeth of the pinion in engagement with the teeth of the sector being normal thereto, a shaft coaxial with said pinion disposed at substantially right angles to and projecting through the inside panel, 1. A device for guiding a thin band moving said shaft inclining upwardly from said driving along in a flat plane which comprises a driving pinion, and a crank handle on said shaft on the means for said band, a fixed stop means adjainner side of the inside panel and rotatable in a cent one edge of the moving band, said stop plane parallel to the inside panel. means having a channel-shaped portion formed by side portions extending over the side of the band and a bottom surface rigidly secured to 2,616,689 said side portions and adapted to be engaged WEB FEEDING MECHANISM FOR CARTON by the aforesaid edge of the band, and brake BLANK FORMING MACHINES means for applying a braking action to the band John R. Baumgartner, Milwaukee, Wis. to produce a force urging the band against said Application October 17, 1949, Serial No. 121,725 bottom surface, said braking means being lo3 Claims. (Cl. 271–2.4) cated between the center line of the film and 1. In a creasing and blank forming press, the edge opposite to that adjacent to which mechanism for feeding a predetermined length the stop means are located, said brake means of paper web to said press comprising a set of also being displaced from said stop means along continuously active web feeding metering rolls the longitudinal axis of the band and on the and a set of intermittently acting web feeding side of the stop means remote from the driving rolls, means for rendering said intermittently means. |
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