Abstract:
A method of applying and removing a fluid actuated nut, the nut having a cylindrical casing engageable at an inner end with a base, the casing containing a coaxial relatively axially shiftable plunger having an inwardly opening partial central bore for threadedly receiving a shank of a bolt, a compression spring acting outwardly on the plunger and inwardly against the casing, and a fluid pressure chamber outwardly of the piston, the nut being applied by screwing the piston onto the bolt shank to the point of engagement of the inner end of the casing with the base and tightened by sequentially compressing the spring by fluid injected under pressure in the fluid chamber for shifting the casing away from the base, turning the casing to reengage the base and releasing the fluid pressure to expand the spring, and repeating the sequence as necessary to produce the desired tensile and/or compressive force, the nut being removed by applying fluid pressure to advance the piston for compressing the spring and disengaging the casing from the base and then unscrewing the piston from the bolt.
Abstract:
In a static sieve assembly having a housing for mounting a sieve or screen, a feed box having a discharge spout for feeding material tangentially to and across the sieve, a side of the spout having flexibly connected fixed upper and movable lower parts, and an actuator on said feed box and acting on said lower part for controlling the rate of feed to the sieve by varying the area of a discharge opening of the spout.
Abstract:
A resistance welding machine for progressively welding each of a succession of transverse wires to longitudinal wires at a transverse welding station to and through which the longitudinal wires are incrementally advanced, the machine having a welding unit including a carriage mounted above the welding station for intermittent and reversible movement transversely of the machine and longitudinally of the welding station, a transformer vertically reciprocable in the carriage by a power unit mounted thereabove on the carriage, and a ram suspended from the transformer for movement in unison therewith and mounting for limited relative vertical movement a welding head carrying a front welding electrode, and a vertically movable guide bar and stationary platen, both electrically conductive and mounted independently of the welding unit, the guide bar below the ram and in advance of the welding station for guiding the longitudinal wires thereto and the platen underlying and supporting the longitudinal wires below both the guide bar and the welding station, and insulated conductors on the ram each connected to a secondary lead of the transformer and one connected to a conductor on the welding head and the other connectable to the guide bar, the ram and welding head in an advance stroke under force of the power unit transmitted through the transformer, acting for sequentially clamping the longitudinal wires against movement by the guide bar and the presented part of the transverse wire to a plurality of longitudinal wires by the electrode for welding the transverse wire to the longitudinal wires by welding current flowing between the secondaries of the transformer through the guide bar, the platen and the electrode on the welding head.
Abstract:
A screen panel retainer assembly, that is utilizable with a vibrating separatory machine, is configured with a plurality of discrete, mushroom-shaped screen panel retainers. Each such retainer has a retainer head that is generally in the shape of a portion of a cylinder, such as a right cylinder. A shank connects each such retainer head to a suitable retainer bar. The retainer bar can be adapted to be attached either to screen stringer tubes of the vibrating separatory machine, or to underlying cross tubes and end cross tubes. The screen panels, which are to be secured to the vibrating separatory machine, have complementary shaped mushroom-shaped screen panel retainer head receiving chambers in their side surfaces. Two such panel edges define a whole chamber. The retainer heads are metal whereas the screen panel edges are resilient. The mushroom-shaped heads securely snap into their complementary chambers yet can be removed from those chambers when the screen panels have to be replaced.
Abstract:
A center retainer assembly for a panel mounting system of a vibrating screen utilizes an elongated bolting bar which is encased in a resilient material that includes an elongated center retainer. The bolting bar and its encasing resilient material are situated in a channel portion of an upwardly facing retainer channel. The retainer channel is, in turn, secured by way of a mounting plate to a cross tube of the vibrating screen apparatus.
Abstract:
A reversible static screen for classifying and dewatering flowing slurries, the screen being inclined and having a flow or screening surface formed by laterally spaced screen wires disposed normal to the flow direction of the slurry and so spaced that the openings therebetween are narrower over the end portions than over the intermediate portion of the screen.
Abstract:
Air entrained, super plasticized concrete having a maximum bubble spacing factor of 0.008 inch (ASTM Standard C 457) and a method for preparing such concrete are disclosed. The method includes the steps of adding an air entraining agent while mixing aggregates and water, adding during the mixing a small but effective quantity of a potassium salt of a fluorinated alkyl carboxylate having a high surface activity and a pH of 8-9, and then adding a super plasticizer to the resulting mix prior to placement. The air entrained concrete having the aforesaid bubble spacing factor contains a super plasticizer, a vinsol resin air entraining agent, and a potassium salt of a fluorinated alkyl carboxylate. The fluorinated alkyl carboxylate is present in an amount of one to two parts per 100 parts of the super plasticizer on a weight basis.
Abstract:
A machine for welding screens formed of spaced longitudinal screen wires welded at a welding station to spaced transverse rods, in which the transverse rods in succession are clamped and welded to the screen wires at the welding station, the screen wires are incrementally fed to and through the welding station and in advance of the welding station are engageable by a spacer for predetermining the lateral spacing therebetween, a platen supports and backs the screen wires against forces exerted thereon by the spacer and in clamping a transverse rod thereto, and laterally spaced and tilted slots in confronting end surfaces of the spacer and platen slidably receive and guide the screen wires for enabling the screen wires to be correspondingly tilted longitudinally of the transverse rods when welded thereto.