To turn large pieces of goods 90.degree. a mechanism is provided, which includes a platform hingedly connected to a base structure in such a manner that the upper face of the platform will be flush with the level of a spot upon which large pieces of goods to be turned 90.degree. are brought. This spot may be a weighing machine or a part of a conveyor. The platform is provided with a telescopic pillar mounted perpendicurlarly thereto, which at its end remote from the platform is provided with an ...

A method in which starch is hydrolysed by adding it to an acidified medium, containing from about 1 to about 5 percent by weight of mineral acid based on the weight of starch to be hydrolysed, at a temperature above about 80.degree. C. and over a period of from about 5 to about 30 minutes, and allowing the starch to hydrolyse for a period of from about 10 to about 90 minutes thereby to produce a dextrine solution suitable for use in adhesives.

Apparatus for turning by 90.degree. a panel or a panel stack (P) on a cutting machine worktable (Q) comprises a withdrawable gripper means (1) rotatable about a vertical axis (2), which upon control clamps a panel stack (P) close to one of its rear corners. The gripper (1) is associated with a carriage (7) for causing the gripper (1) to perform in a programmable precise manner a rectilinear movement (3) near to, and away from the cutting line (Z) of the longitudinally cutting machine, such that ...

The handling of fragile sheet, e.g. glass sheet, because of its fragility, is extremely delicate and difficult. The machines for doing it have been complex and difficult to maintain in satisfactory working order. The present invention remedies these disadvantages in both loading and unloading glass sheet from a support by a machine which picks up the sheet from a horizontal conveyor, turns it to a more or less vertical position parallel to the front receiving face of the support, then moves it i...

A carton loader for automatically loading stacks of cartons onto a mass feeder for supplying cartons to a packaging machine includes a loader in which stacks of cartons are received and held, and a carriage on which the loader is pivotally mounted. After the stacks of cartons are received, the loader is pivoted from a loading position to a stacking position. The carriage is then moved along the mass feeder for the packaging machine toward a magazine or supply of previously stacked cartons, where...

A reciprocating transfer mechanism having grippers for grasping and extracting a row of upholstery spring coils from a coil feeder and thrusting the coils into a spring assembly machine in a continuous composite coil-reorienting delivery movement which simultaneously conditions alternate grippers for the succeeding transfer cycle without reorientation thereof on the return movement.

The invention encompasses apparatus for rendering coplanar the end surfaces of all the pieces of timber in a stack of lumber by placing the stack in near vertical position while subjected to slight lateral constraints, and then dropping (or its equivalent) the stack end-wise to a foundation to produce a vertically effective impact upon the stack sufficient to cause the various timbers to move longitudinally relative to each other against the friction between the timbers, thereby to move the lowe...

Particles are prevented from clinging to the back of a water in the notch alignment of the wafer, and the problems encountered when a plurality of wafers were aligned all at once are solved. Three support poles 105 are erected on a turntable 103. The substrate outer periphery 104b of wafers 104 is supported by the tapered portions of support pins 107 protruding from the support poles 105. The turntable 103 is driven by a single motor 106, and all of the wafers 104 are rotated at once. During rot...

Objects of the present invention are to prolong the life of a sealing portion by using bellows and to prevent the generation of dust and the effect thereof. A support member for positioning is extended to the outside through an opening of a vacuum vessel and bellows connected to the circumference of the opening with a play such that positioning movement can be performed without being in contact with the opening and the bellows, and the support member is received by roller bearings in a bulkhead ...

This disclosure is directed toward a method of fabricating an inverted space charge limited solid-state triode and to the device resulting therefrom. The method, in general, comprises depositing a continuous film of conductive metal to act as a gate, oxidizing the exposed side of the gate metal to form an insulating layer, depositing a semiconductive layer on the top of the insulated gate, depositing a pinhole cathode grid on the semiconductor, oxidizing the exposed side of the cathode grid to f...