An apparatus comprising a delivering device including a probe and operative to suck at least one kind of liquids such as a plurality of reagents, samples or the like from respective vessels into the probe and deliver the liquid thus sucked from the probe into a reaction vessel. In such kind of delivering apparatus, provision is made of the improvement in which the probe is movable along a given moving path, the vessels containing the liquids to be delivered being provided with suction openings a...

A gobbing member is operated wholly within the confines of a straight well portion of a glass delivery system, and completely submerged within the molten glass being delivered, such that the flow rate through the delivery orifice of such straight well is linearly related to the speed of said gobbing member independently of the position of such member within the confines of the straight well.

A guiding, stitching and delivering system continuously constrains a piece of material while it guides that piece of material beneath the needle of a sewing machine during the stitching of that piece of material, while that piece of material is stationary during the period of time between the completion of the stitching of that piece of material and the start of the stitching of the next-succeeding piece of material, while the stitches between the trailing edge of that piece of material and the ...

This disclosure teaches an apparatus for delivering buttons to a sewing machine and during the delivery orienting the buttons for a sewing head. The apparatus includes a reciprocable feed carriage having pins for insertion into holes of the buttons. Pneumatic cylinders reciprocate and rock the carriage to advance and orient the buttons. Sequential closures of fluidic ports and coaction of a fluidic control system synchronize the reciprocating and rocking.

A power delivery device comprises a reciprocably driven piston plate which in a power stroke forces liquid in a closed circuit through an output coupling to drive an output shaft. A pneumatic circuit includes a reciprocating piston which is externally driven and which serves to impart reciprocation to the piston plate. The reciprocating piston is connected to a rotatable blade wheel in the liquid circuit to absorb energy from the liquid circuit and minimize the external power supplied to the dev...

Method and apparatus for continuously forming articles and stacking them ready for formation of batches from the stack. Some of the articles are treated by being given a disfigurement which makes them identifiable in the stack so that batch lengths containing predetermined numbers of articles are clearly seen. These disfigurements are caused by moving a moveable element forming part of the forming surface of the machine whereby the surface shape is changed to cause change in shape of the article...

An intravaginal therapeutic system for the pre-programmed, unattended delivery of a drug is disclosed. The system comprises (a) a drug, (b) a delivery module comprising a reservoir for storing the drug in an amount for execution of the program, a rate controller which maintains the rate of drug delivered in a therapeutically effective amount throughout the life of the system, an energy source for transferring drug from the reservoir to the vagina, and a portal for releasing the drug from the mod...

An osmotically driven fluid dispenser is disclosed comprising a flexible container having a port for filling and emptying same, a layer of an osmotically effective solute on the container, and a shape retaining microporous housing having a fluid rate controlling material in its micropores. The dispenser can be used for delivering fluids and solid agents, and as a displacement pump.

A device for delivering vibratory energy to a work-performing tool is disclosed having one end connected to a vibration generating means and providing for mechanical attachment and alignment of the tool at the work-performing locale which is located at a vibrational antinode in the vibratory system. The vibratory device, or toolholder, may be conveniently mounted on a lathe crossfeed table.

A process for delivering a liquid cryogen to a use point in an essentially liquid phase at an about constant flow rate in the range of about 1 to about 40 pounds per hour, said use point having a variable internal pressure drop, comprising the following steps: (i) providing said liquid cryogen at a line pressure in the range of about 4 to about 10 times the maximum use point operating pressure; (ii) subcooling the liquid cryogen of step (i) to an equilibrium pressure of no greater than about one...