A reduced voltage starter for gradually starting a polyphase motor having an acceleration control circuit for gradually applying power to the motor and detector circuits for detecting various fault conditions for terminating power to the motor. A shorted solid state switch detector senses when one of the semiconductor switches applying power to the motor is shorted to terminate the application of power from the remaining phases. A phase angle control circuit insures a uniform application of powe...

This invention relates to clothes lines, and more particularly to such lines which may be singly loaded. More specifically to the present invention there is provided a garment hanging device which may permit loading from the inside of the window. To this effect there are provided a pair of spools or rollers to which the hanging line is wound; one roller in the pair is mounted to a pole in the yard, while the other roller is mounted to a hanging arm which is held to swing on a bracket secured to ...

An on-line line monitor system is provided for fault diagnosis of signal processing blocks, which perform cross-connecting of ATM cells by using at least reception-side memory blocks, a SRAM block and transmission-side memory blocks under control of a CPU block with respect to an operating line system, which is presently placed in an on-line state to be in communication service, and a spare line system which is placed in a standby state to be out of the communication service. Test ATM cells are ...

A line termination of a telephone line includes a regulating transistor connected between conductor terminals of the telephone line. A termination circuit has an amplifier receiving an alternating voltage of the telephone line and a reference voltage, for generating an output correcting variable controlling the regulating transistor. A regulating configuration generates a regulated supply voltage for the termination circuit. A regulating circuit readjusts a conductor voltage of the output correc...

An in-line algicide dispenser for disposal upstream of a condensation line or cold-water drain line which provides an outlet for condensate from an air-conditioning unit, an ice-maker, or other device utilizing a condensation or drain line. A water-leachable algicide placed in the dispenser provides protection from clogging or plugging of the condensation or drain line by growth of cold-water algae.

An in-line blender is provided for mixing a single fluid or blending it with at least one other substance. The blender includes a conduit having a hollow interior disposed about a central axis and a shaft extending longitudinally through the conduit along the central axis. The blender also includes a plurality of stationary mixing stages extending in series along the central axis with each of the mixing stages defining a plurality of spiral channels within the hollow interior of the conduit. Eac...

An in-line inserter device comprises envelope and insert feeding assemblies, a stuffing-station assembly and a sealing and stacking assembly. The envelope feeding assembly withdraws envelopes from a hopper-held envelope stack and conveys them along an involute path toward the stuffing station. The insert feeding assembly comprises a plurality of hopper-held insert stacks which are positioned in line with an insert conveyor. The insert conveyor carries dispensed inserts from the hopper-held inser...

A sheet transporting system for transporting sheets from a pull-foot feed mechanism to a stuffing station includes parallel fast and low-speed endless conveyors. The low-speed endless conveyors have pins thereon which extend into the path of sheets transported by the fast endless conveyors. The pins register, and control the speed of, sheets being transported. This transporting mechanism is used in one embodiment for transferring sheets from the pull-foot feeding system into the mouths of clamps...

A propelling device is provided for propelling lines from a boat to a dock or land. The device is particularly designed for larger pleasure boats which may have but one pilot or operator, but which normally require more than one person for docking. The propelling device includes a housing containing a projectile to which a line is attached, and a compressible gas or spring for propelling the projectile with the line to the dock as the boat is about to dock. The boat usually will be equipped with...

Line printer having a plurality of coaxially arranged rotatable printing rings each bearing a series of characters to selectively effect printing on a paper and a platen movable toward in contact with and away from the printing rings so as to effect printing on the paper interposed between the platen and the printing rings when the platen abuts against the printing rings, each of the printing rings being selectively arrested by a select lever actuated by the printing signal from a control system...