Herein disclosed is a feed system which comprises: a moving body; a plurality of sets of support blocks arranged at the two sides of the moving body and along the moving direction of the moving body; a plurality of clamping members supported through elastically deformable members by the respective sets of the support blocks to engage with the sides of the moving body; clamping actuators mounted on the individual sets of the support blocks for displacing the clamping members toward the sides of t...

A generally cylindrical container includes a floor having a downwardly open channel formed therein with a center line disposed away from the center of the floor. The channel serves to divide the floor into unequally sized first and second sections, and is adapted to receive the fork of a forklift. A plurality of containers may be joined together to form a transportable system, with the channels of adjacent containers disposed generally parallel to one another for receiving the forks of a forklif...

In a fastener driving apparatus including a nose piece assembly defining an elongated drive track receiving a fastener driving element therein movable through an operating cycle including a drive stroke and return stroke, and a fastener feeding track communicating laterally with the drive track, an improved mechanism for feeding fasteners from a fastener package into a position to be driven by the fastener driving element during the drive stroke thereof is provided. The feeding mechanism include...

A furnace feed grate of an incinerator comprises transverse rows of grate blocks, the blocks of alternate rows being movable to feed refuse along the grate. Clamping devices at the underside of the grate resiliently urge together the blocks of the respective rows. At the lateral edges of the grate, sealing plates are resiliently urged into sealing contact with the ends of the rows independently of the action of the clamping devices. The grate, the clamping devices and the sealing plates can be r...

A feed cassette for use with copying machines or the like comprises two separate inner plates for supporting thereon a stack of copy mediums. One of the two inner plates is pivotable and the other inner plate is pivotable and normally biased upwardly by spring means to raise the copy mediums at the leading end edge thereof. A side plate serves to position the copy mediums in accordance with the sizes thereof and is slidable with the other inner plate along a guide plate. A limit plate is provide...

An improved feed screw for injection molding machines has a metering section adjacent to the outlet having primary flights formed by a helical thread. The primary flights form primary channels therebetween for passage of the material. The primary channels are intersected by mixing flights formed by another helical thread having a hook shaped starting point extending from a main flight at the start of the metering section that continues in a general alignment with the primary flights. The mixing ...

A feed nozzle for introducing steam and a heavy petroleum hydrocarbon into a reactor, including a nozzle body having a cylindrical inner steam conduit; and having a annular outer heavy petroleum hydrocarbon conduit, a first nozzle tip fixedly attached to the outlet end of the inner steam conduit, for the passage of the steam out of the inner steam conduit and into the heavy petroleum hydrocarbon, resulting in a mixture of steam and heavy petroleum hydrocarbon; the hemi-spherical outlet end havin...

The present invention relates to a feed roller (1) by means of which a felled tree (2) trunk is fed into a timber harvester for delimbing. The apparatus comprises a drive wheel (4) and at least one transmission means (5) arranged at the outer circumference of and controlled by the drive wheel, the transmission means having engagement plates (3) provided with gripping means (14). The apparatus efficiently equalizes surface pressure exerted on the tree (2) trunk, even though the drive wheel is wit...

The present invention relates to a process for preparing highly digestible feed that may be used among others as feed for aquaculture, by a yeast treatment characterized in that yeast cells are processed to hydrolyze at least partially the external layer of the cell wall without damaging the wall itself.

Use of molydenum-containing alloys to induce wetting by TA-23 glass in metallic feedthroughs.