Ford Motor Company Limited

Fred G Oblinger

Richard L Allor

Ray A Dickie

Chi Li

Robert A Pett

George C DeBell

Arnold E Anderson

A locating pin for positioning weld nuts relative to sheet metal pieces. The locating pin includes a heat and wear resistant ceramic base having a central opening. The locating pin also includes a heat and wear resistant elastomeric tip attached to the base by a shaft depending from the tip into the central opening of the base. The ceramic and elastomeric materials provide the locating pin with an electrically non-conducting characteristic.

Composite insulating weld nut locating pin

The present invention provides for a method of dielectrically heating an adhesive between first and second members by first placing an adhesive bead between mating surfaces of the first and second member. A first electrode is placed adjacent to the first member and a high frequency electric field is applied between the first electrode and a second electrode sufficient to dielectrically heat the adhesive.

Method and apparatus for dielectrically heating an adhesive

A device for slitting an elastomeric strip into two identical halves of cross-section suitable for use as windshield wiper blades includes a drive roller which grips the strip and draws it through stationary dies past the operative cutting area of a pair of rotary cutters having cutting tip configurations and placement effecting cutting of the strip to provide sharp, consistent corners at the resulting blade tips.

Windshield wiper blade slitting device

Porous polyurethane solids such as open cell polyurethane foams are rapidly heated and hydrolytically decomposed into separate polyol component and diamine component by contacting the porous solids with saturated steam in a heated vacuum chamber. Separation of high quality liquid polyol and diamine is achieved.

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Livonia, MI, United States of America

Fred G Oblinger