Rca Inc.

Joseph H Thorn

John J Prusak

Robert E Jennings

Brian E Lock

A disc turnover device is mounted along a conveyor which supports discs in a flat horizontal position and carries the discs along a horizontal path.The turnover device includes a pair of wheels mounted on opposite sides of the conveyor for rotation about a common axis perpendicular to the path of the conveyor. Each wheel has a plurality of circumferentially spaced pickup arms pivotally mounted at one end on the wheel for pivotation toward and away from the conveyor. Each arm on one wheel is in parallel opposed relation with an arm on the other wheel to provide a plurality of opposed arms. A spring urges each arm toward the conveyor and caming projections move the arm away from the conveyor at selected positions along its path of rotation. A pickup head is mounted on each arm and is slidable longitudinally along the arm. Each head has fingers for engaging and holding the edge of a disc.

Disc turnover device

A detector and measuring device for determining the presence and number of lubricant particles in a flow of air directed onto the surface of a disc to coat the disc with a thin layer of the lubricant. The detector includes means for removing a portion of the air containing the lubricant particles from the coating chamber, means for diluting the air containing the lubricant particles with additional clean air and means for passing diluted air through a particle counter which detects and counts the particles of lubricant.

Lubricant detector and measuring device

A nozzle for directing a flow of lubricant particles vertically downwardly onto the surface of a disc moving horizontally across the discharge opening of the nozzle includes a pair of side plates which are secured together by end plates to form an enclosure having a narrow discharge opening at the bottom edge. The side plates are substantially in the form of isoceles trapezoids having a bottom edge wider than its top edge and having the end plates extending between the nonparallel edges of the side plates. An inlet port is connected to the top edges of the plates. The side plates have on their inner surfaces adjacent their bottom edges a groove which extends along the bottom edges to the end plates. The grooves are adapted to catch any lubricant which flows down the inner surfaces of the side plates and direct such lubricant to the ends of the discharge opening where the lubricant can drip from the nozzle.

Nozzle for coating a disc with a lubricant

A system and process for the safe supply, distribution, and delivery of a highly volatile and flammable liquid from a contained source of supply of the liquid remote from a closed work environment to a process area within the closed work environment includes a pipeline extending from within the contained supply to the process area within the closed work environment to provide for the delivery of the liquid from the supply to the process area. The system further includes a protective casing spaced from and completely enclosing the pipeline from a point on the pipeline adjacent the process area to a point on the pipeline closely adjacent the pipeline's entry into the closed work environment. The protective casing opens outwardly of the closed work environment to thereby trap within the space existing between the casing and the pipeline any vapors that may be escaping from the liquid within the pipeline for exhausting of the same outwardly of the closed work environment.

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Joseph H Thorn