Mobile Air Sampler
Vehicle-mounted sampler gathers specimens along highways and in tunnels. In contrast to fixed air-collection installations, mobile sampler requires no official approval for use on highways.
Tucker, C. E.↗
Engineering topics
Holway, H. P.
Publications and source records attributed to Holway, H. P..
Mobile sampler for use in acquiring samples of terrestrial atmospheric gases
Samples of terrestrial atmospheric gasses from a free body of such gasses using a device characterized by a plurality of tubular bodies adapted to be mounted in side by side relation on a motorized highway vehicle in mutual parallelism with the axis of the normal path of travel for the vehicles. Each of the bodies is of a cylindrical configuration and has an axial opening at each of its opposite ends through which a linear flow path is defined. A pair of pivotally supported, spring-biased sealing caps is mounted adjacent to the ends of the body and continuously urged into a hermetic sealing relationship. A restraint for securing the caps against spring-urged pivotal displacement, includes a separable, normally tensioned line interconnecting the caps and an operable release mechanism for simultaneously releasing the caps for spring-urged displacement. A hot wire cutter is included for separating the line, whereby samples of air are trapped in the body as the caps are spring-driven to assume an hermetically sealed relation with the openings defined in each of the opposite ends of the body.
Tucker, C. E.↗
Alleviation of pressure pulse effects for trains entering tunnels. Volume 1: Summary
The degree to which it is possible to attenuate the effects of pressure pulses on the passengers in trains entering tunnels by modifying the normally abrupt portal of a constant-diameter single track tunnel was investigated. Although the suggested modifications to the tunnel entrance portal may not appreciably decrease the magnitude of the pressure rise, they are very effective in reducing the discomfort to the human ear by substantially decreasing the rate of pressure rise to that which the normal ear can accommodate. Qualitative comparison was made of this portal modification approach with other approaches: decreasing the train speed or sealing the cars. The optimum approach, which is dependent upon the conditions and requirements of each particular rail system, is likely to be the portal modification one for a rapid rail mass transit system.
Dayman, B., Jr.↗
Controlled release of free-falling test models
Releasing device, powered by a drill motor through an adjustable speed reducer, has a spinning release head with three retractable spring-loaded fingers. The fingers are retracted by manual triggering of a cable at the motor end of the unit.
Fife, W. J.↗
Model launcher for wind tunnels Patent
Design and characteristics of device for launching models in wind tunnels without disturbance of air flow
Holway, H. P.↗
A wind tunnel free flight testing technique for nonplanar motion of spinning models.
Wind tunnel free-flight testing of reentry vehicle dynamics, noting capability for simultaneous two- dimensional viewing of model trajectories
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