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Cable clamp bolt holding fixture facilitates forming of electrical cable runs in limited equipment space. The fixture engages the threads of the short clamp bolt through the clamp and maintains tension against clamp tendency to open while the operator installs the nut without difficulty.
Split-screw grips for tensile testing provide uniform loading on the specimen shoulders. Holes in the heads enable the screws and specimen to be threaded as an assembly into a grip body, closely controlled guides and seats afford positive seating, and precision machining of mating surfaces minimizes misalignment effects.
Elastomeric sleeve supported on a threaded mandrel automatically centers cylindrical castings for grinding or turning. By expanding the diameter of the sleeve with pressure against the ends, the casting becomes rigidly supported and the surfacing operation can be completed.
Gas leakage rates are quantitatively estimated using threaded and flanged fittings by standardizing bubble appearance. Three classes of bubble formations have been proposed.
Principles of connector testing, design evaluation of commercial connectors, and assessment of design rules for threaded connectors
Magnetron tuning arrangement features a means of moving a tuning ring axially within an anode cavity by a system of reduction gears engaging a threaded tuning shaft of lead screw. The shaft positions the tuning ring for the desired magnetron output frequency, and a washer prevents backlash.
Coupling device enables a rigid shaft to be connected to or disconnected from a fixed base without disturbing the point of adjustment of the shaft in a socket or causing the shaft to rotate. The coupling consists of an externally threaded, internally slotted boss extending from the fixed base.
Nondestructive detection of titanium hydride formation in threaded joints of Ti alloy pressurization tanks by neutron radiography
Flow-rate restrictor with sharp-edged threads generates turbulence in the fluid flow, providing greater pressure reduction than is possible with a smooth-walled device. It is less susceptible to clogging.
Slidable spring-loaded locking device eliminates need for safety wiring. Locking device is placed between the connector plug and connector receptacle. The threaded plug cannot vibrate loose because the insert is wedged into slots formed on the outer diameter of the receptacle.
Fluid-flow restrictor has degree of restriction easily and accurately controlled during manufacture. Restrictor's flow channel is machined square thread around a solid slug which is shrink-fitted to cylindrical case. One end of case is closed, open end capped, and both ends tapped for tube fittings for fluid flow.
Test equipment and tests to determine effects of vacuum environment on release torque of threaded fasteners
Gage for quality control of sealing surfaces of threaded boss
Sealing coefficient and leakage performance model for multiple thread rarefied gas viscoseals
Morphological relationships in solar chromospheric H alpha fine structure involving bushes, fibrils, threads and filaments
Threaded rod, mounted in tubular housing which is flanged and expandable at one end, removes valve lifter after removal of valve covers and push rods.
The stability of a self-gravitating, nonrotating, isothermal gas layer threaded by a one-dimensional equipartition magnetic field, immersed in a rigid isothermal layer of stars, is considered with respect to waves with motions in and perpendicular to the X plane, where X is the equilibrium magnetic and gravitational field vectors. When motions are perpendicular to the X plane, the magnetic field hinders gravitational instability, increasing the minimum length necessary to produce instability by the factor (1 + alpha) to the 1/2 power, where alpha is the ratio of magnetic pressure to gas pressure. When motions are in the plane, no such simple analytical solution is found. However, the resulting system of equations reduces to a single fourth order differential equation in the perturbed gas potential that defines an eigenvalue problem for the marginally unstable state when the four appropriate boundary conditions are considered.
A continuous relationship is proposed between the basic elements of the dark fine structure of the quiet and active chromosphere. A progression from chromospheric bushes to fibrils, then to chromospheric threads and active region filaments, and finally to diffuse quiescent filaments, is described. It is shown that the horizontal component of the field on opposite sides of an active region quiescent filament can be in the same direction and closely parallel to the filament axis. Consequently, it is unnecessary to postulate twisted or otherwise complex field configurations to reconcile the support mechanism of filaments with the observed motion along their axis.