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THE PRO-COMMODITIES, ANTI-FINANCE TRADE that so animated markets in the past year also has colored investors' views of which companies are most -- and least -- worthy of their esteem. This is among the insights furnished by the results of Barron's fourth annual survey of the world's most respected companies, the only gauge of corporate reputation drawn exclusively from the opinions of professional investors.
The admiration of investors earned by the most revered companies remains unaltered by market fashions. While the respect scores afforded to energy and agricultural companies ticked higher this year on the heels of the commodities boom, and while the pros' opinions of banks plummeted due to a credit crisis of the industry's devising, the four most highly regarded companies in our latest survey -- Johnson & Johnson, JNJ -0.09588493807431082% Johnson & Johnson U.S.: NYSE USD125.03 -0.12 -0.09588493807431082% /Date(1469221213838-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5726954 AFTER HOURS USD125.1 0.07 0.05598656322482604% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 112241 P/E Ratio 23.50187969924812 Market Cap 343913021334.663 Dividend Yield 2.559385747420619% Rev. per Employee 557978 More quote details and news » Procter & Gamble, PG 0.539526155289702% Procter & Gamble Co. U.S.: NYSE USD85.72 0.46 0.539526155289702% /Date(1469221242802-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6047501 AFTER HOURS USD85.67 -0.05 -0.05832944470368642% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 118117 P/E Ratio 29.02024510799648 Market Cap 228173961042.3 Dividend Yield 3.1241250583294446% Rev. per Employee 608973 More quote details and news » Toyota Motor and Berkshire Hathaway brka 0.17319016279875304% Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Cl B U.S.: NYSE USD144.6 0.25 0.17319016279875304% /Date(1469221329423-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3070010 AFTER HOURS USD144.44 -0.16 -0.11065006915629322% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 72014 P/E Ratio 14.54406469393092 Market Cap 356521241281.136 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 648278 More quote details and news » -- are the same as they were a year ago, albeit in different order.
J&J (ticker: JNJ) has been the most consistently favored company in the world through the history of our survey, having placed first in 2006 and second last year, before returning to the head of the pack this year. It perennially wins kudos for its strong and deep management, a culture that focuses on long-term business objectives, and attentiveness to generating shareholder value.
Investors' regard for J&J -- the 74% who said they "highly respect" the company is 11 percentage points above the next-best score -- is all the more noteworthy, given that most pharmaceuticals stocks clocked indifferent respect scores.
In the prior two surveys, J&J collected roses even though its share price had been stagnant, simply because, as one of this year's avid respondents wrote, it is considered "one of the best-run companies anywhere."
Lately, however, J&J's shares have been stellar performers in a stormy market -- due recognition for the company's stability and financial stewardship. The stock is up 15% in the past 12 months, outperforming the Standard & Poor's 500 index by nearly 30 percentage points.
Our survey doesn't expressly ask investors their opinions of various brands, but the lofty rankings accorded companies such as J&J, P&G (PG), Toyota (TM), Nestlé (NESN.Switzerland) and Coca-Cola KO 0.8360836083608361% Coca-Cola Co. U.S.: NYSE USD45.83 0.38 0.8360836083608361% /Date(1469221205304-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8657754 AFTER HOURS USD45.83 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 178394 P/E Ratio 27.60843373493976 Market Cap 198269718116.82 Dividend Yield 3.0547676194632336% Rev. per Employee 352062 More quote details and news » (KO) attest to the warm feelings they generate among investors.
AS IN YEARS PAST, the latest survey sought investors' opinions of only the 100 largest companies in the world, based on total stock-market capitalization as of June 30, as determined by Dow Jones Indexes.
Beta Research of Syosset, N.Y., helped Barron's conduct the survey, which elicited responses from 70 portfolio managers across the country, ranging from proprietors of small investment-advisory firms to the chief investment officers of giant money-management outfits overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars.
Survey participants were asked to select one of four statements for each company: Highly Respect, Respect, Respect Somewhat, and Don't Respect. A point value was assigned to each response -- with the heaviest weighting accorded to Highly Respect -- and a mean score was tabulated for each. In cases of identical means, the higher ranking went to the company with the most Highly Respect votes.
A secondary set of queries sought to determine which corporate attributes are most important in instilling respect.
As the table nearby illustrates, investors once more cited strong management and business strategy as key, followed by ethics and competitive edge. Interestingly, the stuff of most company conference calls and analyst reports -- product rollouts, balance sheets and profit growth -- was assigned relatively little weight.
As for optional write-in suggestions, some money managers emphasized return on capital, which is another way of saying they care about how company executives invest shareholder money.
This must have something to do with the predictably strong scores for Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA), as Warren Buffett's company again placed in the top five and elicited raves about the master's investment acumen and management of risk. While some respondents expressed concern about Buffett's need to assure the market of his succession plan, this hardly cost Berkshire on the respect front.
As in years past, this year's ranking illustrates the fact that corporate respect must be earned over a span of decades. While scandals or corporate-governance abuses quickly can empty a company's reservoir of goodwill with investors and others, highly respected companies tend to retain their strong marks even during lulls in stock performance or profitability.
That's not to say once-adored companies can't slip in Wall Street's esteem, a lesson learned of late by General Electric GE -1.6262657256827249% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE USD32.06 -0.53 -1.6262657256827249% /Date(1469221208749-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 56421183 AFTER HOURS USD32.05 -0.01 -0.031191515907673113% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1342624 P/E Ratio 24.345052775457514 Market Cap 294812783311.907 Dividend Yield 2.8696194635059262% Rev. per Employee 381249 More quote details and news » (GE) and its chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt. While GE's 11th-place finish in this year's survey is more than acceptable, it represents a decline from once-exalted status for the company. Even with a moribund stock for most of the decade, GE garnered a second-place result in 2006 and was fifth last year, all the while being granted the accolades of investors who were steeped in respect for the company's management discipline.
Yet GE's clanging shortfall in first-quarter earnings appears to have soured investors enough to drop the company's Highly Respect score to 41% from 60% in a year. One respondent, voicing a conventional sentiment on Wall Street and the stated view of former GE chief Jack Welch, wrote: "Immelt blew it with the earnings miss."
In some quarters, General Electric had become viewed as a magical machine for meeting or beating profit forecasts, rather than as an ever-evolving set of good businesses challenged by a tough environment.
Craig Giventer, managing director of Financial Partners Capital Management in New York, is a bit more charitable. "Changing the wheels while the car is moving is very difficult, but GE's management is talented and experienced," he says.
Also surrendering the benefit of the doubt was Microsoft msft 1.3799283154121864% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD56.57 0.77 1.3799283154121864% /Date(1469221200422-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 30792917 AFTER HOURS USD56.5 -0.07 -0.1237404984974368% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1364250 P/E Ratio 27.59512195121951 Market Cap 441698557617.187 Dividend Yield 2.5455188262329855% Rev. per Employee 723051 More quote details and news » (MSFT), due in large part to its failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! YHOO 1.3642213642213643% Yahoo! Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD39.38 0.53 1.3642213642213643% /Date(1469221200321-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11245654 AFTER HOURS USD39.64 0.26 0.6602336211274759% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 80006 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 37407811484.5937 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 434922 More quote details and news » (YHOO), cordially at first, and then in hostile fashion. Microsoft had vaulted to sixth place last year from No. 22 in 2006, on the strength of some shareholder-cultivating gestures, such as a special dividend. Now it's back to No. 21.
One New York money manager, who requested anonymity, notes that Microsoft "trades at its highest free-cash-flow yield [or lowest multiple of free cash flow] ever" because of its "willingness to overpay for Yahoo!" and its seeming penchant for entering low-return businesses.
This view was echoed by other commentators, although a couple of dissenters extolled the company's capital-allocation strategies -- which probably offers a hint of the kind of dissonant feedback the average large-company investor-relations officer hears daily.
IF MICROSOFT RANKS as a onetime darling that has become less beloved for being so familiar, Apple aapl -0.7744141607160817% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD98.66 -0.77 -0.7744141607160817% /Date(1469221200063-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 28270202 AFTER HOURS USD98.38 -0.28 -0.28380295965943647% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 43467 P/E Ratio 10.974416017797553 Market Cap 540402751289.397 Dividend Yield 2.3109669572268396% Rev. per Employee 2050050 More quote details and news » (AAPL), in fifth place this year, has solidified its status as a supremely admired innovator. And that's despite a prickly and secretive corporate culture.
Google's (GOOG) jump in the ranks to No. 6 from 22 -- notwithstanding the stock's descent to around 450 from above 700 -- reflects a deepening appreciation of the company's product creativity and increasing centrality to the advertising and media economy.
A notable newcomer to the list this year was credit-card processor Visa v 1.4215001903794897% VISA Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD79.91 1.12 1.4215001903794897% /Date(1469221295600-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12422325 AFTER HOURS USD79.9 -0.01 -0.012514078338130397% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 110098 P/E Ratio 24.11139943274395 Market Cap 190555353776.35 Dividend Yield 0.7007883869353022% Rev. per Employee 1263720 More quote details and news » (V), which pulled in at No. 28 following its March 2008 debut in the largest initial public offering in U.S. history. Mostly, this positive approval rating relates to investors' appreciation of the company's high-return, low-risk business model and a pervasive expectation -- correct or not -- that its shares can approximate the fabulous run enjoyed by smaller rival MasterCard ma 1.2978585334198571% MasterCard Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD93.66 1.2 1.2978585334198571% /Date(1469221244724-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4319550 AFTER HOURS USD93.66 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 28634 P/E Ratio 28.210843373493976 Market Cap 102868181434.259 Dividend Yield 0.8114456544949818% Rev. per Employee 874602 More quote details and news » (MA) since its 2006 IPO.
The changes in the respect standings from year to year hint that investors have an enhanced appreciation of financial stability in a worsening economy and stock market. Wal-Mart Stores wmt 0.040805223068552776% Wal-Mart Stores Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD73.55 0.03 0.040805223068552776% /Date(1469221216679-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4249989 AFTER HOURS USD73.55 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 66644 P/E Ratio 16.27212389380531 Market Cap 229229394350.119 Dividend Yield 2.719238613188307% Rev. per Employee 210090 More quote details and news » ' (WMT) jump to No. 7, for instance -- from last year's 21 -- and the increase in its Highly Respect percentage to 43% from 28% imply that investors have been reminded of the company's unmatched operational skills and steady market-share gains in the face of tough consumer trends. The stock's monstrous outperformance in the past year surely helped give it a boost, too.
Barron's Associate Editor Michael Santoli discusses the 100 Most Respected Companies. (Sept. 9)
THE GREATER RESPECT ACCORDED to commodity-related companies in this year's survey, and the deteriorating view of financial-services firms, were fueled by two phenomena. First, the market values of energy and materials producers has ballooned in recent years, catapulting more of their number into the largest 100. Simultaneously, the diminished market capitalizations of many banks and insurers disqualified them from consideration.
As a result, more than a third of the 25 companies new to this year's list are in the energy, chemical or agricultural industries. They include EnCana eca -0.6031363088057901% Encana Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD8.24 -0.05 -0.6031363088057901% /Date(1469221261862-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11333273 AFTER HOURS USD8.1731 -0.0669 -0.8118932038834952% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33291 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 9203842781.23116 Dividend Yield 0.7281553398058253% Rev. per Employee 1592930 More quote details and news » (ECA), BG Group (BG.U.K.), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan pot -0.8182349503214494% Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD16.97 -0.14 -0.8182349503214494% /Date(1469221332506-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11822015 AFTER HOURS USD16.93 -0.04 -0.2357100766057749% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19118 P/E Ratio 11.284745311876579 Market Cap 18710961968.475 Dividend Yield 5.892751915144372% Rev. per Employee 1408340 More quote details and news » (POT) and Monsanto mon -0.39585296889726673% Monsanto Co. U.S.: NYSE USD105.68 -0.42 -0.39585296889726673% /Date(1469221289214-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1796506 AFTER HOURS USD105.55 -0.13 -0.12301286903860711% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26913 P/E Ratio 43.66942148760331 Market Cap 46243030626.7017 Dividend Yield 2.043906131718395% Rev. per Employee 590044 More quote details and news » (MON).
Conversely, 13 of last year's companies that since have fallen below the survey's market-cap threshold are finance-related firms. Due largely to the credit crisis and its gory aftermath, once-bellwether names such as American Express axp 1.340059908560618% American Express Co. U.S.: NYSE USD64.28 0.85 1.340059908560618% /Date(1469221215686-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4028652 AFTER HOURS USD64.29 0.01 0.015556938394523958% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 34765 P/E Ratio 11.316901408450704 Market Cap 59458998870.8496 Dividend Yield 1.8046048537647792% Rev. per Employee 642737 More quote details and news » (AXP), Merrill Lynch (MER), Morgan Stanley ms 0.17319016279875304% Morgan Stanley U.S.: NYSE USD28.92 0.05 0.17319016279875304% /Date(1469221330312-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12491313 AFTER HOURS USD28.95 0.03 0.1037344398340249% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 505349 P/E Ratio 13.327188940092165 Market Cap 55468560146.3318 Dividend Yield 2.7662517289073305% Rev. per Employee 625494 More quote details and news » (MS) and Wachovia (WB) are now too small to make the cut.
As commodities stocks have become more mainstream portfolio holdings, investors' attitude toward producers of "stuff" has grown notably friendlier.
Almost every energy company on our list got at least a modest lift in respect scores this year, with the exception of Exxon Mobil xom 0.17048481619605754% Exxon Mobil Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD94.01 0.16 0.17048481619605754% /Date(1469221208925-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6830347 AFTER HOURS USD94 -0.01 -0.010637166258908627% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 309334 P/E Ratio 30.228295819935692 Market Cap 389822893911.827 Dividend Yield 3.191149877672588% Rev. per Employee 2908360 More quote details and news » (XOM), which slipped two rungs, to No. 12. Exxon, more processor than producer of oil and gas, hasn't been a prime beneficiary of the price run-ups in crude oil and natural gas.
That said, commodities companies don't garner particularly enthusiastic respect scores, perhaps because they are...commodities producers. Professional investors tend to reserve their highest regard for companies with proprietary products or intellectual property, defensible market positions and well-entrenched brands.
Financial companies historically have earned middling respect scores in our survey, in part because they, too, deal in commodity products.
Yet, the disdain for the industry evident in this year's ranking has intensified after months of headlines detailing banks' and brokerages' dearth of fear and surfeit of greed, manifested in lax risk controls, excessive debt levels and opaque balance sheets -- the very things that now have the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury in crisis-management mode.
No surprise, again, Citigroup c 0.38522547020167686% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD44.3 0.17 0.38522547020167686% /Date(1469221243913-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12550955 AFTER HOURS USD44.26 -0.04 -0.09029345372460497% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 213286 P/E Ratio 9.396941221390238 Market Cap 128709213457.184 Dividend Yield 1.4446952595936795% Rev. per Employee 367242 More quote details and news » (C) wallows near the bottom of this year's list, in the company of deeply distrusted, state-influenced Russian and Chinese oligopolies. At No. 99, much-maligned Citi is wedged between Russian energy giants Lukoil (LUKOY), at No. 98, and Gazprom (GAZP.Russia), at No. 100.
Written comments from survey respondents reflect the harsh judgment of hindsight. Citigroup "failed to proactively change its business strategy," and is "always chasing strategies." In short, the "company has been a disaster."
THE COMMENTARY on American International Group aig 0.6078467489408731% American International Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD54.62 0.33 0.6078467489408731% /Date(1469221223310-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2826259 AFTER HOURS USD54.61 -0.01 -0.01830831197363603% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 78864 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 61121525684.6277 Dividend Yield 2.343463932625412% Rev. per Employee 841611 More quote details and news » (AIG), which shuttled to 95th place from No. 30, is no more generous. "Management has no clue," one money manager wrote of the giant insurer.
"Unmitigated disaster with apparently no concept of risk management," another one jeered.
If these are the views of investors who only a year ago voted AIG a solidly above-average company, does it suggest sentiment toward the biggest financial stocks is near a bottom?
Hard to say -- but it's also hard to imagine that these companies have many fans left.
No. 19-ranked Wells Fargo wfc 0.041407867494824016% Wells Fargo & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD48.32 0.02 0.041407867494824016% /Date(1469221216674-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13423122 AFTER HOURS USD48.34 0.02 0.041390728476821195% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 165415 P/E Ratio 11.843137254901961 Market Cap 243943518459.32 Dividend Yield 3.1456953642384105% Rev. per Employee 352981 More quote details and news » (WFC) perennially scores highly among banks in our survey, due in part to Buffett's halo effect. Berkshire Hathaway owned around 8% of Wells as of June 30.
Nor has Goldman Sachs gs 0.22492970946579194% Goldman Sachs Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD160.41 0.36 0.22492970946579194% /Date(1469221279593-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1793970 AFTER HOURS USD160.24 -0.17 -0.10597843027242691% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17725 P/E Ratio 15.1759697256386 Market Cap 66633355058.5108 Dividend Yield 1.6208465806371173% Rev. per Employee 882446 More quote details and news » (GS), at No. 18, yet lost the admiration of Wall Street's buyside for its culture of smarts, teamwork and risk controls. HSBC Holdings (HBC), at No. 48, also retained its share of fans, one of whom praised the London banking giant for being "open with the market and forthright about problems."
The most prominent exception to the pervasive denigration of financial companies was JPMorgan Chase jpm 0.5495368189668708% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD64.04 0.35 0.5495368189668708% /Date(1469221222155-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8195331 AFTER HOURS USD63.99 -0.05 -0.07807620237351655% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 357 P/E Ratio 10.854237288135593 Market Cap 234172441580.193 Dividend Yield 2.998126171143036% Rev. per Employee 414752 More quote details and news » (JPM), which at No. 24 was the only global "money-center" bank to rank in the top quarter of all companies.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon was hailed as "the best CEO in the financial industry" by several respondents, owing to the relatively modest losses the bank was forced to take as a result of the past year's mortgage-debt crisis.
Dimon's role in absorbing a distressed Bear Stearns at the behest (and with the assistance) of the Fed and Treasury, in order to stave off a market meltdown, seems to have heightened respect for both the man and Morgan.
BOTH THE EVOLVING composition of the list of the world's largest publicly traded companies and the reactions these companies elicit point to the increasingly global nature of the investment world, and the growing attention U.S. investors are paying to foreign markets.
In 2008, 63 of the top 100 companies are based outside the U.S., up from 57 in 2007. Newcomers such as India's Reliance Industries (RIL.India) and Cnooc (CEO) of China illustrate the bulging market values achieved by companies and industries in fast-emerging economies. Nineteen non-U.S. companies ranked in the top half of this year's list, up from 15 last year.
The names of many foreign companies are less recognizable to our domestic pool of survey respondents, and this helps explain the clustering of European and Asian companies toward the bottom of the rankings.
Yet only 10 companies drew a response rate below 80%, as indicated by an asterisk on the table accompanying this story. That's a far lower number than we received even one year ago.
Of necessity, then, American investors are looking beyond our borders for companies worth owning -- and respecting.


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GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After ReaganBreaking News
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the GOP may have lost touch with some Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: "We screwed up," he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party's resurgence.
That "we" includes the last two Republican presidents and the most recent Republican candidate for president.
In "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.
More surprising, the GOP chairman directly or indirectly criticizes:
--President George H.W. Bush for raising taxes two years after President Ronald Reagan left office, though Steele ignores the fact that Reagan raised taxes too.
--President George W. Bush for not vetoing any spending bills during his first five years in office. He calls Bush and other Republicans "enablers for big government" and derides the Bush administration's Troubled Asset Relief Program as "a massive government slush fund."
--Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the party's 2008 presidential nominee, for backing censorship of political speech through the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. Steele says the GOP erred in allowing itself to be associated with "a national political speech code."
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The emotions flowed as freely as the punches Friday afternoon at the USA Boxing National Championships.
Light flyweight Leroy Davila pounded out a win over Melik Elliston, then thought about his 1-year-old daughter back in New Jersey. Two bouts later at Northern Quest Resort and Casino, flyweight Shawn Simpson tried to take something positive out of taking down best friend Cristian Williams.
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With his legs tiring and his mother, Tina, imploring him to hold on, Sims did just that, taking a unanimous but controversial decision – the scores were 28-26, 28-27, 28-27 – before heading to his hotel room for a hot bath.
"I try to tune it out, but she's extremely loud," said Sims of his mother, a boxing official herself, who could see that the third and final round wasn't going well. When it was all over, mother and son shared a poignant hug with trainer and father, Kenneth Sims, Sr.
Sims, an Olympic Trials participant last year, had worked hard to get here – perhaps a little too hard. His father "told me I probably need a little more rest," said Sims, who said that mental toughness is just as important in the late rounds, especially when the bouts fall on consecutive days.
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Flyweight Simpson advanced to the finals after winning a 3-0 decision over Williams. The win advanced Simpson to a title match against Malik Jackson of Washington, D.C., an upset winner over top-ranked Eros Correa.
"He's my best friend, and that's our third fight," Simpson said of Williams, shaking his head. "So I hope I brought out the best in him."
Daughter Kharma always brings out the best in Davila, even if she's 2,500 miles away. "She just started walking, and she says my name every time I come home," said Davila, after a 3-0 decision over Elliston.
Davila, a runner-up at the Olympic Trials last year, will take on Leopoldo Martinez of Laredo, Texas, in tonight's finals.
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Friday's bout was Simpson's first under the new rules, but he shrugged it off like an errant punch.
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Re-sizing a petit to a regular pattern
I wonder if anyone out there can advise me. I've been planning on making "09/2011 Jacket with front zipper #102" for a while now. I've bought some fabric and decided how I'm gong to tweak the pattern to make it just how I want it. Then – horror – I went to buy the pattern and it's petite! I am most definitely not petite
I'm pretty comfortable adjusting patterns – I usually have to do an FBA on tops and jackets and I've graded up a skirt by a couple of sizes – but I'm a bit nervous buying a pattern with the largest size of 21 when I'm a 42 or 44.
Has anyone experience they can share?
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Aug 30, 2013, 04.38 AMby KerryBells
I would love to also know the answer to this if anyone can help!?
Aug 30, 2013, 05.25 AMby KerryBells
Ive found some good info on the site: http://www.burdastyle.com/techniques/how-to-shorten-or-lengthen-a-pattern
Or go to resources – pattern – how to lengthen and shorten
Aug 31, 2013, 07.04 AMby Linda Pattison
look on line for resizing patterns . then make a toile out of some spare fabric doesnt have to include all the styling detail just the basic shape to test the fit . you can tweak your toile to fit and if it doesnt work very well or you made a mistake you can alter it without ruining your fabric be brave it isn't very hard you have just got to take some care. find a quiet time and concentrate. hope this helps
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|Aug 30, 1966
|Filing date
|Nov 18, 1963
|Priority date
|Nov 18, 1963
|Publication number
|Herbert M Mclearn, Frank P Skipper
|Original Assignee
|American Machinery Corp
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (19), Referenced by (5), Classifications (11)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Aug. 30, 1966 M? MCLEARN' T' 3,269,571
BULK PRODUCE BOX DUMPING DEVICE 6 Sheets-sheaf; 1
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BULK PRODUCE BOX DUMPING DEVICE Filed Nov. 18, 1963 6 Sheets-Sheet I5 INVENTORS HERBERT n ficLEH/PA/ BY F/PflA/K R JK/PPE/P H. M. MLEARN e141. 3,269,571 anus mower: BOX wanna mzvrcarim Nov. 1a, 1963 'e Sheets-flint 4 J Y INVENTQRs m wseamr' .MCLEARM BY FRANK EEK/WE)? A g 0 1966 H. M. M LEARN ETAL BULK PRODUCE BOX DUMPING DEVICE 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Nov. 18, 1963 M RR ma N C/ w mk 4 WM 7 t 7 s 5 5 f M DL Aug. 3%, W66 H. M. M LEARN ETAL BULK PRODUCE BOX DUMPING DEVICE 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 Filed Nov. 18, 1963 w T N E V m United States Patent 3,269,571 BULK PRODUCE BOX DUMPING DEVICE Herbert M. McLearn, Maitland, and Frank P. Skipper,
Orlando, Fla., assignor to American Machinery Corporation, Orlando, Fla., a corporation of Delaware Filed Nov. 18, 1963, Ser. No. 324,484 11 Claims. ((11. 214-302) This invention relates to mechanism for handling and processing produce. In its particular aspects, the invention is concerned with apparatus for dumping, receiving, and conveying produce such as fruits and vegetables,
Fruits and vegetables when harvested are frequently transported from fields, groves and orchards in very large open topped pallet boxes. While resort to large transport boxes has resulted in economical handling of the produce, it has been attended by difficulties arising from the size and weight of the boxes when filled with produce. Furthermore, the distance through which produce falls when being dumped from large boxes is increased to the point where serious damage to the produce is a constant hazard.
It is, therefore, the principal purpose of the invention to provide mechanism capable of dumping produce from large boxes in a controlled stream, with avoidance of damage to the produce being dumped.
It is a further object of the invention to provide means, in combination with a box dumping device, for cushioning the fall of the produce being dumped.
A further purpose of the invention is to provide a produce handling system having means for delivering produce to a processing line in an even and well controlled stream without regard to the rate at which the produce is dumped to the delivery means.
It is still a further object of the invention to provide mechanism for dumping produce from open topped boxes which is capable of completely inverting the boxes while controlling the fall of produce therefrom until complete inversion of the boxes is accomplished, whereby the boxes are completely emptied and the fall of the produce is reduced to a minimum.
These and other useful objects of the invention are accomplished by providing a rotatably mounted, self-loading box dumping cradle which has associated therewith a lid which is adapted to cover the open top of the pro duce box and clamp the box into the cradle. The lid is provided with a produce discharge aperture having a cover thereon which is associated with a cover control mechanism effective to hold the cover closed until the cradle and the box therein are rotated into a substantially fully inverted produce dumping position, whereby the distance through which the produce must fall is minimized. The dumping cradle is positioned over one end of an elongated produce receiving and conveying unit. The latter unit in a preferred form comprises a tank containing water which serves as a cushion against the fall of the produce being dumped, and at the same time a controlled unidirectional flow of water in the tank is maintained whereby the produce is carried from the delivery end of the tank to the end remote therefrom where the produce is delivered for normal processing in an even stream without regard to the rate at which the produce is dumped.
A practical embodiment of the invention is described in the following specification which is illuminated by the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals indicate like parts, and in which:
FIG. 1 is a side elevational schematic view of the box dumping system to which the invention pertains;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view on line 22 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a view, partially in section and partially in full line, on line 33of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the box dumping unit, parts being broken away to show underlying structure;
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal elevational View, partially in section and partially in full line, illustrating features of the produce-receiving unit in association with the box dumping unit;
FIG. 6 is a plan view of the produce-receiving unit, partly in section;
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the box dumping unit in association with the produce-receiving unit, showing the inversion of a pallet box during the initial phase of a produce dumping operation;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the box dumping unit in association with the produce-receiving unit, showing the inversion of a pallet box during the final phase of a produce dumping operation; and
FIG. 9 is a fragmentary view on an enlarged scale showing certain details of the box dump cradle and its mounting and drive means in association therewith.
As seen in FIG. 1, a complete box dumping system as contemplated herein consists of a box feed-in conveyor 10, a box dumping unit 12, a box take-off conveyor 14 and a produce-receiving unit 16.
The details of the box dumping unit 12 are best illustrated in FIGS. 3, 4 and 9. By reference to these figures, it can be seen that the unit comprises a box cradle 18 which is mounted for rotation on a base frame 20. The box cradle 18 is comprised of a floor or platform 22, a pair of side walls 24 and 26 and a lid 28. The floor 22 of the cradle is supported by a plurality of transverse sills 30 to which the side walls 24 and 26 are rigidly attached. The side walls are reinforced by a plurality of upright structural members such as the channel members 32 and 34 shown in association with the side wall 24 in FIG. 3.
A lid 28 is associated with the cradle by mounting the same on piston rods 36 and 38 of a pair of fluid pressure cylinders 40 and 42, respectively (FIG. 3), which interconnect the lid with the side walls 24 and 26 of the cradle. The lid structure includes a pair of longitudinal beams 44 and 46 which provide a laterally extending flange to which the respective pistons 36 and 38 are attached such that the entire lid may be raised or lowered by the fluid pressure devices 40 and 42. The lid is provided with a plurality of depending bracket structures 48 and 50 which include guide members 52 and 54 slidingly engaged with the cradle uprights 32 and 34 for guiding the lid in respect to the cradle as it is raised and lowered by the fluid pressure devices 40 and 42.
The deck 56 of the lid is cut away across one end thereof to form a produce discharge passage 58. This passage is closed by a cover 60 mounted to swing on a hinge 62 attached to the lid along the inner edge of the discharge passage 58.
The cradle structure is mounted on the base frame 20 by means of a pair of pillow blocks 64 and 66 which, in turn, are [fixed respectively to the horizontal head rails 68 and 70 of the base frame.
The cradle structure is rotatably mounted in the pillow blocks 64 and 66 by means of a pair of cradle stub axles 7'2 and 74. These axles, as best seen in FIG. 9, are tubular in form and have their inner ends fixed to the side walls of the cradle, as seen in respect to the side wall 24 of FIG. 9. Further support is afforded the axles )by reinforcing plates 76 and 77 which are apertured to accommodate the axles and which are rigidly attached to the upright channels 32 and 34 at one side of the cradle and to their counterpart at the other side of the cradle. The reinforcing plates 76 and 77 carry brackets 78 and 79, respectively, on which the fluid pressure cylinders are mounted.
The axles 72 and 74 are preferably constructed of cold drawn seamless tubing and serve as conduits in the fluid circuit of the cylinders 40 and 42. To this end, as best seen in FIGS. 3 and 9, the outer ends of the respective axles are provided with pressure fittings 80 and '82 connecting the axles with fluid pressure con duits 84 and 86, respectively. The inner ends of the axles (FIG. 9) communicate with the fluid pressure cylinders 40 and 42 by means of fittings such as the fitting shown in FIG. 9 consisting of the pipe 88 and a flexible conduit 90. The fluid pressure devices 40 and 42 may be connected either in series or in parallel with a source of fluid pressure as may be desired. The control of flow and pressure of fluid in the system is effected in a conventional manner and, therefore, need not be described in detail.
The floor 22 of the box dumping cradle has a pair of laterally spaced conveyor channels 92 and 94 supported thereon. These channels are adapted to accommodate conveyor tracks for a pair of endless roller conveyor chains 96 and 98. The endless roller conveyor chains 96 and 98 are trained about sprockets rotating with a head shaft 100 and an idler sprocket shaft 102. The head shaft is driven by a sprocket chain 104 which is trained about a sprocket 106 mounted for free rotation on the stub axle 72 by a pair of collars 108 and 110. The sprocket 106 is formed on a common hub 112 with a second sprocket 119 to which power may be applied from any suitable source, by way of a clutch (not shown) which is disengaged when the cradle is being rotated. Thus, when the sprocket 106 is driven, the conveyors 92 and 94 within the dump cradle will operate to move a pallet box B into the cradle.
A drive gear 116 is fixed to the outer end of the stub axle 72 and power is applied thereto in conventional manner by any suitable power source for rotating the dump cradle.
In order to control the position of the hinged cover 60 during rotation of the dump cradle, a pair of upwardly extending arcuate cover cams 118 and 120 are supported from the base frame. These cams are adapted, respectively, for coaction with a pair of cover cam followers 122 and 124 (FIG. 3) which are respectively rotatably mounted on a pair of upstanding brackets 1'26 and 128 fixed to opposite ends of the cover 60. The cover cams 118 and 120 are so formed and constructed as to keep the cover 60 closed during the initial part of dump cradle rotation.
As pointed out in respect to FIG. 1, the box dumping unit 12 is designed for association with a box feed-in conveyor and a box take-off conveyor 14, both of which are preferably power driven and both of which may be generally constructed as shown in FIG. 2. Suitable conveyors will provide a pair of laterally spaced elevated conveyor tracks 1 and 13-2 for accommodating, respectively, the upper flight of endless conveyor elements 134 and 166 adapted to support the boxes B. The box feed-in conveyor 10, space permitting, is preferably long enough to accommodate a suflicient number of boxes to insure continuous operation of the system despite a hiatus in the continuity of the supply.
It is contemplated that the several conveyors will be power operated under control of suitably located limit switches (not shown) such that the boxes will be moved through the system in an intermittent succession. A box will be moved to the entrance of the box dumping unit 12 by the box feed-in conveyor 10, while the box dumping unit is going through a dumping cycle. The conveyor in the box dumping unit 12 will be controlled to go through a cradle loading operation, remain at rest during the dumping cycle, and resume operation to discharge the empty box onto the box take-oif conveyor 14 after the dumping operation has been completed and the cradle has returned to its normal upright position. The details of the conveyor drive and control circuit are of no particular patentable significance herein, and therefore need not be described.
As further seen in FIG. 1, the box dumping unit 12 is located over the front end of the produce-receiving and conveying unit 16. This unit may be any suitable mechanism for receiving and conveying the produce from the dumping point to a processing station. In its simplest embodiment, an endless conveyor is contemplated for this purpose. In a specific embodiment of the invention, the produce-receiving and conveying unit 16 comprises an elongated tank 168 adapted to hold a circulating body of water by which the produce is conveyed from the input end of the receiving unit to its discharge end. The water within the tank 138 insures the cushioned fall of the produce from the boxes and thereby avoids bruises and other damage that would inevitably result if the produce were discharged onto a firm surface. Furthermore, the rate of water circulation from front to back of the tank can be controlled to regulate the rate at which the produce passes through the tank and thereby avoids surges of produce at the discharge end.
Water circulation within the tank is maintained by a pair of driven impellers 140 and 142 (FIG. 6) which are located, respectively, in conduit legs 144 and 146 of a feeder loop 148. This loop is located externally of the tank proper in order to provide the necessary clearances for a produce elevator. The conduit legs 144 and 146 extend through the respective side walls of the tank about midway of its length and merge in a constricted duct 150 along the bottom of the tank. The duct 150 is preferably flared out to the full width of the tank at its produce-receiving end where it terminates in a liquid return mouth 152 near the top of the forward wall of the tank. The feeder loop 148 communicates with the interior of the tank through a passage 154 formed in the rear wall of the tank.
From the foregoing it can be seen that when the tank is filled wth water, the body of water can be maintained in clockwise circulation as viewed in FIG. 5 by driving the impellers 140 and 142. The impellers are preferably driven through variable speed mechanism in order to permit control over the rate of water circulation within the tank.
The produce elevator 156 (FIG. 5) is mounted at an incline in the forward end of the tank such that its rear end extends into proximity with the bottom of the tank and its forward end extends above the tank at the forward wall thereof. The produce elevator 156 is in the form of a foraminous endless belt 158 having attached to a face thereof spaced elevating slats 160, preferably of triangular cross-section. The nature of the belt 158 and the spacing of the slats 160 permits the ready drainage of water from the produce as it is elevated above the surface of the water within the tank. The elevator belt is trained about suitable pulleys 162 and 164, the latter being driven through a variable speed drive 166 (FIG. 1).
The discharge end of the produce elevator 156 is located in proximity to a leaf-and-trash removal assembly 168. This assembly comprises a downwardly inclined runway 170 composed of a plurality of parallel slats which are spaced from each other sutficiently to permit leaves and the like to drop therebetween but avoid passage of the produce. Leaves, Water and other matter separated from the produce which pass between the slats of the runway 170 fall into a refuse trough 172 located directly under the runway. The trough 172 extends to one side of the tank and is downwardly inclined such that water, leaves, and .the like, may flow to the discharge end of the trough. To assist this flow, the trough 172 may be equipped with a drag conveyor 174. Produce from the runway 170 is discharged into a collecting trough 176 from where it is taken for further processing.
To use the system, the fluid pressure devices 40 and 42 are operated to project their respective pistons 36 and 38. This latter action will lift the lid 28 sufliciently to permit a box to be loaded into the dumping unit. The box feed-in conveyor will deliver a box into position at which the conveyors 96 and 98 of the cradle will engage the box and load it into the cradle. When the box is properly loaded, the conveyors 96 and 98 will be disengaged and the fluid pressure devices 40 and 42 will be operated to 'lower the lid 28 into clamping engagement with the open top of the box. Thereafter, power applied to the drive gear 116 will serve RIO rotate the cradle on its stub axles 72 and 74. As this rotation is initiated, the cam followers 122 and 124 will come into engagement, respectively, with the cover cams 118 and 120. When this engagement is effected, the cover 60 will be held closed and it will be maintained in its closed position until the cradle has inverted the box as shown in FIG. 7. The cover cams have a constant radius for approximately 170 to a point 178 in FIG. 4 beyond which the cams are formed on a longer radius which permits the cover 60 to swing into a partially open position as shown in FIG. 7. During this phase of the dumping operation, the produce is discharged from the box in a gentle stream. When the cradle rotates to a point wherein the cam followers 122 and 124 are no longer in contact with their respective earns, the cover 60 will be free to swing on its hinge 62 Without restriction, such that the dumping operation is completed in the phase of the cycle shown in FIG. 8. The cradle continues to rotate in the clockwise direction, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, until it is again in an upright position.
After the cradle has been returned to its upright position, the fluid pressure devices 40 and 42 are again operated to project their respective pistons 36 and 38. This effectively elevates the lid 28 and releases the boX for removal from the box dumping unit.
At this time, the conveyors 96 and 98 are set into operation and the box is ejected from the box dumping unit onto the take-off conveyor 14.
In the meanwhile, the impellers 140 and 142 are set into operation at a selected speed thereby drawing water from the tank by way of the water passage 154 and recirculating the same rearwardly through the feeder loop 148 for discharge through the return mouth 152. This will cause the Water in the tank to circulate in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG. 5, such that the produce is carried forwardly into the influence of the produce elevator 156 which engages the produce, lifts it from the water and deposits it on the runway 170 from which it gravitates into the collecting trough 176.
While the novel features of the invention have been illustrated and described in connection with a specific embodiment of the invention, it is believed that this embodiment will enable others skilled in the art to apply the principles of the invention in forms departing from the exemplary embodiment herein, and such departures are contemplated by the claims.
What is claimed is:
'1. In container-dumping apparatus, product receiving and conveying unit a dumping cradle adapted to support a container to be dumped, a lid structure associated with said cradle adapted to close the open top of a container within said cradle, lid control means for raising said lid to receive a container into said cradle and for lowering said lid into container-clamping position over the open top of a container Within said cradle, means for rotatably supporting said cradle and said associated lid at an elevation over said conveying unit, means for rotating said cradle and said lid as a unit whereby a container within said cradle is inverted therewith into product discharge position, a product discharge aperture in said lid, 2. cover for said aperture, and cover holding means oper-atively associated with said cover effective to hold said cover closed until said cradle is rotated into product discharge position, said cover holding means comprising arcuate guide means and a guide follower carried by said cover in contact with said arcuate guide means.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said cover is mounted on said lid by a hinge structure extending transversely of said lid.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said cover holding means comprises laterally spaced arcuate cam tracks, each, respectively, adapted for engagement by one of a pair of spaced cam followers carried by and extending outwardly of said cover.
4-. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said lid and said cover are raised and lowered by said control means as a unit in a linear path way away from and toward the open top of a container within said cradle.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, in which said lid control means comprises a pair of reciprocating fluid pressure devices connected between said cradle and said lid at opposite sides of said cradle.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said produce discharge aperture extends substantially across the entire width of said lid.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said cradle is composed of a horizontal container supporting platform and a pair of vertical side walls, in combination comprising an open ended structure adapted to receive a container at one end and discharge the same at the opposite end.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said dumping cradle has container conveyor means comprising a power driven container supporting platform.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, in which said product receiving and conveying unit comprises an elongated tank adapted to contain a body of liquid in combination with means for maintaining a unidirectional flow of liquid within said tank.
10. The apparatus of claim 9, in which a product elevator comprising an inclined endless conveyor is mounted in said tank at the end thereof remote from said dumping cradle.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, in which said endless conveyor comprises a foraminous structure permitting discharge of liquid from the product thereon as the latter is removed from said tank by said conveyor.
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HUGO o. SCHULZ, Primary Examiner.
GERALD M. FORLENZA, Examiner.
A. GRANT, Assistant Examiner.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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- July 27, 2016, 11:42:33 pm
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An employee of the Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society altered receipts to conceal the theft of $51,130 from the organization's adoption fees and other funds, an audit by the Comptroller's Division of Investigation has revealed.
Receipts in the humane society's computer system were backdated - up to 11 years before the installation of the computer system - so they would not be included in daily collection reports. That meant money from adoption fees and other sources didn't appear in the organization's records. Investigators concluded that money was stolen by the employee, who was later fired.
Investigative auditors reviewed records from July 1, 2009 through Oct. 31, 2011 after Hamblen County officials discovered the altered receipts from collections were not deposited into the humane society's bank accounts. The stolen funds should have been used to operate the animal shelter, enforce animal control ordinances and conduct animal cruelty investigations.
The employee involved had been responsible for gathering collections, matching collections with receipts and delivering those collections to the bookkeeper for deposit. During questioning by investigators, the employee admitted to backdating one receipt to "borrow" $120. The employee refused to speak with investigators after being fired.
Investigators also found weaknesses in the humane society's accounting and record-keeping procedures, which made the theft easier to conceal.
"It is very important that there is an appropriate amount of oversight when public funds are being accepted, recorded and spent or deposited," Comptroller Justin P. Wilson said. "Putting too many responsibilities in the hands of one individual without that kind of oversight can create situations that are ripe for fraud or abuse. It is very unfortunate in this case that money that could have been used to help stray and abused animals in Hamblen County isn't available for that purpose because of this."
The Comptroller's Division of Investigation has forwarded copies of its report and supporting information to the Office of the District Attorney, Third Judicial District.
To view the report online, go to: http://www.comptroller.tn.gov/ia/
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