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A variable capacity turbine has adjustment work simplified so as to decrease man-hours, assembly and adjustment costs. The structure is simplified to decrease part category numbers and the number of parts itself, decreasing part costs and enabling nozzle vane setup to a high degree of accuracy witho

A variable capacity turbine has adjustment work simplified so as to decrease man-hours, assembly and adjustment costs. The structure is simplified to decrease part category numbers and the number of parts itself, decreasing part costs and enabling nozzle vane setup to a high degree of accuracy without being influenced by the degree of dimensional accuracy of the component parts. A plurality of joint members (lever plates) are used which are the same in number as the nozzle shafts to connect a plurality of nozzle vanes and the nozzle driving member. Each nozzle shaft is fitted and fixed to one end of a respective lever plate after setting the predetermined positional relationship between the wing angle of the nozzle vanes and the predetermined fitting direction of the fixed section of the lever plate. Another end of each lever plate is engaged with the nozzle driving member.

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A variable capacity turbine has adjustment work simplified so as to decrease man-hours, assembly and adjustment costs. The structure is simplified to decrease part category numbers and the number of parts itself, decreasing part costs and enabling nozzle vane setup to a high degree of accuracy witho

A variable capacity turbine has adjustment work simplified so as to decrease man-hours, assembly and adjustment costs. The structure is simplified to decrease part category numbers and the number of parts itself, decreasing part costs and enabling nozzle vane setup to a high degree of accuracy without being influenced by the degree of dimensional accuracy of the component parts. A plurality of joint members (lever plates) are used which are the same in number as the nozzle shafts to connect a plurality of nozzle vanes and the nozzle driving member. Each nozzle shaft is fitted and fixed to one end of a respective lever plate after setting the predetermined positional relationship between the wing angle of the nozzle vanes and the predetermined fitting direction of the fixed section of the lever plate. Another end of each lever plate is engaged with the nozzle driving member. aratus according to claim 9 further comprising second sensing means operatively connected to said first and second conveying means such that said first conveying means conveys a plurality of stringers along said first direction in response to said second conveying means conveying said stringers along said second direction.12. An apparatus for feeding stringers to a pallet making machine comprising: a plurality of elongated hoppers arranged in spaced relationship, each of said hoppers configured to hold a plurality of elongated stringers in an upright stack, said stringers oriented in a substantially horizontal edgewise-adjacent configuration; a hopper loader that loads a plurality of stringers into each of said hoppers; and a stringer advancing unit that advances a lowermost stringer in a stack endwise from each respective hopper to a pallet assembly area of said pallet making machine. 13. An apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said plurality of elongated hoppers are arranged in substantially parallel spaced relation.14. An apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said stringer advancing unit comprises an elongated bar configured to push said lowermost stringer in a stack endwise from each respective hopper to said pallet assembly area of said pallet making machine.15. An apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising an elevating unit that elevates a stacked array of stringers to said first conveyor such that one layer of stringers is removed from said array.16. An apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising a first sensor that senses stack height in each respective hopper, said first sensor means operatively coupled to said hopper loader such that when said first sensor determines that stack height in a hopper is below a predetermined height, said hopper loader loads a plurality of stringers into said hopper.17. An apparatus according to claim 16 wherein said first sensor is positioned to detect endwise face height of said stringers within said hoppers.18. An apparatus according to claim 16 wherein said hopper loader includes a first conveyor that conveys said plurality of stringers in edgewise-adjacent substantially horizontal relation along a first direction, said first conveyor configured to deliver a predetermined number of stringers to each of said hoppers.19. An apparatus according to claim 18 wherein said first conveyor comprises an elongated bar configured to push said plurality of stringers along said first direction.20. An apparatus according to claim 18 wherein said hopper loader comprises a second conveyor that conveys a plurality of stringers in edgewise-adjacent substantially horizontal relation along a second direction to said first conveyor, said second direction transverse to said first direction.21. An apparatus according to claim 20 wherein said second conveyor comprises an elongated bar configured to push said plurality of stringers along said second direction.22. An apparatus according to claim 20 further comprising a second sensor operatively connected to said first and second conveyors such that said first conveyor conveys a plurality of stringers along said first direction in response to said second conveyor conveying said stringers along said second direction.23. An apparatus for feeding stringers to a pallet making machine comprising: a plurality of elongated hoppers arranged in spaced relationship, each of said hoppers configured to hold a plurality of elongated stringers in an upright stack, said stringers oriented in a substantially horizontal edgewise-adjacent configuration; a hopper loader that loads a plurality of stringers into each of said hoppers, said hopper loader including a first conveyor that conveys a horizontal layer of said plurality of stringers in edgewise-adjacent substantially horizontal relation along a first direction, said first conveyor configured to deliver a predetermined number of stringers to each of said hoppers; and an elevating unit that