Abstract: A sagger furnace especially adapted for the dental ceramic field. The furnace has a sagger platform and a top part that closes with the sagger platform to form a closed firing chamber. The upper part is powered by a positive drive but connected to the powering means by gravity force which allows the manual opening of the furnace at any time. Also provided is a method of firing dental ceramics.

Abstract: A gang tool assembly for drilling a precise pattern of holes in a workpiece or otherwise cutting surfaces and the like on such workpiece and including a mounting panel of cured settable material having a pattern of holes formed therein to receive supports for powered tool heads to detachably support the same to form a gang pattern of either drills or cutters for simultaneously drilling a pattern of holes in a workpiece or forming a surface thereon. The mounting panel is formed by mounting a pattern of pins upon a base mold plate, surrounding said plate with mold sidewalls, placing sleeves upon said pins, pouring a settable slurry of high fracture strength of uniform thickness around said pins, allowing the material to cure to rigid condition, and removing the molded rigid panel and sleeves in situ therein from said base mold plate and pins to provide a rigid supporting panel for a gang of powered tool heads having supports extending through said sleeves.

Abstract: A machine to form lump-type crab meat from smaller particles of cooked crabmeat by extruding the same under pressure from a cylinder having a discharge nozzle adjoining a die plate having one or more contoured cavities in a flat face thereof and movable past said nozzle to receive compressed crab meat particles in compact congealed condition for molding into a desired configuration resembling natural lump-type commercial crab meat. A knife member on a slide shears the molded lump of crab meat from the extrusion end of the discharge nozzle and sealing means on it prevent appreciable escape of natural juices of the crab meat from the molded lumps, and ejecting plungers having contoured ends form part of the molding surfaces of the die cavities and are reciprocable to eject the molded lumps when the die plate is moved to clear the die cavities from said discharge nozzle.

Abstract: A seat member to support a human body and having upper and lower planar surfaces spaced apart and connected by a continuous sidewall extending perpendicularly between and connected to the peripheries of said surfaces, and a plurality of similar covers respectively of different colors and/or textures are provided for selection of one to be attached to the seat member to provide a desired outer finished surface on said seat member. The covers have an upper and side panels complementary to the top surface and sidewall of the seat member to conform closely thereto and a bottom panel on said covers is formed to provide a plurality of attaching fingers to overlie the lower surface of the seat member. The fingers are attached to the lower surface of the seat member by strips of VELCRO or the like to maintain the selected cover upon the seat member.

Abstract: An elongated plastic strap of uniform width and thickness of material having a series of evenly spaced longitudinally extending rectangular openings therein midway between the edges of the strap and the opposite edges of the portions of the strap between said openings respectively having a series of notches opposite each other and the notches in each row being spaced apart substantially shorter distances than the spacing of the rectangular openings, the inner ends of opposite pairs of the notches being spaced transversely of the strap a distance substantially equal to the transverse width of the rectangular openings and the length of the rectangular openings being substantially equal to the width of said strap, whereby one end of the strap may initially be twisted substantially ninety degrees and inserted through a selected opening and pulled therethrough to form a loop of desired size around an object and then reversely twist the strap to dispose a section between a pair of opposed notches transversely withi

Abstract: A toy barn and silo connected thereto in which an elevator is operable to receive and elevate toy hay bales to the loft of the barn and eject them into and through the loft for discharge into a vehicle in a bay of the barn. The barn below the loft has stalls closed by gates and containing animals which can be ejected from the stalls by plungers and the gates are opened by discharge movement of the animals.

Abstract: A record album and slip case cut and folded from sheet paper board stock to provide a relatively flat box-like container having similar side panels spaced apart a limited distance and having one open end provided with a relatively long access notch extending inward from the edges of the side panels of said container in which the access notch is formed and bounded therealong by smooth reinforced edges resulting from tongues of the material folded inwardly upon the inner surfaces of the side panels and secured thereto by adhesive, certain of the tongues being of substantial size to afford protective stiffness to a substantial area of the side panels extending inward from the edges of the access notches, whereby no raw board edges appear on the boundaries of the open end and access notches therein.

Abstract: An operatory stool has a seat supported upon a post-like member extending upward from a caster-supported base, the seat having a short post extending upward from an edge of the seat and supports a horizontal curved arm for rotation about the axis of the post. Inter-engageable position control members are mounted respectively on the arm and upper end of the post and are operable for separation by raising the arm a short distance to disengage them, then rotate the arm about the axis of the post, and then release the arm to re-establish engagement of the position control members which are maintained in engagement by a compression spring. A one-way clutch also is mounted between the arm and post to permit rotation of the arm a limited distance in one direction only to augment the pivotal movement of the arm permitted by disengagement of the position control members.

Abstract: A gas generating system deriving useful BTU products from cellulosic waste material and comprising a conical shell to which the waste material is fed at the bottom and moved upwardly by an auger to permit the expanding walls of the cone to loosen the material by sintering action in the upper portion of the shell in a combustion zone located above the level of a row of air inlet ports substantially midway of the shell, the shell also having a gas accumulating chamber in the top thereof and a gas discharge device leading from the chamber to gas purifying and cooling mechanism including spray devices, a settling tank and liquid storage tank operating in a manner to re-use liquid incident to the operation of the spray devices. Operation of the controlled air delivery to the nozzles and cone also can be regulated to produce desirable amounts of charcoal and mechanism is included to remove the same from the cone.

Abstract: A toy motorcycle having at least one electric light bulb thereon and comprising an elongated frame having front and rear portions supporting wheels for free rotation and a central portion comprising, in combination, a gear train having interengaging gears supported on shafts extending transversely to the vertical plane of the frame and rotatably mounted in bearings in opposite side plates of the housing, an inertia flywheel rotatable upon another transverse shaft parallel to the others, an electric armature fixed coaxially to the flywheel for rotation therewith, a stationary field coil supported by one side plate of the housing coaxially with the armature, and a transverse axle extending at opposite ends through bearings in the side plates of the housing to which drive wheels are connected on opposite ends thereof and positioned outwardly from opposite sides of the enclosure for the housing for frictional engagement with a supporting surface to cause rotation of the inertia flywheel to energize the same by ma

Abstract: A gang tool assembly for drilling a precise pattern of holes in a workpeice or otherwise cutting surfaces and the like on such workpiece and including a mounting panel of rigid sheet material having a pattern of holes formed therein to receive supports for powered tool heads to detachably support the same to form a gang pattern of either drills or cutters for simultaneously drilling a pattern of holes in a workpiece or forming a contoured surface thereon.

Abstract: Cleaning mechanism for a screen such as a radiator screen mounted adjacent an air-cooled radiator and air-circulating fan for a water-cooled engine to prevent debris from clogging the air passages of the radiator and including a frame supporting the screen as aforesaid, a motor driven shaft extending substantially centrally through the screen, transverse arms rotated by the shaft and having dislodging members in wiping relation to the air-inlet face of the screen, and baffle plates carried by the shaft for rotation relative to the air discharge face of the screen and in alignment with the arms and dislodging members to neutralize the suction effect of the air-circulating fan for the radiator and thereby permit debris dislodged by the members to fall by gravity from the screen.

Abstract: A toy car launcher provided with a base having a flat bottom surface of limited area to be placed upon a horizontal supporting surface, the base having a mouthpiece blowing tube extending upward and outward from one end portion of the base and a launching tube extending outward from the opposite end of the base in parallel with the flat bottom surface of the base and spaced a predetermined distance above the plane of the bottom surface to slidably coengage a complementary tube longitudinally in the body of a toy car and closed at the inner end, and the car body having wheels freely rotatable thereon, whereby when gas under pressure, such as human breath, is discharged into the mouthpiece blowing tube it passes into the closed end tube in the car and blasts the car from the launching tube for rolling movement along the supporting surface in front of the launcher.

Abstract: An armrest for a seat such as a stool having a post extending upwardly from an edge of the seat and supporting a substantially horizontal arm which is connected to the upper end of the post by a one-way clutch permitting pivotal movement of the arm in one direction around the axis of the post but preventing reverse pivotal movement of the arm and the mounting of the clutch on the post permitting limited vertical movement of the arm and clutch relative to the post to deactivate the clutch relative to the post to permit rotation of the arm relative to the post in the aforementioned reverse direction thereof.

Abstract: A tack box and saddle rack comprising a lower rectangular box portion including side panels fastened to end members which extend above the top edges of the side panels and including rails extending between said end members in an area above said top edges of said side panels, one of said rails being uppermost and centrally between the side edges of said end members and two side additional rails respectively being in a common horizontal plane below said uppermost rail and respectively spaced a short distance inward from said side edges of said end members to support a saddle upon said central uppermost rail and the depending stirrups hanging outwardly of said two side rails but contained in said box portion with other accouterments, such as bridle, girth, saddle dressing and the like.

Abstract: A toy of an educational nature including a plurality of receptacles in a supporting frame respectively for toy coins of different sizes and arranged to be received only in one of the receptacles as controlled by the size of the entrance opening for that particular coin. The value of the coins are prominently shown on the respective toy coins and such values are also shown adjacent the entrance openings. Ejector mechanism also is included to effect removal of the coins from the respective receptacles.

Abstract: A pulse damper for inclusion in chromatograhy systems subjected to high pressures and comprising a body having one face from which a cavity extends inwardly to receive non-aqueous compressible fluid, a non-metallic diaphragm of limited flexibility extending across said cavity and clamped to the rim thereof by a cover having spaced ports respectively for inlet and outlet of a liquid vehicle for material being analyzed, said cover having in the face thereof which is adjacent the diaphragm a circular groove communicating with said ports to transmit therebetween the liquid being processed, and ports in the walls of the body which define the cavity respectively communicating with a pressure-indicating gauge and serving as a filling opening closed by a plug.

Abstract: The invention comprises resilient lining panels formed preferably from polyurethane of certain specified hardness and provided with leading and trailing sides between which a material-engaging surface is formed which has a smoothly curved wave configuration cresting nearer the trailing than the leading side, the leading side terminating in a relatively thin wedge-shaped flange which is overlaid with a thicker clamping flange on the trailing side, and a metallic clamping member is positioned within the panels, extending between opposite ends thereof, and having flat ribs extending laterally and oppositely from a channel arrangement into at least the overlapping flanges of the trailing side of the panel to effect firm clamping against the flange on the leading side of each panel.