Abstract: Swing axles connected to a transverse rear axle housing by precision pivot assemblies formed in a pair of small vertical plates secured to front and back of the axle housing. Rubber pivot and spring members are received in the inverted U-shaped cross-section of the axle housing and have rests bearing on the middles of the swing axles. The rubber members form pivots for the swing axles and the rests accept fore and aft loadings of the swing axles.

Abstract: A golf club with an outer tube formed from hickory, ash or birch and with an inner hollow tube formed of chrome-moly or other steelalloy aluminum, titanium, graphite fibers, boron fibers, graphite-boron fibers or fiberglass fibers. The outer tube has a bore of uniform diameter from end to end that closely fits the inner tube which has uniform inner and outer diameters from end to end. An epoxy adhesive bonds the tubes together. The wood tube is bored by a riflebore drill on an engine lathe, from a larger piece of wood which is turned to a smaller diameter after drilling. An extension of the shaft upper end of lower weight-to-length ratio than the remainder of the shaft, formed at least partly of plastic foam, and secured with a cylindrical boss bonded within the upper end of the inner tube. The lower end of the shaft is confined, to reduce hairline splitting of the wood tube, by the club head hosel or by cord whipping, and the shaft has various kinds of connections to the club head.

Abstract: Air-operated, hydraulically controlled portable drill-countersink tool automatically clamping to workpiece. A spindle attached to drill is connected to gearing from a motor by helical splines to withdraw the spindle, to counter spindle-feeding force, responsive to encountering increased torque due to increased resistance in drilling or countersinking. In a hydraulic cylinder for collet clamping a lower air pressure is converted to higher hydraulic pressure. When drilling depth is reached, drill feeding changes to drill withdrawal and that change is triggered by blocking of an air vent by a member traveling with the spindle. A lower drill speed during countersinking is achieved by a valve reducing air supply to the motor and change in that valve is also triggered by blocking of air vent by a member traveling with the spindle. The blades of the air motor do not change in extension when loaded and the motor has constant torque.

Abstract: A miniaturized plastic bus bar connecting a series of spaced terminal pins arranged in a row. The bar has U-shaped cross-section or the like with parallel legs and a connecting base web; and the web has openings formed by slots removing the bar base in the area of each pin. When one metal bar is used, the opposite leg can have a longitudinally extending boss to contact the pins and the opposite leg can be divided between each opening to localize the resilient force of the plastic material in gripping each pin. One or two metal conductive strips are set in one or both legs in position to bear on the pins. Insulation of metal strips at all or part of the pin locations and selective removal of insulation permits various circuit connections to the pins. Surfaces of boss and strips that the pins initially contact upon entry into said openings are disposed at camming angles for ease of bus bar installation.

Abstract: A plurality of straight-edge sections may be joined together by connector pieces. The connector pieces and straight-edge sections incorporate cooperating ribs and channels. The connector piece incorporates ribs with provision for flexing. When the connector pieces forced into the straight-edge sections a wedging jamming relationship is established that holds the straight end sections in aligned relationship. The undersurface of the straight-edge sections incorporates parallel slots which cooperate with rails on a taping flange. The entire assembly may be positioned on the workpiece by the use of the plurality of taping flanges secured to the work surface by adhesive tape.

Abstract: Processing of an integrated circuit element singly formed within an integral flat pack frame by shearing the element from the frame and inserting the element in a testing and shipping carrier in a selected clocked orientation, all in a continuous cycle of operation from start to finish. A frame receiving nest and abutments thereto are used in clocking of the integrated circuit element. An arm holds the element by a vacuum during transfer of the separated element from cutting station to packing station. The carrier has opposed lugs, for integrated circuit element engagement, which are spread at the time the element is packed in the carrier and then are released to secure the integrated circuit element in place in the carrier. Strip or reel feed of frames is an option.

Abstract: Semi-automatic, powered nailing is provided preferably by power from a commercially available electric impact torque wrench. The wrench is fitted with a hammer mechanism converting wrench torque to hammer blows. The hammer provides power to a nail feeding mechanism. The nails are in strips in which the nails are in a series one behind another. The feeding mechanism severs the series of nails and/or completes the formation of nails. The nails preferably are formed by hollow tubing cut between nails defining a plurality of points therearound on one side of the plane of nail division and defining a plurality of head forming tabs therearound on the other side of the plane of nail division.

Abstract: A planter double walled providing a central bottom chamber and a series of spoke-like air-passageways leading from the chamber to near the top of the planter where they have air vents, the double walls bulging to the inside of the planter container to form the chamber and air-passageways and there being aeration and moisture draining openings, in the relatively depressed areas between bulged walls, leading from the container to the chamber and gravel-like filtration material covering the aeration and moisture draining openings to prevent blockage thereof, and the chamber being domed above the level of the aeration and moisture draining openings.

Abstract: Water from a source is fed to a reverse osmosis unit having a membrane which divides the stream into a first permeate product and a first concentrate. The first permeate product is stored in a tank until a selected quantity is collected and then the source is disconnected from the pump which next delivers water from the tank to the reverse osmosis unit to divide the stream into a second permeate product and a second concentrate. In one version of the equipment the second permeate is processed by a different membrane than that producing the first permeate. In another version, the same membrane is used, the second permeate product is stored, and the second permeate product is later run through the reverse osmosis unit to produce a third permeate product and a third concentrate.

Abstract: A carburetor having a tapered plug adjusting air flow into the throat of a carburetor housing air passageway. A control arm connected to the plug and guided by a groove in the housing shaped to move the plug more rapidly in the upstream than in the downstream portion of the plug travel. A stationary fuel supply tube in a bore in the plug so that movement of the plug controls flow out of the fuel supply tube outlet. The outlet is sheltered and has adjacent baffles to resist fuel pickup in engine air blowback. A needle valve spindle located at the opposite side of the housing from the propeller.