Abstract: An electrical contact to be inserted into an aperture in an electrical board, the contact has an elongated body with a pair of alignment surfaces each having the configuration of a segment of a cylinder whose diameter is substantially the same as the diameter of the aperture of the board into which the contact is to be inserted and whose axis is co-axial with said body axis. The alignment surfaces are circumferentially spaced apart. The alignment surfaces are used to engage the wall of said aperture to position and maintain the axis of the contact co-axial with the axis of said aperture. The contact also has retention means adjacent said alignment surfaces to engage the wall of the aperture to generate retaining forces.

Abstract: In a dividable shipping carton, there are abutting C-shaped dividers which angled or chamfered to provide a space adjacent each side wall, each being dimensioned to receive the blade of a severing knife and to continue to receive the blade even with substantial deviation of the blade from the guide line and thereby prevent cutting of plastic bottles, etc. inside the carton.

Abstract: An afterset comprising a plastic flush floor fitting assembly to service a work station with high and/or low tension, a metal attaching ring clamped to an in-floor duct, and screws bearing on the assembly and threaded into the attaching ring.

Abstract: An elongated power compartment to be disposed inside of a trenchduct. The compartment having a bottom wall and two side walls. Centrally of the compartment, an opening is formed in the bottom. On each side wall and centrally of the compartment there is a downwardly extending barrier. The bottom opening is to provide access to a power cell in a underfloor raceway and the barriers function to prevent the passing of power cable out of the space beneath the compartment into the low tension side of the trenchduct. The bottom opening is in communication with the raceway valleys.

Abstract: Hand tool for installing the S-shaped cam follower spring on a door hinge of a Corvette motor vehicle. The spring has an elongated shaft with a handle section on one end and an arm on the other end terminating in a tip. The axes of the shaft and arm are oriented at an acute angle.

Abstract: Three service access units are mounted on a cellular raceway. A bracket inside of the unit is mounted on the power cell. The bracket offers no interference with the passage of communication cable. This bracket carries plural duplex receptacles accessible through the open top of the unit.

Abstract: For applicators of panel board and/or dry wall, a combination tool which replaces three conventional applicator's tools, namely a T-square, a circle marker and a linear marker.

Abstract: An access hatch for flush floor fitting assembly which is mounted by pivots comprising open ended slots and pins slidingly disposed in the slots. The pivots providing for the hatch to move between a closed position and any of a plurality of open positions and for the hatch, in any open position, to be lifted away from the assembly.

Abstract: A junction splice and an adaptor for electrically connecting the flat conductors of under carpet cable with the round power conductors from an underfloor raceway or a pokethru.

Abstract: Side rail structure for trenchduct side rail has a lower section and an upper section. The lower section is thin, galvanized sheet steel and the upper section is an aluminum extrusion clamps connect the upper and lower sections so that in a full bottom trench the whole trench can be adjusted. In both full bottom and bottomless trench, the upper section can be adjusted with respect to lower section. In the full bottomless trench a friction fit holds upper and lower sections together.

Abstract: An electrical contact to be inserted into an aperture in an electrical board, the contact has an elongated body with a pair of alignment surfaces each having the configuration of a segment of a cylinder whose diameter is substantially the same as the diameter of the aperture of the board into which the contact is to be inserted and whose axis is co-axial with said body axis. The alignment surfaces are circumferentially spaced apart. The alignment surfaces are used to engage the wall of said aperture to position and maintain the axis of the contact co-axial with the axis of said aperture. The contact also has retention means adjacent said alignment surfaces to engage the wall of the aperture to generate retaining forces.

Abstract: A cellular raceway constructed of roll formed pieces all welded together including a base member, an upper member, and a barrier. The base member has a center section and outboard sections with ribs respectively connecting the center section to the outboard sections. The upper member has a center section disposed over the base center section, outboard sections respectively disposed over the base outboard sections together with outboard walls extending toward and welded to the base outboard sections. The barrier may comprise angle pieces or a hat-shaped piece. The barrier provides electrical separation for the forming of power and communication cells.

Abstract: Cable management system for flush floor fitting. The fitting has a retainer opening (adapted to pass cable) in communication with the normal access opening. The fitting cover has an opening (adapted to pass cable) which is aligned with retainer opening when the cover is in closed position. The retainer opening receives a wire retainer or cable management block. Key and keyway means permit the wire retainer to be oriented to allow passage of cable or alternatively to be oriented to block passage of cable.

Abstract: A combined deck and cellular raceway unit. The deck has at least a pair of parallel extending crests, each with a top member and a pair of webs together with a valley between the crests. The cellular raceway is formed by an assembly including a hat-shaped member mounted on a base, the assembly being placed inside one of the crests with its top wall engaging the underside of the crests and its base extending across the open end of the crest and welded to the deck unit.

Abstract: In an integrated, continuous, container packing machine, where a constant supply of filled containers are moved along an axis and separated into discrete groups with each group fed to an insert station wherein a partition is inserted between containers of the group and then the group with the partition is fed to an operation to be placed or packed in a shipping medium, improvements which permit the machine to be rapidly changed for running a new batch of containers where the physical characteristics of the group and/or the physical characteristics of the containers in the group are different from the corresponding characteristics in the previously run batch.

Abstract: Leaf and wire form springs for use in the rear-seat storage compartments of Corvette motor cars. Either spring can be attached to the compartment frame and extend inwardly to engage the bottom of the push button housing. The spring allows the keeper finger on the frame to be engaged by the latch and hold the cover down. When the finger is released, the spring pushes the cover far enough upwardly so it can be grasped by the fingers and moved all the way open.

Abstract: Afterset to access each cell of a three-cell cellular raceway. Comprises a base connected to and extending across the three raceways, an adjusting ring threaded on the base and a flat cover on the adjusting ring. Cover and ring are arranged so that the size of the cable exit opening can be adjusted to fit the cross sectional size of the group of cables. All power, telephone, and data connectors are joined inside the afterset underneath the floor covering.

Abstract: A trench duct side rail having an upper section and a lower section, the upper section including a pair of spaced-apart downwardly extending legs and with the lower section being disposed between the legs. The upper and lower sections are axially off-set so that on one end of the side rail the upper section extends outwardly of the lower section and on the opposite end of the side rail the upper section extends inwardly of the lower section.

Abstract: A marking machine for automatically marking cartons passing on an intermittently moving conveyor includes a printing head cyclically moved by a pneumatic cylinder into engagement with the cartons. The motion of the printing head is controlled by guide elements extending from the printing head cooperating with slots in adjacent side plates. The printing head passes durng its cyclical movement across an ink roll disposed above the side plates. A backer plate drops behind the carton surface to be marked just before the printing stroke of the print head. The movement of the backer plate is provided by the guide elements extending from the printing head. The type face on the printing head can be oriented to face upwardly for marking the side of the cover of an egg carton or be oriented to face downwardly for marking a separator in a filler flat.

Abstract: Equipment takes in steam from a boiler and expands same to form water droplets. A baffle causes steam and droplets to swirl. Solubles are dissolved by droplets and insolubles separate. Both are collected by a receiver.