Abstract: An elastic ribbon is fed over a vacuum drum. Rotating cutter blades use the drum as an anvil to cut the ribbon into spaced apart segments. A sheet comprising a diaper web runs over a roll that is spaced from the drum. A segment transferring and stretching device is arranged between the drum and roll. One embodiment of the transferring device has grippers rotating together about the axes that are not coaxial but are at opposite acute angles relative to the roll and drum axes. The grippers engage an unstretched elastic segment on the drum when the grippers are close together but as they rotate they spread apart and stretch the segment which is then pressed onto the glue treated sheet. In another embodiment of the elastic segment stretching and transferring device, grippers are mounted to the periphery of a vacuum drum. At least one of the grippers is moved alternately toward and away from the other under the influence of a stationary cam as the drum rotates.

Abstract: An automated bag toss game, having a game board surface, with a plurality of holes formed therein. Bags are provided, each containing pellets, at least some of those pellets having magnetic properties. A wire coil is provided for each hole and disposed beneath the game board surface, for sensing the passage of the bag into one of the holes and producing a signal corresponding to that hole. An electronic circuit is provided for receiving the signal and calculating and displaying a score based upon that hole.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting labels from a ribbon on which the labels are printed. The ribbon is fed into the apparatus along a vertical plane, for instance. There are vertically spaced apart knives adjacent the ribbon for cutting the upper and lower contours of the labels from the ribbon. The knives are caused to pivot toward the ribbon and to rise and fall under the influence of a cam that is shaped correspondingly with the desired contours. After the upper and lower contours are formed the ribbon is caused to change direction around a roller while at the same time the trim margin is deflected in another direction and drawn away. The ribbon, with labels still connected endwise is fed over a vacuum cylinder which has cutters at its periphery for separating the labels from a waste portion between them. The labels are removed from the vacuum cylinder and led to a label applying machine, as an example.

Abstract: A magnetic cylinder is formed by stacking ferromagnetic pole disks to which spacer rings are fastened. A circular array of tabs are pierced from the plane of the pole disks. the tabs are angulated relative to said plane and they diverge radially outwardly but their edges terminate on a circle concentric to the rim of the disk to provide a margin on which a concentric spacer ring is applied and is secured to the pole by pressing the tabs back toward the plane of the pole so they wedge tightly against the spacer ring. Permanent magnets are applied to the poles between adjacent pairs of tabs and they form parallel axially extending rows of magnets when the poles are stacked. At least one row is comprised of magnets which are stronger than the other to more forcefully hold down the edges of a die cutting plate of a printing plate which is wrapped around the magnetic cylinder.

Abstract: A pivoting support for chairs, seats and the like comprises a main support member which is connected to the base structure of the chair and a seat support member which is pivotably connected to the main support member with the interposition of an auxiliary support member. The latter is articulated to the main support member about a first horizontal axis and to the seat support member about a second horizontal axis parallel to and in front of the first horizontal axis. First resilient means are interposed between the main support member and the seat support member for biassing the seat support member towards a position in which it is rotated upwardly relative to the auxiliary support element. Second resilient means are also interposed between the main support member and the auxiliary support member for biassing the auxiliary support member towards a position in which it is rotated upwardly relative to the main support member.

Abstract: A disk composed of rigid open cell synthetic resin foam has a recess in one face for being occupied by fertilizer. A water permeable plug of similar foam is inserted in the recess to retain the fertilizer and to serve as a wick for conducting fertilizer dissolved in water out of the recess and into the bottom hole of a plant pot standing on the disk for the fertilizer to permeate the soil in the pot. The fertilizer is preferably composed of pellets coated with water permeable resin. In use the disk is set in a reservoir and covered with water.

Abstract: A non-woven web is provided that has conformability and drapability approaching that of woven fabrics. The non-woven web comprises a number of substantially parallel continuous filaments that are stabilized by melt blown fibers to create a coherent web. The continuous filaments are molecularly oriented, as by drawing before, during, or after deposition of the melt blown fibers. The melt blown fibers may be deposited on one or both sides of the continuous filaments, and two or more webs may be cross laid and laminated together. In one embodiment, the continuous filaments of a cross laid laminate are not bonded to each other. The continuous filaments are above to slide and slip relative to each other when the laminate is deformed, thereby decreasing stiffness and increasing drapability.

Abstract: A tool for setting threaded anchors, having an elongated body with a longitudinal bore and a threaded shaft received in the bore and projecting beyond both ends of the body to form a nut engaging end and an anchor engaging end. The anchors to be set include an anchor frustum having a longitudinal threaded bore, surrounded by a soft sleeve. A pinway is formed in the body communicating with the bore, and a retaining pin, in engagement with the threaded shaft, projects laterally through the pinway, for preventing relative rotational motion between the threaded shaft and the body while allowing relative longitudinal motion. A nut engages with the nut engaging end of the shaft. The method of setting such an anchor is to insert the anchor, attached to the end of the tool, into a hole where the anchor is to be set. The nut is then rotated with respect to the shaft, while preventing the rotation of the shaft and the body, so as to draw the frustum into the soft sleeve until the anchor is affixed within the hole.

Abstract: A stereophonic audio system including a device for providing a stereophonic signal, such as an audio receiver. An infrared transmitter connected to the receiver converts the audio signal to an infrared signal to be radiated throughout a signal area. Within this signal area is disposed a pair of loudspeakers, each selecting a separate portion of the infrared signal, converting that one portion of the infrared signal to an audible sound signal, and radiating the sound throughout a listening area. Each loudspeaker includes a filter for selecting the one infrared signal which applies to it. The transmitter includes a plug engageable with a headphone jack of the receiver for electrically connecting the transmitter to the receiver and an infrared diode array for radiating the signal within the signal area.

Abstract: In apparatus for the signaling of a back-up in a container conveyor, the actual translation speed of all containers passing a measuring zone is determined separately with the aid of the measuring of the transit time and compared with the simultaneously measured momentary travel velocity of a hinge-belt-chain conveyor. If the translation speed of the containers is smaller by a determined amount than the travel velocity, or in a predetermined relationship, a jam or back-up signal is produced. The device has two photodetectors arranged at the same level with a fixed spacing in the direction of bottle transportation. A sensor registers the presence of a bottle in the measuring zone. A tachometer generator is attached to the drive shaft of the conveyor and provides an analog signal to a processor indicative of conveyor speed.

Abstract: A molten metal sampler includes an insulative pod which is joined to a paperboard sleeve which is connected to the metal handle. The pod is molded from a refractory composition and surrounds the tube and has an integral pocket to support any of a wide variety of sample molds or form a sample or mold a sample within itself adjacent to the tube. The cardboard tube can carry a heat sensor or oxygen sensor. The pod can contain a separate measuring device which can measure the cooling curve of the sample in the pod.

Abstract: A handle for operating a beverage tap has an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted to it. an electronic control circuit is mounted in the handle and lead wires run out of the handle from said control circuit to a source of electric power. A switch closes when the handle is tilted to activate the control circuit and the control circuit responds by energizing the LEDs and causing them to scintillate in a predetermined sequence.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for jacking basement walls which have moved out of alignment due to pressure from outside the wall. The apparatus includes a brace attached at the bottom by a bracket adjacent the wall to be jacked. The brace is then set vertically against the wall. A telescoping beam is attached to the floor a short distance from the wall, so that the beam is positioned upright, parallel to the brace. In one embodiment the upper end of the beam is extended and attached to the floor joists overhead in the basement. In another embodiment the upper end of the beam is secured to the lower surface on which the wall rests. Any suitable jack assembly is then slidably attached between the beam and the brace. The jack assembly is then positioned at the proper point and used to move the wall back into its proper place. Finally the top of the brace is anchored so as to prevent the wall from moving back out of position.

Abstract: A device for coupling a front wheel unit of a motorized wheelchair with a rear wheel unit to obtain an assembled motorized wheelchair. Generally the front wheel unit includes a wheel and handlebars or a steering wheel. The rear wheel unit includes at least a frame and a wheel rotatably connected to the frame. The coupling device includes a connector portion at the front end of the rear unit frame, which connector is generally vertically oriented but inclined forward slightly. The front wheel unit correspondingly has at its rear end a connector portion which is inclined forward at approximately the same angle as the rear connector, and sized and positioned so as to telescopically interfit with the rear connector.

Abstract: A device by which one can extract low grade thermal energy and transfer that thermal energy from one medium to another utilizing a Stirling engine compressor means, motor means, heat exchanger means and regeneration chamber. The flow of thermal energy between the two heat exchanger means utilized is reversible by the simple change in direction of rotation of the motor means.

Abstract: An immersion sampler probe for the analysis of a molten metal bath in a BOF vessel. The probe is weighted to penetrate the slag and position a temperature sensor or oxygen sensor at an appropriate depth. A counterweight with a float ensures proper immersion depth. The float keeps the lead wires from contacting the molten metal.

Abstract: A single piece non-wrinkling wrapper for bars of soap is made from a lamina of sheets of a flexible plastic film and a water absorbent paper. The film and paper are superimposed and bonded together along their margins by bands of adhesive. The exposed surface of the paper sheet is coated with a cold seal cohesive along the margins in register with the adhesive bands. When wrapped around a bar of soap, the cohesive and adhesive fall in the back seal and end seal areas of the soap, thereby double wrapping the bar with the film and paper sheets and with an air space between the sheets which prevents or minimizes the wrinkling of the outer wrap. The wrappers may be made on a continuous basis from a wide web of film and paper that are bonded together along a grid-like pattern by means of bands of adhesive. The web is severed along the midpoints of the adhesive to form the individual wrappers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a molten metal sampler with a wrap of corrugated board with flutes which provide vertical channels for conveying and outgasing the gas caused by reaction of the body of a molten metal sampler or immersion thermocouple in the molten metal to above the surface of the metal to prevent splash of the equipment operators. The corrugated board is coated with a refractory cement to protect the corrugated board during immersion to maintain the integrity of the channels.