Abstract: Apparatus for center notching an insulated electrical conductor includes two pairs of cutting blades that circumferentially slice the insulation at predetermined locations along the insulated electrical conductor to thereby define a slug of insulation. A jaw with a knife edge is located in each of the four quadrants about the insulated electrical conductor axis. The jaws travel in respective rectangular paths in a four stroke cycle. During the first stroke the jaws are translated toward a first plane passing longitudinally through the insulated electrical conductor axis with the knife edges in a separated configuration. During the second stroke the jaws translate toward a second plane perpendicular to the first plane to close the jaws and cause the knife edges to longitudinally penetrate the insulation slug. During the third stroke the jaws are translated away from the first plane with the knife edges in the closed configuration to thereby strip the insulation slug from the conductor.

Abstract: A portable trailer supports a long horizontal tube on which is mounted a rotatable and reciprocable drum and a fixed storage reel. The center tube, reel, and drum contain alignable longitudinally extending radial slots therethrough. Attached to the drum and extending over the reel is a bail and a series of snatch blocks. A slack cable is inserted transversely through the aligned slots in the drum, center tube, and reel such that it lays in the interior of the center tube. The cable is looped inside the reel and then transversely inserted into the bail and snatch blocks. Rotating and reciprocating the drum neatly winds the cable onto the storage reel from a supply reel, although there is no access to the cable ends.

Abstract: A sheet of loop material such as is used in Velcro is fastened to an elongated flexible belt on one side and at near one end of the belt. At least one sheet of hook material is fastened to the opposite side of the belt near the other end. A strap is fastened to one end of the belt. The strap has a metal hook fastened to its free end. The hook can be used to attach the belt to one of a cluster of articles that should be stabilized during transportation such that the belt can be wrapped around the articles snugly to bring the sheet of hook material into engagement with the sheet of loop material so that the belt holds all of the articles together. The strap has a strip of Velcro hook material and an adjacent strip of Velcro loop material fastened to it. The loop and hook materials can be brought around to form a bight by engaging the loops and hooks.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrical connector for a repeating immersion thermocouple lance for molten metal baths which includes a temperature sensor in the connector for sensing the temperature of the lance to detect temperature build up at the cold junction of the thermocouple which could provide a false EMF reading to distort the bath temperature reading of the thermocouple.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump comprises impeller blades which are pivoted at their inner ends to a rotor so that the impeller blades can rotate relatively thereto between two extreme positionss. The extreme positions are defined by stop means in the form of pins. The construction enables the centrifugal pump to be operated efficiently when driven in either direction, the blades being allowed to flex during operation.

Abstract: A hold down device for a crossbow arrow or bolt uses a magnet supported and adjustably positionable in the tray beneath the ferro magnetic arrow head to hold the arrow against the arrow rest.

Abstract: Insulation is precisely cut and stripped from insulated electrical conductors by V type stripping blades. Precision cutting and stripping is assured by forming the blades with complementary and interlocking T and U-shaped cross sections. The blades have increased stiffness compared with prior blades even though the overall thickness of the blade pair does not exceed the overall thickness of prior blade pairs. A blade stop is interlockable with either stripping blade to precisely control the cutting hole size during production. An insulation stop is also interlockable with a selected blade for precisely locating the insulated electrical conductor relative to the blade cutting edges when the blades are closed over the conductor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lift base for converting a manual reclining chair to a powdered lift and reclining chair. The base is readily attached to the reclining hinge and drives the hinge parts as well as the chair frame. A simplified base linkage uses linkage plates as a common pivot mount for link connections inbetween the base and the chair.

Abstract: A two stage blender is capable of handling high viscosity liquid-powder mixtures. The mixture discharged from the first stage is directed to the second stage, from which it is discharged at a relatively high discharge pressure. The second stage further enhances the natural vacuum created within the first stage, so that powder is fed at a constant ratio for a wide variety of liquid flows. Selected internal parts of the blender are designed to permit cleaning the blender in place.

Abstract: A slip clutch assembly has a push-pull rod on link and a motor driven threaded lead screw shaft which screws in and out of a threaded bore in the push-pull rod. A plastic generally cylindrical nut is interposed between the lead screw shaft and the bore in the push-pull member. The nut has spaced apart external rings which register in corresponding grooves in the bore in the push-pull rod. The nut has internal threads in which the lead screw turns. If the nut is prevented from moving axially by engaging the push-pull rod with a stop or load the rings on the nut slip on the grooves to prevent overload of the drive system and continued extension of the push-pull rod.

Abstract: In a labeling apparatus a rotor orbits palettes past a glue roller to receive a coat of glue and then to a labeling magazine to pick up a label. The label is carried past a printing mechanism which prints coded information on the label after which a gripping cylinder removes the labels from the palettes for subsequent application of the labels to containers such as bottles. To insure error free operation of the printing mechanism, a reading head is located between the printing mechanism and the gripper cylinder for monitoring the imprint on the labels.

Abstract: A scale adapted for performing recipes in which the ingredients are given in customary volumetric measures such as cups, tablespoons and teaspoons. The user enters the name or code number of an ingredient which is displayed by the scale. The amount of the ingredient is displayed in volumetric terms or in terms of weight if desired. A processor in the scale accesses the volume-to-weight (V/W) ratio or weight-to-volume (W/V) ratio of the ingredient from nonvolatile memory and calculates the weight of the ingredient and stores it temporarily. The ingredient is added gradually to a mixing bowl on the scale after the tare weight of the bowl is cancelled. The processor continuously compares the stored weight with the increasing weight of the ingredient and notifies the user by means of the display when a comparison is read and, hence, when the desired volumetric amount of the ingredient has been entered. Other operating modes can also be selected.

Abstract: A water heater including a tank having a hot water outlet in the top portion thereof and a cold water inlet in the lower portion thereof. An agitator assembly connected to the cold water inlet and mounted in the bottom portion of the tank. The agitator assembly includes a circular tubular member having a first row of orifice members mounted along the inner side thereof, a second row of orifice members mounted along the outer side thereof and a third row of orifice members mounted along the top side thereof.

Abstract: An ammunition reloading die having a generally cylindrical axially bored body and an external thread for mounting it in a reloading press. In one embodiment, a case sizer element is threaded onto and is removable from the nominally lower end of the die body into which cases are pressed for sizing the outer diameter. A stepped mandrel is insertable in the die body. It has a decapping pin extending from its nominally lower end. A bullet seating plug is screwed into the upper end of a body's bore for backing up the mandrel when a case is being pressed onto the mandrel to expand and flare the mouth end of the case and to expel the spent primer from the case. A new primer is installed and the case is charged with powder and a bullet is set in the mouth after which the case is pressed into the die body while the mandrel is removed but the bullet seating plug is installed in the die body in which case pressing the case into the die body seats the bullet and crimps the case in the bullet.

Abstract: The balance beam of a scale is provided with a series of notches. A poise, preferably a metal ball, is movable along the balance beam to be set in one of the notches and retained there without clamping. A secondary counterpoise on the other side of the pivot of the scale beam from the primary poise is comprised of the slider of a vernier. The vernier scale on the slider uses slits instead of the usual lines as graduations so the vernier body serves as a mask about the slits. There are stationary graduations on the beam. The slider has a window through which the numbers indicative of the unit weight graduations on the beam are read. Tenths of units and even hundredths of units can be read using the vernier scale. The slit on the vernier scale that is filled in the background by a graduation on the beam is the pertinent unit value to be read.

Abstract: An adaptor for a fishing rod holder for mounting a down rigger includes a mounting post with an accessory platform and a layered sleeve and lock nut.

Abstract: An apparatus for recovering a conductive metal from a liquid which contains that metal, and a method for recovering that metal using that apparatus. The apparatus includes a generally closed non-metallic container defining a cavity, for containing the liquid. A first electrode is supported and affixed within the cavity. A second electrode is composed of a thin film applied to the inside surface of the container, the film including as its main constituent the same metal as that to be recovered from the solution. Finally, a power supply is electrically connected, positive to the first electrode and negative to the second electrode, thus causing the metal from the solution to be deposited on the film electrode, lining the inside surface of the container with the metal to be recovered. The disclosed method includes continuously circulating metal-containing liquid into the container and removing demetalized solution from the container.

Abstract: An axially oscillating ink or other coating material distributing rotationally driven roller has axially spaced apart internal left and right hand threads journaled for rotating and sliding axially on a shaft. A unitary rocker-follower lever is mounted for rocking relative to the shaft about the axis of a pin or a spherical element mounted to the shaft. Opposite ends of the lever has segments of external threads formed integrally with it. The external thread segments act as internal thread followers and are caused to engage and disengage the internal threads alternately to drive the roller in opposite axial directions. The lever is made long to minimize the angle through which it rocks in which case there is only a tiny amount of movement between possible wearing surfaces on the rocker and the pin or spherical element on which the lever rocks so wear is reduced to a minimum.

Abstract: Disposable garments such as disposable diapers are disclosed that possess improved elastic characteristics. At least one garment outer sheet is composed of a drawable fabric, such as melt blown polymeric fibers or melt spun filaments. An elastic element is affixed in the relaxed condition to a web of outer sheet fabric. The elastic web is then stetched, and simultaneously the web in the area of elastic element attachment is drawn to impart a molecular orientation to the web fibers. As a result, the web fibers are permanently elongated. Upon relaxation of the stretched elastic element, shirrs or gathers are formed in the web fibers that permit subsequent stretching of the elastic element when the garment is worn. One of the outside sheet webs need not be drawable or drawn if it is preformed with corrugations or pleats in the region of elastic element attachment. The present invention also includes apparatus for manufacturing the garment.

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 paris 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 others to more forcefully hold down the edges of a die cutting plate or a printing plate which is wrapped around the magnetic cylinder.