Abstract: A bottle opener for reducing the amount of hand strength needed to open a twist cap bottle comprising a generally domed shaped housing, an adjustable clamp secured within said housing for encircling various sized bottle caps and a remote adjustment handle extending through said housing for adjusting said clamp, further provided that the size of the housing and the remote handle provides substantial leverage for twisting a bottle cap clamped therein.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously monitoring the gage of a railroad track from a vehicle on said track comprising measurement means which continuously measure the distance between the rails of a railroad track and remote indication means which display data of said measurement means to a vehicle operator.

Abstract: Apparatus for quickly comparing the weights of fish and quickly determining whether fish have sufficient length, comprising an elongated balance beam having fish stop means, fish attachment means and fish length indication means at each end of the beam, a handle rotatably secured to the beam at its longitudinal center of gravity and a bubble level indicator secured to the face of the beam.

Abstract: Apparatus for preventing ingress of particulates into an eaves trough/rain gutter comprising a gutter shield having a solid upper surface and a side surface which has a first row of rain guidance apertures and a second row of rain receiving apertures inscribed therein wherein both of said surfaces are pre-weathered to a durable, uniformly wettable condition.

Abstract: Apparatus for promoting straight golf ball flight paths by promoting in flight rotation of a golf ball along its horizontal axis by assuring horizontal alignment of parallel grooves of the face of a golf club as the club strikes a golf ball comprising a frame having an alignment ridge for insertion into one of said parallel grooves, means for securing level indication means to the frame in parallel alignment to the alignment ridge, level indication means, and means for temporarily attaching said frame to the face of a golf club in such a manner that said level indicator indicates the horizontal alignment of said parallel grooves.

Abstract: An underwear garment or similar garment having leg shield means which are adapted to fit into both crevices located at the junctures of the legs and the pelvis to form the sides of a compartment for containing the male reproduction organs which provides for less restrictive and more effective, indirect support than found in the prior art.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for hot rolling metal between a plurality of roll stands having work rolls with nonpolar surfaces lubricated by a nonpolar lubricant.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for detecting and locating insulation faults in lengths of electrical conductive cable and plexing those lengths of cable into multiplex cable in one operation, wherein the multiplex cable includes either a bare cable and a plurality of insulated cables stranded together or a plurality of insulated cables stranded together.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of concentric compressed or compacted stranded conductors at high speed on double-twist bunching machinery while eliminating loose strand, strand crossovers, and spiral propensity of the finished product; and the product thereof.

Abstract: In an in-line refining vessel (50) having one or more submerged porous plugs (20) for bubbling gasses through the molten metal (47) to stir the slag layer (46) covering same, an oxygen lance (40) for effectively oxygenating the melt from above. A plurality of such devices may be used in a single vessel.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of storing a great length of continuously advancing elongate metallic material in a temperature controlled accumulator (40, 50) is disclosed to enable greater line speeds by exposing a greater length of material to the heat treatment. Several embodiments are disclosed in which heated cylindrical accumulator apparatus (40, 50) are used to store a multiplicity of wraps (45) around fixed or rotating cylinders (44, 51) which are maintained at the desired temperatures.

Abstract: In a continuous casting plant of the wheel and belt type, the grooved casting wheel 11, and the associated belt or band 12, are tilted laterally so that the plane of rotation is inclined. As a result, the cast bar 30 emerges from the casting wheel without any horizontal surface, and passes to bar preparation machinery with this orientation, prior to being rolled.

Abstract: A method of continuously casting a molten metal in a casting means to obtain a solidified cast bar at a hot-forming temperature, passing the cast metal at a hot-forming temperature from the casting means to a hot-forming means, and hot forming the cast bar into a wrought product by a two-stage reduction of its cross-sectional area while it is still at a hot-forming temperature, including, in the first stage, the step of forming a substantially uniform subgrain or cell structure in the outer surface layers of the cast bar by a selected small amount of deformation of the cast bar in its as-cast condition prior to the second stage in which substantial reduction of its cross-sectional area forms the wrought product.

Abstract: Disclosed is a surge control method and apparatus for a combustion air blower used with a metal melting furnace which includes a variable restriction on the blower inlet regulated by a pressure sensing means near the blower outlet.

Abstract: Apparatus for and a method of hot rolling cast metal under hydrostatic pressure to achieve a substantial reduction in cross-sectional area without cracking and the improved wrought product thereof characterized by decreased segregation, better grain structure and absence of cracking.

Abstract: An apparatus for substantially eliminating deflection of cantilevered work roll shafts and work rolls of a cantilevered type rolling mill comprising adjustable work roll support rollers which rotatably brace work rolls at points approximately 180 angular degrees from the metal stock and work roll contact area.

Abstract: Apparatus for limiting ruinous rotary deflection and bending moment of roll shafts of a cantilevered type rolling mill. The present invention is a dual bearing bracket which connects the cantilevered ends of roll shafts in bearings to maintain constant parallel rotary alignment of the roll shafts. Thus, roll shaft service life is increased by limiting roll shaft deflection and bending moment.

Abstract: A fail safe air wipe for use with a casting band cleaning system wherein cleanser and rinsing agent used to clean the casting band of a continuous casting machine is removed from the band by mechanical wiping means when pneumatic supply to pneumatic wiping means falters to prevent explosion which may result from contacting the molten material being cast with the cleanser or rinsing agent.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved system for annealing strand of the type comprising at least two sheaves across which the strand passes and becomes electrically annealed, the improvement comprising a first flange member, a second flange member concentric with the first flange member and adjacent thereto, a wide annealing band positioned between the first and second flange members and forming the bottom of a sheave groove, and means for guiding the strand being annealed traversely across a traverse zone of the band to increase longevity of the band while substantially eliminating detrimental arcing by providing an insulating air gap between the strand and either of the flange members.