Abstract: An edible server is disclosed comprising an elongated wafer formed with a series of cup-shaped receptacles sized for individual disposition within a human mouth and with bridges joining adjacent receptacles together with each bridge having a score line extending between and segmenting adjacent cup-shaped receptacles. The cup-shaped receptacles may be filled with fluid foodstuff, serially inserted into a human mouth, and individually broken from the remainder of the wafer along the score lines and eaten.

Abstract: Industrial scissors having one handle formed with a ring through which fingers may be inserted and the other handle formed with an elongated arched bar having a convex surface against which a palm may be snugly seated and pressed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for orienting and stripping an end portion of a bundle of wires. The apparatus comprises a wire insulation stripper having a pair of blades with elongated, mutually parallel, planar cutting edges and means for moving the blades between an open position with the blade cutting edges spaced apart a distance to receiver therebetween a bundle of wires having metallic conductors of a common diameter sheathed with insulation, and a closed position with each blade cutting edge spaced apart another distance approximating the common conductor diameter. A clamp is mounted to one side of the stripper and a wire cutter mounted to the other side of the stripper. The apparatus further comprises means for reciprocally moving the stripper and cutter in tandem with respect to the clamp.The method comprises the steps of extending a bundle of wires through an open clamp, through a pair of mutually parallel cutting blades of a wire insulation stripping device, and through a wire cutter.

Abstract: A cable pulling eye is disclosed which comprises a tubular shell having a rounded nose end to which an eye is secured and an open tail end through which the end of a cylindrical cable may be inserted and housed for cable drawing operations through a duct. The shell has a cylindrical tail section adjacent the open tail end of a substantially uniform outside diameter approximating that of the cable. The tail section of the shell uniterally joins a cylinderical nose section of reduced outside diameter adjacent the nose end. The nose section has a relatively thick shell wall while the tail section has a relatively thin shell wall. So constructed, the shell tail section may be swaged into gripping engagement with a cable housed therein without increasing the outside diameter of the shell.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming strands into twisted strand units having a twist direction that reverses from section to section wherein the strands are advanced side-by-side successively through first and second mutually spaced twister heads. The strands are formed into twisted strand units by the steps of operating the twister heads simultaneously by revolving the twister heads in a common rotary direction about the strands at substantially the same speed of head revolution thereby causing a first progression of twists of one lay direction to pass from the first twister head towards the second twister head, and a second progression of twists of opposite direction lay to emanate from the second twister head. Twisting operations by the first and second twister heads are simultaneously terminated as the leading end of the first progression of twists reaches the second twister head and a trailing end of the second progressing of twists emanating therefore.

Abstract: A guide for guiding a nasal gastric tube of preselected outside diameter into the esophagus and stomach of a patient for evacuation of stomach fluids. The guide comprises a tube formed with an end to end slit having an inside diameter greater than the nasal gastric tube outside diameter whereby the nasal gastric tube may be inserted into the guide tube through a guide tube end and subsequently extracted through the guide tube slit. In use, a nasal gastric tube is located in position within the nasopharynx with one tube end projecting out of the patient's nose and the other tube end projecting out of the patient's mouth. A longitudinally slit tubular guide is telescoped over the end of the nasal gastric tube projecting out of the patient's mouth. The free end of the tubular guide opposite the tubular guide end from which the nasal gastric tube emerges from the guide is inserted into the patient's esophagus.

Abstract: A spray cooling system for gable roofs having inclined first and second roof sections that intersect at a roof summit. The system comprises a conduit mounted atop the first roof section adjacent to the roof summit adapted to be connected with a supply of liquid coolant. The conduit has a first series of ports through which liquid coolant may be sprayed upon the first roof section and a second series of ports through which liquid coolant may be directed over the roof summit and sprayed upon the second roof section.

Abstract: A method and system for recovering gold and other noble metals from geologic bodies of fresh and salt water wherein a mixture of water and sediment is drawn from the body of water, passed as an influent through a cation exchanger of the type containing crosslinked polymer resinous particulates charged with sodium or hydrogen at controlled flow rates, and the exchanger effluent returned to the body of water.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for implanting hair into human skin comprising the steps of tieing a knot into a hair with the knot defining an interstice through which skin tissue may subsequently grow thereby anchoring the hair firmly in place, loading a needle by placing the hair knot in a hollow end of the needle and extending the hair from the knot through a notch formed in a surface of the needle end, inserting the loaded needle into the skin, and extracting the needle from the skin.Apparatus is also disclosed for implanting hair having a bulbous end into human skin which apparatus comprises a tubular needle having a beveled end providing a pointed tip for piercing the skin and a notch formed in the beveled end through which the hair may extend with the bulbous hair end held within the tubular needle in engagement with an inner surface of the needle adjacent the beveled end notch.

Abstract: A galvanic cell wherein the active cathode material is a simple or complex copper sulfide constituent of copper ore, copper concentrate, a matte or other intermediate material in the ore beneficiation or metal winning or refining process.

Abstract: Miniature furniture having imitation reedy wickerwork comprised of a sheet of wallpaper having a layer of woven straw bonded to a backing sheet of paper and a support upon which the backing sheet is mounted.A method of assembling a miniature wicker armchair is also disclosed wherein legs are mounted to a seat base, and arm supports mounted to the top of the legs thereby forming an armchair frame. A jig is provided having an upper set of pins projecting from the jig top and a lower set of pins projecting from the jig sides with pins in the lower set alternatively offset laterally from pins in the upper set. The armchair frame is placed in an inverted position upon the jig with the seat base positioned adjacent the upper set of pins and the arm supports positioned adjacent the lower set of pins. Thread is then wound about the pins over the seat base and arm supports to form a threaded mesh spanning the seat base and arm supports.

Abstract: A battery comprising an anode having an anode-active metal selected from the group consisting of Group Ia metals, Group Ib metals, Group IIa metals, Group IIb metals, Group IIIa metals and mixtures thereof. The cathode has a cathode-active material consisting essentially of a chalco-spinel of the formula M.sub.a N.sub.b Z.sub.x wherein M is a divalent ion selected from the group of metals consisting of copper, zinc, cadmium, iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, molybedenum, vanadium and chromium, N is a trivalent ion selected from the group of metals consisting of iron, cobalt and nickel and metals of Group IVb, Vb, and VIIb of the periodic system, Z is an element selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium and tellurium, a is a numerical value between 0.90 and 1.10, b is a numerical value between 1.80 and 2.20 and x is a numerical value between 3.80 and 4.20.

Abstract: A clamp is disclosed comprising a frame having two rigid supports spaced mutually apart along an axis and a screw threadedly mounted to one of the supports for axial movement along the axis. A first pressure contact member is pivotably mounted to an end of the screw between the two frame supports. A yoke is pivotably mounted to the other of the two supports for rotary movement about the axis with two yoke arms straddling the axis. A second pressure contact member is mounted to each of the two yoke arms for rotary movement between the two frame supports aside the frame axis.

Abstract: A method of linearizing a voltage controlled oscillator wherein a control signal is shaped into ramp form by a memory and transmitted to the control input terminal of a voltage controlled oscillator to be linearized thereby causing the oscillator to generate a chirp. Nonlinearities in the chirp are detected and the memory reprogrammed so as to diminish detected nonlinearities by reshaping the ramp control signal.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for implanting hair into human skin comprising the steps of tieing a knot into a hair with the knot defining an interstice through which skin tissue may subsequently grow thereby anchoring the hair firmly in place, loading a needle by placing the hair knot in a hollow end of the needle and extending the hair from the knot through a notch formed in a surface of the needle end, inserting the loaded needle into the skin, and extracting the needle from the skin.Apparatus is also disclosed for implanting hair having a bulbous end into human skin which apparatus comprises a tubular needle having a beveled end providing a pointed tip for piercing the skin and a notch formed in the beveled end through which the hair may extend with the bulbous hair end held within the tubular needle in engagement with an inner surface of the needle adjacent the beveled end notch.

Abstract: A tie-down system for holding the top and side edges of a shade to the top and sides of a window frame comprising a pair of brackets mounted to opposed upper corners of the window frame, a pair of clasps mounted to opposed lower corner of the window frame, a pair of swing arms pivoted to opposed lower corner of the frame for movement into and out of locking engagement with the clasps, and a flexible cord extending between the brackets and swing arms.

Abstract: An industrial fuel blender having a vaporizer chamber adapted to be partially filled with a liquid fuel additive, heater means for heating liquid fuel additive in the vaporizer chamber, and a fuel blender housing. A base fuel conduit passes through the fuel blender housing through which gaseous base may flow, and a fuel additive conduit communicates between the vaporizer chamber and the base fuel conduit within the fuel blending housing through which vaporized fuel additive may flow. Means are provided for thermally coupling the fuel blender housing with the vaporizer chamber to inhibit condensation of vaporized fuel additive as it flows through the fuel additive conduit and into the base fuel conduit within the fuel blender housing. Valve means are provided for concurrently controlling the flow of gaseous fuel and vaporized fuel additive in the conduits. A venturi is also provided at the junction of the two conduits for drawing the fuel additive into a flowing stream of the base fuel.

Abstract: A warm-up weight device for a racket having an oval head merging at a racket throat with a racket handle and comprising a flexible member of oval shape having an elongated slot extending substantially between two mutually spaced ends thereof, and a flexible connector flexibly connecting the two tube ends together.

Abstract: A caulking spout through which caulk may be dispensed from a dispenser into a corner joint at various angles of attack without an accompanying substantial change in the shape of the bead of caulk being dispensed. The spout comprises a body having a neck elongated along a body axis merging with a rounded tip traversing the axis and an outlet orifice formed in the rounded tip to one side of and off the body axis. An inlet orifice is formed in the end of the elongated neck distal the rounded tip. A channel communicates between the inlet and outlet orifices with a first channel portion extending from the inlet orifice along the body axis and merging with a second channel portion which diverges from the body axis and terminates at the outlet orifice.