Abstract: Assembly comprising a handle element such as a pole having frictionally-secured to one end thereof an attachment such as a tool element adapted to be separated therefrom under the effects of a predetermined, variable axial pulling force. The invention comprises an adjustable tension fastener means having one part fixed to the handle element and another part fixed to the tool element, said one part being frictionally-engaged by said other part by an adjustable tension means which permits the degree of the frictional engagement to be adjusted to correspond to the amount of the pulling force at which it is desired that the pole and the attachment should separate.

Abstract: A steam trap valve assembly designed to be connected to a steam piping system to trap and remove water of condensation, air and other gasses from the steam piping system while preventing the escape of steam therethrough. The assembly comprises a housing having an upper inlet and a lower outlet, a buoyant float element within the housing and movable between raised, outlet-open position and lowered, outlet-closed position in which it seals the outlet in the absence of sufficient condensate in the housing to float the buoyant element. The float element is connected to the housing by means of a thermostatic member which maintains the float element in a raised, outlet-open position when cool but which releases the float element into lowered position, when heated, to seal the outlet in the absence of sufficient condensate in the housing to float the buoyant element.

Abstract: A correction tape take-up spool assembly for typewriter comprising a spool member provided with a rotating means for winding up a correction tape; a bobbin member on which the correction tape is wound up and which is capable to serve as a correction tape feed bobbin, the bobbin member being detachably received outwardly on the bobbin receiving portion of the spool member; and a means for preventing a relative rotation between the spool member and the bobbin member; and the bobbin member being received on the bobbin receiving portion in such a manner that the position of the bobbin member is reverse to the position in case that the bobbin member is used as a correction tape feed bobbin. The correction tape can be reused by detaching the bobbin member on which the correction tape used is wound from the spool member, and using the bobbin member with the correction tape as a tape feed bobbin and setting another empty bobbin member on the spool member.

Abstract: An assembly of a washing container and a water supply attachment. The container is designed to maintain a continuous flow of washing liquid such as water at a constant level therein, and the attachment is designed to supply said continuous flow of washing liquid through a lower spray ring which causes the liquid in the container to flow upward towards the center of the liquid level, and through an upper spray ring which causes liquid to be sprayed down from above the surface of the liquid towards the center of the liquid level. Thus, items to be cleaned, placed in the liquid within the container, are caused to be circulated up from the bottom of the container towards the surface of the liquid and to be sprayed in a continuous manner to assist the cleaning thereof.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for reducing the resistance to the flow of a liquid from an upper liquid supply container to a lower vacuum receptor tank through an interconnecting port while permitting air displaced from said tank to enter said container through said port. The apparatus includes a valve element which is mounted for opening and closing movement with respect to the port and is biased into normal closed position. The valve element comprises a lower buoyant seating member or ball located in said lower tank and designed to seal said port from below, and an air conduit attached to the seating member or ball for movement therewith. The lower end of the air conduit is open adjacent the ball in the lower tank and the upper end is open to an air space above the liquid level within the upper supply container. Preferably, the valve element also includes a splash member to disrupt the liquid flow from the upper container and facilitate the air flow from the lower tank into and through the air conduit.

Abstract: Luminescent or light-emitting floats, such as seine floats, molded from pore-forming resinous compositions which contain an effective amount of a luminescent or phosphorescent pigment. The present floats contain the light-emitting pigment not only at the outer surface thereof but also inwardly thereof so that the removal or wear of surface portions of the float uncover interior portions which also contain said pigment.

Abstract: An ornamental assembly comprising a supporting core and a plurality of similar radially-extending decorative elements each having an attachment end securable to said core and a decorative end supported a fixed distance from said core. The core contains a sufficient number of uniformly-spaced radially-extending retainer means to receive a sufficient number of decorative elements of such dimensions as to produce a substantially round ornamental assembly having a central core which is concealed by a uniformly-radially-extended surface comprising the decorative ends of said decorative elements.

Abstract: A method and a composition for interrupting bud dormancy of perennial crop-bearing plants, comprising a 0.1-10 weight percent, preferably a 1-3 weight percent aqueous cyanamide solution, which is applied to the plants and/or plant parts to be treated until they are completely wetted.

Abstract: Shim elements or spacers designed for use in side-by-side relation between structural steel beams and hanger assemblies which are united by means of pairs of variably-spaced bolts. Each shim element comprises a flat, U-shaped rectangular plate element having leg extensions of different widths and lengths and a central recess adapted to receive a structural bolt. The invention involves providing a universal shim element which is useful in pairs in any one of three different distances by which structural steel-uniting bolts are conventionally separated.

Abstract: Multi-rod holder and alignment device which is removably-securable in non-rotating position within a conventional rod holder mounted on a boat. The device has a support stem having two or more lower alignment slots, and two or more upper rod-holder tubes which extend substantially vertically, relative to the support stem, each tube being designed to receive a fishing rod handle and having alignment pins for securing the fishing rod against rotation therewithin.

Abstract: A releasable compression fastener, such as a clip for use on a garter belt, suspenders, or the like, The fastener has a pair of jaws comprising a base plate designed to be connected to a material, such as a suspender strap, and a flexible clamping plate. An actuating means is attached to the base plate, the latter being adapted to releasably flex the clamping plate against the base plate to close the jaws and clamp a layer of flexible fabric therebetween. The invention involves the use of cooperating, integrating jaws comprising male and female members of specific structure on the base plate and clamping plate to provide integrating locking means for the flexible material clamped therebetween.

Abstract: A novel twenty-four hour clock providing a continuous display representative of the rotation of the Earth relative to the heavens, and the changing position of illustrated geographic areas of the Earth relative to the fixed position of the Sun, thereby providing the viewer with a visual display of the local time of day and also the time of day in each of said geographic areas. The present clock also includes a fixed midnight mark representative of a location in the heavens, 180.degree. around the Earth from the fixed location of the Sun, coinciding with the occurrence of midnight at each geographic area of the Earth as said geographic area passes thereby, the geographic area in which the Fiji Islands and New Zealand are located being designated the International Date Line.

Abstract: Flexible welded metal bellows comprising a plurality of diaphragms comprising flexible metal annuli free plates or rings having similar inner and outer diameters, alternate pairs of said plates having their outer and inner peripheries, respectively, welded to each other to form a fluid-tight connection therebetween. The invention comprises interposing and welding a metal annuli spacer plate or ring between at least one adjacent pair of said flexible free plates to space the free plates from each other and to prevent or reduce the pressure contact between the adjacent welds when the bellows is retracted.

Abstract: A novel twenty-four hour clock (10) providing a continuous display representative of the rotation of the Earth relative to the heavens, and the changing position of illustrated geographic continents (33a, etc.) of the Earth relative to the fixed position of the Sun, thereby providing the viewer with a visual display of the local time of day and also the time of day in each of said geographic continents. The present clock (10) includes a continuous display of fixed indicia (35a and 36a) representative of a location in the heavens, 180.degree. around the Earth from the fixed location of the Sun, coinciding with the occurrence of midnight at each geographic area of the Earth as said geographic area passes thereby, the geographic area in which the Fiji Islands and New Zealand are located being designated the International Date Line (30).

Abstract: A compact retainer-container for an "umbrella" rig to which is attached or adapted to be attached a plurality of spaced fishing hooks or lures such as tube eels. The retainer-container comprises a narrow elongate container panel or envelope, such as of water-resistant flexible fabric material, having a narrow elongate container-retainer section, preferably having an elongate opening to receive an umbrella rig and an elongate flap or cover adapted to close said opening and said section. The retainer-container section comprises opposed retainer structure at each end thereof, each adapted to receive two adjacent flexible arms of an "umbrella" rig which are flexed together and to restrain said arms against flexing apart while the umbrella rig is contained within said section.

Abstract: Efficient and silent air nozzle assembly for discharging a small amount of compressed gas, such as air, to entrain a larger amount of secondary air and direct or focus the composite air mixture against a work station, such as for cleaning or ejection purposes. The air nozzle comprises a conduit having an exit orifice into which is pressed a solid nozzle plug having a multiplicity of peripheral longitudinal surface recesses which provide a multiplicity of small gas passages between the plug and the inner surface of the conduit. The plug has an inwardly tapered tip which extends out of the exit orifice of the conduit to cause the exiting gas to entrain surrounding or secondary air and direct the gas-air mixture along the tapered surface thereof where it converges as a concentrated air flow.

Abstract: A skid-resisting chain adapted to be attached to and removed from the tires of a vehicle with a minimum of effort to provide improved traction in snow, ice, mud or other slippery road conditions. The attachment-detachment means comprises a flexible metal cable adapted to tie the tire chain around the tire and wheel and a biased cam gripping means adapted to frictionally-engage the end of the cable in a manner which provides increased locking action when a withdrawal force is applied to the cable and yet permits easy release when a tightening force or a detachment force is applied to the cable.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing a controlled pressure liquid circulation system comprising a circulation conduit through which a liquid can be circulated and recirculated to accomplish a desired function, such as heating and/or cooling of a work station such as a mold. The invention involves opening and closing said circulation conduit to a source of supply liquid, such as city water, at elevated pressure while maintaining the controlled pressure of the liquid within said circulation conduit at a substantially lower pressure, and is characterized by maintaining the circulation conduit open to a drain line at all times and providing or maintaining a drain pressure which is at least slightly above atmospheric and is equal to the pressure desired within the circulation conduit in the area thereof which is open to the drain.

Abstract: A closed system for fluidizing and conveying solid particulate material from one or more porous floor supply containers to one or more receptor containers by means of aeration while preventing the release of aerated particulate material into the atmosphere. The system comprises at least one porous floor supply container which receives pressurized air to fluidize the particulate material and which feeds the fluidized mixture to a delivery conduit which communicates with the receptor container(s). The invention comprises venting the supply container to a material recovery unit to isolate the vented aeration air and all of the particulate material carried thereby and then readmitting at least said vented particulate material to the system, the vent air being passed through a filter before release to the atmosphere.

Abstract: Novel ball-gripping inserts adapted to be attached within receiving holes bored into the surface of a bowling ball in order to provide lined finger- and thumb-receiving holes which improve the ability of the bowler to grip and release the ball in the desired manner. The present elements are molded from silicone rubber so as to be generally cylindrical, relatively thin-walled hollow elements which are adapted to receive the fingers and thumb of the bowler therewithin. An essential feature is the presence of a seat or finger tip-engaging portion at the base of the finger-receiving opening to limit and uniformly guide the extent to which the fingers are inserted. Another essential feature involves the presence of a cut or recess in the interior wall of the insert, in a location adjacent the fingernail of the bowler, to facilitate the entry of air and release the vacuum caused by the rapid removal of the fingers from the elements during release of the ball.