Abstract: A charging bar for loading or reloading small arm type shells or cartridges. The charging bar comprises adjustment means for incrementally varying the volume of a powder or shot measuring chamber of the charging bar. Such adjustment means may include a rotational means which causes the volume of the measuring chamber to increase when rotated in one direction and the volume to decrease when rotated in the opposite direction.

Abstract: Scarifying or abrading apparatus is designed for attachment to a hand-operated single-shaft rotary floor maintenance machine, the apparatus including a circular attachment plate having a plurality of pairs of radially spaced-apart rectangular holding members, there being rotatably mounted between the members of each pair of members a plurality of cutters disposed for rotational scarifying engagement with the floor when the disc is rotated by the machine.

Abstract: A load spacing mechanism for a load conveyor in which an actuating member is mounted on the conveyor and pivotable between an extended position and a retracted position. The actuating member is connected by linkage to a support mechanism which in one position thereof supports a stop mechanism in the raised position, thereby to stop a load on the conveyor from advancing toward the actuating mechanism. When a load is lifted from the actuating member, the linkage operates, as the actuating member moves to the extended position thereof, to move the stop support away from the stop thereby permitting the load at the stop mechanism to force the stop mechanism downwardly and pass thereover toward the actuating mechanism. All of the actuating mechanism, the stop mechanism and the support mechanism are pivotly mounted to the conveyor thereby obviating the need for toggle mechanism and enabling the foregoing load spacing mechanism to operate with either heavy or light loads without adjusting the mechanism.

Abstract: The pen comprises an elongated housing having a light aperture at one end. A plurality of light-emitting diodes is mounted in the housing, and means are provided for focusing the light from such diodes at the light aperture. In use, the pen is held against a coded label and moved therealong. Light from the light-emitting diodes strikes the coded information, so as to produce a light pattern. Lenses in the housing focus the reflected light onto a detector which produces electrical signals in accordance with the light pattern.

Abstract: An improved method of relieving severe itching associated with conditions such as Hodgkin's Disease, mycosis fungoides, intractable pruritis and the like comprising administering an effective dosage of naloxone to a patient suffering from such itching.

Abstract: A toy object such as a submarine or the like with a ballast chamber and an air chamber dimensioned such that normally in a static position the body floats in water with only a small portion of the body extending out of the water. The ballast chamber is filled with water and the air chamber is buoyant and causes the top object to float. Diving planes extend outwardly from the body such that when a motor is activated the toy moves forward, submerges and stays submerged so long as there is forward motion. When the motor stops the toy object rises to its static position.

Abstract: A one-piece seamless unidirectional rotary knitted anti-embolism stocking comprises a seamless tubular body integrally knitted and having varying lengths of yarn in the courses thereof resulting in a varying cross section such that the circumferential tension of the stocking decreases from the toe end to the upper end thereof. Specifically, constant cross section portions are interconnected by transition portions of gradually varying cross section in a pattern to produce on the wearer's leg a pressure which decreases substantially uniformly from the ball of the foot to the top of the stocking. Each end of the tubular body has a two-ply welt portion, and a heel patch is inlaid in the foot portion of the tubular body. The toe end of the tubular body terminates in a toe portion which is folded back on itself and seamed at the side edges of the fold.

Abstract: The assembly comprises a frame having end and side frame members, each such member including an outside wall. An inclined rear wall and a front lip extend inwardly from the outside wall. An inside wall extends rearwardly from the front lip and has a rear end constituting a ledge for a glass pane, a picture and the like. Each of at least two retaining strips associated with at least two of the frame members has a side wall carrying an inwardly directed flange and an inclined tongue. A retaining strip is applied by inserting the tongue between the rear wall and the outside wall, then pushing the retaining strip toward such outside wall until the flange rests on the backing for the picture.

Abstract: A combination speaker assembly including an annular housing having a peripheral wall with an opening therein and having first and second open ends, a first speaker for reproducing audio mid frequencies and audio high frequencies mounted essentially within the housing in alignment with the opening to project the output of the first speaker out of the housing through the opening, and a second speaker for reproducing audio low frequencies mounted adjacent to the first open end to inject the output of the second speaker into the housing and past the first speaker and out the second open end, the acoustical axis of the first speaker being arranged essentially normal to the acoustical axis of the second speaker and in use being directed essentially toward the ears of the listener.

Abstract: A shelf box is designed for use with a shelf rack or storage cabinet open on both sides so that the shelf box can be removed from either side of the rack or cabinet. Two stop members are respectively mounted adjacent to opposite ends of the shelf box for pivotal movement between stop and release positions, and are interconnected by a pivoting linkage so that when one stop member is in its stop position the other stop member is in its release position. The stop members are disposed so that in their stop positions they are engageable with retaining portions of the overlying shelf. Thus, when one end of the shelf box is withdrawn from the rack or cabinet it will be stopped by engagement of the adjacent shelf retaining portion with the stop member at the opposite end of the shelf box in its stop position to prevent inadvertent complete removal of the shelf box.

Abstract: Article transfer mechanism for changing the direction of movement of articles while maintaining the orientation of the articles, including an infeed conveyor conveying articles in a first direction while in a predetermined orientation, a transfer conveyor having a continuous belt with a plurality of groups of rollers thereon with windows therebetween receiving articles from the infeed conveyor, a plate disposed below the lower reach of the transfer conveyor and closing at least one of the windows to provide a container for an article deposited thereon, structure for rotating the groups of rollers to cause the rollers to move an article deposited thereon into the adjacent window, an article conveyor having a plurality of pockets open at the top for receiving articles from the plate of a transfer conveyor for conveying the articles in a different direction from that of the infeed conveyor; there also is shown conveyors for equally spacing randomly spaced articles and for laterally aligning articles.

Abstract: Assembly for providing a seal between sealing surfaces on a coke oven door and the associated door jamb includes a high temperature-resistant and resilient seal body extending around the entire periphery of the door and secured between retaining members. A steel bearing strip is disposed beneath the seal body between the retaining members and is engaged at spaced-apart points therealong by a plurality of setscrews threadedly engaged through complementary openings in the door for pushing the bearing strip against the seal body and varying the pressure with which it engages the sealing surface on the door jamb.

Abstract: A rooting media in the form of a resilient, integral body of spongy open-celled hydrophilic polymer forming a first essentially continuous phase extending throughout the body and having passages therethrough forming a second essentially continuous phase extending throughout the body, a quantity of particles of soil mixture distributed throughout the body of spongy polymer and held thereby with a substantial portion of the surface area of the particles of soil mixture exposed and in communication with the passages, the exposed particles of soil mixture providing colloidal contact exchange surfaces in communication with the passages and having collectively a porosity maintenance capacity and a water holding capacity and an ion exchange capacity and a pH buffering capacity; also disclosed is a method of making such a body of rooting media, as well as a release agent useful in that method; there further is disclosed a particular form of rooting media for use in propagation by air layering and a method of propagat

Abstract: A liquid soap dispensing system includes a closed soap container having a manually actuated dispensing pump carried therebeneath. Refill of the container is by a plastic refill squeeze bottle with a neck defining an outlet opening closed by a membrane recessed therein. One embodiment of the bottle is formed by ultrasonically welding in the neck end, after the bottle is filled, a plug defining a cylindrical sleeve closed at the inner end thereof by a closure wall. The neck is inserted into a well in the top of the container, and a hollow piercing member at the bottom of the well ruptures the membrane or closure member, whereupon soap may be squeezed from the bottle and through the passage through the hollow piercing member, which is constricted by septa dividing the passage into channels such that flow of liquid soap therethrough at equal pressures at both ends of the passage is substantially inhibited.

Abstract: A hand covering or glove having a flexible two-piece body with a plurality of discrete abrading units disposed on the hand covering to permit free flexing thereof. Each abrading unit is a discrete one-piece molded synthetic organic resin member with an abrasive front surface and a smooth rear surface secured to the front piece of the two-piece hand covering. Preferably, the two-piece hand covering is secured at the periphery thereof by heat sealing and the abrading units are also heat sealed to the front piece of the construction.

Abstract: An optical toe gauge for measuring the toe-in and toe-out of vehicle wheels includes a pair of support arms respectively mounted from the wheel hubs and carrying light beam projector assemblies at the forward ends thereof so that the direction of each beam is dependent upon the toe of the associated wheel. Each arm also carries therebelow a screen on which is projected the beam from the opposite projector, each screen being disposed at approximately a 45.degree. angle to the corresponding wheel axis and facing inwardly between the wheels, each screen having toe increment lines thereon with enlarged spacing therebetween to facilitate reading of the toe measurement on the screen.

Abstract: A ferrous based substrate is diffusion coated by contacting the substrate with a molten alloy bath consisting essentially of lead and chromium, wherein the quantity of chromium is less than 0.85% of the weight of the lead.

Abstract: A multiple flow marine muffler constructed of resilient material having an elongated generally cylindrical hollow shell with reduced diameter inlet and outlet portions, and longitudinally spaced pairs of opposed baffles within the shell which define a plurality of chambers decreasing in axial length from the chamber adjacent the inlet portion to the chamber adjacent the outlet portion. The several pairs of baffles are so shaped, sized and oriented as to provide multiple flow paths for exhaust gases and cooling water through the muffler, namely, a central straight through path for engine idle condition, a first pair of undulating paths in side by side out of phase relation, and a second pair of undulating paths in side by side out of phase relation which are oriented in the cylindrical shell 90.degree. away from the first pair.

Abstract: The post is of one-piece construction and has a body portion with a plurality of legs protruding in one direction and a lug protruding in the other. The legs are adapted to be forced toward one another so that they can be inserted into the opening of a playfield board of a pinball game. When released, the legs frictionally engage the board to hold the post in place. The lug passes through a hole in a cover plate and has fastening structure to accommodate a push-type fastener.

Abstract: An animal leash including an elongated leather strip on which there is sewn a transparent polyvinyl chloride strip having a prism design on one surface thereof and an opaque polyvinyl chloride strip secured to the one surface of the transparent strip. The combined polyvinyl chloride strips are sewn to the leather strip resulting in a leash having a light reflective surface. The areas around the stitching are crimped thereby increasing the reflecting angle of the polyvinyl chloride.