Abstract: A freestanding space heating stove, presenting heat radiating flat faces of essentially equal surface, the faces being alike pentagonal plates of steel joined edge to edge forming a dodecahedron shaped hollow body wherein one of the plates provides a bottom and supporting legs extend downwardly and outwardly from the edges of the bottom plate to support the stove above a supporting floor. The bottom plate has five like plates diverging upward from its five edges and these five plates each have their two upper edges joined to the two lower edges of two like plates. The five upper plates converge and have their top edges joined to a top plate. One of the upper plates is provided with a door to receive fuel. Also, two of the upper plates have air inlets provided with dampers. Outlet means for gases produced is provided at the point of the top plate opposite to the edge thereof which joins the door carrying upper plate.

Abstract: Electrical cable clamp includes a body portion having a pair of channels, each for nesting one or more cables in abutting disposition and a movable jaw adapted to be drawn compressively against the nested cables while accommodating obliquely for differences in clamped cross-section within the respective channels. The body portion comprises a single sheet metal stamping formed into open-ended boxlike configuration embodying a generally flat base with a pair of lateral walls spaced intermediate opposed end walls, the edges of the lateral walls defining with the next adjacent end wall longitudinally spaced constraints along the channel permitting the clamped cables to belly therebetween. Outwardly turned ears on the body portion enables the clamp to be coupled to a slotted bracket.

Abstract: A safety belt fastening in which the male member includes an enlarged head for laterally pivoting a spring biased locking member operating in a recess of at least one of two plates joined to form the female member of the fastening. The locking member moves to a position aligned substantially with the insertion movement of the head until the head passes. A guide surface including a pin in the female member laterally displaces the male member at an incline to cause pivotal rotation of the locking member during insertion, thereby effecting a force economy compared with that effected by a straight in insertion. When the locking member rotates, it pivots about its rear face in conjunction with an oppositely aligned recess face in a bearing-like action, at least one of these faces being convex. Preferably, the rear face of the locking member is made of drawn steel. The locking member is manually rotatable for release. An injector spring separates the male and female members at the time of release.

Abstract: A holder for a pair of skis and a pair of ski poles consists of a one-piece body of shape retaining but bendable synthetic resin material. The one-piece body incorporates a pair of opposed, mirror-imaged coat hanger shaped portions and a bendable bar spacing and integrally connecting the opposed central parts of the coat hanger shaped portions. The latter each comprise a crossarm centered on and extending transversely of the end of the bar and curved to face concavely toward the opposed concave face of the other crossarm. The end portions of the crossarms, together with opposed flanges at the free ends thereof, are elastically bendable away from each other and from the bar to permit insertion of the cross section of a ski into snugly supported relation therebetween. The clothes hanger shaped portions further include generally question mark shaped hooks extending integrally and oppositely from the crossarm centers.

Abstract: A pull tab pivotally connected to a slider body is formed integral with a pair of locking cams which, when the pull tab is turned to a recumbent position on the slider body, intrude into the guide channel therein for pressing at least one fastener element into a depression formed in the inside surface of the bottom wing of the slider body and hence for locking the slider against movement. The depression is bounded at its front end by a pair of forwardly converging walls each formed at right angles with the plane of the slider body bottom wing and by a pair of rearwardly converging walls disposed between the forwardly converging walls and each inclined forwardly with respect to the plane of the slider body bottom wing.

Abstract: There is disclosed an adjustable fastening device which comprises an adjustment belt and a slider. The adjustment belt includes a pair of rows of teeth arranged on the front face thereof perpendicularly thereto and legs projected from the back face thereof, and the slider comprises a body portion with a guide groove adapted to guide the belt therealong, and stopper member with claws formed on the back face thereof for engagement with the teeth of the adjustment belt is clippingly mounted on the body portion and is urged by an elastic member in a direction pulling the stopper member out of the body portion, and the adjustment belt is slidably fitted in the guide groove for it.

Abstract: A buckle includes an open rectangular frame having a passage lying in the plane of the frame, together with a locking washer slidably disposed in the passage. Means are provided, in the form of complemental construction on the frame and washer, preventing the locking washer from falling out of the frame at least in one direction. One strap end can be secured to one transverse portion of the frame, while another strap end can be directed through the opening in the frame, around one side of the locking washer, and back through the same opening. The other side of the locking washer can extend through the other side of the frame.

Abstract: Fastening means for sports shoes comprise a lace, a tension cable or the like, which is guided over guide elements which consists of buckles and are provided with rollers or the like. One end of the lace is provided with a detachable, spring-loaded one-way clip, in which the other end of the lace is movable in the direction in which it is pulled but fixed in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A slide fastener including a first elongated guide member with a longitudlly extending closure edge that is incrementally forced into intimate engagement with a longitudinally extending mating edge of a second elongated guide member in response to movement of a slide member. Opposite longitudinal edges of the guide members are adapted for attachment to the edges of flexible sheets of material that are to be joined. Distributed along the mating edge are a plurality of removable male coupling elements that enter and latch with female coupling elements distributed along the closure edge in response to movement of the slide member. The coupling elements comprise resilient latching portions formed by spaced apart resilient spring legs that are compressed by the female elements during entry thereinto and expand into latching engagement therewith after complete entry. Preferably, the female elements define openings that have smaller dimensions than the spacing between the resilient legs of the latching portions.

Abstract: A pull tab pivotally connected to a slider body is formed integral with a locking pawl which projects into the guide channel in the slider body through an aperture formed in its top wing. When the pull tab is turned to a recumbent position on the slider body, the locking pawl presses the fastener elements in the guide channel against the bottom wing of the slider body thereby locking the slider against movement. The point of contact of the locking pawl with the fastener elements is located forwardly of the axis of the pivotal motion of the pull tab when the latter is in the recumbent position. Further, when the pull tab is in the recumbent position, the tip of the locking pawl rests against an abutment on the inside surface of the top wing of the slider body.

Abstract: A slide fastener includes a bottom end stop member for limiting the downward or opening movement of a slider along a pair of series of fastener elements carried on and along confronting longitudinal edges of oppositely disposed stringer tapes. Each of upper and lower wings of the slider has a pair of guide flanges extending on and along its lateral edges. The lengths of each pair of guide flanges are so related to the pitch of the fastener elements that those two opposed fastener elements, located within a guide channel of the slider in adjacent relationship to the front ends of the two pairs of guide flanges, have their respective longitudinal axes disposed downwardly of the front ends of the lateral guide flanges when the slider is in its lowermost position.

Abstract: A seat belt buckle having a laminated construction. A main body has a cavity in which a double leaf spring is positioned. A latch plate located in the cavity has a pair of outwardly extending arms slidably mounted in a pair of mutually-opposed upright channels mounted in the cavity. The leaf spring abuts the bottom surface of the latch plate forcing the latch plate upwardly to releasably lock in place a seat belt tongue extending through inlet means into the cavity atop the latch plate. A push button is mounted between the main body and a cover fixedly secured to the main body. The push button has outwardly extending legs slidably received in the channels and abutting the arms on the latch plate whereby the push button may be depressed to move the latch plate and leaf or coil spring downwardly releasing the tongue from the buckle. A first reinforcing plate is mounted in a recess on the main body whereas a second reinforcing plate is mounted in a recess within the cover.

Abstract: For detachably fastening inner and outer overlying plate members using a quarter-turn fastener, a square hole is punched in the inner panel and a snap-in receptacle assembly is inserted into the hole from the outer side of the panel and snapped into place. The receptacle assembly housing has six sides and is formed out of two components. The one component is a three-sided housing member having flange portions for bearing against the outer surface of the inner panel. The other component is a three-sided retainer member having spring legs which snap out behind the inner panel to lock the receptacle assembly in place. A compression spring inside the six-sided prism or housing has one end which bears against the front face of the retainer member and the other end bears against the fastener pressing it against rear face of the housing member and maintaining the housing and retainer members at spaced separation.

Abstract: A tension strap to be circumferentially positioned about a body to be tenned includes a strap member and a plurality of longitudinally movable tension blocks carried on the inside circumferential surface of the strap member for engaging the body. Means for maintaining each of the tension blocks in a defined predetermined position relative to the strap member is provided and includes at least one pin fixedly carried by either the tension block or the strap member and extending through a guideway in the other, and an elastic member such as a spring or elastomer acting on the pin of each tension block against longitudinal movement to predetermine its position relative to the strap member.

Abstract: An improved snap-on-clamp is provided for securely fastening one object to another, such as fastening a flexible hose about a pipe, a nipple, or the like, and includes an open-ended, substantially annular band having formed at its ends a pair of opposed, interlockable members. Each interlockable member includes an arcuate jaw having a plurality of teeth which interlock with the teeth of the opposed member's jaw when the interlockable members are interengaged and the clamp is in a clamping position. Each interlockable member further includes resilient bias means spaced apart from its respective jaw to provide opposing forces to the interlocked jaws so that the plurality of teeth are forced together, thereby preventing separation of the interlockable members other than by transverse shear.

Abstract: A cable clamping device of the rotary jaw type is provided with means for adjusting its cable-receiving and cable-clamping capabilities. The adjustment means permits selective adjustment of the effective cable-receiving or cable-clamping dimension of the clamp. For example, the male member of the rotary jaw clamp is fitted with a rotatable sleeve which has an internal bore having a longitudinal axis angularly displaced from the axis of the sleeve. Rotation of the sleeve results in a change in the size of the cable-receiving and cable-clamping bore of the clamp.

Abstract: A tie-down fitting comprising a body for attachment to fixed structure. The body includes a recess within which an elongated tang is pivotally fitted. A rope or line may be laid in transverse depressions in the body. One end of the tang can be pressed to project the opposite end above the transverse depressions. On release, the tang is biased toward the depressions to hold the line. A strain on the line moves the tang to its projected, tie-down position.

Abstract: A cable clamp includes a box-like housing with opposite sidewalls, an open top and opposite end openings. A clamping mechanism within the housing includes a pair of laterally and longitudinally movable, laterally spaced inner clamping blocks with replaceable wear plates on their inner faces defining a cable passage therebetween so that a cable can pass freely longitudinally through the housing. A pair of outer wedging blocks back up the inner blocks and are laterally but not longitudinally movable within the housing. The outer blocks are spaced inwardly from the sidewalls of the housing to define wedging spaces. Longitudinally double-tapered outer faces of the inner blocks mate with complementary inner faces of the outer blocks. The outer faces of the outer blocks are vertically tapered to receive correspondingly tapered wedging surfaces of activating wedges movable vertically within the wedging spaces to drive the outer and inner blocks laterally toward the cable, causing the wear plates to grip it.

Abstract: A fastener for lace shoes and the like for utilization in combination with a tied shoe lace, comprising a flat base and a conjoined stem thereon suitable for insertion into a lace hole and a button attachable to the stem after insertion into the lace hole, for attaching the fastener to a flap of the shoe,A tapered configuration on the button providing means for retaining a free loop of the tied shoelace around the button when in use, yet permitting easy removal of the loop from the button so that the flaps of the shoe may be moved apart for removal of the shoe from a foot,Means for directing the pressure, caused by the pull of the lace, upwards into the shoe material rather than downwards into the foot,Means for retaining the flat base in an orientation to maintain above direction of pressure,Means for preventing inadvertent disengagement of the button from the stem,Means to facilitate relocation of the loop on the button, means for locating the button over a lace eyelet on a lace hole to ensure contact betwe

Abstract: Venting of articles, such as cushions, pillows, and the like, is provided by holes formed in tapes of slide fasteners which are closures for the articles.