Abstract: A beautician's tool hanger is disclosed, in the preferred form, as including a main frame arranged for supporting curling irons, a member for thermally insulating the main frame from a wall by spacing the main frame therefrom to thereby provide an air insulation barrier between a beautician's tool, for example a curling iron, and the wall, a tongue for insertion into a wall attachment member, and a hook used in attaching a further beautician's tool, for example, a hot comb, thereto all formed by a unitary, elongated, member being generally C-shaped. The main frame, in the preferred embodiment, includes an elongated arm member attached at approximately its midpoint, to the main frame, and pressure clip members, located at the outer ends of the arm member, for receiving the heated portion of the curling irons.

Abstract: A wall mounted standard for connecting shelf-supporting brackets to a wall. One form of the standard comprises means for connecting together two aligned wallforming panels, while another form of the standard is used to connect a pair of panels which are oriented at right angles to each other to form a corner connection. Other forms of the standard are suspended from the top of a wall.

Abstract: A wall mounted standard for connecting shelf-supporting brackets to a wall. One form of the standard comprises means for connecting together two aligned wall-forming panels, while another form of the standard is used to connect a pair of panels which are oriented at right angles to each other to form a corner connection. Other forms of the standard are suspended from the top of a wall.

Abstract: A tower crane is disclosed in which a balance arm is pivotally connected to the top of the tower on an axis midway between the front edge of the tower and the rear edge thereof. The front end of the balance arm extends beyond the front edge of the tower, and a boom to support a load is connected to said front end of the arm. A backstay exerts a downward force on the rear end of the balance arm to balance the load. The load carried by the boom is therefore distributed equally to the four corner chords of the tower.

Abstract: A universal fabricated backstop/buffstop comprising a pair of parallel, juxtaposed side plates, each side plate having a channel therein, a forward transverse member having the ends thereof secured to the pair of side plates and having a slot located in the center of the forward transverse member, and a rear transverse member having the ends thereof secured to the pair of side plates.

Abstract: A straddle carrier consisting of an inverted U-shaped frame, having a pair of vertically extending legs that define an elongated container carrying bay with each leg supported by a plurality of wheels is disclosed herein. First and second engines are respectively supported on the legs and each engine drives a plurality of pumps which supply pressurized fluid for driving and steering the vehicle, as well as pumps for supplying fluid to a plurality of other functions. The hydraulic circuit for performing the plurality of other functions as well as the steering function is designed so that all of the functions may be operated from the pumps driven by one of the engines in case of power failure in the other engine.

Abstract: A safety closure and container assembly including a container, cap and combined spring and sealing member. Retention nibs are formed on the inner surface of the skirt of the cap, and a spring and sealing member has a radially projecting flange that engages the retention nibs to prevent separation of the spring and sealing member from the cap. Cap and container locking elements are formed respectively on the inner surface of the skirt of the cap and the outer surface of the mouth of the container. The cap and container locking elements are engageable with and disengageable from each other by combined axial and rotary motion of the cap relative to the container. The spring and sealing member biases the cap and container locking elements toward locked engagement with each other when the cap is applied to the container.

Abstract: A child-resistant container, e.g. a child-resistant medicine bottle, comprises in combination a container having a neck, a plug or other closure insertable in the neck with the plane of its upper surface extending not substantially beyond the plane of the upper surface of the neck, and rotary interengaging means interengaging the closure and the container neck. A key adapted to overlie the closure has gravity-actuated pin and socket means capable of releasably interengaging the closure and the key. Upon application, the key is operative to engage the closure with the neck and to disengage it therefrom.

Abstract: An upper tank half provided with a manway and a lower tank half provided with a sump are each formed of thermosetting resin reinforced with chopped glass fiber strands and then secured together with several plys of resin-impregnated glass mat applied around the circumference at the joint inside and outside of the tank. Each tank half is flared adjacent the joint to provide half of a tank strengthening rib for the completed tank, which has a diameter larger than its height. Two semicircular perforated olive retaining plates are removably mounted in the upper tank half adjacent the lower end of the manway. Aboveground and underground embodiments of the tank are provided.

Abstract: Bank notes are accurately delivered to a customer in a preselected amount at an exit throat from a storage bin. Delivery of the bank notes from the storage bin is on an individual basis to an escrow station where the number of bills of currency representing the preselected amount is collected for delivery to the customer at the exit throat. In the transport path from the storage bin to the escrow station multiple bank notes and trailing bank notes are detected to control the operation of the banking machine to deliver the notes at the escrow station either to the customer or divert a miscount of the bank notes to a divert bin. Initially, the process for transporting bills from the storage bin to the escrow station actuates a main drive motor of a transport system. Bank notes are fed from the storage bin to the transport system and if more than one bill is fed to the transport system all but one are returned to the storage bin.

Abstract: A key blank selector-dispenser comprises a drum having a central axis aperture and several series of radial cells for receiving magazines of key blanks and contained in respective radial planes of the cylinder. The drum is rotatable by an electric motor having an electromagnetic brake. Key blank ejectors for each said series are provided in said aperture and are located in the same diametral plane of the drum.A control panel has a number of slots for insertion of specimen keys equal to the number of said cells. Means actuatable by insertion of a specimen key closes the motor circuit to start the motor. A cam on each series of cells operates a limit contact when a cell having a desired blank comes into the plane of the ejectors to effect stopping of the motor and actuation of the ejector corresponding to the series selected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for dispensing adjustable volumes of a liquid, comprising a stopper adaptable on the neck of a flask, which incorporates a device with valves; a calibrated cylinder which is mounted in the stopper and which comprises, near its free upper end, a fixed, outwardly projecting, annular stop; a calibrated cylindrical plunger adapted to cooperate with said calibrated cylinder; a body for actuating the calibrated plunger, internally defining a first cavity in which a threaded adjusting shaft is adapted to be housed, which shaft may modify the vertical position of a nut; a digital display system mounted in the upper part of the threaded shaft; a member for driving the shaft in rotation, and a connector is provided to connect the actuator body with the upper part of the calibrated plunger. The invention finds particular application in laboratory equipment.

Abstract: A method for loading particulate matter in a vessel. More particularly, a method for distributing particulate matter, at substantially a constant rate, uniformly across a given area to promote the dense packing of said particulate matter.

Abstract: A copy machine having a decorator for applying toner to a latent image is disclosed. The decorator is fitted with a control for sensing the level of toner in the decorator sump which control automatically maintains the amount of toner in the sump at the desired level. The control includes a toner level sensor which is a vibrating rod driven by a decorator roll.

Abstract: A clamp device for effectively evacuating the contents of a flexible tube dispenser is disclosed. The device comprises upper and lower arm portions having a straight trailing side, a forward side having a centrally located curved portion, and opposing arcuate surfaces such that said arm portions are thickest at their centers. End members maintain the separation of the arm portions. In one embodiment, the arm portions are permanently affixed to the end members. In a second embodiment, the lower arm portion is latchably connected to one of the end members.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser is disclosed, most of whose parts along with its wall-mounting bracket are of a resilient plastic such as polystyrene and cooperate in such manner as to permit hand assembly. The dispenser comprises a facade member on which a plurality of separate containers for different fluid substances are mounted, and each container is provided with a simplified dispensing valve and operator, composed of snap-fitted parts, for dispensing a premeasured amount of the fluid. The wall mounting bracket is provided with adjustment plates for corner mounting the dispenser on irregular walls, and a top cover fits over the facade member, containers and wall bracket forming a shelf and sealing the fluid in the containers.

Abstract: A pressurized dispenser includes an apertured vessel having a pressure chamber. An impervious sack of flexible material is nested within the chamber holding a fluid-like material to be dispensed. A neck as an integral part of said sack has a bore, projects through and is secured to said vessel and suspends the sack within the vessel, said neck defining a valve housing. A valve retainer encloses and overlies said neck and is secured to the vessel and contains an apertured primary valve gasket which is sealed over the neck and includes an apertured valve seat. A movable dispensing valve stem extends into the neck bore and projects out through the retainer and includes a valve stem normally biased against the valve seat and a nozzle. Pressurized gas is sealed within the pressure chamber for applying continuous pressure over the sack so that manual unseating of the valve stem releases controlled quantities of a fluid-like material through the neck, valve stem and nozzle.

Abstract: A dispensing container comprising a compressible bottle having a neck portion, a cap attached to the neck portion, the cap having an inlet extending through the cap, a first one-way valve disposed in the inlet and operable to permit flow of air through the inlet into the bottle, the cap having an outlet extending through the cap, a second one-way valve disposed in the outlet and operable to permit flow of liquid from the bottle through the outlet, the cap having a protrusion extending into the neck portion of the bottle, the outlet extending through the protrusion, a tube connected to the protrusion and extending toward a bottom portion of the bottle, and a flexible bag having a neck portion fixed to the tube, the bag being disposed in the bottle and being adapted to retain the liquid therein, the tube having opening means to facilitate flow of the liquid into the tube.

Abstract: A jar top measuring and dispensing device for granulated material such as instant coffee and the like. A cup member is suspended by one or more legs from a sealing member which is retained in the jar top. A measured portion of the contents of the jar may then be caught in the cup member when the container is inverted and then righted. The measured portion is then dispensed when the top is removed from the jar and tilted over a receptacle.

Abstract: A tether or leash for gloves such as ski gloves, to maintain the glove attached to the wrist or wrist encircling garment, such as a parka sleeve, of the wearer when the glove is temporarily removed for some purpose; and generally including a length of elastic cord with eyeleted ends, one end passing through the eyelet at the opposite end to present a loop or band portion encircling the wrist area of the wearer and wherein the loop or band portion may be adjusted for approximate sizing by knotting the cord between the ends thereof.

Abstract: A tool for preparing the ends of optical fiber waveguides prior to such operations as coupling and splicing. The tool is adapted for single-handed operation and comprises a pair of manually actuated handles, first and second fiber supporting surfaces, and a third fiber supporting surface between the first and second surfaces. The optical fiber waveguide is secured to the first and second surfaces by a pair of clamping members which are responsive to the squeezing of the handles. Once the fiber waveguide is secured to the surfaces, further squeezing of the handles produces separating rotation of a pair of jaw members to put the fiber under tensile stress. A cutting blade suspended above the third surface is released to produce a peripheral microcrack on a portion of the optical fiber waveguide lying on the third fiber supporting surface.

Abstract: A drive tractor of the type usually mounted in pairs at opposite edges of a web of edge-perforated sheet material such as printout paper has an endless drive belt mounted on a chassis. The chassis is movably mounted on a base member locked to a support bar. A positioning screw permits fine lateral shifting of th chassis relative to the base member to adjust transverse tension in the web. The drive belt preferably has pins projecting from it to engage edge perforations in the web and is trained over sprocket wheels having teeth which engage a tread on the inner surface of the belt. The sprocket wheel is engaged by a drive shaft. The sprocket teeth and belt tread are respectively configured to mesh only in a selected position of the pins relative to the rotational position of the sprocket wheel. This automatically transversely aligns the pins of paired tractors mounted on a common drive shaft.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing wire comprises a first elongate cylindrical tube having an aperture at one end thereof and a blocking wall at the opposite end thereof. A second elongate cylindrical tube is positioned within said first tube, said second tube having upper and lower apertures at each end thereof. A length of flexible wire is coiled to a diameter greater than the outer circumference of the second tube and within the inner circumference of the first tube and one portion of the wire is extended from the lower aperture of the second tube and through the upper aperture of the second tube. The second tube extends through the aperture in the top portion of the first tube thereby allowing the second tube, and the wire contained therein, to be extended outwardly from the first tube aperture and accurately positioned adjacent to a work area. In accordance with a further embodiment of the invention a third elongate cylindrical tube may be positioned between the second tube and the length of coiled wire.

Abstract: A boom is made by joining two tubular members to a cast iron elbow section. The tubular members are made from plate formed into tubes with a longitudinally welded seam. The tube seams are located below a horizontal axis of the respective tube members and circumferentially between the horizontal and vertical axes thereof to dispose the weld seam on a lower side of the boom. Pivotal boom connection means are further welded to each free end of the boom and to the elbow section.

Abstract: A tray and blank therefor constituting a shipping container with two or more open top compartments separated by a divider especially constructed to act as a strut to rigidify the tray and to support the central region of the bottom wall of the tray against bulging or sagging. The divider includes a horizontal top panel and a pair of integral vertical flaps all extending from side to side of the tray and the pair of vertical flaps also extending from fold lines along the edges of the top panel downwardly to the bottom panel thus forming a rigid hollow strut of rectangular cross section. Glue flaps integrally formed in the bottom panel are bent upwardly along spaced parallel lines into vertical planes and are adhesively secured to the inner surfaces of the vertical divider flaps inside the divider or strut.

Abstract: In a disc bowl centrifuge, means are provided for introducing pressure fluid into a piston chamber serving to operate a discharge valve controlling outlet of processed material from the bowl, which means are such as to allow a pressure substantially higher than atmosphere and sufficient to hold the discharge valve closed against the opening forces exerted thereon by process material subjected to centrifugal force in the bowl.

Abstract: In fabricating very-high-resolution devices with a lithographic tool such as an EBES machine, it is crucial that the planar mask or wafer members utilized therein be loaded into and maintained in the work chamber of the machine in a way that minimally affects their planarity. In accordance with the present invention this is accomplished by loading each member into a three-point-suspension cassette unit by means of a fixture that performs the loading in a precise and essentially stress-free manner.

Abstract: A fuel control device having a passage therethrough for interconnecting a fuel source with a main burner and having a poppet valve arrangement that is directly manually operated for opening and closing the passage so as to control the flow of fuel from the source to the main burner, the poppet valve arrangement having a poppet valve member that is moved relative to its valve seat upon the manual manipulation of a selector of the control device. The poppet valve member can work with the pressure of the fuel from the source thereof when the poppet valve member is being moved to its closed position.

Abstract: A fireplace boiler for heating liquids is disclosed which is adapted to be fitted into a fireplace cavity and combined with a pre-existing domestic heating system. The boiler includes a grate made up of a plurality of heating tubes connected to headers through which a liquid to be heated flows. At one end of the grate is located a vertical sampling tube having an orifice therein through which the liquid flows between the headers. The flow of liquid in the sampling tube is reversible with the direction of flow being dependent upon whether the fluid in the boiler is being circulated through the heating system. The reversible direction of flow enables a temperature sensor located in the sampling tube to accurately sense the temperature of the fluid in the boiler at all times.

Abstract: A heating system utilizing a fuel bearing multi-tube water jacket having a lower header, an upper header vertically spaced from the lower header, a plurality of spaced curvilinear hollow heat exchanging tubes connecting the manifolds, and a hollow plate-like baffle connected between the manifolds. The water jacket may be positioned within a conventional fireplace for supporting burning fuel to heat fluid circulated through the heat exchanging tubes and plate-like baffle for heating areas remote from the fireplace. The water jacket may be utilized in conjunction with a heat exchanger positioned within the warm air duct of a forced air furnace. A pump for circulating fluid through the water jacket and heat exchanger, and a blower associated with the forced air furnace are operated in response to the temperature of the heated fluid.

Abstract: A sanitary chamber is described which operates at room temperature to nebulize or aerosolize a liquid utilized in inhalation therapy. The chamber is a disposable thin walled flexible reservoir for containing a supply of liquid and for dispensing breathable gas such as air in admixture with the liquid. The chamber includes a flexible diaphragm responsive to ultrasonic vibrations of an abutting electroacoustic transducer for admixing the liquid and gas. The chamber further includes integrally formed dispensing means which serves to direct the emanating gas-liquid admixture in an ascending vortex pattern to promote evaporation at ambient temperature. In a particular embodiment, the chamber comprises an inflatable bag constructed of low-cost plastic film material which lends itself readily to compact and sterile storage and disposal.

Abstract: Means for atomizing cosmetic products, in particular hair lacquers, in which each bomb to be filled with hair lacquer to be atomized is provided with a controllable valve as well as with an atomizing nozzle unit and in which the said valve and the said nozzle are connected by means of a suitable hose containing means for the generation of compressed air.

Abstract: A bubbler type sprinkler head for providing controlled water flow by means of an easily adjustable head eliminating all metallic parts of the prior art structures that corrode or induce scaling of the water in the bubbler head.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a color change sequence of automatic paint spray equipment. The apparatus controls the performance of various cleaning functions when it is desired to convert the spray equipment from spraying one color of paint to spraying of another color of paint. The apparatus includes a fluid motor coupled through a reducing transmission to a drum-type programmer. The drum-type programmer includes a set of program sections, each section being divided into a plurality of sectors and each sector adapted to receive a cam plug. Each section is programmed by inserting cam plugs in selected sectors thereof. Fluid switches are mounted adjacent the drum programmer, at least one switch being associated with each of the sections of the drum programmer and responsive to the presence and absence of cam plugs from various ones of the sectors in its respective section of the drum programmer to control a color change function.

Abstract: Apparatus for feeding seriatim discrete webs of paper, cardboard or synthetic plastic material to one or more processing machines has a pair of continuously driven transporting rolls, a first and a second pair of intermittently driven advancing rolls, and first and second guides which respectively compel webs to travel from the nip of the corresponding advancing rolls into the nip of the transporting rolls. Two photocells are adjacent to each guide and each photocell is shiftable in and counter to the direction of travel of a web from the respective advancing rolls toward the transporting rolls. That photocell of each pair which is nearer to the respective advancing rolls causes the generation of a visible or audible signal in response to detection of the leader of a fresh web, and the other photocell of each pair transmits a signal in response to detection of the trailing end of a running web.

Abstract: A web winder of the center wind type drives the web roll through a controllable variable speed mechanical transmission whose input shaft is turned by a variable slip torque modulating device whose torque coupling varies in accordance with the output of a web tension sensor upstream from the web roll to immediately change the angular velocity of the roll to compensate for sudden tension upsets in the web. The amount of slip in that device is detected and compared with a selected reference slip to develop an error signal for controlling the gear-in ratio of the transmission which slows the angular velocity of the roll to compensate for the gradual web tension increase caused by increasing roll size. Thus the winder's speed characteristics are matched at the input of the transmission to the clutch characteristics at all roll diameters so that the winder requires only a minimum size torque modulating device for given web speed and tension conditions.

Abstract: A prewound retractor spring housing assembly for mounting to a preassembled safety belt retractor having a storage reel shaft end protruding from a side wall of the retractor, the shaft end having a retraction spring end receiving slot, has a spring mounting base means for receiving a retractor coil spring to be prewound thereon, spring cup means for encompassing the coil spring when prewound on the base means and for cooperating with the base means to prewind the spring to a desired prewound condition, means for locking the cup means to the base means and means for mounting the assembly to the safety belt retractor in a manner to automatically place the prewound spring in biasing relation to the safety belt reel.

Abstract: A cassette re-winding device including a compartmented housing having a hinged lid to receive a cassette in one compartment having a rewind spindle connected to a battery operated motor located in the other compartment; and, an automatic switch positioned in the first-mentioned compartment which is actuated by the positioning of a cassette in the compartment.

Abstract: A belt driven tape cartridge employs a pair of tape reels on fixed spaced axes within a cartridge case and on which a tape extending between them is convolutely wound to form tape rolls. Tape is transported between reels when the reels are driven by a taut belt that extends between the rolls and around a drive roller at one side of a line connecting the tape reel axes and around an idler roller at the other side of that line. The drive roller rotates on a fixed axis which in preferred form is equidistant from the two tape reel axes. The idler roller rotates on an axis that is parallel with the other axes but is free to move laterally.

Abstract: A tape cassette loading mechanism for receiving a hinged cassette containing a tape supply reel and for automatically opening the cassette and advancing the supply reel into an operative position. The mechanism is used with tape transport apparatus of the type having supply and take-up reels driven by surface engagement with a capstan. A pair of pivot arms engage opposite halves of the cassette and pivot apart to open the cassette. A motor-driven lead nut mechanism rotatively drives a control arm to move the pivot arms and thereby open the cassette, and to simultaneously advance the supply reel along an arcuate path into the operative position in engagement with the capstan. The pivot arms simultaneously move the cassette in a lateral direction to match the lateral component of the advancing movement of the supply reel, thereby preventing the opened cassette from physically interfering with the advancing reel.

Abstract: A traversing carriage has a shift member movable thereon which bears a pair of partial nuts for alternate engagement with each of two lead screws. A pair of latches are mounted on the carriage, each adapted to retain one of the partial nuts in engagement with a lead screw. Latch actuators are located to trip the latches and to operate the shift member when the carriage reaches predetermined limits of traverse.

Abstract: Elongated slotted channel members and L-shaped corner pieces of registering cross sectional shapes may be assembled into various frames for supporting a plurality of shelves or the like.

Abstract: An adjustable seat is mounted on a base for adjustment of its position longitudinally of a motor vehicle, by means of two guiding arrangements, each located at one side of the seat and each including a front guide track and a rear guide track. The seat is arrestable in a multitude of adjusted positions by at least one arresting mechanism which includes a rack mounted on the base, a pinion mounted on the seat for rotation in mesh with the rack, a ratchet connected to the pinion for joint rotation therewith, and a pawl displaceably mounted on the seat and engaging the ratchet to arrest the seat in any selected one of the multitude of adjusted positions. The rack may extend parallel to one of the guide tracks and then a support member which supports the seat on this guide track may be mounted coaxially with the pinion.

Abstract: A collapsible universal fishing rod holding apparatus for a fishing boat, including a platform provided at one side with a vice mechanism capable of holding a selected gunnel portion of the boat under vertical and lateral pressure subject to the cross-sectioned shape of the portion, and at the other side with a base plate pivoted adjacent to an end of the platform in vertically movable relation with respect to the plane of the platform, a receiving plate pivoted on the base plate to move in parallelism with the plane thereof, a rod holder detachably inserted into the receiving plate and a supporting means pivoted adjacent to the other end of the platform so as to telescopically support a fishing rod at a desired level, wherein the rod holder connected to the fishing rod is adapted to be detachably engageable through its extension with the receiving plate, permitting the rod to move alternatively into vertical relation with respect to the platform or in parallel relation with respect to the plate thereof.

Abstract: A distillation column packing in the form of a spherical body constructed by assembling a pair of hemispherical members of the same shape and structure. Each of the hemispherical members includes a suitable number of cutout openings formed in the hemispherical surface portion thereof to leave covering portions, a plurality of mating assembly posts and tubes formed in the hollow inside of the hemispherical member, and reinforcing and gas-liquid contact area increasing contact pieces formed to connect the posts and the tubes with one another but not to close the hollow inside of the hemispherical member. The packing thus constructed is best suited for use in distillation columns.

Abstract: In a rotary valve, such as a plug valve having a body cavity opening from the top, a top seal assembly includes a membrane of polytetrafluoroethelene or the like which extends over the cavity opening with its outer edges clamped between the valve body and a top closure. A groove around the opening accommodates cold flow of material from between the clamped surfaces beyond it. A circular opening in the membrane embraces and seals around the valve stem and an underturned lip around the opening engages against a generally horizontal sealing surface around the plug stem to be urged into sealing engagement by a load ring, providing a second, pressure augmented annular seal.

Abstract: A tube-driving apparatus has piston and cylinder units supported on an abutment and internally connected to cylinders forming tension members which surround the units. A thrust collar engageable with the tube or pipe to be driven is slidably supported on floor beams and has clamping rings which can be secured or released from grooves on the exterior of the cylinders spaced-apart in the direction of driving.

Abstract: A fastener for securing a fence post cap to a channel type post. The fence post cap has a side wall and a bottom wall received in the open upper end of the post and a top wall which extends away from the post to engage a horizontal top rail of the fence. The bottom wall of the cap has an aperture through which a bolt extends. The fastener is a curved sheet metal member having an aperture to receive the bolt. A nut provided on the bolt can be tightened to cause the sheet metal member to be flattened whereby its edges bite in to the interior walls of the post. The fastening means is also used to secure a barbed wire arm to the post. The base of the barbed wire arm extends into the post so as to be adjacent the bottom wall of the cap and the bolt extends through the base of the barbed wire arm as well as passing through the bottom wall of the cap and the fastening means.

Abstract: A workbench of a collapsible nature includes a top structure comprising a pair of vice members. These can either be spaced from a supporting surface in a first work-mode at saw-horse height or, by lowering of legs, in a second work-mode at full height. Each vice member is provided with two rows of cylindrical bores in which the shank portions of abutment members are axially, slidably received with a snug fit and are thereafter rotatable about a vertical axis to enable the gripping faces of the abutment members to self-align with a workpiece clamped between the abutment members.

Abstract: A working mechanism for moving a treatment table including an expandable and contractable pneumatic spring coupled to the table, a pneumatic control pressure circuit for controlling the expansion and contraction of the pneumatic spring and a hydraulic checker coupled to the treatment table whereby the treatment table is smoothly moved and maintained at any heighth.