Abstract: A hemorrhoid treatment system including a tank for storing fluid, a dispenser located in a toilet seat for ejecting the fluid, and a pump for pumping fluid from the tank through the dispenser. In more specific embodiments, the dispenser is positioned to spray any of several fluids on the affected area. The dispenser is pivotally mounted within the seat to allow for storage in convenient location. A switch is provided within the handle of the dispenser for activating a motor associated with the pump. A valve is provided for selecting for ejection water or a fluid from the tank.

Abstract: A bathtub assembly having contoured walls and fixtures constructed to fit within or about the walls is provided. The assembly includes a bathtub having at least one wall defining a curved protrusion and a curved recess. A filler spout having a generally shell-shaped configuration is adapted to fit within or above certain of the curved wall portions. One or more grab bars are also designed to fit within the bathtub. The filler spouts and grab bars all present curved interior surfaces which, as strategically mounted within the bathtub, minimize inadvertent contact by a person within or entering the bathtub. A headrest is also provided for attachment to a curved wall of the bathtub. The headrest includes a curved front portion which is secured by suction cups to a wall of the bathtub and an integral rear portion which extends over a deck of the bathtub.

Abstract: A shower curtain support fixture for hanging a shower curtain above a bath tub includes a generally U-shaped structure having an elongated main portion and a pair opposite end portions extending generally transverse to the main portion. A slot is defined in a bottom side of the U-shaped structure extending along its main portion and opposite end portions so as to provide a generally U-shaped guide track in the structure. Shower curtain hanger devices are inserted through the slot and slidable individually along the track provided by the slot.

Abstract: A multifunctional, configuration-convertible furniture item is selectively convertible between at least two functional configurations. Such a furniture item includes a generally vertically upright shelving unit, with a movable frame portion and a movable extension portion. The frame portion is selectively movable between a generally vertically-extending orientation when in the above-mentioned first functional configuration and a vertically-elevated, generally horizontally-extending orientation when in a second functional configuration. The extension portion is selectively extendable outwardly from the shelving unit and selectively retractable thereto. When extended, the extension portion is vertically supported by the frame portion when the frame portion is in the second, generally horizontally-extending configuration, thus defining an elevated horizontal surface extending outwardly from the shelving unit, which can serve as a bed, a desk, a bench-type seat, or other functions in various embodiments.

Abstract: A sofa that is convertible into a platform bed has a transversely extending stationary frame. A left arm assembly, a right arm assembly and a back assembly are attached to the stationary frame. The sofa seat and back cushions are removable from a support surface located above the stationary frame. A plurality of laterally spaced telescoping slide assemblies have their rear ends secured to the stationary frame. The telescoping slide assemblies each have an elongated rear telescoping member, at least one elongated intermediate telescoping member and an elongated front telescoping member and all of the telescoping members have a top wall surface that remains in substantially the same horizontal plane when they are in their retracted position and when they are in their extended position. The cushion support platform assembly may take one of several forms but they all stow in a position above the stationary frame and below the seat cushion.

Abstract: A stake assembly that when used in conjunction with a properly equipped blanket fitted with eyelets will anchor the blanket to either a beach surface or a lawn surface.The stake assembly includes a short member for use on a lawn and a sleeve member which is added to the short member for use on a beach.

Abstract: A mattress plate is positioned below a mattress, with side walls extending upwardly from the mattress plate to secure a foot support insert therebetween in an adjustable manner utilizing a central support shaft and a plurality of cross pins, with a cross pin directed into the insert from each side wall of the mattress plate. The insert includes a plurality of foot support sockets, with the sockets optionally including pneumatic chambers and heating members, as well as a vibratory device to enhance circulation and comfort in use of the organization.

Abstract: A modular body support system for a prone, supine or side lying person having a plurality of individual functional portions for reacting with body tissues to establish comfort to the person as well as lessen the chances of tissue breakdown and ulcerations. The functional portions having construction such as to prevent shear loading which may cause such tissue breakdown. In addition, the system includes an oversize cover of material to reduce the coefficient of friction and conform easily to the contours of the system as defined by body pressures thereon.

Abstract: The speed of rotation of a side wall roughing tool (250) can be varied in accordances with the speed of relative movement between the tool (250) and side wall portions of the shoe being roughed (the traverse speed of the tool). To this end, a flow control arrangement (F) is provided including a plurality of flow control valves (CV1, CV2), the arrangement being such that, with the rate of flow through each such valve set, the operator can select one or other to be switched into the hydraulic circuit by which a hydraulic motor (232) is driven, said motor effecting rotation of the tool. The selection of one or other flow control valve (CV1, CV2) is made by the operator during the digitishing of the path of the tool relative to the shoe and such information is stored together with the programmed instruction, in the form of digitised corrdiante axis values, for said path.

Abstract: An apparatus including a unitary upper housing formed with an upper housing portion coaxially aligned and integral with a lower conical housing, wherein the lower conical housing portion includes a lower annular scraper edge, wherein a serrated scraper blade member may be cumulatively added to the lower scraper annular edge for enhanced scraping of ice and the like formations on automotive windshields. A modification of the invention includes a disk structure formed with mounting bores receiving securement rods, wherein the disk is reversibly mounted relative to the bottom surface of the lower conical housing portion for securement thereto utilizing a continuous scraper edge or a serrated edge.

Abstract: An improved, light-weight squeegee suitable for use in and around the home for cleaning and drying shower and tub enclosures, windows, and spa decks, or autos and boat decks. The squeegee is constructed without metal parts that could scratch glass, ceramic and painted surfaces or that could corrode and stain such surfaces. A cylindrical handle holds dual S-shaped blades, which extend along the handle and beyond one end of the handle to facilitate cleaning in tight spaces. The unitary blades are coextruded from thermoplastics having different hardnesses, the roots of the blades held in the slotted handle being stiff, while the extended portions of the blades used for wiping surfaces are relatively flexible. The compact size and the integral handle parallel with the blades allows the user to maneuver the squeegee efficiently in the narrow confines of glass enclosures.

Abstract: Separable wiper lifting park ramps are attached to a vehicle body cowl panel after windshield installation through a cooperating installation track on the cowl panel and track follower on the ramp. A set of ratchet teeth are engaged as the ramp is pushed home toward the windshield surface. When the ramp hits the windshield, it stops, and cannot back out. Therefore, the ramp is always set accurately relative to the windshield, regardless of any variations between the cowl panel and windshield.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for controlling dispensing of "dry" powdered compositions particularly carpet cleaning compositions wherein the confined finely divided particles descend in a stream under gravity and have oscillatory movement imparted thereto next before discharge through an orifice leading therefrom so as to agitate, separate and propel the particles therethrough; and in the case of carpet cleaning operations depositing the finely divided discharged particles onto the surface of the fibres in a substantially uniform pattern thereover followed by working same into the fibres through the application thereto of a rotary brush or beater and thereafter recovering the residues by a suitable suction or vacuum unit utilizing a rotary brush or beater and an associated two stage cyclone separator.

Abstract: A spring biased bearing is slidably mounted within a clevis joint so as to apply a frictional damping force to a flap of a jet engine exhaust nozzle. A forward hinge joint restrains the bearing against rotation with the flap while an aft hinge joint provides for both rotation and translation of the bearing about the flap. A tubular canister may be used with the hinge joint to preset the axial compression and biasing force generated by a coil spring enclosed within the canister.

Abstract: A front side flexible member is provided along the vicinity of an opening front edge of a suction opening of a suction nozzle main body and has a plurality of opening grooves. The flexible member is positioned at a dent wall of the suction nozzle main body. A suction guide wall is formed between the flexible member and the suction opening of the suction nozzle main body. The suction guide wall is positioned at a dent portion more than a bottom face of the suction nozzle main body. The large size solid dust at the corner portion is moved smoothly into the suction opening and the cleaning operation with the large size solid dust at the corner portion is carried out thoroughly.

Abstract: The wheelchair of the present invention is made of a non-metallic material. The wheelchair is made so that it is easily assembled, light weight, and less expensive than traditional wheelchairs. The wheelchair employs a unique hinge assembly which provides support for the seat, back and foot rest. By using the hinge assembly, the seat, back and foot rest are selfsupporting because the hinge assembly distributes the forces acting upon these members through the side panels. The hinge members are molded integrally with the seat, back and foot panels. Further, when the side panel of the wheelchair is formed, slots are formed therein for receipt of the hinge member. The same is true of the foot rest. The present invention also employs an improved adjusitng mechanism for adjusting the pivotal relationship of the foot rest and an improved brake assembly.

Abstract: A ratchet tie down structure is shown that is designed to hold heavy objects in place on a transport vehicle such as a flat bed trailer, a car carrier, a railroad car and the like. The mechanism includes a base element attached to the transport vehicle that has pair of cooperating elements having interfitting ratchet teeth and a latch that permit a shaft to be turned in one direction to tighten a flexible holding element attached to the object with the latch holding the tension therein until the ratchet teeth on the two elements are disengaged. The structure includes a driving connection by which the shaft may be rotated in one direction to wind a tension in the flexible holding element and the latch being selectively operative to disengage one of the elements with the ratchet teeth from the other in order to release the tension in the flexible holding means when the heavy object is to be unloaded.

Abstract: A zipper pull for sliding a slider head of a zipper along locking teeth to selectively engage and separate the teeth includes a resilient loop and a coupling. The coupling defines one end which is fixed to the loop at an angular orientation therewith and another end which is pivotally attached to the slider head. The positioning and resilience of the loop acts to reduce the tendency of a zipper pull to bounce around when a user is enggaged in an activity.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a molded foamed automobile cushion having a deep groove and an upholstery cover secured thereto by a touch fastener having cooperating hook and loop elements carried by the cushion and cover. One element of the touch fastener is molded into a deep groove in the cushion and the other element is secured to the upholstery. The hook elements on both sides of the groove are unidirectional, when assembled, and have their concave surfaces facing in the same direction to permit easy entry of the upholstery into the groove and providing maximum resistance to removal of the upholstery from the groove.

Abstract: A mounting clip for securing a lamp housing to a support panel formed with a retainer slot having an access portion and a retainer portion, and in which the mounting clip has a hold-down portion adapted to be fixedly connected to the lamp housing and be inserted into the access portion of the retainer slot after which a movement of the lamp housing towards the retainer portion of the retainer slot causes a lock portion of the mounting clip to engage teeth provided in the retainer portion to lock the lamp housing to the support panel.

Abstract: A snap button for attachment to a garment fabric comprises a socket member, a plug member snappingly engageable therewith and a spring member accommodated in the socket. The socket member includes a cylindrical hub and a bottomless collet having an annular flange which has a plurality of ridges adapted to be folded radially inwardly over the spring and over the hub, respectively.

Abstract: A fiber separator for separating a bundle of fibers into individual fibers comprising a composite roller composed of a plurality of roller elements, each having the same bulging thick-center profile. The roller elements are provided to revolve along a circle so that the fiber bundle comes into contact with them alternately, while preferably they are not free to rotate about their respective axes arranged along the circle. The fiber separator is preferably used in preparing a fiber reinforced metallic or resin body.

Abstract: A method of making a variable capacitor microphone in which the fixed capacitor element is formed by first coating the metallized surface of a relatively rigid insulating substrate with a polarizable dielectric material and then placing the substrate on one of a pair of spaced electrodes positioned in an ionizable gas and subjecting the gas to the action of alpha rays to produce ions in the space between the electrodes while applying a potential across the electrodes to cause ions to migrate toward the dielectric material to polarize the same to form an electret. After the fixed capacitor element has thus been formed, it is mounted in spaced relationship to a flexible diaphragm to form a microphone.

Abstract: A flexure-controllable roll includes a hollow roll, a stationary crosshead extending lengthwise therethrough and hydrostatic support elements arranged in the clearance space between the hollow roll and crosshead. The support elements are formed with contact surfaces for abutting the inner circumference of the hollow roll. Hydrostatic bearing pockets are formed in the contact surfaces. The bearing pockets are supplied with a first pressurized fluid via throttling ports from a cylinder chamber of the support element. An additional feed line, provided in the crosshead, has a movable part that follows the movements of the support element for supplying a second pressurized fluid to the bearing pockets for regulating the temperature of the roll.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of repairing the joint portions of an existing gas pipe by a repairing device which is movable inside the pipe under remote control. The repairing device can be moved into and out of the gas pipe through a work opening formed in an upper portion of the gas pipe by boring means with gas flowing through the pipe and free of the hazard of gas leakage. This reduces the labor required for forming the work opening to start the repair work and for restoring the work opening portion to complete the repair work, consequently assuring a shortened work period and a reduced cost.

Abstract: An apparatus for taking out printed circuit boards, comprises a pin extracting device for extracting a plurality of pins erectly provided on a workpiece including printed circuit boards and a lower plate both of which are laminated, a reversing device for reversing the workpiece, a lower plate discharging device for discharging the lower plate from the workpiece, and a printed circuit board recovering device for recovering the printed circuit boards. The apparatus is capable of automatically taking out the printed circuit boards from the workpiece discharged from a perforator.

Abstract: A superalloy disk to be utilized for a rotating body of an aircraft or turbine engine is manufactured by a casting mold provided with a cavity having an inner shape for forming a disk. A molten bath of superalloy melted under a vacuum or an inert gas atmosphere is poured into the casting mold under a vacuum or an inert gas atmosphere and the casting mold with the molten bath is stirred so as to prepare a rough casting of fine crystal grains by applying an external force such as an eccentric centrifugal force. The thus produced disk material may be heated thereafter. The rough casting is formed of crystal grains less than 100 .mu.m in diameter, and a rate of strain during the rotational forging is less than 10.sup.0 /sec. amd more than 10.sup.-2 /sec.

Abstract: A device for changing styli or probes in a coordinate measuring machine has a magazine (330) with several stations each holding a stylus or probe (320). A holder (310) on the quill of the coordinate measuring machine has an opening (313A), so that kinematic support elements (325) in the holder (310) can be moved underneath cooperating kinematic support elements (324) on the stylus (320). When the holder (310) is engaged in the magazine (330), an extension plate (334) causes the arm (314) to swing out of the way. This arrangement enables the holder (310) to pick up the stylus (320) purely by translational movements of the holder (310), without the need for any separate motor or electromagnet to couple the stylus to the holder.

Abstract: A pressure responsive switch having upper and lower contact assemblies with a snap acting member and an electrically conductive member sandwiched therebetween. The assemblies each include an insulating body with a hollow center and an electrically conductive member having a contact in the center portion and extending externally of the body. The snap acting member is in constant engagement with the sandwiched conductive member and normally in engagement with the electrically conductive member of the upper assembly. When a pressure is applied which is sufficient to cause the snap acting member to snap into its second stable state, the connection thereof with the electrically conductive member in the upper contact assembly is broken and connection is made with the electrically conductive member in the lower assembly. The switch is normally closed by removing the portion of the electrically conductive member in the lower assembly which extends externally thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for accurately positioning a semiconductor chip onto a die bond pad region of a semiconductor package. A frame is constructed for slidable contact with peripheral walls of a semiconductor package die cavity. A frame central aperture with a wide upper opening and a narrower lower opening guides a semiconductor chip dropped therethrough into a precise position in the die cavity.

Abstract: A slide-fastener stringer is pulled through a gapping station by a motor operatively engaging the stringer without slip and at least one feed roller engaging the stringer upstream of the gapping station. A storage unit downstream of the feed roller and upstream of the gapping station loops the stringer upstream of the station in a variable-size loop and has a rotatable and movable buffer roller over which the stringer passes and a pair of rotatable but nonmoving buffer rollers flanking the movable buffer roller. The movable roller is urged away from the flanking rollers with a force sufficient to tension the stringer. The drive of the feed roller is operated in accordance with the position of the movable buffer roller for stretching the stringer between the buffer rollers by at most 1%. A gapper at the station periodically clamps and longitudinally arrests the stringer and then cuts the coupling elements therefrom at the station.

Abstract: A collector feeder has a mechanism for receiving a plurality of ducts into the collector feeder, a mechanism for directing the conduits toward one another to couple adjacent conduits with each other, and an exit enables the plurality of ducts to exit the collector feeder as an assembled multi-cell single conduit unit.

Abstract: A method of making a metal-on-elastomer pressure contact connector. The method includes embedding a plurality of parallel co-planar copper-beryllia wires comprising a plurality of coils in a silicone rubber elastomer with top and bottom surfaces, and removing metal from the tops and bottoms of the coils to form a pair of isolated wire filaments from each coil which extend from the top surface to the bottom surface of the elastomer. The filaments form arrays of electrical contacts above and below the elastomer exceeding 10,000 contacts per square inch.

Abstract: In the production of an assembled camshaft slid-on elements, such as control cams, bearing rings, gear wheels or bevel gears, are placed on an axially extending shaft tube. The slid-on elements are secured in place by expanding the shaft tube in the region of the elements by applying internal pressure. In producing the camshaft, a high strength material is used for the slid-on elements and an inferior strength material for the shaft. In the expanding step, an axially extending portion of the shaft tube is plastically deformed and the slid-on element is predominately elastically deformed. After expansion, the outer zone of the slid-on elements are elongated in the tangential direction in the range of 1%.

Abstract: A method of assembling a slant plate type compressor includes forming gaskets. The method includes forming gaskets in a plurality of at least five different thicknesses such that two thinner types of gasket have steel cores and the three thicker types of gaskets have aluminum cores. All five of the gasket thicknesses are given essentially the same compressibility by embossing the periphery of the gaskets with an identical embossment tool such as to give each gasket an embossment having the same height and width.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a piston for transferring an output force to a member in responsive to pressurized fluid being communicated to a bore in a housing. The piston has a cylinder body made of a plurality of triaxial braided layers of carbon fibers which are placed on a mandrel with spacers located between the layers to form an annular projection of a first end and a taper of a second end. The carbon fibers are inpregnated with a thermoset resin and cured to define a unitary solid structure. Thereafter a cone and collar, throughwhich an output force is suppled to member, is attached to the second en dand the unitary structure inserted in the bore.

Abstract: A method of using a rotor mountable fixture for guiding a cutting tool powered by a hand held air motor to machine a gas turbine engine rotor without removing the rotor from its mountings in the engine is provided. In one particular embodiment the fixture includes a root having the same contour as a blade root slot of a rotor, a base having a platform attached to the root, and a machining guide in the form of a bushing restrained in a guide slot operable to receive a guide a hand held air motor powered cutting tool for machining the rotor. The present invention provides an accurate means to machine a gas turbine engine rotor without removing the rotor from its mounting. In one particular embodiment a method for machining the rotor in the field is provided using a hand held air motor to power a machining tool to cut a blade damper pocket in the dovetail slot of a pressure compressor rotor.

Abstract: A flashback inhibiting fuel fired infrared burner has a housing with a base wall, a side wall section extending outwardly from the base wall periphery, and a side opening positioned opposite the base wall. Retained in and covering the housing side opening is a foranimous burner plate structure. An air-fuel mixture supply pipe extends forwardly into the housing interior through a front end of the side wall section into a rear end portion of the housing interior and has an open outlet end. A discharge end portion of the supply pipe is received in an open front end portion of a flow reversing tube having a closed rear end. The supply pipe and flow reversing tube are laterally shrouded within the housing by an elongated baffle member having outlet openings formed in longitudinally extending front and rear wall portions thereof, the total cross-sectional area of the outlet openings in the front longitudinal wall portion being greater than that of the outlet openings in the rear longitudinal wall portion.

Abstract: Repair of a steam generator tube is performed by crimping a tubular casing (18) in a zone (14) of the tube (12) in which a metallic coating (20) has been produced on the inner surface of the tube, for example by electrolytic deposition. The tubular casing (18) may consist of an attached sleeve (18), crimped in the tube (12). In the case of a tube crimped over only part of the length of the hole passing through the tube plate, the tubular casing may consist of the tube itself on which additional crimping is performed inside the hole which passes through the tube plate.

Abstract: A method for making an anisotropic or predominantly unidirectional wick primarily for use in heat pipes is disclosed unidirectional heat pipe wicks is made by supporting magnetically susceptible particles on a wire screen and moving the screen inside a magnetic field until the characteristic cone or point shapes assumed by the particles are aligned in a laid down orientation. The particles are then heat treated to yield a sintered wick. An example of a wick made with nickel powder demonstrates improved wicking in the direction pointed to by the laid down points. A wick is also made by the spinning pipe-slurry method for making heat pipe wicks. Magnetically susceptible powder is mixed into a viscous binder to make a slurry, then injected inside a rotating cylindrical heat pipe container. A magnetic field is created around the spinning container and varied to align the particles in a desired structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger assembled of a plurality of oval heat exchanging pipes whose end portions are mounted in a leakage proof manner in oval openings of top and bottom plates. The ratio of maximum and minimum diameters of intermediate portions of the pipes if 2.5:1 through 8:1 whereas the ratio of the maximum and minimum diameters of the oval openings in the end plates is 1.2:1 through 3:1. A method of mounting the pipe end portions in the oval openings is based on a preliminary shaping of the end portions by the application of pressure from the outside toward the center axis of the end portions in the direction of their maximum diameter. The preshaped end portions are inserted into sealing collars surrounding the edges of respective plate openings. Thereafter the end portions are expanded by means of mandrels to sealingly close the openings.

Abstract: A cutting squeezer tool is provided for a condiment foil pouch which consists of an elongated flat handle so that a person using the tool can grip the handle and a mechanism on the end of the handle for cutting the edge of the condiment foil pouch and for squeezing the contents out of the condiment foil pouch.

Abstract: A nail clipper is provided including a pair of crossed and pivotally connected levers defining handle ends and blade ends. A bowed spring is disposed between the handle ends and includes split sleeve portions engaged with and extending at least partially about and anchored relative to the handle ends against longitudinal displacement relative thereto and a locking sleeve is removably telescoped over the handle ends to releasably retain the latter against swinging movement away from each other. Further, the blade ends of the levers include opposing arcuate cutting edges abuttingly engaged with each other when the blade ends are in their closed positions and which, together, open laterally outwardly of the clipper in one direction along the axis of relative pivotal movement of levers.

Abstract: A rotary cutter having a handle, a cylindrical head formed on one end of the handle and having an internal cavity with a planar surface on each side, an actuating member is pivotally mounted in the cavity with a circular blade secured to one side of the actuating member in a parallel relation to one of the planar surfaces, a pivoting member is provided on the periphery of the head for moving the actuating member to an operative position with a portion of the blade projecting outwardly from the cylindrical head, the actuating member being biased to a storage position within the cylindrical member.

Abstract: Improved razor blades and methods for producing the blades. The cutting edge regions of the blades include a solid adherent coating which is the residue of a heated mixture of a fluorocarbon polymer and a silane. The mixture is applied to the cutting edge regions of the blade and heated to a temperature sufficient to melt the fluorocarbon. The coatings achieved in the practice of the invention provide blades having improved shaving performance characteristics for the blade.

Abstract: A punching tool for producing weep holes in a sill can utilized for window installations is disclosed. The tool has pivotally mounted jaws operable by a handle assembly with a punch formed flush with an end of a first jaw and a die opening provided in an end of a opposed second jaw. The pivotal connection of the jaws maintains the punch and die opening in arcuate alignment as the jaws are pivoted. A throat of the tool receives the upstanding leg of the sill can with the formed punch fitting flush against the bottom of the sill can and thus the tool will produce a weep hole in the upstanding leg flush with the interior bottom of the sill can as the jaws are pivoted toward each other. A large surface area surrounding the die opening in the second jaw prevents marring of the sill can exterior surface.

Abstract: A chain saw safety switch mounted in combination with a chain braking mechanism such that, when chain braking is initiated, both the chain motion about a chain guide bar and motor operation are automatically stopped. The safety switch according to one embodiment of the invention is mounted to the safety guard of the chain braking mechanism in a position such that it may be rendered operable by either a selective action of the saw operator or by the operator's reaction response to a hazardous operating condition. In either case, the safety switch effects short-circuiting of the motor ignition to stop all motor operation while at the same instant, the safety guard effects stoppage of the cutting chain motion about the chain guide bar. Alternatively, the safety switch is mounted in conjunction with the movable safety guard such that short-circuiting of the motor ignition is effected through the chain braking mechanism.

Abstract: The gauge comprises a platform (1) showing a band of parallel curves (3) arranged with points of maximum offset from the longitudinal axis of the platform and reflecting different heel-to-toe lengths which are repeated in a scale (4) marked along the edge flanking the inside of the foot (P); the breadth fit is measured by means of a tape (7) anchored slidably to the scale at one end, which is passed diagonally over the instep and back under the platform, clearing the outside edge, (15a), in such a way that graduated markings afforded by the remaining end (7a) can be read off against the inside edge.

Abstract: An adjustable wheel measuring gauge is capable of use in making multiple wheel measurements for identifying wheels. The gauge includes an elongated ruler with a first mating lug and a slider with a second mating lug. The ruler is generally rectangular in cross-section and has a pair of opposite top and bottom faces. Multiple measuring scales in millimeters and inches are provided on the top face. The first mating lug is fixedly attached at one end of the ruler and projects from the bottom face of the ruler. The first lug is adapted for self-centered mating with a desired location on a wheel to be measured. The slider defines a channel open at its opposite ends for receiving the ruler and mounting the slider in a sliding relation on the ruler. The slider has base and window portions bounding opposite sides of the channel and disposed along the opposite faces of the ruler. The window portion overlies the scales on the top face of the ruler.

Abstract: An inclination angle detector electrically detects an angle of inclination of an object of measurement with respect to the horizontal direction or the direction of gravitation. An inclination angle detector includes a bubble tube having a transparent container formed such that the inner surface of an upper part thereof has a spherical concave surface. The transparent container has a gas and a transparent liquid sealed therein. A light-emitting unit emits light towards the bubble tube from the upper or lower side thereof. A light-receiving element converts the light transmitted by the bubble tube into an electric signal. An operating unit calculates an angle of inclination based on the electric signal. The light-receiving element includes a light-receiving unit for position detection within a movable range of a bubble shadow and a light-receiving unit for reference outside the movable range.