Abstract: A vacuum is described which includes a housing having first, second, and third openings, a vacuum motor connected to the first opening of the housing, an elongated tube connected by one end to the second opening of the housing, and a receptacle removably connected to the third opening of the housing. The vacuum is useful for the removal and disposal of animal feces.

Abstract: A suction sweeping machine includes a filter arrangement for collecting debris from a fluid stream. The filter arrangement comprises an outlet leading into the filter arrangement, a container, preferably in the form of a plastic bag, for collecting debris and having an open upper end, and a porous tube which extends downwardly into the bag. The arrangement is such that a debris carrying fluid stream flowing from the outlet diffuses through the porous tube and out of the open end of the bag, while the debris remains within the bag. Preferably, the porous tube is flexible. In a preferred construction, the plastic bag is located in a compartment with an access door in a sidewall thereof, and a plurality of candle filters provide a secondary filter.

Abstract: A door stopping device is disclosed. It includes a fitting seat secured on a lower section of the door near the floor and a door stopper. The door stopper includes a base seat formed with a receptacle section for receiving a magnet and a pivot section, a supporting rod having a pivot end and an outer end, a pivot shaft pivotally connecting the pivot end of the supporting rod with the base seat, and a slipproof pad disposed on the outer end of the supporting rod. When the slipproof pad is located at a low position contacting with the floor, the frictional force between the slipproof pad and the floor serves to fully stop the door from moving due to external force. On the contrary, when the outer end of the supporting rod is shifted to a high position above the base seat, the door can be freely closed.

Abstract: A slider block assembly and method for making the same are disclosed. The slider block assembly is for use with an elongate guide channel having a pair of laterally spaced apart side walls and a pair of axially spaced apart base walls joined to the side walls with one of the base walls having an elongate slot therein. The slider block assembly comprises a slider block having a socket therein and a fastener having a generally spherical ball. Preferably, the slider block is axisymmetric having an annular side wall flange and an annular base flange extending from a main body. The side wall and base flanges are cooperatively biased against the side walls and base walls when the slider block is inserted in the guide channel to prevent the slider block from rattling therewithin while allowing the slider block to slide or roll within the guide channel.

Abstract: A utility handle for use with a plurality of implements. The handle includes a shaft portion and a handle portion, the handle portion including a plurality of grip portions. The grip portions positioned such that the user may grasp the handle in a variety of comfortable and ergonomic positions to relieve stress and fatigue occurring during use.

Abstract: A handle 10 includes a strap 12 having a central portion 14 and a pair of legs 16 depending therefrom. The central portion 14 is substantially covered by an insulating material 18 which extends down a portion of each leg 16. The insulating material 18 has an arcuate upper profile 20 and an arcuate lower profile 22. Ribs 28 running generally transverse to the length of the handle are provided on the lower arcuate profile 22. The legs 16 are arcuate. The insulating material is applied as a first, upper part 30 and a lower part 32 which define a channel 34 between them to accommodate the strap 12. In a preferred embodiment, a thermally isolated bolt 42 joins the first and second parts 30, 32 together. Various other features to improve grip, control, and safety of a grill lid or bowl used in conjunction with the handle 10 are disclosed.

Abstract: A handle device is adapted to be attached on an article having an upper wall with two spaced mounting holes. The handle device includes an elongated mounting plate, an elongated carrier strap, two resilient slide members and a blocking member. The mounting plate is adapted be disposed underneath the upper wall of the article, and has two spaced positioning seats adapted to be exposed outwardly of the mounting holes of the upper wall. Each of the positioning seats has a retaining stud. The carrier strap has two opposed end portions and two openings formed through the end portions and sleeved around the retaining studs in such a manner that the carrier strap is suspended by the retaining studs so as to define a clearance with the upper wall of the article for gripping the carrier strap. Each of the slide members can be snugly fitted on a corresponding one of the positioning seats when the slide member is slid from an outboard position to an inboard position relative to the positioning seat.

Abstract: A lubricated hinge pin having a hollow cylindrical body forming a grease reservoir. A plurality of ports are provided through the cylindrical body to lubricate an object pivotally attached to the pin. A grease fitting is provided at one end of the pin.

Abstract: The present invention is a spring hinge for generating torque. The spring hinge includes a shaft and a single helical element. The shaft has a surface with an outer diameter and is capable of rotation. The single helical element is wrapped about the shaft. The helical element includes a first end and a second end. The helical element produces a variable torque between the first and second ends.

Abstract: A hinge that provides equilibration and variable friction for a display screen or a laptop lid. In the preferred embodiment, a torsion rod provides a restoring force which increases as the lid is moved either direction from its vertical position. A friction hinge, of well know design, uses a spring band about a shaft. One end of the torsion rod is coupled to the end of the band of the friction hinge, so that the moment in the torsion rod increases or decreases the moment in the spring band of the hinge, modifying the frictional torque accordingly. This allows the frictional torque to be low as the lid is first opened, and larger as the display reaches the useful range of its motion.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for cleaning fibers by means of revolving rollers, the fiber mass being divided, expanded, and recombined while being successively transferred over at least three rollers, the outer surface of at least one of the rollers revolving in close proximity to, but spaced apart from, the other rollers, to form a substantially triangular enclosure therebetween, the apparatus including a first roller, driven at peripheral speed faster than the remaining rollers, arranged as a moving source of fiber supply at the beginning of the process and to receive and card fibers from the third of the rollers; a second, condenser roller, driven at a peripheral speed slower than the first roller, arranged to receive at least a part of the fiber mass from the first roller and to transport the fibers to the third roller; a third, opening roller, driven at a peripheral speed relatively slower than the first roller, arranged to receive fibers from the condenser roller and to transport the fibers back

Abstract: A process for direct ascertainment of setting values for point of autolevelling and/or amplification application (R, K) of a draw frame or carder with adjustable drafting of fiber sliver in which the autolevelling of the adjustable draw frame or carder is provided at least with one pilot control (10) in order to change the drafting of the fiber sliver (20) is proposed. The process accelerates optimation but not so that it may produce an inherent restlessness in the autolevelling of the draw frame. This is achieved if a function (a, b) is found through several measured values (CV1, CV2, CV3) of a quality-characterizing magnitude such as CV-value, the minimum of which (am, bm) results in an optimizing parameter such as the point of autolevelling or amplification application (R0, K0) for the autolevelling (10) of the draw frame or carder.

Abstract: This adjustment device comprises an adjustment link (6) provided with two parallel articulation axes (5,7) transverse to a bracelet, each serving to connect this adjustment link to two elements of the bracelet forming an endless attachment. This adjustment link is able to pivot about one of its axes (5) to that their respective positions are inverted, these two positions thus corresponding to two determined lengths of the bracelet. In the shorter adjusted position, the adjustment link (6) elastically engages in a recess (8c) of one of the articulated elements (8) of the adjustment link (6) by pressing this element (8) in the direction of the arrow (F.sub.7) so that the adjusted position is maintained as long as the adjustment link (6) has not moved out of the recess (8c) in which it is elastically held by the locking means (8d) of the recess (8c).

Abstract: A belt adjusting device comprises a belt webbing having a free end and a tensioned section. The belt adjusting device further comprises a holding part provided with a through passage for a belt webbing and a contact surface adjacent to the through passage. The contact surface is inclined relatively to a plane in which the through passage extends. The belt adjusting device further comprises an arresting part which is movable relatively to the holding part and comprises a deflection web. The deflection web comprises a clamping surface on its side facing the holding part. The belt webbing runs through the through passage, around the deflection web and back through the through passage. The free end of the belt webbing passes through the through passage between an edge of the through passage adjacent the contact surface and the tensioned section of the belt webbing.

Abstract: A garment strap retainer for use in retaining a strap of one piece of garment in a relatively fixed position with respect to another piece of garment and includes a first resilient member having a first end, an intermediate portion and a second end, a second resilient member having a first end, an intermediate portion and a second end, wherein the second resilient member is disposed adjacent the first resilient member such that the first ends of the resilient members are disposed adjacent one another in a relatively fixed manner and have a first retention contact point formed therebetween, the intermediate portions are movably disposed adjacent one another and the second ends are movably disposed adjacent one another and have a second retention contact point formed therebetween and wherein the second ends may be forcibly displaced from one another in a manner to break the retention contact point and to permit the strap to be positioned between the intermediate portions and upon replacement of the second ends

Abstract: A pull tab of a slide fastener slider includes a pull tab body formed of extruded thermoplastic synthetic resin having an internal hollow portion extending longitudinally or transversely therethrough, and an uneven outside surface which provides an ornamental function, said pull tab body having flexibility and elasticity an ornamental function by virtue of said hollow portion and the uneven outside surface. The pull tab body may be transparent or semitransparent in which instance an ornamental material is preferably embedded in the pull tab body to improve the aesthetical appearance of the pull tab. The pull tab body may further has a connecting portion at its one end for connection to a slider body, and a grip piece at the opposite end. The thermoplastic synthetic resin may be extrusion-molded to be a continuous blank. The blank is then cut into pull tab bodies of individual product widths. The pull tab with a flexibility and an ornamental function can be mass-produced by extrusion molding at a low cost.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for ejecting a loose film edge from a film stretching clip by directing a jet of fluid such as air through a channel in the clip and between adjacent clips at or before release of a film from the clip and also after release of the film.

Abstract: A flat-lid casket has a bottom, two opposing side walls connected to opposing sides of the bottom, and two opposing end walls connected to the opposing end of the bottom and to the two opposing side walls. Each of the two opposing end walls has a main panel, two side flanges, a bottom flange and a top flange. The two side flanges are fixed to the opposing side walls; the bottom flange is fixed to the bottom; and the top flange is folded against and fixed to the main panel. Further features of the casket include side wraps, end wraps and moldings. The main panels are trapezoidal in shape so as to form flared sides for the casket. Adjacent flat surfaces of the casket have mutually perpendicular corrugations for increased strength. The flat lid of the casket has a pair of elongate side members, a pair of elongate end members, a flat cover disposed over the top surfaces of the elongate side and end members, and a flat sheet disposed on the bottom surface of the cover.

Abstract: A casket shell comprises an elongated inner box and an elongated outer box. The inner box is congruently disposed in the interior region of the outer box and a core is sandwiched between the inner and outer boxes. The core includes a top surface attached to the inner box and a bottom surface attached to the outer box. The core can be made form a closed-celled material or a honeycomb material having a plurality of interconnected cylinders. Both inner and outer boxes are foldable to a generally planar configuration to minimize the volume during shipment. A casket shell in accordance with the present invention can also include a plurality of panels, each panel includes a core having a top surface and a bottom surface, first and second stabilizing surface element attached to the bottom and top surfaces, respectively. The panels connected together by a plurality of connectors to define the casket shell.

Abstract: A method of lining a casket with a liquid impervious liner comprises the steps of providing a casket shell having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and a bottom wall, providing a plastic liner having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and a bottom wall, inserting the liner into the casket, heating the liner to soften the liner, applying a pressure differential across the softened liner relative to the casket shell to urge the side, end and bottom walls of the softened liner into engagement with the side, end and bottom walls of the casket shell, and permitting the liner to cool. A combination casket and liner is constructed by the method.

Abstract: A combination punch and rivet tool, the tool being adapted to be mounted on the end of a robot arm, the tool comprising a C frame having two opposed sides, a punch die mounted on one side of the C frame, an anvil slidably mounted on said one side adjacent the punch die and selectively movable between a first position away from the punch die and a second position over the punch die, and a combination cylinder mounted on the other side of the C frame opposite the punch die, the combination cylinder comprising a coaxial inner punch and an outer rivet forming tool.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for first reliably and accurately aligning the shafts of golf clubs in consistent orientation relative to corresponding club heads during assembly thereof, and second for performing inductive curing on the aligned golf club. A golf club is supported in an address position in a combination alignment/inductive cure station. The club shaft is supported by an inclined V-shaped channel, and the club head is supported in a club head support which includes a gel-filled trough for conforming to the sole of the club head. The leading edge of the club head is aligned against two substantially vertical alignment posts extending from the club head support, and reference graphics on the shaft are used in combination with an alignment panel to visually obtain the desired relative orientation of the shaft and club head. The club is then clamped in place, and an inductive heating element heats the joint of the shaft and club head to activate a bonding agent.

Abstract: An error reduction and accommodation method and system can be used in an automated assembly environment. This method and system use a simple localized calibration process devised to improve similarity between an actual device and a simulated model when an off-line programming technique is used. The system uses grid-hole tables with modular fixtures holding the workpieces. The grid-hole table has round holes instead of screw holes or T-slots and allows modular fixtures with round pins to be placed on the grid-hole table with greater precision. A compliant coupling which is able to accommodate any small error in the system and when used with any end-tool, allows the assembly robot to carry out tasks within the modular system. The use of the grid-hole table and modular fixtures allows the robot, once taught the grid-hole table and the modular fixtures, to be subsequently programmed off-line to carry out any tasks with any standardized modular fixture placed any where on the grid-hole table.

Abstract: In an assembling line for assembling parts successively on engine base being moved on a conveyor, the conveyor comprises a plurality of conveyor divisions. Between two adjacent, i.e., preceding and succeeding, conveyor divisions, a self-running vehicle is provided, which receives an engine base with parts assembled thereon in the preceding conveyor division and parts to be assembled in the succeeding conveyor division and supplies the received work and parts to the succeeding conveyor division.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first conductive layer constituting a terminal electrode is formed on a first surface of the first substrate. A first insulating layer is formed on the first conductive layer. The first insulating layer and the second substrate are directly bonded to each other by at least one bond selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen bond and a covalent bond.

Abstract: A method for making an acoustic wave device. The method has steps of providing a substrate suitable for acoustic wave devices and processing the substrate to provide a patterned metallization thereon. The patterned metallization includes an acoustic wave filter pattern. The method also has steps of measuring a sheet resistance associated with the acoustic wave filter pattern, determining a resistance of a test pattern associated with the acoustic wave filter pattern to provide a measured resistance and computing an estimated average linewidth for the acoustic wave filter pattern from the measured resistance and the sheet resistance.

Abstract: An internal metal stitching method for repairing cracks in concrete comprising the steps of cutting slots to facilitate metal stitching brackets installed in saw cuts every two feet and at alternating angles to the crack. The concrete is marked using a stitching bracket as a template for marking out the concrete saw cuts. The saw cuts are made in the concrete following the outline of the bracket. The first cut is made along the length of the large bracket and the second and third cuts are made near the ends of each large bracket to accommodate end brackets which when fitted resemble a double "t". The saw cuts are cleaned and dried, filled with a filler resin, and the metal brackets are inserted and are submerged to 1/4" below the concrete surface. The filler is smoothed out to a level flush with the concrete surface. Additional decorative surfaces may then be applied, such as ceramic tiles, carpeting, linoleum or paint. Various shaped metal stitching brackets and a bracket made of filler are also disclosed.

Abstract: The process of the invention employs a post type fastening member that provides, at one end, an insertion friction connection to the circuit card and at the other end, extending through the heat sink, a compression spring means that urges the heat sink toward the cirduit card. A plurality of the post type fasteners are positioned around the periphery of the chip package to retain the heat sink parallel to the circuit card and compressing the chip package. The packaging structure of the invention permits larger area heat sinks than the chip package area to be supported by the circuit card with the only relationship with the chip being that of a compression thermal transfer contact and radiation shield.

Abstract: Method and continuous casting line for the continuous casting advantageously, but not only, of long products such as billets or blooms, whereby the solidification of the cast product (16) is completed at a position downstream of the outlet of the mould (13) and whereby the cast product (16) leaving a continuous casting machine (11) curving at a speed of at least 4 mts/min.

Abstract: A multistation press has a three-axis transfer provided with transport rails onto which carrier rails are placed. The carrier rails carry grippers for the workpieces. During the tool change, the carrier rails are deposited on corresponding receiving devices of the sliding table. The transport rail is at first moved to deposit a first carrier rail connected therewith on the receiving device. Then the transport rail is separated from the carrier rail and is moved to bring a second carrier rail still connected therewith to the receiving device. The receiving device receives the second carrier rail in the immediate vicinity of the first carrier rail, whereby two carrier rails overlap and are spaced closely side-by-side. The receiving device is then laterally swivelled away. The carrier rails are deposited on the receiving device without the aid of driving devices operating between the transport rail and the carrier rail.

Abstract: A method of passivating organic devices positioned on a supporting substrate including the steps of overcoating the organic device with a low temperature deposited film of dielectric material, and sealingly engaging an inorganic layer over the dielectric material so as to substantially hermetically seal the organic device. In a typical embodiment, the dielectric layer is SiO.sub.2 and the inorganic layer is a metal can.

Abstract: In the method for producing conductor bars for dynamoelectric machines, the conductor bars are inserted, with a main insulation (4), applied when dry, into a pressing device with the interposition of a separating film, are pressed to size in said pressing device and, together with the pressing device, are impregnated with impregnating resin in an impregnating vessel and cured.In order to increase the dimensional accuracy of the conductor bars and to simplify the production method, the dry-insulated conductor bars are inserted (10, 11) individually into a pressing device which is adapted to the bar shape and surrounds the conductor bar over its entire length and circumference and are pressed to the final dimension in said pressing device. Subsequently, a plurality of conductor bars thus prepared are inserted together with the associated pressing device into the impregnating vessel and impregnated there with impregnating resin.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing laminated parts from a plurality of laminas, in which the laminas for forming the laminated parts are blanked from strip stock material. The laminas and are then cut and stacked to form the laminated part. The apparatus includes a measuring device, such as a linear variable differential transducer, for measuring the thickness of successive sections of the strip stock at a first location of each section. The measuring device also measures the thickness of the strip stock sections at a second location of each section. A controller, such as a computer or a programmable logic controller, receives the thickness values at the first location and second location of the strip stock sections from the measuring device and computes a value of a difference therebetween. The controller also computes a running sum of the difference values for the strip stock sections and compares the difference values sum to a predetermined value.

Abstract: An electric motor including a permanent-magnet rotor having embedded magnets held in place by several segments. The embedded magnets are secured by segments including non-circular openings near their centers. Several non-magnetic, non-conductive bars extend through the non-circular openings of the segments to secure the segments in relation to the shaft. The motor is capable of producing high torque while only requiring a minimum amount of space.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating a porous ceramic composite having voltage-variable dielectric properties. The composite is made as follows. A polycrystalline ferroelectric powder, which is a ferroelectric perovskite such as barium strontium titanate, for example, is provided. The powder, a binder and a filler are then mixed in water to form a slurry. The powder-binder-filler slurry is then dried. The dried powder-binder-filler slurry is granulated. The granulated powder-binder-filler is pressed into a die. The binder and filler are then burned out to form a fragile porous ash-like structure. The porous structure is then sintered to form porous ceramic parts. The porous ceramic parts are then machined tiles. The machined porous tiles may then be tested for microwave properties. Fabrication methods for producing porous ferroelectric ceramic-polymer composite tiles or subaperture blanks and continuous transverse stub electronically scanned antenna plates or subapertures are also disclosed.

Abstract: A head suspension assembly, for use in a magnetic rigid disk storage device, has an electrical conductor adherently secured along the length of the suspension and insulated from the surface of the load beam by means of a layer of dielectric insulating material. The suspension assembly is fabricated with capacitive coupling reducing areas or apertures to reduce the capacitive coupling between the electrical conductors and the metal surface of the head suspension.

Abstract: A magnetic head suspension, wherein the interconnection wiring is integrated with a spring-like metal suspension member, is manufactured by first preparing a laminated plate comprised of a flexible insulating base sandwiched between a resilient metal layer and a layer of an electrical conductor. The electrical conductor layer and resilient metal layer are respectively formed into the desired circuit wiring pattern and a suspension member, unnecessary portions of the insulating base are removed, the wiring pattern is provided with a protective layer and the suspension member is mechanically formed into a desired final configuration.

Abstract: For a slider having convex curvature along its length, or "crown", a method for reducing fly height variation due to crown by shifting the peak of the crown toward the leading end, and the resultant slider structure. In a preferred method, peak shifting is accomplished in a slider with symmetrical crown by affixing a suspension to the bonding surface of the slider near the leading end. The bonding process creates a displacement force upon the slider to effect the shift. An alternative approach reshapes a row of sliders prior to rail shaping, e.g., by sand or bead blasting.

Abstract: A thin film slider with an on-board multi-layer integrated circuit includes a substrate with an air bearing surface and a substantially parallel upper surface spanned by a deposit end. A magnetic head being formed at the deposit end, positioned to magnetically exchange data with a magnetic recording medium that passes beneath the air bearing surface. The upper surface bears an integrated multi-layer accessory circuit, which may be prepared using the CUBE process. Hence, components and vias of the different circuit layers are attached by interconnections that span the edges of the circuit layers. The accessory circuit preferably includes one or more memory devices, such as a cache memory, a DRAM circuit, an EPROM circuit, or another memory circuit appropriate to the application. In embodiments where the magnetic head is a magnetoresistive ("MR") head, the accessory circuit may also include a pre-amplifier and a sensing circuit to support operation of the MR head.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for assembling an inflator and an air bag unit into an inflator-air bag assembly. The apparatus comprises a frame and a holder device coupled to the frame. The holder device includes a movable nest adapted to receive an air bag unit and an inflator. The air bag unit has at least one stud which is capable of passing through at least one stud receiving opening provided in the inflator. The nest is adapted to move the air bag unit and the inflator such that the stud is moved to a nut-applying station. The apparatus further includes a driver unit coupled to the frame which is adapted to secure the nut to the stud to assemble the inflator and the air bag unit into an inflator-air bag assembly. The apparatus additionally includes a clamping element movably coupled to the support structure for engaging the inflator when the support structure is in the nut-securement position so as to act with the nest to clamp the inflator and the air bag unit together.

Abstract: An apparatus for stripping sheathing from longitudinally axially extending wire at controllable depth comprising a frame; a carriage on the frame linearly movable longitudinally; wire clamp structure on the carriage for sidewardly clamping the wire sheathing, at a location spaced from the end of the wire advanced past the clamp structure, the clamp structure movable longitudinally by the carriage; a rotating spindle on the frame and blade structure on the spindle and rotatable thereby to rotatably cut into the wire sheathing, the blade structure having cutting edges; structure to control the depth of cutting of the blade structure into the sheathing, and as the spindle rotates; and first drive structure operatively connected with the carriage to carry the wire to longitudinally selected positions at which the blade structure then cuts into the sheathing to controlled depth, the carriage being retractable so that a cut plug of the sheathing is pulled endwise off the wire.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing electrical harnesses including wires and electrical connectors comprises a pair of wire measuring rollers, a pair of connector tables located respectively at a first and a second locations for setting connectors thereon, which first location being near the rollers and the second location being in the wire feeding direction away from the first location, a wire feeding head disposed near a first connector table located at the first location and axially movable between the first and second locations, and a vertically movable wire pressing blade disposed on the first connector table, wherein a second connector table on which a down-facing connector is set and a third connector table on which an up-facing connector is set can be replaced with each other at the second location.

Abstract: An instrument panel harness is arranged between an instrument panel and a body, and can be easily connected to other wire harnesses, thereby reducing the time and labor required for the operation. A junction box, connected to an instrument panel harness is divided into a first junction box, having a large-current circuit, and a second junction box having a small-current circuit, and a pair of collective-fitting connector portions, fitted together, are provided on the first and second junction boxes, respectively. The first junction box is attached to an instrument panel, and is connected to the instrument panel harness. The second junction box is attached to a body panel and a plurality of harness connector portions, fitted respectively on wire harnesses, are provided on the second junction box.

Abstract: A strain relief device (10) for wires is formed of a nonconductive plate (12) having a central axis (18) and a plurality of through-holes (14) distributed around the central axis (18). Each through-hole has a diameter selected to permit a wire to pass through it without binding. The non-conductive plate (12) includes a plurality of shoulders (20), one shoulder associated with each through-hole (14) and located between its associated through-hole and the outer perimeter of the plate (12). A preferred method of using the strain relief device is also described.

Abstract: A fluid cooled article having a protective coating on a surface, for example an air cooled gas turbine engine article having a Thermal Barrier Coating, includes through an article wall a fluid cooling passage, and typically a plurality of passages, having openings sized to maintain desired fluid flow, unobstructed by coating within the passage at an exit opening. The passage has a first or inlet opening, which establishes the amount of fluid flow through the passage, and a second opening through which the flow exits the passage through a wall surface on which the coating is deposited.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically assembling capped, sealant containing, twist-on wire connectors with the system interruptible if the components are not available for assembly, but allowing for the carrying of faultily assembled components through the assembly process without further assembly thereon, so that the improperly assembled components can be delivered to the proper recycling bin to assure that only the properly assembled capped, sealant containing, twist-on wire connectors are sent to packaging for shipment to a customer.

Abstract: An electric razor is provided with a switch clasp on the surface of the main case which can slide up and down to three detents, and a trimmer which opens and closes by operation of the switch clasp. When the switch clasp is moved up to the first detent, power is turned on; when the switch clasp is moved up to the second detent, the trimmer is opened and activated; and when the switch clasp is moved up to the third detent, the trimmer is maintained in the open state but is powered down for cleaning.

Abstract: Presented is a cigar cap-cutting and ejection tool provided with a very sharp circular cutting edge susceptible of being pressed into the cap-end of a cigar to thereby define the configuration of the central cigar cap-end portion to be cut from and withdrawn from the cigar by the tool. Plunger members are provided in the tool manipulable from the end opposite the circular cutting edge for ejecting the cut central cap-end portion of cigar from within the tool.

Abstract: A flexible line trimmer having a rotating cutting head using a spool of flexible trimming line to form a cutting element is provided with a spare spool of cutting line, stored in various locations on the flexible line trimmer, available to replace the spool of trimming line after it is depleted.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a cutter blade support for a pair of knives of a hedge trimmer. The cutter blade support includes first and second bars conjointly defining a space therebetween. First and second cutter blades are arranged in the space and define respective sets of apertures formed therein. The first bar has openings formed therein and a plurality of threaded bolts are held in the second bar. The threaded bolts extend through the respective sets of apertures and have respective end portions extending through the openings in the first bar. Attachment nuts are disposed on the first bar and threadably engage corresponding ones of the end portions. The threaded bolts are pressed into the second bar so as to be tightly held therein and so as to be nonrotatable with respect thereto.