Abstract: A batting glove includes a plurality of finger elements, a thumb element, a top portion, and a lower portion. The finger elements cover fingers, the thumb element covers a thumb, the top portion covers a back side of the hand, and the lower portion covers a palm of the hand. Preselected thicknesses of preselected materials are included in order to protect the bones, ligaments, pulleys, tendons, etc. of a wearer from direct shock, and to distribute stress along the hand.

Abstract: A knee pad for providing fall protection of a knee is disclosed. The knee pad is a flexible single piece flat pad made of encased resilient polymeric material and is configured to have a top edge portion having a crown for protecting patella of a knee, a pair of first and second side edge portions, and a bottom edge portion. The first side edge portion has an extended flap for protecting a side of the knee. The knee pad can be reversed, front to back, for selectively protecting either medial aspect or lateral aspect of the knee. Furthermore, the knee pad can be held in position by a body tight garment without additional attachment devices. Also disclosed is a multifunctional body protection pad that can be used interchangeably for providing fall protection of a knee or a hip.

Abstract: A rubber glove comprising a main rubber layer and an inner covering layer, bonded to the main rubber layer, containing resin particles is disclosed. The resin particles are partially exposed on the skin-contacting surface of the inner covering layer to an extent such that, among resin particles visually observed in unit area of the skin-contacting surface, resin particles having a maximum particle diameter of 2-20 &mgr;m have a total projected area ratio A of 5-50%, as defined by the formula: A(%)=B/C×100, where B is total projected area of resin particles with a maximum particle diameter of 2-20 &mgr;m, and C is the unit area. The rubber glove can be easily donned and pulled off, and resin particles do not fall or do fall off only to a very slight extent upon donning or pulling off, and, when the inner covering layer is placed in contact with each other, the layer does not easily stick to each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multifunctional foot spa comprising a chassis; a container disposed on the chassis comprising a left part and a right part; a foot rest arranged between the left part and the right part; central massage means including a massage axle and a massage accessory positioned on the foot rest; driving means comprising a plurality of motors for respectively driving the central massage means and producing hydraulic vibrations and bubbles in water filled in the container; heating means including a circuit for keeping the water at a predetermined temperature, and control means for controlling the driving means and heating means, wherein a plurality of holes and bulges are well-distributed on the base surface of the container, and a plurality of releasable and rotatable massage rollers are provided to match a plurality of recesses at the center of the base surface.

Abstract: A bed is provided for supporting a patient thereon. The bed includes a first bed component that is movable relative to a second bed component. The bed further includes a position detector configured to detect the position of the second bed component relative to the first bed component.

Abstract: A vacuum pad suitable for use with a head rest of a stretcher is configured to support the head of a patient supported on the stretcher. The vacuum pad has a non-rigid state wherein the vacuum pad is formable and a rigid state wherein the vacuum pad is non-formable. The vacuum pad includes side walls with top edges positioned to lie at an elevation above the head rest. The top edges of the vacuum pad provide a wrist rest surface that is formable when the pad is in the non-rigid state.

Abstract: Support or padding including expandable cells whose cell body in its resting state seen in transverse section is individually delimited by at least two concentric perimeters, the walls of the cell in its resting state rejoining each of the perimeters characterized by the fact that the portion of the wall of the cell rejoining two points located each on one of the concentric perimeters 6 and 7 can be strictly in a straight line during its centripetal path, if between two other points 28 at the entrance of the successive fissures, slits or clefts 4 located on the external perimeter 7 the path followed takes at least for a certain length an aspect strictly of a straight line or flat part 29, one of the last two points 28 being the same as the first one located on the external perimeter 7 at the junction or exit of a fissure; all of the consecutive points of this flat part 29 being further away or distal in relation to the center 24 of the cell than the other points, outside of the flat part 29, constitutive of t

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus comprising a drum for containing and agitating an article, wherein the drum comprises at least two rotatable drum portions in rotatable connection with one another, a rotator member in connection with each rotatable drum portion for rotating the drum portion about an axis. The apparatus is preferably a washing machine, and the method of operating the apparatus comprises inserting at least one article, preferably a plurality of articles, into the drum; and rotating each rotatable drum portion independently of one another to agitate the article or articles.

Abstract: The subject-matter of the invention is a composition for the oxidation dyeing of keratinous fibres, in particular of human keratinous fibres, such as hair, comprising at least one para-phenylenediamine derivative as oxidation base, in combination with at least one coupler of meta-aminophenol or meta-diphenol type, and the dyeing process employing this composition.

Abstract: The disclosure pertains to oxidation dyes containing at least one pyrimidine derivative with 2-4 amino substituents and 0-2 hydroxy substituents on the pyrimidine ring in combination with 1-(2′hydroxyethyl)-2,5-diaminobenzene and/or 2-(2′-hydroxyethyl amino)-5-aminiotoluene as developers. These oxidation dyes are characterised by a high degree of wash colour fastness and good levelling properties. 2,4,5,6-tetraaminopyrimidine and 4-hydroxy-2,5,6-triaminopyrimidine are preferred pyrimidine derivatives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a ready-to-use composition for the oxidation dyeing of keratin fibers, and in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising, in a medium which is suitable for dyeing, at least one oxidation base, at least one C4-C8 ether of a C2 glycol and/or at least one C1-C8 ether of a C3-C9 glycol and at least one enzyme of 2-electron oxidoreductase type in the presence of at least one donor for the said enzyme, and to the dyeing process using this composition.

Abstract: Compositions for oxidation dyeing keratin fibers, such as human keratin fibers like hair, comprising, in a dyeing medium, (1) at least one oxidation dye, and (2) a combination comprising at least one cyclohomopolymer of dialkyldiallylammonium and at least one other particular quaternary polyammonium. Processes comprising such oxidation dyeing compositions.

Abstract: Compositions for oxidation dyeing of keratinous fibers, for example, human keratinous fibers such as hair, comprising, in a medium suitable for dyeing, at least one enzymatic oxidizing agent and at least one oxidation dye chosen from the pyridine compounds and acid addition salts, of formula (I) and processes comprising such compositions.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner hose has a helical reinforcement and a compressible channel extending along the hose between the reinforcement. The channel is formed between two overlapping layers of flexible material bonded together where they extend over the reinforcement and unbonded where they extend between the reinforcement. Passages containing valves connect one end of the channel to the outlet of a vacuum cleaner pump and to its inlet so that air can be either supplied to the channel to extend the hose or withdrawn from the channel to retract the hose.

Abstract: An extraction machine for cleaning a floor surface, such as carpeting, has a cleaning solution dispenser capable of dispensing a chemical cleaning agent onto the floor surface, and a source of chemical cleaning agent carried onboard the extraction machine and defining an interior space for holding chemical cleaning agent. The container has an opening and a closure for the opening, with the closure having a passage extending therethrough in fluid communication with the interior space of the container. A chemical delivery line provides fluid communication between the passage and the cleaning solution dispenser for delivering chemical cleaning agent from the container to the cleaning solution dispenser. A metering device is disposed generally adjacent the container closure in fluid communication with the passage for metering the flow of chemical cleaning agent from the source of cleaning agent.

Abstract: A handle construction comprises a fixed portion coupled to a tube which can be connected to the suction system, a movable portion, which can turn with respect to the fixed portion and having a suction inlet element, an electric drive for driving the device, and being characterized in that the electric drive is coupled to the fixed portion of the handle.

Abstract: A rotary brush attachment tool for a hand-held vacuum cleaner having a dust bowl terminating in a nozzle end provides a mechanical force that acts to move foreign matter into the attachment tool from which the foreign matter is drawn into the nozzle end of the dust bowl of the hand-held vacuum cleaner to which it is removably attached.

Abstract: An adjustment assembly enables lateral adjustment of the position of a pivot connection of a first member relative to a second member in a window assembly having a first member, a second member, and a rotatable pivot-mounting element. The pivot-mounting element includes a first pivot-mounting section with a first pivot axis operatively connected to the first member and a second pivot-mounting section operatively connected to the second member. The second pivot-mounting section has a second pivot axis that is generally parallel to and offset from the first pivot axis. An engager section is located intermediate the pivot-mounting sections. Finally, a locking member is provided to cooperate with the engager section and is movable relative to the engager section between a retention position and a release position.

Abstract: A hinge unit is formed of a case with an inside wall, a rotating cam freely rotatably accommodated inside the case, a slide cam accommodated inside the case such that the slide cam is prevented from rotating relative to the case and is moved freely in an axial direction along the inside wall of the case, and an urging device accommodated inside the case to urge the slide cam toward the rotating cam. Cam surfaces are formed on the rotating cam and the slide cam to abut against each other. The cam surfaces has a contact range from a full-surface contact to a partial contact according to a relative rotational angle of the slide cam and rotating cam.

Abstract: The door handle assembly includes a door handle which pivots about a pivot axis. A molded-in gear rack is formed on the door handle. The gears of the molded-in gear rack mesh with gears of a rotational damper so that the door handle pivots in concert with the rotation of the gears of the rotational damper. Furthermore, the rotational damper is generally cylindrical and further includes two pairs of radially outwardly extending wings. The rotational damper passes through an aperture in a damper support plate and the first pair of radially outwardly extending wings engage a first side of the damper support plate and engage or abut detent elements. The second pair of radially outwardly extending wings engage a second side of the damper support plate and limit the insertion of the damper through the damper support plate.

Abstract: The fastening device is for releasably engaging a fastening element connected to one of the ends of the shoulder-strap of a handbag. The device comprises an inner plate-like element to be disposed against an inner surface of the handbag, an outer body to be disposed on an outer surface of the handbag in a position corresponding to that of the inner plate-like element, and to be fixed to the inner plate-like element on the handbag, and a slider mounted for sliding on the outer body and defining therewith a fastening seat which can be opened and closed.

Abstract: A snap-type buckle is disclosed including a buckle portion having a front surface and a rear surface and including an upper eyelet and a lower eyelet for receiving a strap, a recess extending through the rear surface, and a plurality of tabs located proximate the rear surface and extending radially inwardly. A button portion is configured for attachment to the strap and includes a step for engagement with the tabs of the recess. An embodiment of the snap-type buckle includes an aperture in the buckle portion to facilitate removal of the button portion from the buckle portion. Another embodiment of the snap-type buckle includes a spring arm extending across the recess proximate the front surface to facilitate removal of the button portion from the buckle portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a shoelace tightening device.

Abstract: An abrasive sheet for texturing of magnetic recording media which comprises an entangled ultrafine fiber nonwoven fabric made of three-dimensionally entangled ultrafine fiber bundles composed of ultrafine fibers (A) and a high-molecular elastomer occurring in a porous state in spaces among the entangled ultrafine fibers, with the high-molecular elastomer occurring therein without substantially confining most of the ultrafine fiber bundles and which is characterized in that there is a nap consisting of ultrafine fibers (B) having a fineness of not more than 0.03 dtex on at least one side of that sheet is excellent in precision and stability in processing.

Abstract: There is provided a sample warper which comprises a warper drum, a plurality of conveyor belt, conveyor belt feed means, a plurality of yarn introduction means, a plurality of yarn selection means, a plurality of shedding means, and creel means for supporting a plurality of bobbins, wherein the feed rate of the conveyor belt can be changed in accordance with the number of yarns to be warped simultaneously on the basis of preset warping conditions and warping designs. Accordingly, undulation can be prevented from occurring on a surface of wound yarns due to change in the number of the yarns to be warped simultaneously.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for manufacturing a current collector for a secondary battery. In the current collector manufacturing method, a current collector source material is first prepared, pre-treated and then passed between rollers, one of which has patterns shaped like openings to be formed in the source material to then coat a pattern forming composition. Then, the resultant is dried and etched to form the openings, thereby completing the current collector. The current collector manufacturing apparatus includes a main roller, a guide roller coupled to the main roller so that the current collector passes therebetween, and a pattern forming composition storage unit, installed under the main roller, for supplying the pattern forming composition to a patterned portion.

Abstract: A piezoelectric/electrostrictive device includes: a driving portion which is driven by displacement of a piezoelectric/electrostrictive element, a movable portion which operates on the basis of a drive of the driving portion, and a fixed portion for supporting the above driving portion and movable portion. It has a driving portion including thin plates facing each other and a thin film piezoelectric/electrostrictive element formed on the surface of at least one of the thin plates, and the above fixed portion and the above movable portion are joined by the driving portion. In this piezoelectric/electrostrictive element, the movable portion can largely be displaced, and it is not easily affected by a harmful vibration in operation, and it is excellent in mechanical strength, handling efficiency, impact resistance, and moisture resistance.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing a burr from an aperture in a workpiece, using a rotating deburring tool having a flexible or partly flexible shaft, an abrasive mechanism that rotates on the shaft and a collar that protects the workpiece from abrasion when the abrasive mechanism is being positioned for deburring. Optionally, the shaft and abrasive mechanism move laterally as they rotate. Optionally, a shaft holder includes a protective surrounding sleeve to catch or deflect any fragment of the shaft holder that might fly off. Optionally, the shaft and the workpiece rotate independently of each other. Two or more different abrasive mechanisms can be simultaneously attached to the shaft. The cross-sectional shape of the abrasive mechanism may be curvilinear and/or polygonal, depending upon shape of the workpiece surface. Optionally, a shaft restrictor receives the shaft and limits lateral motion of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A milling, drilling, and grinding spindle is provided to practically use the space between bearings. The spindle comprises a clamping chuck and a release unit for tensioning and releasing the clamping chuck. The tensioning and releasing is performed for exchanging a tool to be applied in each case. The release unit viewed in the longitudinal direction of the tool spindle is disposed between the clamping chuck and a drive of a shaft, and in particular between bearings of the shaft. The spindle may be motor or belt driven. The release unit may be formed by an integrated pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder and a connecting rod, which can be displaced by means of the cylinder.

Abstract: Elastic strips of a keyboard and a method for producing the same. An elastic sheet is produced by using a mold, wherein the elastic sheet has a plurality of rows of elastic domes formed thereon. Then, the elastic sheet is cut into a plurality of elastic strips, each of which has only one row of elastic domes.

Abstract: A convertible flange insertion machine for the insertion of a pair of internally threaded flanges into a drum head of a shipping container is disclosed. The machine includes a pair of continuously moving drum head conveyor chains running along conveyor supports and between a pair of tooling dies that upon compression insert flanges into the drum head. A pair of flange conveyors run along side the drum head conveyor and include a pair of side rails with two lips for guiding the lips of flanges according to two different flange styles. The flange conveyors terminate at a lateral transfer mechanism. One lateral transfer mechanism includes an indexer with two pawls that sequentially indexes flanges in a two step procedure over a pair of spring loaded stops and into the receiving pocket of a tooling block. The tooling block places the flanges over the tooling die where a release assembly forces the flanges out of the tooling block and onto the die.

Abstract: A liquid absorbent base for a liquid beverage container used in the Food and Beverage Industry. A liquid absorbent wafer is provided that is secured onto the base of the container. The liquid-absorbent base and beverage container are used in combination as a liquid-absorbent substrate for cleaning up spillage and liquid condensate.

Abstract: An aluminum drive shaft includes an aluminum alloy torque tube and aluminum alloy yokes that are pressed into each end section of the torque tube and welded to the end of the torque tube. Each end section is reduced in diameter and joined to a larger central section by a transition section. The end sections and transition sections are formed by swaging the ends of an aluminum alloy tube blank radially inwardly in two stages. The transition sections include an annular rib in the form of a concentric circular band located midway between inner and outer conical portions. The annular ribs stiffen the transition sections to reduce oil canning and noise.

Abstract: In a method for fabricating a surface mountable chip inductor, a spiral coil pattern is formed on a surface of a cylindrical body fabricated by mixing ferrite or ceramic powder with thermoplastic organic binder, the cylindrical body is transformed into a square-shaped body by being inserted into a square-shaped mold and being applied pressure at a certain temperature. An electric characteristic lowering problem can be prevented by forming the coil on the cylindrical body, and transforming the cylindrical body into a square-shaped body is advantageous to surface mounting.

Abstract: After forming a bottom shield layer on a substrate, a GMR element embedded within a shield gap layer is formed. After forming a write gap layer on a first magnetic layer and an inorganic insulating layer, a second magnetic layer is formed to have a pole portion within a cut-out portion of the inorganic insulating layer and a connecting portion extending above the inorganic insulating layer. A third magnetic layer is formed that makes contact not only with a surface of the pole portion of the second magnetic layer but also with side walls of the pole portion. The thin film magnetic head has a narrow pole chip defining a track width, although the throat height is small, saturation and leakage of a magnetic flux can be suppressed, thin film magnetic head having a high recording efficiency can be manufactured with a high yield.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic disk apparatus including a magnetic reproducing head portion, and a magnetic recording head including an upper magnetic core having a end portion and a rear portion. As a resist for a frame which is used for forming the rear portion, a negative resist or an electron beam resist is used, whereby the frame is formed without any adverse effect of halation from a coil insulating film. That is, it is possible to manufacture a magnetic recording head in which the rear portion of an upper magnetic core is not emerged at the face opposed to a medium, and hence to obtain a magnetic disk apparatus exhibiting an areal recording density of 5 Gbit/in2 or more by mounting a magnetic recording/reproducing head including such a magnetic recording head.

Abstract: Printed circuit boards with integral high and low value resistors are efficiently produced. The method of their manufacture entails applying a first layer of a low resistance material onto a dielectric substrate in a predetermined thickness and pattern. The pattern defines the electrical lengths and widths of low value resistors, as well as pairs of terminal electrode pads for the high value resistors. A second layer of a high resistance material is applied between and in contact with the top surfaces of the facing ends of each member of the terminal pad pairs. The fixed lengths, widths and thicknesses of the patterned high resistance material determine the values of the high value resistors. Conductive metal terminals are provided at the ends of the low value resistors and at the distal ends of the high value resistor pad pairs to complete the resistors.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode plate for a battery includes the following: the regions on both sides of and close to a portion of an electrode sheet to be cut are each fixed between the cutting edges of a pair of upper and lower cutting dies, i.e., the cutting edges of the adjacent cutting dies are in contact with only the regions on both sides of and close to the portion to be cut; two adjacent pairs of upper and lower cutting dies on both sides of the portion to be cut are moved in opposite directions (upward and downward), and thus the electrode sheet is cut at the portion to be cut, resulting in nickel electrode plates having a width of 50 mm and length of 100 mm. This method can suppress the adhesion of fragments to the electrode plate surface and the generation of burrs, thereby reducing the short-circuit failure between the electrode plates incorporated into a battery.

Abstract: On the delivery side of a device in which tubular sleeves (25) for battery plates are produced from web-shaped separator material, there is a compartmented star (40) with several compartments (41). After a sleeve (25) has been inserted into the compartment (41), the compartmented star (40) is turned to move the compartment (41) with the sleeve (25) held in it into the insertion position. In the insertion position the sleeve (25) in the compartment (41) is pushed by a stop (52) so far that its insertion-side end is pushed over the legs (56) of the spreading elements (55). Through the end of the sleeve (25) held open by the spreading elements (55) a plate is inserted until it rest against the stop (52). Then the sleeve (25) with the plate pushed into it is pulled out of the compartment (41) laterally by rollers (60) and delivered for further use.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding a printed wiring board, including a holding table which has a flat upper surface and a plurality of negative-pressure-supply holes each of which has an opening in the upper surface, a holding member which is attachable to the upper surface of the holding table such that a lower end surface of the holding member is held in close contact with a portion of the upper surface that surrounds the opening of one negative-pressure-supply hole, the holding member having a negative-pressure passage which is formed therethrough to connect between the lower end surface and an upper end surface thereof, the holding member supporting, at the upper end surface thereof, the printed wiring board, and applying a negative pressure supplied from the negative-pressure-supply hole via the negative-pressure passage, to the board and thereby holding the board, and a plurality of opening and closing valves which are associated with the plurality of negative-pressure-supply holes, respectively, each of the open

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically resetting a printed-wiring-board supporting device including a supporting table and at least one supporting member which is set on a supporting surface of the supporting table to support a back surface of a printed wiring board, the apparatus including a storing device in which the supporting member is stored, a holding head which holds the supporting member, a moving device which moves the holding head relative to each of the supporting table and the storing device, and a control device which controls, according to prescribed control information, the moving device so that the holding head takes the supporting member from a storing position in the storing device and sets the supporting member at a setting position on the supporting surface of the supporting table, and takes the supporting member from the setting position and stores the supporting member at the storing position.

Abstract: A tape guide for guiding a carrier tape in a component mounting machine, a tape magazine for receiving the tape guide, and a system including the tape guide and the tape magazine. The carrier tape carries components that are positioned in sequence on the carrier tape and are covered by a cover tape. The tape guide includes an exposure mechanism for exposing the components at a picking position, wherein the exposure mechanism includes a separator for separating and lifting a lateral portion of the cover from the carrier tape, leaving the remaining portion of the cover at least partially attached to the carrier tape, and for bringing the lifted portion of the cover aside. The tape guide also includes a lock for enabling ready and quick attachment and detachment of the tape guide to and from the component mounting machine, a guiding for guiding the carrier tape towards a picking position, and a retainer for preventing accidental displacement of the carrier tape along the tape guide.

Abstract: A method of mounting a plurality of electric components on a circuit substrate and thereby producing an electric circuit, including the steps of taking, immediately before each of the electric components is mounted on the circuit substrate, a first image of a first portion of the circuit substrate on which the each electric component is to be mounted and a second portion of the circuit substrate that is adjacent to the first portion, mounting the each electric component on the circuit substrate, taking, immediately after the each electric component is mounted on the circuit substrate, a second image of the mounted electric component and the second portion adjacent to the mounted electric component, and inspecting, by comparing the first and second images with each other, a state in which the each electric component is mounted on the circuit substrate.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a high density test probe which provides a means for testing a high density and high performance integrated circuits in wafer form or as discrete chips. The test probe is formed from a dense array of elongated electrical conductors which are embedded in an compliant or high modulus elastomeric material. A standard packaging substrate, such as a ceramic integrated circuit chip packaging substrate is used to provide a space transformer. Wires are bonded to an array of contact pads on the surface of the space transformer. The space transformer formed from a multilayer integrated circuit chip packaging substrate. The wires are as dense as the contact location array. A mold is disposed surrounding the array of outwardly projecting wires. A liquid elastomer is disposed ion the mold to fill the spaces between the wires.

Abstract: Process for producing a middle electrode with precious metal reinforcement, a middle electrode being used with an ignition tipwhich is tapered relative to the middle electrode body, such that a precious metal wire with a cross section which corresponds to the tapered ignition tip is welded flat onto the tapered ignition tipand such that this precious metal wire is cut off at the desired height, with a sharp edge.

Abstract: A rhomboidal blade includes a blade footing (2) of rhomboidal cross section and a blade body (1) for axial turbo engines is worked out from a solid blank (3) by machining. The blank (3) is cut off as a bar from a hot-rolled, bar-shaped input stock, whose cross section has the shape of a rhomboid which is adapted to the shape of the cross section of the rhomboidal blade footing (2). The blank is larger on all size than the maximum cross section of the blade by only the minimum oversize (5) for machining.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an air-gap-insulated exhaust pipe having a branch stub, as well as an exhaust pipe produced according to such a method and a tool for forming such an exhaust pipe. Two tubes are inserted into one another to form a double tube. The double tube is placed in a first internal high-pressure shaping tool, and exposed to internal high pressure fluid such that it expands to match the contours of the engraving of the first shaping tool, and a double-walled branch stub is blown out of the double tube. The partially formed double tube is then placed in a second internal high-pressure shaping tool, with the double tube being surrounded, between the two ends including the branch stub, circumferentially and throughout by a corresponding design of the engraving, by an expansion chamber.

Abstract: A compact vehicle production line is disclosed. The production line comprises a floor process of assembling floor constituent parts. Each is an aluminum alloy extrusion die cast product, which has been made, in an extrusion die casting process, by forcing molten aluminum alloy through a mold cavity in a predetermined direction. The assembled floor constituent parts are welded to make a floor structure. In an interior parts mount process, interior parts are to the floor structure to make a floor unit. In a body main process, each of two body side structures are trimmed to make a body side unit. A roof structure is trimmed to make a roof unit. The floor unit, the body side units, and the roof unit are assembled. The assembly is welded to make a body unit. In a running parts mount process, an under running unit is mounted to the body unit. In an exterior parts attachment process, color body panels are attached to the body unit.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a leaf seal for use between rotating components comprises forming corrugations within a metallic strip and feeding the corrugated strip into a seal guide. The corrugated strip is then pressed into the guide by an angled ram such that the corrugations lie at an acute angle to the perpendicular axis. The strip is then secured in a seal carrier, the free ends of the corrugations thus forming the angled sealing leaves of a leaf seal.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a power driven hair clipper (HSM), comprising a drive mechanism provided in a housing (1) and a clipper head (S) equipped with a clipper comb (3) and a reciprocating clipper blade (4, 82), wherein provision is made for a foil (47) between the clipper comb (3) and the clipper blade (4, 82), such that an engagement surface (A2) of the clipper blade (4, 82) provided opposite the row of cutting teeth (42, 43) is carried on the foil (47) in sliding relationship thereto.