Abstract: A device for applying heat from a heating device to appendage of a wearer is described. The device includes a base layer including a pocket. The base layer is configured to accommodate the appendage of the wearer. The pocket is configured for removable insertion of the heating device so that when the heating device is inserted in the pocket and the device is worn by the wearer, heat from the heating device is applied to the appendage.

Abstract: A method and system is taught for securing a person to an object. The system comprises a garment and a safety device fixedly coupled to the garment. The safety device comprises a circular section, vertical sections coupled to the circular section, and diagonal sections coupled to the vertical sections and to the circular section. The safety device further comprises a first coupler coupled to the diagonal section, and a second coupler coupled to the circular section and to another object adjacent the person. The garment is positioned on the person, coupled to the another object adjacent the person, and then coupled to the object.

Abstract: A hospital garment for preventing removal of incontinent briefs, diapers or wound dressings including a main body that defines a front, back, top and bottom. A neck opening is formed in the top of the main body. Also, the main body forms a left arm opening and a right arm opening one each side of the neck opening. A crotch flap extends from the front of the main body. The crotch flap defines a distal end that is removably attachable to the back of the main body to establish a left leg opening and a right leg opening. In one embodiment, the bottom edge of the back of the main body is fastened to the proximal end of the crotch flap in addition to the attachment of the distal end of the crotch flap to the back of the main body.

Abstract: A novelty tank top derived from a man's undergarment. The inverted undergarment is worn over the upper torso of the wearer. The novelty tank top has an anterior pocket for carrying small items and a spandex liner that improves the functionality of the tank top.

Abstract: A neck collar and method are described for a two-ply neck collar for attachment to a neck opening of a garment body to help maintain a proper shape along the neck line. In one embodiment, the two-ply neck collar is made of two strips of knitted fabric material. The two strips of fabric material is sewn together along the top edge portions thereof such that one strip is lying flat against the other strip to form a joined unit. The joined unit is then opened flat to define two side edge portions with the stitched portion disposed extending longitudinally between to the two side edge portions. The joined unit is folded after being opened flat such that the two side edge portions are aligned with the stitched portion facing outward, after which, the two side edge portions are sewn together to form a tubular unit. Finally, the neck collar is formed by turning at least a portion of the tubular unit over the stitched portion.

Abstract: In a glove adapted for connecting cord, a plurality of locations to connect the cord, at least on the left and right and especially an integral runner connected to the left and right along which the cord connection can be slid.

Abstract: Health short trousers comprise a trouser body composed of a front and a rear cloths. A female buckling element is joined on a right cloth to be adjusted for joining a male buckling element on a left cloth. Two female buckling elements of a left and a right buckling bands are joined at crotch portions of two trouser legs of the rear cloth, respectively. Two male buckling elements of the left and right buckling bands are joined at crotch portions of two trouser legs of the front cloth, respectively. An upper air bag is joined at the trouser top in the trouser body. Lower air bags are joined at thigh portions in the trouser body. All the air bags are connected to an inflator having a control switch. A first vibrator is joined on the rear cloth. A second vibrator is joined on the front cloth.

Abstract: A golf sock with a golf tee holder coupled thereto. The golf tee holder is coupled to the body portion of the sock and includes one or more receptacles for holding golf tees vertically upon the body portion. The golf tee holder is comprised of an elastic material that stretches to hold the golf tees snugly within each receptacle. The golf tee holder is positioned on the body portion of the sock a sufficient distance above the foot portion of the sock so as not to interfere with the wearing of shoes during normal golf play.

Abstract: A device for hooking a visor of a helmet for motorcyclists to a mechanism for moving a visor, preferably embedded in a cap. There is also a device for extracting the visor from the embedding and a device to support the visor having the shape of an arched support or table. This device comprises a visor having guides adjustably engaged in a series of flanks of a table wherein there is a hole or opening for a hooking element which is adjustable within an eyelet disposed on the table. There is also a slide integral in the table having an eyelet wherein a bush translates, which is coaxially anchored to a hooking block and a sheet like spring anchored to a side and in touch with the bush to put a pressure on the bush. This pressure keeps the bush in contact with the block within the opening of the visor. In addition, the visor can be bent to allow the visor to slide on a table to hook the block in the eyelet of the visor.

Abstract: An articulation for a toilet seat for securing a seat assembly to a ceramic body, wherein the lowering movement of the seat assembly may be braked with the aid of a damping means. The damping means is connected via an adapter member with the fastening means of the seat assembly, wherein adapter member and damping means form the rotation axis for the seat assembly.

Abstract: A vacuum bowl assembly for use in a vacuum toilet positioned on a support surface and having a discharge valve. The vacuum bowl assembly comprises a frame having a bottom member adapted to engage the support surface, and a top member defining a shoulder. A removable bowl is provided having a flange extending about an upper edge sized to engage the shoulder, and an outlet adapted for fluid communication with the discharge valve.

Abstract: An air jet of an air massage system used with a bathtub having a wall defining opposite visible and hidden surfaces and defining a number of openings through the bathtub wall. The air jet comprises a hollow body having opposed inlet and outlet ends and a unidirectional flow device disposed therebetween. The outlet end is mounted directly to the hidden surface of the bathtub wall opposite one of the openings. The inlet end is connected to a source of pressurized air. The unidirectional flow device allows pressurized air therethrough only in a direction from the inlet to the outlet end and then through the opening in the bathtub wall, thereby preventing water in the bathtub from conveying through the air jet when the source of pressurized air is not in use. The outlet end comprises a flange provided on a downstream side thereof with recesses for receiving an adhesive for securing the flange to the hidden surface of the bathtub wall.

Abstract: The lavatory unit shown as a whole by reference number 1 comprises a box-shaped lavatory body 10 formed of panel material, which is positioned to an appropriate position on a floor panel 70 of an aircraft. A toilet unit 20 is fixed on a floor panel 110 inside the lavatory body 10, and a wash basin unit 30 is equipped to one side of said toilet unit 20. The lavatory body 10 stows a storage module 50 capable of being pulled out of and stowed again to the body 10. Said storage module 50 includes for example a closet for storing the coats and jackets of passengers etc. A state is shown where the closet 50 is pulled out of the lavatory body 10, expanding the lavatory unit. The space inside the lavatory is expanded, allowing the use of a bench 150 etc., thus improving the service provided to passengers. A part of the closet 50 being pulled out protrudes to the space in front of the aircraft door 80, but since this space is not used during flight, the space inside the aircraft is utilized efficiently.

Abstract: A crib sheet anchor is provided having an octagonal harness pad having at least four corner edges, with at least two of the four corner edges being parallel to one another and arranged at about thirty-five degrees to at least two parallel side edges. In this way, outwardly directed forces applied to the octagonal harness pad are evenly distributed so as to prevent bunching or wrinkling of the crib sheet. Six elastic strips each having two ends with one of the ends fastened to one each of the side edges and the corner edges of the harness pad. Four of the six elastic straps are relatively longer than two of the elastic straps. Six clasps are fastened one each to the free ends of the six elastic straps. The clasps include a crib sheet engagement portion that can be locked in place on a crib sheet and which increases its grip as tension is applied to the crib sheet and the clasp.

Abstract: A patient-support assembly includes a patient support having a platform tub and a platform cover. The platform tub includes first and second walls defining an air flow channel. The platform cover is mounted to the platform tub to cover the channel. An elongated vent rail on the platform cover extends into the air flow channel and an elongated vent panel is pivotably coupled to the platform cover. The vent rail includes a plurality of vent channels separated by abutment surfaces. The vent channels communicate with respective air vent slots. The vent panel is pivotable between a first position abutting the abutment surfaces and a second position moved away from the vent rail to provide increased access to the vent channels. The platform cover includes air vent slots. The assembly also includes a side guard panel having first and second spaced-apart surfaces. The side guard panel includes a window in the side guard panel. The side guard panel includes an access port.

Abstract: A mattress assembly for use on a bed, including a mattress at least partially coverable by one or more sheets, and at least one sheet-attachment assembly associated with the mattress and configured to releasably attach the one or more sheets to the mattress. Each sheet-attachment assembly includes a clamping apparatus adjustable by a user between a first configuration and a second configuration, and an anchor member adapted to engage the one or more sheets. The clamping apparatus is adapted to receive at least a portion of the anchor member and the one or more sheets when in the first configuration, and to clamp the one or more sheets to the anchor member when in the second configuration.

Abstract: A bedding arrangement is provided having a compressible foam mattress pad and compressible foam pillow pad integrated as a single bedding unit within a fluid resistant or impermeable cover whose seams are heat sealed together. Air ventilation through the cover and about the interior foam is permitted by a vent that restricts insect, article and fluid passage through the vent. By using foam of different densities and/or composition, optimum performance characteristics in terms of comfort and support can be obtained separately for the mattress portion and the pillow portion. By mounting two pillow pads within the cover, the bedding arrangement can be made reversible.

Abstract: A tool for measuring and adjusting slack movement related to operating components of an air-brake assembly has an elongated lever portion for enabling leverage force to be applied to a rocker-arm component of the air-brake assembly, an abutment fixture fixedly attached to the first end of the lever portion, the abutment fixture providing a fulcrum point against the rocker-arm component for application of leverage force, and an engaging member fixedly attached to the first end of the lever portion at a point substantially inward from the attachment position of the abutment fixture. The engaging member is for engaging the rocker-arm component on an edge of the rocker-arm component opposite an edge engaged by the abutment fixture. A socket mount is fixedly attached to the second end of the lever portion at a position substantially inward of the outer edge of the second end, the socket comprising a socket for fitted engagement of a slack-adjustment nut of the air brake assembly.

Abstract: A set of ancillary tools within a replaceable cartridge for use in multifunction hand tools. The ancillary tools would include knives, screwdrivers, can openers, and the like. The actual choice of tools would be set by the needs of the ultimate user and would allow the multifunction hand tool to be specifically tailored to the needs of the end user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-purpose tool to perform a various functions as a one tool.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for the oxidation dyeing of keratin fibers, containing a first oxidation base chosen from 1,8-bis(2,5-diaminophenoxy)-3,6-dioxaoctane and acid-addition salts thereof, at least one second selected oxidation base and at least one coupler; as well as to the oxidation dyeing process using this composition and multicompartment devices/kits.

Abstract: In order to construct a sweeper, which comprises a rotary brush arranged in a housing, a dirt collector which can be detachably attached to the housing and, adjacent the rotary brush in the dirt collector, a dirt inlet on the bottom edge of which a sill is arranged, in such a manner that the sill at the bottom edge of the dirt collector can be produced in particularly simple manner it is suggested that the sill be formed in one piece from a wall section which runs on one plane alongside both its longitudinal edges and which inbetween these edges stands out of this plane to one side, and that the wall section be connected to the bottom of the dirt collector alongside its longitudinal edges, whereby there will be a connection in two pieces at least alongside one longitudinal edge beween the bottom and the wall section.

Abstract: A cyclone dust collecting apparatus includes a cyclone body mounted on a telescopic extension pipe of a vacuum cleaner, a cyclone cover and a dust receptacle. The cyclone cover has a cylindrical cover body, one end of which is closed, and a first contaminants path communicating with a first through hole. The dust receptacle is removably coupled to the cyclone cover and has a cylindrical collecting body and a second contaminants path, which communicates with the first contaminants path. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus has a consistently high dust collecting efficiency, regardless of the cleaning position of the vacuum cleaner, and prevents damage to a grill and contamination of the environment.

Abstract: A device for temporarily securing a stair runner on a staircase comprises an elongated shaft. An extension member extends from a first end of the shaft and is biased outward from the first end of the shaft, such that the extension member is movable from an extended position to a retracted position. A second end of the shaft and the distal end of the extension member terminate in a head adapted to grip a surface and resist lateral movement. The length of the device when the extension member is in the retracted position is less than a width of a stair. A handle extends substantially radially from the shaft.

Abstract: A structure of a hinge is provided. The hinge includes a main leave secured to a door frame and a subordinate leave joint with the main leave by a pintle and secured to a door. The main leave has a first helical surface in a lower knuckle and the subordinate leave has a second helical surface in a central knuckle engaged with the first helical surface. Further the first helical surface has a vertical end and a plurality of domes engageable with a vertical end and a plurality of semi-circular recesses. So that when the door is opened, it will gradually and slowly closed on its own gravity.

Abstract: A door hinge cum door checker of vehicles, wherein a stopper and a hinge pin are integrally formed at a fixation arm mounted to a body while a rotary arm mounted to the door is disposed with a rotary arm mounted to the door is disposed with a roller insertedly accommodated into first/second hole and of the hinge pin by resilient member and a hitching jaw where the stopper is hitched, such that the present invention performs the function of door hinge with the rotary arm rotating about the hinge pin and performs the function of door checker in as much as the roller is received by the first groove or the second grove in response to opened degree of the door while the stopper is hitched by the hitching jaw when the door is fully opened, thereby eliminating the necessity of separate door checker to achieve an effect of reduced number of assembling processes and decreased manufacturing cost.

Abstract: A fiber sliver producing apparatus includes an arrangement for making a running fiber web and a web gathering device which has a plurality of walls defining an inner space through which the fiber web runs in an advancing direction. The walls are stationary during operation of the apparatus. The web gathering device has a web gathering portion causing the running fiber web to converge and a web densifying portion, situated downstream of the web gathering portion as viewed in the advancing direction, for forming a running sliver from the web. The web densifying portion has an outlet opening of cross-sectionally rectangular outline and an opening width which is at least five times greater than the opening height. Upon discharge through the outlet opening, the sliver passes through cooperating rolls of a calender roll pair defining a bight in which the outlet opening of the web gathering device is disposed.

Abstract: A process for the concentration of aqueous hydrogen peroxide by discontinuous crystallization. A cooling surface is arranged in a crystallizing vessel and first wetted with hydrogen peroxide and then cooled at a high cooling rate, whereupon seed crystals form. The cooling rate is at least 1 K/s, preferably from 10 to 30 K/s. When the vessel has been filled with H2O2 starting material, the latter crystallizes, starting from the seed crystals, and forms a crystal layer. When the mother liquor of lower H2O2 concentration has been discharged, there follows a sweating operation with a slow increase in temperature, as a result of which the H2O2 concentration in the crystal layer is increased further.

Abstract: A device and method for identification marking of cables, especially electric cables, that are continuously provided with unambiguous markings at least in their end sections. The cable is cut such that the marking of interest is visible directly behind the shell of a connector when mounting the connector to the cable at the end thereof, and wherein the connector is provided with a strain relief clamp. The strain relief clamp is provided with a transparent portion such as a window for making visible the marking of interest when the strain relief clamp has been arranged on the connector.

Abstract: The closing device for a closing and a repeated closing of a bag consists of a strap which is bent to form a loop by a permanent connection. The strap has an inner portion and an outer portion. The inner portion and the outer portion are connected to each other by a design rupture line and a permanent connection. The strap may be opened by partial severing of the inner portion from the outer portion and by folding out the inner portion so that an opening is produced in the outer portion. In order to close the strap again, the inner portion is inserted into the opening in the outer portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a snap fastener which, when an engaging head engages an engaging hole portion, allows a disengagement operation for releasing the engagement therebetween to be carried out accurately. In a pair of the snap elements capable of engaging with or disengaging from each other freely in an opposing direction, one base plate has an engaging head while the other base plate has an engaging hole portion. Respective base portions of the base plates are attached on attached bodies. The base plate of any one of the snap elements has a grip portion, provided at the side opposite to the attached body such that it protrudes outward of the other base portion. The other snap element has a receiving portion which makes contact with the base portion of the one snap element.

Abstract: The present invention is a plastic retaining clip or retainer for securing a table skirt to an edge of a table top comprising a means for engaging at least two different table top thicknesses. More particularly, the retainer of this invention includes a primary member and a first arm and a second arm extending perpendicularly from opposite ends of the primary member, and a central member extending from the primary member, wherein predetermined spacings are defined between the central member and the first and second arms, respectively. In addition, the first and second arms have predetermined lengths selected to achieve the predetermined spacings.

Abstract: A link having snap-fitted parts is provided with selected stones having different appearances to render the link highly versatile. The garment link, for brassieres, lingerie and the like, can use a perfume stone with laser-perforated capillaries communicating with a cavity from which scent may be released and which serves to draw a perfume liquid into the cavity.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a surface acoustic wave element includes the steps of providing a piezoelectric body having an interdigital transducer, where the interdigital transducer is made of a metal having a higher density than the piezoelectric body, and performing ion bombardment of the interdigital transducer and the piezoelectric body simultaneously so as to reduce the thickness of the interdigital transducer and the piezoelectric body.

Abstract: A device helps the user pull a vehicle seat belt mechanism through a child safety restraint seat to secure the seat in the vehicle. In one embodiment, the device includes an elongated handle member and a pocket member located at one end of the handle member. This pocket member includes: (a) at least one wall that defines a chamber to receive a portion of a seat belt mechanism, (b) an open face of sufficient size to allow the portion of the seat belt mechanism to enter into the chamber, and (c) a slot defined in the wall. The slot allows a restraining band portion of the seat belt mechanism to extend outside the chamber and retains the portion of the seat belt mechanism within the chamber when the handle member is pulled. In another embodiment, the device includes an elongated handle member having a first end and a second end and a spring hook mechanism located proximate the second end.

Abstract: The cooling scheme of a gas turbine engine component is modified to improve local cooling without redesigning the investment casting. The modification includes forming at least one channel in the component such that the channel is in fluid communication with a cooling medium source associated with the component. The channel is then partially filled with a removable material, and the removable material is covered with a patch material so as to completely fill the channel. Lastly, the removable material is removed from the channel so as to create an internal cooling passage in the component that is in fluid communication with the cooling medium source.

Abstract: A composite timber product having a wooden core and an outer layer of thermoplastic material, preferably Linear High Density Polyethylene, encapsulating the wooden core to protect the same. The composite timber product is produced by an extrusion method involving pushing the wood core through a cross-die extruder in which the coating layer is preferably foamed.

Abstract: Coated cored contoured crushable structural members and methods for making the same are described. The contoured structural members comprise composite or metal materials sandwiching a support or stabilizing structure. The cored and contoured structure can be provided by tube rolling (or roll wrapping) the composite or metal materials and the support structure together and then, if necessary, bonding them or connecting them. The coating for the coated structure is provided in or on the materials making up the structural member. The structural members are made crushable by incorporating an initiator into the structural members. The structural member crushes at the location of the initiator by absorbing the energy of an exerting load. With a coated, contoured, crushable, and generally non-flat structure, applications and uses for the structural members of the present invention are nearly limitless.

Abstract: Techniques are described for assisting disassembly of an article by triggering shape transition of shape memory material within the article. In one form, a de-fastener (16) is triggered to expand to break apart first and second parts (10a, 10b) which may be integrally formed, or fastened together. In another form, shape memory polymer is used as a releasable fastener.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for assembling an electric machine. The electric machine includes a plurality of stator segment assemblies that are mounted inside of a housing of an electric machine. The stator segment assemblies are positioned around an outer surface of an assembly fixture. The stator segment assemblies are held to the assembly fixture using a magnetic field that is generated by the assembly fixture. The housing is press fit or hot dropped over the stator segment assemblies. If the housing is hot dropped, the housing is heated to cause the housing to expand. The housing is positioned over the stator segment assemblies while the housing is hot. The housing cools and contracts around the stator segment assemblies to form an interference fit with the stator segment assemblies and then the stator and the housing are removed from the assembly fixture.

Abstract: A metal fuse process that uses a thinner (e.g., 6000 Å) oxide (108) over the top interconnect (102). The oxide (108) is removed over the probe pads (106) for testing but is not removed over the fuses (104). Because the oxide (108) is thin at the upper corners of the fuse (104), the oxide (108) cracks over the fuse (104) during a laser pulse (114). A wet etch is then used to dissolve the exposed fuses (104).

Abstract: An electrician's tool generally comprises a plate having a hole formed therein, the hole defined by an inner edge. The edge includes means for safely sliding wire through the hole and past the edge. In one embodiment the means for safely sliding the wire includes at least one roller rotatably positioned adjacent the inner edge for safely sliding the wire past the edge. In another embodiment of the invention, the means for safely sliding comprises a round bar or curled inner edge providing a curved surface for safely sliding the wire across the edge.

Abstract: A device for securing a corner bead to a first and a second wall which define a corner in a room of a structure. The device includes a powered impact tool having an operative end with a crimping unit adapted to be secured to the operative end. The crimping unit includes a housing in which a claw assembly is disposed. The claw assembly includes at least a pair of arms each having a claw edge for piercing the corner bead. The claws are positioned opposite one another in the housing. The arms have a first, inoperative position and a second operative position such that when the impact tool is actuated, the arms move between the first position and the second position, so the claw edges contemporaneously pierce the corner bead and the first and second walls.

Abstract: In a ceramic green-sheet stack to be fired to form a multilayered ceramic substrate having a cavity, a shrinkage-reducing pad is formed along a boundary interface between first ceramic green sheets having an opening for defining a cavity, and second ceramic green sheets having no opening. The shrinkage-reducing pad is exposed on the entire periphery of the inner peripheral surface of the cavity at the bottom end of the inner peripheral surface. The shrinkage-reducing pad contains a glass component, and serves to reduce shrinkage stress produced at the boundary interface between the first and second ceramic green sheets during the firing process.

Abstract: A surface mounting device comprising: multiple transfers being moved in the X and Y axis directions by an X-Y gantry installed on a base frame and supplying a printed circuit board(PCB) for mounting parts or loading the discharged PCB by a head unit for sucking parts supplied from a parts supply unit and mounting the sucked parts on the PCB and multiple conveyers installed to be moved horizontally in a predetermined direction at a predetermined position on the base frame for carrying the PCB supplied from the multiple transfers to a parts mounting work position and discharging the same to the multiple transfers when the mounting of the parts is finished.

Abstract: The surface mounting method includes: transferring the PCB to one conveyer among multiple conveyers capable of moving from a first transfer; transferring the PCB to another conveyer; transferring the PCB to one conveyer, while electronic parts from a parts feeder are mounted onto the transferred PCB; mounting the electronic parts from the parts feeder again onto the transferred PCB, while the PCB onto which the parts have been mounted is transferred to the second transfer; and transferring the PCB onto which the parts have been mounted again to the second transfer, while a new PCB is transferred to one conveyer of the conveyers from the first transfer.

Abstract: The surface mounting device includes: multiple conveyers installed at a predetermined position of a base frame and carrying a printed circuit board(PCB) to a parts mounting work position or discharging the PCB on which parts have been mounted, so that they can be moved in the X and Y-axis directions by a X-Y gantry installed on the base frame and can absorb parts supplied from a parts supply unit and the parts can be mounted by a head unit mounting the adsorbed parts on the PCB; and multiple multi-layer transfer units each installed at both ends of the conveyers and carrying the PCB to the PCB conveyers or loading the discharged PCB. The transfer speed of PCB is improved.

Abstract: A method for direct chip attach of a semiconductor chip to a circuit board by using solder bumps and an underfill layer is disclosed. In the method, a layer of in-situ polymeric mold material is first screen printed on the top surface of the semiconductor chip exposing a multiplicity of bond pads. The in-situ polymeric mold layer is formed with a multiplicity of apertures which are then filled with solder material in a molten solder screening process to form solder bumps. A thin flux-containing underfill material layer is then placed on top of a circuit board over a plurality of conductive pads which are arranged in a mirror image to the bond pads on the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip and the circuit board are then pressed together with the underfill layer inbetween and heated to a reflow temperature of higher than the melting temperature of the solder material until electrical communication is established between the bond pads and the conductive pads.

Abstract: A cooler chip fabrication method includes the steps of (a) making an upper substrate and a bottom substrate with ceramic-resin mixture; (b) screen-printing conductor elements on the substrates; (c) adhering metal plates to the conductor elements of the substrates and then coating the conductor elements with a soldering flux; (d) adhering antimony-bismuth chips to two distal ends of each metal plate of the bottom substrate, keeping the two opposing antimony-bismuth chips of each two adjacent metal plates to show different polarity; (e) detecting and correcting the polarity of the antimony-bismuth chips; (f) fastening the upper substrate to the antimony-bismuth chips at the bottom substrate, so as to form a semi-finished cooler chip; and (g) dying antimony-bismuth chips semi-finished cooler chip into a finished cooler chip through a baking process.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrical ribbon cable wherein at least two bare electrical conductors are arranged in parallel and spaced at a distance from each other between two foils of an insulating material that are firmly joined together while enclosing the conductors and fixing them in position. To save the costly adhesive that is typically used, the two foils are ultrasonically welded to each other and to the conductors.