Abstract: A safety attachment to restrain the whiplashes of hoses that become inadvertently uncoupled. A polyproylene rope harness is made to form loops that are engaged about the hoses. The loops increase in size for installation over the coupling element of the hose and then adjust to tightly engage the hose or an anchor element.

Abstract: A plastic clip particularly useful as a clothes pin for hanging articles of clothing on a clothes line, comprises a strip of an elastic plastic material formed with one or two openings therethrough for receiving the clothes line, and with a slot extending from each opening to an edge to define two or three jaws for gripping the article to be hung from the clothes line. The sides of each slot are formed with a zigzag configuration to define teeth on the edges of the jaws for gripping the article of clothing between them.

Abstract: The present invention relates a fastening element for the connection of two sheets or plates (herein termed sheets) arranged at a selectable angle in relation to each other along their abutting edges using two gripping jaws able to be centrally connected with each other by means of a screw, said jaws having wings of different length and forming two bearing sockets, in each of which there are rotatable cylindrical gripping rollers provided with an axial gripping groove and consisting of elastic material.The purpose of the invention is to provide an improved form of such a fastening element remedying the defects of known devices and making it possible to set sheets at a predetermined included angle in a single manner. In this respect it should be possible for the gripping rollers to be slipped onto the sheets easily in the non-screwed tight condition and to prevent the gripping rollers from falling out during assembly.

Abstract: An elastic reinforced tie-down strap includes a core of nonstretchable reinforcing filament formed in a series of closed loops, and a casing of resilient stretchable material encasing the core and having a plurality of spaced anchor holes defined therein through the centers of the respective closed loops. The strap is fabricated using a method which provides the casing in an elongated strip-like form with the filament core extending longitudinally through the casing. The strap together with several S-shaped anchor hooks having ends adapted to be inserted through the anchor holes of the strap provide a tie-down strapping device. The closed loops of the filament are tied together so as to provide tear resistance in the casing around the anchor holes.

Abstract: An elastic tie down comprises an elastic tube that carries a slack rope inside thereof. The tube is tightly crimped directly to the rope, so that pulling the rope ends stretches the tube and imparts elastic qualities to the tie down. In a modified embodiment, an annular insert is placed into the ends of the tube, and the rope passes through the insert. The tube and insert are clamped, causing the insert to collapse to grip the rope. The present invention also includes abutments crimped to the rope for cooperating with bushings placed within the tube ends. The bushings are split and have inwardly converging surfaces that terminate in grooves. Tension applied to the rope ends causes the abutments to contact the bushing converging surfaces and force the bushings apart and into a tight grip with the tube and with solid rings surrounding the tube over the respective bushings. The invention further includes split sleeves held in place in the tubing ends with wedges. A passage through the sleeves receives the rope.

Abstract: A device for mending a broken cord in a sports net. The device includes a pair of ferrules having deformable flaps that can be crimped onto the broken cord ends. The ferrules can be connected with each other by a flexible cord element gripped by sleeves on the ferrules, by a rigid connecting strip, or by a flexible cord element threaded through openings and gripped by the flaps crimped onto the broken cord ends. In the latter case, the broken cord ends are threaded through the openings and knotted to enhance the security of the connection.

Abstract: A tube holder for hospital tubing comprises an elongated strip with opposing upper and lower faces formed as a plurality of side-by-side, open-ended sleeve like receptacles of varying enclosed cross-sectional area. In one embodiment, the strip is a spring metal piece with a reverse bend forming upper and lower legs with undulating surfaces formed in at least one of the legs, but preferably both of the legs, so that oppositely facing undulations on the upper and lower legs cooperate to form the spaced apart receptacles. Each receptacle has an entrance opening formed by a portion of the upper face being spaced from the lower face by a minimum distance. The entrance opening to each receptacle has a smaller dimension than the maximum dimension of its corresponding receptacle. Each receptacle is movable, say by prying apart the upper and lower legs to increase the spacing at the entrance openings for allowing tubing to slip sideways into any one of the receptacles.

Abstract: A necktie holder of the type adapted to join between a wearer's shirt button and the necktie, and which will tightly embrace the button threads and loosely embrace the narrow end of the necktie. A clip having strong movable jaws forms part of the necktie holder and is arranged to seize a rearward seam on the wide end of the necktie whereby the holder is not visable from the front of the wearer but will keep the necktie in neat and orderly state at all times.

Abstract: It consists of a cylindrical tube carrying a spring inside with a hook on one end to engage the fixed trunk hasp and a ring or closed loop on the other end to be lockably engaged by the trunk latching mechanism usually carried on the trunk lid. Once the hook is engaged with the fixed ring of the trunk, the lower end of the tube is manipulated so that a pair of opposed slots in the lower end of the wall of the tube engage upon the ring or hasp of the trunk so that the spring is under relatively heavy tension and thus acts as a substantially rigid link when the trunk lid is closed and locked upon the other end of the spring.

Abstract: A safety release pin for locking the operating mechanism of a fire extinguisher includes a shank having a longitudinal slot near one end defining parallel side walls, each formed with a vertical groove, which attach a nose portion to the end of the shank. An elongated locking member pivotally mounted to the shank overlying the slot defines a cam surface which coacts with surfaces of the operating mechanism as the pin is inserted to pivot the locking member into the slot to facilitate insertion, the locking member springs back to its locking position. When the pin is withdrawn, a detent surface of the locking member coacts with surfaces of the operating mechanism to deflect the nose portion downwardly tearing the side walls apart along the grooves, severing the nose portion from the shank.

Abstract: The assembly includes a pultruded glass fiber reinforced resin strap each end of which is secured between a pair of plates. At each end the plates and the strap are apertured to receive a retaining rod.

Abstract: An alignment device for railroad car couplers including a central flexible portion with a pair of swivelable end portions connectable between couplers of adjacent cars. Each of the end portions includes a protruding stud adapted to engage an opening preformed in the knuckle body. The device end portions and their studs are inserted between misaligned adjacent couplers. One steady pull of the engine aligns the couplers so that two cars may then be quickly joined together without requiring the trainman to stand between the cars during the coupling operation.

Abstract: Door-swing restraint apparatus for a pair of latched doors closing an end opening of a cargo box comprises a chain or cable link connected between margins of the doors so that a person actuating a bar to release door latches will not be injured by freight items which bear against the door. One end of the link is fixed in the marginal edge of one door, the other end being fixed to a lever arm which can be selectably engaged with or disengaged from a lateral bracket on the latch bar of the other door, only when the arm is rotated out of its horizontal transport position into the vertical. Rotation of the bar due to torque exerted by a freight item pressing against the door is limited by a stop pin carried by the bar engaged in a slot in a door-mounted journal. The opening swing of the door is limited to a few centimeters as the link becomes taut and the lever arm remains horizontal, visually signalling the hazard.

Abstract: Holder especially for a chuck key for a drilling or other machine tool, for which it is necessary to use a chuck key for opening and closing the chuck holding the working tools. The chuck key is attachable to the power cord of such a machine tool in such a way that it remains rotatable although not removable from the machine tool. To achieve this there is provided a locking device (2) mounted on the shaft of the chuck key, which locking device is inserted in a mounting device, which is attached to the power cord.

Abstract: A device for maintaining a plurality of jewelry neck chains, arm or wrist chains and the like in a predetermined relationship in order to retain the jewelry chains in generally parallel, side-by-side relation thereby reducing the tendency of adjacent jewelry chains from becoming entangled with each other when being worn. In one embodiment of the invention, the device is in the form of an elongated flat bar having a plurality of apertures therein with each aperture adapted to receive a split ring clasp used to secure the ends of jewelry chains together in order to maintain the clasp and thus the ends of the jewelry chain in spaced relation to each other with the jewelry chains being maintained generally in parallel relation to each other.

Abstract: A book holder for comfortably and securely supporting a book with one hand without the aid of an inanimate support platform such as a table and to aid in the carrying of the book. The book holder has a handle means in connection with elastic bands that attach to the ends of the book. Bookmarking strands may be combined with the book holder to mark the user's place.