Abstract: A compacting device located forwardly of a body, especially a close body of a high capacity semitrailer which received by gravity, through an opening formed in a forward upper part of the body, mainly household or industrial waste products as well as any other products of low density. The device compresses two parts moveable one with respect to each other which includes a compacting shield capable of moving above the bottom of the body and an apron capable of moving above the shield, with controls to control the motions of the shield and the apron, and two other moveable supporting parts including supporting a carriage and a slider supporting the controls, in the first phase move, and the motion of the shield and the apron, in a second time phase move, for total ejection of the waste products after transportation to a dump site.

Abstract: A device for handling and moving generally cylindrical loads, such as cable reels, rolls of paper, sheet metal, and the like, comprising a frame supported by wheels or the like and provided with vertically pivotable, laterally movable telescoping arms for retentive engagement with the load to move said load toward and away from a load-supporting surface of said frame.

Abstract: A machine for making artificial limbs as for a Christmas tree where twisted wires having simulated needles attached are fed by a reciprocating transverse action to a pair of cutters which cut the wires to predetermined lengths while at the same time a pair of wires and a strand of decorative material are fed between a pair of pulleys where the cut lengths are attached perpendicularly to the pair of wires and decorative strand being twisted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sawdust discharge port which is arranged such that a side wall of a cover member covering a body frame of a chain saw and opened at its lower end and forming one of the constituent elements of the discharge port has a substantially flat outer surface, and an inner surface forming an inclined surface whose lower end edge portion is gently inclined inwardly and downwardly, thereby to permit the side wall to gradually increase in thickness toward its lower end.

Abstract: A device which, when manually operated, will automatically return to an original position wherein a manually-operated control lever rotates at least one shaft having an arm mounted on the end of the shaft, and with a roll at the other end of the arm which abuts against one of two profiled parts when the shaft is rotated by the control lever. The two profiled parts resiliently abut a stop or stops when the arm is in an original or zero position but one profiled part abuts a stop while the other profiled part resiliently abuts the roll on the end of the arm when the shaft is rotated, and the profiled parts have steps thereon which are position markings able to be sensed manually by the control lever by a snap effect.

Abstract: A level device is designed to determine different levelling points in building work to automatically set certain parts, such as the suspension systems for false ceilings when this apparatus is fitted with a bolt-driving attachment, comprising a flexible tube connected to a first chamber closed by a first diaphragm offering very low resistance to the liquid contained, the other end of the tube connected to a second chamber closed by a second diaphragm which second diaphragm offers resistance to the liquid contained and compresses the air contained in the corresponding space whereby in turn this air actuates a diaphragm which has needle-type contact switches, on each side, these circuits to an indicator, with a valve used to locate the apparatus at a point which may be at a higher or lower level than that determined by the first diaphragm.

Abstract: A blade guide for saw blades consists of a number of small cemented carbide plates which are moulded at intervals onto a base plate of steel or the like by means of a metal, such as brass or bronze, or with a plastic material, which is considerably softer than the carbide in the plates and presents a smooth surface of carbide plates in the moulding material to the surface of the saw blades.

Abstract: An improved marking device for use with an animal harness to provide a means for identifying mated animals by color code. A replaceable marking device such as a marker block of colored crayon is secured to the animal harness by a snap fitted retaining means thus providing for safe, quick and easy replacement of spent markers.

Abstract: Conditioned air (i.e. cooled or heated air) is supplied to spaces in a building structure via guides and air mains. The conditioned air is guided into the spaces directly from the guides, or via plenum chambers and transfer openings, or via both routes simultaneously. Circulation of conditioned air through the plenum chambers cools/heats the building structure. During a subsequent period when cooled/heated air is demanded for the spaces, air from the spaces is circulated through the plenum chambers via air return openings. Such circulated air is cooled/heated by contact with the building structure and is re-introduced as conditioned air. The building structure thus acts as a reservoir of heat to augment the conditioning effort of the air conditioning means during periods of peak demand.

Abstract: An apparatus for spreading granular material, such as fertilizer, has a carriage (1) on which there is mounted a vertical conveyer (5, 6) which comprises a vertical cylindrical housing (5) and a conveyer screw (6) rotatably mounted therein. The screw (6) is rigidly connected at its lower end to an infeed cup (8) and directly connected to a driving mechanism (7) below the cup (8). The cylindrical housing (5) and the screw wing of the screw (6) extend downwardly into the cup (8), and the cylindrical housing has guide means (9) conducting the material inwardly towards the screw blade of the screw. The material is supplied from a supply container (1A) directly down into the cup (8). At its upper end, the screw (6) is non-rotatably connected to its spreader (12) to which the granular material is conveyed via a discharge opening (20) in the cylindrical housing and a distributor disk (21).

Abstract: A rotary hydraulic device of the displacement pump type having coaxial rotor and stator and vanes axially slidable in the rotor, the stator comprising at least one bottom surface formed with a variable number of deformations having rectilinear zones suitable for the operation on the recesses by the vanes. The recesses are made in movable elements of the stator such that the depth of the recesses can be made variable thus providing a device of variable capacity. The device is applicable to brakes and dampeners, as well as to engines and pumps.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprising a grinding vessel (3) which encloses a grinding area, a storage vessel (37) which contains grinding bodies (28), and a device (8) for feeding grinding bodies (28) from the storage vessel (37) into the grinding area. This device (8) essentially consists of a housing (11) attached to the grinding vessel (3) and a rotatable worm (13) situated therein. When the worm (13) is rotated, the grinding bodies (28) may be fed trouble-free as required into the grinding area, even if re-used grinding bodies (28) are concerned which have been worn out of true and have varied diameters.

Abstract: A shade serving to shelter from light, wind, and vision is useful especially at balconies of buildings. The shade comprises a web made of foldable, weatherproof material and adapted to be stretched over an opening to be shielded in a wall or between walls of the building. The upper part of the shade is guided by means of sliding hooks or rollers provided with hooks along a drapery rod fixed to the wall, while the lower part of the shade is adapted to be secured by push button fasteners to a lower wall member, either in fully or partly stretched condition. When not in use, the shade may be wrapped in a cover which fastened in an area of the wall adjacent the opening.

Abstract: A work turret is rotated by steps around a central axis with a first group of a multiplicity of clamping devices formed to clamp one side of a workpiece each facing a charging device for feeding in workpieces, and a second group of clamping devices on the side of the work turret averted from the charging device formed to clamp the machined end of a workpiece each. A gripper can be moved to and fro between the two sides of the work turret by which partially machined workpieces are removed from the clamping device of the first group and turned to be clamped in the clamping devices of the second group.

Abstract: A holder comprising a sealed container provided to receive a water-soluble active, solid composition and to protect it against the direct erosion by water susceptible to penetrate in the container. The holder including a basin having a predetermined volume arranged at the upper portion of said container and having at least one hole in the bottom thereof, a discharge device for discharging in a water closet (WC) bowl and consisting of two siphon-type systems and of an appropriate hooking system to hook the holder under an edge of a WC bowl.

Abstract: Fender system comprising at least one absorbing body of elastomer material, which can be secured directly or indirectly to a quay or a jetty, and a front plate which is parallel in essentially a vertical plane to the plane of the quay or the jetty, and is provided at the other side of the absorbing body, which front plate can come into touch with an object such as a ship moving towards the front plate, the front plate serving for distributing and transferring the loads exerted by this object on the absorbing body, the front plate being made of reinforced concrete so that it can be connected with other parts as e.g. sliding strips during and/or after the casting thereof.

Abstract: A junction diverter with a supporting surface disposed below a main conveyor path when in an inoperative position can be lifted above the main conveyor path to an inclined position in which it is flush with one or the other of a pair of lateral conveyor paths. The supporting surface consists of wheels or rollers extending upward from an inner carrier frame which at one end is pivotally connected to an outer carrier frame which at its opposite end from its connection to the inner frame is pivotally connected to a main support frame of the main conveyor path, with a jack connected to raise the outer frame from the main support frame and a second jack to raise the inner frame from the outer frame, thus tilting the supporting surface toward one or the other of the lateral conveyor paths.

Abstract: A fuel pipe joint for connecting fuel pipes through which fuel is supplied from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine mounted on a portable power-driven machine such as a chain saw. The fuel pipe joint has a main body made of a transparent synthetic resinous material and mounted on an upper portion of the fuel tank. The main body is equipped with a first pipe connector portion projected from the lower side of the main body into the tank and connected to a fuel pipe for sucking the fuel from the fuel tank, a second pipe connector portion projected from one side of the main body and connected to another fuel pipe leading to the internal combustion engine, and a fuel passage formed in the main body and providing a communication between the first and second pipe connector portions. The user can visually confirm the proper supply of the fuel, especially in starting up the engine.

Abstract: Disclosed is a carburetor chamber arranged such that its casing having an opening at the top is fixed and this casing is provided, at its interior, with a carburetor and, at its bottom wall, with a path of feeding under pressure chain lubricating oil and, at its rear wall, with a through hole for permitting the passage therethrough of a throttle valve operation lever for the carburetor and, at its front wall, with an attachment section for a gas pipe and, at its opening, with an air filter, whereby the communication of an air-fuel mixture outlet of the carburetor with a suction port of an engine cylinder is effected through the gas pipe so that a connecting of the gas pipe with the suction port of the cylinder may be effected slidably and in a hermetically sealed condition.

Abstract: A method and a device for determining explosivity rate of a gaseous medium with a detecting filament which is heated in said medium by an electric current flowing therethrough. Said detecting filament is ignited through connection to a power supply and power supplied to said filament is regulated so as to maintain constant the resistance thereof. At some successive moments value of a quantity U significant for power supplied to said filament is taken into account. An exponential curve is extrapolated from such values; parameters thereof are identified and introduced in a process function adapted to deduce therefrom an estimation of the initial explosivity rate of said gaseous medium independently of the nature of the explosive gas(es) present therein.