Abstract: The frame shim comprises a first and a second elongated plate made of a porous material, which plates are located in planes extending parallel to each other and which are connected to each other along their longitudinal sides. A groove is formed in one longitudinal side of one of the plates, and a laterally located ridge is formed in a longitudinal side of the other plate, which ridge is set into the groove. The other longitudinal side of the laterally offset plate is strengthened and the door fittings are mounted to this longitudinal side. The legs of the groove are also strengthened. This allows the manufacture of the frame shim of a door from a plate made of a porous material.

Abstract: A gasoline engine air valve fuel saver device, characterized in the ability to have the air valve opened automatically in circumstances where the vehicle concerned is reducing its speed, going downhill or the suction from within the carburetor is great while the engine rotation speed remains higher than 920 RPM (equivalent to the speed of 25 Kms per hour as effected by the high-speed gear shifting), so that the air may bypass the carburetor at it passes from the air filter to the intake manifold to reach the cylinders, so as to reduce the vacuum in the intake manifold and so reduce the quantity of gasoline that will enter the cylinders, to achieve a saving of fuel consumption and abatement of air pollution as well.

Abstract: An uninterruptible electric power source comprising a rotor and a stator with the stator having a magnetically suspended flywheel with magnet rings for radial centering, a double electromagnet in a servoloop for restoring equilibrium including a rate sensor and lift-off logic in the servoloop encased in an evacuated vacuum enclosure. Variation in the structure of elements including the enclosure are described.

Abstract: A connecting rod of a radial piston motor comprising a spherical portion, a rod portion and a pad and a method of producing same, wherein the pad is formed separately from the spherical portion and the rod portion beforehand, and interfitting portions are formed in the rod portion and the pad. The rod portion and the pad are connected to each other through the interfitting portions to form therebetween a joint which is welded, to produce the desired connecting rod of a radial piston motor. The provision of the interfitting portions enables the rod portion and the pad to be positioned with a high degree of precision.

Abstract: A safety mechanism made up of a pawl that connects the hammer and trigger and is mounted eccentrically on the rotation pin of the hammer, moving the hammer upward and downward with a part for fastening the cylinder during firing. A tooth on the trigger contacts a tooth on the hammer and when the trigger is pulled, the hammer rotates on the pawl rotating downward to a point where the trigger and hammer are disconnected throwing the hammer forward. When pressure is let up on the trigger all parts return to their rest position.

Abstract: According to the invention, the traffic accessory for temporary attachment to a road surface comprises an adhesive surface which is adhesively attachable to a road surface, the adhesive surface being provided with a plurality of release sheets.

Abstract: A strainer for a liquid sucking device and adapted to be attached to the end of a flexible liquid sucking tube of the device. The strainer has an outlet tube adapted to be connected to the flexible liquid sucking tube of the device, a spherical shell integral with the outlet tube, a strainer element attached to the outer surface of the spherical shell and a weight accommodated by the internal cavity of the spherical shell.

Abstract: A distributor, particularly for medicaments, to be worn directly on the body, which has an annular portion such as a finger ring or a wrist bracelet, on the outer surface of which is arranged at least one compartment provided with an opening device fast to a retractable member designed to project towards the inner surface of the annular portion in the open position of the compartment. The retractable member is in contact with the skin in the open position of the compartment and acts to warn of this open position.

Abstract: A firearm having a frame; a barrel leading from the frame; a cartridge firing mechanism biased to an uncocked position and including a trigger and firing pin, the mechanism being operatively mounted in the frame and adapted to be operated to fire a cartridge; a rotary magazine having a plurality of circumferentially spaced cartridge chambers and being rotatable relative to the frame discretely to align the chambers with the barrel and the firing pin; a spring motor which is adapted, in use, to exert torque on the magazine relative to the frame, thereby to rotate the magazine; and indexing mechanism adapted to operate automatically after operation of the cartridge firing mechanism to allow the magazine to rotate from an aligned position in which a cartridge chamber is in alignment with the barrel and the firing pin, and to arrest the magazine in a non-aligned position in which no cartridge chamber is in alignment with the barrel and the firing pin.

Abstract: A hand-held keratoscope designed to project a bright circular ring on the cornea having a circular glass ring attached to a handle by a retainer ring with the circular glass ring having a flat polished top surface and a frosted inward sloping bottom surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a probe for the continuous in-situ measurement of the rate of corrosion of pipes subjected to high temperatures or having highly resistive fluids flowing therethrough, by a measurement of the polarization resistance, characterized in that it comprises: electrodes of tubular form one of which is the working electrode, adapted to provide an extension of a pipeline, said electrodes being alternately spaced apart with dielectric spacers, means for connecting said electrodes to said pipeline between two sections of the pipeline, and resilient or nearly resilient gaskets to provide sealtightness between said electrodes, spacers, connectors and pipe sections.

Abstract: A mechanical release device for releasing a member with respect to another. The device comprises a bonding element disposed on each of the members to be released, a flexible junction element placed on the bonding elements and a device permitting under the action of a mechanism the progressive raising of said flexible element and then the release of the members secured to one another. The invention preferably relates to the displaying of solar panels for a satellite in a space environment.

Abstract: In mining the hanging wall is supported by pillars comprising a particulate backfill material which has been consolidated so that it has at the most one quarter voids by volume. Layers of reinforcing material are provided in the backfill to take horizontal loads associated with vertical loads being taken by the pillars in supporting the hanging wall. The pillars extend back from a work space behind the work face transversely to the work face. They are spaced in a direction along the workface and their loading ends advance as the work face advances.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler cover for internal combustion engines having a piled buffering layer provided on the outer surface of a cover member surrounding the exhaust muffler body with a suitable gap therebetween. The cover member has a sufficiently reduced thickness to ensure a good radiation of the heat transmitted from the exhaust muffler body. An attaching member playing the role of a reinforcement is fixed to the inner peripheral end of the cover member.

Abstract: An apparatus for the dehumidification and drying of damp structures specifically of walls of buildings comprises a first spirally wound electric coil connected at each end to a respective terminal of a first condenser located in the center of the coil. A further coil and condenser arrangement is provided, which arrangement is identical to the first mentioned arrangement. The two coils are located relative to each other such that the planes described from the coils intersect each other at right angles. The two coils with their condensers are arranged in a closed plastic boxlike container.

Abstract: A low speed air bleed absorption reduction oil saving device for carburetor characterized in the ability to turn air valve to open automatically in circumstances where the automobile concerned is reducing its speed, going downhill or the carburetor is experiencing a momentous absorption internally such that the rotation speed of the engine remains above 950 RPM, equivalent to a speed in motion that is higher than 25 Kms per hour as executed by the high-speed gear, so as to enable the air to enter the cylinder via the air filter so as to hold down the vacuum absorption so as to prevent overfilling of gasoline into the cylinder thereby achieving the objective of saving of use of gasoline fuels.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device which permits to transmit and to receive signals through a telephone line by means of an electromagnetic linking brought about in correspondence with at least one inductive element of a telephone set, without any necessity of interrupting the line which feeds the set concerned.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler for a two-cycle opposed cylinder engine of simultaneous ignition type having two cylinders opposing to each other in the horizontal direction. The muffler has conical members disposed to oppose to exhaust ports of the cylinders, the exhaust ports being arranged in a side-by-side relation. The conical members form conical annular discharge passages leading from respective exhaust ports. The discharge passages have flattened peripheral outlets of different opening areas. The flows of the exhaust gas from respective cylinders are introduced through the flattened peripheral outlets of the discharge passages into a common diffusion chamber, so that the attenuation of the pressure waves and release of heat of exhaust gas are promoted to reduce the exhaust noise of the engine.

Abstract: Fender provided with an all-through hole for its suspension from a quay or other mooring place for ships by a chain or other type of suspension in at least one end of the hole of the fender a plug being provided for protecting the fender wall from damage by the suspension and, respectively plug for such a fender.

Abstract: A sealing system for a shutoff element having two substantially ring-shaped sealing elements forming at least two substantially ring-shaped sealing lines. A given one of the sealing elements is constructed as a thin-wall body which is elastically deformable under the action of a closing force. The given sealing element, in the closed position of the shutoff element, under deformation of its wall bearing against the other sealing element at least at two ring regions with line contact. Means define free deformation spaces for the wall of the thin-wall body beneath said ring regions, and means define a respective support adjacent said deformation spaces and extending substantially parallel to the ring regions and against which bears said wall.