Abstract: A tool for pulling a valve stem and removing the valve core of a Schrader-type pneumatic valve includes an elongate flexible shaft having opposite end portions and a handle affixed to one end portion and a valve-core engaging member including a threaded rear portion and an unthreaded forked front portion for cooperating with a flat member of a Schrader-type valve core for rotating the core to remove it from the valve. The threaded rear portion is threadable into interior threads of the valve when the core has been removed for allowing a user of the tool to pull the valve through a wheel rim opening. The front forked portion of the valve-core engaging member includes a recess formed therein for accommodating a plunger of a Schrader-type valve therein to allow the forked portion to be positioned over the plunger in the valve to provide for engagement of the cooperating forked portion of the valve core.

Abstract: An improved handcuff is constructed of a handcuff assembly that includes a pair of spaced lock assemblies each carrying a clasp for securing the lock assemblies together. A handle cover assembly is mounted about the connector and the lock assemblies to provide a rigid non-movable connection between the lock assemblies. The cover includes a pair of plate members mounted to the connector and lock assemblies to sandwich the connector and lock assemblies therebetween. The cover also includes a pair of oppositely disposed elongate rigid channel members each having a body including an outer surface and an interior space for enclosing the pair of plate members therein. Securing attachments are included for securing the members together. Each channel member includes a pair of walls connected along one elongate edge and open along another elongate edge to define the interior space therein.

Abstract: A printing press performs offset color printing. A blanket cylinder having four image segments selectively contacts a plate cylinder having four image segments and an impression cylinder having five image segments for carrying print media. A pair of eccentric bushings for independently controlling the impression cylinder engages same to blanket cylinder. A print media feed system and a delivery system are located on the same side of the press and cooperate with each other via a means for moving feed and delivery trays in a generally vertical direction. Print media are gripped only once and travel in the same direction until let go by the impression cylinder. An image forming system forms four images on a plate cylinder to be inked by four respective inking units oriented therearound. All four plate image sections can be inked during one rotation of the plate cylinder. Four inking units including a minimal number of rollers for inking the plate image sections.

Abstract: A pivotable outrigger assembly securable to a water vessel gunwale includes a support bracket connected to a receptor extending downwardly from a top planar member of the support bracket. The receptor member preferably includes a stop for receiving a selected inboard and outboard pivot edge rigidly connected to a lower portion of a pivot member. The pivot member includes first and second pivot portions with the former portion being insertable into the receptor from a top planar member opening and the latter extending laterally from the first pivot portion for securing to an oar. A pushpin is insertable from the outer face of the side planar member through the receptor and first pivot portion to secure the pivot member at a selected inboard and outboard position. The receptor includes stationary and movable portions with the former attached to the side planar member of the support bracket and a first receiving portion.

Abstract: The electrostatic classifier and separator is supported by a housing and includes a corona classifier section for classifying particulate materials according to size. Corona element supplies mobile ions for bombarding particulate materials dropping down a passageway from a reservoir. A splitter and screen may be included in the passageway to direct particulate materials into respective fractions. First separator section receives fine to middle size fractions and second separator section receives middle to coarse size fractions. A support frame having adjustable slots supports a plurality of static electrodes. Corona element for emitting a corona charge is spaced generally in a first quadrant of first separator section. A rotatable brush and an alternating current wiper may be included for removing fine to middle size nonconductive fractions from first separator section.

Abstract: The clamp includes a passage adjacent to a pivot connection and into which a corresponding pivot pin is at least partially displaced from its original position into a position in which the circumcision clamp becomes inoperative. In one embodiment, the passage is located at one end of the latching member having a notch that is adjacent to a spur so that, when the clamp is moved to a closed position, the spur slips into the notch. The spur and notch resist movement of the latching member thereby causing the pivot pin to be forcibly displaced from its original position into an inoperative position. Select elements of the clamp may be formed of transparent plastic material for allowing a circumcision operator to monitor the glans penis therebeneath so that same is not damaged during a circumcision. Alternately, the clamp may be formed of aluminum and stainless steel. In such an embodiment, the passage is located at one end of the handle.

Abstract: A holster includes a quick release withdrawal restraint and is constructed of an inner and outer sidewall joined together along a front and back to define an inner cavity with an open top shaped to fit a handgun. The quick restraint includes a mechanical blocking element located in the inner cavity to engage a portion of the handgun adjacent the ejection port to inhibit withdrawal upwardly prior to rearward movement of the handgun. A second mechanical blocking element is also provided adjacent the rear of the trigger guard that is biased into a first position to prevent rearward movement of the gun and a second position that allows for rearward movement of a gun when the second blocking element is moved by pressure on a thumb or finger ledge. A third mechanical blocking element is provided to prevent motion of a handgun when holstered in a manner to cause movement of the second blocking element from the first position.

Abstract: The automated, computerized voice message storage and redelivery system (SRS) provides for the receipt, recordation and storage into individual computer files of telephonic messages received from subscribers who telephone into the computer system and respond either verbally or via touch-tone keypad to verbal prompts by the SRS in order to enter scheduling data and who then record voice message(s) in response to prompts by the SRS. The SRS receives the subscriber's scheduling data and verbal message. The SRS automatically checks its files every minute of every day and, upon detecting a scheduled call telephones the predetermined number. When the recipient telephone is answered, the SRS listens for a human voice. If a human voice is detected, the SRS then replays the previously recorded voice message. If a human voice is not detected, the SRS terminates the telephone call and then does one of two things depending upon the previously recorded request of the subscriber.

Abstract: The strip includes an elongated body having a pair of parallel sidewalls, an upper surface between sidewalls and a lower surface between sidewalls adapted to engage a water barrier on a wood roof. A plurality of spaced, inverted channels are formed along the body from the lower surface and terminate generally midway between the upper and lower surfaces. The channels extend between the body sidewalls and provide drainage perpendicular to the length of the body. The upper surface may be planar or be stepped. A plurality of spaced recesses with preset fasteners are disposed along the upper body surface.

Abstract: A collapsible assembly for loading and transporting vehicles in a cargo container having a roof, a floor, two elongate side walls, and front and rear walls, includes two pairs of spaced vertical posts, one pair being at the front end of the frame and another pair being at the rear end. Front and rear horizontally mounted crossbars support two ramps for carrying a vehicle when the assembly is in its open position. Each crossbar has two members of equal length rotatably and slideably attached to the posts and connected together by a hinge that allows each crossbar to be folded in half interiorly of the frame thus pulling the posts together in a collapsed closed position for storage purposes.

Abstract: A modular and versatile food and beverage service bar requiring minimum storing space and enabling service of large number of people in social and theme events and readily changeable to meet variety of décor needs, includes a plurality of full sections, each section includes three spaced U-shaped box support members having an upper horizontal member, an upright vertical member and a lower horizontal member, a rigid top plate secured to the upper members, a pair of trim bands secured to the upright vertical members and sandwiching a front panel against and generally covering the upright vertical members, and fasteners in the form of bolts and nuts to couple these components together. Another embodiment of the present invention is a half section including a pair of spaced support members as well as a rigid top plate, a pair of bands and a front bendable panel.

Abstract: A concrete casting sliding corner system includes a pallet for defining the cross-sectional shape and thickness of the sidewalls and an inside core mold disposed interiorly of the pallet and an outside mold jacket disposed outwardly of the pallet. The mold core and mold jacket are movable between an open release position and a closed casting position. A corner forming section includes a wedge-shaped member movable vertically between an upward casting position and a downward release position. Alignment means is included to coordinate the corner wedge and members of the mold core to prevent misalignment due to lack of coordination between the interior mold components.

Abstract: The invention provides automatic protection from heat damage due to continuing emissions from the distal ends of untended fiberoptics lighting cables, especially those employed in surgical procedures. Damage from such intense and concentrated emissions may include burning of patient tissues, cloth, polymer sheeting and other heat sensitive materials. A simplified proximity detection circuit permits emissions only when an electrically conductive distal terminal or attached implement is purposely held by an operator. Sensitivity is adjusted to provide that casual contact of the small area of the terminal surface at the distal end of the cable with a portion of the human body or other source of substantial earth-ground capacitance, insulated by a non-conductive covering, will not initiate emissions. Emissions can be instantly initiated when wanted by direct contact or by a surgically gloved hand that holds the small terminal with sufficient pressure to maximize the proximity of hand and terminal surfaces.