Abstract: A telephone switch control clip adapted for attachment to a conventional telephone instrument of the type having a hand-held receiver that is electrically connected to a cradle which functions to receive and support the receiver when not in use. The hand-held receiver is of the type that includes a push button for opening and closing the telephone circuit. The button is normally biased to an extended position for closing the telephone circuit. The positioning of the receiver onto the cradle moves the push button to a retracted position to terminate or to open the telephone circuit. The clip comprises a member having a contour closely following the peripheral shape of the grip portion of the receiver.

Abstract: Automatic starters for an internal combustion engine and to a circuit for automatically starting the engine of an automotive vehicle at a predetermined time.

Abstract: A shock absorber having a housing with a piston chamber and a radially spaced accumulator chamber. A piston rod having a piston at its inner end is slideably mounted in the piston chamber, while the outer end of the piston rod extends outwardly from the shock absorber housing wherein it is provided with a striker plate which is initially positioned for engagement by a load to be decelerated. The fluid passage between the accumulator and the piston chambers is provided with a tapered metering slot designed to communicate a lesser amount of oil between the piston and the accumulator chambers as the piston is decelerated, resulting in a gradual deceleration of the load exerted on the piston. An adjustable metering valve carried by the shock absorber housing is utilized to communicate oil from the piston chamber when a load is exerted on the striker plate which is less than the maximum amount the shock absorber may receive.

Abstract: A portable container has an upright service tower in the form of an elongated support post with one end secured to the bottom of a water-filled container adjacent its side wall, while an intermediate section is secured to the upper side wall of the container. A suitable spacer is disposed between the container side wall and the service tower so as to slightly incline the support post toward the center of the container to thereby stabilize both the support post and the container. A handle pivotally carried by the container is adapted to snap-lockingly engage the post to securely attach the container to the support post. The post has a plurality of means for carrying articles, such as brushes, bottles, a hose, soaps and the like.

Abstract: A picket fence comprising a plurality of parallel and laterally spaced metal pickets which are interconnected by a plurality of parallel pairs of stringers. The stringers are made from a metal material and have opposite ends shaped in a tubular configuration which are received in mating recesses on adjacent, parallel pickets such that the pickets are rotatable about the tubular configurations of the stringers whereby the pickets and their associated stringers are movable with respect to each other in such a manner that the pickets may be disposed along a curved path.

Abstract: In a building, a ventilating hood is disposed over a kitchen cooking unit. The hood has an exhaust duct and a return duct, both extending through the roof to the exterior of the building. An exhaust blower is connected to the exhaust duct, and an intake blower is connected to the intake duct outside the building. The hood includes an air filter which has a plurality of fresh air conduits extending therethrough. The ventilating system removes smoke, vapors and cooking odors from the work area disposed over the cooking unit and provides fresh air to the same work area. The smoke, vapors, cooking odors and the like pass through the air filter on their way to the exhaust duct, while air from the intake duct is directed through the filter air conduits such that the exhausted, heated air preheats the fresh air returned from the hood to the work area above the cooking unit.

Abstract: A ski binding having a retaining device which secures a skier's boot to a ski. The retaining device releases the boot when the lateral, longitudinal, and/or upward forces acting between the ski and the boot reach a predetermined level. The retaining device includes means which function to generate a force which is equal to and opposite to the force generated by the acceleration of the boot mass in the lateral and/or vertical directions so as to cancel out the internal forces resulting from such accelerations and thereby eliminate the premature release of the ski bindings.

Abstract: An apparatus for making reproductions or negatives for plate making comprises a base frame, a vertical supporting post secured at its lower end to the base frame, a master copy holding frame spaced above the base frame and vertically movably supported on the supporting post, a light source on the master copy holding frame, a lens system on the underside of the master copy holding frame and a copy paper holding plate on the base plate. The light source, the lens system and the copy paper holding plate are so positioned relative to one another as to be aligned with the axis of light emitted by the light source. The master copy holding plate carries a movable plate which is horizontally movable both longitudinally and transversely of the master copy holding frame. A master film holding plate is adapted to support a plurality of master films thereon and be removably secured to the movable plate which is movable to position the master films selectively for exposure to the light.

Abstract: A security container for storing paper currency comprises an elongated, tubular member, preferably fabricated from metal, and has its opposite ends sealingly enclosed such that the removal of the opposite ends of the container results in the destruction thereof. One of the container ends is in the form of a cap that is press fitted into the tubular end. The cap is provided with a central opening in the form of a cylindrical tube that extends inwardly from the cap into the interior of the tubular member. The cylindrical tube has a diameter which is sized to receive a rolled currency and has a length which is less than the length of the rolled currency such that once the currency is inserted through the tube into the interior of the container, it may not be withdrawn from the container via the tube. No access is provided to the interior of the container, and access to the currency therein is obtained by the destruction of the container.

Abstract: A luggage rack bed includes a slat having a downwardly depending tab formed at end thereof. The tab seats in a groove formed in a fixed strap to define a preferred mode of interengaging the slat and strap. A strap cover has a notch formed therein which registers with the tab to lock the tab in the groove. The cover is snap fitted to the strap. With the ends of the strap fixed to luggage rack support stanchions to maintain the flexure of the strap the momentary forces, caused by a load being applied to the bed, are distributed throughout the bed.

Abstract: A float and flag assembly for use by divers includes a buoyant annular ring or member mounted on an elongated staff. A flag or signalling device is mounted on the staff at one end thereof. A lead weight or the like is secured to the other end of the post.

Abstract: An acoustical speaker device adapted to be recessed in, for example, the ceiling of a room, has a paraboliform loudspeaker housing with an open end and an aperture formed at its concave end generally coaxial with the open end. A collar coaxially surrounds and extends outwardly of the housing from the concave end. An electrical transformer is removably located in the collar, and the collar is closed by a removable cap. A loudspeaker device is disposed within the housing proximate the open end of the housing and is oriented to radiate sound waves outwardly of the housing through the open end.

Abstract: A tube cleaning material for cleaning the inside of a tube is adapted to be passed through such a tube by means of a back pressure. The tube cleaning material includes a cylindrical body provided with at least one, and, preferably, a plurality of spiral grooves formed in its peripheral surface. The grooves extend and run in the same direction from the front to the rear of the cylindrical body. The edges of the groove are brought close to each other, when the material is pressed into the tube, so as to prevent wrinkles from appearing on the surface of the material. In addition, the grooves allow the back pressure creating medium to go ahead of the body to moisten the sticking contaminants on the tube. This facilitates the removal of contaminants especially when the medium is water. The body is rendered rotatable by the fluid medium. In one embodiment of the invention the grooves of one side communicate with the grooves on the other side of the body by a bore diametrically extending through the body.

Abstract: A phonograph for use with a record cartridge wherein a disc record is attached to a sheet-like record holder, comprises a cartridge holder mounted on a casing for immovably holding the record cartridge with its record facing downwardly. Within the casing, a motor-driven turntable is rotatably mounted under the cartridge holder, and a speaker cone is mounted further under the turntable in concentric, back-to-back relationship for simultaneous rotation therewith. A tone arm pivoted eccentrically on the turntable has a reproducing stylus extending upwardly therefrom for engagement with a record groove of the record cartridge. The vibrations set up in the reproducing stylus during rotation of the turntable relative to the record cartridge are transmitted to the speaker cone via a vibration transmitter rod mounted on the turntable.

Abstract: A fortified metal filter possessing a high filtering efficiency, a large pore ratio and a wide net area of fused parts of fine stainless steel wires is prepared by crushing the edges of these wires. The wires utilized in the system are composed of numerous polygonally cross-sectioned fine stainless steel wires. The procedure for preparing such filters, in which only the fused part, which arises from the crushing of the wire edges, possesses a large net area and the metal is diffused into the fused part, is achieved by heating and compressing the system simultaneously.

Abstract: A blow mold for the production of bellows of the type made of a highly elastic plastic. The blow mold is constructed from individual level-parallel disks which form the level of the outer apexes of two adjacent folds and by forming a slot from each pair of adjacent disks which ends at the outer apex and wherein the slot serves to vent air.

Abstract: A phonograph of the type wherein a plastics-made tone arm having an upstanding stylus mounted thereon is pivoted eccentrically on a turntable or rotor, under which a speaker is mounted concentrically for simultaneous rotation therewith relative to a record immovably supported above the turntable. Also mounted on the turntable is a metal-made vibration transmitter rod which is substantially pivotally supported at one end and which rests, at a point intermediate both ends thereof, on the armature of the speaker partly exposed through an aperture in the turntable. The tone arm has its free end resting on the vibration transmitter rod for sliding movement, during playback, from the other end of the rod toward its point of contact with the speaker armature.

Abstract: A wetting doll includes a mouth opening, a second opening, a reservoir, a first conduit leading from mouth to near the reservoir and a second conduit leading from near the first conduit inner end to the second opening. A detachable connector is provided which may be connected to join the two conduits and reservoir in a manner to allow fluid entering the mouth to fill the reservoir but be excluded from the second conduit, or in an alternative manner to allow such fluid to go directly to the second opening but be excluded from the reservoir disposed within the interior thereof for catching the liquid. Upon the reservoir filling up, it is removed from the interior of the doll and emptied.

Abstract: A device for effectuating an automatic transcutaneous affect by applying energy to a living organism includes a self-contained power supply disposed in a housing. A probe circuit is utilized to detect points of high and/or low resistance in the organism. When such points are realized an audio emission begins thereby signalling the point. The device, also, includes a treatment circuit which applies either electrical, light or magnetic energy to the detected point. The present device utilizes interlocking logic circuits to preclude more than one mode being carried out at any one time.

Abstract: Wheat flour products are automatically manufactured with a compact rolling and shaping apparatus which comprises (a) vertically arranged rolling rollers having respective clearances slightly horizontally deviated or offset and having a slitter and cutter in the lower end part thereof, (b) a gelatinizing apparatus, (c) seasoning apparatus, (d) frying apparatus including an endless conveyor and (e) cooling apparatus, combining an endless conveyor and cooling means. The various stages are arranged in upper and lower steps or elevations. A basket carrying endless conveyor is utilized for conveyance between the roller stage, gelatinizing apparatus, seasoning apparatus and endless conveyor of the frying apparatus.