Abstract: An apparatus for constructing a unitary pre-cast concrete modular building unit comprising: a collapsible outer form having a rigid rectangular base and rigid walls pivotally connected thereto and collapsible to the plane of said base; a hydraulically retractable inner form thus providing with the outer form, a mold for said building unit; and an extruder for removing said inner form from said building unit.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for placement of prefabricated buildings at onsite foundations, by providing a plurality of prefabricated foundation piers secured to individual concrete footings via bolting or the like. Foundation piers would be spaced apart in order to accommodate the length of the trailer or the like, in pairs, the distance apart substantially equal to the double spanning beams along the length of the trailer. There is further provided an angle iron collar positioned on the first and last pairs of piers, for securing wooden or the like tracks spanning the entire length of the piers, with the tracks attached to the angle iron collar on the first and last set of piers via screwing or the like. There is further provided a single length of angle iron secured to the track, preferably on the inside of each track, to serve as a guide means in the utilization of the track.

Abstract: A control and guidance apparatus for use with a powered saw comprising a pair of parallel elongated rail members telescopically adjustable for defining a cutting path for said saw, a carriage supporting said saw and slidably mounted on the rail members for independent movement therealong and with a saw mount opening in the surface of the carriage, a third elongated rail member substantially parallel to the pair of elongated rail members, guide members mounted to the distal end of each of the parallel elongated rail members for slidably engaging the third elongated rail member, and a cord member connected to the distal end of each of the pair of elongated rail members and provided through a series of pulleys and wound about a spool for imparting arcuate movement to the pair of elongated rail members whereby the pair of elongated members telescopically lengthen as a function of the rotation of the spool.

Abstract: A method of cutting grooves and whitewalling vehicle tires in a series of functional steps, employing an apparatus which comprises a tire buffing assembly swively mounted upon an arm assembly allowing adjustment of the buffing assembly. There is further provided speed control means for controlling the variable speed of the drive means for rotating a reversible wheel drive member for rotating the tire during the buffing steps. The buffing assembly would have a plurality of buffing blades depending on the size of the strip to be buffed, and would be electrically driven. There is further provided means for maneuvering the apparatus via a handle and wheel members and a seating means for affording comfort during the operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: The purification of aluminum chloride, with the crude aluminum chloride normally being obtained through a process of carbo-chlorination of metallic ores, in particularly aluminum bearing ores, to make the metallic chlorides, in particular aluminum chloride. In the present invention, if the crude aluminum chloride does not contain traces of sulfur, the crude aluminum chloride is blended with elemental sulfur or an equivalent sulfur containing compound and simultaneously elemental aluminum powder or an equivalent aluminum containing compound in the solid state is added to the crude aluminum chloride. This blend is kept at 180.degree. C. at one atmosphere of pressure and is fed into a screw-type sublimer wherein the substantially pure aluminum chloride undergoes sublimation in the presence of elemental nitrogen as a purging agent and under constant agitation. The sublimed aluminum chloride is streamed into a reaction ground bed containing aluminum granules at approximately 250.degree. C.

Abstract: A compact storage receptacle for magnetic tapes, computer disks, phono records and other electronic storage media having a containerized housing with spaced apart, parallel side walls, which space between the walls defines a storage section for the tape or disk to be stored. Further provided is a secondary storage component wherein the actual tape or the like to be stored is inserted thereinto, wherein the secondary component is mounted by two pin and track combinations and rotatable up into the primary storage bin. There is further provisions for rotation of the secondary unit for locking and sealing. Likewise, a plurality of dove tailed tracks are provided along the side and back walls of each individualized compartment thus providing interconnections between individualized units into a compartmentalized system.

Abstract: An apparatus which comprises an upper sub for connectable engagement with the wire line, a microprocessor component for directing the various functions of the overall apparatus down hole; a motor section having a plurality of thrust directional motors and ball screw assembly for movement of steering gates; a motor driven impellar means for providing thrust and flow through a portion of the apparatus and in combination with the flow gates providing steering in a certain direction; an electric transducer portion for providing ultrasonic vibrations around the circumference of the apparatus in discongealing molecular substrate adjacent the apparatus; a mechanical vibration coil assembly means on the lower end of the apparatus for discongealing larger areas of congealing in a substrate around the apparatus, and a lower sub for connectably engaging the electrical logging unit to be steered down hole.

Abstract: A process involving the utilization of a clamp apparatus positioned around a pile to be driven into the seabed through the jacket leg and supported on the top end portion of the jacket leg itself. The apparatus involved in this process would comprise a pair of hemispherical sections hinged together at a common edge moveable between opened and closed positions opposite the hinged edge. There is further provided hydraulic means for effecting movement of the sections engaging or disengaging the piling. On the inner wall of each hemisphere there is further provided a plurality of protrusions, constructed of soft metal or the like, so that the outermost face of each protrusion engages the wall of the piling when the apparatus is in the closed position and engaged around the pile. The downward movement of the pile in the jacket leg is controlled by the loosening or tightening of the clamp apparatus by use of the hydraulic means attached thereto.

Abstract: A syringe apparatus having a syringe barrel open-ended on a first end for receiving a piston therewithin for movement down the syringe barrel, and having on the second end a constricted neck portion with a bore therethrough in communication with the bore within the syringe barrel. There would be further provided a needle portion having an upper base for mounting the upper portion of the needle, with the needle slidable within the bore of the constricted neck portion, from a position retracted into the neck portion to a position movable out of the end of the neck portion for injection. There is further provided a first and second locking members. The first locking member allows locking engagement between the slidable piston within the barrel and the lower base portion of the needle, so that when in the locked position the needle moves in relation with the piston portion.

Abstract: A radiographic film cassette having a plurality of magnet components integral with the cassette holder for adhering the cassette to ferrous material in X-raying for defects in welds or fissures in shipyards, pipe lines, or the like. What is provided is a substantially flexible cassette envelope comprising first and second layers of radiographic intensifying screens with a sheet of radiographic film positioned therebetween. The cassette would be a cassette envelope constructed of waterproof fabric or other suitable material providing a light-free environment, and having the ability to flex around the curvature of the surface of a pipe or the like to be x-rayed. There is further provided a plurality of magnet components, preferably situated in each corner of the cassette envelope and flexibly attached thereto for overall adherence of the envelope to the surface of the pipe or the like to be x-rayed during the process.

Abstract: A device for picking up rubbish and debris and removal of the rubbish and debris into a proper receptacle without the necessity for the operator of the device to touch the rubbish and debris. The shaft has a handle at one end, a pointed tip at the other end and a sleeve slidably engaged on the shaft to cause removal of the debris and rubbish collected on the pointed tip. When a locking and release mechanism located near the handle on the shaft is released, the sleeve causes removal of the rubbish and debris when it slides down the shaft and over the tip.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting the direction of a deviated borehole having a self-aligning sleeve slideable over flexible members of the drill string assembly, which is non-rotating and substantially the same length as a flexible member of the drill string assembly, having two elliptical protrusions. There further is included a first protrusion means for centering and stabilizing the tool in the borehole. Also, a second pad-like protrusion means is included for guiding the drill bit and drill string assembly in the desired direction.

Abstract: An angulated indicator lens secured to the top portion of a relay valve for providing maximum refraction and dispersion of the several indicating colors on the valve stem indicating the operative or inoperative position of the valve. The lens is constructed of a unitary transparent body having an interior angulated, truncated surface of approximately 45.degree. to the horizontal, with an exterior angulated, truncated upper viewing surface of approximately 54.degree. to the vertical. The transparent lens body receives ambient colored light from the stem providing the maximum refraction of light onto the first interior angulated surface and directing the color to be indicated through the lens medium and onto the second exterior angulated truncated surface for maximum indicating area.

Abstract: A wellhead lubricator comprising a housing arranged for vertically extending attachment to a wellhead assembly and having a wireline for supporting a wireline tool therein and passing the wireline tool in and out of the well to the point of attachment to the wellhead; a laterally extending portion of the housing forming a part of the chamber of the housing; a longitudinally extending portion extending from the laterally extending portion and having an opening for passage of a wireline tool therethrough while the housing remains attached to the wellhead; a cap for closing the tool opening; a guide supported in the housing and shiftable between a first position for guiding the wireline tool in and out of the well through the point of attachment to the wellhead and a second position for guiding the wireline tool to the longitudinally extending portion; a spring-actuated valve member for urging the guide to the second position for guiding the wireline tool to the longitudinally extending portion; and a fluid-actu

Abstract: A compartmentalized file folder having a first expandable and sealable pocket mounted on the inner side of the folder wall and a second expandable pocket mounted on the wall of the first pocket for retaining items of smaller size.

Abstract: An apparatus which would include a four wall closed structure having a rack on its floor portion in order to accommodate the food to be cooked or smoked. There is further provided a removable top which would have a recessed container means for housing coals or the like as a source of heat, with the recessed pan intruding into the interior of the apparatus. Positioned above the recessed pan means is a grill means hingedly attached to the top portion of the apparatus for placing meat or the like thereupon. The apparatus further comprises a means to smoke the meat while it undergoes baking, and a drain means for draining excess drippings during the cooking process. It also has members for supporting the top portion when the top portion has been removed for tending to the meat within the apparatus without the top portion having to be placed upon the ground or the like.

Abstract: Control system for indicating which, of a plurality of sensed pressure control fluid functions, first malfunctions. The system includes a plurality of series connected devices, each such device includes a shiftable valve which, in one position activates an indicator, and, in another position deactivates said indicator. Signalling connections link the devices such that all indicators, save the one governing the first malfunction, remain in the indicating condition they were in prior to such malfunction occurring.

Abstract: The apparatus will include a support sled portion having a pair of spaced apart elongated pontoon sections. The pontoons are interconnected by a plurality of I-beam spacer members. A cutter apparatus, including an endless cutter chain projecting into the soil is mounted to the underside of the I-beam spacer members.