Abstract: A bicycle or motor bike warning signal device is provided which may be mounted on a supporting element on a bicycle, such as a rear frame member of the bicycle, or on a bicycle rack or carrier at the rear of the bicycle, or on the frame of a motor bike, and includes a supporting rod or arm and attached light-reflective warning signal element which are manually movable by the bicycle or motor bike rider from a generally vertical and ineffective or daylight position at one side of the bicycle frame or the bicycle rack, or from the frame of a motor bike, into a generally horizontal and nighttime warning signal position at one side of the bicycle or motor bike.

Abstract: A hydro-electric power apparatus including an electrical generator is mounted in a combination power house and crew housing disposed at or above the surface of a current of ocean or other water current and a hydraulic turbine for driving the electrical generator is suspended into the water from a supporting platform on which the power house and crew housing are mounted. The power house and crew housing and the supporting platform are anchored to the floor of the ocean or like body of water without the use of walls, ramps or the like. The supporting platform provides a helipad landing for a helicopter transporting food and supplies for the maintenance crew and repair and replacement parts for the electrical generator and other parts of the apparatus. A water inlet or intake nozzle is suspended from the supporting platform to direct a maximum hydraulic force of the ocean or other water current in the area into the hydraulic turbine.

Abstract: A burial vault is provided, the component parts of which are preferably made of molded plastic resinous material, such as polyethylene, and which comprises a composite base including as components parts thereof, (1) a generally flat, rectangular-shaped supporting platform; (2) an inner upright wall structure including a generally rectangular-shaped frame mounted on the said supporting platform member and having an open top and having a lower end portion which is mechanically fastened and hermetically sealed to the supporting platform and having upstanding side walls and end walls which are provided on their outer surfaces with laterally spaced generally vertically extending parallel reinforcing ribs; and (3) a generally flat rectangular-shaped top closure plate or lid member which is arranged over and closes the open top of the frame member of the inner upright wall structure and is hermetically sealed thereto.

Abstract: A burial vault including a base and a cover or dome molded from moldable plastic resinous material. The base and cover or dome have reinforcing ribs formed integrally therewith on the inner surfaces of the side and end walls thereof. The base has a pattern of reticulated reinforcing ribs formed integrally with and on the inner surface of the bottom of the base, and the cover or dome has a comparable pattern of reticulated reinforcing ribs formed integrally with and on the inner or lower surface of the top wall of the cover or dome, and the base has reinforcing structures formed integrally therewith at the bottom corners of the base. The base and the cover or dome have reinforcing ribs formed on the inner surfaces of the side and end walls thereof.

Abstract: A combination burial vault and casket and funeral and burial method or system are provided. The burial vault comprises a base which includes a generally rectangular-shaped upright interiorly decorated inner wall structure having a closed bottom and an open top. A "surround" or false casket includes a generally rectangular-shaped box-like frame having handle members attached thereto, and having an open top and an open bottom and an interiorly decorated hinged top or closure member. In use the "surround" or false casket is arranged over and encloses the inner upright wall structure and bottom wall or supporting platform of the base and is releasably latched thereto at the funeral home with the remains of the deceased arranged in the casket assembly provided by the inner upright wall structure and its bottom wall or supporting platform and the "surround" or false casket enclosing the same.

Abstract: A combination burial vault and casket and funeral and burial method or system using the same in a funeral and burial service. An interiorly decorated "surround" or false casket frame having a hinged top is disposed over the base of the vault and cooperates with the interiorly decorated base of the burial vault to provide a casket during visitation at the funeral home. Carrying handle structures are provided for carrying either the assembled base and the surround or false casket or the assembled base and cover of the vault, with the remains of the deceased therein, to the cemetary after the visitation and funeral services at the funeral home.In one practice of the invention, when the base and cover of the vault are assembled at the close of services at the funeral home, the surround or false casket with the carrying handle structures thereon is retained at the funeral home for reuse.

Abstract: A container conveying and elevating apparatus conveys relatively shallow containers having a relatively large diameter, such as aluminum can cup bodies, in banks, or en masse, that is, in multiple rows, along a generally horizontal feed-in conveyor to the front or imput side of a vertically extending elevator housing and onto the bottom run of a generally vertically extending elevator conveyor which is arranged in the housing. The elevator conveyor embodies multiple rows of generally horizontally or longitudinally and transversely extending spaced flexible container-conveying and supporting finger members which are adapted to project into the interiors of, or otherwise engage, the containers as they are fed by the feed-in conveyor to the bottom horizontal run of the elevator conveyor.

Abstract: A feed-in can conveyor receives a bank of multiple rows of cans from a first work station, such as a can washing apparatus, and conveys them in inverted position, that is, with the open ends of the cans facing down and the closed bottom ends facing up, under a perforated endless can-carrying and can-uprighting conveyor belt which works over the peripheral surface of a rotary foraminous metal cylinder or drum.

Abstract: As article-carrying case and an article-supporting and hinge unit therefor in which the article-carrying case includes a body and a closure member or top horizontally connected thereto. An article or apparatus, such as a CB (Citizen's Band) radio unit, recording device, dictating unit, or the like, is mounted on and is attached to a supporting base plate of the article-supporting and hinge construction which includes an attaching hinge section which is attached to the inner surface of one side wall of the body of the article-carrying case. The hinge unit includes an article-supporting section and an intermediate hinge section between the attaching hinge section and the article-supporting section which enables the article-supporting section and an article mounted thereon to be enclosed within the body of the article-carrying case when not in use or to be withdrawn from the body of the article-carrying case unit and rested on the top of the closed cover of the article-carrying case when in use.

Abstract: A proportional fluid flow control hydraulic valve including a valve body in which a by-pass flow passage leads from an inlet port to a by-pass outlet port. A valve chamber is arranged between the inlet port and a regulated flow outlet port and the by-pass outlet port. The by-pass flow passage includes an annular auxiliary flow channel which extends in bypassing relationship around the valve chamber. A valve member movably mounted in the valve chamber has valve ports therein for controlling fluid flow from the inlet port and the auxiliary fluid flow channel past the valve member to the regulated flow passage. In one form, the valve member is normally disposed in balanced hydraulic equilibrium in the valve chamber to prevent fluid flow from the inlet port through the auxiliary fluid flow channel and the valve ports in the valve member into the valve chamber and thence into the regulated flow passage.

Abstract: A ferrous or like metal coupling or other metal attachment, such as a heady round lug, includes a generally cylindrical body having a beveled base and a divider land or keel extends diametrically across the base and projects downwardly therefrom and divides the beveled base into two generally coequal component weld surface areas on opposite sides of the divider land or keel. The body of the metal coupling or other metal attachment, such as a heady round metal lug, is positioned at a desired and preselected point on the external surface of a metal pipe or tube whereupon the metal coupling or other metal attachment is preliminarily or tack-welded to join the divider land or keel to the external surface of the metal pipe or tube.

Abstract: An ice cream sandwich with a wrapper sheet thereon is raised by an elevator to the level of a horizontal trackway during which side and bottom panels of the wrapper sheet are downfolded along the sides of the sandwich. A horizontally slidable and reciprocable pusher and folding device pushes the sandwich and wrapper sheet off the elevator device onto and along the trackway. During this operation folding devices in the form of combination vertically extending elevator guide members and folding devices which form parts of the pusher and folding device coact to infold the bottom panels of the wrapper sheet under the bottom surface of the sandwich.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for concentrically and radially aligning and welding together two tubular metal components, such as a metal pipe or tubing, and a tubular flanged member, or two or more metal pipes or tubings.

Abstract: A flexible coated wire cable conveyor structure which includes one or more flexible wire cables coated with a flexible plastic resinous cable-coating material, such as nylon, and novel means for attaching the conveyor flights to and supporting them on the flexible coated wire cable or cables including flight-attaching and supporting members integrally united, as by molding or heat-bonding to the flexible plastic resinous cable-coating material on the flexible coated wire cable or cables and for attaching the conveyor flights to and supporting them on the flexible coated wire cable or cables. In a preferred embodiment thereof, the invention includes means for detachably latching the conveyor flights to the flight-attaching and supporting members.

Abstract: A mastectomy pad embodying an outer seamless molded fibrous material casing molded of high-loft non-woven bonded polyester fibrous material (such as Eastman KODEL) and including a generally conical preshaped body which is adapted to be worn in the conical-shaped cup of a brassiere or garment to simulate the breast of a woman who has had a mastectomy operation, and a laterally projecting tongue portion which is adapted to extend into the underarm area of the wearer to fill area from which tissue has been removed as an incident to the mastectomy operation. A generally conical preshaped molded closed foam rubber internal casing is arranged within the seamless molded polyester fibrous material outer casing and is molded of foam rubber and is weighted with a body of filler material which is preferably a mixture of particles of shredded foam rubber and sand.

Abstract: A chiropractic table which includes a supporting base and a sectional table supported thereby and comprised of a plurality of generally parallel separate table cushion sections or units which, for certain uses, are adapted to be disposed in generally coplanar horizontal alignment or relationship but are individually movable by the doctor into raised or elevated or lowered position and out of coplanar relationship relative to each other, for special purposes and treatments of the patient's spine by the doctor, and to adjust the height of the individual table cushion sections to the height of the doctor or his assistant.

Abstract: A tying device for tying wooden plate members, or the like, to masonry and concrete structures, including walls, floors, roofs, beams and foundations constructed of either masonry or concrete, the tying device being formed from a flat strip of bendable sheet metal stock, such as sheet metal, or the like having a part which provides an anchor portion for anchoring the tying member to a masonry or concrete structure and having another part which is slit lengthwise of the flat strip of metal stock to provide a pair of bendable tying arms which may be bent around the sides and over a portion of the top of a wooden plate member, or the like, to which the bendable tying arms may be attached by fastening means, such as nails.

Abstract: A coated abrasive disc is prepared for use in power driven abrading, grinding, buffing tools and the like, by coating a substrate disc or sheet of fibrous paperboard, or like material, as by means of a patterned adhesive transfer roll, embossing or the like, to form rows of geometrically patterned adhesive coated areas in the substrate; and then applying finely divided abrasive material over the adhesive coated areas to form a geometrical pattern of abrasive coated areas on the substrate with rows of uncoated scavenging channels extending between the abrasive coated areas and opening onto the outer or peripheral edge of the abrasive coated disc.

Abstract: Flat blanks are fed from a stack by bending back a flap to form an inside corner, engaging the corner with a puller bar and pulling the blank from the stack and along a path past plows which bend the blank to form it about a mandrel while a product to be packaged is moved along inside the mandrel in synchronism with the blank movement. Pusher element retraction means are also disclosed as are rotation means for rotating partially completed cartons to orient extended end tabs and flaps with stationary plows for effecting end closure of the cartons thus formed.

Abstract: A cotton stripping apparatus which includes a wheel-bearing carriage including a housing having an open front end means for blowing the stripped cotton into a trailer wagon or basket, and cotton stripper means in the form of a plurality of cotton stripper bars extending in generally parallel relationship through the housing at the bottom thereof and rearwardly from the end portion thereof, and guide wheels mounted in the front end portion of the housing at an acute angle to the vertical so that the inclined guide wheels will ride on the side portions or slopes of the upraised cotton-bearing ground rows and thereby elevate the cotton stripper bars above the ground rows and prevent them from digging into the top or upper portions of the ground rows and picking up parts of the ground soil, sticks, stones and other debris, while, at the same time, enabling the cotton stripper bars effectively to strip the cotton bolls from their stalks.