Abstract: A taper adapter assembly is disclosed for attaching a boring bar or the like to a machine spindle. The adapter is made up of a tapered adapter member and a drive ring. The adapter member has a taper of the ordinary type with a bore in its small end to receive a draw bolt and a cylindrical portion on its large end which receives the drive ring and a cylindrical portion that extends out from the first mentioned cylindrical portion. The adapter is made up by inserting the tapered adapter member in the spindle of a machine, applying an adhesive to the enlarged cylindrical part of the taper adapter member and placing the drive ring over the cylindrical part and forcing the ring into place against the face of the spindle with a bonding clamp. The drive ring is thereby affixed to the taper adapter and the reduced size cylindrical portion inserted into a bore in the end of a tool holder. The flange of the taper adapter is bolted to the clamping ring. The tool holder (boring bar) is then bolted to the drive ring.

Abstract: A large diameter pipeline strainer has a body with a central chamber and an axially aligned inlet and outlet a lateral opening covered by a removable cover plate to allow removal and replacement of a strainer element mounted in the chamber. The strainer has first and second perforated conical sheet metal walls with an outer wall tapering from the inlet toward the outlet and an inner wall tapering from the outlet back to an apex at the inlet. The strainer is positioned by an annular bead at the inlet sealing against the body at the inlet and fitted within an annular groove formed in both the body and the cover. The strainer is supported at the outlet by a number of radially extending projections which engage the strainer at the point where the inner and outer walls are joined together.

Abstract: Two dolls and a method of playing with the dolls is disclosed. The dolls are identical but one is clothed and the other is bandaged. The dolls are made of separable interchangeable parts such that a child can pretend that one or the other doll has been injured and substitute the bandaged parts from one doll for the clothed parts of the other. Both dolls can be played with simultaneously as if both have injuries of any of the various parts of the body.

Abstract: A method of making insulation wherein peanut hulls are screened successively through three screens providing a very coarse grade of hulls to be reground, a coarse grade and a medium grade for blown insulation, and a fine grade mixed with dust formed into building panels.

Abstract: A cooling fan and hub support for a vehicle with reversible blades is disclosed. The fan has a hub support comprising an outer ring having inwardly extending projections and an inwardly directed flange. Each blade has a stem received in a hole in one of the projections. An inner retaining ring which has outwardly extending projections is supported concentric with the outer ring. A helical spring is received in each of the projections and extends into a blind hole in each stem and the inner end of the spring rests on a retaining ring. The outer ring has spaced holes for attaching it to an engine shaft. The retaining ring has convolutions which curve outwardly around each of the spaced holes and have an arcuate circumferential part that supports each inner end of a spring.

Abstract: Applicant has provided a vibration damper for damping harmonic vibrations in brake resurfacing operations made up of an elastic tube with slugs of heavy ductile material in it. The slugs are approximately the same diameter as the inside diameter of the tubing and are held in place in the tubing by frictional force or by cement. One slug is used to join the adjacent ends of the tubing. The loop formed by the tubing is placed on a brake drum or disc brake rotor during resurfacing operations.

Abstract: A chain saw gauging attachment having a fitting at one end adapted to be received under an existing nut on an existing stud of a chain saw, a rod extending outwardly from the fitting, means for firmly attaching the rod to the fitting, and an indicator which is slidably affixed to the rod and adapted to be fixed in predetermined positions. The fitting of the gauging attachment may be provided with a rotating means which permits the gauging attachment to be swung to the rear of the chain saw and away from the working area when not in use. When mounted, the gauge rod extends along the length of the work piece of a log to which is to be cut, and the indicator of the gauge rod enables the user to fix by sight the place on the log where the next cut is to be made. The gauge rod is slender and resilient whereby it will spring back to its original shape if accidently flexed.

Abstract: A ball valve is disclosed herein having the portions of the ball surface removed which would be exposed to the fluid in the line when the valve is closed. These portions have bottoms of smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the seats for the ball. Therefore, the surface that has been exposed to liquid while the valve was closed cannot contact the valve seats during the turning cycle of the ball in the valve body either moving from closed to open or open to closed position.

Abstract: A diagnostic method is disclosed, based on the automated kinetic determination of LD and MD isoenzymes in serum, which utilizes the comparison of two rates of LD and MD activity at different concentrations of substrate. It compares the first activity to the second concentration (activity) to obtain a ratio of activities relative to the two said activities with the first activity in the denominator and the second activity in the numerator and then determining the amount of MD activity enhancement (accelerated activity) by observing the ratio of measured MD activity.

Abstract: A game device made up of a circular frame with a hole in the center and a handle on each side for holding it and tilting it. A hole is formed in the center of the frame and a net is supported on the bottom of the frame around the hole. The circular track is formed in the frame around the hole and concentric thereto. The player can support the ball in the track and grasp the handles in his hand and tilt the frame from side to side causing the ball to roll around the track. The idea of the game is to roll the ball around the track at the greatest speed without having it fall off or fall into the hole in the center. The movement of the ball can be timed to obtain a score in the game.

Abstract: An action toy in which a spinner is provided having two wheels joined with a magnetized axle which rotates along a single flat elongated wand. The wand has a return at each end so that the spinner will rotate along a first side of the wand and then along a second side as a player moves the wand from hand to hand. A pendant may be provided attached to an extension of the axle and having a magnet at its distal end for picking up various objects adding additional play value. The wand may be provided in a variety of shapes to present an interesting path for the spinner. A ramp may be provided which is readily attachable to the wand at a return to permit the passage of the spinner off of or onto the wand.

Abstract: A level for leveling in three dimensions such as leveling the top surface and corner edges of a wall. The level has a body that is L-shaped in cross section with two legs at right angles to one another. The legs are made of plate like members with equally spaced holes. Some of the holes have level vials in them. Each leg has a longitudinally extending rib. The vials are supported in rings fixed to the sides of the plate like legs. The rings could be fixed in position by set screws or other fastening means. The ribs are at least as thick as the rings so that they protect the rings and the vials supported in the rings.

Abstract: A torsional vibrating device is disclosed for operation as a two mass vibrating system consisting of a first mass having a generally circular work member and a spring mechanism connecting the first mass to the second mass excited by a motor driven eccentric weight or weights so that the second mass vibrates in a circular path having a circular component and a vertical component which will cause material on said work member to be conveyed in a circular direction. The spring member is unique in this combination. The entire system is isolated from the supporting means. This system has application for controlling the flow of bulk material from a hopper, screen or feeder or for elevating or lowering a material in a helical trough or for orientation of discrete particles or other applications depending on a properly designed work member.

Abstract: A massager for massaging the body is disclosed having a disk with a plurality of shafts around a central central shaft. Each of the shafts have a resilient member on it for engaging the body of a person. These shafts are driven so that the outside shafts all rotate in a first direction and the center shaft rotates in the opposite direction. They are driven so that they rotate first in one direction a part of a turn and then they rotate in the other direction a part of a turn. The drive may be a central gear fixed to the center shaft and a small gear fixed to each of the small shafts and making meshing engagement with the large gear so that when the large shaft is rotated in one direction the central member rotates with it and the other members all rotate in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A wheel dresser for precision grinding wheels made up of a housing supporting a rotatable diamond tool with a flat end and a housing supporting the two at an angle to the side edge of the wheel to be dressed. Base of the wheel dresser is magnetic and can be supported on a magnetic table. The dresser is adapted to be supported on a machine where the grinding wheel and table are adjustable up and down relative to one another. The tool is rotatable about its longitudinal axis so that it may cool and only a part of the cutting edge be engaged with the grinding wheel at any one time. The wheel can be dressed by moving the tool radially of the wheel.

Abstract: A machine for marking articles of manufacture such as electronic components is disclosed. The machine has a plate like frame disclosed generally in a vertical plane. The articles to be marked are supported on a backing strip and a cover strip is attached to the backing strip. The strip assembly is wound on a feed roll supported on the machine and as the strip assembly unwinds from the feed roll the backing strip and components are separated from the cover strip by two spaced rolls. The cover strip then passes around another idler roll to the take-up roll. The backing strip and components pass under a dancer roll and then under a laser where they are marked, then under another dancer roll back to the cover strip where the backing strip and cover strip are joined and re-rolled on a take-up roll.

Abstract: Applicant has provided a hopper feed mechanism used to feed articles into other process equipment. The operator feeds the articles into the hopper. Upon actuation, a shuttle blade conveys an article out of the hopper and under a feedwheel. The shuttle blade is movably supported to the fixed frame of the mechanism, and is powered by an air cylinder. The feedwheel is lifted as the article is propeled under the feedwheel and is lowered to feed the article into other process equipment.