Abstract: An anvil is formed on one end of an elongated piece and the piece is driven into the ground or the like by impacting the anvil with a reciprocable ram driven by a drive mechanism that is operated by a valve which is reciprocably mounted in a normally balanced two directional fluid pressure circuit to reciprocate in the alternate directions thereof when the circuit is unbalanced in the respective directions thereof. The circuit has a pair of outlets therein which are connected with the opposing ends of the valve and disposed to slidably engage with the ram during the stroke thereof. The ram comprises an anvil impacting body having a striking surface on one end thereof and a pair of grooves in one laterally oriented face thereof which are mutually offset longitudinally the the reciprocable axis of the body on spaced parallel lines to form collateral mutually longitudinally offset lands on the lines.

Abstract: The device is armed with servo-applicator means for applying shoe polishing compound to a rotor-driven applicator wheel which in turn transfers the polish to the shoe. The wheel may then be used to shine the shoe with the polish, or a substitute wheel may be used for this purpose, or if need be, an entirely separate means may be used for the purpose. The servo-applicator means may take the form of an insertible cartridge which is operable as a pushbutton-like applicator means on the device, or which can be separately employed as a handheld applicator means. The cartridge is commonly equipped with a stick of polishing compound, and in certain embodiments, the stick is removable from the cartridge, for purposes of renewing or replacing the compound, even while the cartridge is inserted in the device. In other embodiments, the cartridge is first removed from the device and then the compound is renewed or replaced before the cartridge is returned to the device.

Abstract: The apparatus and technique enable a fisherman to store a batch of fish bait morsels on his body in such a way that when he needs one, he can isolate it from the batch and pluck it out of storage on the hook of his line, or between the thumb and one finger of his free hand. According to the technique, a support is formed on his body opposite the front thereof, and a device is pivotally mounted on the support which is adaptable to form an open-ended container for the morsels. The device is swingable between a first position in which the morsels are retained in the container against discharge through the end opening of the same by gravity, and a second position in which one or more morsels tend to discharge through the end opening of the container by gravity. In addition, a recess is formed on the device into which a morsel or morsels can discharge from the end opening of the container when the container is swung between the first and second positions thereof, respectively.

Abstract: The mold comprises a generally rectangularly shaped, machine duplicatable band which is monolithically circumferentially continuous and inherently convexly bowed on the relatively longer and shorter sides thereof, so that it forms crowns on the opposing side walls of the ingot operatively formed therein. The bow in the relatively longer sides of the band has an inherent deflection adapted to form a crown intermediate between that adapted to compensate for shrinkage during the butt forming stage of the casting operation, and that adapted to compensate for shrinkage when the casting operation is conducted at operating speed.

Abstract: The mechanism comprises a hydraulic circuit having a power driven pump; a reservoir for hydraulic fluid, and a motor for each wheel or two or more coaxial wheels of the carriage. The motor has a movable driven member therein and ports for the infeed and outfeed of fluid therethrough. There are connecting means between the pump, the reservoir and the ports whereby the fluid can be circulated through the motor to drive the driven member thereof. There is also a connection between the driven member of the motor and the corresponding wheel or wheels whereby the motion of one is directly transmitted to the other and vice versa, depending on which is being driven at faster speed. In addition, there are means in the hydraulic circuit for varying the speed of the driven member, and means whereby the vehicle operator can control the speed varying means to adjust the rotational speed of the respective wheel or wheels of the carriage in relation to the speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: The apparatus and technique are applicable to fluid pressurizing a portion of an elongated hole in the ground when a hollow tubular fluid transmission member is installed lengthwise therein. According to the technique, inflatable closure means are installed in the hole at a site adjacent the distal end portion of the member, and the closure means are inflated to form a fluid seal crosswise the hole at a longitudinal level therein spaced apart from the bottom of the hole. Fluid is charged into the member, and an opening is formed in the fluid seal whereby the fluid can discharge into the space between the level of the seal and the bottom of the hole to pressurize a portion of this space. In some embodiments, means are interposed between the member and the seal to deliver the fluid to the opening in the seal.

Abstract: The joint is divided circumferentially into a series of sections which are symmetrically arrayed about the axis of the conduits and interconnected by generally axially extending pleats which make it possible for the joint to accommodate to lateral deflections of the conduits at a lesser dimension axially of the joint than that heretofore required by the diametral dimension of the joint.

Abstract: The device comprises an elongated hand supportable siphoning element which is adapted to be employed like a straw. The element has a rotor rotatably mounted thereon for the amusement of the user. It also defines a passage for the flow of the liquid, and there are drive means disposed in the passage in connection with the rotor whereby the rotor is caused to undergo rotation in response to flow of the liquid through the passage.

Abstract: The eggs are incubated in a stack of relatively spaced liquid containers, each of which has a basin therein through which the incubation liquid undergoes upward flow and then weirs over opposing sides of the basin into outflow chambers from where it discharges into the container therebelow. In the lower container, the liquid is introduced into inflow chambers at opposite ends of the basin, where it flows downward through ports into a plenum and then upwardly into the basin of the lower container and over the sides of the same in the aforedescribed manner. At the fry release stage, a gate is removed at the top of one of the opposing sides of each basin, and in the space between the containers there is a spigot-like conduit means which discharges the liquid from one of the outflow chambers of the upper container into the lower container at a delivery point on an arc passing vertically above the basin of the lower container.

Abstract: The roof section comprises a quadrilateral substrate and a roof covering on the top thereof. The covering comprises shingle-like roof plates, the bodies of which have a tapering cross section in one cross sectional plane thereof. The plates are arranged in at least two elongated parallel, relatively transversely offset but overlapping relatively top and bottom series. Each series has a plurality of the plates, and the plates are arranged in each series so that the bodies of the plates are staggered in overlapping relationship to one another lengthwise of the series. Also, the tapering cross sections of the plates are disposed lengthwise of the series.

Abstract: Each construction member comprises a pair of mutually opposing, normally strip-like bodies of wood or other fastener impalable material, which are abutted face-to-face with one another on a common axis and adapted to define an axially extending slot at the interface therebetween. It also comprises an elongated strip of metal-like reinforcing material which is interposed in the slot and equipped with integral tooth-like fasteners on the longitudinally extending edges thereof which are oppositely disposed to one another from edge-to-edge of the strip and impaled in the bodies of fastener impalable material adjacent opposite sides of the slot. To this extent, pairs of the members may be modular.

Abstract: The crab trap is a multi-component trap adapted to be stripped down to its respective components for storage. It comprises spaced top and bottom closure members and posts detachably interposed therebetween to form an open-sided cage. Normally open crab entry means are attached to the cage adjacent the openings on opposite sides thereof, and normally-closed operator entry means are attached to the cage adjacent a remaining side opening thereof. Any additional side openings are also closed to the outward movement of crabs, so that crabs entering the cage through the crab entry means, remain trapped therein. However, the crab entry means, the operator entry means, and the additional closure means, if any, are all removable from the openings thereadjacent in the cage, so that when the trap is out of use and the posts are detached from the top and bottom closure members, the members can be stacked on top of one another in a pile.

Abstract: A power plant of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,991,563 is housed in a pressure chamber filled with a body of water having a standpipe relatively upstanding thereabove to pressurize the water.

Abstract: The ore is subjected to nitric acid leaching and the leach solution is heated to a temperature at which one of the additional sulfur and iron values is selectively insolubilized with respect to the solution, while the other is maintained in solution for subsequent separation from the liquor after the insolubles have been removed and the liquor has been neutralized. In addition, in one embodiment of the invention the heating and acid neutralization steps are controlled within certain prescribed limits to make it possible to remove the metals from the liquor by solvent extraction without the problem of lasting precipitates forming in the liquor and fouling the extraction process. Where there is a sizable amount of dissolved iron in the liquor, the liquor may be subjected to autoclaving at a temperature above about 149.degree. C (300.degree. F) to precipitate the iron as the oxide thereof. This effect is possible even where the liquor is high in sulfate concentration.

Abstract: There are means in the sanitary facility defining a receiving bowl for liquid and/or solid excrement, and the bowl has a discharge valve in the bottom portion thereof. Also, there are means for controlling flow through the valve, including a pivotally mounted water receptacle which is operative to open the valve to flow when the receptacle is relatively inclined about its pivotal axis in a first position, and to close the valve to flow when the receptacle is relatively inclined about its pivotal axis in a second position relatively angularly spaced from the first position. Additionally, there are means for supplying water to the bowl to form a pool of carrier liquid therein when the valve is closed; a control valve which is adapted to be interconnected to a source of pressurized water; and control means which are responsive to the level of water in the bowl to close and open the control valve to flow as the water level rises and falls, respectively.

Abstract: The disclosure includes additional features of the apparatus and technique disclosed in Applicant's U.S. application Ser. No. 575,429. For example, in one embodiment, the motor is adapted to drive a rotary drill rod of the type mentioned in the foregoing Application, but wherein the abutment on the rod opens into the working face of the bit; and the anvil member in the motor has a bit on the distal end thereof which is adapted to insert into the opening of the abutment when said end of the anvil member is engaged with the abutment, and the anvil member is relatively rotatably interconnected with the piston member and has means on the periphery thereof for interengaging with the rod to undergo conjoint rotation therewith. Manipulatively, the additional features include a process wherein an inner bit is inserted in the opening of the abutment, having an anvil on the relatively rear end portion thereof, and the anvil is engaged with the abutment and the inner bit with the rod to rotate in conjunction therewith.

Abstract: The housing of the power plant defines a chamber at a level below the surface of a surrounding body of water; and also a series of penstocks which open into the water at points between the level of the chamber and the surface of the water, and which discharge into the chamber. The hydroelectric power generating means in the plant include turbines in the penstocks, and means for discharging the tailwater from the respective turbines including nipples on the housing which communicate with the chamber and open into the body of water at levels below that of the chamber.

Abstract: The motor is adapted to be used to drive a rotary drill rod of the type comprising an elongated pipe having a longitudinally extending bore therethrough, a percussive bit at the distal end thereof, and an abutment thereon relatively transverse the bore adjacent the bit. The motor comprises a cylindrically outlined piston member which is adapted to be slidably engaged in the bore of the pipe and has a fluid operated hammer mechanism thereon for applying hammer blows to the rod through the abutment. It also comprises an anvil member which is coaxially interconnected with the piston member at a position relatively forwardly of the hammer mechanism and has a diameter no greater than that of the piston member so that it can be inserted in the bore ahead of the piston member and engaged with the abutment to receive and transmit the hammer blows into the abutment.

Abstract: The carriage of the skidder is equipped with an elongated boom and a haulback cable, and there are power driven means on the boom for paying out the attachment end of the cable to the site of the logs, and power driven means on the carriage for hauling in the cable after it has been attached to the logs. There are also means on the boom whereby an operator can use the boom to attach the cable to the logs, and/or to transport himself to and from the site of the logs, so that in the alternative, he may attach the cable to the logs. If the boom is used to attach the cable, the pay out means is adapted so that the operator can detach the boom from the cable, and actuate the haul-in operation, from a point adjacent the haul-in means, such as from a point on the carriage.

Abstract: The ore is subjected to nitric acid leaching and the leach solution is heated to a temperature at which one of the additional sulfur and iron values is selectively insolubilized with respect to the solution, while the other is maintained in solution for subsequent separation from the liquor after the insolubles have been removed and the liquor has been neutralized. In addition, in one embodiment of the invention the heating and acid neutralization steps are controlled within certain prescribed limits to make it possible to remove the metals from the liquor by solvent extraction without the problem of lasting precipitates forming in the liquor and fouling the extraction process. Where there is a sizable amount of dissolved iron in the liquor, the liquor may be subjected to autoclaving at a temperature above about 149.degree.C (300.degree.F) to precipitate the iron as the oxide thereof. This effect is possible even where the liquor is high in sulfate concentration.