Abstract: An article-dispensing assembly including a door movably mounted on a plate for selectively opening and closing an opening provided in the plate, the door including a shelf extending inwardly of the opening and providing a bin for holding an article to be dispensed. A control mechanism is movable to a first position to allow transfer of an article from a feed mechanism to the bin, and movable to a second position to block transfer of an article from the feed unit to the bin. An operating unit selectively interconnects the control unit and door to allow loading of the bin when the door is in its closed position and to preclude loading of the bin when the door is moved from the closed position.

Abstract: This hitch assembly includes a frame which is fixedly attached to the rear of a truck and extends widthwise of the truck to provide upper and lower horizontal rails. A transverse carriage having upper and lower roller assemblies engageable with the rails is mounted to the frame and moved laterally relative to the frame by means of a ram assembly. The ram assembly includes a piston extending from end-to-end of the frame and a cylinder which is fixedly attached to the carriage and movably mounted to the piston. A vertical lift carriage is slidably mounted to the transverse carriage and is movable vertically relative to the frame by a ram assembly. The vertical carriage includes a hitch ball for attachment of a trailer tow bar and the transverse and vertical carriages provide the hitch connection and the tow bar with vertical and laterally horizontal components of movement.

Abstract: This fastening device provides a self-contained, tie-down unit by means of which load from a swivel eye is transferred to a base. The fastening device includes a stud, threadedly connectible to a base and mounting a collar and a retainer member. The retainer member supports a bushing member, and the bushing member and collar provide a swivel mount for the load ring. The bushing member and stud cooperate to transfer variable loadings into the base in a manner predictable from their size and configuration.

Abstract: This conveyor apparatus is used primarily with continuous business form processing machines to provide a means of producing a stream of overlapped blanks disposed on a continuous web. The apparatus includes upper and lower conveyors. The upper conveyor is formed from a pair of endless flexible elements having transversely aligned wedge-shaped pins disposed along the length thereof with inclined trailing flanks. Document blanks are fed onto the upper conveyor such that the leading edge rides up and beyond an aligned pair of associated pins an the trailing edge is engaged by a pair of following pins. Each of the blanks is pushed by a pair of transversely aligned pins in overlapped relation to the preceding blank. The document blanks are removed from the upper conveyor and deposited in reverse overlap relation onto gum lines provided on the continuous web carried by the lower conveyor.

Abstract: A torque transducing system for an impact tool such as an impact wrench incorporates a housing, bearings in the housing, a rotatable shaft journalled in the bearings, the shaft having a torque receiving input end and an output end supplying torque for a workpiece, a torque transducing gauge on the shaft intermediate the input and the output end for providing a first signal responsive to torque, circuitry on the rotatable shaft for modulating the first signal to a second signal, structure on the shaft for supplying current to the gauge and modulating circuitry and additional structure for transmitting the second signal, further structure on the housing for receiving the transmitted second signal, and circuitry for converting the second received signal to provide an output indicative of torque.

Abstract: This lacing assembly is for use with an article of footwear and includes lower and upper vamp sections connected by a single continuous lace. The lower vamp section includes opposed vamp portions having lace-receiving elements at the lower portion and upwardly adjacent lace-receiving locking elements fixedly attached to said vamp portions. The upper vamp section includes opposed vamp portions having lace receiving elements and the lower and upper vamp sections are secured by a single continuous lace. The opposed locking elements of the lower vamp permit the fit of the lower vamp section to be adjusted selectively and independently of the upper vamp sections.

Abstract: This foam dispensing device includes an outer container for holding foamable liquid, and a foam producing unit mounted in the discharge port of the outer container. The foam producing unit includes an inner container of substantial smaller cross section than the outer container, and a closure cap having a pressurized air inlet and foam outlet. A one-way valve is provided between the inner and outer containers which opens to replenish the foamable liquid supply in the inner container but remains closed during the foam forming process.

Abstract: This foam dispensing device intended for use in the inverted position includes a container for holding foamable liquid and having a foam producing unit mounted in the discharge port. The foam producing unit includes a closure having separate air inlet and foam outlet openings. An elongate air return tube having a one-way valve is connected to the air inlet and a foam producing system is provided having an elongate air supply tube.

Abstract: This shaft mounting assembly includes a fixed support providing a pair of spaced, downwardly depending support members having inwardly extending, axially aligned pins attached thereto. The assembly also includes a bearing member, receiving the shaft in rotational relation and providing a pair of upwardly extending sidewalls having vertical open-ended slots receiving the pins; and a retainer member providing a pair of upwardly extending sidewalls having horizontal open-ended slots receiving the pins. The retainer member sidewalls are received between the support members and the bearing member sidewalls and the retainers acts to latch the bearing member to the fixed support and to provide a seat supporting the bearing member and the shaft against downward movement.

Abstract: A clutch actuator for use in a motor driven conveyor system includes an electrical motor and a conveyor driven by the motor with a clutch interconnecting the motor and conveyor in drive relation. The clutch actuator is responsive to motor current for actuating the clutch for selectively disconnecting the motor and the conveyor. A clutch actuator actuates the clutch, for disconnecting the motor from the conveyor, when the sense current is greater than a selectively adjusted predetermined value. The clutch actuator is selectively manually actuated for actuating the clutch for disconnecting the motor from the conveyor and selectively manually actuated for actuating the clutch for connecting the motor to the conveyor.

Abstract: A fever thermometer having an adhesive on one side of a flexible backing web for adhering the web to the skin of the human body, the web being provided with a background color, and having a plurality of numerical display areas on the opposite side of the web, each numerical display area including an encapsulated liquid crystal indicator, the color spectrum of each liquid crystal indicator being responsive to a different specific temperature range, and the liquid crystal indicators being initially of a color to complement the background color so as to be subtantially invisible at temperatures below the minimum threshold temperature of the indicator having the lowest temperature range.

Abstract: A roof support pin for insertion into a roof bore having an opening comprising an elongate tube for insertion into the bore, the tube being compressed prior to insertion of the tube into the bore opening so that the tube expands to frictionally engage the bore a distance from the bore opening. In one embodiment, a roof support plate has a hole with a diameter smaller than the diameter of the bore. The plate hole compresses the diameter of the tube upon insertion of the tube into the bore through the plate hole. In another aspect, a plurality of rings longitudinally spaced axially on and retain the tube compressed prior to insertion of the tube through the plate hole into the bore. The rings slidably engage the tube for retention at the plate for allowing the tube to expand within the bore. In yet another embodiment, a spiral strip wraps and retains the tube compressed prior to insertion into the bore. The spiral strip is stripped from the tube as the tube is inserted through the plate hole.

Abstract: The speaker support assembly includes a speaker connected to a baffle and brackets connected to the speaker and baffle. The baffle is located below a ceiling panel with the speaker extending through the ceiling panel. Support rods are attached to the brackets above the ceiling panel for supporting the speaker and baffle. The brackets include opposed wings through which the support rods extends. Bolts are used for attaching the rods to web portions of the brackets which are located intermediate to the wing portions. The support rods extend the width of the ceiling panel.

Abstract: A spacer for loading pallets comprises a tubular member having a number of pointed securing tabs (3a) adapted to penetrate into and connect the tubular member to a deck-forming member of the loading pallet, and a number of support members (3) extending at a right angle to the securing tabs and being formed, like the securing tabs, in one piece with the tubular member. The spacer is prepared from a thin-walled sheet metal portion, which has been given a polygonal tubular shape in cross section by axially extending bending zones (7) located in border areas between securing tabs (3a) and support members (3). Each tube wall portion (12) defined by two adjacent bending zones (7) and associated to a supporting member (3) extends at an angle to two other adjacent tube wall portions (12) located on opposite sides thereof.

Abstract: A tilting table includes a table top, a base, linkage operatively interconnecting the base to the table top and an adjustment connected to the linkage for adjusting the angle of the table top relative to the base. The linkage includes a pivot connection interconnecting the table top and the base, a first link pivotally connected to the table top at one end and at the other end pivotally connected to the base and a second link connected to the first link and selectively actuated by the adjustment for actuating the first link and tilting the table top. The second link is connected to a traveling nut which is actuated by a threaded shaft for moving the second link and tilting the table top. The traveling nut and second link are carried by rollers supported by the base for supporting the table top.

Abstract: A roof support pin for insertion into a roof bore having an opening comprising an elongate tube for insertion into the bore, the tube being compressed prior to insertion of the tube into the bore opening so that the tube expands to frictionally engage the bore a distance from the bore opening. In one embodiment, a roof support plate has a hole with a diameter smaller than the diameter of the bore. The plate hole compresses the diameter of the tube upon insertion of the tube into the bore through the plate hole. In one aspect, the tube includes adjacent opposed longitudinal edges forming a longitudinal slit. The tube edges engage and are turned resiliently inwardly of the tube at the longitudinal slit as the tube is circumferentially resiliently compressed, and resiliently coacting to provide an expansion force for frictional engagement of the tube with the bore.

Abstract: This cabinet and partition assembly can be used with office stands of the type having a table top, and the assembly includes a cabinet attached to the underside of the table top and having opposed side panels and a lower panel of substantially the same interior size as each other to define a square front access opening. The partition includes opposed parallel side members having perpendicular members extending therebetween, said partition having the same overall perpendicular dimensions. The partition dimensions define a square of substantially the same size as the cabinet access openings so that the opening can receive the partition in a horizontal shelf mode, or, when turned through ninety degrees, can receive the partition in a vertical divider moder. The cabinet is provided with a door which may be optionally hung on either of the cabinet side panels.