Abstract: An aerosol valve has a body with a circular side wall extending down beyond the floor of the body to define a socket. Into this socket is frictionally engaged a symmetrical appendage having a circular upper end and a tailpiece at its lower end. The body is vertically partitioned into a primary product passage communicating from the tailpiece upward through an opening in the floor of the main valve. On the other side of the partition the lower end of the chamber is provided with a valve seat with an opening communicating with the primary passage. A side opening is formed through the appendage above the valve seat, and a ball is adapted to seat on the valve seat when the container is in normal position. When the container is inverted, the ball drops away from the seat and permits passage of product through the side opening, through the valve seat opening into the primary passage and up into the valve for discharge.

Abstract: A heated knife has a motor adapted to drive the knife against a cutting block with the web inbetween. The knife body is metal and has a cutting edge with side surfaces at an obtuse angle to each other. The knife is formed with a lengthwise bore which houses a Calrod capable of heating the knife up to about 950.degree. F. The knife body has relatively thin lateral ears spaced from the heater and which receive support bolts from the opposite ends of a driving yoke by which the motor drives the knife. This arrangement reduces the amount of heat withdrawn from the knife.

Abstract: In an aerosol valve the flow path includes a compartment having an inlet into the compartment and a valve seat at the upper end of the compartment, a pocket is disposed downward from the seat opening, the pocket containing a gravity-responsive ball. When the valve is being used in dispensing and is tipped in a direction which brings the ball closer to the flow through the compartment, the ball becomes entrained in the fluid flow and flies up to seat on the valve seat to block it off, precluding further discharge. When the aerosol valve is released, a bypass raises the pressure inside the valve body so that the ball will fall away from the seat. The purpose is to avoid the escape of propellant which might occur in tipping if the lower end of the dip tube is exposed to the head space.

Abstract: This injection device comprises a housing having a handgrip for operating it. A collapsible fluid container is adapted to fit in the housing under the pressure element of the handgrip. The container has a fill opening with a closure and an injection stem extending out of the housing so that when the handgrip is squeezed, the collapsible fluid container will compress the fluid within it and drive the fluid out through the stem. Conversely, when the fluid container is compressed, the stem can be submerged in fluid and the handgrip spread to enlarge the container and suck fluid into the container.

Abstract: A setting apparatus directs a reinforcing tape in a perpendicular direction to the path of movement of the fabric. It comprises a machine frame, a support plate, a setting punch and die, a reinforcing tape supply under the plate and tape feeding belt for feeding the tape which is automatically activated by the punch.

Abstract: A cosmetic applier comprises a container assembly including a tubular sleeve, a cup holder reciprocable inside the sleeve and a cam for raising and retracting the cup holder. A pomade cup assembly includes a cup carrying pomade and an inverted cup-shaped transparent shroud about the pomade and connected to the top of the cup, the shroud having a diameter at least as great as the inner diamater of the sleeve. Interfitting fastener parts are on the cup and holder. In the preferred version, the fastener is of the permanently locking type. The selected pomade cup may be snapped into the holder and the holder and cup retracted by turning the cam so that the shroud, engaging the sleeve and spread by it, pops off the cup and is freed for easy disposal.

Abstract: A blender has a container shaped in an oblong cross-section with the opposite ends of semi-circular shape and parallel straight walls inbetween these ends. The rotary cutter is positioned at the center at one of the semi-circular ends giving the container an off-center heavier side. The power base on which the container sits provides a telescoping tower to house an electrical interlock safety switch at its upper end which is engaged by an element on the container cover so that only when the cover is fully on the container can the blender be activated.

Abstract: An adapter kit for a clutch of the axially engaging, multiple-disc type as described above and includes a sleeve adapted after removal of the original keys to fit snugly into the shell, reducing its inside diameter. The sleeve is radially drilled and tapped and receives bolts through the same boles. occupied by bolts holding on the original keys, the sleeve being provided with inward keys of greater number than the original keys. The kit also comprises a set of adapter discs adapted to replace the original discs and consisting of a greater total number of discs than the original discs, the set comprising drive discs pressed of fibrous non-metallic material and being of the same diameter as the inside of the sleeve. The drive discs have peripheral notches arranged to receive respectively the keys on the sleeve, the drive discs having a central opening amply receiving the studs and pins on the hub.

Abstract: Compact has an unlatching slide with a button surface and formed with front and rear cam surfaces. The hinged cover is held closed by a detent and the powder tray is held in the base also by detents. Light finger pressure on the unlatching slide button causes the front cam to force up the hinged cover disengaging the cover detent to open the compact, and heavy finger pressure on the unlatching slide forces the powder tray up disengaging the tray detents and liberating the tray from the frame so that it may be replaced.

Abstract: Doll making process includes steps of positioning the certain person in front of a video camera, adjusting the position of the person and the camera so that the face fills certain boundaries on a monitor screen, transferring the signal from the video camera to a color transfer printer and printing the resulting image on a wax layer supported on a substrate. The wax layer is pressed and heated against a layer of natural fabric to transfer the wax layer onto the layer of fabric. The fabric layer is secured, image outward, onto the facial area of the doll.

Abstract: The diaphragm of a dual tire equalizer has an axial probe actuating or not actuating a switch in a radio frequency transmitter circuit mounted on the wheel. The transmitter sends a signal varying, depending on the condition of the switch. A radio frequency receiver on the vehicle and connected to an indicator in the driver's cab responds to the signal and issues appropriate information to the driver concerning condition of the equalizer.

Abstract: A screw-type propel/repel lipstick has a stepped profile along one edge of the slot in the sleeve of a lipstick. The stepped edge is on the lower end of the spiral opening in the cam where the opening overlies the slot. Preferably, the cup lug has a point in its cross section pointing down toward the stepped side of the slot. When the pomade starts to backoff, the point of the lug catches on the stepped profile.

Abstract: A child-resistant, elderly friendly dispensing container comprises a housing having an opening in its top wall and a drawer which slideably fits in the housing. The drawer has a front cavity section and a rear latch section. The latch section includes a horizontally disposed resilient panel formed with an upward button which, when the drawer is closed, extends up through the opening in the top wall of the housing and forms an automatic latch, holding the drawer closed. In order to open the drawer, the button must be depressed and, at the same time, the drawer must be pulled out from the housing. The top of the housing is formed, adjacent the opening for the button, with a relief zone into which the button moves when the drawer is in dispensing position and blocks further opening.

Abstract: A mechanical disconnect for the pedal operating rod of an attaching machine comprises a stationary trip slide having a downwardly inclined cam surface and a housing enclosing the trip slide and reciprocable thereon. The housing is connected to the clutch operating rod. The housing also includes a transverse trip spacer pin and a latch having a follower nose engaging the cam and a central L-shaped opening receiving the pin in the horizontal leg of the opening. A spring urges the latch toward the slide. When the pedal is depressed, the latch pulls down the housing so that the clutch activating pull down rod moves away from the clutch dog. Further downward movement of the pedal cams the latch away from the slide so that the spacer pin aligns with the vertical leg of the "L" permitting the housing to pop up and the pull down rod to engage a clutch dog.

Abstract: The tool includes a central section having a left-hand drill bit section at one end and an extraction section at the other. The extraction section tapers toward its distal end and is formed with left-hand threads on the exterior of the taper. The distal end is chamfered at an angle more abrupt than the taper so that the chamfer intercepts the threads and so that the threads rise outward in a short axial distance and are able to bite into the margins of a shallow hole drilled in the bolt remnant by the bit section.

Abstract: A control for a power-assist feature for an hydraulic closer is driven by structure mounted on the pinion shaft of the closer. It includes a pump-activating arm slidably mounted on the shaft, the end of the arm adapted to cover a pump-on sensor when the door is `bumped`. It also includes a follower rotatably mounted near the pinion and engageable escapement-fashion by a wheel in friction fit on the pinion shaft, the follower carrying a pump-deactivating arm, the end of the latter arm adapted to move away from a pump-off sensor when the door opens to its preset limit.

Abstract: A vertically moveable upper receiver is suspended on the machine by spring means and has a central vertical cavity therethrough. A pair of opposed springs bias together jaws in the receiver having aligned notches therein which receive the part. The upper tool or punch descends through the cavity, engages the part, drives it out of its notches and downward against the inward pressure of the jaws, the receiver descending through this operation, and the part arrives precisely centered at the setting locus.

Abstract: A marine mooring swivel fitting for connection into a mooring line is a generally dumbbell-shaped element having a relatively slender elongate neck with outward enlargements at the opposite ends of the neck respectively and a mooring line attachment on at least one end of the element. In use the attachment may connect the fitting in the mooring line, the slender elongate neck being adapted laterally to receive swivelly therearound one or more conventional shackles. Such a shackle, depending on whether the swivel is at the upper or lower end of the mooring line, may be secured to a pendant made fast to a marine craft on the surface or secured to an anchoring device. The enlargements, larger than the opening in the shackle, serve to limit the longitudinal movement of the shackle on the element without limiting rotational movement of the shackle around the element.