Abstract: A spreader assembly adapted to be attached to containers for raising and lowering the containers in the bay of a straddle carrier is provided herein. The spreader assembly includes a pair of spaced generally parallel beams that extend through openings in a spreader with the spreader being shiftable on the beams. A cable assembly is interposed between the respective beams and a center part of the spreader to limit the longitudinal movement of the spreader with respect to the beams while accommodating transverse movement of the spreader on the beams.

Abstract: An improvement in an apparatus for transporting and depositing panels with smooth surfaces, comprising a conveyor having substantially horizontally oriented endless belt. A plurality of suction holders carried by said belt means with a suction cut and a venting valve which is opened for depositing said panel at a depositing position. Each of said suction cups is displaceable parallel with the transport direction in relation to the zone of attachment of its body to said belt by a stop provided at said depositing position in the transport path of said panels, which stop on arrival of one of said panels displaces all those adjacent suction cups holding said panel contrarily to said transport direction, which displacement opens the venting valves of all those adjacent individual suction holders holding said panel.

Abstract: A restraint device is positioned in a generally upright manner transversely to a child's waist to prevent a child's hands from reaching the lower half of the body which may have casts thereon or be in traction. The restraint device is a generally flat plate having a contoured bottom wall which overlies the child's waist, and is secured to the side rails of a bed by straps.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for receiving, separating, distributing, and conveying mixture of materials, such as a mixture of grain, straw and chaff, in a manner that separates small particles of one kind, such as grain, from the rest of the mixture. Inner and outer co-axially aligned cylinders are mounted about a central longitudinally extending drive shaft. The inner cylinder has a generally solid wall and the outer cylinder is foraminous with a plurality of spiral guides mounted on its interior and exterior surfaces. A plurality of discs are mounted at spaced intervals along the shaft within the inner cylinder with the plane of each disc oriented at a non-right angle with respect to the axis of the shaft. A ring is mounted on the periphery of each disc and is adapted for rotation relative thereto.

Abstract: A unitary, hermetically-sealed but pierceable dispensing container, suitable for packaging parenteral solutions, is made from a flexible, generally tubular body of thermoplastic material utilizing a form, fill and seal technique and a movable, composite mandrel that includes a forming ram member for compression molding from within the container a container wall portion which includes a pierceable membrane. The tubular body is closed at one end and terminates at the other end in a draining region having an access aperture or port sealed by a unitary membrane of predetermined thickness. The membrane permits penetration of a cannula therethrough without coring, and an annular sealing means surrounding the aperture is adapted for frictional and sealing engagement of the cannula after the membrane has been penetrated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically cleaning the surface of a roller, such as a laminating roller, is disclosed herein. The method consists of rotating the roller at a predetermined fixed speed about its axis and simultaneously moving a nozzle which produces a small stream of steam along the axis of the roller at a fixed speed so that the stream of steam impinges the entire surface of the roller. The apparatus consists of a support for rotatably supporting a roller and supporting a nozzle for reciprocation with respect to the axis of the roller with either common or separate drive means for rotating the roller and reciprocating the nozzle.

Abstract: Resinous coating compositions of low volatile solvent content are provided which are sufficiently fluid to permit effective application, and which cure on baking at low temperature to provide hard stain- and detergent-resistant coatings of outstanding flexibility. These are made by copolymerizing monoethylenic monomers including monoethylenic monomer having a functional group reactive with N-methylol functionality and selected from carboxylic acid, hydroxy and amide groups, the copolymerization being carried out in a solvent solution containing a major proportion of liquid bishydroxy ethyl ether of a bisphenol, alone or together with the corresponding bishydroxy propyl ether. The copolymer solution has added thereto an aminoplast resin to provide a stable solution in which proportions are important so that coatings can be easily applied and cured to provide the desired characteristics without liberating excessive amounts of volatile material.

Abstract: An ophthalmic measuring device for measuring vertex distance and pantoscopic tilt angle is disclosed. The device has a body and two arms which move slidably relative to each other to contact the eye and trial lens and a scale which measures the eye-lens distance. An implement for measuring the angle at which the spectacle temples are tilted relative to the frame front is also part of the device.

Abstract: A gusseted package and method of making same are provided in which the package is formed by folding a first web along first and second, parallel spaced fold lines inwardly of each opposite side edge to produce first and second overlapping portions and then positioning a second web adjacent the first web. The first and second webs are first heat-sealed together at one end and along the sides of the package. Additionally, the inner surface of the first web is heat-sealed to the adjacent facing inner surface of one of each of the first overlapping portions in a reinforcement region spaced inwardly of the other end of the package and extending between the first and second fold lines with a peripheral boundry generally adjacent and parallel to the second fold line. The resulting heat-seal extends over the major portion of the distance between the first and second fold lines. However, the second overlapping portions of the first web are not heat-sealed to the underlying second web beneath the reinforcement region.

Abstract: A wall hanging having a variable picture made of a multitude of interchangeable tiles which snap-fit onto a specially configured picture support assembly. A frame decoratively surrounds and contains the tiles. Each of the tiles has an eccentric image or eccentric geometric pattern thereon and can be rotated on a peg to various positions to attain a variety of pictures. Even more pictures can be obtained when different patterned tiles are exchanged with each other. In one embodiment, the tiles and pegs are rectangular and the pegs have a concave corner to facilitate removal of the tiles. In another embodiment, the faces of the tiles are circular and rotate upon cylindrical pegs. The tiles can also be transparent with window-like pockets that receive reversible decorative members.

Abstract: A control mechanism for a steering system for individually or simultaneously controlling the turning movements of the front and rear wheels of a vehicle is disclosed herein. The steering system is capable of controlling the movement of the rear wheels in a plurality of modes with respect to the front wheels and one mode in which the rear wheels are independently controlled. The control mechanism includes a control member that is pivoted on the frame of the vehicle to a plurality of positions to move an actuating switch that is part of the control means to a plurality of positions corresponding to the respective modes of steering and actuating means that cooperates with a signal producing device that produces a control signal to independently control the turning movement of the rear wheels.

Abstract: A unitary, hermetically sealed but pierceable dispensing container, suitable for packaging parenteral solutions, is made from a flexible, generally tubular body of thermoplastic material utilizing a form, fill and seal technique and a movable, composite mandrel that includes a forming ram member for compression molding from within the container a container wall portion which includes a pierceable membrane. The tubular body is closed at one end and terminates at the other end in a draining region having an access aperture or port sealed by a unitary membrane of predetermined thickness. The membrane permits penetration of a cannula therethrough without coring, and an annular sealing means surrounding the aperture is adapted for frictional and sealing engagement of the cannula after the membrane has been penetrated.

Abstract: A hair conditioner composition for use under highly alkaline conditions comprising an aqueous dispersion containing from about 1 to about 20 weight percent of mineral oil, from about 1 to about 20 weight percent of a fatty alcohol having 12 to 18 carbon atoms, from about 1 to about 15 weight percent of a non-ionic emulsifier, and from about 0.05 to 20 weight percent of a quaternary polymer having recurring units of the formula ##STR1## and compositions and methods for waving or straightening hair employing the above hair conditioner composition and a hair waving or straightening solution containing sufficient sodium hydroxide to provide a pH of about 12 to 13.

Abstract: A tree with a harvester head includes a frame having a cutting area defined thereon and an accumulator area adjacent the cutter area with accumulator arms on the frame for holding the trees in the accumulator area and grapple arms for gripping a growing tree between the accumulator arms and the grapple arms. The arms are arranged such that the growing tree can be gripped between the closed accumulator arms and grapple arms during the cutting operation and then the accumulator arms can be opened to allow the grapple arms to automatically move the severed tree into the accumulator area in which it is then retained by the accumulator arms.

Abstract: A hollow rectangular boom formed with four corner sections of identical cross section and plates interconnecting the corner sections is disclosed herein. Each of the corner sections is identical and is generally L-shaped in cross section with first and second legs each having a recess with adjacent pairs of corner sections being interconnected by flat plates received into the respective recesses and welded therein.

Abstract: Nongelled, amine functional polymers dispersible in water with the aid of a solubilizing acid are provided by copolymerizing (A) an ethylenically unsaturated hydroxy functional amine adduct free of epoxy groups and containing from about 1.4 to about 2.0 ethylenically unsaturated amine groups per molecule, formed from a polyepoxide having a 1,2-epoxy equivalency of from 1.4 to about 2.0 and at least a stoichiometric amount of a secondary amine with two unsaturated groups; and (B) copolymerizable monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, a portion of which is amine-functional. The water solutions are particularly useful to enable corrosion resistant coatings to be electrodeposited at the cathode.

Abstract: A safety device for a press and the like machinery includes a safety deflector surrounding a tool carriage reciprocable along a path with respect to a fixed frame. The safety device also includes a limit switch associated with a door that defines part of the safety deflector. First and second contactless switches are located adjacent a work supporting surface and respectively sense the position of opposite surfaces of the workpiece to insure that the workpiece is within limits of the work supporting surface and the safety deflector. The switches are in a circuit leading to a machine clutch for the tool carriage to prevent operation when the door is open or either surface of the workpiece is outside prescribed limits of the deflector and the support surface.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing staples by effecting displacement thereof through documents to effect separation of the staple from the documents.

Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous boring or cutting machine provided with tools animated by a sweeping movement, said machine comprising a plurality of tool-holders mounted to oscillate on a rotating structure, these oscillations being controlled in synchronism by a rotary jack coaxial with respect to the rotating structure, the rod of the jack being fast with an element to which each tool-holder is connected by a connecting rod having a foot jointed on to said element and having a head jointed on to the tool-holder. The invention is more particularly applied to tunneling machines.

Abstract: A pair of improved adjustable cross-frame members are incorporated with a pair of side frame members to form a bed frame readily adjustable to a wide variety of widths. Each improved cross-frame member has a first and second elongated elements, each of which is pivotably connected to respective side members in a standard manner. The first element is provided with a pawl mounted near its free end and the second element is provided with a plurality of teeth. The teeth are shaped to allow for easy movement when the side frame members are moved toward each other and to allow for resistance when the side frame members are being pulled apart from each other.