Abstract: For a level having a pair of arms nested together but which are pivotally connected so as to be angularly separable from the nested condition and also moveable together from the separated condition to the nested condition, a hollow carrier for carrying the level constructed of flat panels one panel of which can be folded to permit the carrier to be slipped over one of the arms when the arms are angularly separated and then be refolded to provide for the separated arms to be moved into the nested condition.

Abstract: Insert has a plate member supporting one or more transition blocks for interconnecting power conductors from the power cell to the conductors of a flat cable together with an adjusting ring supporting a cover with a cable exit slot. The cover, the adjusting ring, and the transition block provide for the cover and transition block to be angularly oriented to correspond to the direction from which the flat conductor cable exits to the insert. The arrangement provides for the flat connector cable to exit the insert from several different azimuthal directions and with the power conductors being connectible with the transition block.

Abstract: An adaptor to interface a poke-thru with power cable sets of a flexible wiring system. The adaptor has: an elongated, hollow housing with an axially extending opening; a support inside of the housing having a center section and a head, the center section extending across the opening and the head which has an opening for power conductors extends across the interior of the housing; a wire connector mounted on the center section of the support member and accesible through the housing opening; and a hollow, axially extending barrier inside of the housing and resting the head, the interior of the barrier being in communication with power conductor passageway in the head. The portion of the housing not closed off by the center section serves as an entrance to the adaptor for communication cables. The barrier and the head isolate the communication cables from the power conductors.

Abstract: The combination of a lead screw and a multi-ball nut. The balls are disposed around the axis of the lead screw. The balls are mounted on the nut either to be received and retained in the valley of the lead screw thread (whereby rotation of the lead screw causes movement of the nut along the lead screw in one direction for a feed operation) or for the balls to be movable out of the valley onto the crest of the thread. The latter condition permits the nut to be moved along the lead screw in a reverse direction for a quick return operation.

Abstract: For use in suturing: (a) Thin steel needle put into flesh (using a tool) on one side of the wound until anchor fixed to a needle engages flesh. At that time point of needle will protrude. Anchor crimped on the protruding side; (b) Anchors are in ball form with square cavities to accept projections on hand tool; (c) Plier-like tool used to grab anchors has projection which fits into anchor cavities; (d) dispenser for needle/anchor assembly and dispenser for crimp-on anchor provide for quick removal in sterilized condition.

Abstract: The cart has an upright, open frame, a plurality of trays arranged one over the other with anti-bend pivot means supporting and connecting each tray with the frame so as to be tiltable as between a horizontal product load position and an angled product take-out position with each tray being molded from fiberglass reinforced plastic including vertically oriented, beam-like sections, a full bottom, and a pair of metal rods molded with the tray and disposed on one side of the tilt axis and the fiberglass reinforced plastic, the vertical sections, the metal rods, and the pivot means all cooperating to minimize tray flexure and the weight distribution provided by the tray structure and material on opposite sides of the pivot axis causing the tray to tilt to the product load position when the tray is not carrying products and causing the tray to tilt to the product take-out position when the tray is filled with products.

Abstract: A flexible tube is mounted on top of the drip chamber. The top of the tube is connected to the spike via a one-way ball-type valve. The bottom of the tube is connected to the drip chamber via a duck-bill-type valve inside of the drip chamber. The duck-bill is held closed against head pressure by a metal spring clip acting on the lip. The duck-bill will open when the tube is squeezed and fluid will be injected into the drip chamber.The drip chamber is charged bubble-free by the use of an output tube open to the chamber and joined to the flexible tubing carrying the hypodermic needle. During the initial fill the output tube is positioned above the fluid level and air in the chamber vented via the output tube, the flexible tubing and the hypodermic needle. When the desired level is reached, the output tube is submerged and bubble-free fluid fills the output tube, the flexible tubing, and the hypodermic needle.

Abstract: For a Corvette motor car, a cam follower spring to be mounted on the fixed hinge plate on either door of the car and made of spring steel arranged in generally planar, S-shaped form and including a straight, elongated body, an upper bent section on one end of the body having a keeper slot whose locus is normal to the plane of the wire-form for use in receiving the forward edge of a keeper hole on the fixed hinge plate, a lower bent section on the other end of the body to be engaged by a cam whereby to create a plurality of detents for controlling opening and closing of the door and the lower bent section having a tip to extend into a rear keeper slot on the hinge plate and be retained by one end thereof, the tip being dimensioned to permit movement toward and away from the rear keeper slot end when the outside portion is engaged by the cam.

Abstract: In an underfloor electrical distribution system, a feeder arrangement for directing power and communication conductors from one or more closets to the distribution runs of the system wherein a plurality of junction boxes are arranged in a line in end-to-end abutting relationship, each having interior means forming power and communication channels electrically isolating conductors respectively disposed therein from one another, the respective channels providing for power and communication conductors to enter through one end of the box and exit through an opposite end and/or to enter or to exit through one or more openings provided in one or both of the sides of the box.

Abstract: A leaf spring bent at its midsection to form operating legs spaced about 120.degree. apart. The legs can be compressed together with finger pressure and the spring then inserted over a defective coil spring of Corvette door latch/handle assembly. When fully inserted the spring functions in the same way as the original spring before same became damaged.

Abstract: A fixture to support an electronic board and to be connected to a tester for testing the electronic board. The fixture has a fixed support, a vertically movable first carrier on the fixed support mounting an electronic board, a vacuum chamber for moving the first carrier, spring means for vertically moving the first carrier away from the fixed support, a second carrier mounted on the first carrier for vertical motion, a vacuum chamber for moving the second carrier relative to the first carrier downwardly toward the fixed support, and spring means connected between said first and second carriers for moving the second carrier relative to the first carrier upwardly away from the fixed support.

Abstract: Tooling connected to the punch pad and die pad bolsters of a progressive die operable as the contacts are being punched out to hug or impact opposite side edges of a contact and thereby form mounting and/or electrical energy transfer surfaces on the side edges. The tooling makes contacts having mounting sections with mounting surfaces which provide for improved mounting characteristics and which also may function as electrical energy transfer surfaces. The tooling makes contacts having retention sections, the retention sections having a pair of outboard arms and an inboard arm and which, when the retention section is inserted in a circuit board aperture, will be engaged by the outboard arms and function to prevent the metal of the outboard arms from being strained beyond the elastic limit and the outboard arms having surfaces formed by the tooling.

Abstract: (a) Contacts having mounting sections with mounting surfaces which provide for improved mounting characteristics and which also may function as electrical energy transfer surfaces, the contacts being formed by tooling connected to the punch pad and die pad bolsters of a progressive die operable as the contacts are being punched out to hug or impact opposite side edges of a contact and thereby form mounting and/or electrical energy transfer surfaces on the side edges.(b) Contacts having retention sections, the retention sections having a pair of outboard arms and an inboard arm and which, when the retention section is inserted in a circuit board aperture, will be engaged to the outboard arms and function to prevent the metal of the outboard arms from being strained beyond the elastic limit and the outboard arms having surfaces formed by the tooling of (a).

Abstract: An afterset for a cellular raceway. The afterset includes an annular housing, an adjusting ring mounted in the housing, and a split cover for flush mounting removably secured to the adjusting ring. The housing has an internal bridge member which, in conjunction with the housing, forms a pair of power compartments open to the power cell of the cellular raceway and a pair of communication openings respectively open to the communication cells of the raceway, each power compartment has a duplex receptacle disposed below the cover and is accessible from the interior of the housing.

Abstract: Method of creating a linear bi-directional impulse motor by employing a permanent magnet and U-shaped high permeability cores disposed and energized so that the respective poles of the cores and the poles of the magnet function and cooperate to move the magnet along an axis in one direction by a pulse applied to wire coils on the cores and to move the magnet in the opposite direction when the coils are de-energized.

Abstract: Trench ducts for electrical distribution systems having side walls constructed and mountable in a manner: (a) so that they can be snapped into position on the floor; (b) so that they can be shifted axially from the initial position; and (c) so that they can be pulled away from the installed position and be completely removed.

Abstract: A light source to project a light beam along an axis to a receiver means intermediate the source and the receiver to cause the light to refract so that the light reaching the receiver is substantially reduced; means to periodically introduce a quantity of liquid into the area where the light is refracted, the liquid changing the amount of refraction whereby the light reaching said receiver is substantially increased; and means to detect each said change in light at said receiver and count same.

Abstract: An escapement device to be disposed between a source of fluid and a receiver of fluid. The device allows fluid to escape from the source and then intermittently takes a fixed, measured quantity of such fluid and transfers that quantity to the receiver. The device is useful in intervenous infusion systems, automatic blood testing equipment, and like equipment where small but highly accurate measures of fluid are needed.

Abstract: A tensile testing machine has a pair of cross heads relatively movable along an axis, each cross head having a mechanism for fixedly holding one end of an electrically conductive specimen and in at least one of said mechanisms, electrical insulating means electrically isolating the end of the specimen from the mechanism to provide for the specimen to be part of an electrical circuit for determining the time of specimen rupture.

Abstract: .[.Poke-thru has floor fitting servived by a thru floor unit in a bore in the floor and carries power and/or communications conductors. The thru floor unit comprises a pair of mounting screws which extend down through the floor fitting base with the heads engaging the base. The mounting screws carry a flexible finger type retaining clip to grip the side of the bore. Above the retaining clip, on the mounting screws, are top separator means which maintain the clip and base a fixed distance apart. Intumescent material and a top spacer are loosely disposed in the space between the clip and the base. Below the retaining clip, on the mounting screws, is a bottom spacer. Below the bottom spacer are top and bottom retainers held a fixed distance apart by separator means. Intumescent material is loosely disposed in the space between the top and bottom retainers. The bottom retainer has nuts in which the screws are threaded.]. .Iadd.Poke-thru has a floor fitting serviced by a thru-floor unit.