Abstract: A casing feeder device which attaches to and is adapted for use with a shell reloading machine. A casing hopper is mounted on the top of an upright loading tube and has a discharge opening through which casings fall by gravity rim end downwardly to the receiver portion of the reloading machine. An adjustable tube support collar loosely surrounds and supports the loading tube in an upright position, and is attached to a reciprocating link on the reloading machine to provide agitation to the hopper as the link is moved, causing migration of casings within the hopper to the discharge opening.

Abstract: Simulated food products are provided by incorporating flavoring, coloring, and texturizing agents with a low calorie oleaginous fibrous food base composition. The base composition comprises a mixture of edible gum, edible oil, water and particulate fibrous cellulose. The base composition may be produced by mixing an edible gum with water, mixing an oil and emulsifier therewith to form a binding mixture, and uniformly mixing particulate fibrous cellulose throughout the mass of the binding mixture, with flavoring, coloring, and texturizing agents being added as appropriate to form a desired simulated food product.

Abstract: A traction device having a pair of cleats that mount on the periphery of an automobile tire to provide temporary traction on ice, deep snow, mud and other adverse conditions for on and off the road travel. The cleats are each rigidly mounted to a pair of channels with one of the channels being inserted into the other to allow mounting of the cleats on a wheel. A handle mounted by a linkage to one of the channels engages protruding latches on the other channel, such that rotation of the handle draws the two channels together until the handle reaches a locked position wherein the cleats are firmly held on the tire.

Abstract: A safety reflective trim strip includes a holding frame of any selected length having a holding channel therein into which one or more reflector lenses are inserted. The holding frame is cut to any desired length and includes special features for aid in its attachment to an object. End caps are provided to close the ends of the holding channel after the reflector lenses are inserted. The reflector lenses are either slid into the holding frame through one open end thereof or are snapped into the holding frame from the front.

Abstract: A method and device for teaching the comparative measurement of heat flow through and into selected sample materials. The device includes a container constructed of relatively low heat conductive material and adapted to be partitioned into at least two identical chambers. Means for holding sample materials, filling the identical chambers with insulation, covering the container, heating one chamber of the container, measuring the temperature in the identical chambers, and other means for adapting the device for selected investigations are removably received within the container, making the teaching device flexibly adaptable to a variety of teaching uses. The method for teaching the comparative measurement of heat flow through and into selected materials includes exposing at least one heat receiver to a selected source of radiant energy under selected conditions.

Abstract: Doctor blade apparatus having a mounting plate rigidly holding the blade. The doctor blade mounting plate is independently slidably and pivotably mounted by a ball-bearing on each of a plurality of spaced support ports and resiliently supported thereon by compression springs. The apparatus allows movement of the mounting plate and the blade carried thereby in several degrees of freedom with adjustment means providing independent adjustment at each of the supporting posts.

Abstract: A coated paperboard product and a process for producing the same which includes corona discharge treatment of a paperboard surface and subsequent extrusion of molten polyester thereon. The resulting product has a very high degree of adhesion between the paperboard and polyester layers, and is capable of being utilized for forming pressed food trays which can be subjected to oven cooking temperatures.

Abstract: A package having plural layers with a quantity of volatile substance such as deodorizer sandwiched between the layers. The outer layers of the laminate are impermeable to the substance and its vapors, and thus prevent escape of the vapors as long as the package is sealed. Upon opening of the package, delamination occurs at the interface between two selected layers such that the volatile substance is covered on one side only by a layer of material which is permeable to the vapors, thereby allowing controlled release of the vapors over a period of time. A process for production of such packages is also disclosed.

Abstract: A carton formed from a unitary paperboard blank and having a reclosable cover portion hingedly nestable over a receptacle portion. Both the cover and receptacle portions have double board thickness full-height sidewalls and may have double thickness top and bottom panels to provide good stacking and crushing strength. At least a portion of the inner surfaces of the carton are the same surface of the flat paperboard blank that forms the outside surfaces of the carton so that printing may be obtained on both the inside and outside of the carton by printing only on one surface of the flat blank.

Abstract: An edible fibrous cellulose product encapsulated in a polyhydric alcohol and gum solution to produce a low calorie base product for the manufacture of foods. The encapsulation process consists of coating the surface of the fibrous cellulose material with the gum solution, containing polyhydric alcohol, then optionally drying the mixture to provide a free-flowing product.

Abstract: A surgical tape in one embodiment having an elastomeric tubular body with the ends of the tubular body sealed to entrap air therein at substantially atmospheric pressure. A curved metal needle may be affixed to one end of the tubular body to facilitate insertion of the tape device between body structures. A clamping pad may be attached to the tubular body at a point intermediate the ends thereof. The clamping pad is adapted for use in ligating blood vessels by engaging the blood vessel between the clamping pad and a portion of the tubular body and drawing the tubular body into engagement with a jaw portion of the clamping pad.

Abstract: Process for transferring overlayed multiple ink patterns from the surface of a release blanket to a receiving surface on a container or other formed article being printed. A substantially transparent film is first formed on the release blanket, with each ink pattern being printed sequentially over this release film. Proper printing on the release film without picking the release film or previously applied ink films is obtained when certain adhesive and cohesive relationships are maintained between the ink films and the release film. An adhesive film may be formed on the article to be printed, or it may be formed over the ink films and the release film on the release blanket. The receiving surface on the article to be printed is brought into contact with the films on the release blanket, with a resulting total transfer of the films on the blanket to the surface of the article.

Abstract: A declusterer device for engaging and removing clusters of pod vegetables joined together by stem sections from a mass of such vegetables and presenting such clusters to knives for cutting. A plurality of axially spaced stiffener partitions are disposed in an inclined cylindrical drum constructed of connected cylindrical segments in a conventional manner. Each partition has a central passage through which pod vegetables pass which is defined by a plurality of substantially straight primary edges. Notches are defined between each adjacent pair of primary edges by the extended end of one primary edge and a retaining edge extending therefrom in trailing relation to the point of termination of the leading end of the adjacent primary edge. The adjacent primary edges are spaced sufficiently to permit the stem sections of the vegetable clusters to be received within the notches for engagement by the retaining edges when the drum and baffles are rotated to remove the clusters from the mass.

Abstract: A coin-controlled, manually operably golf ball vending machine capable of dispensing a selected number of balls for each coin deposited in the machine. The vending machine includes a ball hopper, a ramp below the hopper defining a ball dispensing opening between them, and a gate rotatably mounted at the opening which extends partially thereacross in a closed position to cause the balls to bridge the opening. An actuating lever is pulled forward to dispense balls held in a rotatable ball receptacle, and is then returned to its initial position. This action of the lever also swings the gate into the mass of balls in the hopper to break up the bridging of balls, and release a number of balls down the ramp to fill the rotatable ball receptacle which extends across the bottom of the ramp.

Abstract: A reclosable hinged blister card package wherein the clear plastic blister is adhered to a paperboard card which is suitably cut-scored along the adhered areas to allow defined ply separation of the card for opening the blister. The blister is hinged at its bottom end to the card and has an opening tab overlaying a cut-out opening in the card. Locking ears on the opening tab are adapted to be pushed through the cut-out opening to lock the blister in reclosed position.

Abstract: A premoistened wiper having high initial wet strength in a wetting liquid, and lower wet strength when immersed in substantially neutral water to allow for flushability. The wiper includes a nonwoven web of fibrous material which is bonded together by a polymeric adhesive binder, with the bonded web being moistened until the time of use by a wetting liquid having an acid pH level which is safe for external use on the human body. The binder is composed of a material which is highly adhesive in an acid pH liquid to bind the fibers of the web together, and which is further resistant to weakening over the relatively long periods of shelf life of the wiper. However, the binder loses its binding strength in substantially neutral or alkaline flush water to allow for flushability. The bonded wiper is maintained with wetting liquid thereon within a moisture sealed container until the time of use, and readily loses strength and disintegrates when disposed of in the substantially neutral water of a sewer system.

Abstract: An oil heater particularly adapted to burning waste oil, having oil flow control apparatus providing substantially constant flow of oil to the vaporizer pan without regard to the viscosity of the oil being burned. The flow control apparatus utilizes a piston pump having relatively large input and output orifices, and is driven by a thermostatically controlled constant speed, reversible direction electric motor. Means are provided to transmit the power from the motor to the piston pump such that rotation of the motor in one direction provides a long pump stroke and high volume rate, whereas rotation of the motor in the opposite direction provides a short piston stroke and low volume rate of pumping to provide minimal oil flow to the vaporizer pan to allow combustion to be maintained in the heater.

Abstract: A device particularly suited for use in optics, having a planar sine plate mounted for rotation about a lateral axis, with the sine plate being capable of holding an optical device such as a diffraction grating. A pivot arm member is mounted for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the sine plate, and is in contact with the end of the plate over a portion of its rotational displacement. A calibrated drive such as a micrometer is mounted in position to make contact with the pivot arm near the end thereof, to drive the pivot arm inwardly and outwardly a determinable longitudinal distance. The distance that the pivot arm is driven by the micrometer is related to the angle of the plate as it rotates in contact with the pivot arm. Means are provided for minimizing frictional resistance at the contact between the pivot arm and the plate and between the pivot arm and the drive member of the micrometer.

Abstract: Simulated solid consistency cohesive food products are provided by incorporating flavoring, coloring, and texturizing agents with a low calorie oleaginous fibrous food base composition. The base composition comprises a mixture of edible oil, water and particulate fibrous cellulose combined with a cohesive gelling agent to provide a product having a cohesive gel structure. Non-gelling edible gums may be mixed therewith to provide desired textural characteristics. The base composition may be produced by mixing an edible gum and a gelling agent with water, mixing an oil and emulsifier therewith, uniformly mixing particulate fibrous cellulose throughout the mass of the binding mixture, with flavoring, coloring, and texturizing agents being added as desired, and subjecting the mixture to conditions under which it sets to form a supporting cohesive gel structure.

Abstract: A unitary paperboard blank for forming a tray with point-of-use flip-up partitions. The blank has an extension flap attached to the top edge of one of the side walls along a breakaway line of weakness. The extension flap has one or more divider panels formed therein depending upon the number of compartments desired in the tray. The side wall with its attached extension flap is folded over the bottom panel and the extension flap is glued to the inside surface of the bottom panel. The side wall is then broken away from the extension flap and the tray then formed on conventional tray forming equipment.