Abstract: A slide gate having an offset teeming orifice for use in a sequential sliding gate valve having asymmetrical means for inserting said gate along a direction of loading in which the slide plate has asymmetrical means for engaging the asymmetrical means for loading and thereby insure proper orientation of the gate when loading.

Abstract: A lifting belt which really is two belts; a lumbar belt, and an abdominal belt are enclosed. The lumbar belt is the inner belt and has a lumbar compression pad in its mid-rear portion for engaging the fifth lumbar area of the back. The two bodies extending therefrom are of a flexible material generally known as "Spandex". Metal stays are provided vertically adjacent the lumbar compression pad and vertically of the users. Releasable attachment is provided at the two end portions of the lumbar belt, one part being the loop-like material, and the other end having the hook-like material. The end with the hook-like material has loop-like material on its reverse portion. The abdominal belt is secured to the lumbar belt adjacent the lumbar compression pad and desirably has a pair of body portions which extend to their respective ends, and at the ends one has the hook-like releasable attachment member on the inner side, and the loop-like on the outer member.

Abstract: Both apparatus and the method is directed to a sampler array carrying a plurality of samplers in which the array has a trip assembly with a plurality of lanyard release pins. One moving member in the assembly contains a pivotal cam which is spring loaded in order to pass a plurality of lanyard release pins in one direction, but to move in the opposite direction and depress the lanyard release pin thereby releasing the lanyard to a preselected sampler for purposes of closing the same and entrapping a sample by the exact sampler desired by the operator at the surface. The method then contemplates counting the degrees of movement of a moving trip wheel having a release cam in one direction in which each sampler lanyard release pin is bypassed, and thereafter reversing the same having the lanyard release pin which is desired to be activated confronts the angled under surface of the lanyard release cam which, when reversed, will depress the lanyard release pin and release the lanyard to close the sampler.

Abstract: The skin tension set includes an anchor member having a body portion and a plurality of suture guides along its sidewalls and bottom coupled by a single suture loop to the anchor is a winder. The winder has a body portion with suture guides at the bottom not unlike the anchor portion. In addition, however, the winder includes a central reel with suture anchoring guides, a ratchet at one end, and a drive preferably with the form of a detachable knurled knob at the other. According to the method of the present invention, the wound is sutured with preferably a monofilament suture by passing the suture through one suture guide in the winder reel and then through and out the bottom of the winder bottom across the wound, through the skin on the opposite side of the wound, looped through the anchor and similarly back to the winder and knotted.

Abstract: An accessory mount for removable rigid securement of an accessory to a bow is disclosed. In one version, an accessory mount is integrally formed in the outer side face of the bow and provides for the mounting of a bow quiver, a sight for the archer to use in aiming, an overdraw mechanism, or other accessory. More specifically, the mount includes a recess and is defined by a bottom wall of a shallow depth and a pair of horizontal spaced sidewalls and a front wall. The front wall of the recess includes a pair of rectilinear walls extending forwardly and joined at an angle, preferably obtuse, thereby creating a wedge shape having an apex point. The accessory to be mounted includes a corresponding wedge-shaped shoe for fitting into the recess. Threaded fasteners securely engage the shoe in the recess. In alternative versions, male and female interlocking members are provided respectively on the accessory and the archery bow.

Abstract: A comprehensive gas filtering unit in which the preferred embodiment includes sheet(s) of flexible, coilable, permeable, carbon impregnated fabric that are spirally wound around a center structure is disclosed. Active gas filtering spacers are optionally employed between the adjacent layers of wound fabric to physically separate same, thus creating air flow channel(s). Further, the active filtering spacers promote pneumatic agitation and pressure differentials. The air path typically is shaped to varying patterns including an outward flow perpendicular to or traversing the layers of the filtering fabric; flow through the actively filtering spacers; and parallel flow along the surfaces of the filtering fabric and the actively filtering spacers, with varying combinations of these patterns repeatedly occurring throughout the gas filtering chamber.

Abstract: A blade sharpener which has two elements, one of which is a hand-held member, and the other of which is a follower member is disclosed. The two members are pivotally secured each to the other, and secured at variable preselected pivot points so that adjustments can be made for the particular skate, and for the particular cross-section of the blade desired at various points along the power toe section, neutral under foot section, and turning heel section. Means are provided interiorly of the two members to optionally secure a file or a neutral member such as a wooden dowel to the end that varying portions of the blade can be sharpened while moving the hand-held member back and forth longitudinal of the blade. Guide means are supplied on both members for securing the relationship of the file or abrading member to the blade in a preselected centralized orientation.

Abstract: A lever action sampler having a body portion, usually tubular, and a pair of opposed end plugs for securing to the two ends of the body to thereby entrap a sample when activated is disclosed. The present invention utilizes a lever pivot assembly for an end plug at its upper portion, a lower end cap pivot assembly at the lower portion, both of which are pivotally secured to the end caps to permit the same to be locked/open for descending, and later closed for encapsulating the sample. The end caps are powered by means of a power spring and power spring cable operating exteriorly of the body, and actuated by means of a lever which cocks the unit into its unlatched and power spring preload functions, and thereafter secures a lanyard to either a rosette or to the sampler itself, and is subsequently fired by means of hitting the end cap of a push rod which release the lanyard or by releasing the lanyard from a rosette. The method contemplates the steps generally as itemized above.

Abstract: A joint, in one embodiment between adjacent panels of sheet encased insulating material in which one lateral edge has an essentially frustoconical nose, and the other edge has a frustoconical pocket as disclosed. In an alternative embodiment, essentially frustoconical noses are at both lateral edges and the two adjacent panels are joined by means of an I-beam embodying the interlock of the present invention. In both embodiments, the interlocking relationship is a function of the lateral edges of the cladding sheet, or the flange of an I-beam, in which one edge has a sealant pocket, and the opposite edge has a locking sealant press with a reversely bent stabilizer.

Abstract: The use of a center lock bar which telescopingly receives two telescoping arms, each of which has a control column or shaft grip on its remote end is disclosed. The arms are secured to the parallel control columns by at least one gust lock pin. Provision is made for a throttle mixture lock plate to be secured to the lower portion of the radio lock pan which, in turn, has essentially parallel sidewalls with opposed openings through which the center lock bar passes. Optionally folding extension radio lock pans may be employed for a double stack installation. Finally, means are provided in the form of a lock, whether padlock or internally mounted, to lockingly secure the center lock bar to the two telescoping arms. The method of the invention looks to providing a lock for radios, throttles, and gust locks in a dual control aircraft by stabilizing the two control columns by means of a telescoping member which can accommodate differences in the distance between the parallel control columns of the aircraft.

Abstract: A method of providing a cantilever spring or a beam which is attached to the frame of a sliding gate valve is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a cantilever spring which is essentially flat and rectangular. A spring mount is provided to anchor the head end of the spring to permit the other end to flex against a load application member or the underneath side of the lower refractory member such as a tube holder and tube. The spring itself has a heel portion and a cantilever portion. At one end of the spring provision is made for a working face which engages the underneath portion of the lower refractory plate.

Abstract: A three plate non-reversible sliding gate system and tube holder where the plates and tube holder include modified corner configurations so as to preclude reverse loading of the system.

Abstract: An injection block of an injection valve intended for bottom injection but optionally operable on the side of a teeming vessel for side injection is disclosed. The invention is directed specifically to a multi-passageway multi-orifice injection block in which the injection passages may be parallel, radially disposed around a frustoconical locus, or angled in a tangential fashion within the injection block. The thrust of the invention, however, is to stage the permeable elements in progressively more buried relationship to the hot face of the injection block sequenced in the order in which the particular passageways which are plugged by the porous plug are programmed for use. In this manner, progressive erosion of the wet or hot face of the injection block will progressively expose the upper portion of the permeable plug in accordance with the timed usage intended for the same.

Abstract: A sliding gate valve assembly which has a stationary refractory plate mounted to a mounting plate and secured there by the force pressed against it exerted by another refractory is disclosed. A clamp ring is provided which has extending ears, each of which is bored to ride on a clamp spring assembly. Yieldable means, preferably a coil spring, surrounds the shank of the clamp spring assembly guide shank and engages the underside of the ear and rides in the main frame. When the main frame is closed, pressure is urged on the spring which, in turn, transmits the force to the clamp, the tapered inner edge of which engages the tapered outer edge of the stationary plate. The method of the present invention depends upon utilizing the clamping force of a valve assembly having a main frame and in which yieldable means are provided between the main frame and the mounting plate to urge a continuous clamp ring into engagement with the bandless stationary plate having tapered sidewalls.

Abstract: A stacking carton for a plurality of spherical or nesting products in which the carton comprises four tubular internal sections, four wall members or tube sides, and opposed closed ends is disclosed. The tubular sections are defined by two anchored full panel struts having anchor tabs for being secured interiorly of the tube sides, and two partial panel struts having a secured portion and an unsecured portion positioned in spaced relationship each to the other, the space being such that the contained articles such as a gold ball cannot pass through the space, and anchor tabs for the secured portions which are secured to the interior portions of their respective sides. The blank of the present invention is designed for a folding carton which has a tubular body and with four internal sections. The blank is characterized by four adjacent tube side panels, two of which are center panels and meet at an adjacent fold line, and two of which are remote panels which extend laterally from the respective center panels.

Abstract: An injection block of an injection valve is disclosed which is normally intended for installation in a metallurgical vessel or holding vessel containing ferrous metal. Other metals can be similarly treated by injection metallurgy, but the maximum utility is believed to be involved in the processing and metallurgical finishing of ferrous metals. The injection block is provided with orifice passages terminating in orifices through which the injections are gas driven, wire fed or in pellet form inserted into the molten metal in the vessel. The orifice passages are angled in one of two directions or a combination of the two directions, radially relative to the axis of the injection block and/or tangentially away from an element that is parallel to the axis of the injection block so as to circumvolve the axis of the injection block.

Abstract: An archery bow handle or riser, in which the riser is cut out sufficiently to permit a broad head arrowhead to pass rearwardly of the hand grip section, and upon release of the arrow, to avoid interference with the riser by both the broad head point as well as the vanes at the rear portion of the arrow is disclosed. Provision is made beneath the riser sight window offset to mount an arrow rest, which may interlock into a cutout, and which extends somewhat further offset in order to position the arrow on the centerline of the bow so that it will behave as an arrow fired with a prior-art type bow handle riser, but accommodating a shorter arrow with a broad head, and avoiding the frictional and deflecting contact of the vanes with the riser. Vane deflection may be a problem with any length arrow and any type of arrow head used on a bow without the sight window offset feature as set forth in the present invention.

Abstract: An outer stabilizing band or bands at the unsupported end portion of the air foils changes the configuration from an unsupported cantilevered airfoil to a baband supported airfoil during the forming of the mold and casting of the product. Such band or bands, which are later shaved away, permit dimensional stabilization and provide an outer wall for venting, fill-out, and inclusion trapping. The stabilizing band or bands are extremely thin, normally in the range of 20 to 60 one thousandths of an inch, which avoids the need for gating and minimizes the amount of machining required to remove such stabilizing band or bands from the integral airfoil and hub casting. The bands may be outside the end of the airfoil or flush with the ends of the airfoil. The procedure and method for incorporating the outer band or bands into the casting begins with the process of making the pattern. It also aids in the stabilizing of the configuration of the pattern thereby achieving more dimensional accuracy.

Abstract: An ultimate product which is a package of coiled line is disclosed. The package includes the coiled line exteriorly of a demountable spool. The demountable spool is ideally formed by two members, each identical to the other, and interfitting with each other in order to provide support of the coil at a spacing of 90.degree.. A companion to the invention of the line package, is the method of winding the line on the spool which comprises supporting between the four support members of the demountable spool in an arcuate fashion, or its equivalent, those portions of the line which are intermediate the support members of the demountable spool. After the demountable spool has been totally wound or coiled with the line, the arcuate support portion or its equivalent is removed, and the package of line remains with its essential annular coil on the demountable spool.

Abstract: A drive circuit for setter rollers is automatically coordinated with a spool drive to insure a condition of tension in a longline at all times during the setting operation. The apparatus includes various rollers to achieve the method, and in addition, circuits for controlling the motor adapted to drive the speed rollers at different but correlated rates of speed. While the fluidic circuit is hydraulic, alternative electronic controls may be employed.