Abstract: Reclosable couplings are provided wherein a pair of first side portions of a link lap one another when the link is closed by means of a collar. Peripherally, the collar passes around the lapped first side portions and around a continuous second side portion of the link and is between a pair of stops connected with the first side portions of the link. The second side portion of the link is interconnected with the first side portions through a pair of bight portions. Meanwhile, the collar and the stops are relatively movable, for either of the first side portions and the related stop to be selected and deflected toward the second side portion of the link, so that the collar can be moved along the other first side portion of the link until the one of the first side portions and the related stop are outside the opening in the collar, thereby opening the coupling.

Abstract: Elastomeric glands are disclosed provided with a laterally central chevron wall member which is carried in the gland, rearwardly to narrow and forwardly to widen, by front and back pairs of connecting wall means of the gland which apply thrust against the chevron wall member from relatively movable bodies during the rearward carry, and relieve thrust against the chevron wall member from the relatively movable bodies during the forward carry, under conditions of opposite lateral ends of the gland being supported relatively to move with the bodies and the gland being inside a movement tolerance space between the bodies. Gland and mount systems involving use of the elastomeric glands, and mounts for accommodating elastomeric glands such as of the character indicated and provided with anchors are also disclosed.

Abstract: Panel systems and installations thereof are provided wherein laterally opposite flanges of panel and flange means in the system form a gap with one another, and those flanges are adapted to be anchored to sub-structure, such as of a building, with the anchor means used for that purpose leading within the gap between the flanges and into grooves in the flanges which widen the gap locally between the flanges. Outer lateral ends of the anchored flanges are covered by cover means which engages engagable means of the panel and flange means.

Abstract: Elastomeric multi-tubular glands, which are adapted to exert reactive thrust when the gland is compressed and relieved within a movement tolerance space between relatively movable bodies, are provided, featuring a generally hexagonal wall member and a strut wall inside the hexagonal wall member, for the strut wall to share I-beam properties with front and back side walls of the hexagonal wall member, having the gland further include opposed means connected with the hexagonal wall member adjacent to a pair of apexes formed by the remaining side walls of the hexagonal wall member, for the opposed means to press and relieve the hexagonal wall member in response to the relative movement of the bodies while the gland leads laterally across the movement tolerance space between the bodies. In certain embodiments, mount fixtures are provided in system with the gland so as to be secured to the bodies as components thereof and carry the gland.

Abstract: Longitudinally multi-tubular elastomeric glands, and in certain embodiments elastomeric gland and mount systems, are provided for the gland or system to be combined with relatively movable bodies to close off a movement tolerance space between the bodies, the gland being characterized longitudinally laterally centrally by including in the structure thereof a generally octagonal wall member wherein a pair of forward and rearward side walls of the octagonal wall member produce an I-beam aspect with an intermediate strut wall of the gland, inside the octagonal wall member, having the intermediate strut wall flanked on opposite sides thereof by another pair of side walls of the octagonal wall member and by structure in the gland for supporting the octagonal wall member at the latter two side walls and transmitting and relieving thrust against the octagonal wall member as prescribed by the relative movement of the bodies.

Abstract: Moldings which serve as grounds either for fluent settable or dry finish material, or both, are suited to be fastened against sub-structure of a building, and the molding includes a channel which interiorly is revealed forwardly as trim, the channel being disposed forwardly in the molding so as to be accompanied by coves formed in the molding at the rear of the channel, and so as to have fluent settable finish material enter and cleat in the related cove, where fluent settable finish material is selected for application outside the cove, to the molding.

Abstract: A molding wherein first and second molding shafts are adapted to be attached to a building is provided to produce relatively movably a recessed reveal adjacent to outside surfaces of first and second structural bodies, at least one of the two structural bodies being either of a dry wall or of a fluent settable type having the related one of the molding shafts serve as a ground for the dry wall or fluent settable type material, the first molding shaft furthermore having in the structure thereof a corner to accommodate sub-structure of the building, thus enabling the molding, as installed, to have at least the second molding shaft thereof attached to the aforementioned sub-structure for producing the recessed reveal with the first molding shaft, while portions of the two shafts are proximately relatively movable with the shafts to allow the reveal to adjust, and while the attachments, including a portion of the corner structure of the first molding shaft and an attaching portion of the second molding shaft, are

Abstract: A conjoint facia, hood and water dam is provided having dam and first engagable means affording dam means with ridge structure, and first engagable means. Sheet roofing leading onto the dam means is clamped to the ridge structure by clamp means subsequently to be covered by a facia and hood member, the latter having hood structure and facia means with second engagable means extending from the facia means. The first and second engagable means together form restraining means to be engaged for maintaining the facia means horizontally laterally restrained and the first engagable means includes detaining means for detaining the facia and hood member against upward movement relatively to the dam and first engagable means with the restraining means being engaged.

Abstract: A conjoint facia, hood and water dam is provided having dam and first engagable means affording dam means and first engagable means. Ridge structure of the dam means, against which ridge structure sheet roofing rests, is covered by hood structure of at least one facia and hood member, with there being second engagable means of the conjoint facia, hood and water dam available as an extension of the facia and hood member. The first and second engagable means together form tongue means and grooved means for these means to be engaged and the first engagable means includes detaining means for upward movement of the facia and hood member relatively to the dam and first engagable means to be stopped.

Abstract: Panel and batten systems are disclosed wherein a plurality of battens are provided in the system, each batten having brackets supporting a gutter in the batten, and the system is further characterized by having the brackets relatively movably guidedly connected in the batten with substructure, and by having a batten cover connected with the brackets in the batten for bodily expanding and contracting longitudinally while supported by the brackets in the batten and covering the gutter and ends of panels in the system which form sides of the batten.

Abstract: A conjoint facia, flashing and water dam for use as a roof deck appurtenance is provided and includes dam means, and facia and flashing means, together contributing means having normally upper longitudinal laterally entrant grooved structure and normally upper longitudinally laterally projecting tongue means which are engaged for stabilizing the facia and flashing means horizontally, while upward thrust for maintaining the facia and flashing means in an installed position is transmitted by flashing means reactively upon exerting pressure upon a roofing sheet on the dam means, with facia means of the facia and flashing means being anchored.

Abstract: A lamp system is provided wherein a high radiation intensity metal vapor electric discharge lamp is matched with a controllable regulating transformer which is characterized by having a sufficiently high open circuit voltage for striking an arc across the lamp and by having loose coupling between primary and secondary windings along with high impedance of the secondary winding sufficient for limiting an initially high starting current through the lamp to a value whereby, as the lamp warms up on power from the transformer, the lamp current decreases and the voltage across the lamp increases, allowing the lamp to reach a high radiation intensity level of operation, the system further being one in which the transformer is controlled by having controllable core structure to select a different intensity level of operation of the lamp.

Abstract: Reglet means, counterflashing, and connector and biasing means are provided having the reglet means adapted to be secured to a building wall to afford flashing above a roofing end reaching upwardly and lapping the wall.

Abstract: A vehicle hitch device is provided wherein a draft body having a hollow and a notch therein from an open end thereof, is pivotally connected with draft thrust transmission means, for the latter pivotally to reach hitching and release positions. Presser and biasing means, affording rectilinearly movable presser means slidably within the hollow of the draft body, and biasing means, has recessed contact structure of the presser means adjacent to the open end of the draft body, for the head of a stemmed head member to be pressed into the open end of the draft body against bias of the biasing means while the draft thrust transmission means is in a hitch release position and the head of a stemmed head member contacts the presser means in the recess of the contact structure of the presser means, causing the presser means to retract and the stem of a stemmed head member to be in the notch.

Abstract: An omni-panel structure is disclosed, wherein a plurality of laterally interspaced longitudinally substantially parallel stringer means are provided, each including longitudinal laterally oppositely projecting means having rear surface areas engaged by leg portions of resilient clips, the clips having tongues projecting from bight portions which interconnect the legs, for the tongues to engage forwardly projecting lips on tongue and groove sheathing members, with the latter longitudinally projecting laterally of the stringer members and covering the stringer members, and also covering those of the clips which are introduced in the regions where the tongues and grooves of the sheathing members are mated.

Abstract: An expansion joint cover for sealing off a space between first and second structural bodies is provided, and includes, first and second side members, and bridging and elastomeric sealing means, the latter means comprising, bridging plate means resting slidably upon an inner ledge wall portion of the first side member and further resting against the second side member so as to form a bottom wall of a cavity bordered by the first and second side members. The bridging plate means is covered by bond-inhibitor means in the cavity and is provided with anchor means projecting into the cavity. An elastomeric sealing member embedding the anchor means and substantially filling the cavity is characterized by being formed and cured in the cavity and thereby being bonded to the first and second side members and inhibited against bonding to the bridging plate means by the bond-inhibitor means.

Abstract: Apparatus wherein sheet material is longitudinally step-advanced by alternately being gripped and released in a guide path by a reciprocative gripper, and alternately released and gripped in a gripping station, the sheet material being restrained against buckling from the guide path by guide means adjacent to both of opposite faces of the sheet material, and the guide means enabling the reciprocative gripper gripping the sheet material in the guide path to be operated for effecting a forward feeding stroke having the sheet material released in the gripping station, and subsequently a backward stroke, throughout which latter stroke the reciprocative gripper is in a released condition with reference to the sheet material and the latter is gripped in the gripping station.

Abstract: A coping structure is provided wherein a splice joint between a pair of normally inverted channel-like coping members is had through use of a splice member which cooperates inside the channels of the pair of coping members for covering a transverse seam between adjacent longitudinal ends of the coping members, the splice member .[.web furthermore being biased to seam covering position by resilient means interposed between the splice member web and the web of a saddle, the saddle having legs engaging legs of the pair of coping members and.]. being .Iadd.supported and biased upwardly to cover the seam, and front and rear legs of the coping members being engaged, against upward movement, with means .Iaddend.secured to a wall supporting the coping structure.