Abstract: A display package for scissors consists of an elongated, generally flat member having a top and bottom end, a raised hollow pedestal means mounted adjacent to said bottom end of said member, the pedestal means having a top portion with means operable to secure a finger ring of a pair scissors thereto and support the scissors horizontally above the card with arch means located adjacent to said top end of said member operable to restrain the swing of at least one of the blades of a pair of scissors mounted on the top portion of the pedestal when the handles of such scissors are manipulated by a customer. It is preferred that the top of the pastel include means for rotation of the connection with the scissors so that a greater range of manipulation is available to a prospective customer. In addition the card can include a clear cover if desired.

Abstract: In footwear having a permeable top side, an insole and heel associated with its outer sole, an improved circulation system includes a plurality of perforated air channels tanned in the insole, a compressible pump means having an inlet and an outlet located in a cavity in the footwear's heel, a reciprocal ball piston located below the pump means in the heel so the piston extends beyond the base of the heel when heel is not in contact with a walking surface and is operable to actuate the pump when the heel of the footwear engages a walking surface daring the wearer's ambulatory movement, an air passage connecting the inlet of the pump to the plurality of air channels, a second air passage connecting the outlet of the pump with the atmosphere, and one way check valves in each air passage allowing air to flow in only one direction in its associated air passage whereby the cycling of the piston will circulate air though the footwear.

Abstract: Through the use of a rail system having spaced apart rails tracking above and along a roadway with arcuate guides associated with each rail and a cone magazine sequentially delivering traffic cones in a horizontal position between the rails in front of the arcuate guides, each horizontally disposed cone will be brought to an upright position when the top of its base contacts the guides as a result of friction with the roadway of one edge of the base of the traffic cone and movement of the guides with the rails. In one embodiment the magazine includes a mechanical arm with a cone clamp at its distal end, arranged to move the cone clamp from a cone storage to a location between the rails to sequentially deliver cones to the rail system. An auxiliary system is provided to reposition upright traffic cone from the rail system in a taper for closing off access to roadways.

Abstract: In fittings designed to connect threadless electrical conduits, the improvement of providing raintight fittings, having a hollow cylindrical housing with a bore adapted to receive an end of a conduit to be connected with such a fitting and a compression ring with a solid ring portion assembled on the conduit along with a seal, with the solid ring portion of the compression ring providing a radial surface for advancing the seal along the conduit and to compress the seal radially against the conduit to effect a raintight seal between the housing and such conduit and a compression means which is forced against such conduit by a nut system to lock such conduit in the fitting when the radial face of the compression ring abuts against the housing after compressing the elastomer seal against such conduit.

Abstract: In a synthetic door composed of two molded skins attached to a frame composed of stiles and rails of thin wooden strips to which the skins are adhered, with the core filled with a plastic foam, the improvement comprising a insert mechanically joined to each stile along their entire length, each insert having a channel device operable to interlock with its associated stile thereby providing the approximate strength of thicker wooden stiles conventionally used in constructing such doors, as well as providing finished vertical edges of the resulting door while significantly reducing the overall costs of such doors. In addition the insert can be employed to form an interlocking frame by extending the insert beyond the ends of the stiles and milling the ends of the rails so that they interlock with the channel means of the insert.

Abstract: An improved molded door having provisions for glass insert comprising at least 50% of said door's exterior surface includes a quadrilateral frame formed of a top rail, a bottom rail, a right stile and a left stile joined together, two sheets of molded door skins, each skin having a large central opening with an inwardly directed flange extending normal to its planer surface and around its respective opening, which flanges interlock when assembled on frame and form secondary frame for receiving a glass insert, means operable to join the skins to the quadrilateral frame, means operable to join the integral flanges of the skins in an interlocked relationship around their respective openings thereby forming an interlocked secondary frame for receiving a glass insert, a secondary left stile located between the joined flanges and the left stile with this stile joined to the skins and a secondary right stile located between the joined flanges and the right stile with this stile joined to said skins whereby the

Abstract: A device adapted to be circumferentially fitted around the forearm to alleviate symptoms of overuse injuries, such as tennis elbow. The device is an elongate band composed of two elongate arcuate compression plates detachably and adjustably linked end to end by flexible straps. Each of the compression plates has an inwardly concave skin contacting surface which, in operation, are in circumferent opposition on the forearm to compress the skin overlying the radial extensor and flexor muscles within the forearm transaxially disposed therebetween. When the band is circumferentially tensioned and fastened to encircle the forearm, only the discrete, anatomically opposed skin contacting surfaces of the compression plates press against the skin. The skin contacting surfaces of the two compression plates are positioned by the user to immediately overlie the extensor and flexor muscle mass respectively.

Abstract: A compact machine for automatically loading racks with bottled water containers, includes an in feed conveyor for delivering upright bottles, a pin wheel mechanism with spaced apart spokes for receiving each individual bottle from the in feed conveyor that is operable through its rotation to convert a bottle's vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation, a bottle loading magazine operable to transfer bottles from the pin wheel mechanism to a elevator magazine, a bottle elevator in the loading magazine operable to raise bottles loaded therein in a vertically stacked relationship, and a ram operable to push the bottles stacked in the elevator magazine into a rack positioned next to the elevator magazine, plus controls for sequencing these operations.

Abstract: In a door constructed of spaced apart compression molded skins reinforced with fiber glass with the core between the skins filled with foam to construct the door, an improved skin for such doors is constructed by adding specific pigments to the raw materials for such skins before compression molding occurs to achieve a surface which is superior in appearance to the skins of such doors which are painted and/or stained after such skins are compression molded and converted into a door. The specific pigments employed are titanium oxide ?TiO.sub.2 !, ferric oxide ?Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 !, chromium oxide ?Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 !, and carbon black and are blended in different percentages to achieve different colors without loss of the integrity of the skin.

Abstract: A synthetic door casement is composed of multiple panels of L-shaped compression molded skin panels, that can be embossed with a graining pattern on their outer surfaces, which are joined with batten means on their inner surfaces to form a pair of opposed rectangular casement skins which casement skins are then joined on opposite sides of an outer frame surrounding an inner frame to form a hollow rectangular casement which is then filled with a plastic foam, such as polyurethane foam, with the inner frame having an external recess to receive a glass pane along with cooperative retention moldings to hold the pane in place in the recess of the inner frame once the pane is inserted therein.

Abstract: A compression band for treating disorders of the knee, including arthritis, synovitis, chondromalacia patella, patella tendonitis, and the like. The band comprises a compressive member which generally has the profile of a bowtie or "dog bone," and an encircling strap portion which holds the compressive member in position on the knee. The compressive member is symetrically shaped so that it applies pressure to the medial and lateral infra-patellar retinaculum and inferior portion of the patellar tendon. This compression dampens the motion associated with the rapid acceleration/deceleration of the soft tissue folds as they pass over the margins of the femoral condyles during flexion and extension of the leg. The compressive member serves as a shock absorber to prevent rapid acceleration and deceleration of the tissue as it passes over the condyle, thereby reducing microtrauma to the tissue and resultant inflammation.

Abstract: In a robotic test machine for testing chips, often referred to as automatic chip test equipment, a novel interface between the chips being tested and the test head loadboard, allowing rapid changes of products being tested, includes a docking plate with vertical supports, a housing mounted above the docking plate on the vertical supports and having actuators associated therewith and an array of male header pin assemblies mounted on its surface, plus a socket plate with apertures therein adapted to receive the array of header assemblies along with means for connecting it to the actuators whereby the female pin connectors on multiple chip test boards mounted on the socket plate can be connected to an individual header assembly in the array when the socket plate is mated with the housing plate by the actuators.

Abstract: In a syringe with a hollow cylindrical barrel with one closed end, a plunger having a length longer than the barrel mounted in the barrel for reciprocation, a handle on the distal end of the plunger extending from the barrel and a piston mounted on the opposite end of the plunger in the barrel and a hypodermic needle mounted in the closed end of the barrel being in communication with the interior of the barrel, the improvement of including a hollow tapered section in the barrel adjacent to its closed end, which tapered section in cooperation with the piston end of the plunger is operable to disable the syringe as the piston commences traversing this tapered portion of the barrel.

Abstract: An improved sliding bearing system for railroad locomotives having pedestal legs includes a channel-shaped unit of a wear resistant thermoplastic, including a base and two upstanding flanges ported with mounting apertures, plus two inserts made of strips of a more resilient thermoplastic, with one of the inserts mounted in the base adjacent to one of the flanges and the other insert mounted in the base adjacent to the other flange, so they are operable to compress and expand under loading variations, along with fastening members with undersized bosses relative to the diameter of the apertures in the flanges, operable to secure the unit to the pedestal leg in a manner that its flanges will slip on the associated pedestal leg under loading variations to accommodate the resiliency of the inserts, enabling the unit to shift on the face of the leg to better distribute the loading on the unit more uniformly, whereby the service life of the unit is extended.